Privacy Policy and Use of Cookies

Your Data

The information we collect includes:

• your name, email address, for authentication if you choose to sign in
• your facebook user ID, for linking your account to your email address if you sign in with facebook
• questions, queries or feedback you leave
• content you share with us when contributing to pages or sharing weblinks on the feed
• your IP address, and details of which version of web browser you used
• information on how you use the site, using cookies and page tagging techniques to help us improve the website
• error messages you encounter along with details on what you were doing to help us squish bugs in the site
• details to allow you to access Complexity Explorer services and transactions, eg an email address and password to access your account

This helps us to:

• give you the power to contribute updates to the website and participate in interactive activities
  
• improve the site by monitoring how you use it
• respond to any feedback you send us, if you’ve asked us to

Where your data is stored

We store your data in an encrypted form on our secure servers. Your data and the Builder software is backed up daily in a variety of locations. By creating an account and submitting information, you agree to this.

signing in

While you can access content without signing in, we allow people to contribute to pages, share links, and participate in interactive features for those who do. You can choose to have a traditional account by providing your name, email and a password which are encrypted in our database. The other option is to use Facebook for signing in. When you sign in, Facebook only provides us with a key proving you are signed in along with your name, email address, and your facebook ID so that we can link you with any account you have with your email. The Complexity Explorer can not access or post to your Facebook account.

Keeping your data secure

While transmitting information over the internet is generally not completely secure, we have procedures and security features in place to try and keep your data secure once we receive it.

When you use Complexity Explorer, make sure you are using a secure or HTTPS connection. You can make sure your connection is secure by looking at the address bar in your browser, confirm that it has a padlock or it shows https://discovercomplexity.org. Our server is secured by Let's Encrypt

We won’t share your information with any other organizations for marketing, market research or commercial purposes, and we don’t pass on your details to other websites.

Embedded Content

Some pages have a feed of related links, videos, files, and other interesting items that are "embedded" into the website. This means for instance, we will have a working youtube video on the page instead of a link to the video on the youtube website. We use embed.ly to convert links into embedded content and some of the websites we embed may also collect information about you (browser information, information about the embedded content, and how you use their embedded content such as to remember where you left off if you wanted to rewatch the video after you pushed pause. You can learn about embed.ly on their website (https://embed.ly/legal/privacy). Use of the embedded content is subject to the author's privacy and usage policies and are out of control of the Complexity Explorer or its creators.

Disclosing your information

We may pass on your personal information if we have a legal obligation to do so, or if we have to enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements.

Your rights

You can find out what information we hold about you, and ask us to provide all information we collected. If you wish to have a copy of your information in Complexity Explorer, please contact us. If you choose not to sign in, you still have the opportunity to freely access content.

Cookies

Complexity Explorer puts small files (known as "cookies") onto your computer to collect information about how you use the site and to help us identify you.

Cookies are used to measure how you use the site, remember who you are (including keeping you logged in), and to deliver messages as you use Camper (eg, show an error or success message when you update a page).

How cookies are used

We use cookies in a couple of ways. Complexity Explorer sets 2 cookies when you login to the site. The first is called "builderwithsean" and stores information about you including your user id, your ip address and a session id. Complexity Explorer also sets a cookie caller "remember_code" which stores a key. We use this to help you sign in when you forget your username or password. 

We use Google Analytics to measure website usage and they also create cookies. They create up to 4 cookies called "_utma", "_utmb", "_utmc" and "_utmz" which help us count the number of visitors we get to the site and information about these visits like how long you use a page. Google does not collect information that can be used to personally identify you with these cookies.

We use Embed.ly to present embedded weblinks and they also create cookies. They create up to 4 cookies called "em_cdn_uid", "__cfduid", "intercom-session-*" and "_em_p_uid" which help us track our usage of their service. Embed.ly does not collect information that can be used to personally identify you with these cookies.