Privacy Policy

It is digitalwelt’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website. This Privacy Policy applies to https://www.digitalwelt.org/ (hereinafter, “us”, “we”, “digitalwelt”, “website” or “https://www.digitalwelt.org/”).

Last Updated: December, 2019

We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting personally identifiable information you may provide us through the Website. We have adopted this privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) to explain what information may be collected on our Website, how we use this information, and under what circumstances we may disclose the information to third parties. This Privacy Policy applies only to information we collect through the Website and does not apply to our collection of information from other sources.

This Privacy Policy, together with the Terms and conditions posted on our Website if provided, set forth the general rules and policies governing your use of our Website. Depending on your activities when visiting our Website, you may be required to agree to additional terms and conditions.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, digitalwelt 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. digitalwelt’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how digitalwelt’s visitors use its website. From time to time, digitalwelt may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

digitalwelt also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on digitalwelt’s blog posts posts. digitalwelt only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below.

Links To External Sites

Our Service may contain links to external sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy and terms and conditions of every site you visit.

We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites, products or services.

Aggregated Statistics

digitalwelt may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its website and will not display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, digitalwelt does not disclose your personally-identifying information.

Cookies

Our website, https://www.digitalwelt.org uses cookies and other related technologies (for convenience all technologies are referred to as “cookies”). Cookies are also placed by third parties we have engaged. In the document below we inform you about the use of cookies on our website.

  • A cookie is a small simple file that is sent along with pages of this website and stored by your browser on the hard drive of your computer or another device. The information stored therein may be returned to our servers or to the servers of the relevant third parties during a subsequent visit.
  • A script is a piece of program code that is used to make our website function properly and interactively. This code is executed on our server or on your device.
  • A web beacon (or a pixel tag) is a small, invisible piece of text or image on a website that is used to monitor traffic on a website. In order to do this, various data about you is stored using web beacons.

Third parties

We have made agreements about the use of cookies with other companies that place cookies. However, we cannot guarantee that these third parties handle your personal data in a reliable or secure manner. Parties such as Google are to be considered as independent data controllers. We recommend that you read the privacy statements of these companies.

Technical or functional cookies
Some cookies ensure that certain parts of the website work properly and that your user preferences remain known. By placing functional cookies, we make it easier for you to visit our website. This way, you do not need to repeatedly enter the same information when visiting our website and, for example, the items remain in your shopping cart until you have paid. We may place these cookies without your consent.

Advertising cookies
On this website we use advertising cookies, enabling us to personalize the advertisements for you, and we (and third parties) gain insights into the campaign results. This happens based on a profile we create based on your click and surfing on and outside https://www.digitalwelt.org. With these cookies you, as website visitor are linked to a unique ID, so you do not see the same ad more than once for example.

Social media buttons
On our website we have included buttons for Facebook and Instagram to promote webpages (e.g. “like”, “pin”) or share (e.g. “tweet”) on social networks like Facebook and Instagram. These buttons work using pieces of code coming from Facebook and Instagram themselves. This code places cookies. These social media buttons also can store and process certain information, so a personalized advertisement can be shown to you.

Please read the privacy statement of these social networks (which can change regularly) to read what they do with your (personal) data which they process using these cookies. The data that is retrieved is anonymized as much as possible. Facebook and Instagram are located in the United States.

Placed cookies

Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics for website statistics.

Statistics (anonymous):

  • _ga: 2 years | Store a unique user ID
  • _gid: 1 day | Count and track pageviews
    _gat: 1 minute | Filter requests from bots

For more information, please read the Google Analytics Privacy Policy at policies.google.com/privacy

WP Engine

We use WP Engine for website hosting.

  • wpe-auth

For more information, please read the WP Engine Privacy Policy at wpengine.com/legal/privacy/

Google Ads Optimization
We use Google Ads Optimization for showing advertisements.

Marketing/Tracking:

  • google_experiment_mod*: 3 months | Track visits across websites

For more information, please read the Google Ads Optimization Privacy Policy at policies.google.com/privacy.

Google Ads

Marketing/Tracking:

  • google_pem_mod: persistent | Ad delivery

For more information, please read the Google Ads Privacy Policy at policies.google.com/privacy.

Google Adsense
We use Google Adsense for showing advertisements.

Marketing/Tracking:

  • google_adsense_settings: persistent | Ad delivery

For more information, please read the Google Adsense Privacy Policy at policies.google.com/privacy.

Google Fonts
We use Google Fonts for display of webfonts.

Marketing/Tracking:

  • Google Fonts API: Request user IP address

For more information, please read the Google Fonts Privacy Policy at policies.google.com/privacy.

YouTube
We use YouTube for video display.

Marketing/Tracking:

  • GPS: session | Store location data

Functional:

  • VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE: 6 months | Estimate bandwidth

Statistics:

  • YSC: session | Store a unique user ID
  • PREF: 1 year | Track visits across websites

For more information, please read the YouTube Privacy Policy at at policies.google.com/privacy.

Facebook

Marketing/Tracking:

  • actppresence: 1 year | Manage ad display frequency

This data is not shared with third parties.

Your rights with respect to personal data

You have the following rights with respect to your personal data:

  • you may submit a request for access to the data we process about you;
  • you may object to the processing;
  • you may request an overview, in a commonly used format, of the data we process about you;
  • you may request correction or deletion of the data if it is incorrect or not or no longer relevant, or to ask to restrict the processing of the data.
  • To exercise these rights, please contact us. Please refer to the contact details at the bottom of this cookie statement. If you have a complaint about how we handle your data, we would like to hear from you.

Enabling/disabling and deleting cookies
You can use your internet browser to automatically or manually delete cookies. You can also specify that certain cookies may not be placed. Another option is to change the settings of your internet browser so that you receive a message each time a cookie is placed. For more information about these options, please refer to the instructions in the Help section of your browser.

Selling data to third parties
We do not sell data to third parties

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, digitalwelt may change its Privacy Policy from time to time in its sole discretion. digitalwelt 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.

For questions and/or comments about this statement, please contact us by using the following contact details:
blue media marketing, Inc., c/o digitalwelt, 5755 Oberlin Dr, Ste 300, San Diego, CA 92121, United States, Phone: (858) 397-9792, email: privacy2020@digitalwelt.org