Privacy


The SCV Aquascaping Ideas website and blog is hosted in Google's Blogger Sphere and governed by the general Google Privacy and Terms.
In this respect, our Privacy Policy is meant to explain, what information is collected during your visit in this website/blog, why it is collected and how that information is used.

The terminology to explain these facts is the simplest possible, but if you’re not familiar with terms like cookies, IP addresses, pixel tags and browsers, then you may refer and read about these key terms first, as explained in Google's Privacy and Terms.

As changes may apply to this Privacy Policy in time, this page will be updated accordingly. Therefore You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This policy was last updated on May 25, 2015.

How cookies are used

A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer's hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and hence forward helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site responding to you as an individual. Most web applications are able to act according to the visitor needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences based on cookies.

This wbsite/blog uses Google Analytics which issues traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being visited. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and consequently improve our website in order to match better our readers needs. Information is used for statistical analysis purposes only and then the data is removed from the system.
In general, cookies help in providing you with a better content, by enabling us to monitor which pages our readers find more useful. A cookie in no way may give access to your computer or any personal information.

Nevertheless, You can choose to accept or decline cookies by modifying your browser settings to reflect your preferences. On the other hand, this may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website/blog features.

Advertising content and third party cookies

Advertising helps compensate for a small portion of the running costs of the SCV Aquascaping Ideas website/blog. We do not have any influence on the content of the adverts, which is mostly dependent on where (country or region) you are visiting the site from. All advertising from third parties does not imply any recommendation or endorsement from SCV Aquascaping Ideas.

Please note that some of the advertisers may use cookies and/or web tracking technologies in connection with advertisements placed on the website/blog through our participation in the Google AdSense program.
For example Google uses cookies such as the DART cookie which enables them to serve ads to users based on their visits and preferences on the web. Internet users may opt out of accepting the DART cookie or control Google ads behavior individually by visiting the Google Advertising and Content network Privacy Policy.

As much as You can choose to accept or decline cookies in general, you can also alter your browser's behaviour with 3rd party cookies, such as accepting cookies from sites visited, but declining 3rd party (advertiser's) cookies.

Furthermore, as this website/blog is also participating in the Amazon US and Amazon EU Associates Programs, which are affiliate advertising programs, cookies may also be issued by advertisements and direct links to Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.fr, Amazon.de, Amazon.es, and Amazon.it websites.

Links to other websites

SCV Aquascaping Ideas contains links in order to facilitate our readers to visit other websites of relevant interest easily.
Although we are very strict with our choices and cautious to offer links to secure websites, nonetheless these websites are not under our control. Hence, by the moment you leave this website/blog using these links, you should be aware that linked sites are not governed by this privacy statement.
Since we cannot exercise any control over these other websites, we cannot be responsible for the privacy of any information which you may provide whilst visiting other websites. Therefore, caution should be exercised by reading the privacy statement applicable to each website you visit.

Control of Personal Information

The only personal information collected by SCV Photography Ideas website/blog may be your email and/or name in the following cases.
  • Through subscription to our RSS feed by email via Google Feedburner or
  • By using our Contact Form in order to communicate with us. 
We will not sell, distribute, lease or disclose in any way your personal information to third parties unless we are required by law to do so. We may use your personal information only for the specific reasons it was collected for, abiding to the US Data Protection Act 1998 and the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) 2016 effective May 25, 2018.

You may request at any time that your personal information be removed from our records and/or terminate your subscription by writing to us using the site's Contact Form.