Privacy Statement (ENG)

Privacy Policy for TPOCo

Last Updated: 2024-08-27

Welcome to TPOCo! Your privacy is important to us. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and protect your information when you visit our website, https://co-operatio.org/.

1. Who We Are

Our website address is: https://co-operatio.org/.

2. Information We Collect

Personal Information: When you subscribe to our newsletter, fill out a contact form, leave a comment, or participate in community forums, we may collect personal information such as your name, email address, and any other information you choose to provide.
Comments: When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, as well as the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help with spam detection. An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to check 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, please avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Forms: We use Ultimate Member to provide forms for user registration, login, and profiles. When you fill out these forms, we collect personal data such as your name, email address, and any additional information you choose to provide. This data is used to manage your account and provide personalized services on our site. This information is retained in our website’s database indefinitely and can be exported or removed upon user request via the existing WordPress data exporter or eraser. If you have opted to sync data to a third-party service (e.g., Mailchimp), data is retained there until unsubscribed or deleted.
Cookies and Similar Technologies:
- General 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. We also set temporary cookies to determine if your browser accepts cookies when you visit our login page. These cookies contain no personal data and are discarded when you close your browser. When you log in, we set up several cookies to save your login information and 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, which expires after one day.
- WPML Cookies: WPML uses cookies to identify the visitor’s current language, the last visited language, and the language of users who have logged in. While you use the plugin, WPML will share data regarding the site through Installer. No personal data from the user itself will be shared.
- Complianz Cookies: This website uses the Privacy Suite for WordPress by Complianz to collect and record browser and device-based consent. For this functionality, your IP address is anonymized and stored in our database. This service does not process any personally identifiable information and does not share any data with the service provider. For more information, see the Complianz Privacy Statement.
Usage Data: We collect information about your interactions with our website, such as IP address, browser type, pages visited, and the time spent on our site. This data is collected through cookies and similar tracking technologies.

3. How We Use Your Information

To Improve Our Website: We use the information to analyze site usage and improve the content and functionality of our website.
To Communicate with You: We may use your contact information to send newsletters, updates, and promotional materials related to TPOCo’s initiatives and content.
For Security and Compliance: We use data to monitor for potential security threats and to comply with legal obligations and requests from regulatory authorities.

4. Sharing Your Information

Service Providers: We may share your information with third-party service providers who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or providing services to you, as long as those parties agree to keep your information confidential.
Legal Requirements: We may disclose your information if required by law or if we believe that such action is necessary to protect the rights, property, or safety of TPOCo, our users, or others.
Spam Detection: Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service to help identify and prevent spam.
Third-Party Services: If you have extended the functionality of the Ultimate Member plugin (e.g., sending registered user data to Mailchimp via the Mailchimp extension), this user info may be passed to these external services. These services may be located abroad and outside the EU.

5. 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 if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

6. 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, 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. Registered user information is retained in your website’s database indefinitely.

7. Your Rights 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.

8. Security of Your Information

We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information. These include:

SSL Encryption: All information transmitted via our website is encrypted using SSL (Secure Socket Layer) technology.
Security Plugins: We use security plugins such as Jetpack Protect and Wordfence Security to prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the correct use of information.

9. Where Your Data is Sent

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service to help identify and prevent spam. If you have extended the functionality of the Ultimate Member plugin to sync data to a third-party service (e.g., Mailchimp), this user info may be passed to these external services, which may be located abroad and outside the EU.

10. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. Any changes will be posted on this page, and we encourage you to review this policy periodically to stay informed about how we are protecting your information.

11. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, please contact us at: