At ReviewsofCA.com, we highly value your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal information. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and safeguard your data when you visit our website. We are dedicated to complying with applicable data protection laws, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).
Information We Collect
We collect various types of information to enhance your experience on ReviewsofCA.com and to provide relevant content. This information may include:
- Personal Information: This may include your name, email address, and any other information you voluntarily provide when you subscribe to our newsletter, leave comments, or contact us through our website.
- Log Files: Like many websites, ReviewsofCA.com utilizes log files. These files automatically track certain information about your visit, such as your IP address, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, date/time stamp, and clickstream data. This information is used for analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking user movement around the site, and gathering demographic information. IP addresses and other such information are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable.
- Cookies: We use cookies to store information about visitors’ preferences, to record user-specific information on which pages the site visitor accesses or visits, and to personalize or customize our web page content based upon visitors’ browser type or other information that the visitor sends via their browser. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site.
- Web Beacons: We may also use web beacons (also known as clear gifs, pixel tags, or single-pixel gifs) to help us understand how visitors interact with our website and email communications. Web beacons are small electronic images that are placed on web pages or in emails to collect information such as the number of users who have visited a particular page or opened an email. This information allows us to measure the effectiveness of our content and advertising campaigns.
DoubleClick DART Cookie
Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on ReviewsofCA.com. Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to our site visitors based upon their visit to ReviewsofCA.com 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 at the following URL – https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads.
Amazon Associates Program
ReviewsofCA.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. As part of this program, we may include affiliate links to products on Amazon. When you click on these links and make a purchase, we may earn a commission. Amazon uses cookies to track these purchases and attribute them to our website. Please be aware that Amazon has its own Privacy Policy, which applies to any information they collect when you visit their site through our affiliate links. We encourage you to review Amazon’s Privacy Policy for more information.
Advertising Partners Privacy Policies
You may consult this list to find the Privacy Policy for each of the advertising partners of ReviewsofCA.com.
Third-party ad servers or ad networks use technologies like cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons that are used in their respective advertisements and links that appear on ReviewsofCA.com, which are sent directly to users’ browser. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. These technologies are used to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on websites that you visit.
Note that ReviewsofCA.com has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.
Third Party Privacy Policies
ReviewsofCA.com’s Privacy Policy does not apply to other websites, advertisers, or services. Thus, we are advising you to consult the respective Privacy Policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information. It may include their practices and instructions about how to opt-out of certain options. You may find a complete list of these Privacy Policies and their links here: (replace this with a dynamic list or instructions on how users can find them).
You can choose to disable cookies through your individual browser options. More detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers can be found at the browsers’ respective websites.
CCPA Privacy Rights (Do Not Sell My Personal Information)
Under the CCPA, California consumers have the following rights:
- The right to know: You have the right to request that we disclose what personal information we collect, use, disclose, and sell.
- The right to delete: You have the right to request that we delete your personal information that we have collected, subject to certain exceptions.
- The right to opt-out of the sale of your personal information: ReviewsofCA.com does not sell your personal information. However, if we were to engage in such activities in the future, you would have the right to opt-out.
- The right to non-discrimination: You have the right not to receive discriminatory treatment for exercising your CCPA rights.
To exercise these rights, please contact us at [insert contact email address]. We will respond to your request within 45 days.
GDPR Data Protection Rights
We would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:
- The right to access: You have the right to request copies of your personal data. We may charge you a small fee for this service.
- The right to rectification: You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request that we complete the information you believe is incomplete.
- The right to erasure: You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
- The right to restrict processing: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
- The right to object to processing: You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
- The right to data portability: You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at [insert contact email address]. We will respond to your request within one month.
Children’s Information
Protecting the privacy of young children is especially important. ReviewsofCA.com does not knowingly collect any Personally Identifiable Information from children under the age of 13. If you are a parent or guardian and you believe that your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us immediately at [insert contact email address]. If we become aware that we have collected personal information from children without verification of parental consent, we will take steps to remove that information from our servers.
We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time, so please review it frequently. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on the website.