The Barcode Website Privacy Policy

Who Are We?

TheBarcode.com is an online resource for business tools and equipment and a place for guides when beginning a new company. We offer various products from various manufacturers and review many of these products for you.

Our goal is to provide you with the best information and products available for your retail or hospitality business.

We provide our customers with an outstanding shopping experience to create long-term relationships with them. We have worked hard over the past few years to grow our company into one of the leaders in this space, so we know what it takes to be successful in this industry.

Note: We do not link the information we collect from you to any personally identifiable information you provide on other sites or apps. Nor do we attempt to associate it with any other data we collect, for example, when you visit another site on the same website.

Comments

Privacy is a core value of our mission. We strive to keep your information private and do not share it with third parties or sell it to them. So, when visitors leave comments on our site, we collect personally identifiable information, IP address, and the browser user agent string to enable us to detect spam. 

An anonymized string created from your email address is provided to Gravatar to verify that you are using it. The Gravatar service is a web service that lets users display pictures of their profiles, called avatars. 

When you submit a comment on TheBarcode.com, your email address is stored in a public database that the Gravatar service can access—we do not have access to this information ourselves. After comment approval, your profile picture is visible to all visitors to TheBarcode site in the context of your comment.

Media

Visitors can download and extract any location data from images on the website, so we urge our visitors to avoid uploading any images which include embedded location data (EXIF GPS). 

Cookies

We utilize cookies, making it easier for you to navigate our website and store your preferences, ensuring that we give you the best experience. They help us establish and develop new features and improve existing ones. We also use cookies to analyze how our visitors use our website and to detect and prevent fraud. 

We may also share this information with third parties who provide services on our behalf, such as analytics or social media networks like Facebook. It’s done following their respective privacy policies.

When you leave a comment on our site, you accede to save your details, such as your name, email address, and the website, in cookies. They ease your activity on the website in that you will not have to fill in the details in case you leave another comment. These kinds of cookies last for one year. 

If you visit our login page, the website automatically sets a temporary cookie that determines if the browser you are utilizing accepts cookies. No personal data is contained in the cookie, and we get rid of it once you close the browser. 

Several cookies are established when you log in to our website. These cookies save your login information and track your visits to help the website recall your screen display choices. The screen visits cookies last for a year. Login cookies last only for two days and are immediately removed if the visitor logs out of their account. For those visitors who choose “Remember Me,” their login perseveres for two weeks. 

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie that expires after one day is saved in your browser. No personal data is included in the cookie as it’s only utilized to indicate the post of the edited article. 

Embedded content from other websites

When visitors use embedded content on our website, they should expect it to behave the same as if they visited another website. These websites can collect data and embed additional third-party tracking like Google Analytics scripts. They can monitor and even track visitors’ interaction with the embedded content if they have an account and are logged in to the website.

Who do we share your data with?

We also use an external service to track anonymized data about our users’ behavior on TheBarcode.com. The data is stored on a secure server and is only used for internal analysis and to improve our services. When you forget your login details, we will include your IP address in the reset email if you request a password reset.

How long we retain your data

TheBarcode.com only stores user data, such as IP addresses and email addresses, for as long as is necessary to provide the service by this privacy policy and applicable laws. Whether approved or not, TheBarcode.com stores unique user agent data for each visitor comment, which helps us track user follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

If you fill out our contact form, we will only use your email address for purposes consistent with our Privacy Policy (e.g., responding to your request and sending you our promotional emails). Users can see, edit or even delete their details at any time but can’t change their usernames. In addition, website administrators can also see and edit the same information; however, they can’t delete it. 

What rights do you have over your data?

You have the right to edit, amend or update your personal information. You are entitled to the right to identify any third party with access to your personal information. 

You have the right to any personal data you share with us. So, you can request a copy we hold about you anytime. We will provide you with a copy of any personal data we hold about you unless we are legally prohibited from doing so. We may ask you to provide certain information before providing you with a copy of such data.

If you want us to erase any personal data we hold about you. We will also notify third parties with whom we have shared such information of your request and provide them with that information. However, there is one exception; we cannot erase any personal data we keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where is your data sent?

Data may be sent to us by third parties, such as web analytics providers and other services. These third parties have privacy policies and data protection practices independent of us. The website may use an automated spam detection service to check for inappropriate or illegal comments. If the comment is spam, it will be removed from the system.

Acceptance of Our Privacy Policy 

By using the Services, you consent to this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Service. Please do not use the Services if you do not agree to this Privacy Policy or our Terms of Service. Please note that this Privacy Policy does not apply to any personal information collected by us through means other than those described here.

If we change this privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page so that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it.