Last Updated: [April , 2025]
1. Introduction
Welcome to SurvivalGuideHub.com (the “Website”). We are committed to protecting the privacy of our visitors and users (“you”). This Privacy Policy outlines 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.
We reserve the right to make changes to this Privacy Policy at any time and for any reason. We will alert you about any changes by updating the “Last Updated” date of this Privacy Policy. You are encouraged to periodically review this Privacy Policy to stay informed of updates.
We may collect information about you in a variety of ways. The information we may collect on the Website includes:
- Personal Data: Personally identifiable information, such as your name and email address, that you voluntarily give to us when you subscribe to a newsletter, submit a contact form, leave comments (if enabled), or otherwise interact with the Website. You are under no obligation to provide us with personal information of any kind; however, your refusal to do so may prevent you from using certain features of the Website.
- Derivative Data (Usage Data): Information our servers automatically collect when you access the Website, such as your IP address, your browser type, your operating system, your access times, and the pages you have viewed directly before and after accessing the Website.
- Cookies and Tracking Technologies: We may use cookies, web beacons, tracking pixels, and other tracking technologies on the Website to help customize the site and improve your experience. When you access the Website, your personal information is not collected through the use of tracking technology. Most browsers are set to accept cookies by default. You can remove or reject cookies, but be aware that such action could affect the availability and functionality of the Website. For more information on how we use cookies, please refer to Section 6 (Cookies Policy).
- Third-Party Data: Information from third parties, such as personal information or network friends, if you connect your account to the third party and grant the Website permission to access this information.
3. How We Use Your Information
Having accurate information about you permits us to provide you with a smooth, efficient, and customized experience. Specifically, we may use information collected about you via the Website to:
- Operate and maintain the Website.
- Improve the Website content, layout, and user experience based on usage patterns.
- Respond to your comments, questions, and provide user support.
- Send you newsletters or promotional information, where you have opted-in to receive such communications. You may opt-out at any time.
- Monitor and analyze usage and trends to improve functionality.
- Detect and prevent fraudulent or malicious activity.
- Comply with legal obligations.
- Administer affiliate link tracking (see Section 7).
4. Disclosure of Your Information
We may share information we have collected about you in certain situations. Your information may be disclosed as follows:
- By Law or to Protect Rights: If we believe the release of information about you is necessary to respond to legal process, to investigate or remedy potential violations of our policies, or to protect the rights, property, and safety of others, we may share your information as permitted or required by any applicable law, rule, or regulation.
- Third-Party Service Providers: We may share your information with third parties that perform services for us or on our behalf, including hosting, data analysis (e.g., Google Analytics), email delivery, security monitoring, and customer service. These service providers will have access to your information only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.
- Affiliate Partners: As disclosed in our Affiliate Disclosure, we use affiliate links. When you click on an affiliate link, a cookie may be placed on your browser by the affiliate partner to track any sales for purposes of commissions. These third-party tracking activities are governed by the affiliate partner’s own privacy policy.
- Business Transfers: We may share or transfer your information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
- With Your Consent: We may disclose your personal information for any other purpose with your consent.
We do not sell your personal information.
We use administrative, technical, and physical security measures to help protect your personal information. While we have taken reasonable steps to secure the personal information you provide to us (such as using SSL/HTTPS encryption), please be aware that despite our efforts, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and no method of data transmission can be guaranteed against any interception or other type of misuse. Any information disclosed online is vulnerable to interception and misuse by unauthorized parties. Therefore, we cannot guarantee complete security if you provide personal information.
We use cookies and similar tracking technologies (like web beacons and pixels) to access or store information. Cookies are small data files stored on your hard drive or in device memory that help us improve our Website and your experience, see which areas and features of our Website are popular, and count visits. Web beacons are electronic images that may be used in our Website or emails and help deliver cookies, count visits, and understand usage and campaign effectiveness.
- Types of Cookies: We may use Session Cookies (which expire once you close your browser) and Persistent Cookies (which stay on your device until you delete them). We use first-party cookies (set by us) and potentially third-party cookies (set by others, e.g., Google Analytics, affiliate partners).
- Your Choices: Most web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. You can usually choose to set your browser to remove cookies and to reject cookies. If you choose to remove cookies or reject cookies, this could affect certain features or services of our Website. To opt-out of interest-based advertising by advertisers on our Website visit http://www.aboutads.info/choices/.
The Website contains links to third-party websites and applications of interest, including advertisements and external services (such as affiliate partner sites), that are not affiliated with us. Once you have used these links to leave the Website, any information you provide to these third parties is not covered by this Privacy Policy, and we cannot guarantee the safety and privacy of your information. Before visiting and providing any information to any third-party websites, you should inform yourself of the privacy policies and practices (if any) of the third party responsible for that website, and should take those steps necessary to, in your discretion, protect the privacy of your information. We are not responsible for the content or privacy and security practices and policies of any third parties, including other sites, services or applications that may be linked to or from the Website.
We will retain your 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). We will retain and use your information to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our policies. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of our service, or we are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.
Depending on your location, you may have the following rights regarding your personal data:
- 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 – 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.
- 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, under certain conditions.
If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the contact information below.
10. Children’s Privacy
This Website is not intended for children under the age of 13 [or 16, depending on regulations you wish to follow], and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under this age. If we become aware that we have inadvertently received personal information from a user under the specified age, we will delete such information from our records. If you believe that we might have any information from or about a child under the specified age, please contact us.
If you have questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at:
Contact Us – Survival Guide Hub