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Privacy Policy

Who we are

Our website address is: http://melanto.com.

At Melanto Ltd., we recognize that privacy of your personal information is important. Here is information on what types of personal information we receive and collect when you use / visit www.melanto.com website, and how we safeguard your information. 

Personal Information

We do not collect personal information. The server collects statistical data as every server – IP, OS type, Browser type, language etc. We use the server statistics only for statistical purposes. If you purchase our product(s) or service(s) – we will use your personal information only for communication purposes.

We will never sell your personal information to third parties.

We do not send unsolicited email. We only write you if you write us. We do not collect email addresses. There are 2 possible situations we can have your email address – if you are our customer and/or if you contact us providing your email address. If you purchase our products or services, we will use the email address provided in the purchase process for sending you important nnotes about updates, upgrades and bugfixes. If you give us your email address when asking question – we will use this email to answer you. We never give your email address to third party.

Neither Melanto Ltd. nor its owner is responsible for spamming caused by malicious mischief, virus programs, or other form of malicious intent, nor by computer error, ISP error, server error, web host error, nor any unintentional act resulting in unsolicited email. Neither Melanto Ltd. nor its owner is responsible for breach of privacy caused by malicious mischief, virus programs, or other form of malicious intent, nor by computer error, ISP error, server error, web host error, nor any unintentional act resulting in divulgence.  All steps are taken to ensure the privacy of all parties who provide www.melanto.com website or its author with personal information, including the storage of email content and addresses on floppy disc or separate hard drive storage

Cookies and Web Beacons

We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, click here.

A cookie is a small piece of information that is sent to your browser when you access a site.

We do use cookies to store information, such as your personal preferences when you visit our site.  This could include only showing you a popup once in your visit, or the ability to login to some of our features, such as forums.

We also use third party advertisements on melanto.com to support our site.  Some of these advertisers may use technology such as cookies and web beacons when they advertise on our site, which will also send these advertisers (such as Google through the Google AdSense program) information including your IP address, your ISP , the browser you used to visit our site, and in some cases, whether you have Flash installed.  This is generally used for geotargeting purposes (showing New York real estate ads to someone in New York, for example) or showing certain ads based on specific sites visited (such as showing cooking ads to someone who frequents cooking sites).

You can chose to disable or selectively turn off our cookies or third-party cookies in your browser settings, or by managing preferences in programs such as Norton Internet Security.  However, this can affect how you are able to interact with our site as well as other websites.  This could include the inability to login to services or programs, such as logging into forums or accounts.

If you visit our login page, 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.

SOFTWARE – DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES

EVERY AND EACH SOFTWARE PRODUCT PUBLISHED BY MELANTO LTD (THE PUBLISHER) VIA MELANTO.COM OR ANY OTHER SITE OR MEDIA IS PROVIDED “AS-IS”. NO WARRANTY OF ANY KIND IS EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED. YOU (RECEPIENT) USE THIS SOFTWARE AT YOUR (RECEPIENTS) OWN RISK. PUBLISHER WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR DATA LOSS, DAMAGES, LOSS OF PROFITS OR ANY OTHER KIND OF LOSS WHILE USING OR MISUSING THE SOFTWARE.

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.

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 tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Who we share your data with

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

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 your data is sent

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.