Who we are

We are https://warframeguide.com, a dedicated website consistent of Warframe players that have invested many hours learning and enjoying playing the game Warframe on PC. This website was created to share our experiences and game knowledge from those invested hours spent playing the game. To help new players and experienced alike to have a collection of helpful and timesaving articles that allow players of Warframe to find the information they are looking for in one single spot, instead of having to conduct thousands of Google searches just to get through the game :) (We know it can be a hassle)

And we care for your personal data, we therefore strive to keep it safe the best ways we know how. We only collect data necessary for our websites basic functionality to work and to make sure your user experience is the best possible. We do not collect and store any more information than absolutely necessary. The purpose of this privacy policy is to help you understand what type of information we collect and store and why – as well as how this information can be used on our website. By using our website and providing us with your personal data you accept our privacy policy and our management of your personal data.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

We collect your name (registration/comment), email (registration/comment) and IP (every time you visit our website).

If you decide to donate a sum to support the work we do here (which is greately appreciated btw) since this has been a non-profit website powered by the enthusiasm of a few veteran warframe players, then we will process your payment information and it may be shared with both bank and payment services.

The information we keep has either been provided to us by you- or collected through the use of harmless cookies that help make our website better.

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.

Contact forms

Contact forms on the website will forward your information to the registered email recipient.

Cookies

Cookies are small text files (usually smaller than 1 kB of data) that are stored in your computer to hold information. Cookies are, as one example, used to improve a website for the user.

We use cookies on our website to analyze traffic and offer personalized information as well as enable basic website functionality.

Cookies we use

For third party cookies we use Google (analytics, adsense) and you can learn how to deactivate Googles cookies here: https://www.google.com/ads/preferences. Also here you can find informtion of how Google Analytics use and process personal data: https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites?hl=sv.

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 have an account and you log in to this site, 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.

Limiting the use of cookies and it’s consequences

You can prevent the use of cookies if you want via the settings of your web browser. You can at any time inspect, erase and block specific cookies via the lock-icon on the left of the address bar in your web browser (lock-icon if HTTPS website) in most popular browsers such as: Firefox and Google Chrome.

Mind you- blocking or deletion of all- or some cookies may negatively impact our website and it’s functionality and thereby negatively affecting your user experience on our website and it may not work as intended.

We only use friendly cookies that help our website give you the best possible user experience.

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 tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Analytics

This website utilize Google Analytics to help create a better user experience and help us understand our visitors better.

Who we share your data with

This website use Google Analytics to collect data about our visitors to help us create a better user experience and help us better understand who visits our website. And Google AdSense for passive income revenue.

For donations, relevant and related information can be shared with bank and payment services.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and it’s 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.

If you have accepted our managing of your personal data, we store it until you unregister, which you can do at any time. If you’re not registered, we store your information as long as we deem necessary to fulfill governing laws and regulations and to honor our services to you.

Your information will never be stored any longer than necessary and what is required of us from governing laws and regulations.

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.

Since the arrival of GDPR, the 25th of may 2018, private individuals have the right to at any time get their information changed, updated, moved or limited that websites collect and use about them. They also have the right to- in some regard- have their personal information deleted, with some legal exceptions that can interfere with executing this action right away. They also have the right to request a free electronic copy of their personal data that we have of them, regardless of how it’s been collected. If they would like such a copy, they can send us a written request scanned in with their signature to contact[at]warframeguide.com.

We want to make sure the information we keep of you is correct and up to date, if any of the information you left us changes, for example your email address or your name or if you wish to resign your account, please provide us with the proper information by sending us an email to contact[at]warframeguide.com.

Your personal information will not be used for marketing if you do not consent to such use, you have the right to at any time recall your acceptance of our use of your personal information. Such a recall can be made for either all of your personal information, or a specific portion of them – such as those used for marketing.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Links on our website

Our website can contain links to external websites (that have been vetted thoroughly), our privacy policy is only applicable for this website, not for the external ones we link to. To be sure what conditions are in place for the external websites, please read through that external websites own privacy policy to make sure you’re aware of their perosnal information policy.

Contact information

If you have any further questions or concerns you can reach us at contact[at]warframeguide.com (just exchange the [at] for a regular @).

Additional information

How we protect your data

We use SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) encryption for communcations on our website to ensure safe transfer of data. We also have configured firewalls, anti-virus and taken precautions to disallow any unauthorized person to have access to our network. Only those with proper credentials have access to where we store your information.

What automated decision making and/or profiling we do with user data

This website utilize Google AdSense for passive adrevenue to stay afloat as well as donations.

Changes to this privacy policy

We reserve the right to make changes to this policy at any time to the extent necessary to comply with at every time’s governing laws and regulations as well as meeting technical demands and to correct eventual outdatings and errors.

All of the changes to the policy will be published on this website.