Privacy Policy
Effective Date: January 28, 2025
1. Introduction
Welcome to cmaddict.com. We are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring your personal information is handled in a safe and responsible manner. This Privacy Policy outlines the types of information we collect from you, how we use and protect that information, and your rights regarding your personal data.
2. Who We Are
Our website address is: cmaddict.com.
3. Information We Collect
We may collect and process the following types of personal data:
- Contact Information: Name, email address, phone number.
- Usage Data: IP address, browser type, operating system, referring URLs, and pages visited.
- 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. 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 and Tracking Technologies:
- If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. 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 one day.
4. How We Use Your Information
We use your personal data for the following purposes:
- To provide and improve our website and services.
- To communicate with you, including responding to your inquiries and sending updates.
- To personalize your experience on our website.
- To analyze website usage and improve our content and offerings.
- To comply with legal obligations and protect our legal rights.
5. Sharing Your Information
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer your personal data to outside parties without your consent, except in the following cases:
- To trusted service providers who assist us in operating our website and conducting our business.
- To comply with legal requirements, enforce our site policies, or protect our rights and the rights of others.
- In the event of a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets, your personal data may be transferred to the new owner.
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. Who We Share Your Data With
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
8. 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.
9. Your Rights
You have the right to:
- Access, correct, or delete your personal data.
- Object to or restrict the processing of your data.
- Withdraw your consent at any time.
- Lodge a complaint with a data protection authority.
- 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.
10. Data Security
We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal data. Your information is stored on secure servers, and access is restricted to authorized personnel only.
11. Where Your Data is Sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
12. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Any changes will be posted on this page, and we will notify you of significant changes by email or through a notice on our website.
13. Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or our data practices, please contact us at admin@cmaddict.com