Privacy policy

This Privacy Policy describes the personal data that is collected or generated (processed) when you use the website. This Privacy Policy describes the types of personal data collected when you use our site and how your personal data is used, shared and protected. It also explains the choices you have regarding your personal data and how to contact us.

Who we are
Use of personal data collected
Comments
Media
Contact form
Use of cookies
Statistics and audience measurement
Data storage periods
The rights you have over your data
Transmission of your personal data
How we protect your data
Contact information

Find out all about us on the legal information page.

We automatically and directly collect no data about you. Notwithstanding this, we may collect information, including personal information, from third parties (see Cookies).

When you leave a comment on our website, the data entered in the comment form—as well as your IP address and your browser’s user agent—is collected to help us detect spam comments. An anonymized string created from your email address (also known as a hash) may be sent to the Gravatar service to check whether you are using it. Gravatar’s privacy policy is available at https://automattic.com/privacy/. Once your comment is approved, your profile picture will be publicly visible next to your comment.

If you are a registered user uploading images to the website, we advise you to avoid uploading images containing EXIF data of GPS coordinates. Visitors to your website may download and extract location data from these images.

You can choose to provide us with information when you fill in a form. This information will be sent to us by e-mail and will not be stored other than on our e-mail service; it will be used for the sole purpose of responding to your request. If information is likely to be used for commercial purposes, this will be indicated at the end of the form. We will always ask for your consent when collecting information via a form.

What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small data file that is transferred to and stored on your device. In practical terms, a cookie enables us, for example, to recognize your browser, your language or to store your preferences.
Two types of cookie are used on our site: “session cookies” and “persistent cookies”. Session cookies expire when you close your browser, while persistent cookies remain on your device once your browser has been closed, and can be used again the next time you visit our site. Find out more at allaboutcookies.org.

Our Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site, you’ll be given the option to save your name, email address, and website in cookies. This is solely for your convenience so that you won’t have to enter this information again if you leave another comment later. These cookies expire after one year.
If you have an account and log in to this site, a temporary cookie will be created to determine whether your browser accepts cookies. It does not contain any personal information and will be automatically deleted when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will set a number of cookies to store your login information and screen preferences. A login cookie lasts for two days, and a display settings cookie lasts for one year. If you check the “Remember Me” box, your login cookie will be stored for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookie will be deleted.
By modifying or publishing an article, an additional cookie will be stored in your browser. This cookie does not contain any personal data. It simply indicates the identifier of the article you have just modified. It expires after one day.

Third-party cookies
Articles on this site may include embedded content (such as videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other sites behaves in the same way as if the visitor were visiting that other site directly.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed third-party tracking tools, and track your interactions with this embedded content if you are logged into an account on their website.
We may allow certain business partners to install technologies on our site. These partners use these technologies to help us analyze how you use the site—for example, by tracking the third-party services through which you arrived on the Platform—to market and promote our services on our site and on third-party websites, help us detect and prevent fraud or conduct risk assessments, or collect information about your activities on the website.
Our website may use social plugins provided and operated by third-party companies, such as Facebook’s “Like” button. As a result, you may share with the third party the information you are viewing in a specific section of our site. If you are not logged into your account with the third party, that third party will not be able to identify you. If you are logged into your account with the third party, then that third party may link the information or actions related to your interactions with our website to the account you hold with that third party. Please review the third party’s privacy policies to learn more about its data practices.
The list of third-party cookies used on this site is available via the cookie management panel.

For analytics, we use Google Analytics to gather information about how our website is used so that we can improve it. You can disable this feature in the cookie management panel.
To prevent Google Analytics from using your information for analytical purposes, you can also install the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on by clicking here. Please note that we have no control over this opt-out link and are not responsible for the availability or accuracy of this mechanism. See this documentation for more information.

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This allows subsequent comments to be automatically recognized and approved instead of being held in the moderation queue.
For users who register on our site (where possible), we also store the personal data indicated in their profile. All users can view, modify or delete their personal information at any time (with the exception of their username). Site managers can also view and modify this information.

If you have an account or if you have left comments on the site, you may request to receive a file containing all the personal data we hold about you, including that which you have provided to us. You can also request the deletion of your personal data. This does not include data stored for administrative, legal or security purposes.

Visitors’ comments can be checked using an automated service to detect undesirable comments
All the personal data we process is processed in the heart of the European Union.

We implement and constantly update site security to protect your information against unauthorized access, loss, destruction or alteration. So we’re working to make your data as invulnerable as possible. As the Internet is not a 100% secure environment, we cannot fully guarantee the security of the transmission or storage of your information.

For any requests or questions regarding your personal data, please contact us at rgpd@geek-tonic.com. Additional contact information is available in our legal notices. Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before taking further action on your request.