Who we are

Our website address is: https://www.technologydrift.com.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Our website collects personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favourites.

There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by our website. This information can include your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring Web site addresses. This information is used by our website for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Web site.

Note: Our website does not read any of your private online communications.

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 (GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Contact Form

We store user input data sent through the contact forms on this website, along with meta information about the submissions, including the time stamp, the origin IP address, and the user agent (browser). Also, third party services may collect information about website visitors.

We use the Contact Form to manage contact form submissions. The information is sent as email messages that only a select few are allowed to access. The information is also stored in the database on our hosting server for backup and later reference purposes.

Akismet

we use Akismet for this Site, and they collect information includes the commenter’s IP address, user agent, referrer, and Site URL (along with other information directly provided by the commenter such as their name, username, email address, and the comment itself).

Cookies

If you leave a comment or fill 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.

What information do you store?

We store user input data sent through the contact forms on this website, along with meta information about the submissions, including the time stamp, the origin IP address, and the user agent (browser).

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through our website public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Also, third party services may collect information about website visitors.

Where does the information go?

We use the Contact Form to manage contact form submissions. The information is sent as email messages that only a select few are allowed to access. The information is also stored in the database on our hosting server for backup and later reference purposes.

Your personal information are used to operate our web site and deliver the services you have requested. Also we uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from and its affiliates. We may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.

We does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. Also, our website may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to our website, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

Our website keeps track of the Web sites and pages our customers visit within our website, to determine what our services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within our website to customers whose behaviour indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

Our Web sites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on our website; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of our website; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of our website, or the public.

How long do you keep the information?

We don’t set a particular time limit on storing information because we need it for future reference. If you want your information to be removed from our database, please contact us. We will remove it anytime there are concerns about your privacy.set a particular time limit on storing information because we need it for future reference. If you want your information to be removed from our database, please contact us. We will remove it anytime there are concerns about your privacy.

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.

Changes to this Statement

Our website will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. Our website encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how our website is protecting your information.

Contact Information

Our website welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that our website has not adhered to this Statement, please contact us at contact@technologydrift.com. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.