Privacy Policy

Welcome to the Privacy Policy page of 'How to Eat Guava Fruits'. On this post, you will get to understand how this site collect data based from your visits and activity as you browse its contents. Please don't close this site thinking that your confidential information might be obtained since the data being collected are limited to all personal info.

Such information that are being collected are your IP Address, Country and Keywords. More of these data gathered will be discussed below. Moreover, these information are to be used by me as the owner of this site to track down performance and make necessary changes into its contents. You have to know that every webmaster strive for the quality of content for you to come and visit our site regularly.

Recently, Google the top search engine had instructed all webmasters to write a Privacy Policy page of their site. It is optional for the site owner to do this but having such a page tells you that the site you are visiting is legit. Thus, most websites without a written Privacy Policy page are the once that are most likely to have malicious scripts.

Below are the following services that I used to collect data based from your visits:

1. Google Analytics and Google Webmaster Tool

Having a tool like Google Analytics is very important for every webmaster or site owner. This is actually the key on what makes our website successful. You can learn more about this service by visiting their official website at here.

Below are just a few examples of data being gathered by Google Analytics;

a. Internet Protocol or IP
b. Browser
c. Internet Service Provider (ISP)
d. Referring Site
e. Entry and Exit Page
f. Date and Time of your visits
g. User's Activity
h. Demographic Location
i. ...and currently, more data are to be added in their future updates

I would also like to suggest that you should read Google Analytics' Privacy Policy page.

As for the Google Webmaster Tool, this is a tool provided by Google to allow webmaster or blog owners like me to find errors and fix SEO related issues to our site. It also does collect data but these are only basic information that is already provided by Google Analytics.

2. Cookies

What are cookies?

Cookies are small files that are automatically generated right into your temporary folder. Their contents are most likely encrypted that even site owners do not have the access into such files. On this blog, Blogger does not generate cookies but my third-party advertising partners will probably generate a cookie for you.

To learn more about cookies, you should read Google's explanation about it here.

3. Third Advertising Partners

In relation to the cookies, my third-advertising partners are important for them to generate a cookie file. Just like Stat Counters for webmasters, these advertising companies records your data into their cookie files. They will be using this cookie files as their basis to change their ads to be more specific in targeting your interest. The next time around that you come and visit this blog or any other site with similar advertising host, you will be shown a better type of ads that are worth checking.

The following are the list of my Third-Advertising Partners:

a. Google Adsense

- This blog earns money from Google Adsense if it happens that you have visited any of their advertisements displayed. But, these ads are the once who are primarily responsible in generating cookie files in your PC. To learn more about these cookie files and on how they affect your privacy, you should read Google's Advertising Privacy Policy.

b. Amazon

- Amazon is currently the largest online retailer in the world where you can buy almost anything. This blog will be promoting some products relating to our main subject, 'How to Eat Guava Fruits'.

4. Paypal Donations

Paypal no longer needs any further introduction but for the sake of those who really knows nothing about it then let me give you a brief explanation. You can actually send and receive money online via Paypal and purchase items online because most merchants such as eBay uses this type of payment processor. Your balance can be funded via Credit Card, Banks, Donations and when you beg your parents or friends to send cash into your account. To know more about Paypal and to register an account, please visit their official site at Paypal.com.

I want to let you know that you will be providing to Paypal some of your personal details when you are going to send your donation. Please read their Privacy Policy in relation to this matter.

5. External Links

There are two types of links which are called 'Internal' and 'External'. Internal links are those links leading into a page with the same root domain. On this instance, the root domain of this blog is 'howtoeatguavafruit.blogspot.com'. At some point, I will be linking related external links which leads into another different website. Thus, if you exited out of my blog's domain then the Privacy Policy stated on this page will no longer be in effect.

6. Feedburner

For those who finds the contents of my blog quite interesting to read and they want more then they can subscribe to my email subscription form which is provided by Feedburner. By subscribing, they will get an alert about the latest published post right into their own emails. So if you are one of them then you need to submit your email to be registered from the service. In short, your email will be collected.

7. GDPR

General Data Protection Regulation is not strictly implemented by the EU. This is the reason why I made an overall update on this Privacy Policy page. To comply with EU's GDPR, I am making myself available to any visitors of this blog to delete any of their requested information gathered through the services that I use.

Last update made on this page was on May 25, 2018.