Privacy Policy
Last updated: 2026-06-12
This Privacy Policy explains how information is handled on Autonomous Systems Explained at https://www.autonomous-systems-explained.com.
Autonomous Systems Explained is an educational publishing site about autonomous systems, robotics concepts, perception, navigation, planning, control systems, safety design, and related technical topics. It is published by WRS Web Solutions Inc. The site does not provide engineering advice, design review, safety certification help, consulting, implementation support, troubleshooting, or project-specific technical assistance.
1. Information This Site Collects
This site does not require user accounts and does not directly collect personal information such as names, email addresses, payment details, account numbers, passwords, or project credentials through an on-site registration system.
Like most websites, limited non-personal technical information may be collected automatically through hosting logs, browser requests, analytics tools, advertising services, or security systems. This may include:
- IP address;
- browser type and version;
- device type and operating system;
- referring page or search source;
- pages visited;
- timestamps and general usage patterns;
- error logs or security-related request information.
This information is used to operate, maintain, secure, troubleshoot, and improve the website.
2. Information Submitted Through Contact or Support Links
The Contact page may direct visitors to an external WRS Web Solutions support ticket system for limited site-related matters such as factual corrections, broken links, accessibility issues, copyright or privacy concerns, and business or editorial inquiries.
If you use that external support system, information you choose to submit may include your name, email address, message content, page URL, IP address, browser details, and any other information you provide. That information is used to review and respond to the inquiry where appropriate.
Please do not submit confidential project information, source code, system designs, robotics data, sensor logs, safety cases, commercial documents, proprietary research, passwords, private credentials, personal data, or sensitive technical details. Autonomous Systems Explained is not a private engineering support channel.
3. Cookies and Similar Technologies
This site may use cookies, browser storage, server logs, advertising scripts, analytics tools, and similar technologies. These technologies may help:
- operate the website;
- measure general site usage;
- understand which pages are useful to visitors;
- detect spam, abuse, or unusual traffic;
- display advertising;
- measure ad performance.
You can usually disable or delete cookies through your browser settings. Some site features, analytics, or advertising functions may not work as intended if cookies or scripts are blocked.
4. Advertising and Google AdSense
This site uses Google AdSense and may display advertising provided by Google or its advertising partners. Google and its partners may use cookies or similar technologies to serve ads, measure ad performance, limit repeated ads, and help show ads that may be more relevant to visitors.
Depending on your location, browser settings, Google settings, consent choices, and applicable law, ads may be personalized or non-personalized. You can manage Google ad personalization through your Google account and browser settings.
You can learn more about Google advertising controls at Google Ads Settings. You can also learn more about how Google uses data from sites and apps that use its services at Google’s partner sites information page.
Advertising helps support the cost of operating this educational website. Ads do not mean that Autonomous Systems Explained endorses a specific advertiser, product, vendor, tool, platform, vehicle, robot, software system, sensor, engineering firm, or service provider.
5. Analytics and Performance Measurement
This site may use analytics or performance measurement tools to understand general visitor behaviour, page performance, device types, referring sources, and navigation patterns. Analytics information is used in aggregate to improve the site and is not intended to identify individual visitors personally.
6. Third-Party Services
Third-party vendors, including Google, hosting providers, security systems, analytics providers, and external support systems, may collect or process information according to their own privacy policies and technical practices. Autonomous Systems Explained does not control how third-party services handle information outside this website.
7. External Links
This website may link to external websites, including technical references, standards organizations, regulators, educational resources, vendors, publishers, and related sites. External websites have their own privacy policies and security practices. Autonomous Systems Explained is not responsible for the content, privacy practices, or security of external websites.
8. Data Use
Information may be used to:
- operate and maintain the website;
- improve content, navigation, accessibility, and page performance;
- monitor and prevent spam, abuse, scraping, or security problems;
- respond to legitimate site-related inquiries;
- display and measure advertising;
- keep basic operational or business records where necessary.
Autonomous Systems Explained does not sell personal information.
9. Data Retention
Server logs, analytics records, security logs, and advertising-related records may be retained for operational, reporting, security, and maintenance purposes. Support inquiries submitted through an external support system may be retained as needed to review the inquiry, maintain business records, resolve disputes, or comply with legal obligations.
10. Children’s Privacy
This site is intended for a general audience and is not directed to young children. Autonomous Systems Explained does not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe a child has submitted personal information through a contact method connected with this site, please use the Contact page so the issue can be reviewed.
11. Security
Reasonable steps are taken to maintain the website and reduce common security risks. However, no website, hosting system, advertising service, analytics tool, support system, or internet transmission can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
Visitors should not send confidential engineering information, private project material, proprietary source code, credentials, safety documentation, or sensitive personal information through this website or related support links.
12. User Choices
You can limit certain data collection by:
- disabling or deleting cookies through browser settings;
- using browser privacy controls;
- blocking certain scripts or third-party requests;
- managing Google ad personalization settings;
- avoiding submission of personal or confidential information through contact links.
13. Changes to This Policy
This Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time to reflect changes to the website, advertising services, analytics tools, legal requirements, or operating practices. The updated version will be posted on this page with a revised last-updated date.
14. Contact
For questions about this Privacy Policy, use the Contact page. Contact should be limited to site-related matters. Autonomous Systems Explained cannot provide engineering advice, robotics consulting, safety certification help, implementation support, troubleshooting, product recommendations, or project-specific technical assistance.
Autonomous Systems Explained is published by WRS Web Solutions Inc.