General information
The confidentiality of your personal data is one of the main concerns of Sucial News, based in Cluj, Romania, as a data operator.
This document is intended to inform you about the processing of your personal data, in the context of using the news.sucial.com website.
What data we collect and why we collect it
Sucial News may collect information about users every time they access the site, write a comment, enter a contest or subscribe to the Newsletter.
The information collected is personal data and may include, as appropriate and depending on permissions: IP address, user location, internet provider, browser used and its settings, operating system, referring page, landing page, output but also other hardware details of the visitor's system, name, surname, email address or website.
The information collected can be of two types:
information collected automatically each time you access this site: IP address, user location, internet provider, browser used and its settings, operating system, reference page, destination page, exit page;
information entered manually by the user: name, surname, email address or website;
The automatically collected information is used by the Sucial News team to analyze the visitors of this site. These data are used exclusively for this purpose, they are not stored and managed by us but are stored and managed by third-party services such as Google Analytics or Facebook.com.
The collected data are properly handled and Sucial News is the only entity that has access to them.
The information collected is not sold, shared, rented or distributed in any way. Any changes to the data and the way they are administered will be notified through this page available at news.sucial.com/privacy-policy.
We use the collected data to improve the user experience by interacting with this site.
The collected data helps us provide relevant information and reduced site loading times.
Data entered manually by users (data from the comment form, contact form or Newsletter subscription form) can be used by the Sucial News team to contact users by email, to respond to their messages or to administer a contest .
How to use the data
Every piece of information collected will be used appropriately so the information from the Newsletter subscription forms will not be used in another way. We will not use the collected email addresses to contact you unless you request this.
The information provided through the comment form may be used to contact you but will not be automatically used to subscribe to the Newsletter. Collected email addresses will not be displayed on the site in any way.
The data entered in the contact form will only be used to contact you and not otherwise. This data is not automatically collected and sent to be used in any other sense than the administration of contact messages.
We may use statistical data of website visitors to generate general information about the audience of Social News. These data do not refer to a particular person but are available statistically.
User comments
When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comment forms, but also the visitor's IP address and browser user agent string to help us detect spam.
An anonymized string (also called a hash) created from your email addresses can be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you use it. The privacy policy of the Gravatar service is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After your comment is approved, your profile picture is publicly visible next to your comment.
Visitor comments may be checked by an automated spam detection service.
Media files
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images that have embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Website visitors can download and extract all location data from images on the website.
Contact forms
This site incorporates a contact form that helps visitors contact news.sucial.com representatives. The contact form is available at news.sucial.com/contact and includes 5 mandatory or optional text fields: name, email address, phone number, subject and text of the message. A user who wants to get in touch with a Social News representative will have to fill in the contact form using real data
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Completed data are received at the email address: contact-news@sucial.com. This data is handled by a news.sucial.com representative and will only be used in the context of communication with the user. The information is private and will not be made public except with the express consent of both parties.
Cookies
This site uses Cookie modules to ensure proper functioning. Cookie modules are data stored on a visitor's computer and may include data about the visitor. This mechanism can help the visitor and the technologies used by this site to ensure its proper functioning.
Any user can manage their stored cookies through this website. It should be noted that most cookies are not placed directly by Sucial News but are placed by third parties.
Cookie modules are used to monitor visitors to this site, to display advertisements or for data used by the comment form, the contact form, the newsletter subscription form or any other form displayed on this site.
If you leave a comment on our website, you can choose to save your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience, so you don't have to fill them in again when you leave another comment. These cookies will be valid for one year.
If you have an account and log in to 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 you close the browser.
When you log in, we'll also set some cookies to save your login information and screen display options. Authentication cookies are kept for two days and those for display options are kept for one year. If you select "Remember me", your login cookies will be kept for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the authentication cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie does not include personal data and simply indicates the ID of the article you have just edited. It expires after 1 day.
All information related to the Cookie modules used by this site are available on the dedicated page news.sucial.com/politica-cookie.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (eg videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves exactly as if visitors viewed another website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with embedded content, including tracking your interaction with embedded content if you have an account and are logged into that website.
Use of external links
The texts published by Sucial News may contain external links to other approved sites or services. We note that Sucial News is not responsible for the privacy policies of those sites.
Some of the external links may be sponsored and some may place cookies, as specified on the page news.sucial.com/politica-cookie. This privacy policy applies only to information managed on this site.
Subscriptions
Any user of this site can choose to subscribe to the newsletter. We only send one automated message each week containing the latest articles published during that period.
Newsletter messages are sent automatically through the Mailchimp.com platform we use for this purpose. Email addresses collected along with first and last names are stored on external servers located outside the EU. Our team may view and administer this information collected from subscribers.
Users can also subscribe to comments on the site, to comments specific to an article, to articles published on the site. These subscriptions are not managed by the Stiri Social team and this subscription system is automatic. Users can choose whether they want to subscribe or not and publishing a comment does not entail any kind of obligation in this regard.
Analytical Data
The automatically collected information is used by the Sucial News team to analyze the visitors of this site. These data are used exclusively for this purpose, they are not stored and managed by us but are stored and managed by third-party services such as Google Analytics or Facebook.com.
The collected data are properly handled and Sucial News is the only entity that has access to them.
Who we share your data with
The information collected is not sold, shared, rented or distributed in any way.
Any changes to the data and the way they are administered will be notified through this page available at news.sucial.com/privacy-policy.
How long we keep your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are kept indefinitely. This way we can automatically recognize and approve all subsequent comments instead of holding them in a queue for moderation.
For users (if any) who register on our website, we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can view, edit or delete their personal information at any time (but cannot change their username). Website administrators can also view and edit this information.
What rights do you have over your data?
If you have an account or have left comments on this website, you can request to receive an export file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also ask us to delete any personal data we hold about you. This does not include all data that we are required to retain for administrative, legal or security purposes.
To make such a request, write an email to contact-news@sucial.com with the subject "Request Personal data collected by Sucial News" in which you specify the email address for which you want to know what personal data is stored on this site .
You will receive a confirmation email to the specified address and shortly after confirming its ownership you will receive all the necessary information in your email inbox.
How we protect your data
Sucial News takes all necessary measures to protect personal information from users and collected automatically or manually. All information is protected both online and offline.
All data transferred from the user to the site or from the site to the user is encrypted using an SSL certificate. All data transferred is encrypted to be properly protected. We use SSL encryption to protect sensitive information online, but our efforts also aim to protect this type of information offline.
Partner Terms
This site collaborates with various companies to provide visitors with an optimal user experience, to display advertisements or to analyze visitors anonymously. You can consult the privacy policies of our partners on their pages:
Google
Google Analytics
YouTube
Vimeo
Google Play
iTunes
Facebook
Twitter
LinkedIn
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About changes
If a user's information provided to this site changes then he can change this data.
Any changes to the privacy policy will be announced on this page immediately but also on the main page of the site. Users will be informed every time about the changes that may affect them directly or indirectly.
Users can choose to agree to this policy or not. All data collected will be used in accordance with the policy under which the information was collected.
Contact information:
Email: contact-news@sucial.com
