At investinggeniuszone, we take privacy very seriously, and we respect the privacy concerns of our user community.
What personal information do we collect?
Information you provide to us
The personal information we collect from you about you may vary depending on how you use our Services and what information you voluntarily provide. We may collect personal information directly from you or otherwise in connection with your use of the Services, such as:
● Contact information, including your name, contact information (such as mailing address and email address), event or conference registration and related information, and communication preferences.
● Inquiry information, including information provided in messages sent via forms or surveys to our e-mail address or by telephone. This may also include information you provide when you sign up for our newsletter.
Information Collected Automatically
General
Like many digital properties, we and our third-party partners may automatically collect certain information from or about your device when you visit or interact with our Services, such as List below and subsections here:
⠀⠀⠀ Device data, including Internet Protocol (IP) address, operating system, device type and version, browser type and version, browser ID, URLs entered and referring pages/activity, date/time of access, other user-agent characters string data, time spent on our services, and any errors that may occur during access to our services. Device data may overlap with other categories of data listed below.
⠀⠀⠀ Analytical data, including usage and activity on or in connection with our Services, the paths you take through our Services through our Services, and the actual number of emails we send about when you opt out of our Services Open and which attachments or links were opened, clicked or viewed.
⠀⠀⠀ Advertising/advertising measurement data, including data related to your viewing or clicking on an advertisement served on our Services, cookie ID or other numerical or unique identifier assigned to such device, as well as device metadata, the above-mentioned analytics data and Location Data, in each case, to provide advertising services (personalization or otherwise) or to facilitate advertising measurement/attribution to better optimize or otherwise understand the effectiveness of advertising campaigns.
Please note that we and our third-party partners may combine the information we each collect automatically with other information about you.
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.
Contact forms
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
Who we share your data with
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
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.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.