Privacy Policy
Types of Data Collected
The WindowsScript website uses some third-party services for advertising and collecting usage statistics. These third-party services may collect some data, for example: Cookies; Usage data; device information used to access the WindowsScript website; geography; number of sessions; session duration; operating systems, and more... Complete details about each type of Personal Data collected are provided in the dedicated sections of this privacy policy or by specific explanatory texts displayed prior to data collection. Personal Data may be freely provided by the User, or, in the case of usage data, collected automatically when using the WindowsScript website.
Personal Data
Your privacy is important to us. It's WindowsScript's policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect from you on the WindowsScript website, and other sites we own and operate. We only ask for personal information when we truly need it to provide a service to you. We collect it by fair and lawful means, with your knowledge and consent. We also let you know why we’re collecting it and how it will be used. We only retain collected information for as long as necessary to provide you with your requested service. When we store data, we protect it within commercially acceptable means to prevent loss and theft, as well as unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use, or modification. We don’t share any personally identifying information publicly or with third parties, except when required by law. Our WindowsScript.com website may link to external sites that are not operated by us.
Please be aware that we have no control over the content and practices of these sites, and cannot accept responsibility or liability for their respective privacy policies. You are free to refuse our request for your personal information, with the understanding that we may be unable to provide you with some of your desired services. Your continued use of our website will be regarded as acceptance of our practices around privacy and personal information. If you have any questions about how we handle user data and personal information, feel free to contact us.
Cookie Policy
What are cookies?
As is common practice with almost all professional websites, this site uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience. This page describes what information they gather, how we use it, and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored, however, this may downgrade or 'break' certain elements of the site's functionality.
How we use cookies?
We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. Unfortunately, in most cases, there are no industry-standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not in case they are used to provide a service that you use.
Disabling cookies
You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser's Help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of this site. Therefore, it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.
Cookies we set
- Email newsletters related cookies: This site offers newsletter or email subscription services and cookies may be used to remember if you are already registered and whether to show certain notifications which might only be valid for subscribed/unsubscribed users.
- Form related cookies: When you submit data through a form such as those found on contact pages or comment forms, cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence.
- Site preferences cookies: In order to provide you with a great experience on this site, we provide the functionality to set your preferences for how this site runs when you use it. In order to remember your preferences, we need to set cookies so that this information can be called whenever you interact with a page affected by your preferences.
Third Party Cookies
- Third parties, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to the WindowsScript website or other websites.
- Using advertising cookies, Google and its partners can serve ads to users based on their visits to our WindowsScript.com sites or other sites on the Internet.
- Users can opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Ads Settings. Alternatively, you can opt out of a third-party vendor's use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info.
In some special cases, we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third-party cookies you might encounter through this site. Statistics Services contained in this section enable the owner to monitor and analyze web traffic and can be used to keep track of User behavior.
Google Analytics
This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solutions on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content.
For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page. The third-party analytics are used to track and measure usage of this site so that we can continue to produce engaging content. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site or pages you visit which helps us understand how we can improve the site for you.
More Information
Hopefully, that has clarified things for you and as was previously mentioned if there is something that you aren't sure whether you need or not it's usually safer to leave cookies enabled in case it does interact with one of the features you use on our site.
Last update: May 20, 2023