AlexKosch.com — Privacy Policy
Last Updated: July 3, 2023
Welcome to alexkosch.com, operated by Alex Kosch (“Company”, “we”, “us”, or “our”). This Privacy Policy outlines the types of personal information we collect, how we use it, and the choices you have regarding your personal information. The term “you” refers to any visitor or user of our website.
1. Collection of Your Data:
When visitors leave comments on our 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. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
2. Use of Google Analytics:
Our website, alexkosch.com, employs Google Analytics, a service provided by Google that assists us in understanding the usage patterns of our website. This service primarily uses cookies to analyze user interactions on our site. For a comprehensive understanding of how Google Analytics handles your data and maintains your privacy, we recommend reviewing their privacy policy, accessible at https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en-US.
3. 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. We may also use cookies, web beacons, tracking pixels, and other tracking technologies to customize the website and enhance your experience.
4. 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.
5. Affiliate Disclosure
Alex Kosch may be an affiliate of various online tools, services, and products. Links on this website may be affiliate links, and Alex Kosch may earn commissions for purchases made by visitors to the site. This comes at no additional cost to you.
6. 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.
7. Your Rights 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.
8. Security
We take reasonable measures to help protect information about you from loss, theft, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction.
9. Third-Party Links
For your convenience, we provide links to third-party websites on our website. We cannot and do not control the privacy policies, content, and practices of the website owners and operators of any of the third-party websites that we link to.
10. Children’s Privacy
This website is not directed towards or designed for use by children under the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect, use, store, or share personal information from children under the age of 18.
11. Changes to the Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to change, amend or modify this Privacy Policy at any time. Your continued use of the website after the Privacy Policy is amended will constitute your acceptance and agreement to continue to be bound by the Privacy Policy as of the last updated date.
12. Contact
If you have any questions or complaints about this Privacy Policy or want to exercise any of your rights, don’t hesitate to get in touch through this form.