Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy applies to https://thenootropics.guide (hereinafter, “us”, “we”, “Website”, “The Nootropics Guide”, or “https://thenootropics.guide”).
We utilize best practices implementing beacons, cookies, and platforms like Google to improve this website, but these inevitably come with privacy tradeoffs. We recommend the following steps if you are concerned with your privacy online and have yet to implement steps to secure yourself:
If you would like to surf the internet ad-free and safely, we recommend that you install AdGuard. This browser plugin blocks tracking methods such as beacons and cookies. We recommend using a privacy-focused browser such as Firefox or Brave, which come bundled with privacy protections.
Facebook and Google offer opt-out settings for personalized ad targeting. Jumbo automatically scans your social profiles and recommends privacy improvements.
A Privacy Primer
We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting personally identifiable information you may provide us through the Website. We have adopted this privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) to explain what information may be collected on our Website, how we use this information, and under what circumstances we may disclose the information to third parties.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Analytics
We collect non-personally-identifying information that web browsers and servers typically make available. This data typically includes the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. The purpose of collecting this information is to better understand how The Nootropics Guide’s visitors use its website.
The Nootropics Guide also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on https://thenootropics.guide blog posts. The Nootropics Guide only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below. To date, this has never happened.
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.
Cookies
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. The Nootropics Guide uses cookies to help The Nootropics Guide identify and track visitors, their usage of https://thenootropics.guide, and website access preferences. The Nootropics Guide visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using The Nootropics Guide’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of The Nootropics Guide’s websites may not function properly without the aid of 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.
To enrich and perfect your online experience, The Nootropics Guide uses “Cookies” and similar technologies and services provided by third parties to display personalized content, appropriate advertising, and store your preferences on your computer.
By continuing to navigate our website without changing your cookie settings, you hereby acknowledge and agree to The Nootropics Guide’s use of cookies.
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.
Links To External Sites
Our Service may contain links to external sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy and the terms and conditions of every site you visit.
We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third party sites, products, or services.
Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to The Nootropics Guide’s websites choose to interact with The Nootropics Guide in ways that require The Nootropics Guide to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that The Nootropics Guide gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up for our newsletter to provide their email address.
Who we share your data with
The Nootropics Guide discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on The Nootropics Guide’s behalf or to provide services available at The Nootropics Guide’s website, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors, and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using The Nootropics Guide’s website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. The Nootropics Guide will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone.
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.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
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.
How we keep your data safe
Encryption
The security of your Personal Information is important to us. We use SSL to secure data transmission and state-of-the-art server encryption.
Remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
The Nootropics Guide discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on The Nootropics Guide’s behalf or to provide services available at The Nootropics Guide’s website, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors, and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using The Nootropics Guide’s website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. The Nootropics Guide will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone.
The Nootropics Guide has never provided personally identifiable information to third parties. In the event that this does occur, the following is our guiding policy.
Other than to its employees, contractors, and affiliated organizations, as described above, The Nootropics Guide discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental requests, or when The Nootropics Guide believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of The Nootropics Guide, third parties or the public at large.
If you are a registered user of https://thenootropics.guide and have supplied your email address, The Nootropics Guide may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with The Nootropics Guide and our products. We primarily use our blog to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. The Nootropics Guide takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
Affiliate Disclosure
This site uses affiliate links and earns commissions from certain links. This does not affect your purchases or the price you may pay.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, The Nootropics Guide may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in The Nootropics Guide’s sole discretion. The Nootropics Guide encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.
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.