Privacy policy
Smart.et websites (collectively “smart.et” in this document) refer to sites hosted on the smart.et This privacy policy describes how smart.et uses and protects any information that you give us. We are committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. If you provide us with personal information through smart.et, you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.
Website visitors
Like most website operators, smart.et collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. smart.et purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how smart.et visitors use its website. From time to time, smart.et release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
smart.et also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. smart.et does not use IP addresses to identify its visitors, however, and does not disclose such information, other than under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information, as described below.
Gathering of personally-identifying information
Certain visitors to smart.et choose to interact with smart.et in ways that require smart.et to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that smart.et gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who use our forums to provide a username and email address.
In each case, smart.et collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with smart.et. smart.et does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.
All of the information that is collected on smart.et will be handled in accordance with GDPR legislation.
Protection of certain personally-identifying information
smart.et discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of project administrators, employees, contractors, and affiliated organizations that
smart.et will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to project administrators, employees, contractors, and affiliated organizations, as described above, smart.et discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only when required to do so by law, if you give permission to have your information shared, or when smart.et believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of smart.et, third parties, or the public at large.
If you are a registered user of a smart.et website and have supplied your email address, smart.et occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with smart.et and our products. We primarily use our blog to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum.
If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Smart.et takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration, or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
Legal grounds for processing personal information
We rely on one or more of the following processing conditions:
Retention of personal information
We will retain your personal information on our systems only for as long as we need to, for the success of the Smart.et free package project and the programs that support smart.et. We keep contact information (such as mailing list information) until a user unsubscribes or requests that we delete that information from our live systems. If you choose to unsubscribe from a mailing list, we may keep certain limited information about you so that we may honor your request.
smart.et will not delete personal data from logs or records necessary to the operation, development, or archives of the Smart.et free package project.
smart.et shall maintain Smart.et attendee data for 3 years to better track and foster community growth, and then automatically delete non-essential data collected via registration. Attendee names and email addresses will be retained indefinitely, to preserve our ability to respond to code of conduct reports.
Rights in relation to your information
You may have certain rights under data protection law in relation to the personal information we hold about you. In particular, you may have a right to:
If you would like to exercise these rights or understand if these rights apply to you, please follow the instructions at the end of this Privacy statement.
Third party links
Our website may contain links to other websites provided by third parties not under our control. When following a link and providing information to a 3rd-party website, please be aware that we are not responsible for the data provided to that third party. This privacy policy only applies to the websites listed at the beginning of this document, so when you visit other websites, even when you click on a link posted on smart.et, you should read their own privacy policies.
Aggregated statistics
smart.et collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, smart.et reveal how many times a particular version of Smart.et was downloaded or report on which plugins are the most popular, based on data gathered by smart.et, a web service used by Smart.et installations to check for new versions of Smart.et and plugins. However, smart.et does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described in this policy.
Cookies
Additionally, information about how you use our website is collected automatically using “cookies”. Cookies are text files placed on your computer to collect standard internet log information and visitor behavior information. This information is used to track visitor use of the website and to compile statistical reports on website activity.
Privacy policy changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, smart.et change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and at smart.et ’s sole discretion. smart.et encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.
Contact
We suggest contacting the site owner or author directly. To find more information about the site’s host or domain registrar, you can use these tools:
Please contact us if you have any questions about our privacy policy or information, we hold about you by emailing info@ashewa.com
