Privacy Policy for Smart Life Digest
Last Updated: July 16, 2025
Welcome to Smart Life Digest! Your privacy is critically important to us. This Privacy Policy outlines the types of personal information we collect from you as a user of www.smartlifedigest.com, why we collect it, and how we use it.
1. Who We Are
The owner and data controller for the website www.smartlifedigest.com (referred to as “we,” “us,” or “our”) is:
Website: Smart Life Digest
Contact Email: contact@smartlifedigest.com
2. What Personal Data We Collect and Why
a) 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 with spam detection.
b) Contact Forms If you contact us through a contact form, we collect the information you provide, such as your name and email address, so that we can respond to your inquiry. We do not use this information for marketing purposes unless you explicitly consent.
c) Cookies Our website uses cookies to enhance your user experience. Cookies are small text files stored on your device. We use them for:
- Essential Functionality: For example, if you leave a comment, you may opt-in to saving your name and email address in cookies so you don’t have to fill in your details again.
- Analytics: We use tools like Google Analytics to anonymously track website traffic and understand how users interact with our content, helping us to improve it.
- Advertising: Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to our website or other websites. You can opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google’s Ads Settings.
You have full control over cookies and can accept, decline, or delete them through your web browser’s settings.
d) Embedded Content from Other Websites Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos from YouTube, images, articles, social media posts, 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.
3. Who We Share Your Data With
We do not sell or rent your personal data to third parties. We only share data with trusted partners who help us operate our website:
- Google Analytics: For anonymous traffic analysis.
- Google AdSense: To display ads on our site.
- Akismet (or similar): For spam comment filtering.
- Our Hosting Provider: Which stores our website’s data.
4. 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.
Data from contact forms is kept for as long as necessary to resolve your inquiry, but typically no longer than 6 months. Analytics data is retained for 26 months.
5. Your Rights Over Your Data (GDPR)
Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), you have the following rights over your data:
- The Right to Access: You can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you.
- The Right to Rectification: You can request that we correct any inaccurate personal data.
- The Right to Erasure (“Right to be Forgotten”): You can 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.
- The Right to Restrict Processing: You can request that we restrict the processing of your data.
- The Right to Object: You can object to our processing of your data.
- The Right to Data Portability: You can request that we transfer the data we have collected to another organization, or directly to you.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at contact@smartlifedigest.com. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection supervisory authority.
6. How We Protect Your Data
We use technical and organizational measures to protect your data from unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction. This includes the use of SSL/TLS encryption (HTTPS) across our entire website.
7. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to update this Privacy Policy at any time. Any changes will be posted on this page with a new “Last Updated” date.
8. Contact Us
If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy, please feel free to contact us via email at: contact@smartlifedigest.com.