This is the traingeek.ca Privacy Policy.
The privacy of our visitors to traingeek.ca is important to us.
We recognize that privacy of your personal information is important. Here is information on what types of information we receive and collect when you visit traingeek.ca, and how we safeguard your information. We never sell your personal information to third parties.
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.
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.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc. – YouTube, for example). 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.
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.
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.
Personal Data Collected
When using this site, you may interact with forms on the site, sign up for our mailing list, or interact with our advertisements as indicated below. The following information may be collected and/or retained during the process of leaving a comment or signing up for the mailing list:
- First name
- Last name
- Email address
This information is only collected for the purpose indicated and is not distributed to third parties, with the exception of MailChimp, our mailing list provider, for the purpose of managing the mailing list.
Cookies and Web Beacons
We do use cookies to store information, such as your personal preferences when a user visit our site. This could include only showing you a popup once in your visit, or the ability to login to some of our features, such as forums. Our advertising platform also uses cookies. Please see their information below.
Advertising
The DoubleClick DART cookie is used by Google in the ads served on publisher websites displaying AdSense for content ads. When users visit an AdSense publisher’s website and either view or click on an ad, a cookie may be dropped on that end user’s browser. The data gathered from these cookies will be used to help AdSense publishers better serve and manage the ads on their site(s) and across the web.
# Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on your site.
# Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to your users based on their visit to your sites and other sites on the Internet.
# Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.
We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.