Booking RequestThis 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 website 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.
Table of Contents
- About Us
- Use of Collected Personal Data
- Comments
- Media
- Contact Forms
- Use of Cookies
- Statistics and Audience Metrics
- Data Retention Periods
- Your Rights Regarding Your Data
- Sharing of Your Personal Data
- How We Protect Your Data
- Contact Information
About Us
Find all our information on the legal notices page.
Use of Collected Personal Data
We do not automatically or directly collect any data about you.
However, we may collect information, including personal information, from third parties (see the Cookies section).
Comments
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, are 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. The Gravatar service’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.
Media
If you are a registered user and upload images to the website, we recommend that you avoid uploading images that contain EXIF data with GPS coordinates. Visitors to your website may download and extract location data from these images.
Contact Forms
You may choose to provide us with information when you fill out a form; this information will be sent to us via email and will not be stored anywhere other than in our email system. This information will be used solely for the purpose of responding to your request. If any information is likely to be used for commercial purposes, a note will indicate this at the bottom of the form. We will always ask for your consent when collecting information via a form.
Use of Cookies
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 allows us, for example, to recognize your browser and language, or to save your preferences.
Two types of cookies 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 after you close your browser and can be used again the next time you visit our site. For more information, visit allaboutcookies.org.
Our Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site, you will be given the option to save your name, email address, and website in cookies. This is solely for your convenience, so you won’t have to re-enter this information 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 data 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.
When you edit or publish a post, an additional cookie will be stored in your browser. This cookie does not contain any personal data. It simply identifies the post you just edited. It expires after one day.
Third-party cookies
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other sites behaves in the same way as if the visitor were visiting that other site.
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 your 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 send the third party information about what 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 in the cookie management panel.
Statistics and Audience Metrics
For analytics, we use Google Analytics to gather information about how our website is used so that we can improve it. This feature can be disabled 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 deactivation link and are not responsible for the availability or accuracy of this mechanism. See this documentation for more information.
Data Retention Periods
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This allows the following comments to be automatically recognized and approved instead of leaving them in the moderation queue.
For users who register on our site (if possible), we also store the personal data provided in their profile. All users can view, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except for their username). Site administrators can also view and edit this information.
Your Rights Regarding Your Data
If you have an account or have left comments on the site, you can request a file containing all the personal data we have about you, including the information you have provided to us. You may also request that your personal data be deleted. This does not include data stored for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Sharing of Your Personal Data
Visitor comments can be moderated using an automated spam detection service.
All personal data that we process is processed within the European Union.
How We Protect Your Data
We implement and continuously update our website’s security measures to protect your information from unauthorized access, loss, destruction, or alteration. We are therefore working to make your data as secure as possible. Since the Internet is not a 100% secure environment, we cannot fully guarantee the security of the transmission or storage of your information.
Contact 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 any further action regarding your request.