Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy explains how information may be collected and used when you visit 3D Material Check. The website is an informational publisher focused on compatibility between FDM 3D printers and printing materials.

The information handled depends on how you use the website. You can generally read public compatibility content without directly providing your name or email address. If you contact the site, your message will include information you choose to submit.

Information you provide

Contact form information

The Contact page allows you to voluntarily provide your name, email address, subject and message. This information is used to deliver your message to the site administrator and to review, respond to or follow up on your request.

Your message may concern a correction, a source issue, a printer or material suggestion, a privacy request or a general question. Please do not include sensitive personal information or confidential information that is not necessary for the request.

Contact submissions may be retained for as long as reasonably necessary to handle the correspondence, maintain relevant records, prevent abuse or resolve a related issue. Messages that are no longer needed may be deleted. Retention can vary according to the nature of the inquiry.

Information collected automatically

Like a normal WordPress publisher website, 3D Material Check and its hosting infrastructure may process basic technical information when a page is requested. Server and security logs may include:

• Internet Protocol address
• Request date and time
• Requested page or file
• Browser and device information
• Operating system information
• Referring page, when supplied by the browser
• Response status and diagnostic information

This information may be used to deliver pages, maintain website reliability, diagnose technical problems, detect malicious activity, prevent spam or abuse, and understand aggregate website traffic. Technical logs are not intended to identify ordinary visitors by name, although an IP address can be treated as personal information under some privacy laws.

Log retention is determined by operational, security and hosting needs. Logs may be kept for a limited period and retained longer when needed to investigate a security event, abuse or technical failure.

Cookies and similar technologies

Cookies are small data files stored by a browser. The website may use cookies or similar technologies that are necessary for WordPress functionality, security, preferences or basic site operation. Whether a particular cookie is placed can depend on the pages you visit, features in use and your browser settings.

You can control or delete cookies through your browser. Blocking all cookies may affect website features or prevent preferences from being remembered. Where applicable, a consent interface may provide additional choices for non-essential cookies.

Advertising

3D Material Check may use Google advertising products, such as Google AdSense. If advertising is enabled, Google and advertising partners may use cookies, web beacons or similar technologies to serve, measure and personalize ads, subject to applicable consent requirements and user settings.

Advertising technologies may process information such as your IP address, browser or device details, interactions with ads, approximate location derived from an IP address, and visits to this or other websites. Depending on your region, consent status and settings, ads may be personalized or non-personalized.

Google’s handling of information is governed by its own policies and controls. You can learn more from Google’s information about how it uses data when sites or apps use its services at https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites. Google also provides advertising controls at https://myadcenter.google.com/.

The availability of advertising, the partners involved and the cookies used may change. Where consent is required, non-essential advertising technologies should be handled according to the choices presented to the visitor.

Purposes for handling information

Information may be handled for the following purposes:

• Providing and displaying website content
• Delivering contact-form messages to the site administrator
• Responding to questions, corrections and suggestions
• Maintaining website security and preventing abuse
• Diagnosing errors and improving reliability
• Keeping records reasonably related to correspondence or corrections
• Displaying and measuring advertising if advertising services are enabled
• Meeting applicable obligations and responding to valid requests

The reason relied upon for processing can depend on the information, purpose and visitor’s location. It may include your consent, a request you make, operational interests in maintaining and securing the website, or an applicable obligation.

When information may be shared

Information is not collected through the contact form for sale as a contact list. It may, however, be processed by service infrastructure needed to operate the website and deliver a message, such as WordPress hosting, server or email-delivery systems. Those systems may process information on behalf of the website administrator as part of providing their technical functions.

Information may also be disclosed when reasonably necessary to protect the website, investigate abuse, enforce rights, or respond to a valid legal request. If advertising is enabled, Google and relevant advertising partners may receive or collect the technical and advertising information described above under their own policies.

External manufacturer sources and other third-party websites linked from compatibility pages are operated independently. Their privacy practices are controlled by their respective operators, not by 3D Material Check.

International processing

Internet services can process information in more than one country. Hosting, message delivery or advertising providers may operate infrastructure outside the visitor’s country. Privacy protections and access rules may differ between locations. Where relevant, the provider’s own terms and privacy documentation explain its data-handling arrangements.

Data security

Reasonable technical and operational measures may be used to protect the website and information submitted through it. No website, email transmission or storage system can be guaranteed completely secure. Visitors should therefore avoid sending unnecessary sensitive information through the contact form.

Your choices and privacy requests

Depending on where you live, you may have rights concerning personal information, such as requesting access, correction or deletion, objecting to certain processing, restricting processing, or withdrawing consent where processing is based on consent. These rights can be subject to exceptions and identity verification.

You may submit a privacy request through the Contact page. Include enough detail to identify the relevant message or interaction, but do not send unnecessary identity documents with an initial request.

You can also use browser controls to block or delete cookies and, when available, use the site’s consent choices. Advertising preferences may additionally be managed through the controls provided by Google or your browser or device.

Children’s privacy

3D Material Check is a general informational website and is not directed specifically to children. Visitors should not submit personal information about a child through the contact form unless it is necessary and appropriate to do so.

Changes to this policy

This Privacy Policy may be updated when website features, operational practices or applicable requirements change. The version published on this page is the current policy. Material changes should be reflected by updating the page content.

Contact

Questions about this policy or the handling of a contact submission can be sent using the form on the Contact page.