Effective Date: 25/11/2024
Maggaze (“we,” “our,” “us”) respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, and protect your personal information when you visit our website or engage with our services.
Who We Are
Maggaze is an independent blog that shares insights on tech, lifestyle, gaming, and entertainment. Our goal is to deliver engaging and informative content while respecting and protecting your privacy.
Information We Collect
1. Personal Information
We collect personal information you provide voluntarily, such as:
- Your name and email address when you subscribe to our newsletter or email updates via ConvertKit.
2. Non-Personal Information
We collect non-personal information automatically using tools like Google Analytics, including:
- Your IP address.
- Browser type and version.
- Operating system.
- Pages visited and time spent on the site.
3. Cookies and Tracking Technologies
We use cookies and similar technologies to:
- Analyze website traffic and improve your experience.
- Serve personalized ads through Google AdSense.
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 the same way as if you 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 if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Amazon Affiliate Links
Our website may include links to products on Amazon as part of the Amazon Associates program. These affiliate links help us earn commissions while providing you with recommendations. When you click these links, Amazon may collect information in accordance with their privacy policy.
Media
If you upload images or other media to our website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the site can download and extract location data from such images.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, as well as the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help with spam detection. An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available at https://support.gravatar.com/account/data-privacy/
How We Use Your Information
We use the collected information for the following purposes:
- To send newsletters and updates you subscribe to.
- To analyze website performance and user behavior using Google Analytics.
- To display personalized advertisements through Google AdSense.
- To enhance our content, design, and overall user experience.
Sharing Your Information
We do not sell or rent your personal information. However, we may share your data with third-party service providers, such as:
- Google Analytics: For website traffic and performance analysis.
- Google AdSense: To serve personalized ads.
- ConvertKit: To manage email subscriptions and send newsletters.
- Spam Detection Tools: To filter and manage spam in comments.
These third parties are governed by their own privacy policies, which we encourage you to review.