Privacy Policy – e-Consumer News

Your privacy is important to us. This policy aims to transparently outline how we manage, process, and store your personal information. By accessing or using our website, you ackowledge and consent to this Privacy Policy.

1. Information Collection and Usage

1.1 Direct Collection: When you register or interact with our website, you may provide personal information including, but not limited to, your name, email address, mailing address, and phone number.

1.2 Automatic Collection: As with most digital platforms, we collect data such as browser type, device type, IP address, pages visited, and duration of visit, through various technological tools like cookies and log files.

2. Cookies and Tracking Technologies

Cookies are files with small amounts of data, which might include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. We use cookies to collect, store, and track information for statistical purposes to operate and improve our website and services.

3. Purposes of Processing Data and Management of Opt-Ins/Opt-Outs

3.1 We use the data we collect for several purposes including enhancing user experience, personalizing content and ad delivery, communicating with users, providing, maintaining, and improving our services, monitoring and analyzing user activity.

3.2 You may opt-out of any email list to which you have subscribed by clicking the “Unsubscribe” link on the bottom of every email we send.

3.3 You may unsubscribe from any SMS Text Message communications by replying to any message we send with “STOP”.

4. Third-Party Advertising and Ad Tracking

We collaborate with third-party advertising partners to display ads on our website. These partners may use cookies and web beacons to collect information about your activities to deliver targeted or personalized ads.

5. Affiliate Programs Disclosure

We participate in various affiliate marketing programs, which means we may get paid commissions on products purchased through our links to retailer sites. When you make a purchase using an affiliate link, we may earn a commission at no additional cost to you.

6. Data Security Measures

We take stringent measures to safeguard your data. These measures include the use of secure servers, firewalls, encrypted data storage, and SSL (Secure Socket Layers) when and where available.

7. Data Retention and Removal

We only retain your personal information for as long as necessary for the purposes outlined in this policy, or to comply with legal obligations. You can request that your data be deleted at any time, subject to certain legal exceptions.

8. Links to External Websites

Our website may contain links to external sites not operated by us. We strongly advise reviewing the Privacy Policy of every site you visit. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content or practices of these sites.

9. Policy Changes

We reserves the right to update or change this Privacy Policy at any time. Your continued use of the service after any changes indicates acceptance of those changes.

10. Disclaimer of Guarantee

While we strive to safeguard your information, no digital transmission or storage method is 100% secure. Hence, we cannot guarantee absolute security.

11. Age Restrictions

Our services are not directed towards individuals under 18 years of age. We do not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from anyone under the age of 18.

12. International Data Transfers

Your information, including personal data, may be transferred to—and maintained on—computers located outside your country, where data protection laws may differ. Your consent to this Privacy Policy represents your agreement to such transfers.