My website address is www.ravkan.com

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site I 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.

Contact forms

This website uses contact forms to allow you to submit emails to me. When doing so you will need to accept a checkbox that agrees to me storing your email and information in my email servers.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on my 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, I 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, I 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.

This website uses three cookies from Google Analytics and are listed below.

_gid – Google Analytics

_ga – Google Analytics

_gat – Google Analytics

YSC – youtube.com

GPS – youtube.com

PREF – youtube.com

vuid – vimeo.com

None of these cookies collects personal information and IP addresses are anonymized.

OPT-OUT OF COOKIES

Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies and to delete cookies.
The methods for doing so vary from browser to browser, and from version to
version. You can however obtain up-to-date information about blocking and
deleting cookies via the URLs below:

https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en (Chrome);

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookieswebsite-preferences (Firefox);

http://www.opera.com/help/tutorials/security/cookies/(Opera);

https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internetexplorer-delete-manage-cookies(Internet Explorer);

https://support.apple.com/kb/PH21411 (Safari); and
https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-US/..

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.

Some videos on my website are served from YouTube. YouTube uses cookies to collect information about the user’s computer or the user watching a video.

YouTube uses cookies to help maintain the integrity of video statistics, prevent fraud and to improve the website experience, among other things. YouTube uses cookies on both youtube.com and on videos embedded from youtube.com.

To learn more about YouTube’s privacy practices and the cookies that it uses, please visit http://www.youtube.com/t/privacy_at_youtube

ANALYTICS

This website uses Google Analytics to provide our analytics and reporting services so we can estimate our traffic and website performance.

This requires two Google Analytics cookies.

You can opt-out of Google Analytics data collection with the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.

You may also wish to refer to this website for additional information about disabling cookies from your browser: http://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies.

WHO WE SHARE YOUR DATA WITH

I do not share or sell your personal data to other organizations for commercial purposes, except to provide the products or services you’ve requested, when we have your permission or if we need to comply with law enforcement authorities.

I share information with only a few third parties that include.

Google Analytics – No personal data is shared.

Gmail – Who provides our email services act as our data processor for emails.

We will not share your data with anyone else unless legally obligated to do so.

HOW LONG WE RETAIN YOUR DATA

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so I can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on my website (if any), I 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.

If you email us we store the contents for 5 years but tend to clean up our email inboxes on a regular basis so may delete the data much sooner.

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

Visit my contact page.

ADDITIONALINFORMATION

WHAT DATA BREACH PROCEDURES I HAVE IN PLACE

If there is a data breach I commit to abiding by the GDPR regulations for informing those affected within 72 hours.

WHAT THIRD PARTIES I RECEIVE DATA FROM

I receive data from Google Analytics that helps me determine the best performing content, times of the day etc, however, I do not collect any personal or private information. Everything is anonymized and gives us a holistic view instead of data on individuals.

USE OF EXTERNAL LINKS

This website may contain links to different websites.

I cannot guarantee the accuracy of the information found at any external sites.

Any information on external websites I link to cannot be considered an endorsement by me.

POLICY CHANGES

I reserve the right to update the privacy policy at any time with or without prior notice.

However, be assured that if the privacy policy changes in the future, I will not use the personal info you submitted to us under this policy in a way that is materially inconsistent with the existing version, without your prior consent.