Privacy

Who we are

The address of our website is: https://founders-bay.io.

Comments

When visitors write comments on the website, we collect the data shown in the comment form, as well as the visitor’s IP address and the user agent string (which identifies the browser) to support spam detection. An anonymized string may be created from your email address (also called a hash) and sent to the Gravatar service to check whether you use it. You can find the Gravatar service privacy policy here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After your comment has been approved, your profile picture will be publicly visible in the context of your comment.

Media

If you are a registered user and upload photos to this website, you should avoid uploading photos with embedded EXIF GPS location data. Visitors to this website may be able to download photos stored on this website and extract their location information.

Cookies

If you write a comment on our website, this may constitute consent to store your name, email address, and website in cookies. This is a convenience feature so that you do not have to enter all this data again when writing another comment. These cookies are stored for one year.

If you have an account and log in to this website, we will set a temporary cookie to determine whether 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 some cookies to save your login information and display options. Login cookies expire after two days and display option cookies after one year. If you select “Remember me” when logging in, your login will persist for two weeks. When you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be stored in your browser. This cookie contains no personal data and only refers to the post ID of the article you just edited. The cookie expires after one day.

Embedded content from other websites

Posts on this website may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, posts, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves exactly as if the visitor had visited the other website. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking services, and record your interaction with that embedded content, including your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

With whom we share your data

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

How long we store your data

If you write a comment, it will be stored indefinitely including its metadata. In this way, we can automatically recognize and approve follow-up comments instead of holding them in a moderation queue. For users who register on our website, we also store the personal information they provide in their user profiles. All users can view, change, or delete their personal information at any time (the username cannot be changed). Administrators of the website can also view and change this information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this website or have written comments, you can request an export of your personal data that we hold about you, including all data you have provided to us. In addition, you can request the deletion of all personal data we have stored about you. This does not include data that we are required to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where your data is sent

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

Website tracking

This website partly uses so-called cookies. These serve to make the website more user-friendly, effective, and secure. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer and stored by your browser and that enable analysis of your use of the website. You can prevent the storage of these and the cookies mentioned below by adjusting your browser software settings; however, please note that in this case you may not be able to use all functions of this website to their full extent.

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses so-called “cookies”. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there. Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, compile reports on website activity, and provide other services related to website and internet usage for the website operator. The IP address transmitted by your browser within the scope of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data.

Cookies are also used for Google Inc.’s remarketing technology. With this technology, users who have already visited this website and shown interest in the offer can be addressed again through targeted advertising on pages of the Google partner network. You can also prevent the collection of the data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your shortened IP address) by Google as well as the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plugin available under the following link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de

Social plugins

This website uses various functions from the social networks Facebook, Twitter, and Google+. By default, no data is transferred to these services when you visit our website. On some pages, after checking the box for the corresponding plugin or clicking a corresponding link, data may be transferred to the respective platform according to the following conditions, without the function itself (“Recommend”, “Tweet”, “+1”) being executed.

YouTube

This website uses plugins from the YouTube site operated by Google. The operator of the pages is YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. If you visit one of our pages equipped with a YouTube plugin, a connection to YouTube’s servers is established. In the process, the YouTube server is informed which of our pages you have visited. If you are logged in to your YouTube account, you allow YouTube to associate your browsing behavior directly with your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account. Further information on the handling of user data can be found in YouTube’s privacy policy at: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy