Who we are

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Comments

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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.

Interpretation and Definitions

Interpretation

The meanings of words with capitalised first letters are defined under the following conditions: The following definitions must have the same meaning whether they are written in the singular or plural.

Definitions

For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:

• Account means a unique account created for You to access our Service or parts of our Service.
•  Affiliate means an entity that controls, is controlled by or is under common control with a party, where “control” means ownership of 50% or more of the shares, equity interest, or other securities entitled to vote for the election of directors or other managing authority.
•  Company (referred to as either “the Company”, “We”, “Us” or “Our” in this Agreement) refers to To Civil Engineering.
•  Cookies are small files that are placed on Your computer, mobile device, or any other device by a website, containing the details of Your browsing history on that website among its many uses.
•  Country refers to: Pakistan
•  Device means any device that can access the Service such as a computer, a cell phone, or a digital tablet.
•  Personal Data is any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual.
•  Service refers to the Website.
•  Service Provider means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the Company. It refers to third-party companies or individuals employed by the Company to facilitate the Service, to provide the Service on behalf of the Company, to perform services related to the Service, or to assist the Company in analyzing how the Service is used.
•  Usage Data refers to data collected automatically, either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).
•  Website refers to To Civil Engineering, accessible from https://tocivil.com
•  You mean the individual accessing or using the Service, or the company, or other legal entity on behalf of which such individual is accessing or using the Service, as applicable.

Collecting and Using Your Personal Data

Types of Data Collected

Personal Data

While using our service, we may request personally identifiable information from you that can be used to contact or identify you. Personal identifiable information may include, but is not limited to, the following:

• Email address
• Usage Data

Usage Data

When you use the Service, Usage Data is automatically collected.

Usage Data may include Your Device’s Internet Protocol address (e.g., IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service You visit, the time and date of Your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers, and other diagnostic data.

When You access the Service via a mobile device, We may automatically collect certain information, including but not limited to the type of mobile device You use, Your mobile device’s unique ID, Your mobile device’s IP address, Your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser You use, unique device identifiers, and other diagnostic data.

We may also collect information that Your browser sends whenever You visit our Service or access it via a mobile device.

Tracking Technologies and Cookies

We use Cookies and similar tracking technologies to monitor and store activity on Our Service. Beacons, tags, and scripts are tracking technologies that are used to collect and track information to improve and analyze Our Service. We may employ the following technologies:

• Cookies or Browser Cookies. A cookie is a small file that is saved to Your Device. You can instruct Your browser to refuse all Cookies or to notify you when one is sent. However, if You refuse to accept Cookies, You may be unable to use certain aspects of our Service. Unless you have changed your browser settings to reject Cookies, our Service may use them.
• Web Beacons. Certain sections of our Service and emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also known as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that allow the Company to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email, as well as for other related website statistics (such as recording the popularity of a certain section and verifying system and server integrity).

Suggested text: 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.

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.

We use both Session Cookies and Persistent Cookies to do the following:

• Necessary / Essential Cookies Type: Session Cookies Administered by: Us
  Purpose: These cookies are required for the operation of the Website and for you to use some of its features and services. They assist users in establishing their identity and prevent the use of fictitious accounts. With the help of these Cookies, we can only provide you with the services you have asked for, and we only use them to do so.
• Cookies Policy / Notice Acceptance Cookies Type: Persistent Cookies Administered by: Us
  Purpose: These cookies determine if a user has agreed to cookies being used on the Website.
• Functionality Cookies Type: Persistent Cookies Administered by: Us
  Purpose: These cookies enable us to remember your preferences when you use the Website, such as your login information or preferred language. The purpose of these Cookies is to provide you with a more personalised experience and to avoid having to re-enter your preferences each time you visit the Website.

Visit our Cookies Policy or the Cookies section of our Privacy Policy to learn more about the cookies we use and what you can do about them.

Media

You should refrain from uploading any images that have embedded location data (EXIF GPS) if you plan to upload them to the website. Any location data from images on the website can be downloaded and extracted by website visitors.

Personal Data Usage

The Company may use Personal Data for the following purposes:

• To provide and maintain our Service, including monitoring the usage of our Assistance.
• To manage Your Account: to manage Your Enrollment as a Service user. The Personal Data You provide can give You access to different Service functionalities as a registered user.
• For the performance of a contract: the development, obedience, and undertaking of the purchase contract for the products, items, or services You have bought or of any other agreement with Us through the Service.
• To contact You: To contact You by email, telephone calls, SMS, or other identical forms of electronic communication, such as a mobile application’s push notifications about updates or informative communications related to the functionalities, products, or contracted benefits, including the security updates, when necessary or appropriate for their implementation.
• To provide You with news, special offers, and general information about other goods, services, and events we offer similar to those you have already bought or enquired about unless You have opted not to receive such information.
• To manage Your requests: To attend to and manage Your requests to Us.
• For business transfers: We may use Your information to consider or execute a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which Personal Data held by Us about our Service users is among the assets transferred.
• For other purposes: We may use Your information for different objectives, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, selecting the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns, and evaluating and improving our Service, products, services, marketing, and your experience.

We may share Your private information in the following situations:

• With Service Providers: We may share Your private information with Service Providers to observe and analyze the use of our Service to contact You.
• For business transfers: We may share Your private information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of Company assets, financing, or purchase of all or a portion of Our business to another company.
• With Affiliates: We may transfer Your details to Our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy. Affiliates maintain Our parent company and any other associates, joint venture partners, or other companies that We control or are under common control with Us.
• With business partners: We may transfer Your details to Our business associates to offer You certain products, services, or promotions.
• With other users: when You share private information or otherwise interact in public areas with other users, such information may be viewed by all users and may be publicly spread outside.
• With Your consent: We may reveal Your personal information for any other purpose with Your support.

Retention of Your Personal Data

The Company will only keep your personal information for as long as it takes to accomplish the goals outlined in this privacy statement. To the extent necessary to meet our legal obligations (for instance, if applicable laws require us to keep your data on file), resolve disputes, and uphold our agreements and policies, we will keep and use your personal data.

Usage Data will also be kept by the Company for internal analysis needs. Usage Data is typically retained for only a short while. However, it may be kept longer if necessary to comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, or enhance the functionality of Our Service.

Transfer of Your Personal Data

The Company’s operating offices and any other locations where the parties involved in the processing are based are where your information, including Personal Data, is processed. As a result, this data may be moved to and kept on computers situated outside of Your state, province, country, or another governmental jurisdiction where data protection laws may vary from those from Your jurisdiction.

Your agreement to that transfer is indicated by your acceptance of this Privacy Policy and your submission of the requested information.

The Company will take whatever reasonable measures are required to guarantee that Your data is handled securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy, and no transfer of Your Personal Data to a company or a country will happen unless there are sufficient controls in place, including the security of Your data and other personal information.

Delete Your Personal Data

The Personal Data that We have gathered about You may be deleted at your request, or you may ask that We assist you in doing so.

You might be able to remove specific pieces of information about you from our service.

If you have an account, you can manage your personal information there by logging in and going to the account settings page. This will allow you to update, modify, or delete Your information whenever you want. You can get in touch with us to ask for access to, rectification of, or deletion of any personal data you’ve given us.

Please be aware, however, that occasionally, we may be required to keep certain information on file due to a legal requirement or other valid reason.

Embedded content from other websites

Suggested text: 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

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

How long we retain your data

Suggested text: 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

Suggested text: 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.

Disclosure of Your Personal Data

Business Transactions

Your Data could be moved if the Company merges with another company, buys another company, or sells its assets. We’ll let you know before Your Data is sent to a new place and is governed by a different Privacy Policy.

Law enforcement

In some cases, the Company may have to give out your personal information if the law requires it or if the government has an excellent reason to ask for it (e.g., a court or a government agency).

Other legal requirements

The Company may share Your Data if it believes, in good faith, that it needs to:

• Do something that is required by law
• Protect and defend the Company’s rights and property.
• Stop or look into any possible wrongdoing related to the Service
• Protect the safety of Service users or the public as a whole
• Keep away from legal trouble

Security of Your Personal Data

We are very concerned about the security of Your Data, but you should be aware that no method of electronic data storage or transmission over the Internet is 100% secure. We make an effort to keep Your Data secure using industry-standard procedures, but we can’t guarantee that it will always be secure.

Advertisements

• Users may see ads on our website from advertising partners, who may set cookies.
• When the ad server sends you an online ad, it can use these cookies to find out more about you or others who use your computer by recognizing it.
• Ad networks can use this data to, among other items, dispatch you ads that they consider will be most attractive to you.
• This Privacy Policy covers how Blogging uses cookies but doesn’t cover how advertisers use cookies.

Google DoubleClick DART Cookie

Google is one of the outside companies that sell things on our website. It also uses DART cookies to show ads to people who visit our site based on other sites they see online. However, visitors may choose to decline the use of DART cookies by visiting the Google ad and content network Privacy Policy at the following URL – https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads

Children’s Privacy

No one under the age of 13 can use our Service. We don’t collect personal information from anyone under 13 if we know it. If you are a parent or guardian and know your child has given us personal information, don’t hesitate to contact us. If we find out that we have collected Personal Data from someone under 13 without checking with their parents first, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.

Suppose We need consent as a legal basis for processing Your information, and Your country requires approval from a parent. In that case, We may need Your parent’s permission before We collect and use that information.

Links to Other Websites

Our Service may include links to other websites that We don’t run. If You click on a link to a third-party site, You will be taken to that site. Please read each site’s Privacy Policy before you use it.

We have no say over the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services, and we don’t take any responsibility for them.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

Our Privacy Policy may be changed from time to time. We will let you know if there are any changes by putting the new Privacy Policy on this page.

Before the change goes into effect, we will inform you by email and a prominent notice about Our Service. We will also change the “Last updated” date at the top of this Privacy Policy.

Please check this Privacy Policy occasionally to see if anything has changed. When changes are made to this Privacy Policy, they will be shown on this page.

Where your data is sent

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Contact Us

You can get in touch with us if you have any questions about this Privacy Policy:

By email: contact@tocivil.com