Who we are
Our website address is: https://www.guitar-online.com.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
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.
Contact forms
When you send a message to Guitar-Online.com, the information collected through our contact form is used only to provide an answer. It is not stored or sold to other companies.
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.
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
Guitar-Online.com does not collect personal information about you. However, Google Analytics and Stat Counter tools automatically collect anonymous information related to the use of our site, such as IP address, type of browser, access times, etc. This information is used only for our in-house statistics.
For your information, the logs of StatCounter are automatically deleted after a 2 months period approximately. Those of Google Analytics are deleted after 14 month exactly. If you wish to browse the Web in an absolutely anonymous way, it is recommended to use a browser such as Tor: https://www.torproject.org/index.html.en
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.
What rights you have over your data
If you 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.
Additional information
What automated decision making and/or profiling we do with user data
We do not track your behavior on other sites, but advertising companies may do. With regard to the personalized ads showed on our site, those are managed by Google.
If you wish to Opt-Out for Google Adsense, please follow the following link: https://adssettings.google.com/ or directly from the page http://optout.aboutads.info/, it will be necessary in this case to click on Opt-Out for all.
These choices are dependent on the browser and/or the peripheral you use to browse the Internet. On the assumption that you use several browsers (Firefox, Chrome, Edge, etc) the operation will have to be repeated for each one of them. Please note that this choice will affect all the sites you will visit, our site included.