Privacy Policy

Who we are

This website is run by Voxidyne Media LLC, which is committed to safeguarding your privacy. Our website address is: https://voxidyne.com.

By using this website and/or our services, you consent to the Processing of your Personal Data as described in this Privacy Policy. If you have an account with us, keep your username and password combination secret.

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.

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.

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

When you submit a message to our contact forms, your contact information will be forwarded so that we may reply to you.

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.

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.

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.

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

We use your Personal Data in order to:

Register your account
Provide you with products and services that you request
Provide you with promotional items that you request
Communicate with you
Notify you of changes to our web services
Fulfil any obligation under law or contract

We use your Personal Data on legitimate grounds and/or with your Consent.

On the grounds of entering into a contract or fulfilling contractual obligations, we Process your Personal Data for the following purposes:

To identify you
To provide you a service
To offer you a product
To send you a product
To communicate with you for sales or invoicing

On the ground of legitimate interest, we Process your Personal Data for the following purposes:

To send you personalized offers* (from us and/or our carefully selected partners)
To administer and analyse our client base (purchasing behaviour and history) in order to improve the quality, variety, and availability of products/ services offered/provided;
To conduct questionnaires concerning client satisfaction

As long as you have not informed us otherwise, we consider offering you products/services that are similar or same to your purchasing history/browsing behaviour to be our legitimate interest.  With your consent we Process your Personal Data for the following purposes:

To send you newsletters that you have requested

We Process your Personal Data in order to fulfil obligation rising from law and/or use your Personal Data for options provided by law. We reserve the right to anonymise Personal Data gathered and to use any such data. We will use data outside the scope of this Policy only when it is anonymised. We save your billing information and other information gathered about you for as long as needed for accounting purposes or other obligations deriving from law.

We might process your Personal Data for additional purposes that are not mentioned here, but are compatible with the original purpose for which the data was gathered. To do this, we will ensure that:

The link between purposes, context and nature of Personal Data is suitable for further Processing
The further Processing would not harm your interests
There will be appropriate safeguards for Processing

We will inform you of any further Processing and purposes.

Who we share your data with

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.

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.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Your contact information

Additional information

How we protect your data

We do our best to keep your Personal Data safe.  We use data protection measures such as:

Secure communication protocols such as Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS)
Digital certificates for authenticating messages detecting and data tampering
Anonymised (disguised) data where suitable
Monitoring for possible vulnerabilities and attacks
Automated tools for detecting and destroying malware
Data Breach Response Plans to report data breaches within 72 hours of detection

What data breach procedures we have in place

Even though we try our best, we can not guarantee the security of information.  In the event we detect a data breach, we have prepared to work with appropriate law enforcement agencies.  We will also notify our users if there is a threat to the user’s rights or interests.  We will do everything we reasonably can to secure the site and user information.

If you have an account with us, keep your username and password combination secret.  We recommend that you use complex passwords.  Please do not use the same passwords you use for other services.  If you believe that your interaction with us is no longer secure, please immediately notify us in accordance with the “Contact” page.

Children’s Guidelines

We do not knowingly collect or intend to collect information from children younger than 16 except as permitted by applicable law. We do not direct our products or services to children under the age of 16 and we do not consider children our intended audience.

General Data Protection Regulation European Representative

Pursuant to Article 27 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Voxidyne Media LLC has appointed a GDPR representative in the European Union.  You can contact our representative regarding GDPR matters by:

EU Business Partners
10 Ashe Street
Clonakilty
P85E403
Ireland

Contacting Us about your Privacy

Contact us using the Contact page if you have any questions or issues regarding the use of your Personal Data and we will gladly assist you. You may also reach us via phone or our P.O. box.