Privacy Policy

YOUR PRIVACY IS IMPORTANT TO US

Robotics And Beyond is committed to protecting your privacy. This Statement of Privacy applies to the Robotics And Beyond website.

  • We don’t share your personal information with anyone
  • We don’t store personal information on any web servers

Who we are

Robotics And Beyond is a 501(c)3 educational organization founded in 2003 and focused on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) and design. Our website address is: https://www.roboticsandbeyond.org.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the Robotics And Beyond 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.

We only allow comments on some of our blog pages. If you supply your email address, it will be used to create an anonymous character string (also called a hash). If you use an avatar when posting a comment, then the anonymous character string may be provided to the Gravatar service to verify that your avatar is being used with your knowledge. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/.

Media

If you upload images to the Robotics And Beyond 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.

Contact forms

Robotics And Beyond uses contact forms to allow visitors to communicate with us. Personal information such as name and email address is required but this information is passed through our servers without being stored. We do not use the information submitted through contact forms for marketing purposes.

Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns.

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.

Robotics And Beyond visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using our website, with the drawback that certain features may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Analytics

We use Google Analytics to gather anonymous data from our users. Read Google’s privacy statement.

Third Party Applications

Robotics And Beyond uses the following third party applications (apps). These apps collect personal information on their sites for the purpose of processing transactions or communications with Robotics And Beyond.

Jumbula – Robotics And Beyond uses this site for our program registrations. View Jumbula’s privacy policy.

Mailchimp – Robotics And Beyond uses this site for our email communications. The only personal information we use is your email address. View Mailchimp’s privacy policy.

PayPal – Robotics And Beyond uses this site to collect online payments. View PayPal’s privacy policy.