Privacy Policy

💻 Our Website: https://netapex.org

This policy applies to data collected by our website, https://netapex.org.

💬 Comments

When you leave a comment on our site, we collect the data you enter in the comments form, as well as your IP address and your browser’s user agent string. We do this to help us detect and prevent spam.

  • Gravatar: An anonymized string (called a hash) created from your email address may be provided to the Gravatar service to check if you are using it. After your comment is approved, your profile picture (if linked via Gravatar) is visible to the public alongside your comment. You can review the Gravatar service privacy policy here: https://automattic.com/privacy/.

🖼️ Media and Image Uploads

If you upload images to the website, please be aware that images may contain embedded location data (EXIF GPS). We strongly advise against uploading images that include this data. Visitors to the website can download images and extract any location data embedded within them.

🍪 Cookies (Tracking Technologies)

We use cookies to enhance your experience and provide certain functionality:

  • Comment Cookies: If you leave a comment, you may opt-in to save your name, email, and website in cookies for your convenience. This allows you to avoid re-entering your details for future comments. These cookies last for one year.
  • Login Cookies:
    • Visiting our login page sets a temporary cookie to check if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie is discarded when you close your browser.
    • When you log in, we set up cookies to save your login information (lasts two days) and your screen display choices (lasts one year).
    • If you select “Remember Me,” your login persists for two weeks.
    • Logging out removes the login cookies.
  • Article Editing Cookies: If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie is saved that contains no personal data other than the post ID of the article. It expires after 1 day.

🧩 Embedded Content from Other Websites

Articles on this site may include content embedded from other websites (e.g., YouTube videos, articles, images, social media feeds). This embedded content behaves in the exact same way as if you had visited the other website directly.

  • Tracking: These external websites may collect data about you, use their own cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, especially if you have an account and are logged in to that external website.

🤝 Data Sharing and Disclosure

We only share your data in limited circumstances:

  • Password Reset: If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email for security verification.
  • Spam Detection: Visitor comments are sent to an automated spam detection service.

⏳ Data Retention Policy

We retain your personal data for different periods based on the context:

  • Comments: If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This allows us to automatically recognize and approve any follow-up comments instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
  • Registered Users (if applicable): For users who register on our website, we store the personal information provided in their user profile. All users can view, edit, or delete their personal information at any time, except for their username. Website administrators can also see and edit this information.

💡 Your Data Rights

If you have an account on this site or have left comments, you have the following rights:

  • Right to Access/Portability: You can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us.
  • Right to Erasure (Right to be Forgotten): You can request that we erase any personal data we hold about you.

Please note that this right does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

⚖️ Legal Basis for Processing Your Personal Data

We process your personal data only when we have a legal basis to do so. This includes:

  • Consent: When you give us clear consent to process your personal data for a specific purpose (e.g., commenting on a post). You can withdraw your consent at any time.
  • Legitimate Interests: When the processing is necessary for our legitimate interests and does not override your data protection rights (e.g., detecting and preventing spam to maintain site security).
  • Contractual Necessity: When processing is necessary to fulfill a contract we have with you (e.g., providing user account services).
  • Legal Obligation: When we are legally required to process your data (e.g., for tax or administrative compliance).

🌐 International Data Transfers

The data we collect may be stored and processed in, and transferred between, any of the countries in which we operate or use third-party service providers. By using this website, you agree to such transfers. We take reasonable steps to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy, even when transferred internationally.

🛡️ Security of Your Personal Data

We are committed to ensuring that your data is secure. To prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online. However, no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure.

📞 Contact Information for Privacy Concerns

If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, our data practices, or if you wish to exercise any of your rights regarding your personal data, please contact us at the following:

NetApex Email: privacy@netapex.org