Privacy Policy and Cookies

Who we are

TBU NEWS is about truth, objectiveness and fairness. It is about the future, to show you  and to inspire you to see that there is always a different way, a better way for each one of us. Better way for humanity itself.

Websites under this Privacy Policy: TBUNEWS.COM and TBUNEWS.INFO

TBU NEWS (The Truth Behind Us) international is an independent / non profit media, news and publishing website. TBU NEWS is organised, following and existing under positive principles of freedom of press and freedom of speech and by International laws of UN, U.S. and EU: U.S. constitution first amendment and 17 U.S. Code Section 107 also EU Charter  of Fundamental Rights Article 11, Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as well as Article 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights ECHR Article 10, The European Directive 2001/29/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 May 2001 and UN – The Universal Declaration of Human Rights Article 19 – Right to freedom of opinion and expression adopted and proclaimed by the General Assembly of the United Nations on December 10, 1948. TBU NEWS infrastructure, servers and web sites are located on a location that provide us (by the law) protection of  Whistleblowers, anonymous sources, source-journalist communications and much more…. It allow us to work properly as it was meant to be: Free and Independent. TBU NEWS is a strong supporter of free press, and freedom of speech and accordingly we have decided to act that way not just speak about freedom. Due to security and privacy concerns The location and the name of our infrastructure host will not be disclosed here / publicly, It will be named just “HOST”

For more details and further questions please contact our Data Protection officer Timothy Greenspan –  [email protected] (Secure Email).

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

TBU NEWS uses the high standards and technical solutions to protect and secure TBU NEWS infrastructure and by doing so it protects the minimum of your private data that we collect for TBU NEWS services to work and to provide you with great user experience, performance security and privacy.

Comments

Comments are not allowed and they are disabled. If in any distant or near future we enable the comments this is what will apply regarding privacy policy regarding comments section ===> 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.

Contact Form

Comments are not allowed and they are disabled. If in any distant or near future we enable the comments this is what will apply regarding privacy policy regarding comments section ===>

Data Used: If Akismet is enabled on the site, the contact form submission data — IP address, user agent, name, email address, website, and message — is submitted to the Akismet service (also owned by Automattic) for the sole purpose of spam checking. The actual submission data is stored in the database of the site on which it was submitted and is emailed directly to the owner of the form (i.e. the site author who published the page on which the contact form resides). This email will include the submitter’s IP address, timestamp, name, email address, website, and message.

Data Synced: Post and post meta data associated with a user’s contact form submission. If Akismet is enabled on the site, the IP address and user agent originally submitted with the comment are synced, as well, as they are stored in post meta.

Email communication (Switzerland based)

Due to security and privacy concerns The name of our communication host will not be disclosed here / publicly, It will be named just “Email HOST”

For more details and further questions please contact our Data Protection officer Timothy Greenspan – [email protected] (Secure Email).

We have separated our platform from communications. TBU NEWS has a  second server dedicated only for email communication. Server data centre is located 1000 meters under in a heavily guarded bunker which can survive a nuclear attack. Every email Message sent to us or by us will be encrypted at all times, zero access architecture, Full disk encryption and storage in secured data centers, No tracking or logging of personally identifiable information will happen. No tracking or logging of personally identifiable information.

All user data is protected by the Swiss Federal Data Protection Act (DPA) and the Swiss Federal Data Protection Ordinance (DPO) which offers some of the strongest privacy protection in the world for both individuals and corporations. As our communication “Email Host” is outside of US and EU jurisdiction, only a court order from the Cantonal Court of Geneva or the Swiss Federal Supreme Court can compel our “Email Host” to release the extremely limited user information we have.

Switzerland also has a long history of privacy and security, dating back over a century, and its laws are much more protective of individual privacy rights. In the US and EU, gag orders can be issued to prevent an individual from knowing they are being investigated or under surveillance. While these type of orders also exist in Switzerland, the prosecutors have an obligation to notify the target of surveillance, and the target has an opportunity to appeal in court. There are no such things as National Security Letters, and all surveillance requests must go through the courts. Furthermore, while Switzerland is party to international assistance treaties, such requests for information must hold up under Swiss law, which has much stricter privacy provisions.

Nearly every country in the world has laws governing lawful interception of electronic communications for law enforcement purposes. In Switzerland, these regulations are set out in the Swiss Federal Act on the Surveillance of Postal and Telecommunications Traffic (SPTT), which was last revised on March 18, 2018. While parts of the SPTT are still in dispute and subject to various legal challenges within Switzerland, the present interpretation does not subject our “Email Host” to any mandatory data retention directives; nor does it enforce upon our “Email Host” a full obligation to identify our “Email Host” users. Moreover, as a Swiss company, our “Email Host” also cannot be compelled to engage in bulk surveillance on behalf of US or Swiss intelligence agencies.

While our “Email Host” benefits from strong legal protections within Switzerland, our “Email Host” has also built in technological safeguards against surveillance, such as utilizing end-to-end encryption. Our “Email Host” do not possess the keys required to decrypt users’ emails. Even emails between non-TBU NEWS accounts cannot be decrypted on our “Email Host” servers thanks to our “Email Host” use of zero-access encryption. As a result, even if our “Email Host” was forced to turn over all our computer systems, email contents will continue to be encrypted. These technical safeguards are the strongest privacy protections because unlike national laws, the laws of mathematics cannot be changed or altered.

Moreover, under article 271 of the Swiss Criminal Code, it is an offence to comply with foreign requests that have not been approved by the Swiss authorities. Therefore, our “Email Host” only complies to two types of orders: (1) orders from the Swiss authorities and (2) foreign requests that have been duly instructed and validated by Swiss authorities through an international legal assistance procedure and determined to be in compliance with Swiss law.

Our “Email Host” is not required to store communications metadata or IP information, as our “Email Host” is exempted under the Swiss Federal Act on the Surveillance of Post and Telecommunications (BÜPF) and its accompanying ordinance. Therefore, our “Email Host” can apply a policy of collecting as little user information as possible to protect user privacy. Upon receiving a judicial order, our “Email Host” is obliged to provide any user information readily available that would help identify a user that is subject to a criminal investigation that has been validated by Swiss authorities. In addition to the items listed in our “Email Host” privacy policy, in extreme criminal cases, our “Email Host” may also be obligated to monitor the IP addresses which are being used to access our “Email Host” accounts which are engaged in criminal activities. Under no circumstances will our “Email Host” be able to provide the contents of end-to-end encrypted messages sent on TBU NEWS email communications.

Messaging Service

TBU NEWS readers, followers and subscribers have an option to communicate with us using secure and encrypted messaging service called Signal and Telegram. Signal messages and calls are always end-to-end encrypted and painstakingly engineered to keep communication safe. Nobody can’t read your messages or see your calls.

Signal messages are encrypted with the Signal Protocol (formerly known as the TextSecure Protocol). The protocol combines the Double Ratchet Algorithm, prekeys, and a Triple Diffie-Hellman(3XDH) handshake. It uses Curve25519AES-256, and HMAC-SHA256 as primitives. The protocol provides confidentiality, integrity, authentication, participant consistency, destination validation, forward secrecy, backward secrecy (aka future secrecy), causality preservation, message unlinkability, message repudiation, participation repudiation, and asynchronicity. It does not provide anonymity preservation, and requires servers for the relaying of messages and storing of public key material.

Read more about Signal app ===> https://signal.org/(Highest Security)

Signal does not sell, rent or monetize your personal data or content in any way – ever.

Please read their  Privacy Policy to understand how they safeguard the information you provide when using Signal Services. For the purpose of operating our Services, you agree to our data practices as described in Signal Privacy Policy, as well as the transfer of your encrypted information and metadata to the United States and other countries where they have or use facilities, service providers or partners. Examples would be Third Party Providers sending you a verification code and processing your support tickets.

Read more about Telegram app ===> https://telegram.org/(Secure messenger)

New regulations regarding data privacy called the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force in Europe on May 25, 2018. Since taking back our right to privacy was the reason Telegram exists, there wasn‘t much they had to change. Telegram doesn’t use your data for ad targeting, they don’t sell it to others, and they are not part of any mafia family “family of companies.”

Telegram only keeps the information it needs to function as a feature-rich cloud service — for example, your cloud chats so that you can access them from any devices without using third-party backups, or your contacts so that you can rely on your existing social graph when messaging people on Telegram. Please see their  Privacy Policy for more information.

Media

Currently, upload to the website is not allowed only to personal with administrator privileges taking care of the web site can do it.

If you upload or send images to TBU NEWS, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included, If in near or distant future upload option becomes available. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookies

Cookies are small pieces of text used to store information on web browsers. They are used by many websites to store and receive identifiers and other information on devices, such as a handheld phone or computer.

TBUNEWS.COM and TBUNEWS.INFO – Our Websites and Services use cookies and other similar technologies (collectively in this Policy, “cookies”), in order to provide a better service to you and to generally improve our Website and Service.

Comments are not allowed and they are disabled. If in any distant or near future we enable the comments this is what will apply regarding privacy policy regarding comments section ===>

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 have an account and you log in to this site, 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 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.

Cloudflare cookies – TBU NEWS uses Cloudflare cookie __cfduid, This cookie is used to identify individual clients behind a shared IP address and apply security settings on a per-client basis. For example, if the visitor is in a coffee shop where there are a bunch of infected machines, but the specific visitor’s machine is trusted (e.g. because they’ve completed a challenge within your Challenge Passage period), the cookie allows us to identify that client and not challenge them again. It does not correspond to any user ID in your web application, and does not store any personally identifiable information. This cookie is strictly necessary for Cloudflare’s security features and cannot be turned off. This cookie is here to protect us and you and at the same time is enabling us to provide you with grate user experience.

Read more about this Cookie, their Privacy Policy and Cloudflare in general: What does the Cloudflare cfduid cookie do? and What is Cloudflare?   Cloudflare Privacy Policy

There are couple of other cookies included __cfduid,__cflb, _biz_flagsA, _biz_nA, _biz_pendingA, _biz_sid, _biz_uid, _ga, _gid, optimizelyBuckets, optimizelyEndUserId, optimizelySegments but all come from four sources:

  • active Cloudflare performance and security options, *__cfduid,__cflb, _biz_flagsA, _biz_nA, _biz_pendingA, _biz_sid, _biz_uid, _ga, _gid, optimizelyBuckets, optimizelyEndUserId, optimizelySegments
  • WP Banner required for TBU NEWS – Privacy Policy and Cookies to be visible and approachable by visitors.__cfduid
  • CloudFlare Banner is used to show visitors that Cloudflare security and performance boost is active on website.*__cfduid,__cflb, _biz_flagsA, _biz_nA, _biz_pendingA, _biz_sid, _biz_uid, _ga, _gid, optimizelyBuckets, optimizelyEndUserId, optimizelySegments ( look of the banner, design, active and deactivated cloudflare badge that is showing if Cloudflare is working or not,  etc…)
  • Internet Defense League Banner is showing to our visitors that we protect and support freeinternet.__cfduid

Please visit this link ===> HOW TO DELETE COOKIES?

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 tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Analytics

WordPress.com Stats

Data Used: IP address, WordPress.com user ID (if logged in), WordPress.com username (if logged in), user agent, visiting URL, referring URL, timestamp of event, browser language, country code. Important: The site owner does not have access to any of this information via this feature. For example, a site owner can see that a specific post has 285 views, but he/she cannot see which specific users/accounts viewed that post. Stats logs — containing visitor IP addresses and WordPress.com usernames (if available) — are retained by Automattic for 28 days and are used for the sole purpose of powering this feature.

Activity Tracked: Post and page views, video plays (if videos are hosted by WordPress.com), outbound link clicks, referring URLs and search engine terms, and country. When this module is enabled, Jetpack also tracks performance on each page load that includes the Javascript file used for tracking stats. This is exclusively for aggregate performance tracking across Jetpack sites in order to make sure that our plugin and code is not causing performance issues. This includes the tracking of page load times and resource loading duration (image files, Javascript files, CSS files, etc.). The site owner has the ability to force this feature to honor DNT settings of visitors. By default, DNT is currently not honored.

TBU NEWS “HOST”

TBU NEWS infrastructure, servers and web sites are located on a location that provide us (by the law) protection of  Whistleblowers, anonymous sources, source-journalist communications and much more….

TBU NEWS servers are preboot and fully crypted (256bit AES), platform location is secured by electronic locking systems and armed guards, High-security firewall and brute-force protection, DDoS protected, GDPR compliment and much more….

Due to security and privacy concerns The location and the name of our infrastructure host will not be disclosed here / publicly, It will be named just “HOST”

For more details and further questions please contact our Data Protection officer Timothy Greenspan – [email protected] (Secure Email).

TBU NEWS is also using “HOST” tools, “HOST” site analytics and we are using Cloudflare to track the web site statistic only for reason to better serve you and to take care of our security and privacy.

Our “HOST” Privacy Policy: “HOST” shall keep confidential and not disclose information regarding the Customer except where this required by “HOST” country law or is pre-approved by the Customer. Customer data will be always stored and transfered encrypted. Communication between “Host” staff will be always secured and encrypted.

GDPR compliancy of the “HOST”:  Our “HOST” is running several security systems to protect yours and TBU NEWS data:

  • fully crypted workstations (256bit AES)
  • only certified staff will handle customer data
  • Support for PGP E-Mail and Ticketsystem
  • Communication between staff are always encrypted (E-Mail, Phone, SMS etc.)
  • own crypted VoIP server to prevent wiretapping

Please read more about TBU NEWS Legal – Fair Use – Copyright ===> https://tbunews.com/fair-use-copyright

For more details and further questions please contact our Data Protection officer Timothy Greenspan – [email protected] (Secure Email).

Cloudflare ===> Cloudflare Privacy Policy

What Types of Data does Cloudflare Process?

TBU NEWS is using Cloudflare to improve performance and Security. Cloudflare is generally just a conduit for information controlled by others, it’s Cloudflare customers and their users who control the content transmitted, routed, switched and cached across CF network (e.g. images, written content, graphics etc.). Additionally, Cloudflare may gather certain information regarding use of their customers’ websites, and process data submitted by CF customers or which CF is instructed to process on their behalf. While it’s not up to CF which data they receive, it typically includes items such as contact information, IP addresses, security fingerprints, DNS log data, and website performance data derived from browser activity. CF will process such data in order to provide the service to their customers and in accordance with applicable laws, including the GDPR. Cloudflare = CF

Read more: Cloudflare & the GDPR

Who we share your data with

TBU NEWS and TBUNEWS.INFO does not share your private data with anybody nor will ever do that! But we are using Security and Performance services and tools to improve user experience, performance and security from these providers: Cloudflare, WordPress, WPJetpack, WordFence, Akismet, Yoast SEO, our “HOST” and our “Email HOST”. Please see below the section “Where we send your data”.

Our “HOST” Privacy Policy: “HOST” shall keep confidential and not disclose information regarding the Customer except where this required by “HOST” country law or is pre-approved by the Customer. Customer data will be always stored and transfered encrypted. Communication between “Host” staff will be always secured and encrypted.

GDPR compliancy of the “HOST”:  Our “HOST” is running several security systems to protect yours and TBU NEWS data. For more details and further questions please contact our Data Protection officer Timothy Greenspan – [email protected] (Secure Email).

Cloudflare Privacy Policy

JETPACK WordPress – Privacy Policy

Automattic Privacy Policy

For more details about our “Email Host” please read the section above “Email Communication”

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.

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.

Statistics and Web analytics are retained too but only for private TBU NEWS purpose, for us to know how we get along with you and for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

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. For more information please contact us by email: [email protected] (Secure Email)

Where we send your data

  • TBU NEWS is using “HOST” data center, infrastructure, services, tools,”HOST” site analytics. Due to security and privacy concerns The location and the name of our infrastructure host will not be disclosed here / publicly, It will be named just “HOST” – “HOST” data is safeguarded and in compliance to and with European data protection standards but is outside of US and EU jurisdiction, so only a country court order can compel them to release the extremely limited user information they have.
  • We are using Cloudflare (US based -which data is safeguarded and in compliance to and with European data protection standards) to cache the content and improve web site performance (Cloudflare Global CDN). We use Cloudflare to track the web site statistic only for reason to better serve you and to take care of our security and privacy.
  • We are using messaging service called Signal:(US based) Signal Messenger LLC. (“Signal”) utilizes state-of-the-art security and end-to-end encryption to provide private messaging, Internet calling, and other services to users worldwide.

Read more about Signal app ===> https://signal.org/(Highest Security)

Signal does not sell, rent or monetize your personal data or content in any way – ever.

Please read their  Privacy Policy to understand how they safeguard the information you provide when using Signal Services. For the purpose of operating our Services, you agree to our data practices as described in Signal Privacy Policy, as well as the transfer of your encrypted information and metadata to the United States and other countries where they have or use facilities, service providers or partners. Examples would be Third Party Providers sending you a verification code and processing your support tickets.

  • We are using messaging service called Telegram: (Dubai based)Read more about Telegram app ===> https://telegram.org/(Secure messenger)New regulations regarding data privacy called the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force in Europe on May 25, 2018. Since taking back our right to privacy was the reason Telegram exists, there wasn‘t much they had to change. Telegram doesn’t use your data for ad targeting, they don’t sell it to others, and they arre not part of any mafia family “family of companies.”Telegram only keeps the information it needs to function as a feature-rich cloud service — for example, your cloud chats so that you can access them from any devices without using third-party backups, or your contacts so that you can rely on your existing social graph when messaging people on Telegram. Please see their  Privacy Policy for more information.
  • We are using Secure email communication: (Switzerland based) TBU NEWS has a  second server dedicated only for email communication. Due to security and privacy concerns The name of our communication host will not be disclosed here / publicly, It will be named just “Email HOST”For more details and further questions please contact our Data Protection officer Timothy Greenspan – [email protected] (Secure Email). TBU NEWS has a  second server dedicated only for email communication. Server data centre is located 1000 meters under in a heavily guarded bunker which can survive a nuclear attack. Every email Message sent to us or by us will be encrypted at all times, zero access architecture, Full disk encryption and storage in secured data centers, No tracking or logging of personally identifiable information will happen. No tracking or logging of personally identifiable information.All user data is protected by the Swiss Federal Data Protection Act (DPA) and the Swiss Federal Data Protection Ordinance (DPO) which offers some of the strongest privacy protection in the world for both individuals and corporations. As our communication “Email Host” is outside of US and EU jurisdiction, only a court order from the Cantonal Court of Geneva or the Swiss Federal Supreme Court can compel our “Email Host” to release the extremely limited user information we have.

Please read more about this above in the section “Email Communication”

TBU NEWS is using Aksimet – Data Used: If Akismet is enabled on the site, the contact form submission data — IP address, user agent, name, email address, website, and message — is submitted to the Akismet service (also owned by Automattic) for the sole purpose of spam checking. The actual submission data is stored in the database of the site on which it was submitted and is emailed directly to the owner of the form (i.e. the site author who published the page on which the contact form resides). This email will include the submitter’s IP address, timestamp, name, email address, website, and message.

Data Synced (?): Post and post meta data associated with a user’s contact form submission. If Akismet is enabled on the site, the IP address and user agent originally submitted with the comment are synced, as well, as they are stored in post meta.

TBU NEWS uses the high standards and technical solutions to protect and secure TBU NEWS infrastructure and by doing so it protects the minimum of your private data that we collect for TBU NEWS services to work and to provide you with great user experience, performance security and privacy. – Please read more at section bellow “How we protect your data”.

TBU NEWS is using “HOST”. Due to security and privacy concerns The location and the name of our infrastructure host will not be disclosed here / publicly, It will be named just “HOST”

Our “HOST” Privacy Policy: “HOST” shall keep confidential and not disclose information regarding the Customer except where this required by “HOST” country law or is pre-approved by the Customer. Customer data will be always stored and transfered encrypted. Communication between “Host” staff will be always secured and encrypted.

GDPR compliancy of the “HOST”:  Our “HOST” is running several security systems to protect yours and TBU NEWS data. For more details and further questions please contact our Data Protection officer Timothy Greenspan – [email protected] (Secure Email).

Cloudflare Privacy Policy

Cloudflare & the GDPR

Our contact information

TBU NEWS Contact

TBU NEWS INFO Contact

If you have further questions about our privacy policy in general, please contact us by email: Data Protection officer Timothy Greenspan –  [email protected] (Secure Email) Privacy Policy is going to be updated regularly.

Additional information

JETPACK WordPress – Privacy Policy

Automattic Privacy Policy

How we protect your data

TBU NEWS uses the high standards and technical solutions to protect and secure TBU NEWS infrastructure and by doing so it protects the minimum of your private data that we collect for TBU NEWS services to work and to provide you with great user experience, performance security and privacy.

TBU NEWS has taken extensive measures to protect users data:

  • Secure Data Center
  • Electronic locking systems
  • Cloudflare Security
  • Security with SSL Certificate
  • Armed guards
  • DDoS protection
  • Data Recovery
  • Pre-live staging 
  • Expert Support
  • High-security firewall
  • Certified security
  • Daily backups
  • 256bit AES Encrypted Storage
  • Strong Passwords 
  • WordFence Security
  • 2-Step Verification in full
  • WP Security
  • GDPR compliment
  • Email protection
  • Email encryption
  • Email Server data centre located in 1000 meters under in a heavily guarded bunker which can survive a nuclear attack
  • Email zero access architecture
  • Messaging services end-to-end encrypted
  • Messaging services Signal Protocol (formerly known as the TextSecure Protocol)
  • Messaging services Signal and Telegram app
  • Spam control
  • Akismet
  • and much more…

Read more at: Cloudflare Security, Wordpress Security, Wordfence Security, Be a Reporter, Legal – Fair Use – Copyright, About – TBU NEWS, Contact – TBU NEWS

What data breach procedures we have in place

We have automated services that sends notifications and alerts if such event happens. TBU NEWS has constant monitoring 24/7 of web sites and server performance, log in notifications, security notifications etc.. If something like a data breach ever happens ( highly unlikely due to security) but if, it will be monitored, discovered, traced and stopped.

We also have daily server and web sites back up , safeguard recovery. Everything mentioned here and every data breach procedures have been done by TBU NEWS and Services already mentioned here.

Read more at: Cloudflare Security, Wordpress Security, Wordfence Security, Be a Reporter, Legal – Fair Use – Copyright, About – TBU NEWS, Contact – TBU NEWS

What third parties we receive data from

NONE whatsoever! – There are two banners on the web site that are from CloudFlare and one that is supporting Internet Defense League. One is showing that Cloudflare security and performance boost is active on website and other one is our statement and showing that we protect and support free internet.

What automated decision making and/or profiling we do with user data

NONE

PLUGINS AND SOURCES

Plugin: Smush is being used

Note: Smush does not interact with end users of our website. The only input option Smush has is to a newsletter subscription for site admins only. Smush sends images to the WPMU DEV servers to optimize them for web use. This includes the transfer of EXIF data. The EXIF data will either be stripped or returned as it is. It is not stored on the WPMU DEV servers.

Smush uses a third-party email service (Drip) to send informational emails to the site administrator. The administrator’s email address is sent to Drip and a cookie is set by the service. Only administrator information is collected by Drip.

Source: Akismet

Akismet collect information about visitors who comment on Sites that use Akismet anti-spam service. The information Akismet collect depends on how the User sets up Akismet for the Site, but typically includes the commenter’s IP address, user agent, referrer, and Site URL (along with other information directly provided by the commenter such as their name, username, email address, and the comment itself).
Plugin / Source: Slider Revolution
We are using or will be using Google Web Fonts (default) playing videos or sounds via YouTube, Vimeo, Sound Cloud…  in Slider Revolution.

YouTube

Our website uses plugins from YouTube, which is 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 featuring a YouTube plugin, a connection to the YouTube servers is established. Here the YouTube server is informed about which of our pages you have visited.

If you’re logged in to your YouTube account, YouTube allows you to associate your browsing behavior directly with your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account.

YouTube is used to help make our website appealing. This constitutes a justified interest pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO.

Further information about handling user data, can be found in the data protection declaration of YouTube under https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy.

Vimeo

Our website uses features provided by the Vimeo video portal. This service is provided by Vimeo Inc., 555 West 18th Street, New York, New York 10011, USA.

If you visit one of our pages featuring a Vimeo plugin, a connection to the Vimeo servers is established. Here the Vimeo server is informed about which of our pages you have visited. In addition, Vimeo will receive your IP address. This also applies if you are not logged in to Vimeo when you visit our plugin or do not have a Vimeo account. The information is transmitted to a Vimeo server in the US, where it is stored.

If you are logged in to your Vimeo account, Vimeo allows you to associate your browsing behavior directly with your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your Vimeo account.

For more information on how to handle user data, please refer to the Vimeo Privacy Policy at https://vimeo.com/privacy.

Google Web Fonts

For uniform representation of fonts, this page uses web fonts provided by Google. When you open a page, your browser loads the required web fonts into your browser cache to display texts and fonts correctly.

For this purpose your browser has to establish a direct connection to Google servers. Google thus becomes aware that our web page was accessed via your IP address. The use of Google Web fonts is done in the interest of a uniform and attractive presentation of our plugin. This constitutes a justified interest pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO.

If your browser does not support web fonts, a standard font is used by your computer.

Further information about handling user data, can be found at https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and in Google’s privacy policy at https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.

SoundCloud

On our pages, plugins of the SoundCloud social network (SoundCloud Limited, Berners House, 47-48 Berners Street, London W1T 3NF, UK) may be integrated. The SoundCloud plugins can be recognized by the SoundCloud logo on our site.

When you visit our site, a direct connection between your browser and the SoundCloud server is established via the plugin. This enables SoundCloud to receive information that you have visited our site from your IP address. If you click on the “Like” or “Share” buttons while you are logged into your SoundCloud account, you can link the content of our pages to your SoundCloud profile. This means that SoundCloud can associate visits to our pages with your user account. We would like to point out that, as the provider of these pages, we have no knowledge of the content of the data transmitted or how it will be used by SoundCloud. For more information on SoundCloud’s privacy policy, please go to https://soundcloud.com/pages/privacy.

If you do not want SoundCloud to associate your visit to our site with your SoundCloud account, please log out of your SoundCloud account.

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Updated on 07.09.2019.

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