Privacy Policy

1. Introduction Welcome to Augmented Arts SRL (“we,” “our,” “us”). Your privacy is important to us, and we are committed to protecting the personal information you share with us. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, and protect your information when you visit our website.

2. Who We Are Our website address is: https://augmentedarts.ro.

3. Information We Collect We collect the following types of information:

  • Personal Information: When you subscribe to our mailing list, we collect your email address and any other information you voluntarily provide.
  • Automatically Collected Information: We may collect non-personal data such as your IP address, browser type, device information, and website usage statistics through cookies and analytics tools.
  • Comments: When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, as well as the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help with spam detection. An anonymized string created from your email address (hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to check if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available at: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

4. Media If you upload images to the website, avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors can download and extract location data from images on the website.

5. Cookies and Tracking Technologies We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to enhance your experience on our website. You can adjust your browser settings to refuse cookies, though this may impact your website experience.

  • If you leave a comment, you may opt-in to saving your name, email, and website in cookies. These last for one year.
  • If you visit our login page, we set a temporary cookie to check if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
  • When you log in, we set up several cookies to save your login information and screen display choices. Login cookies last two days, screen option cookies last one year. Selecting “Remember Me” extends the login persistence to two weeks. Logging out removes login cookies.
  • Editing or publishing an article saves an additional cookie that expires after one day.

6. Embedded Content from Other Websites Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles). Embedded content from other websites behaves as if the visitor has visited the external site, potentially collecting data, using cookies, and tracking interactions.

7. How We Use Your Information We use the collected information for the following purposes:

  • To send newsletters and updates if you have subscribed to our mailing list.
  • To improve our website and user experience.
  • To analyze website traffic and trends.
  • To manage and moderate comments.

8. How We Protect Your Information We implement appropriate security measures to protect your personal data from unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction. However, no online data transmission can be guaranteed as completely secure.

9. Who We Share Your Data With If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

10. How Long We Retain Your Data

  • If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely for automatic recognition of follow-up comments.
  • Registered users (if any) can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except for usernames). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

11. What Rights You Have Over Your Data If you have an account or have left comments, you can request an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you provided. You can also request deletion of any personal data, excluding data we must keep for administrative, legal, or security reasons.

12. Where Your Data Is Sent Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

13. Third-Party Services We may use third-party services, such as email marketing platforms and analytics tools, which may collect and process your data according to their own privacy policies. We encourage you to review their policies for more information.

14. Changes to This Privacy Policy We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Any changes will be posted on this page with an updated “Effective Date.”

15. Contact Us If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at contact@augmnetedarts.ro.

16. Company Information

  • Company Name: Augmented Arts SRL
  • VAT Number: RO 38977585