Who we are
YourTechStory hereinafter referred as ‘YTS’, ‘we’, ‘us’ or ‘our’ values the privacy of our customers, users and others (“you” or “User” or “Visitors”) who use the web site at https://www.yourtechstory.com/ and its directly associated domains.
We solely use our website https://www.yourtechstory.com/ to cover latest technlogy news and stories. We value the privacy of our customers, users and others who use the website www.xornor.co and the other domains directly related to it, operated by us and any client software linked with the former. By visiting our website, you agree to our privacy policies that include the details about the collection, storage, usage and disclosure of your personal information. We would appreciate if you read the policies and understand them. You can contact us if you have any suggestions, or regarding the rights, you possess concerning the storage of your data and sharing it.
To whom it concerns
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comment form, and also the visitor’s IP address as well as the 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 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.
Registration and contact form information
We may ask for your information when:
- you visit our website,
- you contact us regarding any service or product on our website by filling the contact us form,
- you subscribe to our newsletter,
- you send us a job application,
- you request a quote for a project,
- you contact us via chat,
- you download an eBook, a case study or a whitepaper.
Information that we collect
We can accumulate personal or non-personal information through our website. When you interact with our website or use our services, we can collect the following personal data from you:
- your name,
- your email address,
- your country,
- your phone number,
- other optional data you choose to share.
Also, the non-personal data that the website collects through other sources:
Cookies & Log Files:
We may collect non-personally identifiable information passively using “cookies”, “action tags” and “log files”.
Our website uses temporary and persistent cookies, that provides you with a better experience and store your preferences, to recognise you and remember your preferences, the next time you visit our site. You can disable the cookies from the browser setting anytime you want.
If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt-in to save 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 this site, 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.
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.
Analytics
Google Analytics Cookies are used to analyze how visitors use a website, for instance, which pages visitors visit most often, in order to provide a better user experience. We also use this technology to check if you have opened our emails, so we can see if they are being delivered correctly and are of interest.
Web Beacons:
Web beacons, also known as clear GIFs or single-pixel GIFs, are small image files that we, or service providers acting on our behalf, may place in our web pages, in our advertisements, and in our emails. The information collected by the beacons does not personally identify you. It just collects the information regarding the performance of our Site, our advertising, and our email campaigns, along with your interests, geographic location and website address, when you provide it to us.
Environmental Variables:
We may collect certain environmental variables, such as your screen resolution, OS version, IP address, information about your mobile device, domain names, landing pages, pages viewed, domain names, browser type and version. These environmental variables are collected by most websites and can be used to optimize your experience on the Site.
Sharing your Information with the third-party
The content on our website may include some links from our partners to offer combined services. Following those third-party links and sharing your personal data with them, will be based on your choices and we assume no responsibility for your compliance.
What rights you have over your data
Under the GDPR regulations, you have all rights regarding the disclosure of your information with us or with the third-parties. If you do not want to share your personal information with us, you can do the following things:
- Do not accept the cookies.
- Avoid using the chat support, the contact form or request a quote form
- Do not subscribe to our newsletter.
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.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service that may be outside the EU, EEA.
Analytics are handled by a third party, Google, which may transfer information outside the European Union, EEA, or Switzerland, to the United States. Google holds user and event data for 26 months.
Our website is hosted in the US, and your data is stored in a secure database with the hosting company of this site that is GDPR complaint.
To optimize site performance, we utilize the services of Cloudflare. Your data may be securely transmitted to Cloudflare which is contractually obligated to protect your data per the terms of a separately signed Data Privacy Addendum.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment on the website, 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.
Data submitted via the contact us form, chat or via quote form, may be retained indefinitely both in the database and in an email by our email provider.
How do we use your information?
- To personalize your experience, and to enable ourselves to deliver the type of content and product offerings, in which you are most interested.
- To send periodic emails regarding additional offers, products and/or services.
- To send you event-related updates, reminders, and confirmations.
- To send you technical notices, updates, security alerts, and support and administrative messages.
- To respond to your comments, questions, and requests and provide customer service and support.
- To communicate with you about products, services, offers, promotions, rewards and events offered by us, as well as provide news and information we think will be of interest to you.
- Monitor and analyze trends, usages and activities in connection with our content and website performance.
- To personalize content and present you with advertising, content or features that we believe will be of interest or useful to you.
Additional information
How we protect your data
We take all sort of measures to protect your data, and we do not share or sell your data to other parties, without your explicit consent.
We follow industry-standard security protocols like SSL, CloudFlare, a content delivery network and DDoS mitigation service that restricts automated access to the site and all of the content on it, including any stored personal information.
What data breach procedures we have in place
If a data breach is detected, we will notify users both via the site and email within 72 hours.
What third parties we receive data from
We receive no data from third parties other than analytics information discussed above.
What automated decision making and/or profiling we do with user data
We have no automated decision making or profiling.
Industry regulatory disclosure requirements
We have no industry regulatory disclosures.
Legal Disclaimer
We may disclose your personal data depending upon your consent or if required by the law. We will share such information only if we have a good-faith belief that it is necessary to comply with a court order, ongoing judicial proceeding, or other legal process served on our company or to exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims.
We do not, knowingly or unknowingly, market or sell our products and services to the children younger than 13 years. We do not collect the information from children of that particular age group. If we receive any PII from a child under the age of 13, we will immediately delete it from our database.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
In our sole discretion, we possess all the right to alter the policies at any time due to changed circumstances. As we keep updating our policies, we encourage you to check out them regularly to stay notified about the new updates.
Contacting us
If you have any queries regarding our privacy policies, you can contact us here or at the following address:
YourTechStory C/O Xornor Technologies, D151, Industrial Area, Phase 8, Mohali, Punjab, India