At Smart People Choices (“we,” “our,” or “us”), we are committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website smartpeoplechoices.com.

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. By using our website, you consent to the practices described in this policy. If you do not agree with this policy, please do not use our website.

1. Information We Collect

Personal Information

We may collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us when you:

• Subscribe to our newsletter
• Fill out a contact form
• Submit a comment or review
• Participate in surveys or promotions

This information may include your name, email address, and any other details you choose to provide.

Automatically Collected Information

When you visit our website, we may automatically collect certain information about your device and usage, including:

• Your IP address
• Browser type and version
• Pages you visit on our site
• Time and date of your visit
• Time spent on each page
• Other diagnostic data

Cookies and Tracking Technologies

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track activity on our website and store certain information. Cookies are files with a small amount of data that may include an anonymous unique identifier.

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 website.

2. How We Use Your Information

We may use the information we collect for various purposes, including to:

• Provide, operate, and maintain our website
• Improve, personalize, and expand our website
• Understand and analyze how you use our website
• Develop new products, services, features, and functionality
• Communicate with you, either directly or through one of our partners, including for customer service, to provide you with updates and other information relating to the website, and for marketing and promotional purposes
• Process your transactions
• Send you emails
• Find and prevent fraud

3. Legal Basis for Processing Personal Information

We process your personal information based on:

• Your consent
• The need to perform a contract with you
• Our legitimate interests in providing and improving our services
• Compliance with legal obligations

4. Disclosure of Your Information

We may share your personal information in the following situations:

• With Service Providers: We may share your information with third-party vendors, service providers, contractors, or agents who perform services for us.
• For Business Transfers: We may share or transfer your information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
• With Affiliate Programs: As part of our affiliate marketing activities, we may share limited information with our affiliate partners.
• With Your Consent: We may disclose your personal information for any other purpose with your consent.
• For Legal Reasons: We may disclose your information where required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities.

5. Third-Party Services

We may use third-party service providers to monitor and analyze the use of our website, such as:

• Google Analytics
• Email marketing services
• Affiliate marketing networks

These third parties have access to your personal information only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.

6. Data Retention

We will retain your personal information only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your information to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our policies.

7. Your Data Protection Rights

Depending on your location, you may have the following data protection rights:

• The right to access, update, or delete the information we have on you
• The right of rectification
• The right to object
• The right of restriction
• The right to data portability
• The right to withdraw consent

8. Children’s Privacy

Our website does not address anyone under the age of 18 (“Children”). We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us.

9. Security of Your Information

We use administrative, technical, and physical security measures to help protect your personal information. While we have taken reasonable steps to secure the personal information you provide to us, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable.

10. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the “Last Updated” date.

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.