Privacy Policy for EduTechTools.net

This privacy policy explains how EduTechTools.net collects, uses, and protects your personal information when you visit and interact with our website. Your privacy is important to us, and we are committed to being transparent about our data practices.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, as well as the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help with 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

If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. 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 1 day.

Please note that third-party services and affiliate partners integrated into our site (e.g., Amazon Associates, ShareASale, CJ Affiliate, and Google Analytics) may also set cookies to track user interactions for purposes such as commission tracking, analytics, and serving relevant advertisements. You can manage your cookie preferences through your browser settings. By continuing to use our site, you consent to the use of cookies as described in this policy. For non-essential cookies, you have options to manage your preferences.

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.

Who We Share Your Data With

In the course of operating EduTechTools.net, we may share your data with the following third-party services and for the purposes described below:

Internal Processing: If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email. If you submit data via our contact form, the information you provide (e.g., name, email, message) is securely transmitted to us via email solely to respond to your inquiry. This data is not stored on our website’s servers beyond the email itself unless required for ongoing communication.

Affiliate Networks and Partners: When you click on an affiliate link on our site and make a purchase on a third-party retailer’s website, certain information (such as your IP address, browser type, device information, and a unique identifier) may be shared with the respective affiliate network and the retailer to track the referral and process commissions. This data sharing is essential for the functionality of our affiliate program. Examples of such partners may include Amazon Associates, ShareASale, CJ Affiliate, and others we may partner with in the future. We use Pretty Links to manage and track clicks on our affiliate links, which collects anonymous click data for reporting and optimization and does not collect personally identifiable information from users.

Analytics Providers: We use services like Google Analytics (via Google Site Kit) to understand how visitors interact with our site. This service collects data such as your IP address, browser information, device type, and pages visited. This aggregated and anonymized data helps us analyze website traffic, identify popular content, and improve our website’s overall performance and content.

Email Marketing: For newsletters and other communications, we collect email addresses (and sometimes names) which are managed by [Your Email Service Provider Name Here]. This service processes your data to deliver emails and manage our subscriber list.

  • [Your Email Service Provider Name Here]’s Privacy Policy: [Insert Your Email Service Provider’s Privacy Policy URL Here]

Contact Forms: Our website uses WPForms to facilitate contact and other submissions. Data provided through these forms is sent to our website’s database and may be forwarded to relevant third-party services (like our email marketing provider) depending on the form’s purpose.

Security & Spam Protection: To protect our site from spam and malicious attacks, we use Akismet and Wordfence. These services may process data such as IP addresses, user agents, and submission content for security and spam detection.

Image Optimization: For optimizing image delivery and website performance, some image-related data may be processed by ShortPixel. This helps in compressing images and converting them to modern formats (like WebP) to speed up page loading times for our visitors. This service processes image files and does not collect personal data from users.

Website Caching: Our website utilizes caching plugins like LiteSpeed Cache (or WP Super Cache) to enhance site speed and efficiency. These services process website content and may handle IP addresses as part of standard web server operations for cached content delivery. No personally identifiable information beyond typical server logs is collected or stored.

  • WP Super Cache Privacy Policy: https://automattic.com/privacy/ (Note: If you use LiteSpeed Cache, you should link to their policy instead. Automattic’s policy is for WP Super Cache).

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.

Data collected by analytics services (e.g., Google Analytics) is retained for a period determined by those services, typically 26 months.

What Rights You Have Over Your Data

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.

To exercise these rights, please contact us at [link to your Contact page, e.g., /contact/].

Where Your Data Is Sent

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. Additionally, data collected through our use of affiliate links and analytics services (as described in the ‘Who we share your data with’ section) may be processed and stored on servers located outside of Taiwan, including in the United States or other countries where these service providers operate. We strive to ensure that any data transfers comply with applicable data protection laws.

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