Privacy Policy

Find all our information on the legal notices page.

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).

If you are a registered user and upload images to the website, we recommend avoiding uploading images containing EXIF data with GPS coordinates. Visitors to your website can download and extract location data from these images.

You can choose to provide us with information when you fill out a form. This information will be sent to us by email and will not be stored anywhere other than on our messaging service. This information will be used solely to respond to your request. If any information is likely to be used for commercial purposes, a note will indicate this at the end of the form. We will always ask for your consent when collecting information via a form.

What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small data file that is transferred and stored on your device. Specifically, a cookie allows us, for example, to recognize your browser, your language, or 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 reused during your next visit to our site. More information on allaboutcookies.org.

Our cookies

If you leave a comment on our site, you will be offered the option to save your name, email address, and website in cookies. This is for your convenience, so you don’t have to fill in this information again 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 if your browser accepts cookies. It doesn’t contain any personal data and will be deleted automatically when you close your browser. When you log in, we will set up a number of cookies to store your login information and screen preferences. The login cookie lasts for two days, and the screen option cookie lasts for one year. If you check “Remember me,” your login cookie will be kept for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookie will be deleted. When editing or publishing an article, an additional cookie will be stored in your browser. This cookie contains no personal data. It simply indicates the ID of the article you just edited. It expires after one day.

Third-party cookies

The articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles…). Embedded content from other sites behaves in the same way as if the visitor visited that other site. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed third-party tracking tools, track your interactions with these embedded contents if you have an account with them. 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, such as noting the third-party services through which you arrived at the Platform, 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 the Facebook "Like" button. As a result, you may send information to the third party about the content you view on a particular section of our site. If you are not logged in to your account with the third party, they won’t be able to know your identity. If you are logged in to your account with the third party, they will be able to link the information or actions related to your interactions with our site to your account with the third party. Please refer to the third party's privacy policies to learn more about their data practices. The list of third-party cookies used on this site is available from the cookie management panel.

For analysis purposes, we work with Google Analytics to gather information about the use of our website in order to improve it. This can be disabled from the cookie management panel. To prevent Google Analytics from using your information for analysis, you can also install the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on by clicking here. Please note that we have no control over this opt-out link and are not responsible for its availability or accuracy. Please refer to this documentation for more information.

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are stored indefinitely. This allows us to automatically recognize and approve subsequent comments 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, modify, or delete their personal information at any time (except for their username). Site administrators can also view and modify this information.

If you have an account or have left comments on the site, you can request to receive a file containing all the personal data we hold about you, including the data you have provided to us. You can also request the deletion of your personal data. This does not include data stored for administrative, legal, or security reasons.

Visitor comments may be checked using an automated spam detection service. All personal data we process is handled within the European Union.

We continuously implement and update the security of the site to protect your information against unauthorized access, loss, destruction, or alteration. We work to make your data as invulnerable 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.

For any request or question regarding your personal data, contact us at rgpd@geek-tonic.com. Other contact information is available in our legal notice. Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before taking further action regarding your request.