Privacy Policy

Welcome to ReviewByMo.com! Your privacy is of utmost importance to us. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website. We are committed to protecting your personal data and ensuring transparency in our data practices. This policy complies with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), offering you control over your personal information.

Information We Collect

We collect different types of information to provide and improve our services. The information we collect depends on your interaction with ReviewByMo.com:

  • Personal Information: This includes information that can identify you as an individual, such as your name, email address, and any other contact information you provide when you subscribe to our newsletter, leave a comment, or contact us through our contact form.
  • Usage Data: We automatically collect information about how you interact with our website. This may include your IP address, browser type, operating system, referring URLs, pages visited, and the dates/times of your visits. This data helps us analyze trends, administer the site, track user movement, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use.
  • Cookies and Similar Technologies: We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to enhance your experience on our website. Cookies are small data files stored on your device that help us remember your preferences, understand how you use our website, and personalize your experience. We also use web beacons (also known as pixel tags or clear GIFs) that allow us to track your actions on our site.
  • 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 & Web Beacons

We utilize cookies and web beacons for various purposes, including:

  • Essential Cookies: These cookies are necessary for the basic functionality of our website. They enable you to navigate the site and use essential features.
  • Performance Cookies: These cookies collect information about how visitors use our website, such as which pages are visited most often and if users get error messages from web pages. This data helps us 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, more personal features.
  • Advertising Cookies: These cookies are used to deliver advertisements that are relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement as well as help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaigns. Third-party advertising partners may set these cookies on our site.

You can control cookies through your browser settings. Most browsers allow you to block or delete cookies. However, disabling cookies may affect your experience on our website and some features may not function properly. For more information about cookies and how to manage them, please visit www.allaboutcookies.org.

Specifically, we use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. Google Analytics uses cookies to help us analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators, and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. You can opt-out of Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on.

Amazon Associates Program Disclosure

ReviewByMo.com is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com. This means that when you click on links to Amazon.com and make a purchase, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. This helps us to maintain and improve our website. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

Advertising Partners Privacy Policies

ReviewByMo.com uses third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. Our advertising partners may have their own privacy policies, which we encourage you to review.

Here are links to the privacy policies of some of our advertising partners (subject to change):

You can opt-out of some third-party advertising by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page: http://optout.networkadvertising.org/ or the Digital Advertising Alliance opt-out page: http://optout.aboutads.info/.

CCPA & GDPR Rights

We are committed to protecting your privacy and providing you with control over your personal information as outlined in the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Here are your rights under these regulations:

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 from which the information was collected, 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 (e.g., to complete a transaction, comply with legal obligations).
  • Right to Opt-Out of Sale: You have the right to opt-out of the sale of your personal information. ReviewByMo.com does not currently sell your personal information. However, if we were to do so in the future, we would provide a clear and conspicuous opt-out mechanism.
  • Right to Non-Discrimination: You have the right not to be discriminated against for exercising your CCPA rights.

GDPR Rights (European Union Residents)

  • Right to Access: You have the right to access your personal data that we hold, and to receive a copy of it.
  • Right to Rectification: You have the right to request that we correct any inaccurate or incomplete personal data that we hold about you.
  • Right to Erasure (Right to be Forgotten): You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, subject to certain exceptions (e.g., legal obligations).
  • 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 have the right to transmit that data to another controller.
  • Right to Object: You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data based on legitimate interests or direct marketing purposes.
  • 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 any of your CCPA or GDPR rights, please contact us at [Insert Contact Email Address]. We will respond to your request within the timeframes required by applicable law. We may need to verify your identity before processing your request.

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will post any changes on this page and, if the changes are significant, we will provide a more prominent notice. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any updates.