This notice tells you who I am, what information about you I may collect via this blog, and what I may do with it. Click on the “blue titles” of each section below for further information. Please also read the terms of use relating to this blog and how you can redistribute its content.
An individual who writes articles on its own blog about technology, health, innovation and legal issues. This blog is for non-commercial use.
By using this blog, I may collect certain information about you – which may be considered as personal data – directly (when you submit a comment, or via a form), indirectly (such as the IP address, publically available information through third parties, or automatically when you make public post on social media, or through the use of cookies, including Google analytics cookies.
– your pseudo,
– your first name and second name (when you use them as such)
– e-mail address
– IP address
I may use information about you for various purposes, which will be specified to you, or be clear from the context, at the point information about you is first collected.
These purposes mainly comprise:
• answering to you when you make a post in an article
• understand who is my audience, so that I can improve any further articles
The legal basis for the processing is based on my legitimate interest
I do not share any personal data with third parties. However, information about you may be processed by third parties such as Google analytics on an aggregated basis.
Any information about you is kept within the WordPress environment and, to the extent personal data are collected and transferred out of the WordPress administration console, it is kept secure. All data are hosted in Zurich, Switzerland on the secured servers of Kreativ Media GmbH.
I am using strictly necessary cookies to enable functionalities of this blog and other performance, session or language related cookies in order to operate my blog in two languages. To better understand your interest in my articles, I also use Google Analytics. This plugin allows me to measure my audience and understand the statistics about my articles. However, when looking at my dashboard, I do not get any personal data from Google Analytics and receive general information on an aggregated basis.
Below, you can find more information about the cookies that I use on my blog with their life span.
| Cookie | Description | Duration | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| pll_language | This cookie is set by Polylang plugin for WordPress powered websites. The cookie stores the language code of the last browsed page. | 1 year | Functional |
| PHPSESSID | This cookie is native to PHP applications. The cookie is used to store and identify a users’ unique session ID for the purpose of managing user session on the website. The cookie is a session cookies and is deleted when all the browser windows are closed. | Necessary | |
| d9aca2612f2afc6f0c048ad9794af4c1 | 4 hours | undefined | |
| ckon2006 | null | 5 minutes | Other |
| SJECT2006 | null | 1 hour | Other |
| JCS_INENREF | The cookie is a part of the website security measures and is used for anti-spam purposes. | 1 hour | Necessary |
| JCS_INENTIM | The cookie is a part of the website security measures and is used for anti-spam purposes. | 1 hour | Necessary |
| _wpss_h_ | This cookie is used for anti-spam and security of the website. | 1 hour | Necessary |
| _wpss_p_ | This cookie is used for anti-spam and security of the website. | 1 hour | Necessary |
| _ga | This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, campaign data and keep track of site usage for the site’s analytics report. The cookies store information anonymously and assign a randomly generated number to identify unique visitors. | 2 years | Analytics |
| _gid | This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to store information of how visitors use a website and helps in creating an analytics report of how the website is doing. The data collected including the number visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages visited in an anonymous form. | 1 day | Analytics |
| _gat | This cookies is installed by Google Universal Analytics to throttle the request rate to limit the collection of data on high traffic sites. | 1 minute | Performance |
For as long as necessary for the performance of this blog, but only if the blog remains used. If, for whatever reasons, I decide not to use some content of the blog (such as pages of articles containing information about you), I will ensure to delete any information about you
You may have some or all of the following rights in respect of information about you that I may hold:
• request me to give you access to it;
• request me to rectify it, update it, or erase it;
• request me to restrict my using it, it in certain circumstances;
• object to my using it, in certain circumstances;
• withdraw your consent to my using it;
• data portability, in certain circumstances;
• opt out from my using it for direct marketing; and
• lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority in your country (if there is one)
If you have any questions, you can contact me via the contact form, or directly by e-mail at gabriel dot avigdor (at) ntic dot ch