LAST UPDATED: 30 MAY 2018
kanenas.net is owned and operated by Nikolas Branis (“kanenas.net”, “we”, “us”, and “our”). This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) explains our privacy practices regarding personal information (as defined below) that we collect, store, share and use.
Regarding the General Data Protection Regulation
The GDPR replaces current data privacy law, giving more rights to you as an individual and more obligations to organizations holding your personal data. We are committed to being transparent about how we collect and use your personal data, and to meeting its data protection obligations.
This Policy is published so you can be made aware of the increased rights you have in relation to the information we hold on you and the legal basis on which we are using it.
Your rights
As a data subject under the GDPR, you have a number of rights. Subject to any exemptions provided by law, you can:
– access and obtain a copy of your data on request;
– require the organization to change incorrect or incomplete data;
– require the organization to delete or stop processing your data, for example where the data is no longer necessary for the purposes of processing; and
– object to the processing of your data where we are not required by overriding law/regulation as legitimate legal grounds for processing.
If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at nbran { at } kanenas { dot } net
Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors using our services choose to interact with us in ways that require us to gather personally-identifying information.
This Policy tells you what to expect when we collect personal information. It applies to information we collect about:
– Visitors to our website
– People who contact us via social media
It also contains further information on:
– Cookies
– Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
– Privacy Policy Changes
Visitors to our website
When someone visits kanenas.net we make use of the third party services of Google Analytics to collect information and details of visitor behavior patterns in order to enhance visitor experience with more meaningful content.
The collected information which are passed from your browser to the aforementioned services are:
(a) your geo-location data, such as city, region, and country
(b) technical information such as your browser, Operating System, screen resolution
(c) visiting pages, duration
The above information is only processed in a way which does not identify anyone. We do not make, and do not allow the aforementioned services to make, any attempt to find out the identities of those visiting our website. From time to time, we may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
Along with the above services, we also make use of cookies for various reasons, ranging from core site functionality to marketing and analytics.
People who contact us via social media
If you send us a private or direct message via social media the message it will not be shared with any other organizations.
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. Our services use cookies to help us identify and track visitors and their usage of our website. In some cases, we may use cookies and other tracking technologies to collect Personal Information, or to collect information that becomes Personal Information if we combine it with other information.
WHAT ARE COOKIES?
Cookies are small data files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Cookies are widely used by online service providers in order to (for example) make their websites or services work, or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide reporting information.
Cookies set by the website owner or service provider (in this case, kanenas.net) are called “first party cookies”. Cookies set by parties other than the website owner are called “third party cookies”. Third party cookies enable third party features or functionality to be provided on or through the website or service you are using (such as advertising, interactive content and analytics). The third parties that set these third party cookies can recognize your computer both when it visits the website or service in question and also when it visits certain other websites or services.
WHY DO WE USE COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES?
We use first party and third party cookies for several reasons. Some cookies are required for technical reasons in order for our Website and Services to operate, and we refer to these as “essential” or “strictly necessary” cookies. Other cookies enable us and the third parties we work with, to track and target the interests of visitors to our Website, and we refer to these as “performance” or “functionality” cookies. For example, we use cookies to tailor content and information that we may send or display to you and otherwise personalize your experience while interacting with our Website and to otherwise improve the functionality of the Services we provide. Finally, third parties serve cookies through our Website and Services for advertising, analytics, and other purposes. This is described in more detail below.
COOKIES SERVED THROUGH OUR WEBSITE
The specific types of first and third party cookies served through our Website and the purposes they perform are described in further detail below
STRICTLY NECESSARY COOKIES
These cookies are necessary for the website to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. They are usually only set in response to actions made by you which amount to a request for services, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in or filling in forms. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the site will not then work. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable information.
PERFORMANCE COOKIES
These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our site. They help us to know which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the site. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. If you do not allow these cookies we will not know if you have visited our site, and will not be able to monitor its performance.
FUNCTIONAL COOKIES
These cookies enable the website to provide enhanced functionality and personalization. They may be set by us or by third party providers whose services we have added to our pages. If you do not allow these cookies then some or all of these services may not function properly.
TARGETING COOKIES
These cookies may be set through our site by our advertising partners. They may be used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other sites. They do not directly store personal information, but are based on uniquely identifying your browser and internet device. If you do not allow these cookies, you will experience less targeted advertising.
OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES
We and our third party partners may use other, similar technologies from time to time, such as web beacons, pixels (or “clear gifs”) and other tracking technologies. These are tiny graphics files that contain a unique identifier that enable us to recognize when someone has visited our Website or, in the case of web beacons, opened an e-mail that we have sent them. This allows us, for example, to monitor the traffic patterns of users from one page within our Website, to deliver or communicate with cookies, to understand whether you have come to our Website from an online advertisement displayed on a third-party website, to serve targeted advertisements to you and others like you, to improve site performance, and to measure the success of marketing campaigns. While you may not have the ability to specifically reject or disable these tracking technologies, in many instances, these technologies are reliant on cookies to function properly; accordingly, in those instances, declining cookies will impair the functioning of these technologies.
TARGETED ONLINE ADVERTISING
We may engage one or more third party service providers to track and analyze both individualized usage and volume statistical information from interactions with our Website. We also partner with one or more third parties (such as advertisers and ad networks) to manage and serve advertising on other sites.
These third parties use cookies, web beacons, pixel tags and similar tracking technologies to collect and use certain information about your online activities on our Website, to infer your interests and deliver you targeted advertisements that are more tailored to you based on your browsing activities and inferred interests (“Interest Based Advertising”).
HOW CAN I CONTROL COOKIES?
You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject any of the cookies we use to provide you with our various services.
Browser Controls: You can set or amend your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies. If you choose to reject cookies, you may still use our Website though your access to some functionality and areas of our Website may be restricted. As the means by which you can refuse cookies through your web browser controls vary from browser-to-browser, you should visit your browser’s help menu for more information.
Disabling Most Interest Based Advertising: Most advertising networks offer you a way to opt out of Interest Based Advertising. If you would like to find out more information, please visit http://www.aboutads.info/choices/ or http://www.youronlinechoices.com.
Mobile Advertising: You can opt out of having your mobile advertising identifiers used for certain types of Interest Based Advertising, including those performed by us, by accessing the settings in your Apple or Android mobile device and following the most recent published instructions. If you opt out, we will remove all data about you and no further data collection or tracking will occur. The random ID we (or our third party partners) had previously assigned to you will also be removed. This means that if at a later stage, you decide to opt-in, we will not be able to continue and track you using the same ID as before, and you will for all practical purposes be a new user to our system.
Do Not Track: Some Internet browsers – such as Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Safari – include the ability to transmit “Do Not Track” or “DNT” signals. Since uniform standards for “DNT” signals have not been adopted, our Website do not currently process or respond to “DNT” signals. kanenas.net takes privacy and meaningful choice seriously and will make efforts to continue to monitor developments around DNT browser technology and the implementation of a standard. To learn more about “DNT”, please visit All About Do Not Track.
HOW OFTEN WILL YOU UPDATE YOUR COOKIE INFORMATION?
We may update the above information from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons. Please re-visit this Policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
kanenas.net discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on kanenas.net’s behalf or to provide services available at kanenas.net’s website, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others.
Some of those contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using kanenas.net’s website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. kanenas.net will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, kanenas.net discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only when required to do so by law, or when kanenas.net believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of kanenas.net, third parties or the public at large.
If you have supplied your email address, we 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 kanenas.net. We primarily use our 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 an email), 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. kanenas.net takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, we may change this Policy from time to time. We encourage visitors to frequently check this page for any changes. Information regarding the last update date will be appended both at the top and the bottom of this Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.
LAST UPDATED: 30 MAY 2018