Who we are
At PodsInYourMail.com, we’re committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This privacy policy outlines how we use and protect the information you give us when you use our service.
We ensure that any data we collect will only be used in accordance with this privacy policy. This policy is effective as of May 29, 2023.
What Information We Collect
We may collect, store and use the following types of personal data:
a. Information about your computer including your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, and operating system;
b. Information about your visits to and use of this website including the referral source, length of visit, page views, and website navigation paths;
c. Information, such as your email address, that you enter when you register with our website;
d. Information that you enter when you create a profile on our website—for example, your name, profile pictures, gender, birthday, relationship status, interests and hobbies, educational details, and employment details;
e. Information contained in or relating to any communications that you send to us or send through our website.
How We Use Your Information
We use the information we collect about you in the following ways:
a. Personalizing the website for you;
b. Enabling your use of the services available on the website;
c. Sending you email notifications that you have specifically requested;
d. Providing third parties with statistical information about our users (but those third parties will not be able to identify any individual user from that information);
e. Dealing with inquiries and complaints made by or about you relating to the website;
f. Keeping the website secure and prevent fraud;
g. Verifying compliance with the terms and conditions governing the use of the website.
Cookies
Our website uses cookies. By using our website and agreeing to this policy, you consent to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy.
Disclosing Personal Information
We may disclose your personal information to our employees, officers, insurers, professional advisers, agents, suppliers, or subcontractors as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.
We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group of companies (this means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and all its subsidiaries) as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.
We may disclose your personal information:
a. To the extent that we are required to do so by law;
b. In connection with any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings;
c. In order to establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk);
d. To any person who we reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent authority for disclosure of that personal information where, in our reasonable opinion, such court or authority would be reasonably likely to order disclosure of that personal information.
Except as provided in this policy, we will not provide your personal information to third parties.
Security of Your Personal Information
We will take reasonable technical and organizational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse, or alteration of your personal information.
Third-Party Websites
Our website includes hyperlinks to, and details of, third-party websites. We have no control over, and are not responsible for, the privacy policies and practices of third parties.
Updating Information
Please let us know if the personal information that we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated.
Children
Our website is not intended for children under 18 years of age. No one under age 18 may provide any information to or on the website. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 18.
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.
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.
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.
Advertising Income
PodsInYourMail.com displays third-party advertisements. These advertisements help us generate income to support the running and maintenance of the website.
These third-party advertising companies may use information about your visits to our website and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. This information does not include your name, address, email address, or telephone number.
The Third-party advertisers may also use technology such as cookies and web beacons when they advertise on our site, which will send these advertisers (such as Google through the Google AdSense program) information including your IP address, your ISP, the browser you used to visit our site, and in some cases, whether you have Flash installed.
Please note that you can choose to disable or selectively turn off our cookies or third-party cookies in your browser settings, or by managing preferences in programs such as Norton Internet Security.
We have no control over the business practices of these third-party advertising companies and encourage you to review their privacy policies and terms of use prior to engaging with their advertisements.
Affiliate Programs
PodsInYourMail.com participates in various affiliate marketing programs. These programs are designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to partner sites. We are compensated for referring traffic and business to these companies.
We have carefully chosen these affiliate programs based on the quality and relevance of the products and services they offer. When you click on an affiliate link and make a purchase, we receive a small commission at no additional cost to you.
Please note that we do not have control over the business practices of these companies, and our participation in these affiliate programs does not constitute an endorsement. We encourage you to read the privacy policies of these companies when you visit their sites via our affiliate links.
Who we share your data with
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
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.
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.
Where your data is sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Changes to Our Privacy Policy
Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to our privacy policy.
Contact
If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our treatment of your personal information, please write to us by email at [email protected].