Privacy Policy
At What’s The Update, accessible from https://whatstheupdate.com, one of our main priorities is the privacy of our visitors. This Privacy Policy contains types of information collected and recorded by What’s The Update and how we use it.
If you have additional questions or require more information about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us.
This Privacy Policy applies only to our online activities and is valid for visitors to our website regarding the information they share and/or collect in What’s The Update. This policy does not apply to any information collected offline or via channels other than this website.
Consent
You now consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its terms by accessing our website.
Information we collect
The personal information we ask you to provide and why we ask you to provide it will be defined to you at the point we ask you to provide your personal information.
If you contact us directly, we may receive additional information about you, such as your name, email address, phone number, the contents of the message and/or attachments you may send us, and any other information you may choose to provide.
When you register for an Account, we may ask for your contact information, including items such as name, company name, address, email address, and telephone number.
How we use your information
We use the information we collect in various ways, including:
- Provide, operate, and maintain our website
- Improve, personalize, and expand our website
- Understand and analyze how you use our website
- Develop new products, services, features, and functionality
- Communicate with you, either directly or through one of our partners, including for customer service, to provide you with updates and other information relating to the website and for marketing and promotional purposes
- Send you emails
- Find and prevent fraud
Log files
What’s The Update follows a standard procedure of using log files. These files log visitors when they visit websites. All hosting companies do this and are a part of hosting services’ analytics. The information collected by log files includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. These are not linked to any personally identifiable information. The purpose of the data is to analyze trends, administer the site, track user’s movement on the website, and gather demographic information.
Cookies and web beacons
Like any other website, What’s The Update uses cookies. We use these cookies to store information, including visitors’ preferences and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. We use the data to optimize the users’ experience by customizing our web page content based on visitors’ browser type and/or other information.
Google DoubleClick DART Cookie
Google is one of the third-party vendors on our site. It also uses cookies, known as DART cookies, to serve ads to our site visitors based upon their visit to www.website.com and other sites on the internet. However, visitors may choose to decline the use of DART cookies by visiting the Google ad and content network Privacy Policy at the following URL – https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads
Our advertising partners
Some advertisers on our site may use cookies and web beacons. Our advertising partners are listed below. Each of our advertising partners has its Privacy Policy for their policies on user data. For easier access, we hyperlinked to their Privacy Policies below.
Google:
https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads
CCPA Privacy Rights (Do Not Sell My Personal Information)
Under the CCPA, among other rights, California consumers have the right to:
Request that a business that collects a consumer’s data disclose the categories and specific personal data that a business has collected about consumers.
Request that a business deletes any personal data about the consumer a business has collected.
Request that a business that sells a consumer’s data not sell the consumer’s data.
If you make a request, we have one month to respond. Please get in touch with us if you would like to exercise any of these rights.
GDPR Data Protection Rights
We want to ensure you are fully aware of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:
The right to access – You can request copies of your data. We may charge you a small fee for this service.
The right to rectification – You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request that we complete the information you think is incomplete.
The right to erasure – You have the right to request that we erase your data under certain conditions.
The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that we restrict processing your data under certain conditions.
The right to object to processing – Under certain conditions, you have the right to object to our processing of your data.
The right to data portability – You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization or directly to you under certain conditions.
If you make a request, we have one month to respond. Please contact us if you would like to exercise any of these rights.
Children’s information
Another part of our priority is adding protection for children while using the internet. We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate in, and/or monitor and guide their online activity.
What’s The Update does not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information from children under 13. If you think your child provided this kind of information on our website, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately, and we will do our best to remove such information from our records promptly.