Privacy Policy
Who we are
We are a team of developers, graphics and torrent fans based in Europe. Our website address is https://torrentalternative.com (hereinafter: “site“).
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form. We also collect 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: https://automattic.com/privacy/. 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 site.
Cookies
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.
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.
This privacy policy only applies to this site and doesn’t cover other places that we provide a link to. If you go to another website, read the privacy policy on that website to find out what it does with your information.
Analytics
To make our site better, we use Google Analytics software to understand visitors behavior. We don’t use Google Analytics software to collect any personal information like name or address, but we collect:
- The pages you visit on the site
- How long you spend on each page of our site
- How you got to our site
- What kind of device you were using
- Your home country and browser settings such as language
We use this information for better understanding of our customer’s behavior and their needs to improve our site and our service.
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 information 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.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. This is done to protect our website from malicious attempts. These data are not stored nor trackable back to the visitor.
Changes
We may, from time to time, update this Privacy Policy to reflect any changes to our privacy practices following changes to legislation, best practice or enhancements to Torrent Alternative. We will let you know what these changes are by posting them to this page. But it is not our responsibility that you as a user are aware of them, by checking for any changes regularly. Changes will become effective as soon as they are posted.
