Who we are
The site www.loudocraft.com (the “Site”) is operated by its creator Louis “Loudog” Lopez. This page informs you of the Site’s policies regarding the collection, use and disclosure of Personal Information received from users of the Site.
Your Personal Information is used for providing and improving the Site. By using the Site, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
While using our Site, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to your name, username, and/or email address (“Personal Information”).
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection with Akismet Anti-Spam.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Image files uploaded are subject to alteration by compression tools in order to reduce the file size.
Contact forms
Your name and email address as well as the message text will be collected if you contact us with the forms on the website. Your personal info will only be used to contact you in case you have a question or concern that needs an answer.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Site.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Analytics
Like many site operators, we collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our Site (“Log Data”).
This Log Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our Site that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages and other statistics.
In addition, we may use third party services such as Google Analytics that collect, monitor and analyze how people are finding the site and which site they came from. Analytics are also used to see how people are using the site and can help us determine how well it is working and if there are problems that need fixing. As well, analytics tells us what parts of the world people are visiting from so we can understand the makeup and demographics of the audience.
Google Analytics uses first-party cookies for tracking and identifying you from others that visit this site. You can choose to opt out of Google Analytics tracking if you want.
Advertisements
This Site may display advertisements that are part of the Google AdSense program. Since most of the papercraft models on this Site are free to download, Ads revenues are used to pay for the labor and costs of making these items and keeping as many of them free of charge.
Third party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to your website or other websites. Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to your users based on their visit to your sites and/or other sites on the Internet. You can opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Ads Settings. Alternatively, you can opt out of a third-party vendor’s use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info).
Who we share your data with
Data you provide in the form of comments and any personally identifiable info such as usernames is not shared or sold to third parties but will be posted in public for all to see.
Advertisement banners that you click on may lead you to a different site that could collect and share your information with third parties. Please refer to the privacy policies of those vendor sites for the Ads that you click on to see what they may do with information you provide them.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
Where we send your data
Comments you make may be checked through an automated spam detection service (Akismet Anti-Spam).
Your contact information
If there are questions or issues about this privacy policy, you can contact me at: