WhatMobilesz Privacy Policy: Your Data Protection and User Privacy Guide
WhatMobilesz is committed to making sure your private life, personal data, and information stay protected from unauthorized access. This Privacy Policy lets you know how we collect, use, and protect the personal data that you submit to us in the context of visiting or interacting with our website, https://whatmobilesz.com/. It also outlines your rights with respect to your personal information and how you can go about enforcing them.
Whether you check our mobile phone reviews, check up the tech specs, or just explore the trends in tech, we take our privacy seriously. We invite you to read through this Privacy Policy carefully to understand what kind of data is used and how.
1. Information We Collect
The information collection that we have on WhatMobilesz may be categorized into personal data and non-personal data. This may include:
1 Personal Information
Personal information is information that can identify you as a person. Below are the circumstances under which we collect personal information:
When you subscribe to our newsletter: We collect your name and email address when subscribing to receive updates, promotional materials, or newsletters from our entities.
Contact Forms: All the information you provide from your contact forms on the website, such as your name, email address, phone number, and other information you may provide.
Account Creation: if you create an account with WhatMobilesz, we gather such data as your username, password, and email address.
Comments and User Reviews: When you comment on articles or reviews, we may collect your name, email, and the content of your comment.
2 Non-Personal Information
Non-personal information is information that would not allow anyone to identify you directly. Such information may be automatically collected when you visit the site. Examples include:
IP Address: We collect the IP address attached to your device, and this enables us to know which part of the globe you are coming from.
Browser Information: Knowing information about your browser, such as which one of the Chome, Safari, etc. you use will help us optimize your website’s performance.
Device Information: We might collect information on the kind of device (mobile, desktop, or tablet) you are using to access our website.
Cookies and Tracking Technologies: Cookies are those files put on your device by us to enable tracking how you use the site. This allows us to tailor the site to your needs by recording your preferences, preferences, and previous interactions with the site.
2. How We Process Information
At WhatMobilesz, the following purposes are pursued in order to optimize your experience on the website or to ensure smooth operation:
1 Operation of the Website
As we collect data, we update site functionality to ensure that navigation and loading do occur smoothly and are reasonably fast, optimized to work well with different devices.
2 Personalization
We’d like to make your experience on WhatMobilesz more enjoyable by enabling personalization of the content you’d view based on your interest. For instance, when you have previously been navigating mobile phone reviews, you are probably going to get suggestions related to such products or updated releases regarding new availability.
3 Communication
If you are a subscriber of our newsletter, we will periodically send you newsletters and other offer deals with promotional content through your e-mail address. You can opt out of receiving them at any time you like.
4 Service to Inquiry
We use information received through contact forms or e-mail communications to help answer questions or resolve issues you’re experiencing on our site.
5 Analytics
We collect and process the non-personal data to further update our site; for example, we are aware of how many users the website makes, which pages receive the most users, and how long the users stay on each page, thus making informed decisions on future update changes.
3. How We Safeguard Your Data
We respect your private information and hold it in serious regard. To guarantee that your data is protected, WhatMobilesz takes several measures on matters of security;
1 Encryption
All your personal data is encrypted both in transit as well as in rest. This way, all data that you submit to us, whether through the forms or by mails, gets encrypted, and it avoids any unauthorized access to that information.
2 Secure Servers
All our servers are hosted in secure environments protected with state-of-the-art firewalls and other security measures. This brings down the chances of any data breach or unauthorized access.
3 Regular Security Audits
We carry out regular security audits to prevent vulnerabilities in our system. In this manner, your data will be protected proactively.
4 Access Control
Only authorized personnel access personal information. Our company maintains tight access control to prevent the presence of unauthorized persons who might want to look at sensitive data.
4. Your rights to Your Data
Applicable privacy laws including the General Data Protection Regulation will give you several rights to your personal data. These are as follows:
1 Right to Access
You have the right to receive a copy of the personal data we may hold about you. On receiving your request, we shall provide the information in a structured, commonly used format.
2 Right to Rectification
You can request correction of the information we have about you if that information is inaccurate or incomplete.
3 Right to Erasure
There are other times where we may delete your personal data. This right is also known as a “right to be forgotten.”
4 Right to Restrict Processing
You can make a request to us that we restrict processing, for example, when you have an issue with the accuracy of your details.
5 Right to Object
You may object to our processing activities, which fall in the category of direct marketing.
6 Right to Data Portability
If you want us to pass on your personal data to a third-party service provider, you have the right to have that data transmitted to you in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format, where appropriate.
To exercise any of these rights, please send an email to privacy@whatmobilesz.com. We will take the action required within 30 days and will respond to your request as soon as possible after that.
5. Cookies Usage
WhatMobilesz makes use of cookies so that the experience of interacting with our site becomes easier and smoother. Cookies are small text files which are created on your device when you visit the website. They let a website remember your actions and preferences-for example your login details, language, privacy preferences settings.
1 Which Type of Cookies Do We Use?
Use of Essential Cookies: These are cookies which help to make certain features of the website work. This means some features may not be properly offered on the site, say, the login of an account if these cookies are missing.
Performance Cookies: Performance cookies help us understand how visitors use our website by collecting information on pages visited, time spent on the site, and navigation paths.
Targeting Cookies: These help in showing you the ads that are more appropriate according to your browsing behavior. They also support us in measuring the effectiveness of advertising campaigns.
2 Managing Cookies
Another option to manage cookies is to do this via your chosen settings on your browser. These settings will let you block cookies, delete the existing ones, or you will be informed whenever a cookie is being installed on your device. Please note that blocking or deleting cookies may impact the functionality of our website.
6. Third-Party Services and Links
WhatMobilesz includes links to third party websites, products, or services. This Privacy Policy does not apply to external sites, however, so please be aware that such links are provided solely for your convenience and information. Third-party sites bear no connection to what we do here and we cannot be held liable for their practices regarding privacy or the contents of these third party sites.
For analytics purposes, we may use third-party service providers, including, but not limited to Google Analytics, or for advertising purposes like Google AdSense. These third-party services may collect information about your visit to our site and may use cookies or similar tracking technologies. We recommend you review their privacy policies to understand how they retain your data.
7. Data Retention
We will not retain personal data for any longer than is necessary to achieve the purpose for which that personal data was submitted. Where we no longer need to use your data, we will delete or anonymize it, for instance by aggregating it with other non-personal data, so that it can be used in a manner that does not identify you or any other individual.
1 Newsletters
When you unsubscribe from our newsletter, we will put your e-mail address on a suppression list to ensure that you do not receive any further communications.
2 User Accounts
If you wish to delete your account, we will remove your personally identifiable information from our systems. Except as otherwise set forth herein, such data may remain for legal or administrative purposes.
8. Amendment to this Privacy Policy
We may occasionally update this Privacy Policy to reflect changes in our practices or applicable laws. When we do, we will also revise the “Last Updated” date at the top of this Privacy Policy. Please review this Privacy Policy from time to time so you are aware of any such changes. To find the most recent version of this Privacy Policy, please check back here.
9. Contact Us
For any queries or issues in this Privacy Notice, or for exercising your rights with respect to your personal information, you may reach us at the following email and postal addresses:
Email: privacy@whatmobilesz.com
Address: WhatMobilesz, [Company Address]