Cookies and Privacy Policy (GDPR, CCPA)

Who we are

Our website address is: https://www.jozefkozar.com/lab.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form and the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help with 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 can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookies

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 you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, 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.

In some sections of this website, we require the visitor to have the cookies enabled given that some of the features require them to work, but under no circumstances collect personal information (identification, contact, work-related, or in any other way).

The information obtained shall not be communicated to third parties, except for cases where possible fraudulent activities are being investigated.

If the user wants to disable the cookies, he/she must do it directly from the web browser.

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.

Who do we share your data with

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, 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 who 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.

What rights do you have over your data

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 your data is sent

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Statistics and website analytics

We gather information about you during your website visit.

Information We Collect and Store for the website statistics and analytics – during your visit, we monitor:

  • Pages Viewed: This helps us analyze site usage statistics and understand user behavior.
  • Browser user agent: we’ll use this for purposes like creating charts of views, most used browsers, etc.
  • IP address

Anti-spam protection service

We collect information about visitors who comment on Sites that use our Akismet Anti-spam service. The information we collect depends on how the User sets up Akismet for the Site, but typically includes the commenter’s IP address, user agent, referrer, and Site URL (along with other information directly provided by the commenter such as their name, username, email address, and the comment itself).

Newsletter and instant email notifications about new content

The only service that may use the information provided by the user is the user’s email address when the user registers his/her email address for a newsletter or the instant post notification by email. In this case, is the email address stored in an anonymous and encrypted form and will never be exposed to any third party. The email address will also be never used for any unwanted email marketing or will never be further processed by any other system. If the user wants to unsubscribe from the newsletter or from the instant post notification by email, then the user can do so directly in the delivered newsletter, email notification, or by contacting me.

Removing all user’s data

This website and any other connected system to this website does not store or process any personal information or data except in the case when the user registers himself/herself for a newsletter or the instant email notification about newly published content on this website. When a user decides to remove his/her email address from the newsletter or the email notification about new content, then the user can do so himself/herself directly via the delivered email (newsletter or notification about newly published content) or the user can contact us directly and email address of the user will be immediately deleted from the system.

GDPR, CCPA, and user’s consent

When a user registers himself/herself for any of the services mentioned above, then it means that the user gives his/her consent to the above-mentioned conditions.

Copyrights, registered trademarks

The whole content and design of this website is copyright of Jozef Kozár, PhD. No part of the website or its content (text, graphics, photos, videos, scripts, applications, etc., can be further used in any form without prior approval by its owner Jozef Kozár, PhD. The name of this website is a trademark of Jozef Kozár, PhD.

All other company names or corporation names or names of their products are in full responsibility of their respective owners and belong to their owners.

Last review and update of the text above – September 18, 2024