Privacy Policy

Effective Date: 1 June 2025

Last Updated: 1 June 2025

1. Introduction

Welcome to https://bymanishjoshi.com/ (the “Website,” “we,” “us,” or “our”). We are committed to protecting your personal information and your right to privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our Website, including any other media form, media channel, mobile website, or mobile application related or connected thereto. Please read this privacy policy carefully. If you do not agree with the terms of this privacy policy, please do not access the site.

This Privacy Policy is designed to help you understand:

• What information we collect about you.
• How we use your information.
• When and with whom we share your information.
• What choices you have regarding your information.
• How we protect your information.
• How to contact us about our privacy practices.

We operate a website centered around AI-generated and AI-assisted blog content, affiliate product suggestions with links, and the display of advertisements, including Google AdSense. Our primary audience is in the United States, but we may have users from around the world.

2. What Information We Collect and How We Collect It

We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us and information that is automatically collected when you access and use our Website.

Personal Data (or Personal Information): Any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person. Examples include names, email addresses, IP addresses, cookie identifiers, etc.

Processing: Any operation performed on personal data, such as collection, recording, use, sharing, storage, or deletion.

Data Controller: The entity that determines the purposes and means of processing personal data. For data collected directly on our Website, https://bymanishjoshi.com/ is the data controller.

Data Processor: An entity that processes personal data on behalf of the controller.

A. Information You Provide to Us

We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us when you:

• Leave comments on our blog posts: This may include your name and email address.
• Subscribe to our newsletters: We collect your email address and potentially your name.
• Fill out contact forms or otherwise communicate with us: We collect your name, email address, and any other information you choose to provide in your message.

B. Information We Collect Automatically

When you navigate our Website, we may collect certain information automatically from your device. This information may include:

• Data from AI Blog Interactions: If our Website incorporates interactive AI features (e.g., AI-powered search, chatbots, AI-driven content personalization), we may collect data from these interactions. This could include search terms, interaction patterns with AI-generated content, and user feedback. We will specify if this data is anonymized or linked to your profile and if it’s shared with third-party AI service providers.
• Data from Affiliate Link Activity: When you click on an affiliate link on our Website, we and the affiliate merchant/network may collect data. This often involves the use of tracking cookies.
• Data collected may include:
  • Cookie data and unique affiliate IDs.
  • IP addresses.
  • Information about the referral source.
  • If a purchase is made on the merchant’s site, transaction details necessary to attribute the commission.
• Data from AdSense & Other Advertising Cookies (Usage Data):Our Website uses Google AdSense and may use other third-party advertising vendors. These services use cookies and similar tracking technologies to serve ads based on your prior visits to our Website or other websites. The data collected can include:
  • IP addresses.
  • Browser type and settings.
  • Operating system.
  • Referring URLs and URLs of pages visited.
  • Interactions with advertisements (e.g., clicks, views, mouse movements over ads).
  • Device identifiers.
  • Date and time of visits.
• Log Files and Analytics Data: Like most websites, we gather certain information automatically and store it in log files. This information may include IP addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data. We may also use analytics services (like Google Analytics) to collect, monitor, and analyze this type of information to increase our Website’s functionality and to better tailor it to our visitors’ needs.

3. How We Use Your Information (Purposes and Legal Basis)

We use the information we collect for various purposes, and we ensure that we have a lawful basis for each processing activity, particularly under regulations like the GDPR.

• To Provide and Maintain Our Website:
  • Purpose: To operate and maintain our Website, provide you with access to its features, and ensure its security.
  • Legal Basis (GDPR): Legitimate interests (to operate and secure our Website); Contractual necessity (if you have an account or subscription).
• To Personalize Your Experience:
  • Purpose: To understand your preferences and personalize the content and AI blog interactions, and advertisements displayed to you.
  • Legal Basis (GDPR): Consent (for non-essential cookies and personalization technologies); Legitimate interests (to improve user experience).
• To Manage Affiliate Marketing Activities:
  • Purpose: To track clicks on affiliate links, facilitate your purchases with affiliate merchants, and enable us to earn commissions.
  • Legal Basis (GDPR): Consent (for affiliate tracking cookies); Legitimate interests (to operate our affiliate marketing business model).
• To Display Advertisements (Google AdSense and others):
  • Purpose: To display advertisements on our Website, some ofwhich may be personalized based on your browsing history and interests. This helps support our Website.
  • Legal Basis (GDPR): Consent (for advertising cookies and personalized advertising); Legitimate interests (to fund our Website through advertising).
• To Communicate With You:
  • Purpose: To respond to your inquiries, comments, or requests; to send you newsletters or other information you have subscribed to; and to send administrative information, such as updates to our policies.
  • Legal Basis (GDPR): Consent (for newsletters); Legitimate interests (to respond to your communications); Contractual necessity (if related to an account).
• For Analytics and Improvement:
  • Purpose: To analyze website traffic, user behavior, and interaction patterns to understand how our Website is used, improve our services, content, and user experience.
  • Legal Basis (GDPR): Consent (for analytics cookies); Legitimate interests (to improve our Website and services).
• To Comply with Legal Obligations and Enforce Our Terms:
  • Purpose: To comply with applicable laws, regulations, legal processes, or governmental requests; and to enforce our Terms of Use and other policies.
  • Legal Basis (GDPR): Legal obligation; Legitimate interests (to protect our rights and the rights of others).

4. How We Share Your Information

We do not sell your personal information in the traditional sense. However, we may share your information with third parties in the following circumstances:

• Affiliate Networks & Merchants: When you click on an affiliate link, data such as cookie data, unique affiliate IDs, and potentially anonymized or aggregated purchase information is shared with the respective affiliate networks and merchants. This is necessary for tracking sales and attributing commissions. These third parties have their own privacy policies governing their use of your data.
• Google AdSense & Other Advertising Partners: We share information with Google (for AdSense) and potentially other third-party advertising networks or exchanges that display ads on our Website. These partners use cookies and other tracking technologies to collect data about your browsing activity to serve personalized ads. Google acts as a third-party vendor and collects data as described in their policies. We encourage you to review Google’s “How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services” page.
• AI Service Providers: If we use third-party AI tools for on-site functionalities (e.g., AI search, chatbots), user interaction data may be shared with these AI service providers. We will identify these providers where feasible and encourage you to review their privacy policies. Some AI tools may use shared data to improve their models.
• Third-Party Service Providers: We may share your information with third-party vendors, consultants, and other service providers who perform services on our behalf, such as website hosting, data analysis, email delivery, customer service, and security services. These providers are typically data processors and are contractually obligated to protect your information and use it only for the purposes for which it was disclosed.
• Legal Requirements and Protection of Rights: We may disclose your information if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) comply with a legal obligation; (b) protect and defend our rights or property; (c) prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Website; (d) protect the personal safety of users of the Website or the public; or (e) protect against legal liability.
• Business Transfers: In connection with any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business by another company, your personal information may be transferred.
• With Your Consent:We may disclose your personal information for any other purpose with your explicit consent.

5. Cookies and Tracking Technologies

Our Website uses cookies and similar tracking technologies (like web beacons or pixels) to collect and store certain information.

• What are Cookies? Cookies are small text files placed on your device (computer, smartphone, tablet) when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site.
• Types of Cookies We Use:
  • Strictly Necessary/Essential Cookies: These are required for the basic operation of our Website, such as enabling you to navigate the site and use its features. They do not usually require consent.
  • Performance/Analytics Cookies: These cookies collect anonymous information about how visitors use our Website (e.g., which pages are visited most often, if error messages are received). This helps us improve how our Website works.
  • Functionality Cookies: These cookies allow our Website to remember choices you make (such as your username, language, or region) and provide enhanced, more personal features.
  • Targeting/Advertising Cookies: These cookies are used to deliver advertisements more relevant to you and your interests. They track your browsing habits across websites and are often placed by third-party advertising networks like Google AdSense.
  • Affiliate Cookies: These cookies are used by our affiliate marketing partners to track referrals from our Website to a merchant’s site, ensuring that we are credited for any resulting sales. These cookies typically contain a unique affiliate ID.
• Your Choices Regarding Cookies (Cookie Management and Opt-Out):
  • Cookie Consent Banner: When you first visit our Website, you will see a cookie consent banner. This banner allows you to provide explicit, informed consent for non-essential cookies before they are placed on your device, particularly if you are in the European Economic Area (EEA). The banner will provide options to accept all cookies, reject non-essential cookies, or customize your preferences.
  • Browser Settings: Most web browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings. You can usually find these settings in the “options” or “preferences” menu of your browser. You can set your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, some parts of our Website may not function properly.
  • Opting Out of Personalized Advertising:
    • You can opt out of personalized advertising from Google by visiting Google’s Ad Settings: https://adssettings.google.com.
    • You can also opt out of some third-party vendors’ uses of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page at http://optout.aboutads.info/ or the Network Advertising Initiative’s opt-out page at http://optout.networkadvertising.org/.

6. Data Security

We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information when you enter, submit, or access your personal information. These measures include:

• Using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) / Transport Layer Security (TLS) encryption for data transmitted between your browser and our server.
• Implementing access controls to limit who can access personal data.
• Regularly reviewing our security practices and updating them as needed.
• Using secure hosting environments.

However, please remember that no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. In the event of a data breach that is likely to result in a high risk to your rights and freedoms, we will notify you and the relevant supervisory authorities as required by applicable law.

7. Data Retention

We will retain your personal information only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law (such as tax, accounting, or other legal requirements).

The criteria used to determine our retention periods include:

• The length of time we have an ongoing relationship with you and provide services to you.
• Whether there is a legal obligation to which we are subject (for example, certain laws require us to keep records of your transactions for a certain period before we can delete them).
• Whether retention is advisable in light of our legal position (such as in regard to applicable statutes of limitations, litigation, or regulatory investigations).
• The nature and sensitivity of the personal data.

When we no longer need to process your personal information for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy, we will either delete or anonymize it, or, if this is not possible (for example, because your personal information has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible.

8. International Data Transfers

Your information, including personal data, may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those in your jurisdiction.

If you are located outside the United States and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the data, including personal data, to the United States and process it there. Our primary audience is in the US, and our servers are likely located in the US.

If we transfer your personal data out of the European Economic Area (EEA), UK, or Switzerland to countries not deemed by the European Commission to provide an adequate level of personal data protection, we will ensure that appropriate safeguards are in place to protect your personal data. These may include implementing Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) approved by the European Commission or relying on other legally recognized transfer mechanisms.

9. Children’s Privacy

Our Website is not intended for or directed at children under the age of 16 (or any other age stipulated by applicable law, such as 13 under COPPA in the US). We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected personal information from children without verification of parental consent, we will take steps to remove that information from our servers.

Google AdSense policies also prohibit publishers from displaying targeted ads to minors. ¹

10. Your Data Protection Rights

Depending on your location and applicable data protection laws, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information.

A. Rights under GDPR (for individuals in the EEA/UK)

If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA) or the UK, you have the following data protection rights:

• The Right to Access: You have the right to request copies of your personal data.
• The Right to Rectification: You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate or complete information you believe is incomplete.
• The Right to Erasure (Right to be Forgotten): You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
• The Right to Restrict Processing: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
• The Right to Object to Processing: You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions, particularly where we rely on legitimate interests as our legal basis.
• The Right to Data Portability: You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format, under certain conditions.
• The Right to Withdraw Consent: If we are processing your personal data based on your consent, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. Withdrawing your consent will not affect the lawfulness of any processing we conducted prior to your withdrawal, nor will it affect processing of your personal data conducted in reliance on lawful processing grounds other than consent. ²
• Rights in Relation to Automated Decision-Making and Profiling: You have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affects you, under certain conditions.
• The Right to Lodge a Complaint: You have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority in your member state of habitual residence, place of work, or place of the alleged infringement if you believe that our processing of your personal data infringes GDPR. ²⁸

B. Rights under CCPA/CPRA (for California Residents)

If you are a California resident, you have the following rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA):

• The Right to Know/Access: You have the right to request that we disclose certain information to you about our collection and use of your personal information over the past 12 months. This includes the categories of personal information collected, sources of collection, purposes for collecting/selling/sharing, and categories of third parties with whom it is shared/sold. You can also request access to the specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you.
• The Right to Delete: You have the right to request that we delete any of your personal information that we collected from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions.
• The Right to Opt-Out of Sale or Sharing: You have the right to direct us not to “sell” or “share” your personal information. “Sharing” is defined as sharing for cross-context behavioral advertising. We provide a “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information” link on our Website for this purpose.
• The Right to Correct Inaccurate Information: You have the right to request that we correct any inaccurate personal information that we maintain about you.
• The Right to Limit Use and Disclosure of Sensitive Personal Information: If we collect sensitive personal information (as defined by CCPA/CPRA, e.g., precise geolocation, racial or ethnic origin), you have the right to direct us to limit its use and disclosure to that which is necessary to perform the services or provide the goods reasonably expected. We will provide a “Limit the Use of My Sensitive Personal Information” link if applicable.
• The Right to Non-Discrimination: We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your CCPA/CPRA rights.

C. How to Exercise Your Rights

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the contact details provided in the “Contact Us” page. We may need to verify your identity before processing your request, and we will respond to your request within the timeframes required by applicable law.

11. Specific Disclosures for Google AdSense

Our Website uses Google AdSense to display advertisements. As required by Google, we provide the following disclosures:

• Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to our Website or other websites.
• Google’s use of advertising cookies (e.g., the DoubleClick DART cookie) enables it and its partners to serve ads to our users based on their visit to our sites and/or other sites on the Internet.
• Users may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google’s Ad Settings: https://adssettings.google.com.
• Alternatively, users can opt out of a third-party vendor’s use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info/choices/.
• For more information on how Google uses data when you use our partners’ sites or apps, please visit: www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/.

12. California Residents: Your California Privacy Rights (CCPA/CPRA)

This section supplements the information contained in our Privacy Policy and applies solely to visitors, users, and others who reside in the State of California.

• “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information”: As a California resident, you have the right to opt out of the “sale” or “sharing” of your personal information. The term “sell” is broadly defined under the CCPA and can include sharing personal information (like cookie data or IP addresses) with third parties (such as advertising networks) for monetary or other valuable consideration. “Sharing” refers to disclosing personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising. Connect with us here, to exercise this right.
• “Limit the Use of My Sensitive Personal Information”: If we collect “sensitive personal information” as defined by the CCPA/CPRA (e.g., precise geolocation data, racial or ethnic origin, religious beliefs, genetic data, biometric information, health information, sexual orientation) and use it for purposes beyond those specified in the regulations, you have the right to limit its use and disclosure. If applicable, to exercise your right to limit the use of your sensitive personal information, please click the following link: Contact Us. Currently, we do not believe we collect sensitive personal information that would require this link, but we will update this section if our practices change.
• Privacy Policy Updates for California Residents:This Privacy Policy will be reviewed and updated at least once every 12 months to comply with CCPA/CPRA requirements.

13. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the “Last Updated” date at the top of this Privacy Policy.

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page. For material changes, we may provide more prominent notice (such as by adding a statement to our homepage or sending you a notification).

14. Contact Us

If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, our data practices, or your rights, please contact us at:

Email: [Your Privacy Email Address, e.g., privacy@yourwebsitename.com]