Effective Date: 05/08/2024
1. Introduction
Welcome to DigitalTreed (“we,” “our,” “us”). We are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring that your personal information is handled in a safe and responsible manner. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, and protect your information when you visit our website and use our services.
2. Who We Are
Our website address is: https://digitaltreed.com/.
3. Information We Collect
We collect various types of information in connection with the services we provide, including:
a. Digital Marketing Services: When you engage with our digital marketing services, we may collect information such as your name, email address, business details, and any other relevant information necessary to provide the service.
b. Contact Form Data: When you fill out a contact form on our website, we collect your name, email address, and any other information you provide in the form.
c. Membership for Premium Blogs: If you sign up for a membership to access premium blogs, we collect information such as your name, email address, payment information, and any other details necessary for the membership.
d. Support Page Donations: If you choose to support our blog through donations, we collect your name, email address, payment information, and any other details necessary to process your donation.
e. Blog Comment Data: 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.
f. Google Analytics: We use Google Analytics to collect information about your use of our website. This includes information such as your IP address, browser type, referring/exit pages, and operating system. This data helps us understand how visitors interact with our site.
g. Google AdSense and Custom Ads: We use Google AdSense and custom ads to display advertisements on our website. These services may collect information about your visits to our website and other websites to provide personalized advertisements.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. How We Use Your Information
We use the information we collect for the following purposes:
- To Provide Services: To provide and manage our digital marketing services, process contact form submissions, manage memberships for premium blogs, and process donations.
- To Communicate: To respond to your inquiries, send you updates about our services, and communicate with you about your membership or donation.
- To Improve Our Services: To analyze how our services are being used, improve our website, and develop new services and features.
- For Legal Obligations: To comply with legal obligations and protect our rights and the rights of others.
- For Advertising: To display personalized advertisements through Google AdSense and custom ads based on your browsing history and preferences.
8. Sharing Your Information
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer your personal information to outside parties except as described below:
- Service Providers: We may share your information with third-party service providers who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or providing services to you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential.
- Legal Compliance: We may disclose your information if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities.
- Advertising Partners: We may share non-personally identifiable information with our advertising partners to deliver personalized ads.
9. Data Security
We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information. However, no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.
10. Your Rights
You have the following rights regarding your personal information:
- Access: You have the right to access the personal information we hold about you.
- Correction: You have the right to request correction of any inaccurate personal information we hold about you.
- Deletion: You have the right to request deletion of your personal information, subject to certain legal obligations.
- Opt-Out: You can opt-out of receiving marketing communications from us at any time.
11. How Long We Retain Your Data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. 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 on our website (if any), 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.
12. What Rights You Have Over Your Data
If you have an account on this site, or have left 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.
13. Where Your Data is Sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
14. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on our website. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes.
15. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at:
Email: info@digitaltreed.com