Privacy policy
This policy explains what information Affilia.com (“Affilia,” “we”) collects when you use this website, how we use it, who we share it with, and the choices you have. Questions or requests go through our contact page.
Information you give us
When you submit a form, such as a growth-plan request, contact message, newsletter signup, program listing, contest entry, job application or support pledge, we receive the details you enter. Each form shows what it asks for. We also attach the page you submitted from, the page you first arrived on, the referring website and any campaign tags in the link you followed, so we can understand which content is useful.
Information collected automatically
- Advertising. We use Google AdSense to show ads. Google and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to serve and measure ads, as described below.
- Preferences. Your browser stores small values on your own device, such as your light or dark theme choice and whether you dismissed the cookie notice. These stay on your device and are not sent to us.
- Hosting logs. Our hosting provider may log technical data such as IP addresses and browser types for security and reliability.
The calculators and tools run in your browser. Numbers you type into them are not sent to us unless you choose to submit a form.
Advertising and Google AdSense
Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website or other websites. Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visits to this site and other sites on the internet.
You can opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google’s Ads Settings. You can also opt out of some third-party vendors’ use of cookies for personalized advertising at aboutads.info. To learn how Google uses information from sites that use its services, read How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services.
Visitors in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland are asked for consent, through a Google-certified consent message, before personalized ads are shown. You can change your choice at any time through the privacy and cookie settings link shown by that message.
How we use information
- To reply to you and provide what you asked for, such as a growth plan, a listing review or a newsletter.
- With your permission, to introduce you to a specialist or partner you approve.
- To run contests and consider job applications.
- To improve the site, fix errors and prevent abuse.
- To meet legal obligations.
We do not sell personal information, and we do not share lead details with third parties without your permission.
Service providers
- FormSubmit delivers form submissions to our inbox.
- Google provides AdSense advertising and web fonts. Fonts are loaded from Google’s servers, which receive your IP address to deliver them.
- YouTube plays embedded videos. We use YouTube’s privacy-enhanced mode, and a video loads only when you press play.
- GitHub hosts the website.
- Payment providers, if you choose to support Affilia, process payments under their own policies. We never see your card details.
How long we keep information
We keep form submissions for as long as needed to handle your request, and generally no longer than 24 months. Job applications are kept for 12 months. Newsletter details are kept until you unsubscribe.
Your rights
Depending on where you live, including under the GDPR, UK GDPR, Canadian privacy law and US state laws such as California’s, you may have the right to access, correct, delete or receive a copy of your personal information, to object to or restrict certain uses, to withdraw consent, and to opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information for targeted advertising. To make a request, use the contact page and choose “Privacy request.” We respond within the time the law requires and will not discriminate against you for exercising your rights. You may also complain to your local data protection authority.
Children
Affilia is written for adults running websites and businesses. It is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect their personal information. Contests are open only to people aged 18 or older.
International transfers
Our service providers may process information in countries other than yours, including the United States. Where required, transfers rely on appropriate safeguards provided by those providers.
Security
The site is served over HTTPS, forms are sent over encrypted connections, and we limit who can access submissions. No method of transmission is perfectly secure, so please don’t send sensitive information such as passwords or payment details through our forms.
Changes
We will update this page if our practices change, and change the effective date above. Significant changes will be highlighted on the homepage.
Related: cookie policy, terms of use.