Privacy Policy for visitors in the European Economic Area (EEA)



Privacy Policy


Privacy Policy of Another Random Thought of a Procrastinator was last updated and posted on February 5, 2015. This Policy governs the privacy terms of our blog and it is located at https://anotherrandomthoughtofaprocrastinator.blogspot.ca/p/disclosurepolicy-thispolicy-is-valid_5.html.


Our Privacy Policy for visitors in the European Economic Area (EEA) is as follow.


Your Privacy

The privacy of our visitors to Another Random Thought of a Procrastinator is very important to us. We try our best to follow all legal requirements to protect your privacy and we never sell your personal information to third parties.


What kind of information do we collect?

In general, our users control the amount and type of information that will be provided to us when using Another Random Thought of a Procrastinator. As a user, you can browse and find out more about our blog without providing any Personally Identifiable Information.

When you interact with us in our blog, we may process the following two kinds of information.

A. Personally Identifiable Information

"Personally Identifiable Information" is information that can personally identifiable to you. It is obtained in order for us to provide you our services within our blog.

This information includes:

1. your name
2. your email address
3. name of your website / blog
4. URL of your website / blog
5. your login data
6. your browser type and version
7. your browser plug-in types and versions
8. your time zone setting and location
9. your operating system and platform
10. other technology on the devices you use to access our blog
11. information on your online communication preferences

B. Non Personal Information

"Non Personal Information" is information that cannot personally identifiable to you. We automatically collect this information when you access our blog via a web browser or your mobile phone. Sometimes this information may also include publicly available information which is shared between you and others.

This information includes:

1. Cookies

Blogger, Google and Google Adsense (a cost-per-click (CPC) advertising program) use "Cookies" to identify the areas of our blog that you have visited. A "Cookie" refers to a small piece of data stored on your computer or mobile device by your web browser. As a visitor, you can disable the use of Cookies. However, if you disable "Cookies", you may not be able to access all our features on Another Random Thought of a Procrastinator correctly. Please notice that we never place Personally Identifiable Information in "Cookies".

Deleting cookies does not mean you are permanently opted out of any advertising program. Unless you have settings that disallow cookies, the next time you visit a site running advertisements, a new cookie will be added.

For European Economic Area (EEA) visitors:
Google Adsense will only show you non-personalised ads which are targeted using contextual information rather than your past behaviour as a user. Even though Google Adsense don’t use cookies for non-personalised ads, it uses cookies in this blog for other purposes. Cookies allow Google Adsense to check for frequency capping, aggregated ad reporting and to combat fraud and abuse.

2. Automatic Information

Blogger, Google and Google Adsense automatically receive information from your web browser or mobile device. This information includes:

a. your IP address
b. your proxy server
c. your computer operating system
d. name of your Internet provider
e. type of your web browser
f. type of your mobile device
g. the name of the website / blog from which you entered our blog
h. the name of the website / blog to which you are headed when you exit our blog


Who collect the information?

Blogger (my web hosting provider)
Google (search engine)
Google Analytics
Google Adsense (a cost-per-click (CPC) advertising program)


How do we use your information?

Another Random Thought of a Procrastinator use the information we receive from you as follows:

1. Customise consent forms of our blog
*We use the Personally Identifiable information you provided to us along with any computer information we receive to customise consent forms tailored for our European Economic Area (EEA) users.

2. Register you as a email subscriber with your consent via email service company

3. Communicate with you after you logged in or provided name and URL to post a comment
*You can always leave a comment anonymously if you prefer to do so.

4. Display non-personalised ads for our European Economic Area (EEA) visitors

5. Improve our blog contents and services by doing internal analytics
* Your Personally Identifiable Information will never be included in such data aggregations.

6. Share information with Affiliates and Other Third Parties
*We will never sell, rent, or provide our visitors' Personally Identifiable Information to third parties for any marketing purposes. We may provide your Personally Identifiable Information to companies that provide services to our blog (i.e. email service companies, Web hosting companies, etc.). These companies will only receive information necessary to provide us services and will keep your Personally Identifiable Information confidentially.

These third parties may have access to your Personally Identifiable Information:
Blogger (USA)
Google (USA)
Google Adsense (USA)
Google Analytics (USA)


Why do we need to release your Information legally?

Another Random Thought of a Procrastinator may be legally required to disclose your Personally Identifiable Information due to

1. a request by subpoena, law and / or other legal process

2. a necessity to assist law enforcement officials and / or government enforcement agencies

3. a necessity to investigate violations of or otherwise enforce our Legal Terms

4. a necessity to protect us from legal action and / or claims from third parties including our users and / or other companies

5. a necessity to protect the legal rights, personal property, real property and / or personal safety of Another Random Thought of a Procrastinator, our users, employees and affiliates.


How do we handle information?

Transferring Information

By using this blog, you authorize us to transfer and store your information in North America (Canada and the United States) for the purposes described in this policy. The privacy protections and the rights of authorities to access your information in North America (Canada and the United States) may not be the same as in your country.

Email Communications

You will receive our email communications if you have opt-into our email list. If you prefer not to receive any messages from us at any time, please follow the opt-out links from our email service provider.

EU Residents:
If you wish to exercise your "right to be forgotten" and have all Personally Identifiable Information deleted, please contact us by sending us a comment with your request in our blog. We will try our best to assist you. As a visitor of Another Random Thought of a Procrastinator, you maintain the right to file a complaint to the Data Protection Authority in your local EU Member State under the GDPR.


How do we secure our data?

Another Random Thought of a Procrastinator, Google and our email service provider have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent our users' personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed.

In addition, Another Random Thought of a Procrastinator limits access to our users' personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who only have a business need to know such data. They will only process our users' personal data on our instructions confidentially.

We will only retain our users' personal data for the time period that is necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for. These purposes including to satisfy any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.


How about privacy policies of other websites / blogs we linked to?

Another Random Thought of a Procrastinator may contain links to other websites / blogs that are not under our direct control. These websites / blogs may have their own privacy policies. We do not have any control or responsibility for these linked websites / blogs. We provide these links only for the convenience and information of our visitors. As our visitors, you access such linked websites / blogs at your own risk.

The websites / blogs we linked with are not subject to this Privacy Policy. Please check the privacy policies of those individual websites / blogs to find out how they will use your personal information. Moreover, those websites / blogs may contain a link to websites / blogs of our affiliates. The websites / blogs of our affiliates are not subject to this Privacy Policy. Please check their individual privacy policies for how the operators of such websites / blogs will use your personal information.


When will we update our Privacy Policy?

We reserve the right to modify our Privacy Policy at any time. Please review this Privacy Policy frequently. If we make changes to this policy, we may notify you by a blog post, by email or by any method at our sole discretion. We will also change the "Last Updated" date of this Privacy Policy. Any changes we make to our Privacy Policy are effective as of this Last Updated date and replace any prior Privacy Policies for visitors in the European Economic Area (EEA).

If you have any questions about our Privacy Practices or this Privacy Policy, please kindly post a comment at: Another Random Thought of a Procrastinator.



This document was last modified on 25 May 2018

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