Who we are
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.
Cookies
If you visit our login page, 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.
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 tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc., a Delaware company headquartered at 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View (California), CA 94043, United States (“Google”).
Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files located on your computer, to help the website analyze the users’ use of the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be directly transmitted and archived by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information on our behalf for the purpose of tracking your use of the website, compiling reports of website activity and providing other services related to website activity and Internet use.
Google may transfer such information to third parties when required by law, or when such third parties process the information on behalf of Google. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data available to Google.
You may refuse to treat data or information by refusing the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings for your browser, however, you should know that if you do, you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. By using this website you consent to the processing of information about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes indicated above.
Our site includes social plug-ins from Facebook, 1601 South California Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA. On our site, Facebook plug-ins are recognized by the Facebook logo or the “Like” button. Here is a summary of Facebook plug-ins: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/.
When you visit our site, you establish through the plug-in a direct link between your browser and the Facebook server. Thus, Facebook receives information that you, with your IP address, have visited our website. If you click on the “Like” button on Facebook while you are logged in to your Facebook account, you can link the contents of our site with your Facebook profile. Thus, Facebook can link the visit to our site with your user account. We declare that, as site providers, we are not aware of the content of the data being transmitted or the use that Facebook makes of them. For more information about this in the data protection declaration of Facebook in http://de-de.facebook.com/policy.php
If you do not want Facebook can link your visit to our site with your user account on Facebook, please log out of your Facebook account.
How long we retain your data
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.
