Welcome to ReviewRai.com. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, and protect your personal information when you visit and use our website. We are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring the security of your data. This policy is designed to comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), giving you clear explanations about your rights and our practices.
Information We Collect
We collect several types of information from and about users of our website, including:
- Personal Information: This includes information that can identify you personally, such as your name, email address, and any other contact information you voluntarily provide when you subscribe to our newsletter, leave a comment, or contact us through our website.
- Non-Personal Information: This includes aggregated data, demographic information, and any other information that does not reveal your specific identity. This might include the type of browser you are using, your IP address, your operating system, the domain name of your internet service provider, and the website you visited before coming to our site.
- Usage Data: We automatically collect information about your interactions with our website. This may include the pages you visit, the links you click, the time spent on each page, and other similar information. This data is used to improve our website’s functionality and user experience.
- 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.
- Contact forms: Information submitted via contact forms is retained for customer service purposes, but we do not use the information submitted through them for marketing purposes.
Cookies & Web Beacons
We use cookies and web beacons to enhance your experience on our website. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your device when you visit a website. They are used to remember your preferences, track your browsing activity, and provide you with personalized content. Web beacons are small electronic images (also called clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that may be used in our emails or on our website to track user behavior.
We use the following types of cookies:
- Essential Cookies: These cookies are necessary for the website to function properly. They enable you to navigate the site and use its features, such as accessing secure areas.
- Performance Cookies: These cookies collect information about how you use our website, such as which pages you visit most often. This data is used to improve the website’s performance and user experience.
- Functionality Cookies: These cookies allow the website to remember your preferences, such as your language or region. This enhances your experience by providing you with personalized content.
- Targeting/Advertising Cookies: These cookies are used to deliver advertisements that are relevant to you and your interests. They may also be used to track the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns.
You can control cookies through your browser settings. You can choose to accept or reject cookies, or to be notified each time a cookie is set. However, please note that disabling cookies may affect your ability to use certain features of our website.
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.
Amazon Associates Program Disclosure
ReviewRai.com is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com. This means that when you click on a link to Amazon.com from our website and make a purchase, we may earn a commission. This helps us to maintain and improve our website. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.
Advertising Partners Privacy Policies
We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies may use information about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. The privacy policies of our advertising partners are as follows:
- Google AdSense: Google’s advertising requirements can be summed up by Google’s Advertising Principles. They are put in place to provide a positive experience for users. You can review their policy here: https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads. Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on our site. Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to our users based on previous visits to our site and other sites on the Internet. Users may opt-out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google Ad and Content Network privacy policy.
- Other Advertising Partners: We may work with other advertising partners from time to time. We encourage you to review their privacy policies for more information about their data collection practices. We will make every reasonable effort to keep this section updated with information on any other major advertising partners we utilize.
CCPA & GDPR Rights
Under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), you have certain rights regarding your personal information. These rights include:
- Right to Access: You have the right to request access to the personal information we hold about you. Upon request, we will provide you with a copy of your data, the purposes for processing it, the categories of personal data concerned, the recipients or categories of recipients to whom the data have been or will be disclosed, the period for which the data will be stored, and information about your right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.
- Right to Rectification: You have the right to request that we correct any inaccurate or incomplete personal information we hold about you.
- Right to Erasure (Right to be Forgotten): You have the right to request that we delete your personal information under certain circumstances, such as when the data is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected. We may need to retain certain information for legal or administrative reasons, which will be communicated to you if such a request is not fully fulfilled.
- Right to Restrict Processing: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal information under certain circumstances, such as when you dispute the accuracy of the data or when the processing is unlawful.
- Right to Data Portability: You have the right to receive your personal information in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format and to transmit that data to another controller.
- Right to Object: You have the right to object to the processing of your personal information for certain purposes, such as direct marketing.
- Right to Non-Discrimination (CCPA): Under the CCPA, you have the right not to be discriminated against for exercising your privacy rights. We will not deny you goods or services, charge you different prices or rates, or provide you with a different level or quality of goods or services if you exercise your rights under the CCPA.
- Right to Opt-Out of Sale (CCPA): California residents have the right to opt-out of the sale of their personal information. As we do not directly sell your personal information, this right may not directly apply. However, to the extent that data sharing for advertising purposes could be considered a “sale” under the CCPA, you can manage your cookie preferences as described in the “Cookies & Web Beacons” section to limit such data sharing.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at [Insert Contact Email Address Here]. We will respond to your request within the timeframe required by applicable law.
Data Security
We implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. These measures include data encryption, firewalls, secure server facilities, and strict access controls. While we strive to protect your personal information, no method of transmission over the internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. Therefore, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or legal requirements. We will post any changes on our website and update the “Last Updated” date at the top of this policy. Your continued use of our website after any changes indicates your acceptance of the updated Privacy Policy.
Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at [Insert Contact Email Address Here].