Erratic engineeress blog (“us”, “we”, or “our”) found at https://erraticengineeress.blog (“Website”) is governed by the following cookie policy (“Cookie Policy”).
Contact email: Petra Jan at petra@erraticengineeress.blog
Last updated: 13th of January 2023
We are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.
This Website collects some personal data from its users. This Cookie Policy informs you of the cookies which are set by this Website when you visit it. For more information about our views, practices and policies regarding the collection, use and disclosure of personal data we receive from users of the Website, please read our Privacy Policy and Disclaimer.
Cookies
Cookies are text files with a small amount of data, which may include an anonymous unique identifier.
Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your computer’s or tablet device’s or mobile device’s part of the hard drive specifically designated for cookies. It is standard practice to use cookies to make your experience better when using a website.
Like many sites, we use “cookies” to recognise, collect, and/or track information about, and relevant to, your usage of the Website.
These cookies are known as “first-party cookies”. We may also recognize, collect, and/or track information through cookies set by third parties. These cookies are known as “third-party cookies”. Third-party cookies are used to perform tasks related to advertising, and analytics, and to enable interactive features such as sharing or commenting. Some third parties collect statistics in an anonymized and aggregated form and may not require the consent of the user.
The information that our first-party cookies or third-party cookies recognize, collect, and/or track may include information about your devices, browsing actions, and patterns, such as among others, the type of computer you use, your internet service provider, your browser type, your location, your IP address, the date and time of your visit, the pages viewed, your traffic pattern through the Site.
Upon your first visit to the Website (and periodically after that), we will request your consent to our use of cookies except for those strictly necessary.
Please refer to our Cookie Policy outlined below for information on what cookies we use, for what purposes we use cookies, and how to control cookies.
Cookie Policy
We use the following categories of cookies on the Site:
Essential cookies
These cookies are essential to enable you to browse the Site and use its features. We use cookies to save your sessions, your login details, and other information necessary to perform your requests, and to carry out other activities that are strictly necessary for the operation of this Site, for example in relation to the distribution of traffic. We use cookies to save browsing preferences and to optimize your browsing experience.
Additionally, Real Cookie Banner asks website visitors for consent to set cookies and process personal data in the Privacy Preferences notice banner. For this purpose, a UUID (pseudonymous identification of the user) is assigned to each website visitor, which is valid until the cookie expires to store the consent. Cookies are used to test whether cookies can be set, to store reference to documented consent, to store which services from which service groups the visitor has consented to, and, if consent is obtained under the Transparency & Consent Framework (TCF), to store consent in TCF partners, purposes, special purposes, features and special features. As part of the obligation to disclose according to GDPR, the collected consent is fully documented. This includes, in addition to the services and service groups to which the visitor has consented, and if consent is obtained according to the TCF standard, to which TCF partners, purposes and features the visitor has consented, all cookie banner settings at the time of consent as well as the technical circumstances (e.g. size of the displayed area at the time of consent) and the user interactions (e.g. clicking on buttons) that led to consent. Consent is collected once per language.
Jetpack Comments is a comment system for WordPress sites that allows you to post comments using your email, wordpress.com, google.com, twitter.com or facebook.com account. The cookies are used to display the comment form and add integrations from wordpress.com, google.com, twitter.com or facebook.com and this part of the website does not work without these cookies. However, you do not need to use it and it will not store or process any of your data unless you leave a comment. The data of the visited website may be shared with the above mentioned third party providers. If you leave a comment on our Website you may opt in to saving your name, email address and website in the 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 or until deleted from your browser.
Statistics or Analytics cookies
These cookies collect information about your use of the Site, such as for instance, browsing actions, and patterns, the date and time of your visit, the pages viewed, your traffic pattern through the Site.
Through the collection of this information, we are able to monitor and analyze web traffic to the Site. User behaviours may be recognized, collected, and/or tracked.
WordPress.com (hosting provider) logs information using cookies, which are small data files stored on your browser by the Website. They use both session cookies, which expire when you close your browser, and persistent cookies, which stay on your browser until deleted, to provide you with a more personalised experience on this Website. When you click “Close and accept” on the Privacy and Cookies banner displayed at the bottom of the Website, you consent to the use of cookies. Your consent is saved in the form of persistent cookies and expires after 1 year or when the cookies are deleted from your browser.
Jetpack Site Stats is a service to create detailed statistics about the user behavior on the website. No cookies in the technical sense are set on the client of the user, but technical and personal data such as the IP address will be transmitted from the client to the server of the service provider to make the use of the service possible. This information can be used to track the user on this website and to connect collected data of several page views on this website. the client of the user in the technical sense, but technical data is transferred from the client to the server of the service provider in order to track the user on this website and to connect collected data of several page views on this website.
Functional cookies
Functional services are necessary to provide features beyond the essential functionality such as prettier fonts, video playback or interactive web 2.0 features. Content from e.g. video platforms and social media platforms are blocked by default, and can be consented to. If the service is agreed to, this content is loaded automatically without further manual consent.
The following cookies and services are used on this Website:
YouTube allows embedding content posted on youtube.com directly into websites. The cookies are used to collect visited websites and detailed statistics about the user behaviour. This data can be linked to the data of users registered on youtube.com and google.com or localized versions of these services.
MailerLite is a service for marketing email campaigns, such as a monthly newsletter. It allows the user to subscribe to regularly scheduled emails through the subscription form. No cookies in the technical sense are set on the client of the user, but technical and personal data such as Name and Email will be transmitted from the client to the server of the service provider to make the use of the service possible, if you decide to fill in the subscription form and subscribe to the monthly newsletter.
Google Fonts is a service that downloads fonts that are not installed on the client device of the user and embeds them into the website. No cookies in the technical sense are set on the client of the user, but technical and personal data such as the IP address will be transmitted from the client to the server of the service provider to make the use of the service possible.
Gravatar is a service where people can associate their email address with an avatar image that is for example loaded in the comment area. No cookies in the technical sense are set on the client of the user, but technical and personal data such as the IP address will be transmitted from the client to the server of the service provider to make the use of the service possible.
WordPress Emoji is an emoji set that is loaded from wordpress.org. No cookies in the technical sense are set on the client of the user, but technical and personal data such as the IP address will be transmitted from the client to the server of the service provider to make the use of the service possible.
Security cookies
These cookies are essential to our security features. These cookies allow us to detect malicious activities or activities in breach of our terms of use.
Social media cookies
These cookies allow you to share your activity on the Website on social media such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Reddit and Twitter, or other external platforms directly from the Website. Cookies may still be recognised, collected, and/or tracked on the pages where buttons, widgets, or other applications are installed, even when you do not actively use it.
The interaction and information recognised, collected, and/or tracked through the Website are always subject to your privacy settings for each social network and external platform. You are encouraged to refer to the Privacy Policy of the relevant social network or external platform and to log out from the respective network or platform in order to make sure that the information collected on the Website is not tracked back to your profile.
Facebook Like button and Facebook social widgets
The Facebook Like button and Facebook social widgets are application allowing interaction with the Facebook social network.
Twitter Tweet button and Twitter social widgets
The Twitter Tweet button and Twitter social widgets are applications allowing interaction with the Twitter social network.
In accordance with our Privacy Policy and this Cookie Policy, you have the right to accept or reject cookies.
Essential cookies may not be rejected since they are essential to enable you to browse the Website and use its features. Should you reject other cookies and continue without consent, you will still be able to use the Website although certain features and functionalities may not be available to you and/or certain areas may be restricted.
Through browser preferences, it is also possible to delete cookies installed in the past, including the cookies that may have saved the initial consent for the installation of cookies by this Website. You can find information about how to manage cookies in the most commonly used browsers (e.g. Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, and Microsoft Internet Explorer) on the website of the browser of choice. With regard to cookies installed by third parties, users can manage their preferences and withdrawal of their consent by clicking the related opt-out link (if provided), by using the means provided in the third party’s privacy policy, or by contacting the third party.