TehnoBlog

Last updated: 05 JUNE 2023

TehnoBlog.org (“us”, “we”, or “our”) operates tehnoblog.org domain (the “site”). The following page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use and disclosure of Personal Information we receive from users of the site.

We use your Personal Information only for providing functionality and improving the site. By using the site, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy.

Information Collection And Use

While using our site, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information (e.g. email address and name (name does not need to be real one, nicknames / aliases are fine)), that can be used to contact or identify you (e.g. while leaving or replying with your comment or using our site’s contact form).

Web Beacons

Web Beacon (or “web bug”) is similar technology like Cookies (see above sections), consisting usually of a small image (usually 1×1 pixel in size with .png or .gif file extension) or other files (usually javascript files with .js extension), that may be used for user tracking and behavior monitoring. Their sole purpose is to indicate if particular content is loaded and/or read. Our site uses web beacons for analytics purposes, and it may be also placed by our 3rd party content providers for tracking.

Data Logging And Processing

We collect information (“log data”) that your browser sends whenever you visit our site from a mobile phone, tablet, personal computer, smart TV and other devices capable of web access (further: “device”). This log data includes information such as your device’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our site that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages and other statistics. Our site automatically logs your IP address when you leave a public comment, which is used for anti-spam protection and security reasons. In all other cases your IP address information is treated as explained below.

We use our own analytics software platform, and we have access to user’s coarse geo-location based on anonymized IP address (country and approximate city only). For example, last IPv4 octet is replaced with 0 and we do not permanently store user’s full IP address in our database. Your home address, phone number and other personally identifiable data are never collected nor stored on our site.

In addition, our server software automatically logs all requests by design for security reasons in the form of date and time stamp, IP address and requested resource or page, which are archived and stored for up to several months (24 months max), after which they are automatically deleted. We regularly purge tracking data periodically and manually, in order to save on server’s storage resources.

In addition, we use third party services, such as Google Analytics to collect, monitor and analyze traffic. In case of Google Analytics, we do not process user data directly, neither we have access to any personally identifiable data (such as user’s Google account, email, IP address etc.).

In addition, we use third party anti-spam services such as Akismet to minimize spam content on our site and contact forms. Please refer to their respective privacy policy for more details before posting your comments and contact forms on our site.

As explained above, we may keep analytics data for up to several months after which they are automatically deleted. Aggregated data that does not contain any personally identifiable information is kept indefinitely (such as total pages visits/views, duration of visits per day, week or month, etc.).

You can use below information to opt-out from our analytics program:

We will never disclose or sell this data to 3rd parties and we use it for website and server performance assessment and management purposes only.

Ads Personalization

Please visit your device’s accounts settings and review ads personalization, opt-out from interest-based ads, reset advertising ID etc. For example, on Android OS devices visit:

Settings > Accounts & services section > Google > Ads

For desktop PCs visit your respective account via internet browser, and for other devices visit their respective manufacturer’s website for instructions.

Visitors may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info.

Communications

We will never use your Personal Information to contact you with newsletters, marketing or other promotional materials and offers of any kind. If you do receive such a letter, pretending to be originating from us, please contact us immediately.

Cookies

Please refer to our Cookie Policy page for more details about cookies and how we use them.

Advertisement / Sponsored Links

This website may contain sponsored links and adverts. These will typically be served through our advertising partners, to whom may have detailed privacy policies relating directly to the adverts they serve (please, also read ‘3rd Party Cookies’ section above for more details).

Clicking on any such adverts will send you to the advertisers website through a referral program which may use cookies and will track the number of referrals sent from this website. This may include the use of cookies, which may in turn be saved on your device. Users should therefore note they click on sponsored external links at their own risk and this website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any external links mentioned.

Security

The security of your Personal Information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Offsite Backups

Your information may be present in offsite backup archives (for security purposes), for indefinite amount of time, in inactive state. Backups are never shared or sold with 3rd parties under any condition.

Changes To This Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy remains in effect immediately, except with respect to any changes in its provisions in the future, which will be in effect after being posted on this page.

We reserve the right to update or change our Privacy Policy at any time without any prior notice, and you should check this Privacy Policy page periodically.

Your continued use of the site after we post any modifications to the Privacy Policy on this page will constitute your acknowledgment of the modifications and your consent to abide and be bound by the modified Privacy Policy.

If we make any material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you either through the email address you have provided us, or by placing a prominent notice on our website.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us.