This policy is valid as of October 18, 2023.

By visiting and using this website, you accept and agree to be bound by this privacy policy. Your continued use of the website after posting of any changes to our Privacy Policy constitutes your acceptance of those changes and updates. If you do not wish to be bound by this Privacy Policy, you should not access or use this website.

A Global Guru (“we,” “us,” or “our”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting the personal information you provide to us. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, disclose, and protect your personal data when you visit or interact with our blog, in accordance with the requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA).

This blog adheres to the principles of word-of-mouth marketing standards. We prioritize honesty in our relationships, opinions, and identities. Any compensated content, advertising space, or promoted posts will be clearly identified as paid or sponsored content.

The owner(s) of this blog may receive compensation for providing opinions on products, services, websites, and various other topics. However, even if the owner(s) receive compensation for posts, they will always provide honest opinions, findings, beliefs, or experiences on those subjects or products. The views and opinions expressed on this blog are solely those of the blogger themselves. Any product claim, statistic, quote, or other representation about a product or service should be verified with the manufacturer, provider, or party in question.

This blog does not contain any content that may create a conflict of interest.

Who We Are

Our website address is: https://aglobalguru.com. This is a personal blog written and edited by the owner. If you have any questions about this blog, please email [email protected]

What Data We Collect and Why

Personal Information

When you access or use our blog, we may collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us, such as your name, email address, and any other information you choose to provide when contacting us or subscribing to our newsletter.

Usage Data

We may also collect non-personally identifiable information about your interactions with our blog. This information may include your IP address, browser type, operating system, referring URLs, pages visited, and other usage details. We collect this data to analyze trends, administer the blog, track user movement, and gather demographic information for aggregate use.

We may use the information we collect for the following purposes:

  • To provide and maintain our blog and its features.
  • To communicate with you, respond to your inquiries, and provide support.
  • To send you newsletters, updates, and marketing communications if you have subscribed to them.
  • To personalize your experience and deliver content and offers tailored to your interests.
  • To analyze and improve the blog’s functionality, performance, and user experience.
  • To detect, prevent, and address technical issues, security breaches, or violations of our policies.

Legal Basis for Processing Personal Information

Our legal basis for collecting and processing your personal information may include:

  • Your consent, which you provide by voluntarily submitting your information or by using specific features of our blog.
  • The necessity of processing for the performance of a contract with you or to take steps at your request before entering into a contract.
  • Compliance with our legal obligations under applicable laws and regulations.

Disclosure of Personal Information

We may disclose your personal information to the following parties or under the circumstances described below:

  • Service Providers: We may engage trusted third-party service providers to assist us in operating and maintaining our blog. These service providers may have access to your personal information but are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.
  • Legal Compliance: We may disclose your personal information if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities.

Your Rights and Choices

You have the right to access, correct, or delete the personal information we hold about you. If you wish to exercise these rights, please contact us using the contact information provided at the end of this Privacy Policy. We will respond to your request within the timeframe required by applicable law.

Data Security

We implement reasonable security measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. However, please be aware that no method of transmission over the internet or electronic storage is 100% secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

Children’s Privacy

Our blog is not intended for individuals under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you are a parent or guardian and believe that your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us, and we will promptly remove the information from our records.

Comments

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.

Google Analytics

We use Google analytics to record information about the pages a user has seen, for example the URL of the page, time of day, device used, etc. The information that we collect anonymized and sent to Google Analytics for analysis. Google Analytics mainly uses first-party cookies to report on visitor interactions on this website.

Users may disable cookies or delete any individual cookie.

In addition, Google Analytics supports an optional browser add-on that – once installed and enabled – disables measurement by Google Analytics for any site a user visits. Note that this add-on only disables Google Analytics measurement.

Google Analytics also collects Internet Protocol (IP) addresses to provide and protect the security of the service, and to give website owners a sense of which country, state, or city in the world their users come from (also known as “IP geolocation”). See this page for Google Analytics security and usage of data: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245

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.

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.

We acknowledge that we have no control over third parties mentioned or linked on this website, and they maintain their own privacy policies. We are not responsible for the activities and practices of these third parties. If you have any questions or concerns, we recommend contacting them directly and reviewing their respective privacy policies. Furthermore, you agree that your use of these third-party websites is solely at your own risk.

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.

Where your Data is Sent

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

We prioritize the protection of your personally identifiable information and do not sell, trade, or transfer it to outside parties without providing you with advance notice, except as described below. Please note that “outside parties” does not include A Global Guru. It also does not include our website hosting partners and other parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or servicing you, as long as those parties agree to keep your information confidential.

In order to better understand our website visitors, we may engage third-party service providers to assist us. These service providers are not permitted to use the information collected on our behalf except to help us conduct and improve our business.

There may be circumstances where we may release your information if we believe it is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our website policies, or protect our rights, property, or safety, as well as the rights, property, or safety of others. However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.

Compliance with GDPR

Our blog is designed to comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) principles regarding the collection, storage, and processing of personal data. We will only collect and process personal data with your consent and for legitimate purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy.

Under the GDPR, you have the following rights regarding your personal data:

  • Right of access: You have the right to request access to your personal data that we store and process.
  • Right to rectification: You have the right to request the correction of inaccurate or incomplete personal data.
  • Right to erasure: You have the right to request the deletion or removal of your personal data.
  • Right to restrict processing: You have the right to request the restriction or suppression of your personal data.
  • Right to data portability: You have the right to obtain and reuse your personal data for your own purposes.
  • Right to object: You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data.

To exercise any of these rights or if you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at [email protected]

CPRA (California Privacy Rights Act)

This CPRA Privacy Policy (“Policy”) applies to the collection, use, and disclosure of personal information by A Global Guru (“we” or “our”) in relation to the operation of our blog in compliance with the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA).

If you are a California resident, you have certain rights under the CPRA regarding your personal information:

  • Right to know: You have the right to request information about the categories and specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you, as well as the categories of sources from which we obtained the information, the purpose for collecting it, and the categories of third parties with whom we share it.
  • Right to delete: You have the right to request the deletion of personal information we have collected from you, subject to certain exceptions.
  • Right to opt-out: You have the right to opt-out of the sale of your personal information to third parties.
  • Right to non-discrimination: We will not discriminate against you for exercising your CPRA rights.

To exercise your CPRA rights or if you have any questions or concerns regarding your personal information, please contact us at our email [email protected]

WordPress

This website operates on the WordPress platform, which may store personal information such as your name, email address, and other relevant details for security, login, and various other purposes. For more detailed information regarding how WordPress handles your personal data, we recommend referring to the WordPress privacy policy.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to update or modify this Privacy Policy at any time. Any changes will be effective when we post the revised policy on our blog. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any updates.

Disclosure Policy

Our website may contain affiliate marketing links, which means we may earn a commission from purchases made through those links. We participate in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites.

As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. All opinions remain my own.

Contact Us

If you have any questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, please contact us at [email protected]