From May 25, 2018, the new privacy legislation (GDPR) will come into effect. We comply with the conditions set by that regulation. Below is information about how we handle cookies and user data.
On our website and mobile apps, privacy-sensitive data or personal data is processed. We consider the careful handling of personal data of great importance. Personal data is therefore carefully processed and secured by us. In our processing, we comply with the requirements of privacy legislation. This means, among other things, that:
When using our apps, we obtain certain information from you. That can be personal data. We only store and use the personal data that is provided directly by you or that we obtain as a result of your use of the service.
On the website and in our mobile applications, you are only known by your self-chosen nickname. Your email address will not be shown to other users. The following personal data may be stored or processed:
Data provided by users themselves: nickname, profile texts, photos, name, e-mail address. The current location data of a user is not stored by us on a server.
The data is generated by using the site and app: IP address, device data, and cookies.
This website uses cookies. A cookie is a simple file that is sent along with pages from this website and stored by your browser on the hard drive of your computer/device. The information stored therein can be sent back to our servers by the respective browser on a subsequent visit.
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.
This website and our mobile applications do not save your current location, nor sent it to the servers.
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.
If you upload images to the website or mobile application, 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 tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Personal data is not provided to third parties. Comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
If you have an account on this site or our mobile application 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.
This privacy statement was last amended on November 17, 2022. We reserve the right to make changes to this privacy statement. It is recommended that you consult this privacy statement regularly so that you are aware of these changes.
