Privacy Policy

Use of personal data collected

Comments

When you leave a comment on our website, the data entered in the comment form, as well as your IP address and the user agent of your browser, are collected to help us detect unwanted comments.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be sent to the Gravatar service to check if you are using it. The privacy policy of the Gravatar service is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After your comment is approved, your profile picture will be publicly visible next to your comment.

Media

If you are a registered user and upload images to the website, we recommend that you avoid uploading images that contain EXIF GPS location data. Visitors to your website can download and extract location data from these images.

Contact forms

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site, you will be offered the option to save your name, email address, and website in cookies. This is solely for your convenience so that you do not have to enter this information again if you leave another comment later. These cookies expire after one year.

If you visit the login page, a temporary cookie will be created to determine if your browser accepts cookies. It does not contain any personal data and will be automatically deleted when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will set a number of cookies to store your login information and screen preferences. The lifetime of a login cookie is two days, while that of a screen option cookie is one year. If you check ‘Remember me’, your login cookie will be retained for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookie will be deleted.

When you edit or publish a post, an additional cookie will be stored in your browser. This cookie does not contain any personal data. It simply indicates the ID of the post you just edited. It expires after one day.

Content embedded from other sites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (for example, videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other sites behaves in the same way as if the visitor had gone to that other site.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed third-party tracking tools, and track your interactions with these embedded contents if you have an account logged in on their website.

Live Chat Service

Personal data is processed by Smartsupp.com, s.r.o., VAT number CZ03668681 (hereinafter ‘Smartsupp’) as a data processor acting on behalf of the website owner, who is the data controller. Smartsupp is compliant with the GDPR. You can find information about privacy and the processing of personal data by Smartsupp at www.smartsupp.com/privacy. The processing of your personal data is necessary to provide customer service. Contact the website owner if you have questions about the processing of personal data or if you wish to request or delete your personal data.

Audience statistics and measurements

In order to adapt our site to the requests of our visitors and to improve it to provide you with relevant content, we measure the sources of access to our site, the number of visits, the number of pages viewed, as well as visitor activity on the site and their return frequency. The statistics tool used on our website. is Google Analytics. The list of cookies used by Google Analytics is presented here: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage?hl=en.

Our use of the audience statistics tool does not allow us to identify you. We have customized our tracking code to enable IP address masking. Thus, all IP addresses of users on our website are anonymous in Google Analytics.

To learn about Google’s privacy policy for Google Analytics, we invite you to visit the following page: Google Privacy Policy.

Use and transmission of your personal data

Storage times for your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This allows us to recognize and automatically approve subsequent comments instead of leaving them in the moderation queue.

For users who register on our site (if this is possible), we also store the personal data provided in their profile. All users can view, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except for their username). Site managers can also view and edit this information.

The rights you have over your data

If you have an account or have left comments on the site, you can request to receive a file containing all the personal data we hold about you, including the data you have provided to us. You can also request the deletion of your personal data. This does not include data stored for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Transmission of your personal data

Visitor comments may be checked using an automated service for detecting unwanted comments.