This Privacy Policy describes how your personal information is collected, used, and shared when you visit or make a download from our website.
We operate in compliance with applicable privacy laws, including the United States CAN-SPAM Act, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), and the Australian Privacy Act 1988 (including the Australian Privacy Principles).
Who we are
Our website address is: https://theseoteacher.com.au.
Information we collect
When you visit our website or request a free digital product, we collect certain information from you:
Voluntary Information: We collect your name and email address when you fill out our newsletter and digital product signup forms.
Automated Information: We automatically collect certain information about your device, including details about your web browser, IP address, time zone, and some of the cookies installed on your device.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help 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 here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
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.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
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.
How We Use Your Personal Information
We use the personal information we collect to:
- Deliver the free digital product or “freebie” you requested.
- Subscribe you to our regular email newsletter to send you updates, marketing materials, and promotional offers.
- Screen for potential risk or fraud.
- Optimize and improve our website experience.
Consent Disclosure: By entering your name and email address to download a free product, you explicitly consent to join our marketing newsletter. You may choose to stop receiving these emails at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link.
Who we share your data with
We do not sell your personal data. We only share your Personal Information with trusted third-party service providers to help us use your information as described above. For example:
We use MailPoet to power and deliver our automated newsletter communications and digital downloads.
We use website analytics tools to help us understand how our visitors use the site.
We may also share your Personal Information to comply with applicable laws and regulations or to protect our rights.
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
International Compliance & Data Rights
For Australian Residents
We handle your personal information in accordance with the Australian Privacy Act 1988.
Unsubscribe Window: In compliance with the Australian Spam Act, all opt-out/unsubscribe requests from our newsletter will be fully processed and honored within 5 business days.
Access and Correction: You have the right to request access to the personal information we hold about you and to ask for it to be corrected.
For United States Residents
We comply with federal CAN-SPAM requirements and state-level privacy guidelines.
Every marketing email includes a visible, functioning one-click unsubscribe link.
We provide our valid legal business entity identity and contact details in the footer of every digital communication.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
When you fill out a form on our website, we will maintain your email address and name for our records until you ask us to delete this information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where your data is sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Changes
We may update this privacy policy from time to time in order to reflect changes to our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons.
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 email.