PUBLISHED: 11 MAY 2020
Who we are
Our website address is: https://www.askify.me
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
It is Askify.me’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website. This Privacy Policy applies to https://www.askify.me (hereinafter, “us”, “we”, or “https://www.askify.me”). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting personally identifiable information you may provide us through the Website. We have adopted this privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) to explain what information may be collected on our Website, how we use this information, and under what circumstances we may disclose the information to third parties. This Privacy Policy applies only to information we collect through the Website and does not apply to our collection of information from other sources.
This Privacy Policy, together with the Terms and Conditions posted on our Website, set forth the general rules and policies governing your use of our Website. Depending on your activities when visiting our Website, you may be required to agree to additional terms and conditions.
When registering on our site you may be asked to enter your name, e-mail address, gender and geographical location. You may, however, visit our site anonymously. Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on this site.
Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to users based on their visit to this site and other sites on the internet. Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, Askify.me 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. Askify.me’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Askify.me’s visitors use its website. From time to time, Askify.me may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
Askify.me also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on https://www.askify.me blog posts. Askify.me only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below.
How do we use your information
Information we collect from you may be used in one of the following ways:
- To personalize your experience your information helps us to better respond to your individual needs;
- To improve customer service: your information helps us to more effectively respond to your customer service requests and support needs;
- To process transactions
- To send periodic emails: The email address you provide may be used to send you information, respond to enquiries, and/or other requests or questions.
Your information, whether public or private, will not be sold, exchanged, transferred, or given to any other company for any reason whatsoever, without your consent, other than for the express purpose of delivering the product or service requested.
Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to Askify.me’s websites choose to interact with Askify.me in ways that require Askify.me to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Askify.me gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up for our community at https://www.askify.me to provide a username and email address.
How do we protect your information
We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information when you enter, submit, or access your personal information.
Advertisements
Ads appearing on our website may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Askify.me and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
How do we use cookies
To enrich and perfect your online experience, Askify.me uses “Cookies”, similar technologies and services provided by others to display personalized content, appropriate advertising and store your preferences on your computer.
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Askify.me uses cookies to help Askify.me identify and track visitors, their usage of https://www.askify.me, and their website access preferences. Askify.me visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Askify.me’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of Askify.me’s websites may not function properly without the aid of 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 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 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 question, 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.
By continuing to navigate our website without changing your cookie settings, you hereby acknowledge and agree to Askify.me’s use of cookies.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
Askify.me discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Askify.me’s behalf or to provide services available at Askify.me’s website, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Askify.me’s website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them.
Askify.me will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Askify.me discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Askify.me believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Askify.me, third parties or the public at large.
If you are a registered user of https://www.askify.me and have supplied your email address, Askify.me may 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 Askify.me and our products. We primarily use our community 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. Askify.me takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
Links To External Sites
Our Service may contain links to external sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions of every site you visit.
We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites, products or services.
Affiliate Disclosure
This site uses affiliate links and does earn a commission from certain links. This does not affect your purchases or the price you may pay.
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.
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 to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
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.
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 that register on our website, 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 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 we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
GDPR
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (EU) 2016/679 is a regulation in EU law on data protection and privacy for all individuals within the European Union. It also addresses the export of personal data outside the EU. The GDPR aims primarily to give control to citizens and residents over their personal data and to simplify the regulatory environment for international business by unifying the regulation within the EU. It was adopted on 14 April 2016, and became enforceable on 25 May 2018.
Personal data refers to any information related to you (or your company), that can be used to directly or indirectly identify you.
Purchase data
When you make a purchase on www.askify.me (buy a premium account) we will store the required data you provide to us.
The purchases are based by donations. There is no Tax added. You can’t receive any tax returns.
- What is stored?
- Your name
- Your address
- Your email address
- Your PayPal email address (if applicable)
- Your IP address
The payment itself is done via PayPal. This means no personal payment data (like credit card information) except your PayPal email address is stored on our database.
Why is it stored?
This data is used to create donations invoices.
This data is used for internal use only. It helps us solve any issues that might come up when downloads fail. It also helps us keep track of and prevent any abuse to our download systems.
How long is it stored?
This data is stored for 5 years. After that, the data will be removed during a yearly cleanup.
Can it be removed?
You can go to GDPR to see your data and request for manually deletion for Askify.me Data or Community Account.
If you have subscribed to a premium account, your subscription will be ended.
Analytical data
The www.askify.me website uses Google Analytics. This is set up to only store anonymized data. This means that neither your exact IP address or any other personal data is stored. Askify.me may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its website. Askify.me may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Askify.me does not disclose your personally-identifying information.
California Online Privacy Protection Act Compliance
Because we value your privacy we have taken the necessary precautions to be in compliance with the California Online Privacy Protection Act. We therefore will not distribute your personal information to outside parties without your consent.
Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act Compliance
We are in compliance with the requirements of COPPA (Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act), we do not collect any information from anyone under 13 years of age. Our website, products and services are all directed to people who are at least 13 years old or older.
Online Privacy Policy Only
This online privacy policy applies only to information collected through our website and not to information collected offline.
Terms and Conditions
Please also visit our Terms and Conditions section establishing the use, disclaimers, and limitations of liability governing the use of our website at Terms of use.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, Askify.me may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Askify.me’s sole discretion. Askify.me 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.
Your Consent
By using our site, you consent to our website’s privacy policy.