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. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

Suggested text: 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

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.

This cookie notice provides you with information about how Chain of Events uses “cookies”, or, similar technologies, on our websites and applications and other services (each, a “Service”) to enable us to understand how you interact with our products, to show personalised advertisements on our website and other websites, to improve your experience, and to allow you to use certain features, such as sharing content via social networks or other communications channels.

This notice also provides information about how third parties may use such technologies in association with the operation of our Services.

‍1. ABOUT THIS COOKIE NOTICE

‍This cookie notice applies when you use any of our Services that refer or link to this notice. This notice may be supplemented by additional cookie notices, or terms, provided on certain areas of the Service or during our interactions with you.

‍2. USE OF COOKIES BY CHAIN OF EVENTS

‍Cookies are small pieces of data (text files) that are placed on your computer or device by websites that you visit or applications you use. Cookies are widely used in order to make websites and applications work, or work more efficiently, and help them remember certain information about you, either for the duration of your visit (using a “session” cookie) or for repeat visits (using a “persistent” cookie).

Below provides an overview of the first and third party cookies we use within our Services. Our Services are scanned with our cookie scanning tool regularly to maintain a list as accurate as possible. We classify cookies in the following categories:

– Strictly Necessary Cookies 

– Functional Cookies, Performance Cookies & Targeting Cookies

‍3.   THE CATEGORIES OF COOKIES USED ON THIS WEBSITE ARE AS FOLLOWS:

‍ Strictly necessary cookies: These cookies do not store any directly identifiable information. However, they are necessary for the Service to function. They are usually only set in response to actions made by you which amount to a request for services, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in or filling in forms.  You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but without these cookies, some or all of the services you have asked for may not function properly. 

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‍ Performance cookies: These are analytics and research cookies that allow us to count visits and measure traffic, so we can measure and improve the performance of our Services. They also help us to know which pages are the most and least popular, and see how visitors move around the site or application. This helps us to improve the way our Services work and improve user experience.  All information collected through these cookies will be processed in an aggregated and anonymous form. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies. Blocking these cookies will not affect the service provided.

‍Functionality cookies: These cookies allow our Services to provide enhanced functionality and personalisation such as remembering the choices you make and your account preferences and to provide enhanced, more personal features. These cookies may be set by us or by third-party providers whose services we have added to our pages.     You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but without these cookies, some or all of the services you have asked for may not function properly.

‍Targeting Cookies: These files, or, code may be included, either directly or from our advertising partners, on our website, in our emails, or, mobile applications to record how you interact with us, to help us better analyse and improve our services to you, and will use this information to make the website, and, any advertising displayed to you more relevant to your interests. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies. Blocking these cookies will not affect the service provided to you, but will limit the targeted advertising that you will see, or limit our ability to tailor the website experience to your needs.

‍4. HOW TO REFUSE THE USE OF COOKIES

‍You can opt-out of each cookie category (except strictly necessary cookies)by amending your choices via the “cookie preference centre” which is located on the footer of the corresponding website.

You can also prevent your browser from accepting certain cookies, have the browser require your consent before a new cookie is placed in your browser, or block cookies altogether by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser privacy preferences menu.

The links below will help you find the settings for some common browsers (please note that we are not responsible for the content of external websites):

‍Manage cookie settings in Chrome and Chrome Android and Chrome iOS 

Manage cookie settings in Safari and Safari iOS

‍Manage cookie settings in Firefox 

‍Manage cookie settings in Internet Explorer 

‍Manage cookie settings in Opera

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For all other browsers, or, for alternative advice, help may be sought by visiting www.allaboutcookies.org, or, via your device user manual, or, online help files.

‍5. THIRD PARTY ADVERTISING AND CONTENT SERVICES

‍Our Services may use third party advertising and content services, particularly within our marketing or free content sites, for the purposes of analysing visitor / customer site interactions including interactions with our online marketing campaigns, attribution purposes to link ecommerce purchases to our brand, and advertising. For more information including how to opt-out, please see below:

‍Third Party Providers:

‍Google Ads, Google Ad-Tech, Vendors Opt-out

Google Ads is an online advertising platform that we use to promote our events, online content and  services on Google Search, YouTube, and other sites across the web. Google  Ads is also used by some advertisers to buy adverts that appear on our Sites.

‍Google Analytics Opt-out

‍We use Google Analytics to  provide site visitor measurements and statistics as well as personalised advertising.

‍Skimlinks Opt-out

‍Skimlinks is used for  attribution purposes to link ecommerce purchases to our brand.

‍YouTube API Opt-out

‍YouTube’s API services are used to help us deliver content, visitor measurements, statistics and  advertising revenues.

Alternatively, you may opt-out of third party web advertising services via the opt-out tools listed below:

– click here or here for the U.S. 

– click here for Canada 

– click here for the EU 

– click here for Australia

‍Please note: Clicking the links above will redirect you to the appropriate third party website. We are not responsible for the content of external websites.

You can also configure your web browser to delete and / or block the use of cookies for any third party (see Section 4 for further information).

Opting out of advertising cookies will not remove advertising from the pages you visit; instead it means the ads you will see may not be matched to your interests.

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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.

Who we share your data with

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

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.