QRZones: What data we collect and why we collect it?
This Privacy Policy describes how your data is collected, used, and shared when you visit https://qrzones.com (the “Site”). Our main focus is in keeping everyones personal data private, secure, and to themselves. We accomplish this by only requiring one piece of personal information upon registration (via Facebook or Google), an email address . It’s that simple! If you wish to create an account directly with QRZones, feel free to also provide us with your first name, last name, username, and a short bio to possibly enhance your profile and experience. We want you to have fun, while staying safe! We will not, in any circumstances, share your personal information with other individuals or organizations without your permission, including public organizations, corporations or individuals, except when applicable by law. We do not sell, communicate or divulge your information to any mailing lists. Your acceptance of this Privacy Policy is a condition to your use of any of our websites, certificate services, or other applications that reference this Privacy Policy. By using any of them, you are accepting this Privacy Policy.
When you visit the Site, we automatically collect certain information about your device including information about your web browser, IP address, time zone, and some cookies that are installed on your device. These procedures are typical on most popular websites, and it is mainly used to speed up the webpage response or run time. Additionally, as you browse the Site, we collect information about the individual web pages that you view, what websites or search terms referred you to the Site, and information about how you interact with the Site. This data helps us improve the quality of our product and we will not share this information with anyone else. When we talk about data in this privacy policy, we are mainly talking both about device information and contest information that we collect. Our website also collects data about comments and media. We refer to this as other information.
Device Information
We refer to automatically-collected information as device information and use the following technologies to obtain device information: cookies, log files, and tags.
Cookies
Cookies are data files that are placed on your device or computer and often include an anonymous unique identifier. For more information about cookies, and how to disable cookies, visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org.
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. Your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
Log files
Track actions occurring on the Site, and collect data including your IP address, browser type, Internet service provider, referring/exit pages, and date/time stamps. This information will be kept private and safe at all times.
Tags
“Web beacons,” “tags,” and “pixels” are electronic files used to record information about how you browse the Site. This information will also be kept private and safe at all times.
Contest Information
When you enter a contest through the Site, you are required to have a registered account with QRZones. In order to create an account with QRZones we collect certain required information to build your profile. The required information is limited to your email address, for contacting purposes. We need your email address in order to notify winners that they have won the contest! We refer to this information as contest information.
Other Information
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.
QRZones: How we use, analyze and retain data?
We use the device information that we collect to help us screen for potential risk and fraud (in particular, your IP address), and more generally to improve and optimize our Site (for example, by generating analytics about how our customers browse and interact with the Site, and to assess the success of our marketing and advertising campaigns).
We use the contest information for contacting purposes. We will provide further instructions via email on how winners can claim their prize.
Analytics
Analytical studies may be performed to improve QRZones’ quality of service and overall product, as described above. We are not using any third-party analytics- the information we collect will stay completely within our community.
How long we retain your data
For users that register on our website, we 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.
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.
QRZones: How we protect your data? Who it this shared with? What data rights you have.
Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology protects information using both server authentication and data encryption techniques to help ensure that the data is safe, secure, and available only to you when interacting with the Site. The database we use is the most popular and trusted database company on the market use by companies such as: Google, Facebook, and Twitter. Read more about MYSQL here: https://www.mysql.com/
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 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.