Last Updated: December 16th, 2020
This privacy statement has been created in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. The following discloses the information gathering and dissemination practices for this website: andreasjakl.com.
Third Party Sites
If you click on a link to a third party site, including on an advertisement, you will leave the andreasjakl.com site you are visiting and go to the site you selected. Because we cannot control the activities of third parties, we cannot accept responsibility for any use of your personal information by such third parties, and we cannot guarantee that they will adhere to the same privacy and security practices as we do. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any other service provider from whom you request services. If you visit a third party site, you should consult that site’s privacy policy before providing any personal information.
Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States.
This website has activated IP anonymization. Google will truncate/anonymize the last octet of the IP address for Member States of the European Union as well as for other parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases, the full IP address is sent to and shortened by Google servers in the USA. On behalf of the website provider Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage to the website provider. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser. However, please note that if you do this, you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. Furthermore, you can prevent Google’s collection and use of data (cookies and IP address) by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Further information concerning the terms and conditions of use and data privacy can be found at http://www.google.com/analytics/tos.html and at https://www.google.com/analytics/learn/privacy.html.
This website also allows you to [google_analytics_optout]opt-out of Google Analytics tracking[/google_analytics_optout].
The specific user data is retained for a maximum amount of 14 months and is automatically deleted or anonymized afterwards.
Google Fonts
This website uses the font service “Google Fonts”, provided by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. Privacy policy: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/, Opt-Out: https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated.
YouTube
This website embeds videos of the platform “YouTube”, provided by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. Privacy policy: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/, Opt-Out: https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated.
Social Media Plugin “Shariff Wrapper”
On our website we offer you the possibility to use so called “Social Media Buttons”. To protect your data, we use a solution called “Shariff”. Hereby the share buttons are implemented as static images, which contain a link to the corresponding social network site. If you click on such a button, you will be redirected to the respective social network site in the same way, as normal links would do as well. Only in that moment of time the provider of the social network site will get information about you, for example your IP address. If you do not click on such a share button, no data will be transmitted. Information about the collection and usage of your date on the social network sites can be found in the corresponding terms of use of the respective provider. More information about the plugin and the Shariff solution can be found here: https://wordpress.org/plugins/shariff/
On our website we offer share buttons for the following services / companies: Facebook, LinkedIn, Reddit, Twitter, WhatsApp.
This website embeds functionality provided by the Twitter service. This functionality is offered by Twitter Inc., 1355 Market St, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA. By using Twitter and the function “re-tweet”, the websites visited by you are linked to your Twitter account and shared with other users. This involves transmitting your data to Twitter.
As provider of this website, we do not get information about the contents of the transmitted data or the usage of this data by Twitter. You can find more infomration in the privacy policy of Twitter at: https://twitter.com/privacy. You can modify your privacy settings in your account settings at: https://twitter.com/account/settings
Article Comments
This site makes options to comment on posts available to its users. Please remember that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information.
For safe and user friendly management of comments, we use the comment service DISQUS (offered by DISQUS, Inc., 301 Howard St, Floor 3 San Francisco, California- 94105, USA).
To use the DISQUS service, you have to sign up for a DISQUS user account or one of your existing social media accounts. DISQUS manages your account data; this website does not have access to your login information. In addition, you have the option of providing comments as a guest, without creating an account with DISQUS.
This website only embeds comments of DISQUS. User have a direct contract relationship with DISQUS, which includes processing of your data. DISQUS is therefore your contact point if you request to delete your data. Please refer to the privacy policy of DISQUS for more information: https://help.disqus.com/terms-and-policies/disqus-privacy-policy
Please also note that DISQUS may log information about you, like the IP address at the time of posting, as well as setting a Cookie in your browser. You can opt in or out of data sharing at any time: https://disqus.com/data-sharing-settings/
Information Automatically Logged
By default, all web servers automatically log the IP address of visitors and information sent automatically by the browser. This is used to gather statistics about traffic and helps diagnose problems. The data is cumulated to generate general usage statistics, which do not contain any information about individual visitors.
Information Provided
If you provide us with personal information, for example when contacting us, this information will only be used to get in touch with you when necessary.
Use of Cookies
andreasjakl.com uses cookies to store visitors’ preferences and to record session information for purposes including customizing the Web page content based on browser type and user profile information. We do not link the information we store in cookies to any personally identifiable information you submit while on our site. You may be able to configure your browser to accept or reject all or some cookies or notify you when a cookie is set – each browser is different, so check the Help menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences. You must, however, enable cookies from andreasjakl.com in order to use most functions on the site.
Non-Personally-Identifiable User Information
For each visitor to our websites, we collect non-personally-identifiable information including IP address, profile information, aggregate user data, preferences, technical session information, browser type. This data is used to manage the website, track website usage, provide context for referring traffic sources, and improve overall website performance. This non-personally-identifiable information may be shared with third-parties to provide more relevant services and advertisements to members. User IP addresses are recorded for security and monitoring purposes. If you arrived at our website via a link from another webpage, we may receive aggregate or otherwise anonymous statistical information about your visit to our site. We monitor customer traffic patterns and site usage to help us develop the design and layout of the site, and to improve the content of our website to better match the interests of our website users.
Protection of Children’s Personal Information
andreasjakl.com is a general audience site and does not knowingly collect any personal information from children.
Review, Correction of Your Information
If for any reason you are concerned that the personal information maintained is not correct, please email the administrator of this website. We will be happy to review, update or remove information as appropriate. We may still retain your information in our files however, to resolve disputes, enforce our user agreement, and due to technical and legal requirements and constraints related to the security, integrity, and operation of websites.
Subscriptions
Data Used: To initiate and process subscriptions, the following information is used: subscriber’s email address and the ID of the post or comment (depending on the specific subscription being processed). In the event of a new subscription being initiated, we also collect some basic server data, including all of the subscribing user’s HTTP request headers, the IP address from which the subscribing user is viewing the page, and the URI which was given in order to access the page (REQUEST_URI and DOCUMENT_URI). This server data used for the exclusive purpose of monitoring and preventing abuse and spam.
Activity Tracked: Functionality cookies are set for a duration of 347 days to remember a visitor’s blog and post subscription choices if, in fact, they have an active subscription.
WordPress.com Stats
Data Used: IP address, WordPress.com user ID (if logged in), WordPress.com username (if logged in), user agent, visiting URL, referring URL, timestamp of event, browser language, country code. Important: The site owner does not have access to any of this information via this feature. For example, a site owner can see that a specific post has 285 views, but he/she cannot see which specific users/accounts viewed that post. Stats logs — containing visitor IP addresses and WordPress.com usernames (if available) — are retained by Automattic for 28 days and are used for the sole purpose of powering this feature.
Activity Tracked: Post and page views, video plays (if videos are hosted by WordPress.com), outbound link clicks, referring URLs and search engine terms, and country. When this module is enabled, Jetpack also tracks performance on each page load that includes the Javascript file used for tracking stats. This is exclusively for aggregate performance tracking across Jetpack sites in order to make sure that our plugin and code is not causing performance issues. This includes the tracking of page load times and resource loading duration (image files, Javascript files, CSS files, etc.). The site owner has the ability to force this feature to honor DNT settings of visitors. By default, DNT is currently not honored.
Cloudflare
For optimized website delivery and attack prevention, this website uses the Cloudflare Content Delivery Network (CDN). The service caches the data from the original webserver on other servers potentially closer to you or faster to respond to the requests sent by your browser.
To provide this functionality, Cloudflare sets strictly necessary technical cookies. You can read more background information about which cookies are set by Cloudflare and why these are necessary. Additional details can be found in the Cloudflare Privacy Policy.
Changes to this Statement
This privacy statement might occasionally be updated. When we do, we will also revise the “last updated” date at the top of the privacy statement. Please check the policy each time you use our web site to ensure you are aware of any changes in our privacy practices.
Agreement
By using this site, you signify your assent to this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this policy, please do not use the web site.
Contact Information
We welcome your comments regarding this privacy statement. Please contact us by email.