Foreword

Twisted BrainZ website is governed by Swiss data protection law: Federal Data Protection Act (LPD).

For visitors from abroad, our website may also be subject to the data protection legislation of another country. We attach great importance to protecting the privacy of our visitors. More explanations below.

It is possible to visit our website without having to enter any personal data. We only store access data in the log files of our server. This does not allow us to link this data directly to specific people. This data includes the names of pages visited as well as the date and time of visits, the amount of data transferred and the provider of the Internet connection through which these pages were accessed. We use this data exclusively to ensure seamless accessibility to our website and to make improvements.

Visitor Contact

We collect personal data such as emails when a visitor is contacting us directly and voluntarily. The visitor will then volurarily discloses information such as his name and email address.

Any personal data collected this way comes solely from requested information.

Google and third-party providers

We do use cookies on our website. The purpose of the cookies is to improve our website by performing statistical analyze of its use. Visitors may completely or partially disable cookies in their browser. When cookies are disabled, visitors will no longer access all the features our website is offering.

On our website we use some google services such as Google Analytics, Google Fonts, Google Maps. Those services are used for statistical analysis of the use of our website – so that we can continuously improve it, graphical fonts and maps embed to our website.

Some of those third-party service providers may be transmitted to third-parties to the extent permitted by the law.

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.

Comments

When 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Where we send your data

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