Privacy Policy

Privacy of your personal information is very important on any website on the internet, including here at webdevelopmentblog.org. Here is information on what types of personal information is received and collected when you use and visit this webiste and how it is safeguarded. Rest assured that your personal information will never be sold to third parties.

Log Files

As with most other websites, for security reasons, the basic data of your vist will be stored in log files. The information in the log files include your IP (internet protocol) address, your ISP (internet service provider), your OS (operating system) and the browser you used to visit our site (such as Chrome or Firefox), the time you visited the website and which pages you visited throughout the site. Currently a 7 days logging period is in place which means that all the records of your visit are deleted after this period.

Comments

When you make a comment on this website, personal information containing Name(or nickname), E-mail address and IP address is stored in the database for which you have given consent when read and agreed to the privacy terms & conditions before submitting a comment. This information is used according to the terms of use. If you wish that your comment or comments, along with personal information, is deleted from the database entirely, please use the contact form here to contact me personally. Note that you will have to prove that the email address bound to the comment really belongs to you.

Google analytics

Google Analytics is a web tool which helps to understand how visitors engage with this website. It reports website trends using cookies and web beacons without identifying individual visitors. This information can be accessed by myself personally and Google as the application provider. You can read Google's privacy policy.

Note: IP addresses that you use to visit this website are now anonymized in the Google Analytics application. This means that only 3 out of 4 parts of the IP address is visibile (eg. 100.100.100.xxx) that is able to know which country and state a visitor is coming from but not the exact location.

Cookies and Web beacons

The cookies are being used to store information, such as your personal preferences when you visit our site. This could include only showing you a popup once in your visit.

Third party advertisements are being used at www.webdevelopmentblog.org to support the site. Some of these advertisers may use technology such as cookies and web beacons when they advertise on this website, which will also send these advertisers (such as Google through the Google AdSense program) information including your IP address, your ISP, the browser you used to visit the website, and in some cases, whether you have Flash installed. This is generally used for geotargeting purposes (showing New York real estate ads to someone in New York, for example) or showing certain ads based on specific sites visited (such as showing cooking ads to someone who frequents cooking sites).

Note: Due to the GDPR law, cookies, which gather personal information, for ads personalization have been disabled for users based in the EEA region. Cookies for frequency capping, aggregated ad reporting and to combat fraud and abuse are still used and by using this website, you agree to the terms of the following cookies be used in accordance to the EU Cookies law policy.

DoubleCLICK DART cookies

DART cookies for ad serving through Google’s DoubleClick, which places a cookie on your computer when you are browsing the web and visit a site using DoubleClick advertising (including some Google AdSense advertisements) may be used. This cookie is used to serve ads specific to you and your interests (”interest based targeting”).

The ads served will be targeted based on your previous browsing history (For example, if you have been viewing sites about visiting Las Vegas, you may see Las Vegas hotel advertisements when viewing a non-related site, such as on a site about hockey). DART uses “non personally identifiable information”. It does NOT track personal information about you, such as your name, email address, physical address, telephone number, social security numbers, bank account numbers or credit card numbers.

You can opt-out of this ad serving on all sites using this advertising by visiting this website.

You can choose to disable or selectively turn off cookies being used by this website or third-party cookies in your browser settings, or by managing preferences in programs such as Norton Internet Security.

Deleting cookies does not mean you are permanently opted out of any advertising program. Unless you have settings that disallow cookies, the next time you visit a site running the advertisements, a new cookie will be added.