Our Privacy Policy

We collect anonymous statistics about your visit, like which of our pages you viewed.
If you email us or sign up with us we take great care to keep your information safe and we’ll never share it with others without your permission

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

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.

Social Media Buttons

Some of the functionality of the site uses third-party plugins, for example social media buttons such as Facebook, Twitter and Google +1, Google or Bing Maps for interactive mapping and YouTube for hosted video. These third-party services may use cookies, and although we have chosen to integrate the services with our website, we do not have control over the cookies set by these services.

Because the detail of these cookies may change, we have listed some information and links about the respective third parties below. The actual cookies may also vary depending on whether or not you are logged into social media sites when browsing our website.

Facebook ‘Like’ Button: We use this to let people easily promote articles to their friends via Facebook.
View the Facebook Privacy Policy.

Twitter ‘Tweet’ Button: We use this to let people easily promote articles to their friends via Twitter.
View the Twitter Privacy Policy.

YouTube, Google or Bing Maps: Some of our articles contain embedded YouTube videos, and / or Google or Bing maps.
View the Google Privacy Policy / View the Microsoft Privacy Policy

Use of cookies on our website

In our website we use cookies to personalize content and ads, to provide social media features and to track our traffic. We also share information about your use of our website with our social media, advertising and analytics partners, for example: Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Youtube, Google Adwords, Google Analytics, etc.
According to the European regulation, visitors must be notified when a website uses cookies. Visitors should also be informed about the type of cookies, so they can decide if they will continue browsing the website or leave it.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small files which are stored on a visitor’s computer. They are designed to hold a modest amount of data specific to a particular browser and website, and can be accessed either by the web server or the client computer. This allows the server to deliver a webpage tailored to a particular visitor, or the page itself can contain some script which is aware of the data in the cookie and so is able to carry information from your visit to a website to the next.

There is a lot of concern about privacy and security on the internet. Cookies do not in themselves present a threat to privacy, since they can only be used to store information that the user has volunteered to offer or that the web server already has.

What kind of cookies are used in this website?

Technical Cookies

Cookies to save browsing preferences and to optimize the visitor’s browsing experience. Among these technical cookies are, for example, those to set the language and the currency preference or for the management of members accounts and users comments.

Cookies for advertising and statistical purposes

Google Analytics, Google AdSense, Google AdWords. Our website uses the above services or we plan to use them in the future. Cookies may be set from a few different domains, including google.com, doubleclick.net, googlesyndication.com, or googleadservices.com.

Google Analytics: These cookies are set to let us see how visitors use the website and where their visits to the website originated. This anonymous information is useful for improving our website and aligning it better to your needs of our visitors. Learn more about Google Analytics cookies.

Google Adwords or DoubleClick: This cookie is used to display advertisements on our website. Advertisements may be adapted to your interests, according to the pages you have viewed on our website or in other websites (browsing history). No personal data collected on our website or on third-party websites is stored by this cookie.

Collected data may include demographic data and/or browsing history, products viewed, purchases resulting from advertising campaigns. They are used for purposes such as:

determine the number of users who has finalized a purchase after clicking on an advertisement
display, also on other websites, advertisement in line with the user demographic profile or based on the user’s specific interests and concerning for example advertisements about products previously viewed on the website or on the store
provide information needed for reporting purposes on advertising campaigns
avoid repetitions in displaying advertisement which has already been submitted to the user or not in line with their browsing history.

See more detail about the types of cookie used by Google or how Google uses data when you use our website.

How can I manage the installation of Cookies?

A visitor can manage his / her own preferences for cookies directly from within his / her browser and prevent – for example – third parties from installing them. Through the browser preferences, it is also possible to delete cookies installed in the past, including the cookies that might possibly have saved the consent for the installation of cookies by this or any other website. It is important to note that by disabling all cookies, the functionality of this website may be altered with a negative impact on appearance or ease of use. Users can find information about how to manage cookies in their browser at the following addresses:

*If you use another browser, look for cookies configuration in its options settings.

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

You can 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.