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Privacy Policy

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    Privacy Policy for Marcelo Gontijo

    Last Updated: January, 01, 2025

    Welcome to Marcelo Gontijo (the “Site”). We are committed to protecting your personal information and your right to privacy. If you have any questions or concerns about this privacy notice, or our practices with regards to your personal information, please contact us at privacy@marcelogontijo.dev .

    This privacy policy describes how Marcelo Gontijo (“we,” “us,” or “our”) collects, uses, shares, and protects the personal information of users (“you”) of this website. Please read this privacy policy carefully.

    1. What Information Do We Collect?

    We collect information in the following ways:

    • Information You Voluntarily Provide to Us:

      • Contact Forms: If you contact us through a contact form, we will collect your name, email address, and any other information you provide in your message.
      • Newsletter Subscriptions: If you subscribe to our newsletter, we will collect your email address.

    • Information We Collect Automatically (Usage Data):

      • When you access and use our Site, we may automatically collect certain information about your device and your interaction with our Site. This information may include your IP address, browser type, operating system, referring URLs, device information, pages viewed, links clicked, and the dates and times of your visits.
      • This information is primarily needed to maintain the security and operation of our Site, and for our internal analytics and reporting purposes.

    2. How Do We Use Your Information?

    We use the information we collect or receive:

    • To Respond to User Inquiries/Offer Support to Users: We may use your information to respond to your inquiries and solve any potential issues you might have with the use of our Services.
    • To Send Administrative Information to You: We may use your personal information to send you product, service, and new feature information and/or information about changes to our terms, conditions, and policies.
    • To Protect our Services: We may use your information as part of our efforts to keep our Site safe and secure (for example, for fraud monitoring and prevention, and spam detection).
    • For Data Analysis: We may use your information for data analysis purposes, such as identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns, and to evaluate and improve our Site, products, services, marketing, and your experience. We primarily use Google Analytics for this purpose, as detailed below.
    • To Send You Marketing and Promotional Communications (if opted-in): We and/or our third-party marketing partners may use the personal information you send to us for our marketing purposes, if this is in accordance with your marketing preferences. For example, when expressing an interest in obtaining information about us or our Site, subscribing to marketing or otherwise contacting us, we will collect personal information from you. You can opt-out of our marketing emails at any time (see the “WHAT ARE YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS?” below).

    3. Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies

    We use cookies and similar tracking technologies (like web beacons and pixels) to access or store information.

    • What are Cookies? Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide reporting information.

    • How We Use Cookies:

      • Preference Cookies: These cookies allow our website to remember choices you have made in the past, like what language you prefer or user preferences you set.
      • Analytics Cookies: We use these cookies to collect information about how you use our Site, such as which pages you visited and which links you clicked on. This information is aggregated and anonymized and is used to help us improve our website. The primary analytics tool we use is Google Analytics.

    • Google Analytics:

      • We use Google Analytics to help us understand how users engage with our Site. Google Analytics uses cookies to collect information about your use of the Site, which is then used to compile reports on website activity.
      • Google Analytics collects information such as how often users visit this site, what pages they visit when they do so, and what other sites they used prior to coming to this site. We use the information we get from Google Analytics only to improve this site.
      • Google Analytics collects only the IP address assigned to you on the date you visit this site, rather than your name or other identifying information. We do not combine the information collected through the use of Google Analytics with personally identifiable information.
      • Although Google Analytics plants a permanent cookie on your web browser to identify you as a unique user the next time you visit this site, the cookie cannot be used by anyone but Google. Google’s ability to use and share information collected by Google Analytics about your visits to this site is restricted by the Google Analytics Terms of Use and the Google Privacy Policy.
      • You can prevent Google Analytics from recognizing you on return visits to this site by disabling cookies on your browser. For more information on Google Analytics, please visit Google’s privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy .
      • You can opt-out of Google Analytics tracking by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout .

    • Managing Cookies: Most web browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings preferences. However, if you limit the ability of websites to set cookies, you may worsen your overall user experience, since it will no longer be personalized to you. It may also stop you from saving customized settings like login information. Browser manufacturers provide help pages relating to cookie management in their products. Please see below for more information:

    4. Will Your Information Be Shared With Anyone?

    We only share information with your consent, to comply with laws, to provide you with services, to protect your rights, or to fulfill business obligations. We may process or share your data that we hold based on the following legal basis:

    • Consent: We may process your data if you have given us specific consent to use your personal information for a specific purpose.
    • Legitimate Interests: We may process your data when it is reasonably necessary to achieve our legitimate business interests.
    • Legal Obligations: We may disclose your information where we are legally required to do so in order to comply with applicable law, governmental requests, a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process.
    • Vital Interests: We may disclose your information where we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding potential violations of our policies, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person and illegal activities, or as evidence in litigation in which we are involved.

    Specifically, we may need to share your personal information in the following situations:

    • Third-Party Service Providers: We may share your data with third-party vendors, service providers, contractors, or agents who perform services for us or on our behalf and require access to such information to do that work. Examples include: data analysis (Google Analytics), email delivery (if you use a newsletter service), hosting services, and customer service. We will only share the minimum information necessary.

    We do not sell your personal information.

    5. How Long Do We Keep Your Information?

    We will only keep your personal information for as long as it is necessary for the purposes set out in this privacy policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law (such as tax, accounting, or other legal requirements).

    • Usage Data (e.g., Google Analytics): Data collected by Google Analytics is subject to Google’s data retention policies. We typically review aggregated data and do not focus on individual user data retention within Google Analytics beyond standard periods.

    When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymize such information, or, if this is not possible (for example, because your personal information has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible.

    6. How Do We Keep Your Information Safe?

    We have implemented appropriate technical and organizational security measures designed to protect the security of any personal information we process. However, despite our safeguards and efforts to secure your information, no electronic transmission over the Internet or information storage technology can be guaranteed to be 100% secure, so we cannot promise or guarantee that hackers, cybercriminals, or other unauthorized third parties will not be able to defeat our security and improperly collect, access, steal, or modify your information. Although we will do our best to protect your personal information, transmission of personal information to and from our Site is at your own risk. You should only access the Site within a secure environment.

    7. Do We Collect Information From Minors?

    We do not knowingly solicit data from or market to children under the age of 13 (or a higher age as required by applicable law). If we learn that personal information from users less than 13 years of age has been collected, we will deactivate the account and take reasonable measures to promptly delete such data from our records. If you become aware of any data we may have collected from children under age 13, please contact us at privacy@marcelogontijo.dev .

    8. What Are Your Privacy Rights?

    Depending on your location (e.g., if you are in the European Economic Area - EEA, UK, or California), you may have certain rights regarding your personal information. These may include the right to:

    • Request access to and obtain a copy of your personal information.
    • Request rectification if your personal information is inaccurate or incomplete.
    • Request erasure (deletion) of your personal information.
    • Restrict the processing of your personal information.
    • Object to the processing of your personal information.
    • Request data portability (transfer of your personal information to you or a third party).
    • Withdraw your consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process your personal information.

    If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at privacy@marcelogontijo.dev . We will respond to your request in accordance with applicable data protection laws.

    If you are a resident in the European Economic Area (EEA) or UK and you believe we are unlawfully processing your personal information, you also have the right to complain to your local data protection supervisory authority. You can find their contact details here: https://edpb.europa.eu/about-edpb/board/members_en (for EEA) or https://ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint/ (for UK).

    Opting out of email marketing: You can unsubscribe from our marketing email list at any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link in the emails that we send or by contacting us using the details provided below. You will then be removed from the marketing email list – however, we may still communicate with you, for example to send you service-related emails that are necessary for the administration and use of your account, to respond to service requests, or for other non-marketing purposes.

    9. Third-Party Websites

    The Site may contain links to third-party websites and applications of interest, including advertisements and external services, that are not affiliated with us. Once you have used these links to leave our Site, any information you provide to these third parties is not covered by this Privacy Policy, and we cannot guarantee the safety and privacy of your information. Before visiting and providing any information to any third-party websites, you should inform yourself of the privacy policies and practices (if any) of the third party responsible for that website, and should take those steps necessary to, in your discretion, protect the privacy of your information. We are not responsible for the content or privacy and security practices and policies of any third parties, including other sites, services or applications that may be linked to or from the Site.

    10. Changes to This Privacy Policy

    We may update this privacy policy from time to time. The updated version will be indicated by an updated “Last Updated” date and the updated version will be effective as soon as it is accessible. If we make material changes to this privacy policy, we may notify you either by prominently posting a notice of such changes or by directly sending you a notification. We encourage you to review this privacy policy frequently to be informed of how we are protecting your information.

    11. Contact Us

    If you have questions or comments about this policy, you may email us at privacy@marcelogontijo.dev .

    Marcelo Gontijo

    Marcelo Gontijo

    Software Engineer / Scientist

    Marcelo Gontijo is a software engineer and scientist with a passion for technology and innovation. He has a background in software development and data analysis. His mission is to create Information Technology solutions that add value to companies and improve lives while sharing his knowledge with his industry peers.

    me@marcelogontijo.dev