Who we are
Our website address is https://iotespresso.com. This website is operated by Yash Sanghvi, an engineer from Mumbai, India. You can know more about him and the content he creates on the About page. You can email us at [email protected].
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site 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. Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
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.
Contact Forms
If you fill any form on this website (for contacting us, signing up for a newsletter, etc.), we may ask for some personal information, like your name and email address. This information may be stored with us indefinitely, and can be used for sending you promotional content related to this site.
Media
If you upload images to the website, 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.
Google Analytics
We make use of Google Analytics to keep track of the visitors on this site. Therefore, we will gather the following data about you:
- The website from which you were directed to this site
- The date and time of accessing the site
- The duration of time you spend on this site
- Your location
- The pages you browse on this site
- The device through which you access this site
- The browser you use for accessing this site
We will not obtain personally identifying information about you when you visit this site, for the purpose of analytics.
Cookies
Since we use Google Analytics on this site, we, by default use cookies to track your behavior on this site. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. Google Analytics, as mentioned above, stores information about how you got here, what pages you visited, how much time you spent on this site, which links you clicked on. This data does not contain personally identifiable information. To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
In addition to Analytics, Google uses cookies to serve ads based on your prior visit to this or other websites. Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your activity over the Internet. You may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Ads Settings.
If you leave a comment on our site 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 visit our login page, 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.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Caching
This site utilizes caching in order to facilitate a faster response time and better user experience. Caching potentially stores a duplicate copy of every web page that is on display on this site. All cache files are temporary, and are never accessed by any third party, except as necessary to obtain technical support from the cache plugin vendor. Cache files expire on a schedule set by the site administrator, but may easily be purged by the admin before their natural expiration, if necessary.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site 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.
How will the data be used
We will use the analytics data as aggregate data to identify the high-traffic providing regions, websites, devices. We will also use this to identify the pages and posts which are more popular than the others and try to improve this site overall by taking cues from the dominating characteristics of the popular pages/ posts. We will not use this information to identify individuals except for web security or law enforcement reasons. We may use the data for promotion and marketing purposes.
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.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site 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.