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Privacy policy

On this page we describe when and how we use your personal information that you or others provide to us.

In short, this is the situation:

  • We collect some data about you
  • We collect anonymised usage statistics
  • You can opt out of being tracked
  • We do not share your data, except if we have to by applicable law
  • You have the right to know which data we have about you, obtain that data, and have that data deleted

Here is the detailed version:

SSL encryption

This website uses an SSL encryption for security reasons. No data transferred to us can be read by any third-party.

Cookies

This website uses cookies. A cookie “is a small piece of data sent from a website and stored on the user’s computer by the user’s web browser while the user is browsing.” (Wikipedia) You can disable cookies in your browser settings if you wish to do so.

What information do we collect?

When you visit our site we will automatically collect information including:

IP address, browser type and version, time zone setting, operating system, platform, information about your visit, including the full URL, page response times and errors encountered.

No sensitive or personally identifiable data is collected during this process.

Account registration

If you register an account, you provide us with additional data, which includes your e-mail address, last time online, and what content you authored/edited.

An account can be deleted at any time, but the content you authored will remain in the database.

Matomo Analytics

We are using Matomo Analytics to generate our visitor statistics. Matomo uses cookies to generate the statistics. Your IP address will be shortened and is anonymous by doing so. The collected data will be transferred to our servers and saved. If you don’t want us to gather your information, you can opt-out here:

How do we use or share your data?

To respond to legal requests and prevent harm.

If we receive a subpoena or other legal request, we may need to inspect the data we hold to determine how to respond.

For compliance with laws

We may disclose your information if we are legally required to do so in order to comply with applicable law, governmental requests, a judicial proceeding, court order or legal process, such as in response to a court order or a subpoena (including in response to public authorities to meet national security or law enforcement requirements).

What are your privacy rights?

You have the right to object to us handling your personal information in the ways described in "How do we use or share your data?". If you ask us to stop handling your personal information in a certain way we will stop unless we can show you that we have compelling reason to continue using your personal information in that way.

Right of access

You are entitled to receive confirmation as to whether your personal information is being processed by us as well as various other information related to our use of your personal information.

You also have the right to access your personal information that we are handling.

Right to rectification

You have the right to require us to correct any inaccurate personal information we hold about you. You also have the right to have incomplete personal information we hold about you completed by providing missing information to us.

Right to restriction

You can restrict our handling of your personal information. When you make use of your right to restrict our handling of your personal information we will then only process your personal information when you agree, except for storage purposes and to handle legal claims and governmental requirements.

Right to data portability

You have the right to obtain the personal information we hold about you in a structured machine-readable format and to send this to another organization controlling your personal information.

Right to erasure

You have the right to require us to delete your personal information which we are handling in the following circumstances:

  • If we no longer need to use your personal information for the reasons we were originally handling it for
  • If we needed your consent to use your personal information and you have withdrawn your consent
  • If you object to our use of your personal information and we have no compelling reason to carry on handling your personal information
  • If our handling of your personal information has broken the law
  • If we must erase your personal information to comply with a law we are subject to

Contact information

If you have any questions, would like to enquire about the data we hold about you, please contact us at legal@ofdb.cc.