Privacy protection policy
Our website address is: speakingthoughts.in. The protection of your personal data is very important to us. We, within the framework of the legal requirements guarantee that the processing of personal data takes into account the fundamental rights and freedoms as well as the dignity of the person concerned, with particular reference to confidentiality, personal identity and the right to protection of personal data. In this privacy policy we inform you about the most important aspects of data processing within our website.
Contact requests
If you contact us via the form on the website or by e-mail, your data will be stored in order to process the request and in case of follow-up questions. We will not share this information without your consent.
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. 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.
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.
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.
Cookies
Our website uses so-called cookies. These are small text files that are stored on your device using the browser. They do no harm.
We use cookies to make our offer user-friendly. Some cookies remain stored on your device until you delete them. They allow us to recognize your browser on your next visit.
If you do not want this, you can set up your browser so that it informs you about the setting of cookies and you allow this only in individual cases.
Disabling cookies may limit the functionality of our website.
Web analytics
Our website uses features of the web analytics service from Google Inc, (1600 Amphitheater Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA) Google Analytics. For this purpose, cookies are used that allow an analysis of the use of the website by its users. The information generated thereby is transmitted to the server of the provider and stored there.
You can prevent this by setting up your browser so that cookies are not stored.
Your IP address is captured but immediately pseudonymized. As a result, only a rough localization is possible.
The relationship with the web analytics provider is based on standard contractual clauses or an adequacy decision of the European Commission (“Privacy Shield”).
The user data is stored indefinitely.
Google reCAPTCHA Privacy Policy
Our primary goal is to ensure that our website is protected and secure for you and for us in the best possible way. In order to guarantee this, we use Google reCAPTCHA from Google Inc. (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA). The installation of reCAPTCHA requires the installation of cookies from third parties, Google Inc. However, the website does not share navigation information or user data collected when using this technology. You have the opportunity to review the privacy statement directed to users by clicking here.
Your rights
In principle, you have the rights to information, correction, deletion, restriction, portability, revocation and opposition regarding your data. If you believe that the processing of your data violates data protection law or if your data protection claims have been violated in another way, you can complain to the supervisory authority.
The rights in question can be asserted by the affected person or by a person commissioned by him/her by means of an email.