WP SiteGenius Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy was last updated on August 14th, 2024
This Privacy Policy describes how your personal information is collected, used, and shared when you visit or make a purchase from WP SiteGenius at https://wpsitegenius.com (the “Site”, “We”, “Our”).
PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT
When you visit the Site, we automatically collect certain information about your device, including information about your web browser, IP address, time zone, and some of the cookies that are installed on your device. Additionally, as you browse the Site, we collect information about the individual web pages or products that you view, what websites or search terms referred you to the Site, and information about how you interact with the Site. We refer to this automatically-collected information as “Device Information.”
HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
When we specify “Personal Information” in this Privacy Policy, we are referencing both Device Information and Order Information.
We use the Order Information that we collect generally to fulfill any orders placed through the Site including processing your payment information, providing you with order confirmations and/or with invoices, and, where applicable, arranging for shipping.
Additionally, we use this Order Information to:
- Communicate with you;
- Screen our orders for potential risk or fraud; and
- When in line with the preferences you have shared with us, provide you with information or advertising relating to our products or services.
We use the Device Information that we collect to help us screen for potential risk and fraud (in particular, your IP address), and more generally to improve and optimize our Site. For example, we may use Device Information to generate analytics about how our customers browse and interact with the Site, and to assess the success of our marketing and advertising campaigns.
Payments
We may provide paid products and/or services within the Site and as the Service under the Terms Of Service. In that case, we may use third-party services for payment processing (e.g. payment processors). We will not store or collect your payment card details. That information is provided directly to our third-party payment processors whose use of your personal information is governed by their Privacy Policy.
SHARING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
We share your Personal Information with third parties to help us use your Personal Information, as described above.
We use Google Analytics to help us understand how our customers use the Site and make improvements in your experience. You can read more about how Google uses your Personal Information here: https://policies.google.com/privacy. You can also opt-out of Google Analytics here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
We may also share your Personal Information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other lawful request for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not 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 set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist 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 includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
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 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 the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may 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 picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
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.
TARGETED ADVERTISING
As described above, we use your Personal Information to provide you with targeted advertisements or marketing communications we believe may be of interest to you. For more information about how targeted advertising works, you can visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s (“NAI”) educational page at http://www.networkadvertising.org/understandingonline-advertising/how-does-it-work.
Google Remarketing
This Site may use the Google AdWords remarketing service to advertise on third party websites (including Google) to previous visitors to our site. The advertisements will use cookies to serve ads based on your previous visits to the Site. No Personal Information or Personally Identifiably Information is contained in this cookie. Any data collected will be used in accordance with our own privacy policy and Google’s privacy policy.
Facebook Conversion Tracking Pixel
This Site may use Facebook Advertising, Facebook Pixel Re-Marketing, and communications. This allows us to improve delivery of ads and make them more relevant to you. The collected data remains anonymous and the personal data of any individual user is not available to the Site. The collected data is saved and processed by Facebook. Facebook may be able to connect the data with your Facebook account and use the data for their own advertising purposes in accordance with Facebook’s Data Use Policy found under: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/. Facebook retains full control of the information gathered through Facebook Advertising, Facebook Pixel Re-Marketing, and communications. You can opt-out of Facebook’s use of cookies and Facebook Pixel Re-Marketing through settings on your Facebook Account.
You can opt out of targeted advertising by:
FACEBOOK – https://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=ads
GOOGLE – https://www.google.com/settings/ads/anonymous
Additionally, you can opt out of some of these services by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out portal at: http://optout.aboutads.info/.
DO NOT TRACK
Please note that we do not alter our Site’s data collection and use practices when we see a Do Not Track signal from your browser.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have provided comments, you have the right to access personal information we hold about you and to ask that your personal information be corrected, updated, or deleted. If you would like to exercise this right, please contact us through the contact information below. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes, especially in reference to Transactional Data as described under Data Retention.
Additionally, if you are a European resident we note that we are processing your information in order to fulfill contracts we might have with you (for example if you make an order through the Site), or otherwise to pursue our legitimate business interests listed above.
INTERNATIONAL DATA TRANSFERS
The Site is based in the United States. However, your Personal Information may be transferred to, stored, and processed in a country other than the one in which it was collected. We may transfer your Personal Information outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”) and when we do so, we rely on appropriate or suitable safeguards recognized under data protection laws.
DATA RETENTION
Orders
When you place an order through the Site, we will maintain your Order Information for our records unless and until you ask us to delete this information.
If you request Personal Information and Order Information deletion, we may still retain Transactional Data from deleted accounts as necessary for our legitimate business interests. This includes, but is not limited to, data required to comply with United States business and financial record keeping regulations and laws. The Transactional Data will be handled in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Comments
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely unless you request Personal Information and Order Information deletion. We may keep anonymous comments or delete them entirely; this is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register and/or place an order on our website, we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have provided 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 administrative, legal, or security purposes, especially in reference to Transactional Data as described under Data Retention.
DATA BREACH
In the event of a data breach where any customer data has been lost, stolen, or potentially compromised, we will notify our customers by email not later than 72 hours of our becoming aware of the event. We will also report such incident to any required data protection authority.
PROTECTING CHILDREN’S PRIVACY
We adhere to a strict privacy code regarding children and do not knowingly accept Personal Information from any child under the age of 13. If it is brought to our attention that we have inadvertently received Personal Information from a child under 13, we will immediately remove all personal and identifiable information from our records in compliance with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998. In addition, we will not disclose this information to any other companies.
CHANGES TO THE PRIVACY POLICY
This Privacy Policy was last updated on August 14th, 2024. We may update this privacy policy from to reflect changes to our practices or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons. Your continued use of the Site means you have consented to this Privacy Policy. If you do not consent, please discontinue use of the Site.
CONTACT US
Please contact us by email at info[@ ] wpsitegenius.com for any type of request you may have.