Who am I
My website address is: https://simplescicomm.blog Read more about who I am and about my activities in the About section
Terms and Conditions
The present website is hosted by WordPress.com, a service by Automattic. Automattic is a global company with thousands of servers located in several separate data centres around the world. While Automattic takes care of the security of the platform, I own the content of the blog. For more detailed information about the compliance of Automattic products and services with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), please see their dedicated page.
Data collected
I do not collect any personal data that could identify an individual user. Users that are registered in WordPress.com should consult wordpress.com terms of service. I do collect anonymised aggregate data for statistical purposes. The data collected for this purposes include: number of visits/visitors per page, the country of the user, and aggregate numbers of incoming and outgoing clicks.
I determine unique page counts by using a “hashed” version of the visitor’s IP address. The visitor’s full IP address is deleted from logs after a little over a month. That time-frame is how long the data is needed in order to allow me to calculate your stats on a monthly basis and no longer.
I collect your email address only if you proactively requested to be notified about the updates on the blog. By subscribing you give your consent to the processing of your personal data (name and e-mail address). You can always contact me to remove your email address from the records or unsubscribe from the notification service.
I can also see your name and email address if you made a comment to one of my posts. 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/. Visitor comments may be also checked through an automated spam detection service. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment. I do not make the email address visible on the comment. Nevertheless, on request, I can delete your comments.
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.
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.
Cookies
I collect cookies only to facilitate your browsing experience, such as enabling you to share my posts via social media or comment on the post. The majority of cookies will be used only if you are a registered WordPress.com user. In this case, you are bound to WordPress.com terms of service.
I do not collect cookies to show advertisement nor resell any information collected with cookies to third parties. Read more about the wordpress.com cookie policy and the way to control cookies on their dedicated page.
Contact
For any further information or for cases where you want to unsubscribe from any of the services mentioned in these terms and condition; delete all or part of your data; or request access to the personal data I save about you, please contact me via contact form.
Please note, however, that I cannot help with questions related to your wordpress.com account. For this questions, please refer to wordpress.com terms of service.