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Polyhedra Appreciation Society: Privacy Policy

What is a Privacy Policy?

A privacy policy is a statement that discloses some or all of the ways a website collects, uses, discloses, and manages the data of its visitors and customers. It fulfills a legal requirement to protect a visitor or client's privacy.
Each country has their own laws with different requirements per jurisdiction regarding the use of privacy policies.

What type of information does Polyhedra Appreciation Society collect?

We receive, collect and safely store any information you enter on our website or provide us in any other way. In addition, we collect the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet; login; e-mail address; password; computer and connection information and purchase history. We may use software tools to measure and collect session information, including page response times, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information, and methods used to browse away from the page.

Polyhedra Appreciation Society also collects location information to better understand where different visitors are coming from. This is done so as to better tailor the site, for e.g. by adding the option to view blog posts in various languages, given the location information.

We also collect personally identifiable information (including name, email, password, communication); payment details (including credit card information), comments, feedback, product reviews (on the Polyhedra Store), recommendations, and personal profile.

This is a membership site, where each member (for example, member "x") has the option to either keep their profile public, in which case, other people visiting the site, can view their (Member x's) profile. For other members (e.g. Member "y") who decide to keep their profile public, any person visiting the site, can view their (Member y's) profile.

Irrespective of the fact, of whether a member makes their profile public or private, their name (and the option to follow them) will show up on the "Members" page of the website. The member page of the website lists all the members of Polyhedra Appreciation Society.

Other than this, all comments made in a specific public blog posts, or all other comments made in the public forum ("Forum" page of the website) show member's (whether their profile is private or public) name and profile photograph, along with the content they post.

How does Polyhedra Appreciation Society collect information?

When you conduct a transaction on our website, as part of the process, or fill up a form on the website, sign up to become a member, log-in (if already a member), comment on posts, we collect personal information you give us such as your name, address and email address, password, location. Your personal information will be used for the specific reasons stated above only in a secure manner (more details below).

How does Polyhedra Appreciation Society store, use, share and disclose your site visitors personal information?

Our company is hosted on the Wix.com platform. Wix.com provides us with the online platform that allows us to post blogs, start forums, sell our products and services to you. Your data may be stored through Wix.com’s data storage, databases and the general Wix.com applications. They store your data on secure servers behind a firewall.

All direct payment gateways offered by Wix.com and used by our company adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of credit card information by our store and its service providers.

How does Polyhedra Appreciation Society communicate with site visitors?

For personal communication, we may contact you to notify you regarding your account, to troubleshoot problems with your account, to resolve a dispute, to collect fees or monies owed, to poll your opinions through surveys or questionnaires, to send updates about the society, or as otherwise necessary to contact you to enforce our User Agreement, applicable national laws, and any agreement we may have with you. For these purposes we may contact you via email, telephone, text messages, and postal mail.

Other public communications (open for discussion to everyone) involve communicating by participation in blog post discussions, discussions in forums, etc.

How do you use cookies and other tracking tools?

Cookies are small pieces of data stored on a site visitor's browser. They are typically used to keep track of the settings users have selected and actions they have taken on a site.

Wix uses cookies for important reasons, such as:

To provide a great experience for site visitors and customers.
To identify registered members (users who signed up for Polyhedra Appreciation Society).
To monitor and analyze the performance, operation and effectiveness of Wix's platform.
To ensure that the platform on which the site is published is always secure and safe to use.

In general, the cookies which are initially placed on the website may be categorized as essential cookies. However, the Wix platform gives us the ability to add multiple components, codes, third-party applications...and so on to our website, given that our website may include other types of cookies which might require specific settings.

Take a look at the table below to see which cookies are placed on Polyhedra Appreciation Society:

XSRF-TOKEN: An essential cookie, used during session for security reasons.
hs: An essential cookie, used during session for security reasons.
svSession: An essential cookie (duration: 2 years), used in connection with the user login.
SSR-caching: An essential cookie (duration: 1 minute), used to indicate the system from which the site was rendered.
_wixCIDX: An essential cookie (duration: 3 months), used for system monitoring and debugging.
_wix_browser_sess: An essential cookie used during session for system monitoring/debugging.
consent-policy: An essential cookie (duration: 12 months) used for cookie banner parameters.
smSession: An essential cookie used during session to identify logged in site members.
TS*: An essential cookie used during session for security and anti-fraud reasons.
bSession: An essential cookie (duration: 30 minutes) used for system effectiveness measurement.
fedops.logger.session: An essential cookie (duration: 12 months) used for stability effectiveness measurement.
wixLanguage: A functional cookie used on the website to save user language preference.

I will update the above list once if new (other than the ones mentioned above) cookies are used on the website. Usually, if I add a new functionality to the website (via on of Wix's apps or my own code), some new cookies might be added as a result of that. In that case, I will update the above list. Please check the above list frequently to keep track of any changes or modifications done to the cookie policy and accordingly accept or deny the cookies, as you see fit.

You can check which cookies are used by Polyhedra Appreciation Society, any third-party app on our website other or third-party integration using Chrome's built-in cookie view. While in incognito mode, click the Secure icon (it looks like a lock) next to the URL bar and then select Cookies.

Make sure you're viewing your site in incognito mode so that your browser doesn't detect irrelevant cookies.

For more information about cookies, visit allaboutcookies.org.

How to get/request to delete your data that is collected by Polyhedra Appreciation Society?

If you would like to get your personal data that is collected by Polyhedra Appreciation Society, kindly e-mail Aarsh at aarshbatra.in [at] gmail.com, with the subject line: "Get Personal Data: [YourAccountName]". [Your Account Name] is a placeholder, where you have to in your name that you used at the time of sign up.

If you'd like to delete all your personal data that is collected by Polyhedra Appreciation Society, delete your account from your profile page and send an email Aarsh at aarshbatra.in [at] gmail.com, with the subject line: "Delete Personal Data: [YourAccountName]". [Your Account Name] is a placeholder, where you have to in your name that you used at the time of sign up.

How can site visitors/members withdraw their consent?

If you don’t want Polyhedra Appreciation Society to process your data anymore, please, delete your account from your profile page and send an e-mail to Aarsh Batra at aarshbatra.in [at] gmail.com, with the subject line: "Don't Process Data: [YourAccountName]". [Your Account Name] is a placeholder, where you have to in your name that you used at the time of sign up.

Polyhedra Appreciation Society, reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time, so please review it frequently. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on the website. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here that it has been updated, so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we use and/or disclose it.

Also, please have a look at the Terms of Use page for the site for detailed terms and conditions of use.

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