Privacy Policies
Please read this Privacy Policy before visiting or using our website to ensure that you are fully aware of our practices regarding your information.
If you do not agree to any of the terms set out in the Privacy Policy, we urge you to stop accessing this website immediately. By accessing or using this website, you acknowledge that you have read and accepted this policy. Any use of this website by you constitutes your consent to our use of your information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
What information do we use and collect?
When using and visiting our website, we may use and collect information of a technical nature, including your IP address, activity logs of your use of the website, user agent, information about your browser and operating system, and whether you Choose to upload files or URLs for scanning (including for detecting threats and suspicious material through the Threat Intelligence Center on our website), we will also collect such files and URLs.
We use technologies such as cookies and pixel tags to provide, improve, protect and promote Reason and the Site. For example, cookies help us understand how you interact with our websites and improve them based on that information. You can set your browser not to accept cookies, but this may limit your ability to use this website.
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 we have a good faith belief that disclosure is permitted or reasonably required by law: (i) to comply with any law, regulation or legal requirement of any court, regulatory or governmental authority, or otherwise reasonably required to establish, protect, maintain or exercise our or (ii) enforce this Privacy Policy or any agreement between you and us. In the event of a merger, acquisition, reorganization or sale of assets, your information may be transferred or sold.
Third Party Service Providers: We have partnered with selected service providers whose services and solutions complement, facilitate and enhance our own services and solutions. These include hosting and server hosting services, communications and content delivery networks (CDNs), data and network security services, billing and payment processing services, domain name registrars, fraud detection and prevention services, web analytics, email distribution and monitoring services, Session recording and remote access services, performance measurement, data optimization and marketing services, content providers, and our legal and financial advisors (collectively, “Third Party Service Providers”).
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.
