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Privacy Policy

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Your privacy is valued and the importance of protecting your personal data is recognized. This notice describes the privacy policy of APOTELYT.COM ("the Site") and the treatment of personal information. By visiting the Site, you are accepting and consenting to the practices described in this Privacy Policy Notice.

Any personal details you submit to the Site, such as your name and email address, will not be used for any other purposes than to contact you in case a message from you requires a reply. The Site will take reasonable technical and organisational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information. The Site will securely store any personal information you provide and will not sell it or pass it on to others.

First-party cookies

The Site may receive and store certain types of non-personal information whenever you interact with it. Like many other websites, the Site may use "cookies" to save selected data about your internet session, such as IP address and referring page. Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that are stored by your Web browser and enable the provision of personalised site features. The Help menu on the menu bar of most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, and how to disable cookies altogether. Additionally, you can disable or delete similar data used by browser add-ons, such as Flash cookies, by changing the add-on's settings or visiting the website of its producer. However, because cookies may allow you to take advantage of some of the Site's essential features, it is recommended that you leave them turned on.

Third-party cookies and Opt-Out

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Like many other websites, the Site uses Google Analytics to monitor and analyse internet traffic. Google Analytics generates statistical and other information about website use, which may be stored via cookies on client computers. The information thereby generated is used to create reports that are of interest to webmasters. For example, data about the frequency of visits to the website, the particular pages viewed, and the platform used is collected. These data make it possible to improve a website's design and better tailor its contents to visitor customs and preferences. Google will store and use this information in line with the Google privacy policy. If you would like to opt out of Analytics cookies, you can do so by installing a respective plug-in to your browser.

The Site may publish Google Adsense advertisements, which are tailored by Google to reflect your interests. To determine the latter, Google will track your behaviour across the web using cookies. You can view, delete or add interest categories associated with your browser using Google's ads preference manager. You can also completely opt-out of receiving the Adsense partner network cookie. However, this opt-out mechanism uses a cookie, and if you clear the cookies from your browser, your opt-out will not be maintained. To ensure that an opt-out is maintained in respect of a particular browser, you might want to use a respective Google browser plug-in.

This Site is affiliated with Publisher First, Inc. dba Freestar ("Freestar") for the purposes of placing certain advertising on the Site, and Freestar will collect and use certain data for advertising purposes. To learn more about Freestar’s data usage, click here.

Third-parties may display interest-based advertising to you in applications or websites, based on your use of applications or websites over time and across non-affiliated apps. Such third parties may combine and use information from websites or applications on your current browser or device with information from your other browsers or devices for advertising purposes. To opt-out of such interest-based advertising and/or cross-device targeting, please use the methods provided below for opting out on each of your browsers and on each of your devices:

Please note that opting out of interest-based advertising and cross-device targeting does not mean you will no longer receive online advertising. It does mean that the third-party from which you have opted out of receiving interest-based advertising or cross-device targeting by using the methods provided above will no longer deliver ads tailored to your Web preferences and usage patterns on a particular web browser or device.

The Site hosts links to affiliate partners. When you click on links to various merchants on this Site and make a purchase, this can result in this Site earning a commission. In particular, as an Amazon Associate the Site earns from qualifying purchases. Other affiliate programs and affiliations include, but are not limited to, the ebay Partner Network and the Skylum Affiliate Program. Some of these affiliations are administered through online advertising companies, such as Impact Radius.

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The Site may contain plug-ins for the social network Facebook. You will recognise Facebook plug-ins by the Facebook logo on the Site. If you click the Facebook "Like" button while you are signed in to your Facebook account, you can link the content of the Site to your Facebook profile. This means that Facebook can allocate this interaction with the Site to your user account. The Site does not receive any notification about the content of the conveyed data or how it is used by Facebook. Further information about this topic can be found in the Facebook data privacy statement. If you do not want Facebook to be able to allocate your use of the Site to your Facebook user account, please do not click on the "Like" button or sign out of your Facebook account.

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Some functions offered by the online news and social networking service Twitter may be integrated into this Site. Using Twitter and the function called "Tweet" enables websites that you have visited to be linked to your Twitter account and made available to other users. In the process, data is conveyed to Twitter that might be used for the purpose of conversion tracking and serving targeted ads. The Site does not obtain any knowledge about the content of the conveyed data or how it is used by Twitter. You can find more information about the treatment of personal information in the Twitter data privacy statement. Moreover, you can change your privacy preferences by visiting and updating the account-specific data privacy settings on the Twitter website.

Notices and revisions

If you have any concern about privacy at this Site, please send an email to the editor with a thorough description, so that we can resolve the issue. As the Site changes frequently, this Privacy Policy Notice might also undergo alterations, so please check back periodically in order to be informed of any updates. The most recent privacy policy applies to all information that the Site has about you. However, the Site will never materially change its policies and practices to make them less protective of user information collected in the past without the consent of affected users.

Last Update

The information on this page was last updated on 6 June 2023.