Effective as of March 9, 2024
Thank you for visiting SMARTRINGNEWS.com. If you require any more information or have any questions about the site’s privacy policy, please feel free to contact us.
SMARTRINGNEWS.com treats the privacy of visitors with utmost importance. This privacy policy document breaks down the types of information received and collected by the site and how it is used, as follows:
- What we collect
- Who we share your data with
- How long we retain your data
- What rights you have over your data
- How and where we send your data
- Changes to the privacy policy
What We Collect
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
Our contact forms will ask for your first and/or last name and email address. We may use your personal information for the following purposes:
- To make your experience with the site more convenient in a way that you will refrain from entering the same information (username, email address, etc.) once you visit again in the future.
- To deliver your requested resource materials.
- To improve the type of content we create and publish what would be relevant to you.
- To notify you of newsletters and other relevant content that you might find useful.
- To request feedback in market research or surveys.
- To request assistance or fill out support requests.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt-in to save 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 have an account and you log in to this site, 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.
Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics to analyze the use of our website. Google Analytics gathers information about website use by means of cookies. The information gathered relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of our website. Google’s privacy policy is available at: https://policies.google.com/privacy
Links and Embedded Content
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.
Who We Share Your Data With
This Site is affiliated with CMI Marketing, Inc., d/b/a Raptive (“Raptive”) for the purposes of placing advertising on the Site, and Raptive will collect and use certain data for advertising purposes. To learn more about Raptive’s data usage, click here: https://raptive.com/creator-advertising-privacy-statement/.
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 who 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.
How and Where We Send Your Data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. The data we collect may be transferred to cloud storage locations outside of the United States. In doing so, we take all reasonable precautions to safeguard your information and follow industry best practices to ensure your data is not inappropriately lost, misused, accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed.
Changes to Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to modify our privacy policy at any time. Any resulting changes or clarifications will be implemented with immediate effect once they are published. We highly recommend visitors to check back from time to time for any changes.
If you have any further questions, you may directly contact the site owner, Nikola Gulevski, at [email protected].
