Privacy and cookie policy

Our website: https://www.hardsteel.com.ua/

We reserve the right to change our privacy policy and cookie settings.
The update date is listed at the bottom of this page.

Privacy and cookie policy

terms

 

Analytics

• We collect information about the visits of users to our site through the Google Analytics module. For the purposes of advertisers, about the use of our site as a source of advertising on our site.

 

Cookies and similar technologies.

• After providing access to the Website, we may use cookies and other tracking technologies to identify users. A cookie is a small text file that is stored on your device or browser to improve the quality of our products and to better understand the user’s interaction with the website. Most browsers are initially configured to receive cookies. Resetting your browser settings allows you to opt out of receiving cookies or to enable notifications when they are sent. However, without cookies, some website features or services (such as viewing templates or language settings) may not work properly.
• If you provide us with personally identifiable information, we may link it to information collected through such tracking technologies. This allows us to offer users a higher level of customization and functionality.
• Do Not Track Signals and Similar Mechanisms: Some web browsers may send Do Not Track signals to websites with which information is exchanged. Our website does not currently respond to “do not track” signals.
• If you leave a comment on our site, you can opt out of having your name, email address and website stored in cookies. This is for your convenience so you don’t have to re-enter your details when you leave another comment. These cookies will be stored for one year.
• If you have an account and visit this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie does not contain personal data and is deleted when the browser is closed.
• When you log in, we also set various cookies to save your login details and the screen of your choice. Login cookies are stored for two days and display cookies are stored for one year. If you choose “Remember me”, your login will be saved for two weeks. If you log out of your account, your cookies will be deleted.
• If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be stored in your browser. This cookie contains no personal data and simply indicates the publication ID of the newly edited article. The term expires in 7 days.

 

How long do we keep your data?

• If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata will be stored indefinitely. This is so that we can automatically acknowledge and approve any subsequent comments, rather than leaving them online for moderation.
• For users who register on our site (if applicable), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can view, edit or delete personal data at any time (except that they cannot change their username). Site administrators can also view and edit this information.

 

Storage

• We do not keep your personal data longer than is necessary for the purposes for which it was collected.
• We use the following criteria to assess the useful life of each category of personal data we process: time of last connection to the website; the last time we used your personal data for marketing purposes; the usefulness of your personal data to guarantee and maintain an adequate level of security on the site; its or our ability to allow or accept a claim related to the services provided on the Website; and that we have a legitimate interest in keeping your personal data without infringing your fundamental rights and freedoms in terms of ensuring data privacy.

 

What personal data we collect and why we collect it.

 

Comments

• When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect data that appears in the comment form, as well as the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help detect spam.
• An anonymous string created from your email address (also called a hash) can be provided to Gravatar to see if you use it. The privacy policy of the Gravatar service is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. Once your comment is approved, your profile picture will be visible to the public in the context of your comment.

 

Media

• If you upload images to a website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (GPS EXIF). Site visitors can upload and retrieve location data for images on the site.

 

Embedded content from other sites

• Articles on this site may include embedded content (such as videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content on other websites behaves the same as if the visitor had visited another website.
• These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, include additional third-party tracking, and track your interaction with this embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are connected to that website.

 

What rights do 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 information you have provided to us. You can also request that we delete all personal information about you. This does not include any data we need to keep for administrative, legal or security purposes.

 

Security

• We take security measures to protect personal data from unauthorized access or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction.

GDPR — General regulation on data protection

• Legality, fairness and transparency – there must be legal grounds under the GDPR for the collection and use of data, non-violation of any laws, openness, honesty from start to finish about the use of personal data;
• Purpose limitation – processing must be limited to what has been declared to the data subject. All specific tasks must be set out in the privacy policy and must be clearly followed;
• Data minimization – using an adequate amount of data to fulfill the set goals, limited only to the necessary amount;
• Accuracy – personal data must be accurate and not misleading; correcting incorrect ones;
• Limitation of data storage – do not store data longer than necessary, periodically audit data and delete unused data;
• Integrity and privacy/security – store data in a secure location and take sufficient care to preserve data;
• Accountability — responsibility for the processing of personal data and compliance with other GDPR principles, including privacy records; protection, use, verification of data; appointment of a data protection official (DPO, data protection officer).

 

History of updates and changes to this Privacy Policy.

 

• Hard Steel Ind. reserves the right to make changes to this Privacy Policy without prior notice to reflect technical advances, legal and regulatory changes, and best business practices. In the event of changes to the privacy measures applied by Hard Steel Ind., those changes will be reflected in the new Privacy Policy, and the effective date of the revised Privacy Policy will be indicated in this paragraph.
• This Privacy Policy was last updated and is effective September 25, 2022.