Privacy Policy of greylockglass.com
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Beyond any obligation established by law or contract, we here at the Greylock Glass want to work to protect your privacy because we believe in every human’s right to privacy and to the participation and control in the ways that personal information is shared. This Privacy Policy is far from perfect. We will work to make it address all the necessary topics in a clear, plain-language manner. Thanks for your patience and cooperation.
This Application collects some Personal Data from its Users.
Data Controller and Owner
The Greylock Glass, editor(ατ)greylockglass.com
Types of Data collected
Among the types of Personal Data that this Application collects, by
itself or through third parties, there are: Cookie, Usage data, Email
address and Username.
Other Personal Data collected may be described in other sections of this privacy policy or by dedicated explanation text contextually with the Data collection. The Personal Data may be freely provided by the User, or collected automatically when using this Application. Any use of Cookies – or of other tracking tools – by this Application or by the owners of third party services used by this Application, unless stated otherwise, serves to identify Users and remember their preferences, for the sole purpose of providing the service required by the User. Failure to provide certain Personal Data may make it impossible for this Application to provide its services.
Users are responsible for any Personal Data of third parties
obtained, published or shared through this Application and confirm that
they have the third party’s consent to provide the Data to the Owner.
Mode and place of processing the Data
Methods of processing
The Data Controller processes the Data of Users in a proper manner and
shall take appropriate security measures to prevent unauthorized access,
disclosure, modification, or unauthorized destruction of the Data.
The
Data processing is carried out using computers and/or IT enabled tools,
following organizational procedures and modes strictly related to the
purposes indicated. In addition to the Data Controller, in some cases,
the Data may be accessible to certain types of persons in charge,
involved with the operation of the site (administration, sales,
marketing, legal, system administration) or external parties (such as
third party technical service providers, mail carriers, hosting
providers, IT companies, communications agencies) appointed, if
necessary, as Data Processors by the Owner. The updated list of these
parties may be requested from the Data Controller at any time.
Place
The Data is processed at the Data Controller’s operating offices and in
any other places where the parties involved with the processing are
located. For further information, please contact the Data Controller.
Retention time
The Data is kept for the time necessary to provide the service
requested by the User, or stated by the purposes outlined in this
document, and the User can always request that the Data Controller
suspend or remove the data.
The use of the collected Data
The Data concerning the User is collected to allow the Owner to provide its services, as well as for the following purposes: Analytics, Managing contacts and sending messages and Content commenting.
The Personal Data used for each purpose is outlined in the specific sections of this document.
Detailed information on the processing of Personal DataPersonal Data is collected for the following purposes and using the following services:
• Analytics
The services contained in this section enable the Owner to monitor and analyze web traffic and can be used to keep track of User behavior. Google Analytics (Google) Google Analytics is a web analysis service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”). Google utilizes the Data collected to track and examine the use of this Application, to prepare reports on its activities and share them with other Google services. Google may use the Data collected to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.
Personal Data collected: Cookie and Usage data. Place of processing : USA – Privacy Policy – Opt Out Wordpress Stats (Automattic Inc.) Wordpress Stats is an analytics service provided by Automattic Inc. Personal Data collected: Cookie and Usage data. Place of processing : USA – Privacy Policy This website uses Google Analytics to help analyze how users use the site. The tool uses “cookies,” which are text files placed on your computer, to collect standard Internet log information and visitor behavior information in an anonymous form. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including IP address) is transmitted to Google. This information is then used to evaluate visitors’ us of the website and to compile statistical reports on website activity for [enter company name].
We will never (and will not allow any third party to) use the
statistical analytics tool to track or to collect any Personally
Identifiable Information (PII) of visitors to our site. Google will not
associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. Neither we
nor Google will link, or seek to link, an IP address with the identity
of a computer user. We will not associate any data gathered from this
site with any Personally Identifiable Information from any source,
unless you explicitly submit that information via a fill-in form on our
website.
Further Information about Cookies
The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) is an industry body that
develops standards and guidelines to support online business processes.
It has produced a series of web pages that explain how cookies work and
how they can be managed.
If you have questions concerning our privacy policy, please use our contact details to discuss them.
• Content commenting
Content commenting services allow Users to make
and publish their comments on the contents of this
Application.
Depending on the settings chosen by the Owner, Users may
also leave anonymous comments. If there is an email address among the
Personal Data provided by the User, it may be used to send notifications
of comments on the same content. Users are responsible for the content
of their own comments.
If a content commenting service provided by third
parties is installed, it may still collect web traffic data for the
pages where the comment service is installed, even when users do not use
the content commenting service.
Comment system managed directly (This
Application)
This Application has its own internal content comment
system.
Personal Data collected: Email address and Username.
• Managing contacts and sending messages
These services make it
possible to manage a database of email contacts, phone contacts or any
other contact information to communicate with the User.
These services
may also collect data concerning the date and time when the message was
viewed by the User, as well as when the User interacted with it, such as
by clicking on links included in the message.
Mailchimp
(Mailchimp)
Mailchimp is an email address management and message sending
service provided by Mailchimp Inc.
Personal Data collected: Email
address.
Place of processing : USA – Privacy Policy
Additional information about Data collection and processing
Legal action
The User’s Personal Data may be used for legal purposes by the Data
Controller, in Court or in the stages leading to possible legal action
arising from improper use of this Application or the related
services.
The User declares to be aware that the Data Controller may be
required to reveal personal data upon request of public authorities.
Additional information about User’s Personal Data
In addition to the information contained in this privacy policy, this
Application may provide the User with additional and contextual
information concerning particular services or the collection and
processing of Personal Data upon request.
System Logs and Maintenance
For operation and maintenance purposes, this Application and any third
party services may collect files that record interaction with this
Application (System Logs) or use for this purpose other Personal Data
(such as IP Address).
Information not contained in this policy
More details concerning the collection or processing of Personal Data
may be requested from the Data Controller at any time. Please see the
contact information at the beginning of this document.
The rights of Users
Users have the right, at any time, to know whether their Personal Data has been stored and can consult the Data Controller to learn about their contents and origin, to verify their accuracy or to ask for them to be supplemented, cancelled, updated or corrected, or for their transformation into anonymous format or to block any data held in violation of the law, as well as to oppose their treatment for any and all legitimate reasons. Requests should be sent to the Data Controller at the contact information set out above.
This Application does not support “Do Not Track” requests. To determine whether any of the third party services it uses honor the “Do Not Track” requests, please read their privacy policies.
Changes to this privacy policy
The Data Controller reserves the right to make changes to this privacy
policy at any time by giving notice to its Users on this page. It is
strongly recommended to check this page often, referring to the date of
the last modification listed at the bottom. If a User objects to any of
the changes to the Policy, the User must cease using this Application
and can request that the Data Controller removes the Personal Data.
Unless stated otherwise, the then-current privacy policy applies to all
Personal Data the Data Controller has about Users.
Information about this privacy policy
The Data Controller is responsible for this privacy policy, prepared
starting from the modules provided by Iubenda and hosted on Iubenda’s
servers.
Definitions and legal references
Personal Data (or Data)
Any information regarding a natural person, a legal person, an
institution or an association, which is, or can be, identified, even
indirectly, by reference to any other information, including a personal
identification number.
Usage Data
Information collected automatically from this Application (or third
party services employed in this Application ), which can include: the IP
addresses or domain names of the computers utilized by the Users who
use this Application, the URI addresses (Uniform Resource Identifier),
the time of the request, the method utilized to submit the request to
the server, the size of the file received in response, the numerical
code indicating the status of the server’s answer (successful outcome,
error, etc.), the country of origin, the features of the browser and the
operating system utilized by the User, the various time details per
visit (e.g., the time spent on each page within the Application) and the
details about the path followed within the Application with special
reference to the sequence of pages visited, and other parameters about
the device operating system and/or the User’s IT environment.
User
The individual using this Application, which must coincide with or be
authorized by the Data Subject, to whom the Personal Data refer.
Data Subject
The legal or natural person to whom the Personal Data refers.
Data Processor (or Data Supervisor)
The natural person, legal person, public administration or any other
body, association or organization authorized by the Data Controller to
process the Personal Data in compliance with this privacy policy.
Data Controller (or Owner)
The natural person, legal person, public administration or any other
body, association or organization with the right, also jointly with
another Data Controller, to make decisions regarding the purposes, and
the methods of processing of Personal Data and the means used, including
the security measures concerning the operation and use of this
Application. The Data Controller, unless otherwise specified, is the
Owner of this Application.
This Application
The hardware or software tool by which the Personal Data of the User is collected.
Cookie
Small piece of data stored in the User’s device.
Legal information
Notice to European Users: this privacy statement has been prepared in
fulfillment of the obligations under Art. 10 of EC Directive n.
95/46/EC, and under the provisions of Directive 2002/58/EC, as revised
by Directive 2009/136/EC, on the subject of Cookies.
This privacy policy relates solely to this Application.
Who we are
Our website address is: https://www.greylockglass.com.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
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.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
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.
Contact forms
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 have an account and you log in to this site, 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 tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Analytics
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.
Your contact information
Additional information
How we protect your data
What data breach procedures we have in place
What third parties we receive data from
What automated decision making and/or profiling we do with user data
Industry regulatory disclosure requirements
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