Cookie and privacy policy

Introduction

When you visit our website, information is collected about you which is used to customise and improve our content and to increase the value of the ads displayed on the site. If you do not want information to be collected, you should delete your cookies (see instructions) and refrain from further use of the website. Below we have explained what information is collected, its purpose and the third parties who have access to it.

Cookies

The website uses “cookies”, which are text files stored on your computer, mobile or similar device, for the purposes of recognising it, remembering settings, performing statistics and targeting ads. Cookies cannot contain malicious code such as viruses.

It is possible to delete or block cookies. See instructions: http://minecookies.org/cookiehandtering

If you delete or block cookies, ads may become less relevant to you and appear more frequently. You may also risk that the website does not work optimally and that there is content that you cannot access.

 

Guides to deleting cookies

Delete cookies for Safari on your mac
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Our website contains cookies from some of the most common third parties.

 

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Comments

When visitors post comments on the site, we collect the data displayed in the comment form, as well as the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string, to help detect spam.

An anonymised string created from your email address (also called a hash) can be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you use it. The Gravatar Service Privacy Policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. Upon approval of your comment, your profile picture will be visible to the public along with your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the site, you should not upload images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the site can download and extract all location data from images on the site.

How do we store cookies?

If you leave a comment on our website, you can choose to store your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience, so you don’t have to fill in your details again when you write another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine whether your browser accepts cookies. This cookie does not contain any personal data and is removed when you close the browser.

When you log in, we will set a number of cookies and store your login information and screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen selection cookies last for one year. If you choose “Remember me”, your login will last for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will disappear.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be stored in your browser. This cookie does not contain any personal data and simply provides the post ID of the article you have just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may contain embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in exactly the same way as if the visitor had visited the other website.

These sites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with this embedded content, including tracking your interaction with embedded content if you have an account and a log in to that site.

Who we share your data with

Google Analytics

a) Description and scope of the data processing

This website uses the “Google Analytics” service provided by Google Ireland Ltd. (Gordon House, 4 Barrow Street, Dublin, Ireland) to analyse users’ use of the website. The service uses “cookies” – text files that are stored on your device. The information collected by these cookies is generally sent to a Google server and stored there.

IP anonymisation is used on this website. IP addresses of users in EU Member States and the European Economic Area are abbreviated. This abbreviation removes the personal reference to your IP address. In accordance with the data processing agreement we have concluded with Google, Google uses the collected information to analyse the use and activity on the website and to provide services related to the use of the internet.

b) Legal basis for data processing

The legal basis for this data processing is Article 6(1)(f) GDPR. We have an order processing agreement with Google.

c) Purpose of data processing

Google will use this information on our behalf to analyse your use of the website, compile reports on website activity and provide other services relating to website activity and internet usage. The IP address sent by your browser via Google Analytics is not merged with other Google information.

d) Duration of storage

The information is stored by Google for 26 months and, due to the shortening of the IP address, no personal data is stored.

e) Objection and deletion

You have the option to reject cookies on your device by configuring your browser accordingly. There is no guarantee that it will be possible to access all features of this website without restriction if your browser does not allow cookies. In addition, you can use a browser plug-in to prevent information collected by cookies (including your IP address) from being sent to and used by Google. You can find the required plug-in via the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

You can find out more about how Google uses your information here: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245.

How long we store your data

If you post a comment, the comment and its metadata are preserved indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of having them in a moderation queue.

For users who register on our site (if any), we also store the personal information they provide for their user profile. All users can view, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (with the exception that they cannot change their username). Site administrators can also view and edit this information.

What rights do you have over your data?

If you have an account on this site, or have posted comments, you can request an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also ask us to delete any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data that we are obliged to store for administrative, legal or security reasons.

Where we send your data

Visitors’ comments may be checked by an automatic spam recognition service.

Your contact information

Jørgen Maltesen jm@alfa-fredensborg.dk

More information

How we protect your data

Our servers are protected behind firewalls and your passwords are encrypted.

What data breach procedures we have in place.

We take daily backups of our site

Which third parties we receive data from

No

What automated decisions and/or profiling we make with user data.

We use visitor data to see which pages are visited most often. We cannot identify ordinary users of the site as we do not allow logins.

Users who send donations to Alfa will be kept on our site as long as they wish to send donations. Your data will be deleted 5 years after the last donation, due to revision rules regarding donations.