Privacy Policy – Mastering Electronics Design

Our site’s visitors’ privacy and trust is important to us. We provide this notice in order to make sure that your expectations and our practices are aligned, and that you are aware of your choices with regard to our use and disclosure of the information you provide to this site. We are not interested in following your web surfing behavior or tracking you. We support anonymity online, and you are free to contact us or not.

What information do we collect?

When commenting or sending a message on our site, as appropriate, you may be asked to enter your name or e-mail address. You may, however, visit our site anonymously.

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.

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.

Cookies

Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computer’s hard drive through your Web browser (if you allow it). The cookies enable the websites or service providers’ systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information. We also use cookies to keep track of advertisements and compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and tools in the future.

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. More information about cookies can be found on this site’s page Cookies.

Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on our site. Google's use of cookies enables it to serve ads to our users based on their visit to our sites and other sites on the Internet. Users may opt out of the use of cookies by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.

What do we use your information for?

Any of the information we collect from you may be used to improve our website.
We continually strive to improve our website offerings based on the information and feedback we receive from you. We only collect as much personal data as absolutely necessary in order to provide this informational service, and we provide easy methods for our visitors to opt-out of any communication and remove their information from this website database.

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information. This does not include trusted third parties who assist us in operating our website (e.g. hosting), conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site’s policies, or protect ours or others’ rights, property, or safety. However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.

What rights you have over your data

If you 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 do we protect your information?

We use reasonable safeguards to protect Personally Identifiable Information we may collect on this Site. We protect such Personally Identifiable Information from unauthorized access, use, modification or disclosure by other parties. However, due to the design of the Internet and other factors outside of our control, we cannot guarantee that communications between you and the servers provided by third party businesses will be free from unauthorized access.

Relevant Legislation

Our website is designed to comply with the following international legislation with regards to data protection and user privacy:

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) – EU
Data Protection Directive (DPD) – EU
CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 – USA

As the above data protection legislation is extremely rigorous and stringent, our website is likely compliant with the user privacy and data protection legislation in your country as well, even if you are not located in an EU country.

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 tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act Compliance

This site is in compliance with the requirements of COPPA (Childrens Online Privacy Protection Act), and we do not willingly collect any information from anyone under 13 years of age. Our site, products and services are all directed at individuals who are at least 13 years old or older. More accurately, this website is directed at individuals who are at least of college age, have an interest in engineering and have had several years of education in mathematics.

Your Consent

By using our site, you consent to our online privacy policy.

Changes to our Privacy Policy

We may change this privacy policy from time to time with upcoming legislation or industry developments. We recommend that you check this page occasionally for any policy changes.

If you have any questions regarding our privacy policy, you may contact us using the information below.