Privacy and Cookies Policy

Your privacy is critically important to us. At vanachteren.net we have a few fundamental principles:

  • We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it. (We can’t stand services that ask you for things like your gender or income level for no apparent reason.)
  • We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products, or protect our rights.
  • We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the ongoing operation of one of our services.

Below is our privacy policy which incorporates these goals:

If you have questions about deleting or correcting your personal data please contact me.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, vanachteren.net collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Vanachteren.net’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how  vanachteren.net visitors use its website. From time to time,  vanachteren.net may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

Vanachteren.net also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on WordPress.com blogs. Automattic only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that blog commenter IP addresses and email addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog where the comment was left.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to  vanachteren.net websites choose to interact with  vanachteren.net in ways that require  vanachteren.net to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that  vanachteren.net gathers depends on the nature of the interaction.Those who engage in transactions with  vanachteren.net are asked to provide additional information. In each case, Automattic collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with vanachteren.net .  Vanachteren.net does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the warning that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

Aggregated Statistics

Vanachteren.net may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. vanachteren.net may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, vanachteren.net does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

Vanachteren.net discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on vanachteren.net’s behalf or to provide services available at vanachteren.net ’s websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using vanachteren.net ’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Automattic will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above,  vanachteren.net discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when vanachteren.net believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of  vanachteren.net , third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of a vanachteren.net website and have supplied your email address,  vanachteren.net may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with vanachteren.net and our products. We primarily use our various product blogs to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Vanachteren.net takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Vanachteren.net uses cookies to help identify and track visitors, their usage of vanachteren.net website, and their website access preferences.  Vanachteren.net visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using vanachteren.net websites, with the drawback that certain features of vanachteren.net websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Business Transfers

If vanachteren.net , or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event that vanachteren.net goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of vanachteren.net may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.

Ads

Ads appearing on any of our websites may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by vanachteren.net and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, vanachteren.net may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in vanachteren.net sole discretion. Vanachteren.net encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.

Origin of this Privacy Policy

Automattic spent a lot of time on their privacy policy and then they offered it with a Creative Commons Sharealike license to the public. This means that everyone is more than welcome to re purpose it for own use. This is what I did.  Thank you, Automattic!

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