Privacy Policy
Who we are
Our website address is: https://www.samsonsky.com.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site 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: 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, 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, Pixels, and Tracking Technologies
We, along with our third-party service providers, advertisers, and analytics partners, use cookies, tracking pixels (also known as web beacons or clear GIFs), tags, SDKs, and similar technologies to automatically collect certain information about your activity when you interact with our Site and Services.
1. Why We Use These Technologies
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Essential & Functional: To keep you logged in, save your preferences (such as name or email when leaving a comment), remember your display options, and ensure core site functionality. Login cookies last for two days, screen options cookies last for a year, and comment preference cookies last for one year.
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Analytics & Performance: To collect statistics and analyze trends regarding visitor behavior on our site, monitor platform health, and gather demographic and behavioral information about our user base as a whole.
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Targeted Advertising: Authorized third-party partners (such as ad networks and analytics providers) may use these tracking tools to collect information over time and across different websites to deliver targeted, cross-contextual advertising tailored to your interests.
2. Specific Site Functionality
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Login & Comments: If you visit our login page, a temporary cookie is set to determine if your browser accepts cookies (contains no personal data; discarded when you close your browser). If you select “Remember Me”, your login persists for two weeks. If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie is saved to indicate the post ID (expires after 1 day).
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Embedded Content: Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles). Embedded content from other websites behaves as if you visited the other site directly and may collect data, use cookies, or embed additional third-party tracking.
3. Managing Your Preferences and Opting Out
While you can adjust your browser settings to refuse cookies or limit tracking, doing so may impact your ability to use certain features of our Site. You can also manage your preferences for targeted advertising through industry opt-out programs, such as the Digital Advertising Alliance (
By using our Site and Services, you consent to the placement and use of these cookies and tracking technologies by us and our third-party partners as outlined above.
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 with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Mobile Phone Policy
No mobile information will be shared with third parties/affiliates for marketing/promotional purposes. All the above categories exclude text messaging originator opt-in data and consent; this information will not be shared with any third parties.
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 (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
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.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Your contact information
We disclose potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on our behalf or to provide services available at our website, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using this website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. We will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, we may disclose potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when we believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect our property or rights, third parties or the public at large.
If you are a registered user of this site and have supplied your email address, we may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with our company and our products. We primarily use our blog to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. We take all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
Additional information
E-commerce
Those who engage in transactions with us – by purchasing our services or products, are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, we collect such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with us. We do not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described above. Visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, we may change this Privacy Policy from time to time, and at our sole discretion. We encourage visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to this Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.