Your privacy is critically important to us.

Disruptive.Asia is managed by Anthony Poulos and located at Karavas, Kythera 80200, Greece. You can find out more about us here and feel free to contact us here.

It is Disruptive.Asia’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website. This Privacy Policy applies to http://disruptive.asia (hereinafter, “us”, “we”, or “http://disruptive.asia”). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting personally identifiable information you may provide us through the Website. We have adopted this privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) to explain what information may be collected on http://disruptive.asia, how we use this information, and under what circumstances we may disclose the information to third parties. This Privacy Policy applies only to information we collect through the Website and does not apply to our collection of information from other sources.

This Privacy Policy, together with the Terms and Conditions of Service posted on http://disruptive.asia, set forth the general rules and policies governing your use of http://disruptive.asia. Depending on your activities when visiting http://disruptive.asia, you may be required to agree to additional terms and conditions.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, Disruptive.Asia collects non personally identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Disruptive.Asia’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Disruptive.Asia’s visitors use its website. From time to time, Disruptive.Asia may release non personally identifying information in the aggregate, e.g. by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

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.

An anonymised 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. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue. Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service Akismet.

Akismet collects information about visitors who comment on Sites that use the Akismet anti-spam service. The information collected depends on how the sites set up Akismet, but typically includes the commenter’s IP address, user agent, referrer, and Site URL (along with other information directly provided by the commenter such as their name, username, email address, and the comment itself).

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.

Gathering of personally-identifying information

Certain visitors to Disruptive.Asia’s websites choose to interact with Disruptive.Asia in ways that require Disruptive.Asia to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Disruptive.Asia gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up for a newsletter subscription at http://disruptive.asia to provide a username, email address and country (used for timing of daily newsletter notifications).

Newsletter & Emails

If you have subscribed to our newsletter there is a good chance you will receive emails from us.

We will only send you emails which you have signed up to receive, or which pertain to the services we provided to you.

To send you emails, we use the name and email address you provide us. Our site also logs the IP address you used when you signed up for the service to prevent abuse of the system.

This website can send emails through the Amazon Simple Email Service. This service allows us to track opens and clicks on our emails. We use this information to improve the content of our newsletters.

No identifiable information is otherwise tracked outside this website except for the email address.

Security

The security of your Personal Information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Anti-spam measures

We collect information about visitors who comment on using the Akismet anti-spam service. The information we collect typically includes the commenter’s IP address, user agent, referrer, and Site URL (along with other information directly provided by the commenter such as their name, username, email address, and the comment itself).

Advertisements

Ads appearing on our website may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad servers to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Disruptive.Asia and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Links to external sites

Our Service may contain links to external sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy and terms and conditions of every site you visit.

We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third-party sites, products or services.

Protection of certain personally-identifying information

Disruptive.Asia discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Disruptive.Asia’s behalf or to provide services available at Disruptive.Asia’s website, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Disruptive.Asia’s website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Disruptive.Asia will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Disruptive.Asia discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Disruptive.Asia believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Disruptive.Asia, third parties or the public at large.

If you are a registered user of http://disruptive.asia and have supplied your email address, Disruptive.Asia may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Disruptive.Asia and our products. We primarily use our site to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Disruptive.Asia takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

If Disruptive.Asia or our services are merged with or acquired by new owners your personal data may be transferred to 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 recognise 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 (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

Aggregated statistics

Disruptive.Asia may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its website. Disruptive.Asia may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Disruptive.Asia does not disclose your personally-identifying information.

Affiliate disclosure

This site uses affiliate links and does earn a commission from certain links. This does not affect your purchases or the price you may pay.

Cookies

To enrich and perfect your online experience, Disruptive.Asia uses “Cookies”, similar technologies and services provided by others to display personalized content, appropriate advertising and store your preferences on your computer.

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. Disruptive.Asia uses cookies to help Disruptive.Asia identify and track visitors, their usage of http://disruptive.asia, and their website access preferences. Disruptive.Asia visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Disruptive.Asia’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of Disruptive.Asia’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

By continuing to navigate our website without changing your cookie settings, you hereby acknowledge and agree to Disruptive.Asia’s use of cookies.

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 tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

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.

Privacy Policy changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Disruptive.Asia may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Disruptive.Asia’s sole discretion. Disruptive.Asia encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.