24th September 2019

Introduction

thecoderover (https://www.thecoderover.com) complies to legislations on privacy, including the Act on Promotion of Information and Communications Network Utilization and Information Protection, etc. (South Korea).

The Privacy Policy below explains what data is collected, how the data is used, and what thecoderover is doing to protect personal information collected.

Any changes to the policy will be announced on the site at least 7 days before the policy is updated. This privacy policy is in effect as of the 24th September 2019.

Please use the Privacy Request form for any Privacy related queries for this site.

Personal data we collect and why

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 anonymised 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.

Contact forms

When visitors leave feedback or send a privacy request on the site we collect the data shown in the form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. The information is only kept until the message has been responded to (generally within 24 hours). If you provide an email address then this will only be used to reply to the original message. The JetPack Contact Form Plugin is used to handle contact requests, its privacy policy can be found here.

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. By selecting “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

When editing or publishing an article, 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.

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.

Analytics

We use Google Analytics to record information about the pages a user has seen, for example, the URL of the page, time of day, the device used, etc. The information that we collect anonymized and sent to Google Analytics for analysis.

Google Analytics mainly uses first-party cookies to report on visitor interactions on this website. Users may disable cookies or delete any individual cookie. Learn more

In addition, Google Analytics supports an optional browser add-on that – once installed and enabled – disables measurement by Google Analytics for any site a user visits. Note that this add-on only disables Google Analytics measurement.

Google Analytics also collects Internet Protocol (IP) addresses to provide and protect the security of the service and to give website owners a sense of which country, state, or city in the world their users come from (also known as “IP geolocation”).

See this page for Google Analytics security and usage of data.

Who we share your data with

Third parties have access to your data as noted within this agreement.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

If you send a message via one of the contact forms, the message and its metadata are retained only until the message has been replied to. The message itself will be stripped of any personal information and kept indefinitely for our own records.

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.

Google Analytics data is retained for 26 months.

Unless otherwise stated, we will retain your Personal Data for the period necessary to fulfil the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy unless a longer retention period is required or allowed by law.

Rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, have left comments or sent messages, 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

Service Providers and others who help with our business operations and assist in the delivery of our products and services including, but not limited to, application development, site hosting, maintenance, data analysis, infrastructure provision, IT services, customer service, email delivery services, payment processing, marketing, analytics, and enforcement of our Terms of Service Agreement and other agreements;

Other users of the site to identify you to anyone to whom you send messages or make comments through the Services;

Persons or entities with whom you consent to have your Personal Data shared;

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

Third parties in order to prevent damage to our property (tangible and intangible), for safety reasons, or to collect amounts owed to us;

We will never sell, rent, or lease your Personal Data to a third party.

Contact information

Please use the Privacy Request form for any Privacy related queries for this site.

Other information

How we protect your data

We use reasonable and appropriate physical, electronic, and administrative safeguards to protect personal data from loss, misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration and destruction, taking into account the nature of the Personal Data and risks involved in processing that information.

Users under 14 years of age

Our Services are not directed to and we do not knowingly collect Personal Data from children under the age of 14. If we become aware that a child under the age of 14 has provided us with Personal Data, we will take steps to remove such data. If you become aware that your child has provided us with Personal Data without your consent, please contact us at via the Privacy Request Form. By using the Services, you are representing to us that you are not under the age of 14.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

thecoderover may change this Privacy Policy at any time. The most recent version of the Privacy Policy is indicated by the “Last Updated” date at the top of the Privacy Policy. Any changes to the policy will be announced on the site at least 7 days before the policy is updated. Your continued use of this website signifies your continuing consent to be bound by this Privacy Policy.

Disclosure of Information

Unless otherwise stated, thecoderover does not share the aggregated information to third parties, except in the following cases and in accordance with the relevant laws and regulations:

Legislations of law, following legitimate legal procedures
If requested by the legal enforcement agencies that are in accordance with the procedures and methods set forth in the relevant legislation for the purposes of investigation

thecoderover takes all reasonable steps to ensure that your data is secure and in agreement with this policy.

Resources & further reading

This policy shall enter into force from the 24th of September 2019.