POLICY - GDPR & COOKIES
GDPR & COOKIES
Cookies came into being in 1994 to serve as the memory of the Internet. Invented by Lou Montulli while working for Netscape, these small text files served the purpose of giving websites recall ability.
Their name was coined from the concept of a “magic cookie” used to describe a data packet received and sent back by early Unix programmers.
The world hasn’t been the same since.
Today, we live in hyper-cookied times.
Websites harbor myriads of third-party cookies that allow for the harvest and combination of user data in comprehensive psychographs on each individual to be used for behavioral advertisement and targeted marketing.
As the great privacy scandals of late has shown, these have also been weaponized to violate democratic elections in the US and UK.
Once, cookies were the ability of the Internet to remember. Today, they have become its ability to predict.
With the GDPR, the EU has taken up the big fight against privacy intrusive practices and laid out a roadmap to a future of balanced, respectful processing of personal information on our digital highways.
GDPR on cookies and trackers
The GDPR is an EU regulation that represents the most significant initiative on data protection in 20 years.
The purpose is to protect “natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data”, e.g. the website user.
Cookies are mentioned once in the 88 pages long regulation. However, those few lines have a significant impact on the compliance of cookies:
(30): “Natural persons may be associated with online identifiers […] such as internet protocol addresses, cookie identifiers or other identifiers […]. This may leave traces which, in particular when combined with unique identifiers and other information received by the servers, may be used to create profiles of the natural persons and identify them.”
In other words: when cookies can identify an individual, it is considered personal data.
Privacy Policy for Epunks Limited
At Epunks, accessible from www.epunks.agency, one of our main priorities is the privacy of our visitors. This Privacy Policy document contains types of information that is collected and recorded by Epunks and how we use it.General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
We are a Data Controller of your information.
Epunks Limited legal basis for collecting and using the personal information described in this Privacy Policy depends on the Personal Information we collect and the specific context in which we collect the information:
● Epunks Limited needs to perform a contract with you
● You have given Epunks Limited permission to do so
● Processing your personal information is in Epunks Limited legitimate interests
● Epunks Limited needs to comply with the law
Epunks Limited will retain your personal information only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your information to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our policies.
If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), you have certain data protection rights. If you wish to be informed what Personal Information we hold about you and if you want it to be removed from our systems, please contact us.
In certain circumstances, you have the following data protection rights:
The right to access, update or to delete the information we have on you.
● The right of rectification.
● The right to object.
● The right of restriction.
● The right to data portability
● The right to withdraw consent
Log Files
Epunks follows a standard procedure of using log files. These files log visitors when they visit websites. All hosting companies do this and a part of hosting services' analytics. The information collected by log files include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. These are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable. The purpose of the information is for analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users' movement on the website, and gathering demographic information. Cookies and Web Beacons Like any other website, Epunks uses 'cookies'. These cookies are used to store information including visitors' preferences, and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. The information is used to optimize the users' experience by customizing our web page content based on visitors' browser type and/or other information.
Privacy Policies
You may consult this list to find the Privacy Policy for each of the advertising partners of Epunks.Third-party ad servers or ad networks uses technologies like cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons that are used in their respective advertisements and links that appear on Epunks, which are sent directly to users' browser. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. These technologies are used to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on websites that you visit. Note that Epunks has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.
Third Party Privacy Policies
Epunks's Privacy Policy does not apply to other advertisers or websites. Thus, we are advising you to consult the respective Privacy Policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information. It may include their practices and instructions about how to opt-out of certain options. You can choose to disable cookies through your individual browser options. To know more detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers, it can be found at the browsers' respective websites.Children's Information
Another part of our priority is adding protection for children while using the internet. We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate in, and/or monitor and guide their online activity.Epunks does not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information from children under the age of 13. If you think that your child provided this kind of information on our website, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately and we will do our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.