Privacy Policy

We are committed to protecting the privacy of personal information and to handling the personal information in a responsible manner in accordance with the relevant privacy legislation in the countries of our operations (referred to as privacy legislation). This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use and disclose your personal information, how you may access that information and how you may seek the correction of any information. It also explains how you may make a complaint about a breach of privacy legislation. From time to time we may make changes to our policy, processes and systems in relation to how we handle your personal information. We will update this Privacy Policy to reflect any changes. Those changes will be available on our Web site.

Collection Of Information

We collect information as furnished to us and/or collected that is necessary and relevant for providing our core services and products. This information may include your name, address, email address, contact number, date of birth, gender. This information may be stored on our computer records system and/or in printed records (collectively, information). Wherever practicable we will only collect information from you personally. We collect information in various ways, such as over the phone or in writing, in person, or over the Internet. We will notify you or will endeavor to make you aware that information is being collected. We will endeavor to inform you of the purpose of collection and will provide you with access to our privacy policy that contains details about access, correction and complaints. We advise that if you notify us that you do not wish to provide the information to us we may not be able to provide you with the product or service you have asked for or give you the level of service you expect.

Use And Disclosure

We will treat your personal information as strictly private and confidential. We will only use or disclose it for purposes directly related to our core business, or in ways that you would reasonably expect that we may use it in the course of our business. We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information. This does not include trusted third parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential and the data is used only for the activities we have asked them to perform. We may also release your information when we believe such release is appropriate to comply with the law, or protect ours or third party rights, property, or safety. However, non-personally identifiable information including statistical data may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, research or other uses.

Data Security

We maintain adequate technical and organizational security measures to protect personal data from loss, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction.

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.

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.

Third party links

Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or offer third-party products or services on our website. These third-party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We, therefore, have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites.

Cookies

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 visit our login page, 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.

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.

Who we share your data with, How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize 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, or have left comments, 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.