Last Update: 01-11-2021 @ 05:06
Who am I?
I am a private clock collector who is interested in the history of clockmaking, the classification of clocks, best practices for building a collection, characterizing it, classifying it and maintaining it. I am not affiliated with any organization that funds me, I do not trade clocks, and I do not promote trade. The few references to for-profit sites such as sales sites of old clocks or timepieces are only there for informational purposes. This website was developed by me alone from the best references in the field. I fully cover the costs of development, management and hosting. The address of my website is: https://clockworks-horloges.com/
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Respect for your privacy
You can visit this site anonymously at any time. You only have to reveal personal information if you want to comment or participate in the blog by submitting articles. However, the site via its host can detect your IP address for login and traffic statistics. This detection does not contain any personal information under any circumstances.
Cookies
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Comments and blog articles
I reserve the right to publish or not comments or articles if they do not meet acceptable substantive and formal standards, for example, an article with publicity or personal information, an article non-related to the clock domain, or an offensive comment. When you leave a comment on the site, the data entered in the comment form, but also your IP address and your browser user agent are collected to help detect unwanted comments. An anonymized chain created from your email address (also called “hash“) can be sent to the Gravatar service for verification. Gravatar‘s privacy policies are available here. After validating your comment, an avatar, will be publicly visible next to your comment. Visitor feedback can be verified using an automated unwanted comment detection service. If you upload images to the website to illustrate your point, avoid uploading images containing EXIF data that contain GPS coordinates. Unintended visitors to this website could download and extract location data from these images.
Links to other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content, such as videos, images, articles, etc. This content is usually referenced by links that mostly open in another tab in your browser. The content referenced to other sites behaves in the same way as if the visitor went to these other sites by himself. These sites have their own privacy policy, and they do not in any way engage my responsibility for their content.
Data sharing, retention and analysis
I do not share your data, period, unless it is necessary for technical or administrative purposes.
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are kept indefinitely. This automatically recognizes and approves the following comments instead of leaving them in the moderation queue. If you have registered on the site to participate in the comments and blog, the personal data shown in your profile is retained. You can see, edit or delete your personal information at any time, except for your username. I or a designated administrator can also see and modify this information, if necessary.
What are your rights to your data?
If you have an account or have left comments on this site, you can request to receive a file containing all the personal data the site has about you, including the data you have provided to us. You can also request the removal of personal data about you. This does not take into account data stored for administrative, legal or security purposes.
Intellectual Property
The content of this site is protected by copyright and intellectual property laws and international treaties concerning them. Any reproduction, copy, publication, distribution, public presentation, by any means, printed or digital, or sale and commercial use of any part of this site is strictly prohibited, without the approval of the author-administrator or his estate. However, use for personal and private purposes is permitted, as long as there is no sharing of content to third parties other than by quoting links to the site.
Applicable laws
Quebec and Canadian laws apply under this policy.
Contact
Any questions, comments or complaints about your personal data should be addressed using the site’s contact form, with the subject matter “Privacy Policy.”
