Thank you for joining us, a collaborative and free knowledge website https://www.globelanguage.org. Globelanguage.org (“GL”, “we”, “us”,” our”, ”website”) respect your privacy and want you to understand what data we collect, how we use it, and what we do to keep it private when you use the website. This Privacy Policy covers our data collection practices and describes your rights to access, correct, or restrict our use of your personal data.

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully before using the Website and providing personal information to GlobeLanguage.org. By accessing or using our website and/or providing any personal information to us, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy. If you do not accept these practices, please do not access or use the Website or provide us with your personal information.

1. What Data We Collect 

When you make a contribution to the GL website, including on user or discussion pages, you are creating a permanent, public record of every piece of content added, removed, or altered by you. The page history will show when your contribution or deletion was made, as well as your username (if you are signed in) or your IP address (if you are not signed in). We may use your public contributions, either aggregated with the public contributions of others or individually, to create new features or data-related products.

2. How We Get Data About You

We collect certain data from you directly, like the information you enter yourself, data about your consumption of content, and data from third-party platforms you connect with Globe Language.org. We also collect some data automatically, like information about your device and what parts of our Services you interact with or spend time using.

GlobeLanguage.org (GL) does not send unsolicited or “spam” e-mail and does not sell, rent, or trade its e-mail lists to third parties.

3. What We Use Your Data For

We use Google Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”). Google uses the data collected to track and examine the use of www.globelanguage.org, to prepare reports on its activities and share them with other Google services. Google may use the data collected to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network. We have also chosen to enable Google’s Display Advertising features, which allow us to collect and access certain demographic and interest data about visitors to www.globelanguage.org through Google’s first-party and other third-party cookies. We use this Google Analytics data to improve our online web properties, products, and services. We do not share, sell, rent, or lease this information to anyone outside of GlobeLanguage.org (GL). You may opt out of Google Analytics for Display Advertising and customize Google Display Network ads using Google’s Ads Settings or install the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on.

4. Who We Share Your Data With

Personal information that you supply to us when you become a registered user, will be used solely for the purposes of implementing the comment and contribute functions on the GlobeLanguage “Contribute” pages. We ask you for your name and e-mail address so that we can communicate with you about your comments and contributions. You may opt out of receiving information from GlobeLanguage regarding updates or products as they become available. If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

5. Protection 

We strive to protect your Personal Information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. We use a variety of physical and technical measures, policies, and procedures (such as access control procedures, network firewalls, and physical security) designed to protect our systems and your Personal Information. We will never ask for your password by email.

6. Your Rights

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.

7. Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website may be able to download and extract any location data from images on the website.

8. Updates:

We will occasionally update this Privacy Policy. Any changes to this Privacy Policy will be posted on the Website to help ensure that users are aware of what information we gather, how we might use that information, and who we will disclose it to. We encourage you to review this page for the latest information on our privacy practices. The terms “You” and “User” are used to refer to anyone who is accessing the Website.

9. Cookies Policy

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.

10. 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.

11. 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, we also store the personal information they provide in their user profiles. 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.

12. Where We Send Your Data

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