Effective Date: 8/20/2024
Welcome to Vacuum Cleaner Talk. Your privacy is important to us, and we are committed to protecting your personal information. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website, vacuumcleanertalk.com (the “Site”).
By accessing or using our Site, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with the terms, please do not use our Site.
1. Information We Collect
We may collect personal information from you in a variety of ways, including when you visit our Site, register on the Site, subscribe to our newsletter, fill out a form, or interact with us in other ways. The types of information we may collect include:
- Personal Identification Information: Name, email address, phone number, and mailing address.
- Non-Personal Identification Information: Browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, and date/time stamps.
- Usage Data: Information about how you use our Site, including your IP address and browsing behavior.
2. How We Use Your Information
We may use the information we collect for various purposes, including:
- To improve customer service by responding to your requests and support needs more efficiently.
- To personalize user experience by understanding how our users as a group use the services and resources provided on our Site.
- To improve our Site based on your feedback and suggestions.
- To send periodic emails regarding your order or other products and services.
- To manage subscriptions to our newsletters and promotional materials.
3. Cookies and Tracking Technologies
Our Site may use “cookies” to enhance user experience. Cookies are small files placed on your device by your web browser. You may choose to set your web browser to refuse cookies or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you do so, note that some parts of the Site may not function properly.
Types of Cookies We Use:
- Essential Cookies: These cookies are necessary for the Site to function properly.
- Performance Cookies: These cookies help us understand how visitors interact with our Site by collecting and reporting information anonymously.
- Functional Cookies: These cookies allow us to remember choices you make and provide enhanced features.
4. How We Protect Your Information
We adopt appropriate data collection, storage, and processing practices and security measures to protect against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction of your personal information, username, password, transaction information, and data stored on our Site.
While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
5. Sharing Your Information
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your Personally Identifiable Information unless we provide users with advance notice. This does not include website hosting partners and other parties who assist us in operating our website or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential.
We may also release information when it’s release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others’ rights, property or safety.
6. Third-Party Websites
Our Site may contain links to third-party websites. We do not control these websites and are not responsible for their content or privacy practices. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any third-party sites you visit.
7. Children’s Privacy
Our Site is not intended for children under 13 years of age. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If we become aware that we have collected personal information from a child under 13 without verification of parental consent, we will take steps to remove that information from our servers.
8. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to update this Privacy Policy at any time. When we do, we will revise the effective date at the top of this page. We encourage you to periodically review this Privacy Policy for any changes. Your continued use of the Site after any modifications to the Privacy Policy will constitute your acknowledgment of the modifications and your consent to abide by and be bound by the modified policy.