Who we are

Our website address is: http://absolutelynothing.io. We are a small group of individuals who are trying to educate the public on what is in the privacy policies of popular companies. Today our “product” is our blog and it’s distribution via newsletters or instantaneous post notifications.

How we make money

This is currently offered for free and will continue to be free for quite a while. We do plan on monetizing this content by placing contextual advertisements which are a form of targeted advertisement where the type of audience determines the content. In our case, we assume that since you are interested in privacy policies you might be interested in tools like dark web monitoring, password management, VPNs, credit score monitoring, and other privacy minded tools. We may also show advertisements that are universal to any audience like essential items and basic goods.

We do not show you types of targeted advertising that are unique to you, your sociodemographics, your search history, your device or operating system, your social media activity, advertising based on the time of day, your location, your behavior, or retargeting advertisements. However, our blog posts will certainly help you understand what all these mean and which companies do use these tactics.

Comments

Currently, we do not permit comments on individual posts.

When we choose to turn on comments we will conduct ourselves as outlined below.

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 (what browser the visitor is using) to help spam detection.

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

When commenting is enabled, 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. We do not take responsibility for “cleaning”, “scrubbing”, or “processing” your images in a way that would remove this data.

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 visit our login page, 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.

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.

When we (AbsolutelyNothing.io) embed content we will do our best to maintain an equal or greater level of privacy.

Who we share your data with

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

We utilize a service called MailPoet to maintain our subscriber lists. You can find the privacy policy for MailPoet here.

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.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (with one exception: users cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where your data is sent

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.