AFC Privacy Policy
Who we are
Our website address is: https://afcindustries.com.
Data Collection
We collect personal data including names, emails, and IP addresses when you leave comments or interact with our website. We use this data for analytics, improving our services, and marketing purposes.
Data Use
Your data is used for spam detection, communication, and to enhance user experience. It may also be used for marketing and other promotional purposes by us and third-party partners.
Data Sharing
We may share your data with trusted third parties, including advertising partners, to help us deliver relevant content and advertisements.
User Rights
You can access, modify, or delete your data anytime through your user profile. You also have the right to request an export of your personal data or its deletion.
Security Practices
We employ security measures to protect your data from unauthorized access, alteration, or destruction.
Comments
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.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Cookies
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.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
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 tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Who we share your data with
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or 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.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
When you visit or log in to our website, cookies and similar technologies may be used by our online data partners or vendors to associate these activities with other personal information they or others have about you, including by association with your email or home address. We (or service providers on our behalf) may then send communications and marketing to these email or home addresses. You may opt out of receiving this advertising by visiting https://app.retention.com/optout
Use of Gobot Services
You may interact with a chatbot while using our site or application, which we rely on as a medium for communications with you. We use a chatbot company called Gobot LLC (“Gobot”) to implement this chatbot. We may provide a limited amount of your information (such as your name, email address and sign-up date if you are signed up for our product or service) to Gobot to facilitate our communications with you, improve our service to you, and better understand your use of our service or product. We may also use Gobot to collect data for analytics purposes when you visit our website or use our product or interact with our chatbot. Gobot uses cookies and other technologies to collect data on users’ behavior and their devices. For more information on the privacy practices of Gobot and the data that Gobot collects, please click here and see Section 14. Gobot’s services are governed by Gobot’s terms and conditions of use which can be found here. If you would like to opt out of having this information collected by Gobot click here. Note that Gobot has certified compliance with the EU-US and Swiss-US Privacy Shield Frameworks as set forth by the US Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use, and retention of personal information from European Union member countries.