Privacy Policy

• Our website;
• Our other services that are available on or through our website (including WordPress.com, WordPress.org, Ultimate Member plugin, GDPR Cookie Consent Plugin, Wordfence Security plugin, Count per Day plugin, Disqus comment system, Gravatar, Fast Secure Contact Form plugin, Ultimate Social Media Icons Plugin); and Social Login Plugin for allowing users to comment, login and register with 6 social networks like WordPress.com, Twitter, Facebook, Google, Yahoo and Youtube.
• Other users’ websites that use our Services, while you are logged in to your account with us.

Please note that this Privacy Policy does not apply to any of our services that have a separate privacy policy.

Below we explain how we collect, use, and share information about you, along with the choices that you have with respect to that information.

Creative Commons Sharealike License

We’ve decided to make this Privacy Policy available under a Creative Commons Sharealike license. You can grab a copy of this Privacy Policy and other legal documents on Github. You’re more than welcome to copy it, adapt it, and repurpose it for your own use. Just make sure to revise the language so that your policy reflects your actual practices. Also, if you do use the policy we’d appreciate a credit and link to VAR123 somewhere on your site.

Information We Collect

We only collect information about you if we have a reason to do so–for example, to provide our Services, to communicate with you, or to make our Services better.

We collect information in three ways: if and when you provide information to us, automatically through accessing our website, using comment service, operating our services and from outside sources.

Information You Provide to Us

It’s probably no surprise that we collect information that you provide to us. The amount and type of information depends on the context and how we use the information. Here are some examples:

• Basic Account Information: We ask for basic information from you in order to set up your account. For example, users who sign up for a new account have to provide a username and email address–and that’s it. You may provide us with more information–like ratings, favorites etc.–but we don’t require that information to create your account.
• Information in Comments: Depending on the Services you use, you may also provide us with comments on blog posts or raise questions. For example, if you write a comment in a blog post, we will have that information through Disqus plugin for WordPress, and after the developer/admin approves the same, your comment will then reflect in a post publicly. Therefore please be careful before posting a comment in public as it goes for approval first.
• Contact Us: You may also provide us information about anything, communicate with the developers/administrators about a support question, or post a question about anything in our contact form.

Information We Collect Automatically

We also collect some information automatically:

• Usage Information: We collect information about your usage of our Services. For example, we collect information about what happens when you use our Services (e.g., service use data, including data about the features you use, the pages you visit, the emails and advertisements you view, the website that referred you, the time of day you browse, and your exiting pages. We use this information to, for example, provide our Services to you, as well as get insights on how people use our Services, so we can make our Services better.
• Location Information: We may determine the approximate location of your device from your IP address. We collect and use this information to, for example, calculate how many people visit our Services from certain geographic regions.
• Information from Cookies & Other Technologies: A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognizing you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful, please see our Cookie Policy.

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.

How And Why We Use Information

Purposes for Using Information

We use information about you as mentioned above and for the purposes listed below:

• To provide our Services–for example, to set up and maintain your account, to give you pile of information on games and movies, to give you exclusive access to all blog contents which guests cannot view or access;
• To further develop and improve our Services–for example by adding new features that we think our users will enjoy or will help them to read, analyse and comment on the content more efficiently;
• To monitor and analyze trends and better understand how users interact with our Services, which helps us improve our Services and make them easier to use;
• To communicate with you, for example through an email, about password-reset requests or verification email request and others, solicit your feedback, or keep you up to date on VAR123;

Legal Bases for Collecting and Using Information

A note here for those in the European Union about our legal grounds for processing information about you under EU data protection laws, which is that our use of your information is based on the grounds that:

(1) The use is necessary in order to fulfill our commitments to you under our Terms and Conditions or is necessary to administer your account–for example, in order to enable access to our website on your device absolutely free; or

(2) The use is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation; or

(3) The use is necessary in order to protect your vital interests or those of another person; or

(4) We have a legitimate non-commercial interest in using your information–for example, to provide and update our Services, to improve our Services so that we can offer you an even better user experience, to safeguard our Services, to communicate with you, to measure, gauge, and improve the effectiveness of our information, and better understand user retention and attrition, to monitor and prevent any problems with our Services, and to personalize your experience; or

(5) You have given us your consent–for example before we place certain cookies on your device and access and analyze them later on, as described in our Cookie Policy.

Sharing Information

How We Share Information

We do not sell our users’ private personal information.

We share information about you in the limited circumstances spelled out below and with appropriate safeguards on your privacy:

• To Protect Rights, Property, and Others: We may disclose information about you when we believe in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of VAR123, third parties, or the public at large. For example, if we have a good faith belief that there is an imminent danger of death or serious physical injury, we may disclose information related to the emergency without delay.
• Published Support Requests: And if you send us a request (for example, via a support email), we reserve the right to publish that request in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users.

Information Shared Publicly

Information that you choose to make public is–you guessed it–disclosed publicly.

That means, of course, that information like your public profile, comments that you make want to make public on our website are all available to others after getting approved by the developers/admins!

For example, the photo that you upload to your public profile, or a default image if you haven’t uploaded one, is your Globally Recognized Avatar, or Gravatar–get it? :). Your Gravatar, along with other public profile information, will display with the comments and “Likes” that you make on blog posts while logged in to your account. Your Gravatar + public profile information may also display with your comments, “Likes,” and other interactions on other websites that use our Gravatar service, if the email address associated with your account with us is the same as the email address that you use on the other website.

Public information may also be indexed by search engines or used by third parties.

Please keep all of this in mind when deciding what you would like to share.

How Long We Keep Information

We generally discard information about you when we no longer need the information for the purposes for which we collect and use it–which are described in the section above on How and Why We Use Information–and we are not legally required to continue to keep it.

Registered user information is retained in the website’s database indefinitely. Data can be exported or removed upon users request via the existing WordPress data exporter or eraser. We may dispose of any information in our discretion without notice, subject to applicable law. We do not undertake any retention obligations through this statement.

You have the right to request a copy of the information we hold about you. If you would like a copy of some or all your personal information, please follow the instructions at the end of this policy.

Security

While no online service is 100% secure, we work very hard to protect information about you against unauthorized access, use, alteration, or destruction, and take reasonable measures to do so, such as monitoring our Services for potential vulnerabilities and attacks.

Choices

• Limit the Information that You Provide: If you have an account with us, you can choose not to provide the optional account information, profile information, and other additional details.
• Set Your Browser to Reject Cookies: You can usually choose to set your browser to remove or reject browser cookies before using our website, with the drawback that certain features of this website may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
• Close Your Account: You can choose to close your account. Please keep in mind that we may continue to retain your information after closing your account, as described in How Long We Keep Information above–for example, when that information is reasonably needed to comply with (or demonstrate our compliance with) legal obligations such as law enforcement requests, or reasonably needed for our legitimate non-commercial interests.

Your Rights

If you are located in certain countries, including those that fall under the scope of the European General Data Protection Regulation (AKA the “GDPR”), data protection laws give you rights with respect to your personal data, subject to any exemptions provided by the law, including the rights to:

• Request a copy of personal information we hold about you;
• Ask that we update the personal information we hold about you, or independently correct such personal information that you think is incorrect or incomplete;
• Ask that we delete personal information that we hold about you from live systems, or restrict the way in which we use such personal information (for information on deletion from archives, see the “How Long We Keep Information” section);
• Object to our processing of your personal information; and/or
• Withdraw your consent to our processing of your personal information (to the extent such processing is based on consent and consent is the only permissible basis for processing).

You can usually access, correct, or delete your personal data using your account settings and tools that we offer, but if you aren’t able to do that, or you would like to contact us about one of the other rights, scroll down to How to Reach Us to, well, find out how to reach us.

Data Controllers

Ads and Analytics Services Provided by Others

Ads appearing on any of our Services may be delivered by advertising networks. Other parties may also provide analytics services via our Services. These ad networks and analytics providers may set tracking technologies (like cookies) to collect information about your use of our Services and across other websites and online services. These technologies allow these third parties to recognize your device to compile information about you or others who use your device. This information allows companies like Google Adsense to, among other things, analyze and track usage, determine the popularity of certain content, and deliver advertisements that may be more targeted to your interests. Please note this Privacy Policy only covers the collection of information by VAR123 and does not cover the collection of information by any third party advertisers or analytics providers.

Third Party Software/Links

If you’d like to use third party plugins, Ultimate Member extensions that enable services provided by third parties, or other third party software, please keep in mind that when you interact with them you may provide information about yourself to those third parties. We don’t own or control these third parties and they have their own rules about collection, use and sharing of information, which you should review.