Effective Date: June 28, 2024
Introduction
Welcome to themedicineguy.com (“we,” “our,” “us”). We are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring that your personal information is handled in a safe and responsible manner. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and disclose information that we obtain from visitors to our website (the “Site”).
Information We Collect
We collect and retain the following types of information when you visit our Site:
- Comments: When you leave comments on our Site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, your IP address, and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
- Contact Forms and Newsletter Sign-Ups: When you fill out a contact form or sign up for our newsletter, we collect your name, email address, and IP address.
- Cookies and Tracking Technologies: We use Google Analytics and standard cookies to collect information about your use of the Site, including your IP address, browser type, operating system, referring URLs, and other browsing information. This helps us understand how visitors use our Site and improve our services.
- Media: If you upload images to the 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 on the website.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Use of Information
We use the information we collect for the following purposes:
- To respond to your inquiries and communicate with you.
- To provide and manage our newsletter services.
- To analyze and improve our Site and services through Google Analytics.
- To detect and prevent fraud, spam, and abuse on our Site.
Data Retention
We retain your personal information indefinitely unless you request its deletion. We use appropriate security measures, including a web application firewall and TTS encryption, to protect your data.
Cookies
Our Site uses cookies to enhance your browsing experience and collect information about your usage patterns. By using our Site, you consent to the use of cookies. You can manage your cookie preferences through your browser settings.
Data Sharing
We do not share your personal information with third parties, except as necessary to operate our Site and services, comply with the law, or protect our rights.
Your Rights
If you are a resident of California, you have the following rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA):
- The right to know what personal information is being collected about you.
- The right to request the deletion of your personal information.
- The right to know whether your personal information is sold or disclosed and to whom.
- The right to access your personal information.
To exercise these rights, please contact us at aaron@themedicineguy.com.
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 effective date. Your continued use of the Site after any changes signifies your acceptance of the updated Privacy Policy.
Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or our data practices, please contact us at:
Aaron Emmel
Email: aaron@themedicineguy.com