Privacy Policy for lounge coder (www.loungecoder.com)
At www.loungecoder.com, accessible from https://www.loungecoder.com/, one of our main priorities is the privacy of our visitors. This Privacy Policy document contains types of information that are collected and recorded by www.loungecoder.com and how we use it.
This Privacy Policy applies only to our online activities and is valid for visitors to our website regarding the information that they shared and/or collect in www.loungecoder.com. This policy is not applicable to any information collected offline or via channels other than this website.
Consent
By using our website, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its terms.
Information We Collect
You need not create an account to read the content on our website. No personal information like name, address, phone number, etc. are collected unless you sign up for the email subscription newsletter for new content updates or write a comment. We do not sell, share, transfer, or rent any information, including personal information, to anyone other than what is mentioned in this Privacy Policy.
The personal information that you are asked to provide, and the reasons why you are asked to provide it, will be made clear to you at the point we ask you to provide your personal information.
If you contact us directly, we may receive additional information about you such as your name, email address, phone number, the contents of the message and/or attachments you may send us, and any other information you may choose to provide.
Note: When you register for our free subscription, we ask for your information such as name and email address.
How We Use Your Information
We use the information we collect in various ways, including to:
- Provide, operate, and maintain our website
- Improve, personalize, and expand our website
- Understand and analyze how you use our website
- Develop new features and functionality
- Communicate with you to provide you with updates and other information relating to the website and for marketing and promotional purposes
- Send you emails
- Find and prevent fraud
Log Files
www.loungecoder.com follows a standard procedure of using log files. These files log visitors when they visit websites. All hosting companies do this and are a part of hosting services’ analytics. The information collected by log files includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser types, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. This is not linked to any information that is personally identifiable. The purpose of the information is for analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users’ movement on the website, and gathering demographic information.
Cookies and Web Beacons
Like any other website, www.loungecoder.com uses ‘cookies’. These cookies are used to store information including visitors’ preferences, and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. This information is used to optimize the user’s experience by customizing our web page content based on visitor’s browser type and/or other information.
If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt-in to save your name, email address, and website in cookies. This is 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 the site, we will set up 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. Once you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
Third-party ad servers or ad networks use technologies like cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons that are used in their respective advertisements and links that appear on www.loungecoder.com, which are sent directly to users’ browsers. They will automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. These technologies are used to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on websites that you visit.
Note that www.loungecoder.com has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.
Third Party Privacy Policies
www.loungecoder.com’s Privacy Policy does not apply to other advertisers or websites. Thus, we are advising you to consult the respective Privacy Policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information. It may include their practices and instructions on how to opt-out of certain options.
You can choose to disable cookies through your individual browser options. For more detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers, it can be found at the browsers’ respective websites.
Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics to track visitor information on our website – like the number of visitors per day, country visited from, amount of minutes spent on per page and other user behavior like entry page, exit page, etc.
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 will be visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Embedded Content from Other Websites
Articles on the 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.
Privacy Policy Updates
We reserve the right to update our Privacy Policy as and when required without any intimation to you. Your continued use of the site will automatically imply your acceptance of any amendment to the privacy policy. Our privacy policy is updated from time to time. Any changes to the Privacy Policy will be notified on our Privacy Policy page.
Privacy Policy last updated on 13-06-2024.
Contact Us
If you have any queries regarding our privacy policy, you can reach out to us at:
loungecoder@gmail.com
