Who we are
Our website address is: https://testing.general.chemistrysteps.com.
Your privacy is important to us. Chemistry Steps takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information. But we can make no guarantees or promises in this regard, and you provide information to us at your own risk. We will disclose personally-identifying information only in the following situations: 1. In response to a subpoena, court order or other requests from law enforcement, 2. With permission of the user, 3. When it is necessary to investigate complaints of abuse, disruptive, inappropriate or otherwise unlawful or violating the terms of service, 4. When Chemistry Steps believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Chemistry Steps, third parties or the public at large.
Chemistry Steps will not share or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone unless it is required by law. If you are a registered user, Chemistry Steps may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Chemistry Steps and our products. If you send us a request (for example via email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users.
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.
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
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. We use a number of different cookies on our website.
The cookies help Chemistry Steps to track visitors, their usage of the website, and their website access preferences. Chemistry Steps visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using this website, with the drawback that certain features of the site may not function properly without the aid of 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.
Some of the content on Chemistry Steps may be shared, without a notice, on social networking sites. In order to enable this function, cookies are set by Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn, and Twitter. To find out more about how each of these sites uses your information and how you can opt out or delete this information, you should check their respective policies.
You can learn more about what cookies are and find out how to control or delete them at: https://www.aboutcookies.org/
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
Google Analytics
We use google analytics to understand the visitor behavior on our website. It may use a set of cookies to collect information and report website usage statistics without personally identifying individual visitors. We do not collect any of your personal information such as name or address so this information cannot be used to identify who you are.
You can find out more about Google Analytics cookies and privacy information at:https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245.
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.
Business Transfers
If Chemistry Steps, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Chemistry Steps goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur and that any acquirer of Chemistry Steps may continue to use your information as set forth in this policy.
Advertising
Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to our website or other websites.
Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to our users based on their visit to our sites and/or other sites on the Internet.
Users may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Ads Settings. (Alternatively, you can opt out of a third-party vendor’s use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info.)
Please do not abuse the add banners and click on them only if you are interested in the product or service being advertised.
For more information, you can visit google Adsense page at:
https://support.google.com/adsense#topic=
Privacy Policy Changes
Chemistry Steps may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Chemistry Steps sole discretion. Chemistry Steps encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such changes.