Privacy Policy

Who we are

This privacy policy outlines how your Personally Identifiable Information is collected, used, and protected on Play with Circuit (https://playwithcircuit.com/). Please read it carefully to get a clear understanding of how we handle your Personally Identifiable Information on our website. 

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

On Play with Circuit, we may collect some personal data which may include your name, email address, IP address, and browser details. The data is collected with your consent and is used for following services.

  • Statistics: IP address, browser type, user agent, referring URL, timestamp, country code, and browser language
  • Security: IP address, device information (make, model, OS), geolocation data (GPS), browser type, and language
  • Contact Form: Name, email address, message, timestamp, IP address, and user agent
  • Subscriptions: Email address, post/comment ID (if subscribing via comment), IP address, and HTTP request headers
  • Affiliate Marketing: IP address, login details, browser type, purchase history, cookies, and browsing behavior

The above services mentioned on our site are third parties that store and process your personal data. Please refer to their individual privacy policies for a detailed explanation of how they use your information. 

Use of personal information

We may use personal information for the following purposes:

  • To personalize user experience on our website.
  • To send periodic emails regarding website updates, promotions, and other information that may be of interest to users.
  • To improve our website and services.

We do not sell or rent personal information to third parties.

Cookies

Our Site may use “cookies” to enhance User experience. User’s web browser places cookies on their hard drive for record-keeping purposes and sometimes to track information about them. 

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. 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.

Third-party links

Our website may contain links to third-party websites, which have their own privacy policies. We are not responsible for the content and practices of these websites.

What third parties we receive data from

We may receive information about you from third-party sources. For instance, we can access statistics regarding website traffic, clicks on affiliate links, the number of times a post has been shared on social media, and which social media platform it was shared on.

This information helps us improve our services and better understand how users interact with our content.

Electronic newsletters

If user decides to opt-in to our mailing list, they will receive emails that may include blogs, updates, related product or service information, etc. We may use third party service providers to help us operate our business and the Site or administer activities on our behalf, such as sending out newsletters. We may share your information with these third parties for those limited purposes provided that you have given us your permission.

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.

How we Protect your data

At Play with Circuit, we prioritize the security of your information. We regularly scan our website for security vulnerabilities to ensure that your experience on our platform remains safe. To further protect your data, we employ a combination of malware scanning, firewalls, and other industry-standard security measures to guard against potential threats.

 

How you can contact us

For any questions or concerns about your Personally Information on Play with Circuit, or if you wish to update or delete any of the information stored by us or third-party services, please reach out through our Contact Us page. We are committed to addressing your privacy needs promptly and ensuring your data is handled securely.

Analytics Policy

At Play with circuit, we may utilize third-party service providers to monitor and analyze the usage of our website.

Google Analytics

The data collected by Google Analytics is used to monitor how visitors use our website and may be shared with other Google services. Google may also use this data to personalize advertisements within its own advertising network.

For more information about Google’s privacy practices, please visit Google’s Privacy & Terms page.

Children’s Privacy

Our website and services are not directed toward individuals under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under 13.

Social sharing

We use a social media sharing service that allows you to share our articles on your social media accounts. Currently we offer sharing to Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Google Plus, and Reddit. When you share content from Circuit Basics on one of those sites, your data is handled differently depending on which site you share our content on. Each social media site handles Personally Identifiable Information differently. For more information about how these sites handle your data, please visit the Privacy Policies of those sites: