Privacy Policy

Latest revision: 2024-06-01

Purpose of this website

The Categories section of this website is a blog with posts on different topics with the purpose of being informative, educational, and entertaining articles.

Who we are

Your privacy is very important to us, and we are committed to protecting it. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, and safeguard your information when you visit our website [discountandpromo.com] and make use of our services. By using our website, you agree to the terms of this policy.

Our website address is: https://discountandpromo.com and you can learn more at the about us page here. Our contact information is here.

The main author of this website is the Youtuber Caren and this website is associated with the YouTube channel. View the full team at the about page.

By accessing or using the Site, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy, Affiliate Disclaimer, and Terms of Use.

Safety

Any advice, tips, and information published on this website are based on personal experience of the author and are not professional articles. Following any advice present on this website is voluntary and at one’s own risk. The author assumes no responsibility for possible misinterpretation or harm caused by the information on this website. All the information on this website is posted with a good intention, observing generally accepted moral principles.

Information We Collect

We collect several types of information from and about users of our website, including:

Personal Information: This may include your name, email address, mailing address, phone number, and other information that you provide when you fill out forms, subscribe to our newsletter, or communicate with us.
Non-Personal Information: We may collect non-personal information about your browsing actions and patterns. This information may include details about your visits to our website, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data. Analytics data may be collected via Google analytics and Google sitekit with the purpose of improving the website, which is non-personal and non-sensitive data.
Cookies and Tracking Technologies: Our website uses cookies and similar tracking technologies to enhance your user experience. Cookies are small data files that are stored on your device. You can set your browser to refuse cookies, but some features of our site may not function properly. Cookies are optional for the users to interact with the website content.

How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect for various purposes, including:

To provide and improve our website and services.
To personalize your experience and deliver content tailored to your interests.
To communicate with you, including sending newsletters and promotional materials.
To monitor and analyze usage and trends to improve your experience on our website.
To protect the security and integrity of our website.

Comments

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.

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 and have any content or data removed upon request at.

Cookies

Third-party cookies by Google, controlled by Google AdSense service, can be collected for personalizing advertisements. These cookies are not directly related to the website functionality. These cookies can be used by Google LLC and its partners based on the visits of this website and other unrelated websites to serve personalized ads. Ads personal settings can be changed by the users at this link. Any ads placed on this website can be personalized according to the collected cookies from this or other websites. Further information and options about opting out the advertising cookies can be found at AboutAds.info.

If you visit our website, opt-in to receive cookies, contact us, edit, or publish a guest article or guest post, then a cookie may be saved in your browser.

Opting Out of Personalized Advertising

If you prefer not to receive personalized ads, you can opt out in the following ways:

Google Ads: Visit Ads Settings to opt out of personalized advertising from Google.
Other Vendors: If other third-party vendors or ad networks are serving ads on our site, you can visit their websites to opt out of the use of cookies for personalized advertising. Alternatively, you can opt out of some third-party vendors’ uses of cookies by visiting www.aboutads.info.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles 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 (such as Youtube for showing educational videos embedded on this site) may collect data about you and use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor the interaction with that embedded content to improve their services. No personally sensitive data is stored or shared.

Data sharing

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer your personal information to outside parties unless we provide users with advance notice. This does not include website hosting partners and other parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or serving our users, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. The parties are ionos and wordpress (link to their privacy policies Privacy – WordPress.org and Privacy policy – IONOS T&C). We may also release information when its release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others’ rights, property, or safety.

Data retainment and security

We retain the data collected for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy or as required by law. We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of information when you enter, submit, or access information.

To keep data safe, we use industry standard encryption protocols such as SSL and access controls provided by WordPress and ionos hosting.

For users that register on our website (if any), we store the information they choose to provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their information at any time (except they cannot change their username).

What rights you have over your data

If you 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 legal or security purposes in compliance with GDPR. You request this by writing to us at our Contact page. We aim to not store any personal data except for when you leave comments or contact us, because this data is non-sensitive and the purpose is to provide answers to those who contact us.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

We may update our privacy policy from time to time. Any changes we make will be posted on this page, and the date of the latest revision will be indicated at the top of the policy. We encourage you to review this policy periodically.