1. Understanding Our Terms of Use

Our Privacy Policy is an integral part of the Terms of Service. If there are terms in the Privacy Policy that aren't clearly defined, their definitions will be taken directly from the Terms of Service.

2. How We Legally Handle Your Information

We process personal information in strict adherence to data protection standards. Depending on the situation, one or more legal grounds justify handling your personal information.

2.1. Fulfilling Our Agreement: When you use Our Services, you ask us to provide what’s promised in our Terms of Use. This might mean we must process certain personal details, like your IP address, to deliver these services effectively.

2.2. Legitimate Reasons: We may use your Personal Information for legitimate business reasons. This includes improving your experience, conducting analytics, preventing fraud, and ensuring our services are secure.

2.3. Complying with Laws: Sometimes, we must collect personal information to meet legal or regulatory requirements. This could be for resolving complaints or providing necessary information to authorities.

2.4. Your permission: For certain services, such as creating a user profile, engaging in reviews, receiving tailored offers, or signing up for newsletters, we’ll need your explicit permission. If consent is crucial for any data processing activity, you can withdraw it anytime by using a link we provide. If you withdraw your permission, we will confirm your request accordingly.

3. How We Collect Information

We utilize various technologies to understand how you interact with and use our services.

3.1 Information You Provide: Access to certain functionalities within our services may require sharing specific personal details. For instance, creating a user account, writing product or service reviews, signing up for newsletters, and opting for promotional offers necessitate providing personal information. We commit to seeking your explicit consent before collecting personal information and, upon your agreement to our privacy practices, may collect additional details as detailed below.

"Personal Information" is any data that can uniquely identify you on its own or when combined with other pieces of information, as described in this Privacy Policy. This includes but is not limited to your name, email address, phone number, home address, and other contact details. Whether an IP address qualifies as personal information can depend on legal standards and usage context. This considers the IP address provided to your device by your Internet Service Provider (ISP). We ensure the secure storage and handling of your identified personal data, though our methods do not enable us to single out any individual user.

3.1.1 Partner Services and Third-Party Forms: We collaborate with other companies, brands, and entities, collectively called "Partners," to bring you a range of services, including reviews and assessments of these partners and their offerings. Occasionally, our Partners might offer you additional resources and services. You have the freedom and are encouraged to fill out an online form to initiate communication with a chosen Partner ("Lead") if desired.

You can click on the Partner's icon or tab to explore a Partner's offering or initiate a transaction. This will take you to a dedicated landing page operated by the Partner through different internet gateways. Here, you might be asked to provide specific information, including personal details like your name, email address, and phone number, referred to as "Landing Page Information."

It's crucial to note that the Partner responsible for the landing page will immediately collect the information you provide. Therefore, the privacy policy and data handling practices of that Partner will apply to your information. We strongly advise reviewing the privacy policies of these partners to fully understand how your personal information will be collected, used, and protected.

3.1.2 Getting in Touch: Whenever you contact us through any means we offer, like online forms, emails, feedback mechanisms, or our service's report feature, we might ask you to share some personal information. This could include your name and email address. As detailed in other sections of our Privacy Policy, we use this information to answer your query and meet our legitimate business needs.

3.1.3 Engaging with Our Content: We offer various features such as blogs, reviews, newsletters, surveys, and promotional events to enhance your experience with us. Whether it's participating in a discussion on our blog, subscribing to our newsletter, or taking part in a survey, you might be asked to provide personal details like your name and email address. This information might be shared with third parties involved in these activities under the protection of our privacy policy and that of the third party. We assure you the information will be used solely for the purpose for which it's collected.

3.1.4 Personalizing Your Experience: By creating a user profile or reviewing our services and partners, you can give us more insights about yourself. This helps us tailor our services to suit your preferences better.

3.2 How We Collect Information from You: We use various methods to gather data about how you use and interact with our services, including:

3.2.1 About Your Device: To ensure our services run smoothly on your device, we collect information about its specifications. This helps us adjust our services to match your device’s language, region, and timezone settings. Information collected includes device type, operating system and version, language settings, and browser details such as type, version, and screen resolution.

3.2.2 User Engagement: To enhance the functionality of our Services, we analyze how users interact with them. This involves sharing user activity data, such as which links are clicked and which pages are viewed within our platform, with our partners and affiliates. We track when users visit our site, how long they stay, and their interactions with content, including clicks and views.

3.2.3 Log Data: Our servers collect data through log files and tracking technologies like pixel tags. This helps us understand usage patterns, oversee user activities, and improve how our services are used. This data includes the IP addresses assigned by internet service providers, used briefly to identify your location—country, region, and preferred language—to customize our services to fit your local language and detect fraudulent activities.

3.2.4 Cookies and Tracking: We and our service providers employ technologies such as cookies, web beacons, and pixel tags for tracking within our services. Cookies, small text files saved on your device, enable our website to recognize your browser on subsequent visits, remembering your preferences and prior interactions. While you can manage cookies through your browser settings, including receiving notifications or rejecting cookies, please note that disabling cookies may affect the functionality of certain aspects of our services.

Pixel tags, embedded invisibly on web pages, track your engagement with our content, including email readership. They work best alongside cookies. For detailed information on our use of cookies and other tracking technologies, please consult our Cookie Policy.

3.3 Gathering Information from Third Parties: We work with partners, affiliates, and other organizations to ensure our operations run smoothly. This involves collecting data from various sources, from tracking how users interact with our site — like clicks, purchases, views, form submissions, and phone calls — to using an internal system to recognize users.

For those who use our click-to-call feature, we sometimes engage third-party services to enhance the efficiency of call forwarding and monitoring. We might temporarily have access to your phone number to make the call, though we won’t hold onto any personal details. Rest assured, this information is only used to help connect you with the services you’re interested in, and we won’t use it for anything else without your clear permission.

4. Your Choices and Consent

Choosing to share your personal information with us is entirely up to you. When you decide to share, you agree to our Privacy Policy and how we handle information. If you’re not on board with this, we understand, but it means you’ll need to steer clear of using our Services.

Even though some of our services might ask for your personal information, the choice to use these services is in your hands. If you’ve shared personal information with us in the past but changed your mind, you have every right to withdraw your consent. Check out Section 8 for more information on opting out and returning your consent.

5. Why We Collect Your Information

Collecting your information — or "your Information" — will improve our Services. Whether it’s to smooth out interactions with our site, improve the quality of what we offer, monitor ads and recommendations, confirm who you are, prevent fraud, respond to your questions, or ensure you’re the one accessing your account, it’s all aimed at giving you a better experience.

6. Sharing Your Information with External Parties

We share personal information with third parties only under certain conditions:

6.1. Data Storage and Protection Services: We use third-party cloud storage services, known as Data Platforms, to store and manage the data you provide. This means your information might be shared with and processed by companies worldwide, including in the United States, for storage or processing needs. For detailed privacy practices of these companies, such as Amazon Web Services, you can visit their website at https://aws.amazon.com/privacy/. While we ensure these Data Platforms meet strict data protection and security standards, they operate under their own privacy policies.

6.2. Social Media Interaction: We may share non-identifiable data with social media platforms like Facebook and LinkedIn for marketing and operational purposes. If you've permitted these platforms, they may combine this with other personal information they have on you. It's important to note that we do not have control over or are familiar with the privacy practices of these social media sites. California residents have specific rights to opt out of this data sharing, as detailed in section 9 of our Privacy Notice.

6.3. Working with Other Service Providers: External partners who help us with various aspects of our service, including customer support and communication management, may access the information you share. These partners are instrumental in analyzing user interactions and enhancing our offerings. These providers have their own privacy policies, which we ensure you have access to when using their services. Reviewing these policies if you're considering their services is important, as they can be located in different parts of the world, including where their servers are hosted.

6.4 Sharing Your Information: We may share your personal information with external parties when beneficial or required. This could be for legal reasons, like following laws, responding to legal demands or government requests, investigating violations of our terms, addressing fraud or security issues, or protecting the rights and safety of www.abcreview.org, our affiliates, you, or the public.

6.5 Connecting with Partners: Our Online Form is the way to go if you want to learn more about a specific service. Filling out this form allows you to provide personal details to a partner or service provider that matches your interests, enabling them to get in touch and give you the information you need. Keep in mind that our partners manage their interactions based on their privacy practices, which may differ from ours, and they may be located anywhere in the world.

6.6 Business Changes: In the event www.qrcodecreator.ink or any related business is involved in a merger, sale, or goes through insolvency, personal and other types of information we’ve collected may be among the assets transferred or shared. The entity receiving this information has a duty to protect your privacy rights according to your country’s laws and be clear about how your data will be used.

We might share anonymized or non-personal information for certain functions and with specific third parties. This includes external services or technologies like Tableau and Google Analytics, which help us understand how our site is used by tracking activities like clicks, scrolls, and page views.

These third-party services use their own cookies, following their privacy policies. For more about how cookies are used on our site, check out our Cookie Policy. For details on Google's cookie use and how to opt out of Google Analytics, please follow the provided links.

7. Navigating Third-Party Links

Our website may feature links to other sites, documents, or online resources, collectively known as "Third-Party Properties," outside our control. These include websites related to the relevant companies we mention. If you follow these links and provide your personal details on such Third-Party Properties, your information will be shared with them. Please be aware that www.abcreview.org and its affiliates may have agreements with these third parties regarding the exchange of data and Personal Information. However, we do not govern these third-party sites' privacy practices and data collection policies. We strongly encourage you to read the privacy policies and terms of any Third-Party Properties you engage with.

8. Your Privacy Choices

You have the autonomy to decide if and how you share your personal information with us, guided by the insights provided in this Privacy Policy. This applies universally, enabling everyone to exercise their rights regarding their personal data under the following provisions:

8.1 Managing Cookies and Tracking: You have the ability to manage or refuse the use of cookies and tracking technologies through your web browser's settings. For more detailed guidance, see Section 2.1.1 of our agreement.

8.2 Reviewing Your Information: You're entitled to review, update, or request the deletion of your personal information from our records. For instructions on proceeding, refer to Section 2 of this document.

9. Understanding Your Rights

9.1 Rights for EU Residents: In alignment with the GDPR, we ensure that personal data is collected, processed, and stored with the utmost care and respect for your privacy.

If you're in the European Union, here are your key rights:

• Access Your Data: You can request to see the personal data we hold about you. We'll need some form of identification to verify who you are. If any data is incorrect, incomplete, or outdated, let us know, and we'll make the necessary updates.
• Withdraw Consent: If you no longer want us to handle your personal information, you can withdraw your consent anytime. However, this won't affect any data processing that has already happened with your prior consent. We'll also stop using or delete your personal information upon request.
• Limitations and Complaints: You have the right to demand that third parties with access to your personal information, as described in our Privacy Policy, comply with your privacy preferences within legal bounds. You also have the right to complain to a data protection authority if you believe your data is being misused.
• Opt-Out of Direct Marketing: You can object to processing your personal data for direct marketing purposes at any time.

9.2 For Our Canadian Friends: Canadian citizens can ask how their personal information is shared with third parties for marketing purposes by contacting us at [email protected].

9.3 Privacy for Californians: If you're a California resident, you have certain rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) that might apply to you in addition to our standard privacy practices. Here’s what you need to know:

• Right to Know and Access Your Info: You can request details on the personal information we’ve collected, used, disclosed, or sold about you in the last 12 months. Before making a request, check Sections 3.1 to 3.3 of our policy for a breakdown of user-submitted, service-collected, and third-party data. After verifying your identity, we'll provide a comprehensive summary of the personal data we have on file.
• Right to Delete: You can ask us to delete your personal information. Some exceptions exist, like if we need to keep your data for security, legal, or troubleshooting reasons. Once your identity is confirmed, we'll remove your information from our records unless an exception applies.
• Say No to Selling Your Info: We don’t sell personal information. However, under the CCPA, some cookie usage might be considered a "sale." Californians can opt out of having their personal information sold by clicking the “Do not sell my personal information” link at our site's bottom. Opting out doesn’t stop all personalized ads; you might still see ads based on our service’s general features.
• No Discrimination: Exercising your privacy rights shouldn’t lead to unfair treatment. We ensure that opting out doesn’t affect service prices or quality. However, we might offer a different price or rate that reflects the value of collecting your personal information.
• Handling Your Inquiries: We aim to address all privacy-related inquiries comprehensively within 45 days. We'll let you know if we need more time, extending up to another 45 days. Sometimes, requests can’t be fulfilled if verification is impossible or keeping your data is essential for specific purposes.
• California Do Not Track Notice: Our system doesn’t recognize “Do Not Track” signals from web browsers. While third parties, like analytics providers, may collect information about your online activities across sites when you use our services, our lack of a DNT feature doesn’t change how your information is collected or used.

10. Keeping Your Data Safe

We take the security of your data seriously and have implemented various measures to protect the information you share with us. This includes scrutinizing our data collection and processing practices, utilizing SSL encryption to keep your data safe on our site, and partnering with third-party services that meet established information security standards. To further ensure the confidentiality of your information, we have tools and protocols in place to monitor and restrict our employees' access to sensitive data.

However, it's important to recognize that no system is infallible, and despite our best efforts, we can't promise absolute protection against all potential security breaches. The nature of the internet means there's always a risk, but rest assured, we're continuously working to keep your data as secure as possible.

11. Privacy for Young Users

Our services are designed for individuals who are 16 years old and older. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 16. If we discover that we have inadvertently gathered personal data from a child under 16, we'll take immediate steps to remove that information. If you believe we might have mistakenly collected such data, please contact us at [email protected].

12. International Users

When you use our services, be aware that your personal information may be transferred to countries other than where you currently reside, including potentially to the United States. Not all countries have the same data protection laws as your home country; sometimes, your personal data may not be as securely protected. We use contractual safeguards with our third-party partners to safeguard your information and ensure your data is treated securely throughout its journey.

By using our services and sharing your personal information with us, you consent to this Privacy Policy, including transferring your data across international borders.

13. Our Commitment

We take great pride in our dedication to continuously meet our clients' changing needs while maintaining our sector's highest privacy standards.

14. Get in Touch

Our privacy policy is designed to be clear and easy to understand. If you have any questions or concerns, please don't hesitate to contact us at [email protected]. Those in the United Kingdom seeking to complain can contact the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) directly via their website at https://ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint/.