Privacy Policy

• We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it.
• We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products, or protect our rights.
• We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of our site.

It is the SSDA’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, the SSDA collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. SSDA’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how visitors use its website. From time to time, the SSDA may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

SSDA also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on our blogs. SSDA only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that blog commenter IP addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog where the comment was left.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to the SSDA’s website choose to interact with the SSDA in ways that require the SSDA to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that the SSDA gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who comment on our blog to provide a username and email address. Those who wish to receive the SSDA’s updates via email, we collect their emails. In each case, the SSDA collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with the SSDA. The SSDA do not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

Aggregated Statistics

The SSDA may collect statistics about the behaviour of visitors to its websites. For instance, the SSDA may monitor the most popular pages on the SSDA site or use spam screened by the Akismet service to help identify spam. The SSDA may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, the SSDA does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

The SSDA discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organisations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on the SSDA’s behalf or to provide services available at the the SSDA’s website, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organisations may be located outside of your home country; by using the the SSDA website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. The SSDA will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organisations, as described above, the SSDA discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when the SSDA believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of the SSDA, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of the SSDA website and have supplied your email address, the SSDA may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with the SSDA and our products. We primarily use our product blog to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. The SSDA takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorised access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Cookies

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. The SSDA uses cookies to help the SSDA identify and track visitors, their usage of the SSDA’s website, and their website access preferences. The SSDA’s visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using the SSDA website, with the drawback that certain features of the SSDA website may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Ads

Ads appearing on our website may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognise your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by the SSDA and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Comments

Comments and other content submitted to Akismet anti-spam service are not saved on our servers unless they were marked as false positives, in which case we store them long enough to use them to improve the service to avoid future false positives.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, the SSDA may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in the SSDA’s sole discretion. The SSDA encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change. This Privacy Policy was last updated by the SSDA, on Friday 24th July 2020.

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