Phloyd.net Privacy & Cookie Policy
Who we are
Phloyd.net is a small side project managed by Phloyd, aka Double P.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Our team at Phloyd.net is committed to protect and respect your privacy. This privacy policy explains when, how and why we collect information about you. It specifies which information is collected anonymously and which information contains personal data. It also explains the conditions under which we may disclose your information to other parties, which measures we take to keep your data safe and secure, and which rights you have in regards to your information.
If you have any questions about this privacy policy or the use of our website, please don’t hesitate to contact us at [email protected]
How we collect information from you
We may obtain information from you in a number of different ways, such as:
- Information you give to us directly: This can be information you provide when filling out a form or sending an inquiry to us
- Information you give to us indirectly: Third parties might share your information with us. This could be hired subcontractors, such as research agencies, who provide us with technical, payment or delivery services, as well as business partners, advertising networks analytics providers and search information providers. It is important that you check the respective privacy policies of third parties to understand how they might share your information
- When you visit our website: Like most organisations and companies we collect the following information when you visit our website:
- technical information, including the type of device you’re using, your IP address, browser and operating system. This is essential for us to ensure the security of our websites and visitors, as it let’s us differentiate between regular requests and harmful requests
- we also collect information about the pages you visit and how you navigate the website (how long you stay on pages and which pages referred you to us). This give us important feedback, which allows us to optimize content and flow of our website, providing you with a more meaningful user experience. This information is collected through cookies – more information can be found under the ‘Cookie Usage’ section below
What type of information we collect from you
We try to reduce the collection of personal information as much as possible and anonymize data wherever we can to safeguard your privacy. However, where necessary, the personal information we collect, store and use might include:
- Information about your activities on our website and about the device used to access it, as well as your IP address and geographical location
How we use your information
There is a number of different ways in which we may use your information, including:
- Providing you with services and information you requested
- Conducting analysis and market research to better understand how we can improve our services, products and information for you
Who has access to your information
We do not sell or rent your information to third parties. However, some of your information may be disclosed to third parties working on our behalf. Where possible we anonymize data before passing it over to third parties and, when we use these third parties, we disclose only the personal information that is necessary to deliver the services we require from the third party. Additionally we will not release your information to third parties for them to use in their own direct marketing activities, unless you have requested us to do so.
Lawful processing
As specified by data protection laws, the processing of personal information needs to be based on lawful grounds. The following are considered relevant by us:
- Where you have provided specific consent to us for using your personal information in a certain way. This could include sending you an email, newsletter or calling you.
- Under certain legal obligations, such as being ordered by a court or regulatory authority to release your information
- Where it is necessary to protect life and or health or a safeguarding issue, which requires us to share your information with emergency services
- n case of legitimate interests where the information is used in a fair way and does not duly impact your rights. For example:
- conduct research to better understand our audience and improve relevance of communication, services and products
- understand how people choose and use our services and products
- determine the effectiveness of our services, promotional campaigns and advertising
- enhance, modify, personalize or otherwise improve our services and communications for the benefit of our customers
- better understand how people interact with our website
When we legitimately process your information in this way, we’ll always consider any potential impact on you (positive or negative), as well as your rights under data protection laws. We will not use your information where our interests are override by the negative impact on you, unless we are specifically required to do so by the law.
Your choices
We are committed to give you control of your data. You decide about whether or not you would like to receive information from us. We provide boxes in our contact forms to allow you to make these decisions. Marketing and advertising cookies are set to only become active when you give your consent. Here is how you can update or revoke your consent:
- Analytics : Please click below to remove your cookie preferences, which will delete our cookies and show the cookie choice window again.
Keeping your information safe
When you provide your personal information to use, we take precautions to ensure it is protected. Our websites use SSL certificates to encrypt communication between your client and our server. This is indicated by a small lock next to the website address and the URL starting with ‘https’ instead of ‘http’. We also run regular security scans to keep our websites and your information as safe as possible. Although we make security one of our priorities and strive to protect your information and our infrastructure, there is unfortunately no way to guarantee 100% security.
Keeping your information up to date
We will do our best to keep your information accurate and up to date, however this might not always be possible. Please let us know if your contact details or communication preferences change at any point.
Use of cookies
Our websites may contain links to other websites, which are run by other companies or organisations. This privacy policy applies only to our website, so we encourage you to read the privacy statements on other websites you visit. We cannot be held responsible for the privacy policies and practices of other websites, even if you access their pages through our links. The same applies for third party websites that link to our page.
Children
In order to protect the privacy of children we advise anyone aged 16 or younger to get their parents/guardians permission before providing us with personal information.
Changes and review of this policy
Any changes we make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted here. We therefore encourage you to check back from time to time, in order to ensure you’re still satisfied with the current privacy policy. Any major changes will be announced on our websites. We’ll also keep this policy under regular review.
This policy has been last updated in March 2020.