About us


We are the administration of the top-level domain name .GT (ccTLD .GT for its acronym in English) is the only entity in charge of maintaining the registry of Internet domain names with the country code assigned to Guatemala

In 1992, the “InterNet Assigned Numbers Authority” (IANA) delegated to the Universidad del Valle Guatemala (hereinafter UVG) the administration of the country code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) “.gt”.

The UVG undertakes to follow the generally accepted guidelines for this type of operation, especially those set out in the documents:

“RFC-1591 (Mar 1994)”
“IANA ccTLD Delegation Practices Document (ICP-1) (21 May 1999)”
For more information see our history.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it


Comments


When visitors leave comments on the web, we collect the data shown in the comment form, as well as the visitor’s IP address and the browser’s user agent string to help detect spam.

An anonymous string created from your email address (also called a hash) can 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 image is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media


If you upload images to the web, you should avoid uploading images with location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Contact forms cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you can choose to save your name, email address and website in cookies. This is for your convenience, so you don’t 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 install various cookies to save your login information and your screen display options. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for one year. If you select “Remember me”, your login will last 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 does not include personal data and simply indicates the ID of the article that you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (for example, videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in exactly the same way as if the visitor had 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 embedded content if you have an account and are connected to that website.

Analytics

How long do we keep your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are kept indefinitely. This is so that we can automatically recognize and approve subsequent comments instead of keeping them in a moderation queue.

Of the users who register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information that they provide in their user profile. All users can view, edit or delete their personal information at any time (except that they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also view and edit this information.

What rights do you have over your data

If you have an account or have left comments on this website, you can request to receive an export file of the personal data we have about you, including any data that you have provided us. You can also request that we delete any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data that we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal or security purposes.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked by an automated spam detection service.