Who we are

Our website address is: https://connect2nonstop.com.

This service, located at “www.connect2nonstop.com” is a web site (“Site”) owned and operated by Connect Worldwide users group, a Texas non-profit corporation. This site is intended to provide information that might be of interest to users. The contents of this Site, including but not limited to the text and images herein and their arrangements, unless otherwise noted, are the copyrighted material of Connect Worldwide Trademark. All rights reserved. All Trademarks referred to are the property of their respective owners. Your access to and use of the Site is subject to the following Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, Liability Disclaimer, all other sections of this document, and all applicable laws. By accessing and browsing the Site, you accept, without limitation or qualification, the Terms of Service and acknowledge that other agreements between you and Connect Worldwide are superseded and are of no force or effect.

Connect Worldwide is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy, and we’ll only use your personal information to administer your account and to provide the products and services you requested from us. You may find our company Privacy Policy here. This policy is not comprehensive and may change at any time.

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 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

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.

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.

If you become a member or sign up for email editions or other communications, we maintain your membership information through 3rd party services, and you agree to the terms of use of those services, which include but are not limited to Constant Contact, Hubspot

Embedded content from other websites

Articles and features 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.

Third parties

The list of third parties we use may not be complete. Our CDN uses the Stackpath Content Delivery Network (CDN). Stackpath may store web log information of site visitors, including IPs, UA, referrer, Location and ISP info of site visitors for 7 days. Files and images served by the CDN may be stored and served from countries other than your own. Stackpath’s privacy policy can be found here.

Who we share your data with

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

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 (except they 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.

Information We Collect and Store

We gather information about you during your website visit. During your visit, we monitor:

  • Pages Viewed: This helps us analyze site usage statistics and understand user behavior.
  • Browser user agent: we’ll use this for purposes like creating charts of views, most used browsers, etc.
  • IP address

This website uses Advanced Ads Pro to place advertisements. The WordPress plugin may use multiple first-party cookies to ensure the correct integration of ads. These cookies store technical information but not IP addresses. Their use is linked to specific features and options when embedding ads.
Please, see the Advanced Ads cookie information for more details.

Author

  • theconnection

    The Connection is a journal for the HPE NonStop Business Technology Community. In print for 30 year and now digital, The Connection is your source for HPE NonStop news, releases, community, and more, as a part of the Connect Worldwide Community. Learn more and become a member at https://connect-community.org