It is very essential to us that our website globallupdates.com and its web applications respect the privacy of our visitors.
This website and its owner take a proactive stance on user privacy and take the necessary precautions to safeguard users’ privacy throughout their entire visit. This website complies with all privacy laws and regulations.
This privacy statement describes the categories of personally identifiable information received and collected by our website, third parties, and the manner in which it is utilised.
What and why we obtain personal information
Comments
When site visitors leave comments, we collect the data shown in the comment form, as well as their IP address and browser user agent string to aid in spam detection.
The Gravatar service may receive an anonymized string derived from your email address (also known as a hash) to determine if you are using it. The privacy statement for the Gravatar service can be found at https://automattic.com/privacy/. After your comment has been approved, your profile picture will be visible in the context of your comment.
Content from other websites that is embedded
This website’s articles may contain embedded content (such as videos, images, other articles, etc.). The behaviour of embedded content from other websites is the same as if the visitor had visited the other website.
These websites may collect information about you, employ cookies, embed additional third-party monitoring, and monitor your interaction with embedded content, including tracking your interaction if you have an account and are logged in to the website.
Log Files
Similar to many other websites, globallupdates.com utilises log files. This information is used to analyse trends, administer the site, track users’ movements around the site, and gather demographic information. IP addresses and other such information are not linked to personally identifiable information.
Cookies and Tracking Pixels
globallupdates.com uses cookies to store information about visitors’ preferences, record user-specific information on which pages the user accesses or visits, and customise Web page content based on the visitor’s browser type and other information transmitted by the visitor’s browser.
Third-party advertisers and their respective cookies
Our advertising partners, which may include Facebook, Taboola, Outbrain, Google, and others that we may add in the future, utilise cookies to help serve the advertisements they display on our websites. When you visit our website, your browser may receive a cookie. By visiting www.aboutads.info, you can opt out of their use of cookies for personalised advertising.
Cookies are used by third-party advertisers, including Google, to serve advertisements based on a user’s prior visits to your website or other websites.
Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve advertisements to your users based on their visit to your websites and/or other websites on the Internet.
You can opt out of receiving personalised advertisements by going to Ads Settings.
This website employs a cookie control system that allows the user to allow or disallow the use of cookies on their computer / device on their first visit.
You may choose to have your name, email address, and website saved in cookies if you leave a comment on our website. These are provided for your convenience so that you do not have to re-enter your information each time you leave a comment. These biscuits have a one-year shelf life.
This is in accordance with recent legislation requiring websites to obtain explicit consent from users before leaving or reading files such as cookies on a user’s computer or device.
Cookies are small files stored on the user’s hard drive that monitor, save, and store information about the user’s website interactions and usage. This enables the website, via its server, to offer users a customised experience on this website.
Users are advised that if they wish to prevent this website from using and storing cookies on their hard drives, they must adjust their web browser’s security settings to block all cookies from this website and its external serving vendors.
This website employs tracking software to monitor its visitors in order to gain a greater understanding of their usage patterns. This software is provided by Google Analytics, which tracks visitor usage via cookies. The software will store a cookie on your computer’s hard drive in order to track and monitor your engagement with and use of the website, but will not store, save, or collect any personally identifiable information. For more information, you can view Google’s privacy statement at [http://www.google.com/privacy.html].
When this website employs referral programmes, sponsored links, or advertisements, other cookies may be stored on your computer’s hard drive by third-party vendors. These cookies are used for monitoring conversions and referrals and typically expire after 30 days, although some may last longer. No personal information is saved, collected, or stored.
Personal Specifics
We do not store non-registered users’ personal information, including email addresses, phone numbers, and mailing addresses, and we do not sell or redistribute the information of our registered members.
Contact & Interaction
Users who contact this website and/or its proprietors do so voluntarily and provide any requested personal information at their own risk. According to the Data Protection Act of 1998, your personal information is kept private and stored securely until it is no longer required or has no further use. Although every effort has been made to assure the safety and security of the form-to-email submission process, users using such processes do so at their own risk.
This website and its proprietors use any information submitted to provide you with additional information about the products / services they offer or to respond to any questions or comments you may have submitted. This includes using your information to subscribe you to any email newsletter programme the website operates, but only if this was made clear to you and you gave your express consent when submitting any form to email process. Or where you, the consumer, have previously purchased or inquired about purchasing a product or service that the email newsletter pertains to from the company. This is by no means an exhaustive list of your rights as a recipient of email marketing material. Your information is not shared with any third parties.
Email Bulletin
This website maintains an email newsletter programme that is used to inform subscribers about the website’s products and services. Users may subscribe through an automated online process if they so choose, but doing so is entirely voluntary. Some subscriptions may be manually processed with the user’s prior written consent.
Subscriptions are collected in accordance with the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations’ provisions regarding Spam Laws. All subscription-related personal information is stored securely and in accordance with the Data Protection Act of 1998. No personal information is shared with third parties or companies/individuals outside the company that administers this website. Under the Data Protection Act of 1998, you may request a copy of the personal information this website’s email newsletter programme maintains about you. A nominal fee will be charged. Please write to the address listed at the bottom of this policy if you would like a copy of the information held about you.
This website’s or its proprietors’ email marketing campaigns may contain tracking capabilities. The activity of subscribers is monitored and preserved in a database for future evaluation and analysis. This activity may include the opening of emails, the forwarding of emails, the clicking of links within the email content, as well as the times, dates, and frequency of activity [this list is not exhaustive].
This data is used to improve future email campaigns and provide the user with more relevant content based on their activity.
In accordance with Spam Laws and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations, an automated system gives subscribers the option to unsubscribe at any time. This procedure is outlined in the footer of each email marketing campaign. If an automated unsubscribe system is not available, detailed instructions on how to unsubscribe will be provided.
Third-party data acquisition includes advertisements and sponsored links.
This website may contain advertisements and sponsored links. These advertisements are typically served by our advertising partners, who may have specific privacy policies regarding the advertisements they serve.
When you click on one of these advertisements, you will be redirected to the advertiser’s website via a referral programme that may use cookies and will monitor the number of referrals sent from this website. This may involve the use of cookies, which may be stored on the user’s hard drive. Therefore, users should be aware that they click on sponsored external links at their own risk, as this website and its proprietors cannot be held liable for any damages or repercussions resulting from visiting any external links mentioned.
External Links
Although this site strives to include only high-quality, safe, and relevant external links, users are advised to exercise caution before clicking any external web links mentioned on this site. (External links are text, banner, and image links that lead to other websites)
Despite their best efforts, the proprietors of this website cannot guarantee or verify the contents of any externally linked websites. Users should be aware that they click on external links at their own risk, as this website and its proprietors cannot be held liable for any damages or consequences resulting from their use.
Social Media Platforms
Communication, engagement, and actions conducted via external social media platforms on which this website and its proprietors participate are subject to the terms and conditions as well as the respective privacy policies of each social media platform.
Users are encouraged to use social media platforms judiciously and to communicate / engage on them with due care and caution in regards to their own privacy and personal information. This website nor its proprietors will ever request personal or sensitive information via social media platforms, and they encourage users who wish to discuss such information to contact them via primary channels such as telephone or email.
This website may employ social sharing icons that facilitate the direct sharing of web content from web pages to the corresponding social media platform. Before using these social sharing buttons, users are cautioned to do so at their own discretion and to be aware that the social media platform may monitor and store their request to share a web page through their social media platform account.
Link Shortening in Social Media
This website and its owners may disseminate links to relevant websites through their social media accounts. Some social media platforms shorten extensive urls (web addresses) by default (http://bit.ly/zyVUBo is an example).
Before clicking on shortened urls published on social media platforms by this website and its owners, users are urged to exercise caution and sound judgement. This website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any shortened links despite best efforts to publish only genuine urls. Many social media platforms are susceptible to spam and hijacking, therefore this website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any shortened links.
How long we keep your information
The comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely if you leave one. This allows us to recognise and authorise any subsequent comments without holding them in a moderation queue.
If a user registers on our website, we also store the personal information they provide in their profile. All users are able to view, alter, and delete their personal information at any time, with the exception of their username. Administrators of the website can also view and edit this information.
What control you have over your information
If you have an account on this site or have left comments, you can request to receive a file containing the personal information we hold about you, including any information you have supplied to us. You may also request that we delete your personal information. This excludes any information we are obliged to retain for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where we transmit your information
Automated spam detection software may be used to examine visitor comments.
If you have any additional questions regarding our Privacy Protection, please contact us at info@globallupdates.com
