Lite-story.com respects the rights of visitors. We unequivocally recognize the importance of the privacy of the personal information of our Site visitors. This page contains information about what information we receive and collect when you use the Site. We hope that this information will help you make informed decisions regarding the personal information you provide to us.
This Privacy Policy applies only to the Site and information collected by and through this Site. It does not apply to any other sites and does not apply to third party websites from which links to the Site may be made.
Consent
By using our website, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its terms.
Information collection
When you visit the Site, we determine your provider’s domain name and country, as well as the selected transitions from one page to another (so-called “referencing activity”).
The information we collect on the Site may be used to make it easier for you to use the Site, including but not limited to organizing the Site in the most convenient way for users, as well as allowing you to subscribe to mailing lists for special offers and topics, if you wish. receive such notifications.
The Site collects only personal information that you provide voluntarily when visiting or registering on the Site. The term “personal information” includes information that identifies you as a specific individual, such as your name or email address. While it is possible to view the contents of the Site without going through the registration process, you will need to register in order to use certain features, such as leaving a comment on an article.
The site uses “cookies” technology (“cookies”) to create statistical reporting. A “cookie” is a small amount of data sent by a website that your computer’s browser saves on your computer’s hard drive. “Cookies” contain information that may be necessary for the Site – to save your preferences for browsing options and collect statistical information on the Site, i.e. what pages you visited, what was downloaded, the domain name of the Internet provider and the country of the visitor, as well as the addresses of third-party websites from which the transition to the Site was made, and so on. However, all this information has nothing to do with you as a person. Cookies do not record your email address or any personal information about you. Also, this technology on the Site is used by installed counters of other companies (Google, etc.).
In addition, we use standard web server logs to count the number of visitors and evaluate the technical capabilities of our Site. We use this information to determine how many people visit the Site and to organize the pages in the most user-friendly way, to ensure that the Site is appropriate for the browsers used, and to make the content of our pages as useful as possible for our visitors. We record information about movements on the Site, but not about individual visitors to the Site, so that no specific information about you personally will be stored or used by the Site Administration without your consent.
To view material without cookies, you can set your browser so that it does not accept cookies or notifies you when they are sent. We advise you to consult the “Help” section and find out how to change your browser’s cookie settings.
How we use your information
We use the information we collect in various ways, including to:
- Provide, operate, and maintain our website
- Improve, personalize, and expand our website
- Understand and analyze how you use our website
- Develop new products, services, features, and functionality
- Communicate with you, either directly or through one of our partners, including for customer service, to provide you with updates and other information relating to the website, and for marketing and promotional purposes
- Send you emails
- Find and prevent fraud
Log Files
Lite-story.com 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, Lite-story.com 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.
Sharing Information
The Site Administration under no circumstances sells or leases your personal information to any third parties. We also do not disclose personal information provided by you, except as required by law.
The site administration has a partnership with Google, which places advertising materials and announcements on the site pages (including, but not limited to, text hyperlinks) on a reimbursable basis.
As part of this cooperation, the Site Administration brings to the attention of all interested parties the following information:
- Google as a third party provider uses cookies to serve ads on the Site;
- DoubleClick DART advertising product cookies are used by Google in ads displayed on the Site as part of the AdSense for Content Program;
- Google’s use of the DART cookie allows it to collect and use information about visitors to the Site (excluding name, address, email address or telephone number), your visits to the Site and other websites in order to provide the most relevant ads about goods and services;
- Google uses its own privacy policy to collect this information;
- Users of the Site may opt out of the use of DART cookies by visiting the Google Ads and Partner Sites Network Privacy Policy page.
Detailed information on the processing of Personal Data
Personal Data is collected for the following purposes and using the following services:
Advertising
This type of service allows User Data to be utilized for advertising communication purposes. These communications are displayed in the form of banners and other advertisements on this Application, possibly based on User interests.
This does not mean that all Personal Data are used for this purpose. Information and conditions of use are shown below.
Some of the services listed below may use Trackers to identify Users or they may use the behavioral retargeting technique, i.e. displaying ads tailored to the User’s interests and behavior, including those detected outside this Application. For more information, please check the privacy policies of the relevant services.
Services of this kind usually offer the possibility to opt out of such tracking. In addition to any opt-out feature offered by any of the services below, Users may learn more on how to generally opt out of interest-based advertising within the dedicated section “How to opt-out of interest-based advertising” in this document.
To see our full list of partners, click the blue Privacy button in the bottom right corner.
Google Ad Manager
Google Ad Manager is an advertising service provided by Google Ireland Limited that allows the Owner to run advertising campaigns in conjunction with external advertising networks that the Owner, unless otherwise specified in this document, has no direct relationship with.
In order to understand Google’s use of Data, consult Google’s partner policy.
This service uses the “DoubleClick” Cookie, which tracks use of this Application and User behavior concerning ads, products and services offered. Users may decide to disable all the DoubleClick Cookies by going to: Google Ad Settings.
Personal Data processed: Tracker; Usage Data.
Place of processing: Ireland – Privacy Policy.
Category of personal information collected according to CCPA: internet information.
This processing constitutes a sale based on the definition under the CCPA. In addition to the information in this clause, the User can find information regarding how to opt out of the sale in the section detailing the rights of Californian consumers.
Analytics
The services contained in this section enable the Owner to monitor and analyze web traffic and can be used to keep track of User behavior.
Google Analytics
Google Analytics is a web analysis service provided by Google Ireland Limited (“Google”). Google utilizes the Data collected to track and examine the use of this Application, to prepare reports on its activities and share them with other Google services.
Google may use the Data collected to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.
Personal Data processed: Tracker; Usage Data.
Place of processing: Ireland – Privacy Policy – Opt Out.
Category of personal information collected according to CCPA: internet information.
This processing constitutes a sale based on the definition under the CCPA. In addition to the information in this clause, the User can find information regarding how to opt out of the sale in the section detailing the rights of Californian consumers.
Google Analytics Demographics and Interests reports
Google Analytics Demographics and Interests reports is a Google Advertising Reporting feature that makes available demographic and interests Data inside Google Analytics for this Application (demographics means age and gender Data). Users can opt out of Google’s use of cookies by visiting Google’s Ads Settings.
Personal Data processed: Tracker; unique device identifiers for advertising (Google Advertiser ID or IDFA, for example).
Place of processing: Ireland – Privacy Policy – Opt Out.
Category of personal information collected according to CCPA: identifiers; internet information.
This processing constitutes a sale based on the definition under the CCPA. In addition to the information in this clause, the User can find information regarding how to opt out of the sale in the section detailing the rights of Californian consumers.
Google Analytics with anonymized IP
Google Analytics is a web analysis service provided by Google Ireland Limited (“Google”). Google utilizes the Data collected to track and examine the use of this Application, to prepare reports on its activities and share them with other Google services.
Google may use the Data collected to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.
This integration of Google Analytics anonymizes your IP address. It works by shortening Users’ IP addresses within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the complete IP address be sent to a Google server and shortened within the US.
Personal Data processed: Tracker; Usage Data.
Place of processing: Ireland – Privacy Policy – Opt Out.
Category of personal information collected according to CCPA: internet information.
This processing constitutes a sale based on the definition under the CCPA. In addition to the information in this clause, the User can find information regarding how to opt out of the sale in the section detailing the rights of Californian consumers.
Displaying content from external platforms
This type of service allows you to view content hosted on external platforms directly from the pages of this Application and interact with them.
This type of service might still collect web traffic data for the pages where the service is installed, even when Users do not use it.
Google Fonts
Google Fonts is a typeface visualization service provided by Google Ireland Limited that allows this Application to incorporate content of this kind on its pages.
Personal Data processed: Tracker; Usage Data.
Place of processing: Ireland – Privacy Policy.
Category of personal information collected according to CCPA: internet information.
This processing constitutes a sale based on the definition under the CCPA. In addition to the information in this clause, the User can find information regarding how to opt out of the sale in the section detailing the rights of Californian consumers.
SPAM protection
This type of service analyzes the traffic of this Application, potentially containing Users’ Personal Data, with the purpose of filtering it from parts of traffic, messages and content that are recognized as SPAM.
Google reCAPTCHA
Google reCAPTCHA is a SPAM protection service provided by Google Ireland Limited.
The use of reCAPTCHA is subject to the Google privacy policy and terms of use.
Personal Data processed: answers to questions; clicks; keypress events; motion sensor events; mouse movements; scroll position; touch events; Tracker; Usage Data.
Place of processing: Ireland – Privacy Policy.
Category of personal information collected according to CCPA: internet information; inferred information.
This processing constitutes a sale based on the definition under the CCPA. In addition to the information in this clause, the User can find information regarding how to opt out of the sale in the section detailing the rights of Californian consumers.
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
We are a Data Controller of your information.
Lite-story.com 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:
- Lite-story.com needs to perform a contract with you
- You have given Lite-story.com permission to do so
- Processing your personal information is in Lite-story.com legitimate interests
- Lite-story.com needs to comply with the law
Lite-story.com 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.
CCPA Privacy Rights (Do Not Sell My Personal Information)
Under the CCPA, among other rights, California consumers have the right to:
Request that a business that collects a consumer’s personal data disclose the categories and specific pieces of personal data that a business has collected about consumers.
Request that a business delete any personal data about the consumer that a business has collected.
Request that a business that sells a consumer’s personal data, not sell the consumer’s personal data.
If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.
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 activities.
Lite-story.com 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.
Disclaimer
Please be aware that the transmission of personal information when visiting third party websites, including the websites of partner companies, even if the website contains a link to the Site or the Site has a link to these websites, is not subject to this document. The Site Administration is not responsible for the actions of other websites. The process of collecting and transmitting personal information when visiting these sites is regulated by the document “Protection of Personal Information” or similar, located on the sites of these companies.
Contact Us
If you have any questions or suggestions regarding this privacy policy, please contact us.