Privacy Policy
Who we are
Our website address is: http://www.veknow.com/ Dedicated to posting articles on different topics as movies, famous people, lifestyle as well as spooky stuff, we gather various information that is basically all for entertainment purpose. We aim to be a name everybody prefers to suit their reading habits! Privacy Policy and Terms of Use are mentioned below.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
You may also want to read our Terms of Use before continuing to use the website.
Any of the information we collect from you may be used in one of the following ways –
- To improve our website (we continually strive to improve our website offerings based on the information and feedback we receive from you).
- We implement security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information when you enter, submit or access your personal information.
- We use cookies to serve our visitors with personalized advertisements.
- We do not sell, trade or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information. This does not include trusted third parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential.
- We may also release your information when we believe releasing is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others’ rights, property, or safety. However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising or other uses.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on VeKnow.com 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 VeKnow.com, 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.
Contact forms
When you contact us for any services that we provide, we may collect your personal information such as your full name, email address, etc. that you input on the contact form. If you wish to remove any of this information from our database, you can contact us and we will clear it for you.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on VeKnow.com 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 have an account and you log in to VeKnow.com, 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 and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks, If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on VeKnow.com 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.
Log Data
We want to inform you that whenever you visit VeKnow.com, we collect information that your browser sends to us which is called Log Data. This Log Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser version, pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, and other statistics.
Links to Third-Party Websites
We have included links on this site for your use and reference. We are not responsible for the privacy policies of these websites. You should be aware that the privacy policies of these sites may differ from our own. The non-proprietary components used in here are subject to the licensing agreements of their respective copyright holders and are binding for the user.
Who we share your data with
We share some of the information such as comments, session details, cookies, etc. with the following third-party services for the purpose of improving our website, avoiding spam, serving better ads, etc. Below are the details of who we share your data with.
Analytics Services such as Google Analytics, NewRelic, Jetpack: Google Analytics is a web analytics service that helps us to track our visitors and improve the website for the best possible user experience. Google operates independently from our privacy policy and we recommend reading Google Analytics Privacy and Data Sharing page to know more about their policies. Also, we use the Jetpack plugin from WordPress that allows us to track the number of visits to our website. You can have a look at the privacy policy of the Automattic to know more. We use NewRelic to monitor our website performance including getting the details of website downtime. Please check the Privacy Policy of New Relic to know more about them.
Interest-Based Advertising Networks: Media.net and RevContent: We use ad services such as Media.net and RevContent to serve interest-based ads on our website. This third-party advertising service may use technologies such as cookies to serve interest-based ads to you.
Third-party services like spam filtering: Akismet: Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service like Akismet that will check your email address, IP, name, comment text, etc. to filter the spam comments. You can read the Automattic privacy policy to know more.
Contact form messages may be forwarded or shared with relevant parties in order to respond to your requests or issues.
European data protection law requires data about European residents which is transferred outside the European Union to be safeguarded to the same standards as if the data was in Europe. So we always make sure to ensure that these standards are met. We encourage you to read all the privacy policies of our third-party service providers to know more about their Privacy Policy.
Analytics
VeKnow.com accumulates website usage data using Google Analytics and NewRelic. Using a cookie, website visitor usage statistics are used to improve the website by doing things such as identifying popular content or learning how users find the site. If you wish, you may opt-out of Google Analytics tracking by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.
Service Providers
We may employ third-party companies and individuals due to the following reasons:
- To facilitate our Service
- To provide the Service on our behalf
- To perform Service-related services or
- To assist us in analyzing how our Service is used
We want to inform our Service users that these third parties have access to your Personal Information. The reason is to perform the tasks assigned to them on our behalf. However, they are obligated not to disclose or use the information for any other purpose.
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.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also 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.
Information sent through contact forms is also held indefinitely.
If you subscribed to our newsletter or services, your data will be retained until you decide to opt-out of the mailing list. You can do so by using the unsubscribe link under each mail that we send or by directly contacting us.
The Analytics data that we collect will be retained for a period of 90-days by the Google Analytics service. We encourage you to read their privacy policy to know better about it.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on veknow.com 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.
Children’s Information
Another part of our priority is adding protection for children while using the internet. We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate in, and/or monitor and guide their online activity.
VeKnow.com does not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information from children under the age of 13. If you think that your child provided this kind of information on VeKnow.com, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately and we will do our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service such as Akismet.
Messages sent through the contact page are processed by Jetpack.
How we protect your data
We value the privacy of the visitors. So, we are continuously protecting your data from any thefts or hacks. We are using the SSL encryption on our website that ensures the website is served over HTTPS. Also, we have several layers of protection mechanisms in place such as Firewalls, Two-factor authentication, etc. We also train our staff to carefully deal with the user information and never leave any loopholes for any data breach. Your data is safe with us.
What data breach procedures we have in place
We take data privacy seriously. We have internal reporting systems and firewalls that prevent any data breaches by creating an extremely powerful wall between the hackers and our website. We also do have a contact mechanism that allows users to reach us and let us know any bugs on our website. We run security inspections on our website to make sure that the website and its data stays protected.
How to contact us
If you have any questions about VeKnow.com’s privacy policy, the data we hold on you, or you would like to exercise one of your data protection rights, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Email us at: contact@veknow.com
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