Privacy Policy

Last Updated 02-20-2018

 

Elaztek Studios operates independently of any third party organization. It is our policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.

 

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, Elaztek Studios collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Elaztek Studios’ purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Elaztek Studios’ visitors use its website. From time to time, Elaztek Studios may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

Elaztek Studios also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on chaoticunited.net blogs/sites. Elaztek Studios only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that commenter IP addresses and email addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog/site where the comment was left.

 

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to Elaztek Studios’ websites choose to interact with Elaztek Studios in ways that require Elaztek Studios to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Elaztek Studios gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up at chaoticunited.net to provide a username and email address. Those who engage in transactions with Elaztek Studios are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, Elaztek Studios collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor's interaction with Elaztek Studios. Elaztek Studios does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

 

Aggregated Statistics

Elaztek Studios may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. Elaztek Studios may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Elaztek Studios does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

 

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

Elaztek Studios discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that

(i) need to know that information in order to process it on Elaztek Studios’ behalf or to provide services available at Elaztek Studios’ websites, and

(ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others.

 

Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Elaztek Studios’ websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Elaztek Studios will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Elaztek Studios discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Elaztek Studios believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Elaztek Studios, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an Elaztek Studios website and have supplied your email address, Elaztek Studios may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what's going on with Elaztek Studios and our products. If you send us a request (for example via email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Elaztek Studios takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

 

Software Telemetry and Data Collection

Some of our software products contain telemetry and data collection functions. Some software may allow you to either opt-out of, or reduce the amount of data sent to us. This data may range from basic system information to detailed hardware and software information. Any information that may contain personally-identifying information will never be disclosed except as described above. The amount of data collected varies for each piece of software, and may change with software updates. Some of our software products may provide more specific details on what is/isn't collected in their own respective product pages.

 

Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor's computer, and that the visitor's browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Elaztek Studios uses cookies to help Elaztek Studios identify and track visitors, their usage of Elaztek Studios website, and their website access preferences. Elaztek Studios visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Elaztek Studios’ websites, with the drawback that certain features of Elaztek Studios’ websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

 

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Elaztek Studios may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Elaztek Studios’ sole discretion. Elaztek Studios encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. If you have a elaztek.com account, you might also receive an alert informing you of these changes. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change. By purchasing, downloading, and using any of our software, you agree to this privacy policy as well as any future changes or revisions to the policies.

Third Parties

Spam Defense
The IPS Spam Defense Service passes the email address and IP address of the registering member to the service to determine the likelihood a registering account is a spam source.
hCaptcha
We use the hCaptcha anti-bot service (hereinafter "hCaptcha") on our website. This service is provided by Intuition Machines, Inc., a Delaware US Corporation ("IMI"). hCaptcha is used to check whether the data entered on our website (such as on a login page or contact form) has been entered by a human or by an automated program. To do this, hCaptcha analyzes the behavior of the website or mobile app visitor based on various characteristics. This analysis starts automatically as soon as the website or mobile app visitor enters a part of the website or app with hCaptcha enabled. For the analysis, hCaptcha evaluates various information (e.g. IP address, how long the visitor has been on the website or app, or mouse movements made by the user). The data collected during the analysis will be forwarded to IMI. hCaptcha analysis in the "invisible mode" may take place completely in the background. Website or app visitors are not advised that such an analysis is taking place if the user is not shown a challenge. Data processing is based on Art. 6(1)(f) of the GDPR (DSGVO): the website or mobile app operator has a legitimate interest in protecting its site from abusive automated crawling and spam. IMI acts as a "data processor" acting on behalf of its customers as defined under the GDPR, and a "service provider" for the purposes of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). For more information about hCaptcha and IMI's privacy policy and terms of use, please visit the following links: https://www.hcaptcha.com/privacy and https://www.hcaptcha.com/terms.