Who we are

Our website address is: bravamed.org.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

The data collected are of two types: navigation data and personal data provided voluntarily by the user.

Navigation data includes IP address, visited pages and information on the user’s computer environment. This data can be used for information security purposes and for statistical purposes.
Personal data is voluntarily provided by the user to access a service, eg the personal email that the user enters when he sends a message via the contact form or when he leaves a comment or registers to the site.

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.

Contact forms

When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the contact form over the visitor’s IP address and the browser’s user agent string to facilitate spam detection.

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

Analytics

bravamed.org will install on your device and, in particular, in your browser or let third parties install some cookies that are necessary for us to acquire or to acquire to our partners statistical information in an anonymous and aggregate form related to its navigation on the pages of the site.

In particular, these are cookies related to the following statistical analysis services:

Google Analytics
https://support.google.com/analytics/topic/2919631

Who we share your data with

bravamed.org does not share personal data but third parties with content hosted on bravamed.org could do so according to the respective Terms of Service to which you are referred.

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.

Your contact information

If you voluntarily accept subscription to the mailing list, your email is shared with the mailing list provider, where you can cancel your account at any time.

Additional information

Social media sharing widgets can place cookies and implement user monitoring like any third-party content. Please refer to the specific platform for the respective privacy policy.

How we protect your data

bravamed.org is protected by anti-malware software that performs regular security scans.

What data breach procedures we have in place

In case of compromise of personal data, we will send communication to the email address provided by the involved user.

What third parties we receive data from

bravamed.org does not receive personal data from third parties.

What automated decision making and/or profiling we do with user data

bravamed.org does not profile individual users. Data can be aggregated in anonymized form for statistical projections (Analytics).