Privacy policy

General Terms

  • Our site provides various services and functions, access to which is possible only after agreeing to the Terms of Use.
  • We reserve the right to make changes to the Terms of Use without prior notice to users.
  • We are not responsible for any damages resulting from the use of our site or its services, including, but not limited to, loss of data, interruptions, errors or delays in the transmission of information.
  • We reserve the right to restrict or deny access to our site or its services to any user at our discretion.

User Conduct Rules

  • Users of our site undertake to comply with laws and moral norms, not to post content on the site that violates the law, not to allow discrimination, provocations and insults of other users.
  • It is forbidden to use our site to spread viruses or other malicious programs, as well as to commit fraudulent activities.
  • We reserve the right to remove any content that violates the Terms of Use without prior notice to the user.

Intellectual Property Rights

  1. We own all rights to the content of our site, including text, images, video, audio, software and other materials.
  2. You may not copy, distribute, modify or use our content without our express consent.
  3. We use cookies and similar technologies to improve our site and provide personalized content and advertising.
  4. We may collect some information about the use of our site, such as data about visits and page views, to analyze and improve our work.
  5. We may use third-party services to analyze data about visits to our site and optimize advertising. Such services may use cookies and similar technologies.
  6. Users may request the removal of personal data from our database at any time.
  1. Our site may contain links to third-party sites that are not under our control. We are not responsible for the content and security of such sites, especially if the links are posted in places where a commenting system is provided.
  2. Users must independently assess the risks when visiting third-party sites and adhere to their terms of use.

Privacy and Data Protection

  1. We comply with the legislation on the protection of personal data and store passwords and personal information on the site. Passwords are encrypted. Nevertheless, we cooperate with analytics and mailing services, so all the data you send us is anonymized as much as possible for transmission and analysis.
  2. In addition, we automatically collect data that allows us to count unique visitors to the site, where they came from and other anti-bot identification parameters.
  3. Comments

    • If a visitor leaves a comment on the site, we collect the data specified in the comment form, as well as the visitor’s IP address and browser user-agent data for the purpose of spam detection.
    • An anonymized string generated from your email address (“hash”) may be provided to the Gravatar service to determine whether you are using it. The Gravatar privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. Once a comment is approved, your profile picture will be publicly visible in the context of your comment.

    Media files

    • If you are a registered user and uploading photos to the site, you may want to avoid uploading images with EXIF ​​metadata as they may contain your GPS location data. Visitors can get this information by downloading an image from the site.

    Cookies

    • If you leave a comment on our site, you can choose to save your name, email address and website in a cookie. This is done for convenience, so as not to fill in the data again when commenting again. These cookies are stored for one year.
    • If you have an account on the site and you log in to it, we will set a temporary cookie to determine whether your browser supports cookies, the cookie does not contain any personal information and is deleted when you close your browser.
    • When you sign in to your account, we also set several cookies with your login details and screen settings. Login cookies are stored for two days, cookies with screen settings – for a year. If you select “Remember me”, the login details will be stored for two weeks. Login cookies will be deleted when you log out of your account.

  4. When editing or publishing an article, an additional cookie will be saved in the browser, it does not contain personal data and only contains the ID of the record edited by you, which expires in 1 day.
  5. Embedded content from other websites

    • Articles on this site may include embedded content (such as videos, images, articles, etc.), such content behaves in the same way as if a visitor visited another site.
    • These sites may collect data about you, use cookies, implement additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interactions with embedded content, including tracking your interactions if you have an account and are logged in to that site.

    How long we keep your data

    • If you leave a comment, the comment itself and its metadata are stored indefinitely. This is to automatically identify and approve subsequent comments, instead of putting them in a queue for approval.
    • For registered users on our site, we store the personal information that they provide in their profile. All users can view, edit or delete profile information at any time (except username). The website administration can also see and change this information.

    What rights do you have to your data

    • If you have an account on the site or if you have left comments, you can request an export file of the personal data we have stored about you, including the data you have provided. You can also request the deletion of this data, this does not include data that we are required to keep for administrative, legal or security purposes.

    End clauses

    • The Terms of Use are a legally binding agreement between us and the users of our site.
    • If any provision of the Terms of Use is held invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions will remain in effect.
    • The terms of use are regulated and interpreted in accordance with the legislation of Ukraine.
    • Any disputes and disagreements related to the use of our site or its services will be resolved in accordance with the legislation of Ukraine.