Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy describes how your personal information is collected, used, and shared when you visit or make a purchase from blog.iqtrend.com (the “Site”).

Who we are?

Our website address is https://blog.iqtrend.com.

Comments

If a visitor leaves a comment on the Site, we collect the data provided in the comment form, as well as the visitor’s IP address and browser user-agent data for the purpose of spam detection.

An anonymised string created from your email address (“hash”) may be provided to the Gravatar service to determine whether you are using it. Gravatar’s privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. Once your comment is approved, your profile picture will be visible publicly in the context of your comment.

Media Files

If you are a registered user and upload photos to the site, you may want to avoid uploading images with EXIF metadata, as they may contain your GPS location. Visitors can retrieve this information by downloading the images from the site.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our website, you can enable your name, email address and website to be stored in a cookie. This is for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in the details again when you comment again. These cookies are stored for one year.

If you have an account on the site and log in to it, we will set a temporary cookie to determine whether your browser supports cookies, the cookie does not contain any personal information and is deleted when you close your browser.

When you log into your account we also set a few cookies with your login details and screen settings. Login cookies are stored for two days and screen settings cookies are stored for a year. If you select the “Remember me” option, the login data will be stored for a fortnight. When you log out of your account, your login cookies will be deleted.

When you edit or publish an article an additional cookie will be stored in your browser, it does not contain personal data and only contains the ID of the entry you 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.), such content behaves the same as if the visitor were visiting another website.

These sites may collect data about you, use cookies, implement additional third-party tracking, and track your interactions with the embedded content, including tracking interactions if you have an account and have logged in to that site.

Who do we share your data with?

If you request a password reset, your IP will be listed in the reset email.

How long do we keep your data?

If you leave a comment, the comment itself and its metadata are stored indefinitely. This is to detect and approve subsequent comments automatically, rather than placing them in an approval queue.

For users with a registration on our site, we store the personal information they provide in their profile. All users can see, edit or delete their profile information at any time (except for their username). The website administration can also see and change this information.

What rights do you have over your data?

If you have an account on the site or if you have left comments, you can request an export file of the personal data we have stored about you, including the data you have provided. You can also request the deletion of this data, this does not include data we are required to store for administrative, legal or security purposes.

Where do we send your data?

User comments may be checked by an automated spam detection service.

The personal information we collect

When you visit the Site, we automatically collect certain information about your device, including information about your web browser, IP address, time zone and certain cookies installed on your device. In addition, as you browse the Site, we collect information about the individual web pages or products you view, what websites or search terms brought you to the Site, and information about how you interact with the Site. We call this automatically collected information “device information.”

We collect device information using the following technologies:

  • “Cookies” are data files that are placed on your device or computer and often contain an anonymous unique identifier. For more information about cookies and how to disable them, please visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org.
  • “Log files” track activities performed on the Site and collect data including IP address, browser type, internet service provider, pages you link to/exit, and date/time stamps.
  • “Web beacons”, “tags” and “pixels” are electronic files used to record information about how you browse the Site.

How do we use your personal information?

We use the device information we collect to check for potential risk and fraud (in particular, your IP address) and generally to improve and optimise our Site (for example, to obtain analytics data about how our customers browse and interact with the Site and to measure the success of our marketing and advertising campaigns).

Sharing personal information

We share your personal information with third parties who help us use your personal information as described above.

We also use Google Analytics to help us understand how our visitors use the Site – you can read more about how Google uses your personal information here: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/. You can also opt out of Google Analytics here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Finally, we may also share your personal information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, in response to a subpoena, search warrant or other lawful request for information, or to otherwise protect our rights.

Do Not Track

Please note that we do not change our data collection and usage practices on our website if we see a Do Not Track signal from your browser.

Your rights

If you are a European resident, you have the right to access the personal information we hold about you and to request that we correct, update or delete your personal information. If you wish to exercise this right, please contact us at the contact details below.

In addition, if you are a European resident, we note that we process your information to fulfil contracts we may enter into with you (for example, if you place an order through the Site) or to pursue our legitimate business interests listed above.

In addition, please note that your information will be transferred outside of Europe, including to Canada and the United States.

California residents

California Civil Code Section 1798.83, also known as the “Shine The Light” law, permits our users who are California residents to request and receive from us once a year, free of charge, information about categories of personal information (if any) that we have disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes, as well as the names and addresses of all third parties to whom we have disclosed personal information during the immediately preceding calendar year. If you are a California resident and wish to make such a request, please submit it to us in writing using the contact information below.

If you are under 18 years of age, a California resident, and have a registered account on the Site, you have the right to request the deletion of objectionable data that you publicly post on the Site. To request the removal of such data, please contact us using the contact information below and provide the email address associated with your account and confirm that you reside in California. We will do our best to ensure that such data is not publicly posted on the Website, but please note that it may not be completely or comprehensively deleted from all of our systems (e.g., backups, etc.).

Changes

We may update this privacy policy from time to time, for example, to reflect changes in our practices or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons. The updated version will be marked with an updated “Revised” date, and the updated version will be effective as of the date it becomes available. If we make material changes to this privacy notice, we may notify you either by posting a notice of such changes in a conspicuous place or by sending you a notice directly. We encourage you to review this privacy notice frequently to stay informed about how we protect your information.

Contact Us

For more information about our privacy practices, if you have questions, or to make a complaint, please contact us by email at iqtrend@yahoo.com.