Privacy & Site Usage Policy

Who we are

We are https://blog.quopt.com. This blog is copyrighted by Quopt IT Services BV (hereafter refered to as Quopt).

Linking to this web-site

We welcome links to our web-site, but links may only be placed if appropriate and after written permission by e-mail from the Quopt staff. Contact us at info@quopt.com with the site and purpose of the link.

Restriction of Liability

This web-site is provided “as-is” and without warranty of any kind. Usage of this web-site is at your own risk. Quopt does not guarantee that the information on this web-site is correct.

Ownership

Information presented on this web site is copyrighted by Quopt IT Services B.V., its suppliers or its customers. All rights are reserved. No part of this web-site, or of any information associated with it may be reproduced in any form of printing or by any other means, electronic or mechanical, including, but not limited to, photocopying, audiovisual recording and transmission, and portrayal or duplication in any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.

Privacy notice

Quopt collects no personal information about you when you visit our web sites unless you choose to provide this information to us. However, we collect and store certain information automatically. Here is how Quopt handles information about your visit.

WHAT QUOPT COLLECTS AND STORES AUTOMATICALLY

If you do nothing during your visit but browse through the web site, read pages, or download information, we will gather and store certain information about your visit automatically. This information does not identify you personally. We automatically collect and store only the following information about your visit:

  • The internet domain (e.g. “xcompany.com”) and internet protocol (IP) address (e.g. 192.168.1.1) from which you are accessing our site.
  • The type of browser and operating system used to access your site
  • The date and time you access our site
  • The page you visit
  • If you linked to our web site from another web site, the address of that web site.

We use the information we collect to count the number and type of visitors to the different pages on our site, and to help us make our site useful to visitors like you.

Any information about your visit to our web-site gathered by Quopt systems is not supplied to other parties. Quopt makes a fair attempt to safeguard her systems from piracy and other forms of attack. If required by law Quopt will supply information to authorized Dutch government personnel only.

If you use our system to take tests, fill in assessments etcetera then the information you supply will be logged and used by Quopt and/or her suppliers and/or her customers. This usage includes, but is not limited to, processing and storing the information in Quopt systems and scientific research.

Applicable law

This agreement is governed by the laws of the Netherlands. Any disputes will be settled by the courts in The Hague.

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 anonymized 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.

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. 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.

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.

Who we share your data with

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize 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.

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.

Where your data is sent

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