Privacy Policy
Introduction
Futuro Astrônomo is committed not only to delivering high-quality, impartial, and accessible science journalism but also to providing an enjoyable and safe website experience for everyone.
With this in mind, we adhere to international privacy standards, such as the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) in the United States, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in Europe, and the General Data Protection Law (LGPD) in Brazil, as well as other relevant international laws, all aimed at protecting the privacy of your personal information.
To maintain transparency in our actions, we’ve provided further details about our privacy policy. We recommend reading it thoroughly.
What is personal data?
According to Brazil’s General Data Protection Law (LGPD) and others international privacy standards, personal data includes information such as name, email addresses, telephone number, physical address, among others, which can identify an individual. Additionally, there are sensitive data, which include details revealing health conditions, religious beliefs, political opinions, sexual behavior, or biometric information.
What personal data do we collect and why do we collect it?
Cookies
A cookie is a small data file sent to your computer, mobile phone, or tablet by the server so that the website can remember certain information about your browsing activity.
The information provided by cookies helps us analyze how our services are used and allows us to offer a better experience to our visitors, as well as ensure the proper functioning of our product referral links.
If you leave a comment on any Futuro Astrônomo content, you may choose to save your name, email address, and website in cookies. These are for your convenience, so you do not have to fill in your details again when leaving another comment.
These cookies will remain valid for one year.
Comments
When visitors leave a comment on Futuro Astrônomo, we collect the data displayed in the comment form, the visitor’s IP address, and the browser’s user agent information to help detect and prevent spam.
Additionally, an anonymized string created from your email address (also called a “hash”) may be provided to the Gravatar service to check if you are using it, allowing your profile picture to be publicly displayed alongside your comment.
You can review Gravatar’s privacy policy by clicking here!
Images
If you submit contributions or story suggestions with images for publication on Futuro Astrônomo, please avoid sending files that contain embedded location data. Visitors to the website may be able to download and extract location information from images posted on the site.
Forms
Futuro Astrônomo does not collect visitor information through forms (such as contact forms, surveys, or polls), except for the comment form or, in exceptional cases, landing pages. All communication from visitors is conducted exclusively through the email addresses identified on the website.
Emails
Any personal or sensitive identification data sent to Futuro Astrônomo via email or email attachments will not be shared with third parties without the sender’s prior consent.
Futuro Astrônomo is committed to not using, disclosing, copying, or storing these emails. All emails will be deleted within a maximum of one month, whether or not they are answered.
If an email is sent to Futuro Astrônomo by mistake, it will be immediately deleted.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles, news stories, reports, and posts on Futuro Astrônomo may include embedded content from third parties, such as videos, images, articles, and more. Embedded content from other websites behaves in exactly the same way as if the visitor had accessed the other website directly.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with the embedded content, including tracking your interaction if you have an account and are logged into that site.
Links to other websites
Futuro Astrônomo may include links to third-party websites, social media platforms, plugins, and applications. Clicking on these links or enabling these connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you.
We do not control these third-party websites, and once you leave Futuro Astrônomo, we recommend that you review the privacy policy of every website you visit and application you use.
Product referral links
We may monetize some of the links published in our articles through the use of product referral programs. However, we are not responsible for the content or privacy policies of these third-party websites or advertisers, nor for how they use the information they collect about you.
To learn more about our product referral policy, click here!
You can also review the privacy policies of the stores whose products we recommend through the links below:
How do we protect your data?
To mitigate the risk of data breaches, Futuro Astrônomo uses SSL certificates, which add an extra layer of protection to the site, helping to maintain the confidentiality of your information.
The administrators of Futuro Astrônomo also regularly monitor updates to current data protection laws and adopt best practices and tools for digital security and data privacy.
Who do we share your data with?
Personal or sensitive identification data will not be used in any published content on Futuro Astrônomo, nor will it be shared with third parties without prior written consent.
How long do we retain your data?
If you leave a comment on Futuro Astrônomo, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely in our database.
Only the administrators of Futuro Astrônomo have access to comments that are in the moderation queue. Visitor comments may also be checked through an automated spam detection service.
What rights do you have over your data?
If you have left comments on Futuro Astrônomo, you may request that we delete them by providing a list of all content containing your comments to be removed.
This does not include any data we are required to retain for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Policy changes
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time, so we recommend that you review it periodically.
Additional information
You can also review general information about CCPA, GDPR, and LGPD we recommend through the links below:
You can also access our Terms of Use for more details.
To address privacy-related matters with Futuro Astrônomo, please use our general email: [email protected].
04/25/2025