Privacy Policy for DiscoverAI.link
Effective Date: 08/03/2025
1. Introduction
Welcome to Discoverai.link (“we,” “us,” or “our”). We are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring the security of your personal information. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website [Your Website Address] (the “Website”). This policy applies to visitors and users from the European Economic Area (EEA), the United Kingdom (UK), the United States, and globally.
2. Who We Are (Data Controller)
For the purposes of data protection laws, the data controller for the personal information we process through this Website is:
DiscoverAI @ Link
discoveraigk@gmail.com
3. What Information We Collect
We may collect the following types of information from you:
Information You Provide Directly:
Contact Information: If you contact us through forms, email, or other means, we may collect your name, email address, phone number, and any other information you choose to provide.
Comments and Contributions: If you post comments, reviews, or other content on our Website, this information will be collected and may be publicly visible.
Information Collected Automatically:
Log Data: Our servers automatically record information (“log data”) created by your use of the Website. This may include your IP address, browser type, operating system, referring URLs, device information (e.g., device type, device ID), pages visited, links clicked, search terms, and cookie information.
Cookies and Similar Technologies: We use cookies, web beacons, and similar tracking technologies to collect information about your browsing activity on our Website. This may include information about your browsing behaviour, preferences, and interactions with our content and advertisements. Specifically, we use Google AdSense, which uses cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to our Website or other websites.
Analytics Data: We may use third-party analytics tools (e.g., Google Analytics – if you use it in addition to AdSense for website analytics) to help us measure traffic and usage trends for the Website. These tools collect information sent by your browser or mobile device, including the pages you visit and other information that assists us in improving the Website.
4. How We Use Your Information
We may use your information for the following purposes:
To Provide and Improve the Website: To operate, maintain, and improve our Website, and to provide you with the features and functionality of the Website.
To Personalize Your Experience: Personalize your experience on the Website, such as showing you content or advertisements that are more relevant to your interests.
To Communicate with You: To respond to your inquiries, requests, or comments, and to provide customer support.
To Send You Marketing Communications (with your consent where required): To send you newsletters, promotional materials, and other marketing communications if you have opted in to receive them. You will always have the option to unsubscribe from these communications.
To Display Advertising (through Google AdSense): To display personalized and non-personalized advertisements through Google AdSense, which helps us monetize our Website and provide content free of charge.
To Analyze Website Usage: To understand how users interact with our Website, analyze trends, and improve our content and services.
To Protect Our Rights and Safety: To protect the rights, property, or safety of us, our users, or others, and to comply with legal obligations.
5. Legal Bases for Processing Personal Information (For EEA and UK Users)
For individuals in the EEA and UK, our legal bases for processing your personal information depend on the purpose of the processing. These bases may include:
Consent: We may rely on your consent to process your personal information for certain purposes, such as sending you marketing communications or using non-essential cookies (including advertising cookies from Google AdSense). You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.
Legitimate Interests: We may process your personal information when it is necessary for our legitimate interests, provided that those interests are not overridden by your rights and freedoms. Our legitimate interests may include:
Providing and improving the Website.
Personalizing your experience.
Analyzing website usage.
Displaying advertising (including personalized advertising through Google AdSense, which we consider a legitimate interest to support our free service).
Ensuring network and information security.
Contract: Processing may be necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are a party, or in order to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract.
Legal Obligation: We may process your personal information to comply with applicable laws and regulations.
6. How We Share Your Information
We may share your information with the following categories of recipients:
Service Providers: We may engage third-party service providers to perform functions and provide services to us, such as website hosting, data analysis, email delivery, and customer support. These service providers will have access to your personal information only to the extent necessary to perform these services on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose it or use it for other purposes.
Advertising Partners (Google AdSense): We use Google AdSense to display advertisements on our Website. Google AdSense may collect and use information about your visits to this and other websites to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. This information is collected using cookies and similar technologies. Please review the “Google AdSense and Cookies” section below for more details.
Analytics Providers: We may use third-party analytics providers (e.g., Google Analytics) to help us understand website usage. These providers may have access to your information to perform these services. (Again, only if you use Google Analytics in addition to AdSense).
Legal Authorities: We may disclose your information to legal authorities if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g., a court order or government agency).
Business Transfers: In the event of a merger, acquisition, reorganization, sale of assets, or bankruptcy, your information may be transferred or disclosed as part of that transaction. We will notify you before your personal information is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
7. Google AdSense and Cookies
We use Google AdSense, a third-party advertising service provided by Google, to display advertisements on our Website. Google AdSense uses cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to our Website and other websites.
DoubleClick Cookie: Google’s use of the DoubleClick cookie enables it and its partners to serve ads to users based on their visit to our site and/or other sites on the Internet.
Personalized and Non-Personalized Ads: We may display both personalized and non-personalized ads through Google AdSense.
Personalized ads are targeted to you based on your past behaviour and interests collected by Google and its partners.
Non-personalized ads are contextual and are not based on past user behaviour but rather on factors such as the user’s current location, the content on the current page or app, or the language of the website.
User Choice and Control:
Opt-out of Personalized Advertising: You can opt-out of personalized advertising by visiting Google’s Ad Settings: https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated.
Cookie Consent: As required by applicable laws (especially in the EEA and UK under the ePrivacy Directive and GDPR), we will obtain your consent to use non-essential cookies, including advertising cookies from Google AdSense. We will implement a cookie consent mechanism (e.g., a cookie banner) to provide you with clear information about cookies and allow you to manage your cookie preferences.
Third-Party Vendor Disclosure: Google and its partners are third-party vendors involved in serving ads on our Website. You can find more information about Google’s use of data and how to control the information sent to Google and its partners on Google’s Privacy & Terms site: https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.
8. International Data Transfers
Your information may be transferred to, and stored and processed in, countries outside of your country of residence, which may have data protection laws that are different from the laws of your country. This may include transfers to countries outside the EEA and UK, such as the United States, where Google and other service providers are based.
We will implement appropriate safeguards to ensure that your personal information remains protected in accordance with this Privacy Policy and applicable data protection laws when transferred internationally. These safeguards may include:
Standard Contractual Clauses: We may use Standard Contractual Clauses approved by the European Commission (or the UK equivalent) for transfers of personal information from the EEA/UK to countries outside the EEA/UK that have not been deemed to provide an adequate level of data protection.
Adequacy Decisions: We may rely on adequacy decisions issued by the European Commission (or the UK equivalent) where transfers are made to countries recognized as providing an adequate level of data protection.
9. Data Security
We take reasonable measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. These measures include [Describe specific security measures you take, e.g., encryption, firewalls, secure servers, access controls, staff training]. However, no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is completely secure. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
10. Data Retention
We will retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law. The retention period will depend on the nature of the information and the purposes for which it is processed. For example:
Contact Information: We may retain contact information for as long as necessary to respond to your inquiries and provide support.
Log Data and Analytics Data: We typically retain this data for a shorter period, use it for analysis and improvement purposes, and then aggregate or anonymise it.
Google AdSense Data: Data collected by Google AdSense is subject to Google’s data retention policies. Please refer to Google’s Privacy Policy for more information.
11. Your Data Rights
Depending on your location and applicable data protection laws, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information, including:
Right to Access: You have the right to request access to the personal information we hold about you and to receive a copy of that information.
Right to Rectification: You have the right to request that we correct any inaccurate or incomplete personal information we hold about you.
Right to Erasure (“Right to be Forgotten”): You have the right to request that we delete your personal information under certain circumstances (e.g., if the information is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected, or if you withdraw your consent).
Right to Restriction of Processing: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal information under certain circumstances (e.g., if you contest the accuracy of the information).
Right to Data Portability: You have the right to receive your personal information in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format and to transmit that information to another data controller.
Right to Object: You have the right to object to the processing of your personal information based on legitimate interests or for direct marketing purposes.
Right to Withdraw Consent: If we are processing your personal information based on your consent, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.
Right to Lodge a Complaint: You have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority in your country of residence or where you believe a data protection infringement has occurred.
Exercising Your Rights: To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the contact information provided in Section 15 below. We will respond to your request in accordance with applicable data protection laws. We may need to verify your identity before processing your request.
Specific US State Rights (e.g., under CCPA/CPRA principles): Depending on your US state of residence, you may also have rights such as:
Right to Know: The right to request information about the categories and specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you, the sources of that information, the purposes for collecting it, and the categories of third parties with whom we share it.
Right to Delete: The right to request the deletion of your personal information, subject to certain exceptions.
Right to Opt-Out of Sale (if applicable): The right to opt out of the “sale” of your personal information (if applicable under relevant state law definitions of “sale”). While we may not directly “sell” your data in the traditional sense, the use of Google AdSense for personalized advertising might be interpreted as a “sale” under some US state laws. By using Google’s Ad Settings to control personalized ads, you can exercise control over this.
Right to Non-Discrimination: You have the right not to be discriminated against for exercising your privacy rights.
12. Children’s Privacy
Our Website is not directed to children under the age of [Specify Age – e.g., 16, 13, depending on your target audience and legal requirements]. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children without parental consent. If you are a parent or guardian and believe that your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us, and we will take steps to delete such information.
13. Links to Other Websites
Our Website may contain links to third-party websites that are not owned or controlled by us. This Privacy Policy does not apply to those websites. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of those other websites before providing them with your personal information. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of any third-party websites.
14. Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or legal requirements. We will post any changes on this page and update the “Effective Date” at the top of this policy. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any updates. For significant changes, we may provide more prominent notice or seek your consent, as required by applicable law.
15. Contact Us
If you have any questions, comments, or concerns about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, please contact us at:
discoveraigk@gmail.com