I recognize that your privacy is important. This document outlines the types of personal information this website receives and collects when you use learn-portuguese-with-rafa.com, as well as some of the steps I take to safeguard information. I hope this will help you make an informed decision about sharing personal information with this website.
Learn-portuguese-with-rafa.com strives to maintain the highest standards of decency, fairness and integrity in all its operations. Likewise, I am dedicated to protecting my customers', consumers' and online visitors' privacy on this website.
Personal Information
Learn-portuguese-with-rafa.com collects personally identifiable information from the visitors to this website only on a voluntary basis. Personal information collected on a voluntary basis may include name, postal address, email address, company name and telephone number.
This information is collected if you request information from me, participate in a contest or sweepstakes, and sign up to join my email list or request some other service or information from me. The information collected is internally reviewed, and used to improve the content of this website, notify visitors of updates, and respond to visitor inquiries.
Once information is reviewed, it is normally discarded soon after or stored in specific files. If I make material changes in the collection of personally identifiable information, I will inform you by placing a notice on this site. Personal information received from any visitor will be used only for internal purposes and will not be sold or provided to third parties.
Use of Cookies and Web Beacons
This website uses cookies to help you personalize your online experience. Cookies are identifiers that are transferred to your computer's hard drive through your web browser to enable this system to recognize your browser.
The purpose of a cookie is to tell the web server that you have come to the site for the first time, or have returned to a specific page. If you personalize the site's pages, or register with any of these site's services, a cookie enables learn-portuguese-with-rafa.com to recall your specific information on subsequent visits.
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies by modifying settings in your browser; however, if you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the site.
A web beacon is a transparent image file used to monitor your journey around a single website or collection of sites. Beacons are also referred to as web bugs. They are commonly used by sites that use third-party services to monitor traffic. They may be used in association with cookies to understand how visitors interact with the pages and content on the pages of a website.
As you browse this website, Google Analytics and advertising cookies will be placed on your computer to collect demographic and interest information, but this site does not tie the cookie to any personal information that you provide. If you do not wish your data to be collected via Google Analytics, you may use their opt-out tool... https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/.
This website might use third-party advertising companies to serve ads on this website. These companies use cookies and web beacons in their ads to ascertain how many times you've seen an advertisement. No personally identifiable information you give to this site is provided to them for cookie or web beacon use, so they cannot personally identify you with that information from this website.
Some third-party advertisements may be provided by Google, which uses the DoubleClick cookie to serve ads. This cookie enables Google to serve ads to users based on their visits to other sites on the Web. You may opt out of the use of the DoubleClick cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.
Browsers can be set to accept or reject cookies automatically, or notify you when a cookie is being requested. Privacy software can be used to override web beacons. Taking either of these actions should not cause a problem with this site, should you so choose.
Children's Online Privacy Protection Act
This website is directed to adults; it is not directed to children under the age of 18. This site operates in compliance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, and will not knowingly collect or use personal information from anyone under-aged.
Non-Personal Information
In some cases, this site may collect information about you that is not personally identifiable. This information, which does not identify individual users, may be used to analyze trends, to administer the site, to track users' movements around the site and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. The information collected is used solely for internal review and not shared with other organizations for commercial purposes.
Release of Information
If learn-portuguese-with-rafa.com is sold, the information it has obtained from you through your voluntary participation in this site may be transferred to the new owner as a part of the sale in order that the service being provided to you may continue. In that event, you will receive notice through this website of that change in control and practices, and reasonable efforts will be made to ensure that the purchaser honors any opt-out requests you might make of this website.
How You Can Correct or Remove Information
I provide this privacy policy as a statement to you of my commitment to protect your personal information. If you have submitted personal information through this website and would like that information deleted from any records, or would like to update or correct that information, please use our Contact Me page.
Updates and Effective Date
Learn-portuguese-with-rafa.com reserves the right to make changes in this policy. If there is a material change in privacy practices, they will be indicated on this site stating that its privacy practices have changed and will provide a link to the updated privacy policy. I encourage you to periodically review this policy so that you will know what information is collected and how it is used.
Agreeing to Terms
If you do not agree to learn-portuguese-with-rafa.com's privacy policy as posted here on this website, please do not use this site or any services offered by this site.
Your use of this site indicates acceptance of this privacy policy.
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