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Privacy Policy of our website address: https://codex-bg.com.
Introduction: Why Privacy Policy is important
Most people are unaware of the importance of privacy policies until they experience a data breach. A privacy policy is a statement that outlines how a company gathers, uses, and shares personal information. It’s important for consumers to review a company’s privacy policy before providing any personal information.
Data breaches can have serious consequences for consumers, such as identity theft or fraud. In some cases, data breaches can also result in financial losses. It’s therefore important for companies to take steps to protect personal information. One way that companies can do this is by implementing strong privacy policies.
What to do if your privacy policy is violated?
Your privacy policy is a statement of your company’s commitment to protecting the personal information of your customers.
If you believe your privacy policy has been violated, take the following steps:
1. Document what happened. Make sure you have a clear understanding of what happened when it happened, and who was involved.
2. Contact your attorney. This is not something you should try to handle on your own.
3. Report the violation to the appropriate authorities. Depending on the nature of the violation, you may need to report it to the FTC, FDA, or other government agencies.
4. Notify affected customers. If their personal information has been compromised, you will notify them as soon as possible.
What personal data do we collect and why do we collect it
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.
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
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.
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.
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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.
How long do we retain your data?
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profiles. 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 do you have over your data?
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.
Conclusion: Why it’s important to protect your privacy
We all know that the price of privacy is security. But, what many people don’t realize is how important privacy is to both our individual and collective security. When we protect our privacy, we make it harder for criminals, hackers, and other bad actors to exploit us. We also make it more difficult for those in power to track our movements and activities. Privacy is essential to free expression and democracy, and we must do everything we can to protect it.