Privacy Policy

The protection of your personal data is very important for us. Our processing of personal data is therefore designed to be fully compliant with applicable data protection laws and regulations, including but not limited with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Who we are?

As the name of our website indicates, we are WebAwards.com. Our website address is https://www.webawards.com & our website infrastructure is built on WordPress (which is a content management system, used by about half of all the content websites of the Internet, and about 40% of all the top 10 million websites of the World). For a general information on WordPress please kindly refer to https://www.wordpress.org

What are the cookies?

Like all professional websites, this site uses cookies which are very small files that are downloaded to your computer in order to improve your web experience.

In the following lines, “what information the cookies gather“, “how we use cookies“, “why we sometimes need to store these cookies” and “how you can prevent these cookies” will be explained.

Although we describe “how you can prevent these cookies from being stored” however this may downgrade or break certain elements of the site’s functionality. For a general information on cookies please kindly read the Wikipedia article on cookies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_cookie.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it?

– Comments

When and if visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also 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 website.

– Contact forms

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.

– Cookies

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 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 (as an example Youtube.com – because some Youtube videos are present in our website) 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.

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 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.

How you can disable cookies?

You can control the cookies from your own computer. So If you want you can prevent the setting of cookies yourselves, by adjusting the settings on your browser. (Please kindly check your browser’s Help section to learn how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this, and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of the this site. Therefore it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.

Links to third party websites

We have included links on this site for your use and reference. We are not responsible for the privacy policies on these websites. You should be aware that the privacy policies of these sites may differ from our own.

Changes to this Privacy Statement

The contents of this statement may be altered at any time, from time to time, at our discretion. If you have any questions regarding the Privacy Policy of WebAwards.com then you may contact us through the contact form; or alternatively you can contact us through our e-mail [email protected].

Additional information

So we hope the above explanations have clarified things for you, and as it was previously mentioned, if there is something that you aren’t sure whether you need or not it’s usually safer to leave cookies enabled in case it does interact with one of the features you use on our site. However if you are still looking for more information then you can contact us; we are always at your disposal.

Best Regards,

WebAwards.com Team