Privacy Policy of www.smarthomebeginner.com

This Website collects some Personal Data from its Users.

Personal Data processed for the following purposes and using the following services:

    • Advertising

      • Direct Email Marketing (DEM)

        Personal Data: email address

      • Google AdSense and IntelliTXT

        Personal Data: Cookies; Usage Data

      • Ezoic and Mediavine

        Personal Data: Tracker; Usage Data

    • Analytics

      • Display Advertising extension for Google Analytics, Google Analytics (Universal Analytics) and Quantcast Measure

        Personal Data: Cookies; Usage Data

    • Commercial affiliation

      • Amazon Affiliation and ShareAsale

        Personal Data: Cookies; Usage Data

    • Contacting the User

      • Contact form

        Personal Data: email address; first name; last name

    • Displaying content from external platforms

      • Gravatar

        Personal Data: email address; Usage Data

    • Handling payments

      • PayPal

        Personal Data: various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service

    • Hosting and backend infrastructure

      • DigitalOcean

        Personal Data: various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service

    • Infrastructure monitoring

      • Pingdom

        Personal Data: Cookies; Usage Data

    • Interaction with external social networks and platforms

      • AddThis, Facebook Like button and social widgets, Google+ +1 button and social widgets, StumbleUpon button and social widgets, LinkedIn button and social widgets and Twitter Tweet button and social widgets

        Personal Data: Cookies; Usage Data

    • Managing contacts and sending messages

      • Mailchimp

        Personal Data: email address

    • RSS feed management

      • Feedburner

        Personal Data: Cookies; Usage Data

    • SPAM protection

      • Akismet

        Personal Data: various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service

      • Google reCAPTCHA

        Personal Data: Cookies; Usage Data

    • Traffic optimization and distribution

      • Cloudflare

        Personal Data: Cookies; various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service

Information on opting out of interest-based advertising

In addition to any opt-out feature provided by any of the services listed in this document, Users may learn more on how to generally opt out of interest-based advertising within the dedicated section of the Cookie Policy.

Contact information

    • Owner and Data Controller

      HTPCBEGINNER LLC, 10388 Ivy Chase, Plain City, OH 43064, USA.

      Owner contact email: privacy@smarthomebeginner.com