Privacy Policy
Effective Date: October 14, 2025
Welcome to AffirmationsGuide.com (the “Website”). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, protect, and otherwise process your personal information when you visit or interact with our Website. By using our Website, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy.
1. Who We Are
We are Affirmations Guide, the owner and operator of https://affirmationsguide.com. References to “we,” “us,” or “our” mean Affirmations Guide.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or wish to exercise your legal rights, please contact us:
- Email: workm6248@gmail.com
- Website: https://affirmationsguide.com
2. Personal Data We Collect
We collect different types of personal data from or about you, depending on how you interact with our Website:
Information You Provide Voluntarily
- Comments: When you leave a comment on our Website, we collect the data shown in the comments form (e.g., name, email address), as well as the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help with spam detection.
- Contact Forms or Email Inquiries: If you contact us directly via email or contact forms, we may collect your name, email address, and any other information you choose to include in your message.
Information We Collect Automatically
- Cookies and Similar Technologies: We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to collect information such as IP address, browser type, pages visited, time spent on pages, and other diagnostic data.
- Google Analytics and Google Search Console: These tools gather anonymized usage data (e.g., IP address, geographical region, pages viewed, etc.) to help us understand how users interact with our Website. We do not merge this information with personally identifiable data without your explicit consent.
- Third-Party Advertising Networks: We work with third-party advertising networks that may collect information about your browsing activities to display relevant advertisements.
Media
If you upload images to our 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.
3. How and Why We Use Your Information
We will only process your personal data where we have a lawful basis to do so under applicable laws (e.g., GDPR, U.S. state privacy laws). We use the information we collect for purposes such as:
- Operating and Improving the Website: To monitor usage and performance, fix errors, and improve our content and services.
- Communications: To respond to inquiries, comments, and questions you send us.
- Comments Management: To display your posted comments publicly and help detect spam or abusive behavior.
- Analytics and Insights: To understand visitor behavior on our Website via Google Analytics and Google Search Console.
- Advertising: To display relevant advertisements through third-party advertising networks.
- Legal Compliance: To comply with legal obligations or respond to lawful requests by public authorities.
4. Legal Bases for Processing (GDPR)
If you are located in the European Economic Area (EEA) or the United Kingdom, our processing of your personal data will be justified by one or more lawful grounds under the GDPR:
- Consent: Where you have given explicit consent (for example, agreeing to our use of non-essential cookies).
- Legitimate Interests: Where processing is necessary for our legitimate interests (such as improving our Website and displaying relevant advertising), provided that these interests are not overridden by your data-protection rights.
- Contract: Where processing of personal data is necessary to provide you with a requested service or to perform a contract.
- Legal Obligations: Where we must comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.
5. Cookies and Tracking Technologies
We use cookies to:
- Remember your preferences (e.g., saving your name, email, or other details when you leave a comment, if you choose to opt in).
- Conduct analytics via Google Analytics and Google Search Console.
- Serve advertisements through third-party advertising networks.
- Enable personalized advertising based on your browsing behavior.
Types of Cookies We Use:
- Essential Cookies: Required for the Website to function properly.
- Analytics Cookies: Help us understand how visitors interact with our Website (Google Analytics).
- Advertising Cookies: Third-party advertising networks place cookies to serve personalized ads based on your browsing history and deliver targeted advertising.
Cookies typically expire within a stated period, or you can clear them manually in your browser settings. You may choose to block or disable cookies in your browser settings; however, some features on our Website may not function properly without them.
For more details about how Google uses data when you use partner sites or apps, see: https://policies.google.com/privacy
6. Google AdSense and Advertising
We use Google AdSense to display advertisements on our Website. Google AdSense uses cookies and similar technologies to:
– Serve personalized advertisements based on your previous visits to our Website or other websites
– Measure ad performance and engagement
– Prevent the same ads from being shown too frequently
Third-Party Advertising Partners
Google and its advertising partners use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this or other websites. You may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting:
– Google Ad Settings: https://www.google.com/settings/ads
– Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page: http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/
– Digital Advertising Alliance opt-out page: http://www.aboutads.info/choices/
For more information on how Google uses data, visit: https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites
7. Third-Party Sharing
We may share your data in the following circumstances:
- Service Providers: With vendors that help us operate the Website, including hosting providers, spam detection services, and analytics providers such as Google.
- Advertising Partners: With third-party advertising networks (such as Bidvertiser) that display ads on our Website and may use cookies and tracking technologies to personalize advertisements.
- Legal Requirements: If required by law or in a good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with legal obligations, protect our rights or property, or respond to lawful requests.
We do not sell your personal data to third parties. In all cases where we share data with service providers and advertising partners, we take steps to ensure that they safeguard and protect your information in accordance with this Privacy Policy and applicable laws.
8. Retention of Personal Data
- Comments: If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely so we can recognize and approve follow-up comments automatically rather than hold them in a moderation queue.
- User Accounts: For users that register on the Website (if applicable), we store the personal information provided in their profile. Users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except for changing their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
- Analytics Data: Data collected via cookies and analytics tools is retained in accordance with Google’s standard retention policies or until manually deleted.
- Advertising Data: Data collected by third-party advertising networks is retained according to their respective privacy policies and retention schedules.
- Legal and Compliance Purposes: We may retain personal information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.
9. Your Rights
Depending on the jurisdiction in which you reside, you may have the following rights concerning your personal data:
- Access: You can request a copy of your personal data.
- Rectification: You can ask us to correct inaccurate or incomplete personal data.
- Erasure: You can request we delete your personal data, subject to certain exceptions.
- Restriction/Objection: You can request we restrict or stop processing your data under certain circumstances.
- Data Portability (GDPR): You can request to obtain a copy of your personal data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format.
- Withdrawal of Consent: If we rely on consent for processing your personal data, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time.
- Opt-out of Targeted Advertising: You can opt out of personalized advertising as described in Section 6.
To exercise these rights, please contact us at workm6248@gmail.com with the subject line “Data Privacy Request.” We may need to verify your identity before we can fulfill your request.
10. International Data Transfers
If you access our Website from the EEA, the United Kingdom, or other regions with laws governing data collection and use, please note that we may process your information in countries outside of your jurisdiction. Where we transfer personal data internationally, we will ensure appropriate safeguards are in place as required by the GDPR or other relevant legislation.
11. Children’s Privacy
Our Website is not directed at children under 16 (or under 13 where applicable U.S. law applies). We do not knowingly collect personal data from children. If you are a parent or guardian and believe your child has provided us with personal data, please contact us so we can delete the information.
12. Security Measures
We take reasonable and appropriate measures to protect personal data from loss, theft, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. However, no transmission of data over the internet or method of electronic storage is completely secure, so we cannot guarantee absolute security.
13. Links to Other Websites / Embedded Content
Our Website may include links to other sites or embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles). These external sites or services may collect data about you and operate under their own privacy policies. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any third-party websites you visit.
Third-party advertisements displayed on our Website may also contain links to external websites. We are not responsible for the content, privacy practices, or terms of service of these advertiser websites.
14. Your California Privacy Rights (CCPA)
If you are a California resident, you may have additional rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA):
- Right to Know: The categories and specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you.
- Right to Delete: Request we delete personal information collected about you (subject to certain exceptions).
- Right to Opt-Out of Sale: We do not sell personal information. However, sharing data with advertising networks may be considered a “sale” under CCPA. You can opt out using the links provided in Section 6.
- Right to Non-Discrimination: We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your privacy rights.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at workm6248@gmail.com with the subject line “CCPA Request.” We will need to verify your identity before fulfilling requests.
15. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time in response to changing legal, technical, or business developments. When we update our Privacy Policy, we will post the revised version here with an updated “Effective Date.” We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically to stay informed about our data processing practices.
16. Amazon Affiliate Disclosure
affirmationsguide.com is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites.
When you click on links to various merchants on this site and make a purchase, this can result in this site earning a commission. Affiliate programs and affiliations include, but are not limited to, the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program.
Amazon and the Amazon logo are trademarks of Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates.
17. How to Contact Us
If you have any questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact us at:
- Email: affirmationsguidecom@gmail.com
- Website: https://affirmationsguide.com
