Who we are
The website address is: https://user108.com.
I respect your privacy.
Comments
If you comment on this site we may collect the data shown in the comments form, and the I.P. address you are connecting from (or your VPN / TOR exit node address 🙂 ) and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
Media
If you upload any multimedia files to this or other websites, you should avoid uploading those with embedded location data (e.g. EXIF GPS) included. Visitors, including web crawlers used by Groogle or Fazebook, to this website can download and extract location data from those files.
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.
I suggest setting your browser (hopefully you are using either Mozilla Firefox or Brave) to reject third-party cookies. Also whenever possible you should use “Private” or “Incognito” browsing. Finally PLEASE install uBlock Origin (a web browser plugin) or if you are tech-savvy you can use PieHole on your home network to block advertisement and tracking.
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 (remember to reject third-party cookies in your browser), 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. We strive to keep as little data as possible about our visitors, so there may not be much to share with anyone, even if that someone has a compelling (legal) argument.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise 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.
Please remember, regardless of our privacy policy, whatever you do on the Internet is a Permanent Record (as outlined by Edward Snowden). Just visit the Wayback Machine to find out more about this.
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 your data is sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Other things to consider
If you use a Micro$oft-made operating system you are exposing way more data to them than you realise or authorise. It is better to use a Linux distribution (e.g. Debian, Linux Mint, or any other), which respects your privacy, allows you to own and control your data and is FREE. Yes it may take a little to get used to them if you are detoxing from Windoze, but there are Linux distributions, which are so similar in appearance you won’t notice the change.
While Appple has a somewhat better track record when it comes to privacy, we should refuse to pay the Appple-tax, and use a Linux distro similar in appearance. Also child-labour is a serious matter.
We can’t comment on ChromeOS, as we never used it and see no reason to. Those locked-down ChromeBooks should never have existed. Instead buy a cheap used (not “pre-owned”/”pre-loved”) laptop and install a Linux distro on it.
I convinced my mum, at the age of 65, to switch to Linux Mint without any issues. She only wanted to continue using some obscure Windoze-based image manager, but even that worked flawlessly via the built-in Windoze compatibility layer called WINE (Wine Is Not an Emulator), which is present in most Linux distros. Thanks to a lot of volunteer contributors Linux rocks, and WINE allows you to run a lot of Windoze apps in Linux, if you can’t already find another alternative e.g. GIMP vs Adobe Photoshoppe, LibreOffice vs Micro$oft Office and so on.
The only way you should ever run Windoze is in a virtual machine or at least on a separate drive partition, where it has no access to your personal files, because you store those on a file system not recognised by it, such as encrypted ext4 or btrfs.
Have I mentioned Linux distros and the software I recommend are Free and Open Source (FOSS)? Open Source means there is no hidden nastiness, such as the Windoze or Groogle tracking and data harvesting. Free means it’s yours to use/keep/modify and if you find it useful please donate to the makers of those software. They are mostly volunteers. God bless’em and the cheese makers…