Introduction
At DarkDev Labs, accessible from https://darkdevlabs.com, one of our main priorities is the privacy of our visitors. This Privacy Policy document outlines the types of information we collect, how we use it, and the rights you have over your data.
If you have additional questions or require more information about our Privacy Policy, please do not hesitate to contact us.
What personal data we collect
Comments & Contact Form
When visitors leave comments on the site or contact us through the contact form, we collect the data shown in the form — including name, email, and message — along with 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: 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
Like any other website, DarkDev Labs uses cookies. We use cookies to help us remember and process the items in your shopping cart, and to understand and save your preferences for future visits. These cookies store information including visitors' preferences and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. The information is used to optimize the users' experience by customizing our web page content based on visitors' browser type and/or other information.
Specific cookies we set
- Comment cookies — if you leave a comment, you may opt in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. These last for one year.
- Login cookies — when you log in, we set cookies to save your login information and screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days; screen options cookies last for a year. If you select "Remember Me", your login will persist for two weeks. Logging out removes the login cookies.
- Article cookies — if you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie is saved. It expires after 1 day and contains no personal data.
- Temporary cookie — on our login page, we set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles). 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.
Who we share your data with
We do not sell your personal data. Your information may be shared only in these limited cases:
- With service providers who help us operate the site (hosting, email delivery, analytics, payment processing) — bound by confidentiality obligations.
- If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email for security purposes.
- When required by law or to protect our legal rights.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This lets us 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.
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.
How we use your information
We use the information we collect in various ways, including to:
- Provide, operate, and maintain our website
- Improve, personalize, and expand our website
- Understand and analyze how you use our website
- Develop new products, services, features, and functionality
- Communicate with you — directly or through one of our partners — including for customer service, updates, and other information relating to the website
- Send you emails and marketing/promotional communications (you can opt out anytime)
- Find and prevent fraud
Log files
DarkDev Labs follows a standard procedure of using log files. These files log visitors when they visit websites. All hosting companies do this as part of hosting services' analytics. The information collected by log files includes IP addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks.
These are not linked to any personally identifiable information. The purpose of this information is for analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users' movement on the website, and gathering demographic information.
Advertising partners
Third-party ad servers or ad networks use technologies like cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons that are used in their respective advertisements and links that appear on our site, which are sent directly to users' browsers. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs.
These technologies are used to measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content you see. Note that DarkDev Labs has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.
Our Privacy Policy does not apply to other advertisers or websites. We advise you to consult the respective Privacy Policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information.
CCPA Privacy Rights
Under the CCPA, among other rights, California consumers have the right to:
- Request that a business disclose the categories and specific pieces of personal data it has collected about consumers.
- Request that a business delete any personal data about the consumer.
- Request that a business that sells consumer data, not sell that data.
If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.
GDPR Data Protection Rights
Every user is entitled to the following:
- The right to access — you can request copies of your personal data.
- The right to rectification — you can request that we correct inaccurate information or complete incomplete information.
- The right to erasure — you can request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
- The right to restrict processing — you can request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
- The right to object to processing — you can object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
- The right to data portability — you can request that we transfer the data we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you.
Children's information
Another part of our priority is adding protection for children while using the internet. We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate in, and/or monitor and guide their online activity.
DarkDev Labs does not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information from children under the age of 13. If you think that your child provided this kind of information on our website, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately and we will do our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.
Questions about this policy?
If you have any questions, want to exercise your data rights, or simply want to talk to us about privacy — reach out anytime.