This Privacy Policy describes how OtakuTechie (the "Site," "we," "us," or "our") collects, uses, and discloses your Personal Information when you visit, use our services, or make a purchase from otakutechie.com (the "Site").
1. Collection of Personal Information
When you visit the Site, we collect certain information about your device, your interaction with the Site, and information necessary to process your purchases. We may also collect additional information if you contact us for customer support. In this Privacy Policy, we refer to any information that can uniquely identify an individual (including the information below) as "Personal Information." See the list below for more information about what Personal Information we collect and why.
Information We Collect Directly From You:
- Comments: When you leave comments on our articles, we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also your IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
- Contact Forms: If you use our contact form, we collect your name, email address, subject, and message.
- Newsletter Subscriptions: If you subscribe to our newsletter, we collect your email address.
- User Accounts (if applicable): If you create an account, we collect your username, email address, and any other information you provide during registration.
Information We Collect Automatically (via Cookies and Tracking Technologies):
- Device Information: Information about your web browser, IP address, time zone, and some of the cookies that are installed on your device.
- Usage Data: Information about how you interact with the Site, such as the pages or products you view, what websites or search terms referred you to the Site, and how you interact with the Site.
- Log Files: These track actions occurring on the Site, and collect data including your IP address, browser type, Internet service provider, referring/exit pages, and date/time stamps.
2. How We Use Your Personal Information
We use your Personal Information to:
- Provide our services to you, including displaying content, processing comments, and sending newsletters.
- Communicate with you, respond to your inquiries, and provide customer support.
- Improve and optimize our Site (e.g., by generating analytics about how our customers browse and interact with the Site, and to assess the success of our marketing and advertising campaigns).
- Detect and prevent fraudulent activity.
- Comply with legal obligations.
3. Sharing Your Personal Information
We share your Personal Information with third parties to help us provide our services and fulfill our purposes as described above. For example:
- We use **Google Analytics** to help us understand how our customers use the Site. You can read more about how Google uses your Personal Information here: Google Privacy Policy. You can also opt-out of Google Analytics here: Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.
- We may share your Personal Information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other lawful request for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights.
- If we use advertising services (e.g., Google AdSense), these third-party advertisers may also collect data via cookies.
4. Cookies and Tracking Technologies
We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our Service and store certain information. Cookies are files with a small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. Other tracking technologies also used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze our Service.
You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Service.
For more detailed information on the cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them, please refer to our (optional) Cookie Policy.
5. Your Rights
Depending on your location, you may have the following rights regarding your Personal Information:
- The right to be informed about how your data is being used.
- The right to access the Personal Information we hold about you.
- The right to request that your Personal Information be corrected or updated.
- The right to request that your Personal Information be erased.
- The right to object to processing of your Personal Information.
- The right to data portability.
- The right to withdraw consent (if processing is based on consent).
If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the contact details provided below.
6. Data Retention
We retain your Personal Information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law. When we no longer need your Personal Information, we will securely delete or anonymize it.
7. Security of Your Personal Information
We implement reasonable security measures to protect your Personal Information from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. However, no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
8. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. 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.
9. Contact Us
For more information about our privacy practices, if you have questions, or if you would like to make a complaint, please contact us by e-mail at privacy@otakutechie.com or by mail using the details provided below:
OtakuTechie
[Your Company Address Line 1]
[Your Company Address Line 2]
[Your City, State/Province, Postal Code]
[Your Country]
Alternatively, you can use our Contact Us page.