Effective Date: 12 May 2025
Welcome to CreatorMED (“us,” “we,” or “our”). We value your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal information. This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our blog, CreatorMED (the “Site”), including any other media form, media channel, mobile website, or mobile application related or connected thereto. Please read this privacy policy carefully. If you do not agree with the terms of this privacy policy, please do not access the site.
1. Information We Collect
We may collect information about you in a variety of ways. The information we may collect on the Site includes:
a. Personal Data
Personally identifiable information, such as your name, email address, and demographic information (like your age or gender), that you voluntarily give to us when you register with the Site, subscribe to our newsletter, fill out a contact form, post comments, or otherwise interact with the Site. You are under no obligation to provide us with personal information of any kind, however, your refusal to do so may prevent you from using certain features of the Site.
b. Derivative Data (Non-Personal Data)
Information our servers automatically collect when you access the Site, such as your IP address, your browser type, your operating system, your access times, and the pages you have viewed directly before and after accessing the Site. This information is primarily needed to maintain the security and operation of our Site, and for our internal analytics and reporting purposes.
c. Data from Cookies and Tracking Technologies
We may use cookies, web beacons, tracking pixels, and other tracking technologies on the Site to help customize the Site and improve your experience. For more information on how we use cookies, please refer to our “Cookies and Tracking Technologies” section below.
2. How We Use Your Information
Having accurate information about you permits us to provide you with a smooth, efficient, and customized experience. Specifically, we may use information collected about you via the Site to:
- Create and manage your account (if applicable).
- Respond to your inquiries, comments, and support requests.
- Send you newsletters, updates, promotional materials, and other information related to our blog, if you have opted-in to receive such communications.
- Personalize and improve your experience on the Site.
- Monitor and analyze usage and trends to improve the Site’s functionality and user experience.
- Administer contests, promotions, and surveys.
- Prevent fraudulent transactions, monitor against theft, and protect against criminal activity.
- Comply with legal and regulatory requirements.
- Serve targeted advertisements (see “Google AdSense & DoubleClick DART Cookie” section).
- Fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.
We do not sell your personal data to third parties.
3. Cookies and Tracking Technologies
We use cookies, web beacons, and similar tracking technologies to collect information about your browsing activities over time and across different websites or online services. Cookies are small data files stored on your hard drive or in device memory that help us improve our Site and your experience, see which areas and features of our Site are popular, and count visits.
Most web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. If you prefer, you can usually choose to set your browser to remove or reject browser cookies. Please note that if you choose to remove or reject cookies, this could affect the availability and functionality of our Site. For further information about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set on your device and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.
Google AdSense & DoubleClick DART Cookie
We may use Google AdSense to display advertisements on our Site. Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on our Site. Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it and its partners to serve ads to our users based on their visit to our Site and/or other sites on the Internet.
Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie for interest-based advertising by visiting the Google Ad Settings page: https://www.google.com/settings/ads. Alternatively, users can opt out of a third-party vendor’s use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info/choices/.
For more information on how Google uses data when you use our partners’ sites or apps, please visit: www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/.
4. Sharing Your Information
We may share information we have collected about you in certain situations. Your information may be disclosed as follows:
- By Law or to Protect Rights: If we believe the release of information about you is necessary to respond to legal process, to investigate or remedy potential violations of our policies, or to protect the rights, property, and safety of others, we may share your information as permitted or required by any applicable law, rule, or regulation.
- Third-Party Service Providers: We may share your information with third parties that perform services for us or on our behalf, including payment processing (if applicable), data analysis, email delivery, hosting services, customer service, and marketing assistance. These service providers are authorized to use your personal information only as necessary to provide these services to us.
- Third-Party Advertisers: We may use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit the Site. These companies may use information about your visits to our Site and other websites that are contained in web cookies in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.
- Affiliates: We may share your information with our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy. Affiliates include our parent company and any subsidiaries, joint venture partners, or other companies that we control or that are under common control with us.
- With Your Consent: We may disclose your personal information for any other purpose with your consent.
We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal information with third parties for their direct marketing purposes unless you have given us explicit consent to do so.
5. Data Security
We use administrative, technical, and physical security measures to help protect your personal information. While we have taken reasonable steps to secure the personal information you provide to us, please be aware that despite our efforts, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and no method of data transmission can be guaranteed against any interception or other type of misuse. Any information disclosed online is vulnerable to interception and misuse by unauthorized parties.
6. Third-Party Links
Our blog may contain links to external websites or services 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 are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of these third-party sites. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit.
7. Children’s Privacy
Our Site is not intended for children under the age of 13 (or a higher age threshold if required by applicable law in your jurisdiction, e.g., 16 in some EU countries). We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 13. If you are a parent or guardian and you believe that your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected personal information from children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.
8. Your Data Rights
Depending on your location and applicable law, you may have certain rights regarding the personal information we hold about you. These may include the right to:
- Access: Request access to your personal information.
- Correction: Request correction of inaccurate or incomplete personal information.
- Deletion/Erasure: Request deletion of your personal information, subject to certain exceptions.
- Restrict Processing: Request that we restrict the processing of your personal information.
- Data Portability: Request a copy of your personal information in a machine-readable format.
- Object: Object to our processing of your personal information for certain purposes (e.g., direct marketing).
- Withdraw Consent: If we are processing your personal information based on your consent, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the contact details provided below. We may need to verify your identity before processing your request.
9. Data Retention
We will retain your personal information only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law (such as tax, accounting, or other legal requirements). When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymize it, or, if this is not possible (for example, because your personal information has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible.
10. International Data Transfers
Your information, including personal data, may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those in your jurisdiction. If you are located outside the US and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the data, including Personal Data, to the US and process it there. Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.
11. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the “Effective Date” at the top of this Privacy Policy. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page. Your continued use of the Site after the posting of changes constitutes your acceptance of such changes.
12. Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or our data practices, please contact us at: [email protected]