Privacy Statement

At telescoop.com, we value your privacy and the protection of your personal data. In this statement, we explain what data we collect, how we use it, and what rights you have regarding your data. By using our website, you agree to this privacy statement.

1. Data Collected.

Comments: When visitors leave comments, we collect the data entered in the comment form, as well as the IP address and browser user agent string for spam detection. An anonymized hash of your email address may be provided to the Gravatar service to verify that you are using it. Upon approval of your comment, your profile picture will be visible in the context of your comment.

Media: When uploading images to the website, avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors can download and extract this data.

Cookies: We use cookies to improve your experience on our website. Examples include cookies that remember your login status and screen preferences.

Cookies for login information: Stays for two days, or two weeks if you select “Remember Me.”.
Cookies for screen preferences: Remain stored for one year.

Enclosed Content: Articles on our site may contain embedded content, such as videos and images. Embedded content behaves as if you visited the external website, which means that these external websites may collect data about you and set cookies.

Spam detection: Visitor responses can be monitored through an automated spam detection service.

2. Sharing of Data

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

External Services: We do not share personal data with outside parties except where necessary for spam detection or other security purposes.

3. Retention periods

Comments: Comments and their associated metadata are retained indefinitely to automatically recognize and approve follow-up comments.

User profiles: For registered users, we store the personal information provided in the user profile. Users can view, edit or delete their information at any time, with the exception of their username.

4. Rights over Your Data.

Under current laws and regulations, you have the following rights regarding your personal data:

Right of inspection: You can request a copy of your data.
Right of Rectification: You can have incorrect or incomplete data corrected.
Right to restriction of processing: You can ask us not to process certain data temporarily.
Right to transferability: You can request your data in a structured, commonly used format to transfer it to another party.
Right to object: You can object to the use of your data.
Right to withdraw consent: You can withdraw your consent to data processing at any time.

Please contact us through our contact page to exercise these rights.

5. Data Transfer

Visitor responses may be monitored through an automated spam detection service that may process data outside the European Union. This is always done in compliance with the AVG (GDPR).

6. Security of Data.

We have taken appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your data from unlawful processing, including:

Confidentiality by employees.
Use of username and password policies.
Pseudonymization and encryption of data where appropriate.
Backups of data to enable recovery from incidents.

7. Contact information

If you have any questions about this privacy statement, please feel free to contact us via our contact page.

8. Dispute Resolution

If you are not satisfied with the way we handle your data, you can file a complaint with the Personal Data Authority via www.autoriteitpersoonsgegevens.nl.

In addition, you can visit the European ODR platform For dispute resolution through https://ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr/.