Privacy Policy

Welcome to reviewingtv.com. We are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring the security of your personal information. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, and protect your data when you visit our website. It also details your rights under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). Please read this policy carefully to understand our practices regarding your personal data.

Information We Collect

We collect several types of information from and about users of our website, including:

  • Personal Information: This includes information that can be used to identify you directly, such as your name, email address, or any other contact information you voluntarily provide when you subscribe to our newsletter, leave a comment, or contact us through our website.
  • Non-Personal Information: This includes information that cannot be used to directly identify you. This may include aggregated data, demographic information, IP addresses, browser type, operating system, referring URLs, and information about how you use our website. We collect this information to analyze trends, administer the site, track users’ movements around the site, and gather demographic information about our user base as a whole.
  • 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.
  • Contact Forms: If you use a contact form, the information you provide is used to respond to your inquiry. We may retain this information for customer service purposes, but we do not use the information submitted through them for marketing purposes.

Cookies & Web Beacons

We use cookies and web beacons to enhance your experience on our website. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your device when you visit a website. Web beacons (also known as pixel tags or clear GIFs) are small electronic images that are embedded in web pages or emails.

  • Types of Cookies We Use:
    • Essential Cookies: These cookies are necessary for the website to function properly. They enable core functionality such as page navigation and access to secure areas of the website.
    • Performance Cookies: These cookies collect information about how visitors use our website, such as which pages they visit most often and if they receive error messages. This information helps us to improve the performance of our website.
    • Functionality Cookies: These cookies allow our website to remember choices you make (such as your language preference) and provide enhanced features.
    • Advertising Cookies: These cookies are used to deliver advertisements that are relevant to you and your interests. They may also be used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement and to help measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns.
  • Third-Party Cookies:
    • We may allow third-party service providers, such as analytics providers and advertising networks, to place cookies and web beacons on our website. These third parties may collect information about your online activities over time and across different websites. We do not have control over these third-party cookies and web beacons, and we encourage you to review the privacy policies of these third parties to understand their data practices.
  • Managing Cookies:
    • You can control cookies through your browser settings. Most browsers allow you to block or delete cookies. However, please note that blocking or deleting cookies may affect the functionality of our website. You can also opt-out of certain types of advertising cookies by visiting the websites of the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) and the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI).

Amazon Associates Program Disclosure

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Advertising Partners Privacy Policies

You may consult this list to find the Privacy Policy for each of the advertising partners of reviewingtv.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 reviewingtv.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 reviewingtv.com has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.

Here are links to the privacy policies of some of our advertising partners (this list is not exhaustive and may change over time):

CCPA & GDPR Rights

Under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), you have certain rights regarding your personal data.

CCPA Rights (California Residents)

  • Right to Know: You have the right to request information about the categories and specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you, the sources of the information, the purposes for collecting it, and the categories of third parties with whom we share it.
  • Right to Delete: You have the right to request that we delete your personal information, subject to certain exceptions.
  • Right to Opt-Out: You have the right to opt-out of the sale of your personal information. We do not currently sell your personal information, but if we do so in the future, we will provide you with a clear and conspicuous way to opt-out.
  • Right to Non-Discrimination: We will not discriminate against you for exercising your CCPA rights.

GDPR Rights (EU Residents)

  • Right to Access: You have the right to request access to your personal data and information about how we process it.
  • Right to Rectification: You have the right to request that we correct any inaccurate or incomplete personal data.
  • Right to Erasure (Right to be Forgotten): You have the right to request that we delete your personal data, subject to certain exceptions.
  • Right to Restriction of Processing: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data.
  • Right to Data Portability: You have the right to receive your personal data in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format and to transmit it to another controller.
  • Right to Object: You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data for direct marketing purposes or on grounds relating to your particular situation.
  • Right to Withdraw Consent: If we are processing your personal data based on your consent, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.

Exercising Your Rights

To exercise your CCPA or GDPR rights, please contact us at [Your Email Address] or [Your Physical Address, if desired]. We will respond to your request within the timeframes required by applicable law. We may need to verify your identity before processing your request.

If you are not satisfied with our response, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority in your jurisdiction.

We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time. We will post any changes on our website and update the “last updated” date at the top of this policy. Your continued use of our website after the posting of changes constitutes your acceptance of such changes.