PRIVACY POLICY AND TERMS OF USE

1. Privacy Policy


Introduction
Before continuing to browse our site, please read all the content of this page and the Cookies Policy page.
The purpose of this page is to inform you about the use of data related to our users, what information we collect, why we collect this data and how our users can manage the data about them.

This privacy policy page refers to:
a). Information about your data on our site (data that we can store, collect or process internally on himmera.com and its subdomains).
b). Information about your data in the case of our third-party services providers or advertising.

a). What data do we collect and how do we use this data

Technical data
We do not store or collect information about our users with a few exceptions (when we have legitimate interest):

- If the visit or activity of the user appears to be suspicious (e.g. if the user load a lot of pages on a short interval of time or if the user request an innexistent page that is known for being used to exploit its vulnerabilities, and other internal technical indicators);
- If the visit appears to be a malicios bot (based on internal technical indicators)
- When the user is blocked on our site based on previous violations of the site rules.

In these cases, we store information such as the ip address or type of browser used and in some cases refferer or requested page.

We do not collect data that can identify users, and if a visit seems suspicious, we can store the information about that visit for the stability of our site. Suspicious visit data is stored only for a short period (usualy 24 hours), being automatically erased.

Information you provide to us
For pages that have comment forms.
If you added a comment on our site, the name and the comment is stored in the database and displayed on the site.

In accordance with European laws, citizens of the European Economic Area (EEA) have the right to request us to modify, delete or provide the data we hold about them.

Observation: We use beacons to analize information from a page without refreshing the page. These beacons are present only for technical purposes and for in page security audit not for collecting personal informations or tracking the users.


Details about third-party providers and advertising

We use advertisments to monetize website traffic.
Our advertising partners, primarily Google Adsense and other third party Google certified ad networks are using cookies.
Google can set cookies in users browsers or may collect specific data for the relevance of its services.

If the ads are contextual (if a user from European Economic Area does not give the explicit consent for personalized ads) Google Adsense will set and use cookies to help serve the ads and for ads measurement purpose.

If the ads are personalized you have to know that:
Third party vendors, including Google, uses cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to our website or other websites. Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to our users based on their visit to our site(s) and/or other sites on the Internet.

You may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings.
You can opt out of a third-party vendor's use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info and youronlinechoices.com

Please note that blocking cookies from Adsense or other advertising networks does not mean that the ads will no longer be displayed, but only that they will no longer be customized according to your preferences.

More details about cookies and data collected through adsense can be found on their site:

About data, read How Google uses data
For privacy details, please read Google Privacy Policy
For cookies details, read: How Google uses cookies,   Types of cookies used by Google,   How Google uses cookies in advertising


2. Terms of Service

- Access to our site is free for all users.
- It is not allowed to copy, compile, duplicate the information from our domain except for personal use or when used in research, education, or community benefit.
- It is not allowed to automatically access the information on the site except for the search engines, social networks or the advertising entities we collaborate with or other entities with which we are at a time in the process of collaboration
- It is not allowed to access and store site data (content, metadata, whois information) for commercial use (for example: directories that provide SEO services, tools for competitors, uptime checking, link counting, backlinks tools or other statistics except those who have already received our permission).
- Any abusive use of our site is not permitted.

- Our site use Google API(s) and services (Google Maps API), so that using our application, in addition to the terms of use of our site, you will also have to comply with the Google terms of use that are available at this address Google’s Terms of Service.