Privacy Policy

Our Privacy Policy was last updated on July 5, 2023.

This policy explains how ReportYourScam.com uses and protects any information you give when you use the website. We are committed to making sure your privacy is protected. If we ask for your personal information, it will only be used in accordance with this policy. This policy may be updated, so we recommend you check this page from time to time.

This Privacy Policy describes Our policies and procedures on the collection, use, and disclosure of Your information when You use the Service and tells You about Your privacy rights and how the law protects You.

We use Your Personal data to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, You agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

At ReportYourScam.com, accessible from https://reportyourscam.com, one of our main priorities is the privacy of our visitors. This Privacy Policy document contains types of information that are collected and recorded by reportyourscam.com 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 with regard to the information that they shared and/or collect in reportyourscam.com. This policy is not applicable to any information collected offline or via channels other than this website. 

Interpretation and Definitions

Interpretation

The words of which the initial letter is capitalized have meanings defined under the following conditions. The following definitions shall have the same meaning regardless of whether they appear in singular or plural.

Definitions

For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:

• “Account” means a unique account created for You to access our Service or parts of our Service.

• “Company” (referred to as either “the Company”, “We”, “Us” or “Our” in this Agreement) refers to ReportYourScam.com

• “Cookies” are small files that are placed on Your computer, mobile device, or any other device by a website, containing the details of Your browsing history on that website among its many uses.

• “Device” means any device that can access the Service such as a computer, a cellphone, or a digital tablet.

• “Personal Data” is any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual.

• “Service” refers to the Website.

• “Usage Data” refers to data collected automatically, either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).

• “Website” refers to ReportYourScam, accessible from https://reportyourscam.com.

• “You” means the individual accessing or using the Service, or the company, or other legal entity on behalf of which such individual is accessing or using the Service, as applicable.

Consent

By using our website, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its terms.

Withdrawal of Consent

We acknowledge and respect your rights to your personal data. At any time, you have the right to withdraw your consent to our collection or processing of your information. This can be accomplished by contacting us directly at our designated email address (insert email address). Upon receiving a withdrawal of consent request, we will promptly stop processing your data and, if requested, delete your personal data in accordance with applicable laws. Please be aware that withdrawal of consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal. Furthermore, there might be situations where we are legally obligated to retain your data, even after you withdraw consent. In such cases, we will explain why we need to continue processing your data. We are committed to maintaining the trust and confidence of our users, and we will always aim to respect your privacy rights.

Cookies and Web Beacons

Like any other website, ReportYourScam.com uses ‘cookies’. These cookies are used to store information including visitors’ preferences, and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. The information is used to optimize the users’ experience by customizing our web page content based on visitors’ browser type and/or other information.

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.

We use anonymous cookies to prevent users from seeing the same popup repetitively in an attempt to make our users’ experience more pleasant while still delivering time-sensitive messaging. 

Cookies can be “Persistent” or “Session” Cookies. Persistent Cookies remain on Your personal computer or mobile device when You go offline, while Session Cookies are deleted as soon as You close Your web browser.

We use both Session and Persistent Cookies for the purposes set out below:

• Necessary / Essential Cookies

  Type: Session Cookies

  Administered by: Us

  Purpose: These Cookies are essential to provide You with services available through the Website and to enable You to use some of its features. They help to authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of user accounts. Without these Cookies, the services that You have asked for cannot be provided, and We only use these Cookies to provide You with those services.

• Cookies Policy / Notice Acceptance Cookies

  Type: Persistent Cookies

  Administered by: Us

  Purpose: These Cookies identify if users have accepted the use of cookies on the Website.

• Functionality Cookies

  Type: Persistent Cookies

  Administered by: Us

  Purpose: These Cookies allow us to remember choices You make when You use the Website, such as remembering your login details or language preference. The purpose of these Cookies is to provide You with a more personal experience and to avoid You having to re-enter your preferences every time You use the Website.

• Tracking and Performance Cookies

  Type: Persistent Cookies

  Administered by: Third-Parties

  Purpose: These Cookies are used to track information about traffic to the Website and how users use the Website. The information gathered via these Cookies may directly or indirectly identify you as an individual visitor. This is because the information collected is typically linked to a pseudonymous identifier associated with the device you use to access the Website. We may also use these Cookies to test new pages, features, or new functionality of the Website to see how our users react to them.

What information we collect

We collect different types of information depending on how you interact with our site. This includes contact information, demographic information, and technical data about your visit such as your IP address and browser type. If you leave a comment, we save your comment and its details.

The personal information that you are asked to provide, and the reasons why you are asked to provide it, will be made clear 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.

Usage Data

Usage Data is collected automatically when using the Service.

Usage Data may include information such as Your Device’s Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that You visit, the time and date of Your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

When You access the Service by or through a mobile device, We may collect certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device You use, Your mobile device’s unique ID, the IP address of Your mobile device, Your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser You use, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

We may also collect information that Your browser sends whenever You visit our Service or when You access the Service by or through a mobile device.

Google reCAPTCHA

We have implemented reCAPTCHA v3 to fight spam and abuse on the website, the use of which is subject to the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. 

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.

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.

What we do with your information

We use your information to run our website, improve it, understand how you use it, develop new features, communicate with you, and prevent fraud.

We also use it to customize your experience, including the ads you see.

We use the information we collect in various ways, including to:

• 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

ReportYourScam.com 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 information that is personally identifiable. The information is for analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users’ movement, and gathering demographic information.

How long we keep your data

Your data is kept indefinitely if you leave a comment.

Your data rights

You can ask to receive a copy of your personal data, ask us to erase it, or ask us to restrict its use. You can also object to us using your data, and ask us to transfer your data to another organization or to you. If you wish to use any of these rights, please get in touch with us.

If you 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.

Data sharing and third-party services

We also use third-party advertisers and their technologies like cookies, which receive your IP address.

We don’t control these third-party cookies. We use Google Analytics to understand how our website is used. You can opt out of Google Analytics.

We sync data to a 3rd party service (Mailchimp) and data is retained there until unsubscribed or deleted.

Advertising Partners Privacy Policies

You may consult this list to find the Privacy Policy for each of the advertising partners of ReportYourScam.com.

Third-party ad servers or ad networks uses technologies like cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons that are used in their respective advertisements and links that appear on reportyourscam.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 ReportYourScam.com has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.

Third-Party Privacy Policies

ReportYourScam.com’s Privacy Policy does not apply to other advertisers or websites. Thus, we are advising you to consult the respective Privacy Policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information. It may include their practices and instructions about how to opt out of certain options.

You can choose to disable cookies through your individual browser options. To know more detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers, it can be found on the browsers’ respective websites.

Jetpack Subscriptions

To set up and process subscriptions, we use the subscriber’s email address, as well as the ID of the post or comment (depending on the specific subscription being processed).

In the event of a new subscription being initiated, we also collect some basic server data, including all of the subscribing user’s HTTP request headers, the IP address from which the subscribing user is viewing the page, and the URI which was given in order to access the page (REQUEST_URI and DOCUMENT_URI).

This server data is used for the exclusive purpose of monitoring and preventing abuse and spam.

Functionality cookies are set for a duration of 347 days to remember a visitor’s blog and post subscription choices if, in fact, they have an active subscription.

Data protection rights under GDPR

We ensure you are aware of your data protection rights under the GDPR. These include rights to access, rectify, erase, restrict processing, object to processing, and data portability.

Please contact us if you’d like to exercise any of these rights.

GDPR Data Protection Rights

We want to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:

The right to access – You have the right to request copies of your personal 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 believe is incomplete.

The right to erasure – You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

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 to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.

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.

Analytics

We may use third-party Service providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service.

• Google Analytics

  Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Service. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.

  You can opt out of having made your activity on the Service available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js, and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity.

  For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy

Google Analytics will associate the visitation information it collects from the site with Google information from accounts of signed-in users who have consented to this association for the purpose of ad personalization. This Google information may include end user location, search history, YouTube history, and data from sites that partner with Google—and is used to provide aggregated and anonymized insights into your users’ cross-device behaviors.

Google Analytics collects data about visitors to this website via Google advertising cookies and identifiers, in addition to data collected through a standard Google Analytics implementation.

California residents’ rights

Residents of California can request once a year about how we share their data with third parties for marketing purposes.

If you are a minor in California, you can request and obtain the removal of your publicly posted content or information.

Your California Privacy Rights (California’s Shine the Light law)

Under California Civil Code Section 1798 (California’s Shine the Light law), California residents with an established business relationship with us can request information once a year about sharing their Personal Data with third parties for the third parties’ direct marketing purposes.

If you’d like to request more information under the California Shine the Light law, and if You are a California resident, You can contact Us using the contact information provided below.

California Privacy Rights for Minor Users (California Business and Professions Code Section 22581)

California Business and Professions Code Section 22581 allows California residents under the age of 18 who are registered users of online sites, services, or applications to request and obtain the removal of content or information they have publicly posted.

To request removal of such data, and if You are a California resident, You can contact Us using the contact information provided below, and include the email address associated with Your account.

Be aware that Your request does not guarantee the complete or comprehensive removal of content or information posted online and that the law may not permit or require removal in certain circumstances.

CCPA Privacy Rights (Do Not Sell My Personal Information)

Under the CCPA, California consumers have the right to request disclosures about the personal data a business has collected about them, request deletion of their personal data, and request a business not to sell their personal data. Please contact us to exercise these rights.

Under the CCPA, among other rights, California consumers have the right to:

• Request that a business that collects a consumer’s personal data disclose the categories and specific pieces of personal data that a company has collected about consumers.
• Request that a business delete any personal data about the consumer that a company has collected.
• Request that a business that sells a consumer’s personal data, not sell the consumer’s personal data.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.

Links to Other Websites

Our website may contain links to other websites. If you click on a third-party link, you’ll be taken to their site.

We suggest you review their privacy policy because we have no control over them.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update Our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify You of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, You can contact us:

• By visiting this page on our website: https://reportyourscam.com/contact-us/.
• By sending us an email: admin@reportyourscam.com