The information written in this document regulates the privacy policy of our website accessible through legitmethod.com
Our privacy policy tells you the types of personal data and non-personal data we may collect from our website visitors and how we use it, how we obtain it, how we protect those data, how we may share it, how you can limit our sharing of it, and also how you can access and edit it.
At Legit Method, one of our key priorities is to keep the privacy of our visitors safe. The Privacy Policy on this page is only applicable to our online activities and is valid to our website visitors with respect to the information shared and/or collected on legitmethod.com. This does not apply to any information or data collected offline or through websites other than legitmethod.com
If you feel the need to ask additional questions or demand more information about our Privacy Policy, please feel free to contact us, we will respond to your messages as soon as possible.
Consent
By using legitmethod.com, you hereby consent to our website Privacy Policy and agree to its terms.
Information We Collect
Your personal information that we request from you and the reasons we requested it is usually made clear at the point you are asked to provide your personal information.
We may request your personal information when you comment on an article, signup for our newsletter, register for an account, register to submit a guest post or article. The information that we may request includes your name, email address, date of birth, company name, address, telephone number, type of submission, your bio, practice, experience & qualification, and your profile photo.
In the process of submitting the requested personal information and you fail to provide us with enough personal information as requested, we may not be able to provide you with the complete products and services or you may end up not getting any at all. However, this does not mean you can’t access and use some parts of our website without giving us your personal information.
You can also contact us directly, and we may receive any additional information about you that you may want us to collect, such as your name, date of birth, email address, phone number, or any other information that you may want to provide to us. You are in control of the number and kinds of personal information that you share with us when using our website.
How we use your information
There are a lot of ways in which we use the data and information we receive from you. We use the information to:
- Provide, operate, and maintain our website
- Improve, personalize and customize our content
- Understand and analyze how you use our website
- Provide products and services you’ve requested or purchased from us
- Develop new products, services, features, and functionality
- Contact you, either directly or indirectly through our partners
- Send you marketing and promotional contents that we believe may interest you
- Send you other information relating to our website
- Find and prevent fraud.
Log Files
We may receive your information automatically through your web browser or mobile device. These files log visitors who visit our website. All websites on the internet do this and it’s part of hosting services’ analytics.
The information collected by log files may include the URL of any website from which you visited our website, date and time stamp, your location, internet protocol (IP) addresses/proxy server, Internet Service Provider (ISP), the type of device you use to access our website, and also the data of your browsing activity when using our website.
These log files are not part of any data or information that is personally identifiable. We only use this information to best understand our users, track users’ movement on our website, and also analyze trends among our users which in turn helps improve our website.
Cookies and Web Beacons
We may use cookies on our website just like every other website on the internet. These cookies are necessary for the proper functioning of our website, but mainly, we use cookies to store the data of our website visitors. Such data include visitors’ preferences, traffic sources, users’ interests, content management, our website pages that the visitor accessed or visited, and other website measurements.
We use this information to improve our website users’ experience by aligning our web page and its content accounting to our visitors’ browser type and/or other information that we collect.
To learn more about the general information on cookies, please read “What Are Cookies” from Cookie Consent.
Aside from cookies, we may also use a web technology known as web beacons to collect general information and data about how our visitors use our website. Such information includes your use of special promotions or newsletters. The data we receive from web beacons enables us to statistically track the number of people who open our emails or newsletter.
Apart from that, web beacons also help us to better understand the behavior of our customers, members, subscribers, and visitors in general.
Google DoubleClick DART Cookie
We also have Google as part of the third-party vendors we use on our website. Bear in mind that Google uses cookies, popularly known as DART cookies, which helps them to serve their ads to our website visitors in accordance with their visit to legitmethod.com and other sites on the internet.
If you choose to decline Google’s DART cookies, you can do that by visiting the Google ad and content network Privacy Policy through this URL https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads
Our Advertising Partners
As we may use cookies on our website, some advertisers on our website may use cookies and web beacons too. All of our advertising partners will likely have their own Privacy Policy on user data, check them out on their website to better understand them. For you to have an idea of the advertising partners we use, they are listed below and we hyperlinked to their Privacy Policies as well.
Also know that when you purchase something through links that we recommend for you on legitmethod.com, we may earn affiliate commissions. This does not in any way influence the sincerity of our content because we always put our audience first and recommend products and services that we know would serve them right.
Advertising Partners Privacy Policies
To find the privacy policy of each advertising partner we use on legitmethod.com, you may contact us.
Third-party ad servers or ad networks make use of cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons. These technologies are used in their respective advertisements and links that show up on legitmethod.com, which are sent directly to the browsers of our website users.
These advertising partners may automatically receive your internet protocol (IP) address when this occurs. They use these technologies to properly measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns. This helps them to personalize the advertising content that they offer on websites that you visit including our website legitmethod.com.
Bear in mind that Legit Method has no control over or access to the cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.
Third-Party Privacy Policies
We may link to other websites on our content, and we provide links to these websites mainly for your convenience. These websites are not under our control and are not dependent on our privacy policy.
Legit Method’s Privacy Policy does not in any way apply to other websites or advertisers and we have no responsibility for these websites or advertisers.
These third-party websites may likely have their own privacy policy, thus, we recommend that you consult the respective Privacy Policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information about their privacy policies. It may include their website practices and instructions on how to opt out of certain options.
To avoid further concerns, you may decide to disable cookies through your specific web browser options. To better understand more detailed information about cookie management with your specific web browsers, you can easily find them at the browsers’ websites.
CCPA Privacy Rights (Do Not Sell My Personal Information)
Under the CCPA and other rights, California residents have the right to:
- Demand that a business discloses the categories and specific pieces of personal information and data that the business has collected about consumers.
- Demand that a business that collects customers’ personal information or data deletes the information they have collected.
- Demand that a business does not sell the consumer’s personal data if that business sells the consumer’s personal data.
If you make a request, it may take us up to one month to respond to you. To exercise any of the above-mentioned rights on our website, please contact us.
GDPR Data Protection Rights
When using our website and submitting personal data to us, we would wish to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:
The right to access: You have the right to access and request copies of your personal data and information. Sometimes, we do not perform this for free as we may charge you a small fee.
The right to rectification: You have the absolute right to request that we edit and correct any of your personal information you believe is not accurate, Including the right to request that we complete your personal information you believe is incomplete.
The right to erasure: Under certain conditions, you have the right to request that we remove or erase your personal data.
The right to restrict processing: You have the right to request that we put a limit on the processing of your personal information or data, under certain conditions.
The right to object to processing: You have the right to disagree with our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to data portability: You have the right to request that we transfer or send the data that we have collected from you to another organization, or to you, under certain conditions.
If you make a request, it may take us up to one month to respond to you. To exercise any of the above-mentioned rights on our website, please contact us.
Children’s Information
Adding protection for children while using the internet is another part of our privacy policy. Parents and guardians are often encouraged by us to always monitor and guide their children’s online activity.
Legit Method does not intentionally collect personal data and information from young children under the age of thirteen (13). We strongly encourage you to contact us immediately If by any means you think that your child provided this kind of information on our website. We assure you that we will do our best efforts to remove such information from our records as soon as possible.