Who we are
Our website address is: https://thesuresource.com. We may operate affiliated sites for which this privacy policy applies. As of January 1, 2022, we do not operate any affiliated sites however, this is subject to change without prior notice. You should periodically review this policy for updated information.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Comments
When you leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, along with your IP address and browser user agent string. This information is used 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 have an avatar account through their service. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture, whether provided through the Gravatar or if you included such as part of your profile on this site, 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.
Contact forms
If you submit a request via any of our Contact forms, then we collect the information you provide such as your name, address, email address and telephone number. We use this information to communicate with you about your request and may use it for future advertising or marketing communications
Accounts
If you create an account on our site, or an affiliated site, then we collect the information you provide such as your name, address, email address, telephone number, shipping address, billing address, and payment details. We use this information to fulfill your order, and to communicate with you about your order. Information that you provide in your account may be retained indefinitely to fulfill tax and legal retention requirements.
Cookies
We use cookies to analyze user activity in order to improve the site. Cookies are small data files that are served by our platform and stored on your device. For example, we use cookies to look at aggregate patterns of which pages users visit. We can use such information to improve the content or functionality of the site.
We use cookies to gather certain information about users, such as browser type, device, language preference, region, and products viewed, in order to make your visit to our site convenient. For example, if you add a product to our shopping cart, we will use a cookie to maintain that information as you visit other pages of our site. If you have logged in, we also use cookies to maintain your user information as you visit pages in our site.
We use cookies, tracking pixels, and similar technologies from third-party partners such as Google and Facebook for marketing purposes. Tracking pixels are small data files that are served by our platform and stored on your device. These cookies and pixels allow us to display promotional material on other sites that you visit across the internet. We may also share information about your behavior on the site with third-parties (including operators of third-party websites and/or social media networking sites) in order to show you targeted advertisements and other content that has been customized for you.
We may use third-party cookies from Google Ads (formerly Google AdWords), Google Remarketing or Facebook marketing for the purpose of advertising our site and products to you on other websites, web services or apps. In some cases, you may be linked across multiple browsers or devices. You have the right to opt out of these advertising features. You can learn about how Google uses Remarketing Data, view the Google Advertising Privacy Policy and learn how to hide or disable personalized ads.
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. You can manually remove these cookies from your browser(s) at any time.
If you have an account at TheSureSource.com and you log in to this site or an affiliated site, 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 to TheSureSource.com or an affiliated site, 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.
Analytics
We use first-party, and third-party tracking tools to track the usage of our website and to improve the functionality and make the site more convenient for our visitors. All tracking tools collect anonymized information with no personally identifiable data.
Who we share your data with
Anonymized tracking information may be shared with third-parties such as our hosting provider, our mail service provider, or with third-party analytical services from Google and Bing, depending on the way you interact with our site.
Personal information may be shared with third-parties such as a credit card processor or an order fulfillment provider, a customer service and reviews provider, if such information is necessary to fulfill an order that you have placed with us.
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, or an affiliated website, we also store the personal information that is provided in their user profile and retain this information indefinitely. 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.
With the exception of credit card details, if a user purchases a product on our site, or an affiliated site, their personal information will be stored indefinitely. Even if they request that personal information be removed from our site, it may be retained for purposes of accounting, tax reporting, product warranty verification, or where required for legal reasons.
Credit card details are retained for only as long as they are needed to complete the purchase and are removed upon verification that the funds have been received by the site owner. Credit card details may be retained indefinitely by our third-party credit card processor for the purposes of accounting, payment and billing.
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 we send your data
Visitor comments, testimonials and emails that you send may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Your data may be sent to third-party service providers that we use to process your credit card payment, obtain feedback about our customer service and product reviews, website traffic monitoring providers, and email spam filtering providers.
Acceptance of Terms, Conditions and Privacy Policy
Your use of this site constitutes your acceptance of the above terms and conditions and the use of your data as described in this Privacy Policy.