Privacy Policy

This webpage tells you the data protection and privacy practices for xaviergimeno.net, specifically:

Who Collects Your Information

xaviergimeno.net (https://www.xaviergimeno.net/) is a website owned by Xavier Gimeno Torrent , a sociologist and translator. At the end of this page you will find their contact details.

Protection of Your Information

xaviergimeno.net uses the best endeavour to safeguard the confidentiality of your personally identifiable information. We use SSL encryption and firewalls to further protect your information as it travels across the Internet. Although, it is important to be aware that there is no such thing as “perfect internet security”.

Personally Identifiable Information Collected

We take your privacy very seriously. And since we are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy, we do not actively track you as an individual.

Information We Collect

Should you send us an email via the contact form, your name, email address and message will be emailed to us (as you would expect). This information is kept private. We will store this information within our own email system so that we are able to respond to you. We do not keep the contact information that you provide us, since once we have answered your request, we will remove your contact details.

Should you comment on a blog post or web page on this site, then your name, email address, IP address and message will be stored in our website database (as you would expect). This makes your name, website address and comment (but not your email address) viewable by the general public on the website. When visitors leave comments on the site we also collect data about the browser user agent string to help spam detection.

If you have subscribed to our email newsletter (“Blog Updates”), we will ask for your name and email address. It is the essential information to send you the posts that we periodically publish on our blog.

How We Use Your Information

If you have chosen to share it with us, we will only use your email address to contact you in reply to your message, or to send you our newsletter (“Blog Updates”). If you have entered your email address to leave a comment on the blog, it is used to identify your comment, however it is not displayed on the website or shared with any third party.

How We Use Cookies

Like many websites we use cookies to store and then retrieve small bits of information on your computer when you visit. This information is used to make the site work as you expect it to. It is not personally identifiable to you, but it can be used to give you a more personalised web experience.

Some of the information stored is put there by other companies whose software we have added to the site, and this can also impact your experience of other websites you may visit after leaving ours.

If you continue to use this site without taking action to prevent the storage of this information, you are effectively agreeing to this use.

If you want to learn more about the general uses of cookies, please visit Cookiepedia – all about cookies.

If you want to manage the cookies from your browser (including how to delete them and how to stop them being stored by your computer), please follow the instructions from Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Internet Explorer, Safari, Firefox or Opera. (For Mobile versions: Google Chrome Mobile, Microsoft Edge Mobile, Internet Explorer Mobile, Safari Mobile, Opera Mobile.)

Below is a list of the different types of cookies used on this site, and an explanation of what they are used for. If you would like any more information, please get in touch.

Strictly Necessary Cookies

These cookies are necessary for the website to function. As you can see, they perform essential tasks, such as managing multilingual content, improving loading times, and showing you the legally required notices about our privacy policy.

You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the site will not then work. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable information.

    • _icl_visitor_lang_js. Duration: 1 day (Persistent Cookie). First Party Cookie (.xaviergimeno.net). Session and customization cookie created by the WPML plugin allowing WordPress to manage multilingual content. This cookie is used for saving the user’s browser language to show by default the site in the browser language (if available on the web application).
    • wpml_browser_redirect_test. Duration: 0 days (Persistent Cookie). First Party Cookie (.xaviergimeno.net). Session cookie used by the WPML multilingual plugin to automatically redirect visitors according to the browser language.

Performance Cookies

These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our site. They help us to know which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the site.

All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. If you do not allow these cookies we will not know when you have visited our site, and will not be able to monitor its performance.

    • _gat. Duration: 0 days. First Party Cookie (.xaviergimeno.net). This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics, according to documentation it is used to throttle the request rate – limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites. The cookie is only valid during current browser session and it will be deleted when you close browser.
    • _ga. Duration: 730 days (Persistent Cookie). First Party Cookie (.xaviergimeno.net). This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics. This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports.
    • _gid. Duration: 1 day (Persistent Cookie). First Party Cookie (.xaviergimeno.net). This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics. This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports. More about data collected by Google Analytics. Google Analytics retains some data obtained from cookies up to 26 months.

Functionality Cookies

These cookies enable the website to provide enhanced functionality and personalisation. They may be set by us or by third party providers whose services we have added to our pages.

If you do not allow these cookies then some or all of these services may not function properly.

    • cookielawinfo-checkbox-necessary. Duration: 335 days (Persistent Cookie). First Party Cookie (www.xaviergimeno.net). This is a cookie created by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. It is used to store the user’s consent for “Necessary” cookies. If set it contains the word “yes”. It does not track your personal data.
    • cookielawinfo-checkbox-non-necessary. Duration: 335 days (Persistent Cookie). First Party Cookie (www.xaviergimeno.net). This is a cookie created by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. It is used to store the user’s consent for “Not necessary” cookies. If set it contains the word “yes”. It does not track your personal data.
    • cookielawinfo-checkbox-functional. Duration: 365 days (Persistent Cookie). First Party Cookie (www.xaviergimeno.net). This is a cookie created by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. It is used to store the user’s consent for “Functionality” cookies.
    • cookielawinfo-checkbox-performance. Duration: 365 days (Persistent Cookie). First Party Cookie (www.xaviergimeno.net). This is a cookie created by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. It is used to store the user’s consent for “Performance” cookies.
    • cookielawinfo-checkbox-analytics. Duration: 365 days (Persistent Cookie). First Party Cookie (www.xaviergimeno.net). This is a cookie created by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. It is used to store the user’s consent for “Analysis” cookies.
    • cookielawinfo-checkbox-advertisement. Duration: 365 days (Persistent Cookie). First Party Cookie (www.xaviergimeno.net). This is a cookie created by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. It is used to store the user’s consent for “Marketing” cookies.
    • cookielawinfo-checkbox-others. Duration: 365 days (Persistent Cookie). First Party Cookie (www.xaviergimeno.net). This is a cookie created by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. It is used to store the user’s consent for “Other” cookies.

Targeting Cookies

These cookies may be set through our site by our advertising partners. They may be used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other sites.

They do not store any personally identifiable information, but are based on uniquely identifying your browser and internet device. If you do not allow these cookies, you will experience less targeted advertising.

    • YSC. Session cookie. Third Party Cookie (.youtube.com). This cookie registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen.
    • VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE. Duration: 180 days. Third Party Cookie (.youtube.com). This cookie tries to estimate the users’ bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos.

Services That We Use And Can Make Use Of Your Information

We do not share your personal information or email address with third parties. But you should know that this website uses certain services that, at some time or another, may make use of the information that you have provided us. These companies will never use your information for commercial purposes. They use it because to carry out their work they need to use your information.

In this sense, when comments are enabled, visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service (Akismet). This same functionality prevents spam to reach the website through our contact form. In this case, this setting is always enabled. The information collected by Akismet (both in the case of comments being enabled and when used only in the contact form) includes the commenter/sender’s IP address, user agent, referrer, and Site URL (along with other information directly provided by the commenter/sender such as their name, email address, and the comment/message itself).

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 (and Akismet) 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.

To manage subscriptions to our email newsletters, we use the MailChimp service (privacy policy here). The main information that we manage through this company is the name of the subscribers and their emails.

Information submitted through the contact form on our site are sent to our company email, hosted by Gmail. You can find Google privacy policy regarding this here.

Embedded content from other websites

Certain parts of this website (Sociology TV, Google Books widget) incorporate embedded content (videos, books) that are provided by other companies (YouTube, Google). 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.

We provide these embedded contents since we consider them of interest to our site.

Google Fonts

This website uses a plugin called Revolution Slider, which is used to create image sliders anywhere on the website. We use it for the home page, where there is a presentation of texts in different colors. One of the services that this plugin uses is Google Fonts by Google.

Google Fonts is used for uniform representation of fonts. When you open a page, your browser loads the required web fonts into your browser cache to display texts and fonts correctly.

For this purpose your browser has to establish a direct connection to Google servers. Google thus becomes aware that our web page was accessed via your IP address. The use of Google Fonts is done in the interest of a uniform and attractive presentation of Revolution Slider plugin.

If your browser does not support web fonts, a standard font is used by your computer.

Further information about handling user data, can be found at Google Fonts faq’s and in Google’s privacy policy. Google Fonts is also used in other parts of this website, such as the theme we use (Purity theme). Everything that has been specified about Google Fonts in the case of the Revolution Slider plugin is directly applicable without any variation in the case of the Purity theme.

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.

If you send us a query using the contact form (or any other means, for example, a direct mail), we will keep your contact information (email address) until we have responded to your request. Then we will destroy your contact information. We only keep this information the time indispensable to be able to answer you.

The data you provided us to subscribe to our email newsletters (“Blog Updates”) is also kept indefinitely. As long as you do not choose to unsubscribe. In this case, we also destroy all your information provided.

What Rights You Have Over Your Data

You have the right to review, update, change or delete all the information you have provided us.

Once posted, you cannot change or remove any comments you have submitted on our website pages and/or posts. However, if you would like to have this information removed, changed or updated, please contact us and we will do this for you.

But you should know that because of technical constraints, all information is never completely removed from our databases. Therefore, you should not expect that all of your personally identifiable information will be completely removed from our databases in response to your requests that it be removed. We will aim to remove all publicly-facing information.

As for the email newsletters, we would like to tell you first of all that, just like you, we hate spam. We do not send you spam emails. In this case you also have the right to review, update, change or delete your information provided. You may opt-out of our emails at any time. The ‘unsubscribe’ and ‘update preferences’ links are included in all of our email newsletters (“Blog Updates”).

Moreover, if you have left comments on this site, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us.

How To Contact Us

If you have any queries relating to our privacy policy or you need to exercise your rights over your data, please use the contact form on this site to contact us.

Last updated on June 16, 2024