1. Introduction
Thank you for visiting thecheckup.co.uk. Your privacy is important to us. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and protect your personal information when you visit our site, purchase our digital products, or interact with our content.
2. Data We Collect
- Automatically Collected Information: When you visit our site, we automatically collect certain information about your device, including information about your web browser, IP address, and time zone.
- Order Information: When you purchase a digital product, we collect information from you, including your name, email address, and payment information.
- Content Interaction: We may also collect data about how you interact with our articles, such as which topics you read or the duration of your visit.
3. How We Use Your Data
- To Process Your Orders: We use the Order Information to fulfill any orders placed through the site, communicate with you, screen our orders for potential risk or fraud, and, when in line with the preferences you have shared with us, provide you with information or advertising relating to our products or services.
- To Improve Our Site: We use the Automatically Collected Information to help us screen for potential risk and fraud, and more generally to improve and optimize our site.
- For Marketing Purposes: With your permission, we may send you emails about new products, free content, and special promotions.
4. Sharing Your Personal Information
We respect your privacy and will not sell or disclose your personal data to third parties without your consent, except as specifically noted in this policy.
We may share your Personal Information with third-party service providers to help us use your Personal Information, as described above. For example, we use third-party payment processors to process payments for our digital products.
5. Cookies
We use cookies to help us understand how visitors use our site and to improve user experience. You have the option to disable cookies through your browser settings, but doing so may affect the functionality of our site.
6. GDPR and CCPA Rights
If you are a European resident, you have the right to access the personal information we hold about you and to ask that your personal information be corrected, updated, or deleted. Additionally, residents of California have specific rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us through the details provided below.
7. Data Retention
When you place an order through the site, we will maintain your Order Information for our records unless and until you ask us to delete this information.
8. Changes to This Policy
We may update this privacy policy from time to time to reflect changes to our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons.
9. Google AdSense and Third-party Vendors
- Use of Cookies: Our site uses Google AdSense to serve ads to our users. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to our website or other websites.
- DoubleClick DART Cookie: Google’s use of the DoubleClick DART cookie enables it and its partners to serve ads to our users based on their visit to our site and/or other sites on the Internet. Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google Ad and Content Network privacy policy.
- Opting Out: Users can set preferences for how Google advertises to you using the Google Ad Settings page. Alternatively, users can opt out of a third-party vendor’s use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info.
10. Contact Us
For more information about our privacy practices or if you have questions or concerns, please contact us at hello@thecheckup.co.uk.