Privacy Policy
ADojo Your privacy is important to us! The ‘Automation Dojos’ (“us”, “we”, or “our”), hereinafter referred to as the “Service” is a technical weblog containing a portfolio of articles, programming projects and software made available in public domain. This Privacy Policy covers Automation Dojos’s treatment of personal information that Automation Dojos collects and/or receives, if any, and the ways in which Automation Dojos may use that personal information. Such personal information may include information about you (if submitted by you) that is personally identifiable like your name, email address, social username, avatar, phone number and that is not otherwise publicly available. The collected information may also include your browser, OS or device type. In addition to this, the Privacy Policy also gives information about cookies; Automation Dojos and third parties’ use of cookies; and how you may disable such cookies.
Definitions
- Service : Service here refers to the https://www.automationdojos.com/ website.
- Personal Data : Personal Data means data about a living individual who can be identified from those data (or from those and other information either in our possession or likely to come into our possession).
- Usage Data : Usage Data is data collected automatically either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).
- Cookies : Cookies are small files stored on your device (computer or mobile device).
- Plugin : A plugin is an additional piece of software (mostly Third-Party) added to a website in order to extend functionality or add features to websites.
- Widget : A widget is a stand-alone application (mostly Third-Party) that can be embedded as an element of a host web page but which is substantially independent of the host page, having limited or no interaction with the host.
Information Collection
We collect a few types of information for analytical purposes in order to enhance your user experience, to improve our service to you, to maintain our systems & software and to evaluate any malicious threats to our service and to end users (spam, malware etc.). The information we collect can be broadly classified into the following three categories.
Personal Data
Under this category, the Personal information collected by Automation Dojos is often limited to your name, e-mail address, website address, your social network usernames (e.g. linked-in, facebook etc.), but may include other information when needed to provide a service you requested. We will always ask you when we need such information that personally identifies you (personal information) or allows us to contact you. Hence such information is voluntarily submitted by our visitors for getting their specific requests entertained by us. Generally, this information is requested when you are registering or enrolling for website community membership, reading any privileged article on the website, ordering e-mail newsletters, subscribing to feeds etc.
- Email address
- First name and last name
- Social Network Username
- Cookies and Usage Data
Usage Data
We may also collect information about how the Service is accessed and used (“Usage Data”). This second category of information is mainly collected by ‘third party’ plugins, widgets and service providers whose services are being used by the Automation Dojos. These third parties include search engines, web advertising companies and companies providing search engine optimisation (SEO) services and web analytic tools to Automation Dojos. In conjunction with third-party tools, Automation Dojos collects your requests for pages and passes elements of them to search engines to assist them in indexing this site. In some cases, we may collect information about your use of our site by your IP address or by the URLs that you come from or leave to in addition to your browser type/version and OS type/version. These methods allow us to resolve server problems or administer our site. We do not associate this information with any other personally identifiable information that you may have provided to us but rather the main purpose is only to understand how visitors use the site. Please read the ‘Web Analytics Information Collection’
Tracking & Cookies Data
In addition to the above, we use cookies and similar tracking technologies such as beacons, tags and scripts to collect and track information in order to improve and analyse our Service. Automation Dojos may have relationships with other companies whom we may allow to place ads on our Web pages. Hence upon your visit to Automation Dojos, such ad server companies may place and read cookies on your browser or use web beacons to collect information such as (but not limited to) your domain type, your IP address and click-stream information. Please read the ‘Cookies’ and ‘Advertising’ section for further details or refer our detailed ‘Cookie Policy’.
You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Service. Examples of Cookies we use:
- Session Cookies. We use Session Cookies to operate our Service.
- Preference Cookies. We use Preference Cookies to remember your preferences and various settings.
- Security Cookies. We use Security Cookies for security purposes.
- Advertising Cookies We use Google advertising services and related cookies treated as per Google Privacy Policy and terms..
Use of Data
Automation Dojos uses the collected data for the following purposes:
- To provide and maintain the Service
- To notify you about changes to our Service
- To allow you to participate in interactive features of our Service when you choose to do so
- To provide customer care and support
- To provide analysis or valuable information so that we can improve the Service
- To monitor the usage of the Service
- To detect, prevent and address technical issues
Information Treatment in General
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. 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
Automation Dojos along with associated third parties may employ cookies to improve your online experience and to serve you better. By saving information such as your page preferences, cookies make your Web-surfing easier by remembering and rendering your preferences. However, we do not intend to collect any personal information via cookies. Most browsers are by default configured to accept cookies. If you’d prefer, you can set your browser to refuse cookies or to alert you when cookies are being sent. However altering or modifying cooking settings on your system may render certain cookie-dependent functionality on Automation Dojos, unavailable to you. For more information on cookies please visit our detailed ‘Cookies Privacy Policy’.
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. 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.
Advertising and Cookies
The Automation Dojos has currently employed appropriate Google services (AdSense) for its advertisement related needs, hence all the advertisement currently served on Automation Dojos are rendered by Google and its business partners/associates if any. For further information, consult Google’s Privacy Policy here.
The ads served by Google on Automation Dojos are based on a variety of factors including cookie information, IP address, browser type, operating system and the date and time of your request, content of the page where the ad is displayed etc. Google offers these display advertising services through DoubleClick. For more information about the use of the DoubleClick cookie in DoubleClick’s advertising services, check out the DoubleClick Privacy FAQ. You may view and manage your advertising preferences or opt-out of receiving them at any time:-
- You may opt-out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and Content Network Privacy Policy.
- Google also offers a number of options to permanently save your opt-out settings in your browser.
- You can also customize your preferences for Ads by choosing the ‘Ads Preference Manager’ from the ‘Tools’ section on Google Privacy Center.
- Using a tool created by the ‘Network Advertising Initiative‘, you can opt-out of several third-party ad servers’ and networks’ cookies simultaneously
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.
Conversion Tracking Cookie
Google may also use cookies for Conversion Tracking to help businesses that buy ads from Google determine how many people who click on their ads end up purchasing their products. The conversion tracking cookie is set on your browser only when you click on an ad delivered by Google where the advertiser has opted-in to conversion tracking. These cookies expire within 30 days and do not contain information that can identify you personally.
Web Analytics Information Collection
Automation Dojos also employs Web Analytics services from Google for understanding how users engage with the website and to monitor website behaviour and website performance. All the data gathered here is for the sole purpose of enhancing the website content, website performance and for improving the user experience. Automation Dojos does not collect any personal information other than generic demographics, location or browser and OS types as dictated in the ‘Information Collection’ section above. For more information on Google Analytics Privacy Policy please visit here. You also have the option to opt-out Google Analytics survey and information collection by installing ‘Google Analytics Opt-Out Browser Add-on’.
Information Treatment by Anti-Malware and Anti-Spam
The Automation Dojos also employs the services of third-party for protection and resolution against malwares and spam. This not only protects Automation Dojos against such attacks but also protects the end users, hence it is a crucial part of our services.Currently we employ such protection services from well known and defacto names in this industry such as Akismat, Antispam Bee and Wordfence. All these vendors are GDPR compliant.
Akismet and Antispam Bee are most powerful anti-spam services for the web. They work by checking all your comments against proprietary algorithams and/or global spam database to remove irrelevant, malicious content before it gets published and cause damage. These services collect only such personal data which is required to carry out their core function of protecting you against comment spam. In the language of the GDPR, this is a “legitimate interest” use of that data.
Their data retention periods may vary between two weeks and ninety days for the vast majority of our spam-related data, at which point it is automatically deleted from their databases.The functionality and terms of these services may change from time to time, hence you are responsible for checking these terms on regular basis should you desire. Please visit this link for Akismat Privacy Policy and GDPR note. Similarly for Antispam Bee you can visit this link to find out more.’.
Information Treatment by Social Plugins
Super Socializer Plugin
Our website saves the cookie heateorSsBrowserMsg in your browser to track which visitors have seen the popup notification and which haven’t. This cookie isn’t related to your personal data or your IP address.
Social Login
We collect your public profile data only from your consent that you grant before initiating Social Login, from the social network used to login at our website. This data includes your first name, last name, email address, link to your social media profile, unique identifier, link to social profile avatar. This data is used to create your user profile at our website. You can revoke this consent at any time by sending us an email.
Facebook Comments
We embed Facebook Comments plugin to allow you to leave a comment at our website using your Facebook account. This plugin may collect your IP address, your web browser User Agent, store and retrieve cookies on your browser, embed additional tracking, and monitor your interaction with the commenting interface, including correlating your Facebook account with whatever action you take within the interface (such as “liking” someone’s comment, replying to other comments), if you are logged into Facebook. For more information about how this data may be used, please see Facebook’s data privacy policy: here.
GooglePlus Comments
We use GooglePlus Comments widget at our website for you to be able to comment at our webpages using your GooglePlus account. From this interaction, Google automatically collects and store certain information in server logs like IP address, device event information such as crashes, system activity, hardware settings, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your request, in accordance with their data privacy policy: here.
Disqus Comments
We use Disqus Comments widget at our website for you to be able to comment at our webpages using Disqus commenting system. Disqus may collect information about you when you register for and use the Service. Such information may include “Personally Identifiable Information” which means information that identifies you as an individual, such information may include, but is not limited to, your name, email address, telephone number, username or account ID, and “Non-Personally Identifiable Information” which means information that does not identify you as an individual. Non-Personally Identifiable Information may include, but is not limited to, information about your browser, your IP address, device ID, what pages you visit on our Partner Sites, which website you came from, what advertisements you clicked on, whether on our Partner Websites, the Service or other third party websites, and other information about your online activity that does not identify you as an individual, in accordance with their data privacy policy: here.
Facebook Like, Facebook Recommend, Facebook Share official buttons
We embed a Facebook widget to allow you to see the number of likes/shares/recommends and “like/share/recommend” our webpages. This widget may collect your IP address, your web browser User Agent, store and retrieve cookies on your browser, embed additional tracking, and monitor your interaction with the widget, including correlating your Facebook account with whatever action you take within the widget (such as “liking/sharing/recommending” our webpage) if you are logged in to Facebook. For more information about how this data may be used, please see Facebook’s data privacy policy: here.
Twitter Tweet official button
We use a Twitter Tweet widget at our website. As a result, our website makes requests to Twitter’s servers for you to be able to tweet our webpages using your Twitter account. These requests make your IP address visible to Twitter, who may use it in accordance with their data privacy policy: here.
GooglePlus, GooglePlus Share official buttons
We use a GooglePlus widget at our website. As a result, our website makes requests to Google’s servers for you to be able to share our webpages using your GooglePlus account. These requests make your IP address visible to Google, who may use it in accordance with their data privacy policy: here.
Linkedin Share official button
We use a Linkedin Share widget at our website to allow you to share our webpages on Linkedin. These requests may track your IP address in accordance with their data privacy policy. Please read Linkedin’s data privacy policy: here.
Pinterest Save official button
We use Pinterest Save widget at our website to allow you to pin images to Pinterest from our webpages. These requests may track your IP address in accordance with their data privacy policy. Please read Pinterest’s data privacy policy: here.
Children’s Privacy
Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 18 (“Children”).
We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 18. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your Child has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.
Location and Security Of Data
Location of Data
Your information, including Personal Data, may be transferred to – and maintained on – computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from your jurisdiction.Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer. Automation Dojos will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.
Security of Data
The security of your data is important to us but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Information Sharing and Disclosure
Though Automation Dojos would never collect and share or sell any sensitive and / or personal information of its users. However in the unlikely events as dictated below, where we have a good faith and belief that access, use, preservation or disclosure of such information is reasonably necessary then we may take required steps accordingly.
- To comply with a legal obligation
- To protect and defend the rights or property of Automation Dojos
- To prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service
- To protect the personal safety of users of the Service or the public
- To protect against legal liability
If you still prefer, you can always decline to submit personal information to us as per the procedures dictated above or as per your convenience.
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.
Other Websites and Links
Automation Dojos or associated third parties may contain or provide links to other websites. Automation Dojos is not responsible for the privacy policies or practices of any third party websites originating from Automation Dojos or its associated third parties. Such third party web portals shall be responsible for their own Privacy Statement / Policies and that Automation Dojos does not hold any liability for your use of such third party web portals. Please visit the Privacy Statement and Terms of Use / Service for any such third-party websites while visiting them via Automation Dojos.
Privacy Contact Information
Automation Dojos may regularly review its compliance with this Privacy Policy. If you have any questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy or Automation Dojos’s treatment of personal information, please feel free to contact us via our online Contact Form provided on the website or by writing to us at [email protected]
Changes to the Privacy Policy
Please note that Automation Dojos may change this Privacy Policy in its sole discretion at any time, without any prior notice. Each version of this Privacy Policy can be identified at the top of the page by its effective date. Earlier versions may be archived and produced if required. Please do visit the Privacy policy from time to time at your convenience since your continued usage of this website implies your agreement to the Automation Dojos’s current Privacy Policy.
