Last Updated: February 12, 2023
WordPress Rush is dedicated to protecting your privacy. If you have any questions or concerns about the use of your Personal Data, please contact us at hello@wordpressrush.com, and we will gladly assist you. We will keep all non-public information collected from you in connection with your use of our website/software strictly confidential. This does not apply to any updates suggestions you have made. We want you to understand how we gather, use, share, disclose, and safeguard information about you. You consent to the Processing of your Personal Data as described in this Privacy Policy by using this site or/and our services. We may change or add to this Privacy Policy, so please review it on a regular basis.
Table of Contents
- Definitions used in this Policy
- Data protection principles that we follow
- What Personal Data we gather about you
- What rights do you have regarding your Personal Data
- How we use your Personal Data
- Who else has access to your Personal Data
- Information about cookies
- How we secure your data
- Contact information
Definitions
Personal Data – any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person; Personal Data is “Personal Information” as defined below for California consumers.
Processing is defined as any operation or set of operations performed on Personal Data or sets of Personal Data.
A natural person whose Personal Data is being Processed is referred to as a data subject.
A child is a natural person under the age of 16.
We/us (capitalized or uncapitalized) – WordPress Rush
Personal Information (applicable to California residents; also known as “Personal Data” in this Privacy Policy) – any information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, to a specific consumer or household. Personal Information includes, but is not limited to, the following if it identifies, relates to, describes, can be associated with, or could be reasonably linked, directly or indirectly, to a specific consumer or household:
• Identifiers include a person’s real name, an alias, a postal address, a unique personal identifier, an online identifier, an internet protocol address, an email address, an account name, a social security number, a driver’s license number, a passport number, and other similar identifiers.
• Commercial information – such as personal property records, products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories of tendencies
• Biometric information – Internet or other electronic network activity information, including but not limited to browsing history, search history, and information about a consumer’s interaction with an Internet Web site, application, or advertisement.
• Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information.
• Professional or job-related information.
• Inferences drawn from any of the information identified in this definition of Personal Information in order to create a profile of a consumer that reflects the consumer’s preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes.
• Personal information does not include publicly available information obtained lawfully from government records, nor does it include information that has been deidentified or aggregated.
Data Protection Principles
We promise to follow the following data protection principles:
- Processing is legal, fair, and transparent. Our Processing activities are lawful. Before processing Personal Data, we always consider your rights. On request, we will provide you with Processing information.
- Processing is restricted to the intended purpose. Our Processing activities are appropriate for the purpose for which Personal Data was collected.
- Processing is done with as little data as possible. We only collect and process the bare minimum of Personal Data required for any given purpose.
- Time constraints apply to processing. We will not keep your personal information for any longer than is necessary.
- We will do our best to ensure data accuracy.
- We will do our best to ensure data integrity and confidentiality.
Data we gather
Information you have provided to us
WordPress Rush may obtain the following types of information from you or concerning your computer or device (“Information”), which may include information that can be used to identify you as specified below (“Personally Identifiable Information”):
- Name
- Email address
- Mailing address
- Telephone (or mobile) number(s)
- Credit card information
- Blog or website URL
- Social networking handle or username
- Photo
- Demographic information (e.g., age, gender, interests, and preferences)
- Professional title
- Company
- Industry
- Activities or content viewed on WordPress Rush
- Information collected automatically
- Information received from Third Parties
In some cases, we may require you to provide some of the above-mentioned information in order to obtain specific products or services (such as registering for the Advanced Marketing Program or logging in to download WordPressRush.com reports). You may still use WordPressRush.com if you choose not to provide the Information we request, but you may be unable to access certain features or services.
You agree to provide only true, accurate, current, and complete information when you register to receive any products or services from WordPress Rush or provide information to WordPress Rush in any other way.
Data about you that is automatically collected
When you visit or interact with our websites, services, mobile applications, or other products, WordPress Rush may automatically receive and log certain types of information, such as:
- Browser information
- Mobile device information (e.g., device identifier, mobile operating system, etc.)
- IP address
- Content viewed
- Geographic location
- Connection speed
- Internet service provider
- Time of visit
- Referring site, application, or service
- Operating system information
- Registration time
These tools collect standard internet log information and visitor behavior information in an anonymous form using ‘cookies,’ which are text files placed on your computer. The cookie generates information about your use of the website (including your IP address), which is sent to Google and sometimes other vendors. This data is then used to assess how visitors use the website and compile statistical reports on website activity.
We will never (and will never allow a third party to) use the statistical analytics tool to track or collect personally identifiable information about our site visitors. Your IP address is not associated with any other data held by the Web Analytics vendors. Neither we nor the web analytics vendors will link, or seek to link, an IP address to a computer user’s identity. Unless you explicitly provide consent, we will not associate any data gathered with any personally identifying information from any source, with the understanding that this may limit your use of the Services.
You can accept or decline cookies by changing the settings on your browser.
If you provide your website and expressly consent, we will collect information about you.
- Keywords your site ranks for
- Click volume
- Search volume
- Click volume from mobile versus desktop traffic
Information from our partners
If you choose to use any third-party website or service that is integrated with WordPress Rush, such as LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Google Analytics, or WordPress (“Third-Party Websites”) – or if you use any WordPress Rush application provided through any Third-Party Website – we may receive Information, including Personally Identifying Information, from such Third-Party Websites, including, but not limited to:
- Name
- Nickname or username
- Biographical or demographic information (e.g. professional title, gender, college attended, etc.)
- Photo or avatar
- Likes and interests
- Contacts/friends/associations
- Unique Third-Party Website identifiers (e.g., Facebook User ID)
- Any information that is publicly available on Third-Party Websites
WordPress Rush, for example, may allow you to use certain Third-Party Websites to facilitate your registration on WordPress Rush. We may also use information from your Third-Party Website profile and connections to allow you to share or connect with your friends and contacts on WordPress Rush or to personalise your experience. Furthermore, WordPress Rush provides “plugins” and “widgets” from a variety of Third-Party Websites that enable you to share WordPress Rush content outside of our service.
When accessing or using WordPress Rush products and services, you have the option to use or share information with a Third-Party Website. WordPress Rush is not responsible for any Third-Party Website’s policies or practises. You should review the privacy policies and service terms of such Third-Party Websites, as well as modify your privacy settings and preferences on those Services, to ensure that you are comfortable with the information such Third-Party Websites may make available to WordPress Rush.
This Privacy Policy will apply to any information we receive from Third-Party Websites.
Publicly available information
We might gather information about you that is publicly available.
Transfer of personal data abroad
If you access the Services from a country other than the one in which WordPress Rush’s servers are located, your communications with WordPress Rush may result in the transfer of your personal data across international borders. When you call WordPress Rush, we may also provide you with support from locations outside of your country of origin. In these cases, your personal information is handled in accordance with this Policy.
Data Subject’s rights
The Data Subject has the following rights:
- Right to information – you have the right to know whether your Personal Data is being processed; what data is being gathered, where it is being gathered, and why and by whom it is being processed.
- Right to access – means that you have the right to see the data that has been collected from/about you. This includes the right to request and obtain a copy of the Personal Data collected about you.
- Right to rectification – you have the right to request the correction or erasure of inaccurate or incomplete Personal Data.
- Right to erasure – in certain circumstances, you have the right to have your Personal Data erased from our records.
- Right to restrict processing – you have the right to restrict the processing of your personal data if certain conditions are met.
- Right to object to processing – this means that you have the right to object to the processing of your Personal Data in certain circumstances, such as direct marketing.
- Right to object to automated Processing – means that you have the right to object to automated Processing, including profiling, and that you will not be subject to a decision based solely on automated Processing. This right is available to you whenever the results of profiling have legal consequences that concern or significantly affect you.
- Right to data portability – you have the right to receive your Personal Data in machine-readable format or, if possible, as a direct transfer from one Processor to another.
- Right to lodge a complaint – If we refuse your request under the Rights of Access, we will explain why. Please contact us if you are dissatisfied with the way your request was handled.
- Right for the help of supervisory authority – meaning you have the right for the help of a supervisory authority.
- Right to withdraw consent – You have the right to revoke any consent you have given for the processing of your personal data.
How we use your Personal Data
We use your Personal Data to:
- Communicate with you
- Provide WordPress Rush products and services
- Personalize and tailor your experience on WordPress Rush
- Fulfil your requests
- Improve our products and services
- Create new services or products
- Operate our business
- Understand how users are engaging with WordPress Rush
- Safeguard WordPress Rush, our users, or others. This includes detecting, preventing, and responding to fraud, abuse, security risks, and technical issues that may cause WordPress Rush, our users, or others harm
We use your Personal Data on legitimate grounds and with your permission.
We Process your Personal Data for the following purposes on the basis of entering into a contract or fulfilling contractual obligations: We Process your Personal Data for the following purposes on the basis of entering into a contract or fulfilling contractual obligations:
- To identify you for communication purposes
- To communicate for sales or billing purposes
- To provide you with a service or to send/offer you a product
We Process your Personal Data on the basis of legitimate interest for the following purposes:
- To administer and analyze our client base (purchase behaviour and history) in order to improve the quality, variety, and availability of products/ services offered/provided;
- To conduct client satisfaction questionnaires
- To send you personalized offers (from us and/or our carefully chosen partners)
We consider offering you products/services that are similar or identical to your purchasing history/browsing behavior to be our legitimate interest as long as you have not informed us otherwise.
We Process your Personal Data with your permission for the following purposes:
- For other purposes we have asked your permission for
- To send you newsletters and campaign offers (from us and/or our carefully selected partners)
- To create a database of relevant search information in order to improve the quality, variety, and accessibility of our products and services
We Process your Personal Data to fulfill legal obligations and/or to use your Personal Data for legal options. We reserve the right to anonymize and use any Personal Data collected. We will only use data that has been anonymized outside the scope of this Policy. We keep your billing information and other information about you for as long as is required for accounting purposes or other legal obligations.
We may process your Personal Data for purposes other than those listed here that are compatible with the original purpose for which the data was collected. To accomplish this, we will ensure that:
- The association between purposes, context and nature of Personal Data is suitable for further Processing
- There would be appropriate safeguard for Processing
- The further Processing would not affect your interests
We will inform you of any further Processing and purposes.
Who else can access your Personal Data
We never share your Personal Information with strangers. In some cases, we provide personal data about you to trusted partners in order to either provide the service to you or to improve your customer experience. We share your information with:
Our processing partners:
Connected Third Parties:
We only work with Processing partners who can provide adequate protection for your Personal Data. We disclose your Personal Data to third parties or public officials when we are legally obliged to do so. We may disclose your Personal Data to third parties if you have given your consent or if there are other legal grounds for it, such as for business or commercial purposes. Because we may not always be available to provide marketing services for you, we have developed relationships with businesses that may be able to better serve your marketing needs.
Some of our products will prompt you to sign in with Google or Facebook in order for us to retrieve information on your behalf. We will not examine your personal information. We reserve the right to aggregate usage data in order to assess the performance of our applications, but no identifiable personal information will ever be shared with third parties.
To opt out, please contact us at hello@wordpressrush.com.
External Links
You should be aware that other Internet sites linked from the WordPress Rush websites or from WordPress Rush e-mail messages may have privacy policies that differ from those in this Policy. We recommend that you review the privacy statements of these other linked sites, applications, or other digital platforms to ensure your privacy is protected.
Your California Privacy Rights
WordPress Rush occasionally (including in the last 12 months) sells users’ Personal Information to Third Parties for direct marketing purposes and discloses Personal Information to Third Parties for business purposes.
If you are a California resident, you have the right to:
- Choose not to have your Personal Information sold to certain affiliates and other Third Parties for marketing purposes. To exercise this right, please send an email to hello@wordpressrush.com. To opt out, you do not need to verify your identity.
- Request that we delete your collected Personal Information and notify Third Parties to whom we sold your Personal Information within 90 days of your request that you have exercised your right to opt-out, and instruct the Third Parties not to sell the information further. To ensure that we do not delete information that you do not truly want deleted, we will require a two-step process in which you will confirm that you want your Personal Information deleted.
- Request a list of the categories of your Personal Information that we have collected, used, sold, and/or disclosed to Third Parties for direct marketing purposes or for our own business purposes in the previous twelve months.
Cookies and other technologies we employ
Cookies and/or similar technologies are used to analyze customer behavior, administer the website, track users’ movements, and collect user information. This is done to personalize and improve your experience with us.
A cookie is a small text file that is stored on your computer. Cookies store information that is used to assist in the operation of websites. Only we have access to the cookies that our website generates. Cookies can be managed at the browser level. If you choose to disable cookies, you may be unable to use certain functions.
We use cookies for the following purposes:
- Necessary cookies – these cookies are required for you to be able to use some important features on our website, such as logging in. These cookies do not collect any personally identifiable information.
- Advertising cookies – these cookies are used to deliver relevant advertisements based on your preferences and interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement. They are typically placed on websites by advertising networks with the permission of the website operator. These cookies remember that you have visited a website and share this information with third parties such as advertisers. Targeting or advertising cookies are frequently linked to site functionality provided by another organization.
- Functionality cookies – these cookies provide functionality that makes using our service easier and allows us to provide more personalized features. For example, they may remember your name and e-mail address in comment forms so you don’t have to re-enter it the next time you comment.
- Analytics cookies – these cookies are used to track how our website and services are being used and how well they are performing.
Here are the cookies we use:
- Cookie policy – persistent cookie – 1-year duration – we set this cookie to limit the cookie policy from being displayed on every page view/visit.
- Google Analytics – persistent cookie – 2-year duration – we use Google Analytics to improve the website’s user experience (you can opt out here).
- YouTube – persistent cookie – duration of 30 days – we embed YouTube videos on our site to provide you with additional educational content.
- Redirection cookie – persistent cookie with a 1-year expiration date – we redirect you to the language most appropriate for the country you are visiting from.
- Subscribers.com – persistent cookie with a 10-year expiration date – you must opt in through your browser to receive anything from subscribers, and you can opt out through your browser settings.
- Popup cookie – persistent cookie – 1-year duration – we provide you with the option of receiving notifications of new content and marketing materials.
You can remove cookies stored in your computer via your browser settings. You can also control some third-party cookies by using a privacy enhancement platform like optout.aboutads.info or youronlinechoices.com. For more information about cookies, visit allaboutcookies.org.
We use Google Analytics to track traffic on our website. Google has their own Privacy Policy that you can review here. If you would like to opt out of tracking by Google Analytics services, visit the Google Analytics opt-out page.
Our “Do Not Track” Policy
We are required by California and Delaware law to inform you of how we respond to web browser Do Not Track (DNT) signals. We do not monitor or respond to browser DNT signals at this time because there is no industry or legal standard for recognizing or honoring them.
How we protect your data
We make every effort to keep your Personal Data secure. We communicate and transfer data using secure protocols (such as HTTPS). When appropriate, we use anonymization and pseudonymization. We keep an eye out for potential vulnerabilities and attacks on our systems. When possible, stored data is encrypted.
Despite our best efforts, we cannot guarantee information security. However, we promise to notify appropriate authorities in the event of a data breach. We will also notify you if your rights or interests are threatened. We will do everything possible to prevent security breaches and to assist authorities if they occur.
If you have an account with us, please keep your username and password private.
Children
We understand the critical importance of privacy protection when children are involved. We have no intention of knowingly collecting, selling, or soliciting Personal Information from anyone under the age of 16. Our services are not aimed at children. If you are under the age of 16, please do not use or provide any information on the Website or any of its features. If you believe a child under the age of 16 has provided us with Personal Data online, please contact us at hello@wordpressrush.com
Contact Information
If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, or if you want us to update information we have about you or your preferences, please email us at: hello@wordpressrush.com
Severability (Privacy Policy)
If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, or phrase in this Privacy Policy is found to be invalid, unenforceable, or otherwise inoperative, WordPress Rush and you agree and acknowledge that such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portion(s) of this Privacy Policy.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy may be updated on a regular basis and without prior notice to you. We will post a prominent notice on our Website to notify you of any significant changes to our Privacy Policy and will indicate when it was most recently updated at the top of the Privacy Policy.