Privacy Policy

Last Edited: 09 June 2023.

Who we are

Thanks for visiting AeroToolbox. Privacy is very important for us and we take your privacy seriously. The aim of this page is to explain our approach to your privacy and how this affects you.

Our website address is: https://aerotoolbox.com.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Comments

AeroToolbox uses the Facebook Comments comment engine to provide readers with a way to leave and read comments on the site. To be able to leave comments, you have to create an account at Facebook, and sign in. This means Facebook will know if you're signed in, and theoretically could know if you visit this site.

Please refer to the Meta privacy policy: https://www.facebook.com/privacy/policy for further information.

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

Contact forms on the website are built using the default Django Framework and secured with reCAPTCHA (Google). Messages sent through a contact form are saved to the server and accessible to the site admin. The server stores the submission data collected through contact forms, which may include the submitters’ personal information, in the database on the server that hosts the website.

Email Marketing

We use ConvertKit to manage our email marketing subscriber list and to send emails to our subscribers. ConvertKit is a third-party provider, which may process your data using industry standard technologies to help us monitor and improve our newsletter. (ConvertKit’s privacy policy is available at https://convertkit.com/privacy/.) You can unsubscribe from our newsletter or emails by clicking on the unsubscribe link provided at the end of each newsletter. Once you unsubscribe, you will no longer receive any emails from AeroToolbox.

Cookies

A cookie is a small amount of data which is sent to your browser from a website’s computers and stored on your computer’s hard drive. Cookies can be used to provide you with a tailored user experience and to make it easier for you to use a website upon a future visit. We may include cookies on aerotoolbox.com and use them to recognize you when you return to our website. You may set your browser so that it does not accept cookies; however, you may need to enable cookies on your web browser if you wish to access certain personalized features of our Services. Cookies are a form of Non-Personally Identifiable Information. Please visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org/ and https://cookies.insites.com/disable-cookies/ for more information on how you can disable some or all cookies.

Ads

AeroToolbox makes use of Google Adsense to deliver adverts on this website. Google uses cookies to help serve the ads it displays. When users visit a Google partner's website (such as this website), a cookie may be dropped on that end user's browser. Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to the end user (you) based on your visit to this site and/or other sites on the Internet. Google's privacy policy and terms may be accessed at https://policies.google.com/privacy.

Analytics

AeroToolbox uses Google Analytics, to collect anonymous statistical data about your visits. This includes, but is not limited to, which pages you visit, how much time you spend on each page, how did you arrive to the site. We also collect anonymous basic data about your computer - what OS and browser do you use, which country are you visiting us from.

Every piece of this data is anonymous - we only know someone visited our site, but it is never possible (nor is it our intent) to identify who visited our site. We use this quantitative statistical information gathered to make improvements to our website and to better serve our users. This information is never shared with any third party. We do not link aggregate user data with personally identifiable information.

Google's privacy policy and terms may be accessed at https://policies.google.com/privacy. You can learn more about Google Analytics, or opt out entirely any time.

Linked and embedded content from other websites

This website may contain links to other web sites. Some of those web sites may be operated by third parties. We provide the links for your convenience, but we do not review, control, or monitor the privacy practices of web sites operated by others.

We are not responsible for the performance of web sites operated by third parties or for your business dealings with them. Therefore, whenever you leave this web site we recommend that you review each web site's privacy practices and make your own conclusions regarding the adequacy of these practices.

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.

Children's Privacy

AeroToolbox does not address anyone under the age of 18 (“Children”).

We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 18. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your Children has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from children without verification of parental consent, we will take steps to remove that information from our servers.

Who we share your data with

We don’t share your personal information with third parties other than those mentioned in this privacy policy. Only aggregated, anonymized data is periodically transmitted to external services to help us improve the AeroToolbox Website and service. These services include:

• Google Analytics (Privacy Policy)

We may also use social buttons provided by services like Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook. Your use of these third party services is entirely optional. We are not responsible for the privacy policies and/or practices of these third party services, and you are responsible for reading and understanding those third party services’ privacy policies.

How long do we retain your data

For users that register on our website, we 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.

Our contact information

Please direct any comments or queries regarding our privacy policy to us through the contact form on our About page.