Privacy Notice
This privacy notice for Netcord is to describe how and why we might collect, store, use, and/or share your information when you use our services.
Last updated 01-08-2022 (August 8th, 2022)
This privacy notice (“Privacy Notice,” “Notice,” “Privacy Policy,” or “Policy”) for Netcord is used to describe how and why we might collect, store, use, and/or share your information when you use our services.
Services or processes include but not limited to:
- Visiting https://netcord.site/ or any website of ours that link to this notice
- Engaging with our content such as making a comment on a post
Questions or concerns? Reading this privacy notice will help you understand your privacy rights and choices. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, please do not use our Services. If you still have any questions or concerns, please contact us at team@netcord.site.
Key Points
- Netcord is a read-only site. We have no membership you can subscribe to, or any accounts you can create.
- This publication is built with and powered by Ghost, a free and open source professional publication software self hosted in DigitalOcean servers.
- Our comment section is powered by and the service is provided by the third-party comments service Disqus. Commenting on our posts require a Disqus account. We are not a middle-man in this procedure. The data you provide to Disqus to build your account is solely given to them and is their business to handle. Read Disqus Privacy Policy for more information here.
Table of contents
Data we collect
We collect your data when you choose to communicate with us for support or questions in the following ways:
- we collect your email address to get back to you when you choose to email us at
team@netcord.site - we collect your social-media usernames/handles when you choose to contact us
Accounts
We do not have an account creation system. We do not collect any data when you visit our website. We do not collect any personal information that you don't give us.
Netcord uses Ghost.org to build and manage this publication. We have disabled the membership feature. All content are free to be consumed and no article is locked behind a paywall. Ghost does not use any tracking cookies of any kind.
Visitor
We collect some technical information when you visit our website, such as
- we collect your public IP (Internet Protocol) address
- we collect information on the type of device you are visiting the site on
- we collect the type of browser you are using and its version
- we collect the operating system and platform you are using
We may also collect personal information of our readers, such as:
- time-zone, country, city
- timestamp of website visit and leaving website
- user demographics and statistical data
- device darkmode/lightmode settings
We use Google Analytics to measure traffic, track, and collect certain information from our visitors. If you do not wish for us to collect these Data from you, please install the Google Analytics Opt-out Add-on (by Google) extension for your browser. Here is the link for Chrome.
How we use data
Your personal data is in safe hands. We only use your data as permitted by law. Your data is used to improve your user and reader experience in Netcord.
Statistics
We collect information to study the type of audience. We do not collect any more information than we need. We use Google Analytics as statistics our statistics service to view, study, and measure the demographics and interactions you, as a reader, make.
We do not target you with ads. Your Google Analytics data is in safe hands and is not being shared with any other third-party integrations.
Advertising
We study the audience and your interactions in our website. We use your age, platform, and other demographic information to push our advertising campaigns to the right audience. However, we are not integrated with Google Adsense and we are not targeting you with our ads.
How we share data
Netcord may share your personal data from time to time as detailed below. We take reasonable measures to ensure that third parties with whom we collaborate protect your personal data.
Netcord does not sell your personal data.
Third party integrations
We have third-party applications and services integrated into Netcord to provide the best experience for your reading.
Ghost.org - Powered by
The frontend and backend of Netcord is built and managed by the publishing service, Ghost. Their privacy policy can be found here.
DigitalOcean - Data storage
The server-end of Netcord is hosted on DigitalOcean servers in the cloud. Your data is in full control of ours and we are not allowed to misuse it by law.
Disqus - Comments
Our comment section, and 'reaction' system is powered by and the service is provided by the third-party comments service Disqus. Read Disqus Privacy Policy for more information here.
Opting Out
You may withdraw your consent to our use of your personal data at any time.
Withdrawing your consent is simple. Since your data is mainly collected by a third party server (Google Analytics), if you wish to opt out, you have to install Google Analytics Opt-out Add-on (by Google) extension for your browser. Here is the link for Chrome.
Changes
Changes may be made to this page, if we do so, we will make sure to notify in Netcord's Discord server. Here is the link to it.
Questions
Feel free to contact the team for any questions you have for this privacy policy.
team@netcord.site