LEGAL
Your privacy is important to us, so Useful Codes, has created the following Privacy Policy ("Policy") to let you know what information we collect when you visit our website useful.codes ("Website"), why we collect it and how we use it.
The terms "You", "Your", "Yours" and "User" refer to the entity/person/organization using our website. When this policy mentions "We", "Us" and "Our" it refers to useful.codes and its subsidiaries and affiliates.
This Privacy Policy is governed by our Terms of Service.
This policy respects your privacy and complies with any applicable law and regulation regarding any personal information we may collect about you, including across our website.
If you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy, you may not use our website.
For any questions regarding this policy or any requests regarding the processing of personal data, please contact us at [email protected].
Information we collect automatically
When you use our website or contact us directly we may collect information, including your personal information, about how you act on our website, the services you use and how you use them.
This information is necessary for the adequate performance of the contract between you and us, to enable us to comply with legal obligations and given our legitimate interest in being able to provide and improve the functionalities of the website.
We are trying to implement the latest technologies and software, which help us securing all this information we collect online.
- Log data and device information: We automatically collect log data and device information when you access and use the website, even if you have not created an account or logged in. That information includes, among other things: Internet protocol (IP) addresses, Browser type and version, Internet service provider (ISP), Referring/exit pages, The time spent on each page, Operating system, Date/time stamp, Other details about your visit, and technical details that occur in conjunction with any errors you may encounter.
- Tracking technologies and cookies: We use cookies and automatically collect information about the device's operating system. For more information, please see our Cookie Policy.
- Geo-location data: We collect information about your approximate location as determined by data such as your IP address to offer you an improved user experience. Such data may be collected only when you access the website using your device.
The way we use your information
We process your information adhering to the general data processing principles.
We may use the information we collect through our website for a number of reasons, including to:
- Identify user
- Create trusted environment
- Create statistics and analyze market
- Stay connected
- Customize our marketing
- Ensure data security and prevent fraud
- Comply with applicable laws
- Request feedback from You
- Provide customer support
We may collect personal information from you when you do any of the following on our website. Except in cases like this, we do not get personal data directly from you like name, e-mail, social media profiles, date of birth, phone / mobile number and home / mailing address.
- Contact us via email, social media or on any similar technologies.
- When you mention us on social media.
We may collect, hold, use and disclose information for the following purposes and personal information will not be further processed in a manner that is incompatible with these purposes:
- For analytics, market research, and business development, including to operate and improve our website, associated applications, and associated social media platforms.
- For advertising and marketing, including to send you promotional information about our products and services and information about third parties that we consider may be of interest to you.
- For security and fraud prevention, and to ensure that our websites and apps are safe, secure and used in line with our terms of use.
We will normally collect personal information from you only where we have your consent to do so, where we need the personal information to perform a contract with you, or where the processing is in our legitimate business interests.
When we collect and process personal information, and while we retain this information, we will protect it to prevent loss and theft, as well as unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use, or modification.
Although we will do our best to protect the personal information you provide to us, we advise that no method of electronic transmission or storage is 100% secure, and no one can guarantee absolute data security. We will comply with laws applicable to us in respect of any data breach.
How we may share your information
We may share Your information with third parties that we use to provide and support our Services:
- Security: Cloudflare
- Hosting: DigitalOcean
- Advertising: Google
Useful Codes may also disclose Your information to third parties:
- Where required by law or regulatory requirement, court order or other judicial authorization
- In response to lawful requests by public authorities, including for the purposes of meeting national security and law enforcement requirements
- In connection with the sale, transfer, merger, bankruptcy, restructuring or other reorganization of a business
- To protect or defend our rights, interests or property, or that of third parties; (e) to investigate any wrongdoing in connection with our products and services
- To protect the vital interests of an individual
Cookies
Cookies are small text files stored by Your browser on Your computer when You visit our Website. We use cookies to improve our Website and make it easier to use. Cookies permit us to recognize Users and avoid repetitive requests for the same information.
Cookies from our Website cannot be read by other Websites. Most browsers will accept cookies unless You change Your browser settings to refuse them.
You may find more information about the cookies we use, as well as the other useful information related to the use of the cookies in our Cookie Policy.
Sensitive Information
We do not collect sensitive information such as political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, racial or ethnic origin, genetic data, biometric data, health data or data related a sexual orientation.
Please do not send, upload or provide us with any sensitive data and contact us using our contact details if you believe that we might have such information. We have a right to delete any information we believe it might contain sensitive data.
Third Party Links
Our website may have links to other websites. Please review their privacy policies to learn more about how they collect and use your personal data because we do not control their policies and personal data processing practices. If you click on these links we are not held responsible for your data and privacy protection. Visiting those websites is not governed by this privacy policy agreement.
Retention
We retain your personal information to provide services to you and as otherwise necessary to comply with our legal obligation, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.
We will retain your personal information as long as we need it to provide services to you, unless we are otherwise required by law or regulations to retain your personal information longer.
Security
We have implemented security measures designed to protect the personal information You share with us, including physical, electronic and procedural measures. Among other things, we regularly monitor our systems for possible vulnerabilities and attacks.
Regardless of the measures and efforts taken by us, the transmission of information via the internet, email or text message is not completely secure. We do not guarantee the absolute protection and security of Your personal information or any other User Content You upload, publish or otherwise share with us or anyone else.
We therefore encourage You to avoid providing us or anyone with any sensitive information of which You believe its disclosure could cause You substantial or irreparable harm and set strong passwords for Your User Account. If You have any questions regarding the security of our Website or Services, You are welcome to contact us.
Your Rights
You are entitled to a range of rights regarding the protection of your personal information. Those rights are:
- The right to access the information we have about you. If you wish to access your personal information that we collect, you can do so at any time by contacting us using the contact details provided above.
- The right to rectify inaccurate information about you. You can correct, update or request the deletion of your personal information by contacting us using the contact page.
- The right to object the processing. When we rely on your consent to process your personal information, you may withdraw consent at any time by contacting us using the contact details provided above. This will not affect the lawfulness of the processing prior to the withdrawal of your consent.
- The right to lodge a complaint. You can raise questions or complaints to the national Data Protection Agency in your country of residence in the event where your rights may have been infringed. However, we recommend attempting to reach a peaceful resolution of the possible dispute by contacting us first.
- The right to erase any data concerning you. You may demand the erasure of data without undue delay for legitimate reasons, e.g. where data is no longer necessary for the purposes it was collected, or where the data has been unlawfully processed.
We respond to all requests that we receive from individuals who wish to exercise their data protection rights in accordance with applicable data protection laws. You can contact us with your request by sending an email with the contact page.
Note that useful.codes is a controller of your information. Other members may also act as controllers of your information. You should contact these members if you have any questions about how they use the information that you have provided to them.
California Privacy Rights
We collect, use, and share the categories of personal information described above in this Privacy Policy. We do not consider the ways we share your information as a “sale” for purposes of California law. California residents have certain rights to access and delete their personal information and to request transparency about our privacy practices. If you would like to access or delete your information, or otherwise exercise your rights under the CCPA, please see "Your rights" section. Once we receive your request, we may verify it by requesting information sufficient to confirm your identity, including by asking you for additional information. Consistent with California law, if you choose to exercise your rights, we will not charge you different prices or provide different quality of services for exercising your rights unless those differences are permitted by law. If you would like to use an agent registered with the California Secretary of State to exercise your rights, we may request evidence that you have provided the such agent with power of attorney or that the agent otherwise has valid written authority to submit requests to exercise rights on your behalf.
GDPR
We are compliant with the EU's General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) and updated our privacy policy to be compliant with. Although these changes were spurred by European law, we think privacy is super important and so those changes apply to everyone, no matter where you're located. We always prioritize our members' privacy and data security.
We worked hard to ensure we complied with GDPR. This was a process to make sure we met our legal obligations, and did the best thing for our customers/visitors.
Vendors: Cloudflare, DigitalOcean and Google
Children's Privacy
This website and our services are not intended for or directed to persons under the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect or ask for information from minors. We do not knowingly allow minors to use our website or services.
We will delete any information we discover is collected from a minor. Please contact us using the contact page if you believe we might have information about a minor.
Amendments
Our Policy may change from time to time. We will post any Policy changes on our website and, if the changes are significant, we may consider providing a more explicit notice. If you want to make sure that you are up to date with the latest changes, we advise you to frequently visit this page.
Acceptance of this policy
We assume that all Users of this website have carefully read this document and agree to its contents. If someone does not agree with this Policy, they should refrain from using our website. We reserve the right to change our Policy at any time and inform by using the way as indicated in "Amendments" section. Continued use of this website implies acceptance of the revised Policy.
Questions
If you have any further questions regarding the data we collect or how we use it, then please feel free to contact us at the details as indicated above.