Privacy Policy

This site works with functional and analytic cookies, some data to support this is collected. If you want to opt out of these cookies read here.
You might be wondering what kind of personal data is collected when you visit this site. This is explained below.

Visiting this site without registration
When you visit this site function and analytic data is collected, these are stored on your machine as cookies. To learn more about this (or understand how you can opt out of these cookies) read here.

Visiting this site as member
When you joined this site the only data stored are your username, email and subscriptions (if these were made)
These are needed to be able to log in and recognize the status of your account. Your mail is only used to inform you about your account, it is not used for anything else, nor is it given to third parties.

Comments
When you leave a comment below any of the blogs at this site you are asked to fill in some data like a name and email. This site collects 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. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

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 have an account and you log in to this site, this site 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, the site 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.

Newsletter
When you subscribe to the newsletter only your email will be stored so newsletters can be sent. This data is only used for this purpose.

Analytics
This site uses Statcounter to collect visitors data.

Reviews
When writing a review your data is only used to present the review.

Contactform
The data you enter via the contactform is only visible to she siteowner and used to get in touch with you. Your mailaddress is not shared with anyone.

With who is your data shared?
Analytic data is only shared with third parties, so for this site that is Statcounter.
When joining as member data is being shared with PayPal (necessary to use PayPal as preference for payment, there is also an option to pay via bankwire).