Privacy Policy

Who we are

Our website address is: https://thextineproject.com/ 

For more information, contact us.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Your personal information is important to us. We only collect information (or, data) about you if we have a reason to do so. For example; to provide a service, to communicate with you, or to make our services and content better.

We collect this data in two main ways;

  1. Manually; if and when you decide to provide information to us e.g. your name/email address/password/username when you fill out a contact form, sign up for a service such as a newsletter, or leave comments on a blog post.
  2. Automatically; through accessing our website, operating our services and interacting with our content e.g. your IP address.
Reasons for collecting your data include but are not limited to; allowing us to provide and improve our services, ensure quality, place and manage ads, carry out market research, customise the user experience, and respond to enquiries.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Contact forms

If you provide your personal details such as your name and email address by filling in a contact form, this data will be stored for as long as we have a reason to keep it.

Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer or device, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns.

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

You can turn these cookies off manually at any time. Click here to learn now to disable cookies in your browser.

This blog may also use third party advertisements through Google Adsense. These third parties sometimes use cookies to determine information such as your IP address, ISP and browser.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

This privacy policy does not cover your use of any such websites; please be advised to read the privacy policy of any website accessed through our links before using them.

Analytics

We automatically collect information about your visit to this website in order to make improvements to content and user experience, including but not limited to your IP address, how you found us, how often you visit us, duration of stay, and the way you interact with our content. We may use software in the form of plug-ins such as Google Analytics to enhance this. Google Analytics may collect data about your demographic information, for example; your location, age, gender and internet behaviours. This information helps us to better understand our visitors. You can read their privacy policy and FAQs here. For information on how to opt-out of this system, read about it here.

Who we share your data with

We may share data with third parties for purposes such as analytics and advertising. For example, Google Analytics may collect data as detailed above.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, have left comments, or filled in a contact form, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

How we protect your data

We use an SSL certificate to ensure that your information is secure.

Privacy Policy Changes, Agreement To Terms & Credits

We reserve the right to make changes to this privacy policy at any time, as is felt necessary or as may be required by law.

By using this website, you have agreed to the terms of this privacy policy as expressly written.

Credit to https://automattic.com/privacy/ for allowing the open source use of their own privacy policy for the purpose of this privacy policy.