Privacy Policy
A legal disclaimer
The explanations and information provided on this page are only general and high-level explanations and information on how to write your own document of a Privacy Policy. You should not rely on this article as legal advice or as recommendations regarding what you should actually do, because we cannot know in advance what are the specific privacy policies you wish to establish between your business and your customers and visitors. We recommend that you seek legal advice to help you understand and to assist you in the creation of your own Privacy Policy.
Privacy Policy - the basics
Having said that, a privacy policy is a statement that discloses some or all of the ways a website collects, uses, discloses, processes, and manages the data of its visitors and customers. It usually also includes a statement regarding the website’s commitment to protecting its visitors’ or customers’ privacy, and an explanation about the different mechanisms the website is implementing in order to protect privacy.
Different jurisdictions have different legal obligations of what must be included in a Privacy Policy. You are responsible to make sure you are following the relevant legislation to your activities and location.
What to include in the Privacy Policy
Generally speaking, a Privacy Policy often addresses these types of issues: the types of information the website is collecting and the manner in which it collects the data; an explanation about why is the website collecting these types of information; what are the website’s practices on sharing the information with third parties; ways in which your visitors and customers can exercise their rights according to the relevant privacy legislation; the specific practices regarding minors’ data collection; and much, much more.
To learn more about this, check out our article “Creating a Privacy Policy”.
Search insights
We record product-search phrases, match quality, suggested guide, result clicks, and dates to understand missing comparison topics. Queries containing recognizable emails, phone numbers, or links are discarded. Please do not include personal or sensitive information in search.
A random identifier is held in tab session storage to limit repeated submissions; no account is required. No raw IP addresses are stored in the search insights database. A short-lived hash is used for rate limiting. Search records are kept for up to 90 days and expired records are removed during subsequent accepted searches. Search insights and content-planning statuses are accessible only to the site owner.
Search insights
We record product-search phrases, match quality, suggested guide, result clicks, and dates to understand missing comparison topics. Queries containing recognizable emails, phone numbers, or links are discarded. Please do not include personal or sensitive information in search.
A random identifier is held in tab session storage to limit repeated submissions; no account is required. No raw IP addresses are stored in the search insights database. A short-lived hash is used for rate limiting. Search records are kept for up to 90 days and expired records are removed during subsequent accepted searches. Search insights and content-planning statuses are accessible only to the site owner.
Article and Amazon link analytics
We count page views and clicks on Amazon links to understand which articles help readers choose a product. A random identifier stored in your browser for up to 90 days lets us estimate distinct readers. We store the page path, event type and time. These events exclude names, account details, IP addresses and URL query strings. The owner can see aggregate reports for the last 90 days. We skip this tracking when your browser sends a Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track signal.