Who we are
Our website address is: https://mytechlogs.com.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form (name, email, comment text), 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: https://automattic.com/privacy/. 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 (e.g., troubleshooting screenshots or profile pictures), 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.
Contact forms
Please see our dedicated contact page for communication details: https://mytechlogs.com/contact-mytechlogs
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close the browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, code snippets, 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.
Analytics and Data Collection
As you use this Website, we use automatic data collection technology (Google Analytics) to collect certain information about your device, browsing actions, and patterns. This generally includes information about where you are, how you use our website, and any communications between your computer and this site. Among other things, we will collect data about the type of computer you use, your Internet connection, your IP address, your operating system, and your browser type.
We collect this data for statistical purposes, and the purpose of this data is to improve our Website and offerings.
If you wish to opt out of Google Analytics so that none of your personal information is collected and stored by Google Analytics, you can download and install the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. For more information on how Google collects and uses your data, you can access the Google Privacy Policy here: https://policies.google.com/privacy.
Who we share your data with
We don’t sell or share your data with anyone directly. We may use a 3rd party email provider to store your email address if you voluntarily signed up for an email newsletter or other opt-in forms.
What we collect and store
We store comments on posts and pages if you choose to leave them.
Payments
We may accept payments for services through platforms like PayPal or Stripe. When processing payments, some of your data will be passed to the payment processor, including information required to process or support the payment, such as the purchase total and billing information. Please see the respective Privacy Policy of the payment provider for more details (e.g., PayPal Privacy Policy).
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.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service (like Akismet).
Policy Regarding Advertising Networks (Ezoic/AdSense)
The Website plans to use third-party advertising partners (Ezoic and Google AdSense) to manage and display all third-party advertising on the Website to support the costs of running the MyTechLogs Lab. These networks serve content and advertisements which may use first and third-party cookies.
A cookie is a small text file which is sent to your computer or mobile device by the web server so that a website can remember some information about your browsing activity.
- Third-party cookies, tags, pixels, beacons, and other similar technologies (collectively, “Tags”) may be placed on the Website by these networks to monitor interaction with advertising content and to target and optimize advertising.
- The Website may collect IP addresses and location information to serve personalized ads and pass it to these networks.
You can block both first and third-party cookies and clear your browser’s cache. The “help” feature on most browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new cookies or how to disable existing cookies. For more information about cookies and how to disable them, you can consult the information at www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/.
[Note:] Once MyTechLogs is approved and implements these ad networks (Ezoic and AdSense), this section will be updated with the full list of data processors and partners required by those companies for complete legal compliance.