I collect your information to record and support your participation in the activities that you select via my Website, to track your preferences and to keep you informed about the products and services you have selected to receive and any related products and/or services. This includes information that you provide to me voluntarily (such as signing up to my newsletter) and information that I may collect automatically. The information you provide to me voluntarily is provided by you via various forms on the website, through the surveys you respond to, when you purchase a product or a service or by providing comments or other feedback. I use this information to provide you with a product or a service that you requested, whether free or paid for, to track your preferences, provide you only with relevant information and to improve our collaboration. As a user of my Website, you can engage in most activities without providing any personal information. Only when you seek to download resources and/or register for products or services you are required to provide personal information. The personal data I collect from individuals using my services mostly consists of customer data, such as name, address, telephone number, email address and other personal data that identifies, describes or is reasonably capable of being associated with you. To improve my performance, I might also use automatic data collection technologies on the Website. The automatically collected information is used for analytical purposes only and to improve the Website and my performance. This will typically include collecting information such as:
When you use my website, I may also collect technical data in relation to Users, such as IP address, browser type and version, preferred language, geographic location, operating system and computer platform, the full URL clickstream to, through and from my Services, including date and time, websites accessed immediately before and after visiting my website, services Users viewed or searched for while using my Services, and parts of my Services that Users have visited. Although I do not normally use technical data to identify individuals, sometimes individuals can be recognized from it, either alone or when combined or linked with user data. In such situations, technical data can also be personal data under applicable law, and I will treat the combined data as personal data.
My website utilizes a standard technology called “cookies” and server logs to collect information about how my site is used. Information gathered through cookies and server logs may include the date and time of visits, the pages viewed, time spent at my site, the type of device that was used to visit my website, your location and the websites visited just before and just after my own, as well as your IP address. A cookie is a very small text document, which often includes an anonymous unique identifier. When you visit a website, that site’s computer asks your computer for permission to store this file in a part of your hard drive specifically designated for cookies. Each website can send its own cookie to your browser if your browser’s preferences allow it, but (to protect your privacy) your browser only permits a website to access the cookies it has already sent to you, not the cookies sent to you by other sites.
When you first visit my site, a banner will be displayed on top of the page where you will be asked to provide your consent to me using analytical cookies. If you click "Continue", I assume that you agree with the use of cookies. If you choose not to click "Continue", you will still be able to use my website, but no analytical cookies will be sent. If you do click "Continue" and thereby accept cookies, but change your mind later, you can always withdraw your prior consent. You can do that by clearing cookie history from your selected browser, visit the Website again and continue using it without clicking "Continue" on the cookie banner that will be displayed at the top of the page.
I use a tool called “Google Analytics” to collect information about use of this site. Google Analytics collects information such as how often users visit this site, what pages they visit when they do so, and what other sites they used prior to coming to this site. I use the information I get from Google Analytics only to improve this site. Google Analytics collects only the IP address assigned to you on the date you visit this site, rather than your name or other identifying information. I do not combine the information collected through the use of Google Analytics with personally identifiable information. Although Google Analytics plants a permanent cookie on your web browser to identify you as a unique user the next time you visit this site, the cookie cannot be used by anyone but Google. Google’s ability to use and share information collected by Google Analytics about your visits to this site is restricted by the Google Analytics Terms of Use and the Google Privacy Policy. You can prevent Google Analytics from recognizing you on return visits to this site by disabling cookies on your browser.