This Privacy and Cookie policy explains how we collect, use, store, and protect any personal information when readers visit our site. As advocates of personal and financial privacy ourselves, we’re committed to maintaining the highest standard of data confidentiality, making sure any personally identifiable information is handled in compliance with all applicable laws, including the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
GDPR Compliance & Data Retention Explained
RugDoc’s privacy statement is designed to comply with Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and Council, dated 27 April 2016, known as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
Your information, should you decide to provide any as a result of interacting with our site, will be handled and safeguarded per the standards set out by the GDPR in terms of access, correction, deletion and portability.
If you left any comments or have an account with us you can request to receive an export of all the information associated with you that we have, including data that was willingly provided. You may request this information to be deleted and we will comply with all such requests provided they do not include data we are obliged to keep for legal, administrative or security purposes.
Under GDPR and as a resident of the European Union, you can request and/or benefit from any of the following: the correction of potential inaccuracies in your personal information, porting your data to another party, access to and a copy of your data, deletion your data, and the ability to lodge a complaint with a responsible authority if you feel any of your rights under GDPR have been breached.
Visitors leaving comments on our website may have comment data and metadata retained indefinitely for the purpose of user experience, i.e. so we can approve follow-up comments faster rather than submit them through the same moderation process. This data may be checked through an automated spam detection service to help safeguard us against bot attacks.
For any users who might choose to register on our website, we will store the information provided with their profile. With the exception of their username, all registered users will be able to delete, edit, and view the information they provided as part of the registration process. which is also accessible to website administrators.
What Cookies You Consent To
We use cookies for the purposes of enhancing user experience and the ability to provide personalized services, including but not restricted to Google AdSense advertising.
Your explicit consent is required through a banner pop-up before any cookies are stored on your device, and this consent can be withdrawn at any time through the cookie settings menu. Commenting on our site is considered an opt-in to saving the provided name, email address and website via cookies. These last for one year and their purpose is to make things convenient should you want to leave another comment, i.e. the previously entered information is there so you can easily re-use it.
For the purposes of spam detection, data shown in the comments form associated with visitors leaving comments on RugDoc.io, is collected, and it includes browser user agent string and the IP address of the visitor.
As a result of the WordPress ecosystem, an anonymized hash of commenters’ email may be provided to Gravatar to see if you’re registered with them. Gravatar’s privacy policy is available here and https://automattic.com/privacy/ approved comments may have your profile picture associated with them.
Third-Party Advertisers, Data Sharing, and Embedded Content
Some of our pages may contain content that’s embedded from other websites, such as social posts. This content behaves in the same way as if the visitor visited the website of origin.
The website of origin may collect data about you, use cookies, and embed additional tracking, including but not limited to the interactions you have with the embedded content, if you have an account with them and/or if you are logged in to their platform.
Whether in the form of Gravatar, Google AdSense, or spam detection services, the third-party providers we work with also have to comply with GDPR when processing EU data. However, for more detailed information you should visit their respective privacy policies.
If you’d like to opt out of personalized advertising, such as Google AdSense’s process of ad placement, you can opt out by visiting https://adssettings.google.com. If you’re curious about how Google uses your data, you can review Google’s Privacy Policy at https://policies.google.com/privacy.
Exceptions and Changes
We reserve the right to disclose personal information with third parties when this is necessary, such as in situations where a search warrant, court order or subpoena compels us, when required for the protection of RugDoc’s rights and/or property, during emergencies such as when someone’s physical safety might be at risk, to investigate reports of harassment, abusive messaging, or threats, as well as to protect against misuse or unauthorised use of our site.
This policy might suffer modifications to support additional issues or to add clarity. Any such changes will be made directly to this page.
Anyone engaging in marketing campaigns on our domain without stating their affiliation and intent forfeits any protections associated with their privacy and data immediately.
For questions regarding our privacy statement, our processes or your relationship with us, you may contact us at any time.
