Privacy and security policy

Customer’s personal information and documents

All personal information and documents you send to Rubida Communications are treated as highly confidential.

Rubida Communications will not discuss, disclose or make public any information to any person who is not associated with the respective publication process or with your organisation at any time during, before or after the work has been completed.

Privacy on the Rubida website

Comments

When you leave a comment on the blog 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 anonymised 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.

Cookies

This website uses cookies, including third-party cookies. By using this website you consent to the use of these cookies.

Cookies are text files placed on your computer to collect standard internet log information and visitor behaviour information. This information is used to track visitor use of the website and to compile statistical reports on website activity.

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 have an account and you log in to this site, 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.

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 tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics. Google Analytics is a piece of software that grabs data about visitors (you). It’s something like an advanced server log.

It records information such as what website you came from to get here, how long you stay on this website, what kind of computer you’re using, and other information.

The tracking information allows us to better understand the kind of people who come to this site and what content they’re reading. We use this information to improve the website.

No personally identifying data is collected. For more information, see Google Analytics Terms of Service.

Google ReCAPTCHA

Due to continued spamming of the contact form, I had to implement reCAPTCHA protection on this site. Your use of reCAPTCHA is subject to the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.

Affiliate links

The posts on this website may use affiliate links to other website. This provides some additional income to help run the website.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise 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.