Thank you for visiting The Obsolete Dingbat (https://www.theod.co), hereafter referred to as the ‘website’. By using this website, you accept the following practices outlined in this document hereafter referred to as the ‘privacy policy’.
The website is owned and operated by Anushka Shukla, hereafter referred to as the ‘author’, ‘I’, ‘us’, ‘our’, and ‘we’ in this privacy policy. It is important that you read the following disclosures carefully and contact the author at anushka@theod.co if you have any questions or doubts regarding the privacy policy.
The privacy policy outlines how the author collects, uses, protects, and otherwise handles your Personally Identifiable Information (PPI) in accordance with this website.
1. Information We Collect
We collect personal and non-personal information when you provide it to us in the course of using our website. The personal information we may collect includes your name, mailing address, phone number, email address, and financial information.
The non-personal information that we may collect includes your browser type, the URL of the previous website you visited, your ISP, operating system, and your Internet Protocol (IP) Address. This non-personal information collected is not used by us to personally identify you and is not readily usable for that purpose. Please refer to the “Audience Analytics’ section of this privacy policy to better understand how this information is collected.
Data may be collected when sending information through the website, such as comments on posts or pages, inquiries, and/or any other request or question submitted through this website. When you subscribe to any of our services, email opt-ins, free downloads, or complete a purchase through our website, we may collect your name, mailing address, phone number, email address, credit card number, and any other information requested at the time of the registration process.
By providing this personal information, you agree to allow us to communicate with you regarding the website or any of our services or products. If at any point in time you would like to opt-out of these communications, you may do so. Please refer to the ‘Opting-Out From Communications’ section in this privacy policy.
2. Use of Collected Information
This website uses your personal information primarily for providing, maintaining, evaluating, and improving this website. That includes the products and services we offer and sell, subscriptions, and general customer service.
We use the non-personal information we collect to track the use of this website and to assist us in providing, maintaining, evaluating, and improving this website, the services, and the products we offer and sell.
3. Information Protection
Protecting your personal information is our top priority. We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once it is received. We use a secure socket layer technology (SSL) to securely protect your information when submitted for transfer.
Please note that no method of transmission over the Internet is 100% secure. Therefore, while this website strives to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we do not guarantee absolute security.
We are not responsible for the unauthorised acts of others and we assume no liability for any disclosure of information due to errors in transmission, unauthorised third-party access (such as hacking) or other acts of third parties, or acts or omissions beyond reasonable control.
4. Advertisements
We use Google AdSense to serve content and advertisements to users on this website. This ad network may use cookies to deliver these advertisements. No personal information is shared with the website’s ad providers.
5. Third-Party Ads
This website may engage in remarketing efforts with third-party companies, such as Google and Facebook. These companies use cookies to serve ads based on your past visited URLs. For more information on these cookies, please refer to the ‘Use of Cookies’ section in the privacy policy.
At any time you may opt-out of these retargeting efforts by disabling cookies on your browser. You may also opt-out of Google Ads by modifying your Google Ad settings.
6. Audience Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics to track the statistics regarding our audience and website traffic. No personally identifiable information is transferred from the website to Google Analytics.
Cookies are used on this website to track your use of The Obsolete Dingbat (https://www.theod.co) and the services and products we offer and sell. This allows us to provide you with a more personalised user experience while using the website.
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies using your web browser settings. If you choose to disable cookies on your browser, some areas of the website may not work properly or at all.
8. Opting-Out From Communications
At any point in time, you have the option to opt-out of communications from this website. For example, if you sign up to receive emails, but do not wish to receive them information from us anymore, you may opt-out or unsubscribe by following the instructions provided at the bottom of each email communication. Please allow for a couple of days following to ensure that we properly removed you from all correspondence.
9. Affiliate Marketing
Some areas of this website may contain affiliate links for products we use and recommend. If you click on those links or purchase items through those links, we will earn a commission of the sale. You will not pay extra when buying products through the links provided on this website.
10. Children’s Policy
Our website is not intended for children under the age of 18. This website does not knowingly or specifically collect information about children under the age of 18. We believe that children of any age should get a parent’s consent before giving out personal information.
11. Changes to this Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy is subject to change at any time. You acknowledge and agree that it is your responsibility to review the legal documents on this site periodically to be aware of any modifications. We will notify you of any changes to this Privacy Policy by posting those changes on this page with the date of modification.