Privacy Policy

The author is committed to protecting your personal information. This privacy policy explains how we collect, use and disclose information from and about you when you use HueStones.

What information is collected about you?

Information you provide us

Personal information is collected when you use the contact form. At such times you may be asked to disclose personal contact information shown in the form such as your name and e-mail address.

This information is used for correspondence with you and to respond to your query. This information may be used to comply with law and legal process and protect rights, safety and property and enforce our legal terms and to combat abuse or misuse.

To request deletion of any personal contact information you have shared, please contact the author with your request.

Information we collect automatically when you use this website

  • We log information about your use of our website including access times, pages viewed, your public IP address and the page you visited before navigating to our website.
  • We collect information about the type of web browser you use, the computer or mobile device you use to access our website, including the hardware model, operating system and version, screen resolution, colour and depth, device identifiers and mobile network information.

This information does not normally directly identify you as an individual.

This information is used for detecting and preventing malicious attacks on the website and for optimising website performance. This information may be used to comply with law and legal process and protect rights, safety and property and enforce our legal terms and to combat abuse or misuse.

Under normal operations such information logs are deleted after 14 days.

Information collected by Cookies

Essential Cookies

This website uses cookies to recognise your browser when you visit our website.

They are used to remember your preferences and settings. These cookies are stored only in your browser and are set to expire automatically after 30 days. You may clear them sooner by clearing your browsers cookie cache at any time.

By using this website, you agree that we can place these types of cookies on your computer or device because the website needs these to work correctly.

Analytics cookies

This website uses Google Analytics cookies and scripts to understand interactions with the website. We use this information to optimise and improve the websites performance over time. This data helps us understand what content is popular, know when visitors are having trouble accessing our content and gauge how we can better serve our visitors.

Analytics cookies are optional and you have full control over them. We urge you to leave these on and you can change your consent by clicking the button below, then choosing a different option in the consent bar that appears at the bottom of this page.

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You may clear analytics cookies anytime by clearing your browsers cookie cache. These cookies are also blocked by certain privacy-focussed browser plugins. The website will still operate normally for you even if you choose to block these cookies.

In addition,

Third-Party websites

Third-party websites are other websites and owned and operated by third-parties such as Flickr, Google, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Amazon.

Because of the way The Web works and because we link and embed content from third-party websites; these websites can directly collect information about you.

External links

Some pages on this website include links to third-party websites. When you click on such links, you may leave this website. Your web browser may also disclose to the third-party website the URL of the page you clicked from, and this URL may include search terms and filters you used on this website.

Third-party affiliate content

Some pages on this website contain links to products and services offered by
third party websites. If you click on those links, we will direct you to the third party website. The third party website may collect data to show us that you have clicked on the link and whether you purchased any products and services.

We may receive a commission from the third party if you follow a link to their website from this website and purchase goods and services from them.

Third-party embedded content

Some pages on this website include embedded content (e.g. videos, images and product promotions) from third-party websites. This is used to provide you a seamless browsing experience. You should assume embedded content from these third-party websites behaves in the exact same way as if the you had clicked a link to visit the third-party website.

Third-party content personalisation

Third-party websites may personalise their content based on your interactions with them, including showing you interest-based or personalised advertisements.

In all cases, we have no access to any personal information the third-parties may gather on their website or within their embedded content. Please refer to the third party organisations’ own privacy and cookie policies and their opt-out options.

Third-party content we commonly use on this website,

The author does not accept any responsibility or liability for the privacy practices of any third-party including third-party websites, social media platforms, analytics platforms and advertisement platforms.

Where we store information?

We work with other companies who provide us with services that help run, protect and secure this website (“Service Providers”). Our service providers operate globally and help us make this website accessible globally.

If you are accessing or using this websites or otherwise providing information to us, our service providers may transfer your personal information outside of the EEA, the UK, or Switzerland.

Our main service providers are AWS Cloud Services, Cloudflare and FlowCrypt.

Our Terms of Use

This Privacy Policy forms part of our Terms of Use that govern your use of HueStones(“this website”).

If you disagree, you must not use this website; please close the browser window or tab and clear your browsers cookie cache.

By continuing to use this website, you agree to our Terms of Use, including this Privacy Policy in full.