Your Privacy

Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy, we provide this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used. To make this notice easy to find, we make it available on our homepage and at every point where personally identifiable information may be requested.

Who We Are

We are a team of entomophiles trying to provide useful information to the visitors by sharing Entomological snippets that will spark learning and an increased appreciation for the science.

Our website address is https:/BugIQ.com

What Personal Data Do We Collect?

We collect information from you when you subscribe to BugIQ.com. When subscribing to our site, as appropriate, you may be asked to enter your: Name and Email address. You may, however, visit our site anonymously. We promise to never send you any spam. Please report to us if you receive any. BugIQ.com will never ask for your Credit Card and Bank accounts details. We currently do not offer any services that will require you to enter such sensitive information on our site or in response to an email from us.

Our Services

When you contact us for any services that we provide, we may collect your personal information such as your full name, email address, etc. that you input on the contact form. If you wish to remove any of this information from our database, you can contact us and we will clear it for you.

Cookies and Tracking

A cookie is a small text file that is sent to your computer or mobile device (referred to in this policy as a “device”) by the web server so that the website can remember some information about your browsing activity on the website. The cookie will collect information relating to your use of BugIQ.com, information about your devices such as the device’s IP address and browser type, demographic data, and if you arrived at our site via a link from a third-party site, the URL of the linking page. If you are a registered user or subscriber, it may also collect your name and email address, which may be transferred to data processors for registered user or subscriber verification purposes. To know more about cookies, please read this article.

We use cookies to track your activities on our website to serve you better. We collect data regarding your sessions using third-party services like Google Analytics to provide a better user experience on our website. You can read the Google Analytics Privacy Policy to know more about their policies. We also use advertising services like Media.net and RevContent which may show ads based on your interests. You can read the Media.net Privacy Policy and Rev Content Privacy Policy to know more about their policies. BugIQ.com has no access or control over these cookies that may be used by third-party advertisers.

Apart from the display advertising on BugIQ.com, there may be certain affiliate links, embedded within the content on different pages or certain sections of the website. These affiliate links may give us some commission if you purchase the product(s) following that link. But, this does not mean, we have endorsed that product or brand. We advise you to check the product details, seller’s return policy (if any), and other available details thoroughly before making any purchase. Buy at your own risk.

If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt-in to save your name, email address, and website in the form of 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.

If you have an account and you log in to BugIQ.com, 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.

Data We Collect From User Inputs

Here is the description of the type of information we collect from the user input fields such as comments, contact forms, email subscriptions, etc. You can get any of these data removed from our website just by emailing us.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on BugIQ.com, 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 – automattic.com/privacy. After the approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Email Subscription

When you subscribe to “BUGIQ this week”, we may collect your personal information such as email address, name, etc. You will receive an email to confirm the subscription. You can also opt out of the mailing list any time you wish using the link provided in our emails or by contacting us.

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

We keep contact form submissions for an indefinite time period for customer service purposes. If you wish to remove any information you submitted on a contact form on our website, please contact us at admin@BugIQ.com

Website Interaction

When visiting BugIQ.com, the IP address used to access the site will be logged along with the date and time of access. This information is purely used to analyze trends, administer the site, track users’ movement, and gather broad demographic information for internal use. Most importantly, any recorded IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information.

Links to Third-Party Websites

We have included links on this site for your use and reference. We are not responsible for the privacy policies of these websites. You should be aware that the privacy policies of these sites may differ from our own. The non-proprietary components used here are subject to the licensing agreements of their respective copyright holders and are binding for the user.

Embedded Content From Other Websites

Articles on BugIQ.com may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites such as YouTube, Instagram, and others behave 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 tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Analytics

BugIQ.com collects website usage data using Google Analytics and NewRelic. Using a cookie, website visitor usage statistics are used to improve the website by doing things such as identifying popular content or learning how users find the site. If you wish, you may opt out of Google Analytics tracking by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.

You may also want to read our Terms of Use before continuing to use the website.

What Do We Use Your Information For?

Any information we collect from you may be used in one of the following ways –

To improve our website (we continually strive to improve our website offerings based on the information and feedback we receive from you).

To implement systems that maintain the safety of your personal information when you enter, submit, or access your personal information.

We use cookies to serve our visitors with personalized advertisements.

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information. This does not include trusted third parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential.

We may also release your information when we believe releasing is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect our or others’ rights, property, or safety. However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.

Who We Share Your Data With

We share some of the information such as comments, session details, cookies, etc. with the following third-party services for the purpose of improving our website, avoiding spam, serving better ads, etc. Below are the details of who we share your data with.

Analytics Services such as Google Analytics, NewRelic, and Jetpack: Google Analytics is a web analytics service that helps us to track our visitors and improve the website for the best possible user experience. Google operates independently from our privacy policy and we recommend reading Google Analytics Privacy and Data Sharing page to know more about their policies. Also, we use the Jetpack plugin from WordPress that allows us to track the number of visits to our website. You can have a look at the privacy policy of the Automattic to know more. We use NewRelic to monitor our website performance including getting the details of website downtime. Please check the Privacy Policy of New Relic to know more about them.

Interest-Based Advertising Networks: SnigelWeb and MGID: We use ad services such as Snigel Web and MGID to serve interest-based ads on our website. This third-party advertising service may use the technologies such as Cookies to serve interest-based ads to you.

Third-party services like spam filtering: Akismet: Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service like Akismet that will check your email address, IP, name, comment text, etc. to filter the spam comments. You can read the Automatic privacy policy to know more.

Contact form messages may be forwarded or shared with relevant parties in order to respond to your requests or issues.

European data protection law requires data about European residents that is transferred outside the European Union to be safeguarded to the same standards as if the data was in Europe. So we always make sure to ensure that these standards are met. We encourage you to read all the privacy policies of our third-party service providers to know more about their Privacy Policy.

How Long We Retain Your Data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is done so that 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.

Information sent through contact forms is also held indefinitely.

If you subscribed to our newsletter or services, your data will be retained until you decide to opt out of the mailing list. You can do so by using the unsubscribe link under each mail that we send or by directly contacting us.

The Analytics data that we collect will be retained for a period of 90 days by Google Analytics service. We encourage you to read their privacy policy to understand it.

What Rights We Have Over Your Data

If you have an account on BugIQ.com 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.

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.

BugIQ.com 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 BugIQ.com, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately and we will do our best to promptly remove such information from our records.

Where We Send Your Data

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

Messages sent through the contact page are processed by Jetpack.

How We Protect Your Data?

We value the privacy of the visitors. So, we are continuously protecting your data from any thefts or hacks. We are using SSL encryption on our website that ensures the website is served over HTTPS. Also, we have several layers of protection mechanisms in place such as Firewalls, Two-factor authentication, etc. We also train our staff to carefully deal with user information and never leave any loopholes for any data breach. Your data is safe with us.

What Data Breach Procedures We Have in Place

We take data privacy seriously. We have internal reporting systems and firewalls that prevent any data breaches by creating an extremely powerful wall between the hackers and our website. We also do have a contact mechanism that allows users to reach us and let us know of any bugs on our website. We run security inspections on our website to make sure that the website and its data stay protected.

Additional Information for California Residents Explained

If you are a resident of California, please review these additional privacy disclosures.

Your Rights

California law requires us to disclose the categories of personal information we collect and how we use them, the categories of sources from which we collect personal information, and the third parties with whom we share personal information, which we have explained above.

We are also required to communicate information about rights you have under California law — for information about these rights, please ​review the complete document​ above. You also have the right to request what information we collect and how we use and disclose it. You may exercise these rights by contacting us via email, the contact information for the same is provided below.

In addition, we are required to provide you with certain information about the business and commercial purposes for which we collect and share your personal information. The information we collect and share has been explained above. Various advertising agents and bidders may collect data (NOT personally identifiable information) to allow the display of advertisements, to understand how users interact with our services, for auditing purposes, to detect security incidents, to prevent fraud, debug, and repair errors, and for other purposes described above.

Contact Information

If at any time, you believe that BugIQ.com or its users/members have not adhered to these principles, please notify BugIQ.com by e-mail at admin@BugIQ.com and we will use all reasonable efforts to promptly determine and correct the problem.

Concerns or questions about this privacy policy can be directed to admin@BugIQ.com for further clarification.

The above Privacy Policy applies to all of BugIQ.com’s platforms, including any of the mobile apps for Android and iOS, and browser extensions for Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome.