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Affiliation
We earn money through affiliate programs offered by different VPN companies. Thus, some of the links you will find on our website are referral links that allow us to earn a commission when someone signs up for a VPN service using one of the links. We believe that this website monetization format ensures a better user experience than distracting website ads.
Cookies
When you write a comment on our website, you can choose to save your email address, name, and website in cookies. These cookies will be deleted after one year. This option is available for your convenience, as if you opt to save your details, you won’t have to enter your information again when you write another comment.
If you have an account on our website and you log into it, we will create a temporary cookie to test if your internet browser accepts cookies. This cookie doesn’t contain any personal information and is deleted once you close your browser.
When you log into your account, we will create cookies that save your screen display settings and login information. The screen display cookies will be stored for one year and login cookies are deleted after two days.
If you choose “Remember Me” at check-in, you will be automatically logged in when you visit the website for two weeks. If you log out of your account at some point, the login cookies will be deleted.
If you publish a new article or edit an existing one, another cookie will be saved in your internet browser. This cookie doesn’t contain any personal information. Instead, it contains the ID of the post you’ve edited. This cookie is deleted after one day.
We also utilize cookies for Google Analytics on our website.
Responsibility and fair usage
We provide information to the readers of our website free of charge but this information should not be considered legal, financial, or another form of advice. If you choose to use the information provided on our website in your decision-making process, you will be doing this independently and our company will not bear responsibility for the consequences.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
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Comments
When users write comments on our website, we save the information displayed in the comments form along with the user’s browser user agent string and IP address to facilitate our spam detection efforts.
We may send a hash, which is an anonymized string created from your email address, to the Gravatar service to check if you are using it. You can read the Gravatar service privacy policy here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. Once your comment is approved by the website administrator, your profile picture will appear next to your comment and be visible to other website users.
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Media
When you upload image files to our website, you should ensure that embedded location data (EXIF GPS) is not included in the file. Other website visitors can download the images from the website and obtain location data from them.
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Embedded content from other websites
Articles published on our website may contain embedded content such as images, videos, articles, etc. This embedded content behaves the same way as if you visited the website where the content is embedded from.
For instance, those websites may gather information about you, use cookies, analyze how you interact with embedded content, or embed other third-party tracking code.
How long we retain your data
If you write a comment on our website, the comment itself and its metadata will be retained indefinitely. This is done to allow us to identify and automatically approve any future comments you may leave instead of putting them through the moderation process.
If a user registers on our website, we will store the personal information they enter in their profile. Each user can view, change or delete the information in their profile at any time. However, users can’t edit their usernames. Website administrators can also view or change information in user profiles.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on our website or have written comments on it in the past, you can request us to send you an exported file with all the personal information we store about you, including the information you have given us. You can also ask us to delete all the personal information that we have on you, with the exception of information we are required to keep for security, legal, or administrative reasons.
Where we send your data
We reserve the right to check comments left by visitors on our websites using an automatic spam detection service.