Who we are

Our website address is: https://sqltrailheads.com – You can contact us at support@sqltrailheads.com. Other contact details are on our website.

What is the point of this policy?

It tells you what to expect when we collect your personal information. Please only use our service if you are completely happy with this policy.

Generally, the policy covers only information provided to us. It doesn’t cover personal information which you give to other people, such as payment providers or other websites. If you use them, please check their privacy policies. Nor does this policy apply to personal information of other people (e.g. customers) collected by users of our services. We just act as “data processors”; if necessary, please contact the service users, who are the “data controllers”.

Might this policy change?

Yes. Please check whenever you visit our website. We will assume you agree to the new version of the policy if you use the site after its effective date.

What do we collect?

Information which you upload to our service or otherwise give us such as your name, username, email address and other contact details as well as any personal information which you include in public activities on our service, e.g. forum posts.

Automated information such as the internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your device to the internet, connection information such as browser type and version, information about your device including device-type and device identifier, operating system and platform, mobile network data, a unique reference number linked to the data you enter on our system, login details, the site from which you arrived at our service, details of your activity with date / time stamps including pages you visited and your searches / transactions.

What’s our reason / legal basis for collecting the information?

Because it’s necessary to provide you with our services under our contract with you. We may use it for other purposes (such as email marketing) if you consent. In the case of automated information collected when you browse our site, we use this to manage and improve our service in accordance with our “legitimate interests”.

What about cookies?

We and/or third parties use cookies and other tracking technologies on our website. A cookie is an identifier (a small file of letters and numbers) that is sent to your computer. Our website’s functionality will be limited if you configure your browser to reject cookies.

Cookies are widely used to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the website owner or others. Session cookies are temporary cookies that remain in the cookie file of your browser only until your browser is closed. They allow websites to link your actions during a browser session. Persistent cookies stay in the cookie file of your browser for longer (how long will depend on the lifetime of the specific cookie). For further information on cookies, including how to use your browser to block them and how to delete cookies already stored on your device, visit: www.allaboutcookies.org.

The following kinds of cookies may be used on this website:

• Session cookies These enable us to keep track of your movement from page to page and store your selections so you do not get asked repeatedly for the same information. They allow you to proceed through many pages of the site quickly and easily without having to authenticate or reprocess each new area you visit. For example, a session cookie remembers your shopping cart selection so you will have the items you selected when you are ready to check out.

• Operational cookies: We use persistent cookies (up to 12 months) to manage sessions on our service including to help with logging in and out and security as well as to track whether you visited us from an affiliate site.

• Google cookies: Persistent cookies (up to four years we believe) are set in connection with the following Google services on our site and these cookies may involve certain information (such as your IP address and web address of the page you’re visiting) being sent to Google:

Google Analytics (“GA”): We use cookies to recognise and count the number of website visitors as well as providing other information about the visit such as duration, route through the website and what sites the visitor came from. This information helps us to improve the way our website works, for example by making sure users find what they need easily. You can specifically opt out of GA here. See below for other opt out routes.

More information and opt out: Click here for Google’s privacy policy and here for more information about the kinds of cookies placed by Google. Click here for information about how Google uses data from its partners’ sites or apps as well as different ways to opt out of Google cookies.

Social media cookies: We may use various social media and other third party features on our website including the “Like” button from Facebook, follow button from Twitter, Plus +1 button from Google, Pin It button from Pinterest, share / follow button from LinkedIn, and embed button from YouTube. These features may involve the relevant companies using cookies or linking your visit with cookies previously placed by them on your computer in order for them to collect information relating to your visit to our website or your interaction with their services or otherwise. Click the links shown above for further information about the specific features and those companies’ cookie / privacy practices generally as well as to opt out where this is possible.

Cookie-warning cookie: This cookie takes note of whether you are happy to accept cookies on this website based on your response to the message which appeared when you first visited the website. This persistent cookie will remember your preference for up to 365 days.

By continuing to use our website, having seen our cookie notice, we assume that you consent to use of the cookies outlined above.

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.

What do we do with your information?

Send you marketing messages, if you have given permission. These messages may be related to your profile — e.g., offering EU-hosted services to customers located in the EU or offering high performance services to users who making the most extensive use of our services. You can withdraw permission at any time as explained on our service or by emailing us at the above email address.

Use it to recognise you when you visit or return to our service to track anonymised traffic and usage patterns, prevent or detect fraud or abuses and help us improve our service.

If you use someone else’s email address to share consoles, we will keep this information until you cancel sharing, at which point we will immediately delete it.

To whom do we send or make available your personal information?

To other people who supply us with a service, e.g. website hosts, content delivery networks and businesses which help us send communications or monitor our website.

To the public, if you include personal information in a forum post (which will also display your username), testimonial or other public action on our service or if you include it in a website created via our service.

To the police or other relevant authorities or to complainants, if we think the personal information breaches our terms and conditions, or it is necessary to protect us or others, or that a criminal offence may have been committed, or where required by law or where requested by the police or other appropriate authorities.

To potential buyers so far as reasonably necessary, in the case of an actual or proposed (including negotiations for a) sale or merger or business combination involving all or the relevant part of our business.

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 (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 you have over your data?

If the legal requirements are met: To ask us for access to your personal information, to rectify it if there are mistakes, to delete or restrict or object to its use in certain circumstances or to “data portability”.

If you have a complaint about how we are dealing with your personal information, please contact us via the email address above. If you are not happy with our response or think we are not handling your personal information in accordance with the law, you can complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).

For more information about your rights, visit the ICO’s website: www.ico.org.uk.

Where your data is sent

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

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