1. Who we are:
Welcome to ClearBox|SEO. Our website address is: https://clearboxseo.com ClearBox|SEO values the trust our users, clients and customers place in us when they give us access to their personal data. The Privacy Policy describes how we work to maintain that trust and protect that information.
In particular, this Privacy Policy details our collection, use and disclosure of personal and non-personal data you give to ClearBox|SEO when you access or use ClearBox|SEO’s online and/or mobile services and websites, and software provided by ClearBox|SEO on or in connection with such services or websites (collectively, the “Site”).
1.2 Personal Data and Non-Personal Data:
Personal data (“Personal Data”) refers to any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual, and non-personal data (“Non-Personal Data”) refers to any information that does not identify you as a specific individual. Please note that at all times, ClearBox|SEO will adhere to the applicable statutory definition in determining what is and is not Personal Data for the purposes of this Privacy Policy. Where this Privacy Policy refers to “information” or “your information” this may include both Personal and Non-Personal Data.
1.3 How ClearBox|SEO Uses Cookies:
We use cookies, web beacons, and other storage technologies from third-party partners such as Google and Facebook for measurement services, better targeting ads, and for marketing purposes. This takes place from the Site and when you download or install an ClearBox|SEO App. These cookies, web beacons, and other storage technologies allow us to display ClearBox|SEO promotional material to you on other sites you visit across the Internet. ClearBox|SEO may also share information about your behavior on the Site with third parties (including operators of third-party websites and/or social networking sites) in order to show you targeted advertisements and other content that has been customized for you.
1.4 What personal data we collect and why we collect it:
We may collect personal electronic data to better manage our customer relationships, to better serve you, including targeted marketing and developing products and services according to our customers’ preferences. We process your personal data only for predefined and lawful purposes. If you feel your data has been compromised through our site, please contact us immediately and we will investigate and provide solution if feasible.
1.5 Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comment 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.
1.6 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.
1.7 Contact forms:
When visitors insert data into our contact forms on the site, we collect the data shown in the form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
1.8 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 have an account and you log in to this site, 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.
1.8.1 Analytical Purposes:
We use cookies to analyze user activity in order to improve the Site. We can use such analysis to gain insights about how to improve the functionality and user experience of the Site.
1.8.2 Your Preferences & User Experience:
We use cookies to gather certain information about users, such as browser type, server, language preference, and country setting, in order to store user preferences on our Site to make your user experience more consistent and convenient. In addition, we use cookies to maintain your logged in state when you visit our Site repeatedly. We may also use your IP address to determine your geographic location in order to provide you with the most relevant search results.
1.8.3 Provide Measurement Services and Better Targeted Ads, & Marketing:
We use cookies, web beacons, and other storage technologies from third-party partners such as Google and Facebook for measurement services, better targeting ads, and for marketing purposes. This takes place from the Site. You have a right to object to the legitimate interest use of your Personal Data for the purposes of marketing. To opt out of the collection and use of information for ad targeting, or to avail of any other rights, please feel free to exercise your rights as detailed in section 1.8.7 of our Privacy Policy.
1.8.4 Security Purposes:
We use cookies to limit certain types of cyber attacks.
1.8.5 Testing, Usability, and Performance Improvement Purposes
We use cookies to ensure users receive a consistent user experience while we conduct A/B testing on certain aspects of our Site in order to improve our website and service as well as products or other offerings. We also use cookies to improve the performance and reliability of our Site.
1.8.6 Fraud/Spam prevention
We use cookies during fraud reviews and investigations. Some of our cookie/device tracking happens via 3rd party vendors like SiftScience, other times we use our own indexes to identify activity related to specific cookies.7
1.8.7 Opt out of having cookies placed for the purposes of Google Analytics
To provide website visitors the ability to prevent their data from being used by Google Analytics, Google has developed Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on for the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js, dc.js).
If you want to opt out, download and install the add-on for your web browser. The Google Analytics opt-out add-on is designed to be compatible with Chrome, Internet Explorer 11, Safari, Firefox and Opera. In order to function, the opt-out add-on must be able to load and execute properly on your browser. For Internet Explorer, 3rd-party cookies must be enabled. Learn more about the opt-out and how to properly install the browser add-on here.
1.9 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.
2. 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.
2.1 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.
2.2 Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
2.3 Your contact information
When you give ClearBox|SEO contact information (such as your name and email address) and other forms of Personal and Non-Personal Data, you agree that ClearBox|SEO may utilize this information for the purposes outlined in sections 4, 5 and 9, to the extent applicable. In particular, you agree that ClearBox|SEO may, as part of its services to you, communicate with you, or initiate communication with you on behalf of a third party, through your ClearBox|SEO account or through other means such as email, telephone (including mobile phone), or postal mail, including through the use of contact information that you may provide to ClearBox|SEO or that ClearBox|SEO may otherwise obtain from third-party resources.