Effective Date: 28/03/2024
At WinSharpSharp, we are committed to protecting the privacy and security of our
users. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your
information when you use our website located at https://winsharpsharp.com, including any
mobile applications, electronic newsletters, or other digital services linked to this
Privacy Policy.
If you have any questions or concerns about our Privacy Policy or our practices, please
contact us at support@winsharpsharp.com.
INFORMATION WE COLLECT
We may collect personal information from you when you interact with our Services. This
may include:
- Information you provide voluntarily, such as your name, email address, username,
and any other information you choose to provide when registering for an account or
participating in interactive features of our Services. - Information automatically collected when you access or use our Services, such as
your IP address, browser type, operating system, referral URLs, device information,
and usage data. - When visitors leave comments on our site we collect the data shown in the comments
form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam
detection. - The contact form located at the contact us page of this website is used to collect
message, questions, enquiry from our users. Your email, first and last names are
collected in the contact form.
HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION
We may use the information we collect from you to:
- Provide, maintain, and improve our Services;
- Communicate with you about our Services, including responding to your inquiries
and providing customer support; - Personalize your experience on our Services;
- Send you promotional and marketing communications, including newsletters and
updates about new features and offerings; - Detect, investigate, and prevent fraudulent or unauthorized activity;
- Comply with legal obligations; and
- Fulfill any other purpose disclosed to you at the time of collection or with your
consent.
WHO WE SHARE YOUR INFORMATION WITH
We may share your information with third parties in the following circumstances:
- With service providers who help us operate our Services or perform business
functions on our behalf; - With third parties for marketing, advertising, or similar purposes, with your consent
or as permitted by law; - In connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets, in which case your
information may be transferred as part of the transaction; and - As required by law or to protect our rights, property, or safety, or the rights, property,
or safety of others.
Also, if you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
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 YOUR DATA IS SENT
User comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. Please
note that while this service may involve the processing of user comments, the data is
typically anonymized or pseudonymized to prevent the identification of individual users.
The automated spam detection service may be operated and hosted in countries
outside your own, and as such, your data may be transferred to and processed in these
countries. However, WinSharpSharp will take all necessary steps to ensure that your
data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
MEDIA
If you upload images to the website, 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.
COOKIES
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and
that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns.
WinSharpSharp uses cookies to help identify and track visitors, their usage of the
WinSharpSharp website, and their website access preferences. Visitors of
WinSharpSharp who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set
their browsers to refuse cookies before using WinSharpSharp website, with the
drawback that certain features of WinSharpSharp’s website may not function properly
without the aid of 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 your 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. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This
cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just
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.).
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.
DATA SECURITY
We take reasonable measures to protect the security of your information, but no
method of transmission over the internet or electronic storage is 100% secure.
Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your
information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
Periodically, we may update this Privacy Policy. Any revisions become effective upon
posting the updated policy on our Website. Your continued interaction with us following
the posting of the modified Privacy Policy signifies your acceptance of the changes. It is
your responsibility to review, comprehend, and agree to the latest version of the Privacy
Policy. The date noted at the top of this Privacy Policy indicates the last revision date.
CONTACT US
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, please
contact us at support@winsharpsharp.com.