This privacy policy has been compiled to better serve those who are concerned with how their ‘Personally Identifiable Information’ (PII) is being used online. PII is information that can be used on its own or with other information to identify, contact, or locate a single person, or to identify an individual in context. Please read this privacy policy carefully to get a clear understanding of how we collect, use, protect or otherwise handle your Personally Identifiable Information in accordance with our blog.
Who We Are
This blog, PlexNof, is owned by Ahmer Faraz and launched in December 2019.
It is a technology blog and we provide information regarding existing & new technologies, software, social media, tutorials, security, hardware etc.
Our website address is: https://plexnof.com & you can contact us here.
What Personal Data Is Collected And Why
When registering, as appropriate, you may be asked to enter your name, email address or other details to help you with your experience.
Information is collected from you when you subscribe to a newsletter, fill out a form, enter information on our blog to provide feedback on our posts, products, services or purchase any product.
This may include personal data, such as name, email address, personal account preferences; transactional data, such as purchase information; and technical data, such as information about cookies.
We may use the information collected from you when you sign up for our newsletter, respond to a survey or marketing communication, surf the blog, or use certain other blog features in the following ways:
- To personalize your experience and to allow us to deliver the type of content which you are most interested in.
- To improve our blog in order to better serve you.
- To allow us to better service you in responding to your customer service requests.
- To send periodic emails for new information.
Third Party Issues
Third-party Disclosure
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your Personally Identifiable Information.
Third-party Links
We can offer third-party products or services on our blog that we believe in and trust beneficial for our readers.
Third-party Behavioural Tracking
It’s also important to note that third-party behavioural tracking is not allowed.
Google AdSense
We can use Google AdSense on our blog for advertisement purposes.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the 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.
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.
A checkbox is provided at the end of the comment box for your consent to save a cookie containing your information so that the fields don’t require the information to be filled again the next time. It is your decision to check this box or not.
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.
Contact Forms
We use contact form on our site so that you can inform us about any issues, problems or queries. We don’t use this information – your name, email, website --for any marketing purposes and will save it for a certain period for customer service purposes.
Cookies
We use cookies in order to analyze site traffic and provide our visitors best personalized experience.
What Is A Cookie?
A cookie is a small piece of data sent from a website and stored in the user’s web browser while the user is browsing (if you allow). Cookies are designed to be a reliable mechanism for websites to remember useful information.
Cookies are used to understand your choices for future visits and to get an idea about blog traffic and blog interaction so that we can offer better service in the future. It helps to better understand blog visitors.
You can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies. You do this through your browser settings. Since each browser is a little different, look at your browser’s Help Menu to learn the correct way to modify your cookies.
If you turn cookies off, some features will be disabled that will affect your blog experience and it may not function properly.
Default WordPress 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.
Analytics
We are using Google Analytics to get website stats. It means that we’re collecting or tracking personal data like IP addresses, user IDs, cookies and other data for behaviour profiling. None of this data is shared with anyone for any purposes.
Data Issues
Who We Share Your Data With
We share the data collected for email subscription with Mailchimp, the email marketing service. Data like name, email address are shared with it for sending blog updates, announcements for new features & products etc.
In case of any more third-party services being added in future, we’ll inform about them.
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.
Process of how users can place requests regarding their data works this way:
- A user requests to view or delete their data (via comments, contact form, or other means)
- The site admin goes to the export or erase personal data setting and enters the readers’ email ID, and clicks ‘send request’
- The reader receives an email with a confirmation link to confirm their request
- If the user clicks the link, their request is confirmed, and the site admin can send them an email with their personal data with the click of a button
- The user can download the file and view their personal data. The file is deleted after 72 hours for security purposes.
- If the request is for deletion, then the site admin can delete the data after the reader has confirmed their request
Where We Send Your Data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Apart from email data being sent to Email marketing service, all user data is stored locally on the host’s web server.
How We Protect Your Data
Data Stored Locally
The data stored on the server of web hosting is protected by their strict security implemented through firewalls.
In addition to their security, we’ve implemented security plugins and best security practices recommended by WordPress experts to further enhance the security of our site and the user data that it contains. It helps to protect from data breaches as well.
Data In Transit
SSL certificate is implemented all across the blog so every piece of information submitted is protected through encryption while in transit.
If any purchase information like credit card\debit card numbers, login details like passwords are needed, https green lock in site’s address is a guarantee that data is safe!
Case Of Any Data Breach
If the data of visitors, readers, or customer is leaked in any way (hacked website, stolen computers, accidental password sharing), then they will be informed of the leak within 72 hours.
Clear And Explicit Consent Of The User
WordPress websites usually collect data through the following methods.
- Registered Users
- Comments
- Contact forms
- Traffic and analytics
- Email subscriptions
- Ad solutions
- Security plugins
By using our blog and submitting your information through different options mentioned above, you give your consent that we can use this data for improvement of this blog without disclosing it to any third party unless stated otherwise.
Akismet
This site uses Akismet to reduce spam.
The information Akismet collects typically includes the commenter's IP address, user agent, referrer, and Site URL (along with other information directly provided by the commenter such as their name, username, email address, and the comment itself).
Learn how your comment data is processed by them here.
We Agree With The Following:
- Users can visit our blog anonymously.
- You will be notified of any Privacy Policy changes on Privacy Policy page.
- You can change your personal information by using the Contact Us link given below.
- Not use false or misleading subjects or email addresses.
- Monitor third-party email marketing services for compliance, if one is used.
- Allow users to unsubscribe by using the link at the bottom of each email.
Contact Us
If there are any questions regarding this policy, you may contact us by clicking here.
Policy updated: 6th August, 2019