Privacy Policy – Advanced Form Blocker

Welcome to AdvancedFormBlocker.com (“us,” “we,” or “our”). We are committed to protecting your personal information and your right to privacy. If you have any questions or concerns about this privacy notice, or our practices with regards to your personal information, please contact us at hey@advancedformblocker.com.

This privacy policy applies to all information collected through our website (such as AdvancedFormBlocker.com), and/or any related services, sales, marketing, or events (we refer to them collectively in this privacy policy as the “Services”).

Please read this privacy policy carefully as it will help you understand what information we collect, how we use it, and what rights you have in relation to it.

WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?

a. Personal information you disclose to us
We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us when you express an interest in obtaining information about us or our products (the Advanced Form Blocker WordPress plugin), when you participate in activities on the Services (such as posting comments, contacting us through a form, or subscribing to a newsletter) or otherwise when you contact us.
The personal information that we collect depends on the context of your interactions with us and the Services, the choices you make, and the products and features you use. The personal information we collect may include the following:

Contact Data: Name, email address, website URL (if provided in comments or forms).
Communication Data: Information you provide when you contact us for support or inquiries, including the content of your messages.
Payment Data: If you purchase our plugin, payment data is processed by our third-party payment processors (e.g., Stripe, PayPal). We do not directly store your full credit card information. We may receive transaction details related to your purchase.

b. Information automatically collected
We automatically collect certain information when you visit, use, or navigate the Services. This information does not reveal your specific identity (like your name or contact information) but may include device and usage information, such as your IP address, browser and device characteristics, operating system, language preferences, referring URLs, device name, country, location, information about how and when you use our Services, and other technical information. This information is primarily needed to maintain the security and operation of our Services, and for our internal analytics and reporting purposes.
Like many businesses, we also collect information through cookies and similar technologies. This includes:

Log and Usage Data: Log and usage data is service-related, diagnostic, usage, and performance information our servers automatically collect when you access or use our Services and which we record in log files.
Device Data: Information about your computer, phone, tablet, or other device you use to access the Services.
Location Data: We may collect imprecise location data, such as the location derived from your IP address.

c. Information collected from other sources
We may obtain information about you from other sources, such as public databases, joint marketing partners, social media platforms (like GitHub if you interact with our repositories), as well as from other third parties.

HOW DO WE USE YOUR INFORMATION?
We use personal information collected via our Services for a variety of business purposes described below:

To provide and manage our Services: Including enabling plugin downloads, license activation, and providing customer support.
To respond to user inquiries/offer support: We may use your information to respond to your inquiries and solve any potential issues you might have with the use of our Services or plugin.
To send administrative information to you: For example, information regarding our terms, conditions, and policies, plugin updates, security alerts.
To manage user accounts: If you create an account with us (e.g., for support or licensing).
For marketing and promotional communications: We and/or our third-party marketing partners may use the personal information you send to us for our marketing purposes, if this is in accordance with your marketing preferences. You can opt-out of our marketing emails at any time.
To improve our Services: We use information (often aggregated or de-identified) to understand how our visitors use our website and to improve its functionality, design, and content. This includes using tools like Google Analytics.
To protect our Services: We may use your information as part of our efforts to keep our Services safe and secure (for example, for fraud monitoring and prevention).
For legal compliance: To comply with applicable legal requirements, such as tax and accounting obligations.

WILL YOUR INFORMATION BE SHARED WITH ANYONE?
We only share and disclose your information in the following situations:

Compliance with Laws: We may disclose your information where we are legally required to do so in order to comply with applicable law, governmental requests, a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process.
Vital Interests and Legal Rights: We may disclose your information where we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding potential violations of our policies, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person and illegal activities, or as evidence in litigation in which we are involved.
Service Providers: We may share your data with third-party vendors, service providers, contractors, or agents who perform services for us or on our behalf and require access to such information to do that work. Examples include: payment processing (e.g., Stripe, PayPal), data analysis (e.g., Google Analytics), email delivery (e.g., Mailchimp, SendGrid), hosting services, customer service, and marketing efforts. We make reasonable efforts to ensure these service providers are contractually bound to protect your data.
Business Transfers: We may share or transfer your information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
With your Consent: We may disclose your personal information for any other purpose with your consent.
GitHub: If you interact with our plugin’s public repository on GitHub (e.g., by opening an issue or pull request), your GitHub profile information and contributions will be publicly visible as per GitHub’s policies.
WordPress.org: If you download our plugin from the WordPress.org plugin directory or interact with our plugin’s support forum there, your interactions are subject to WordPress.org’s privacy policy.

DO WE USE COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES?
Yes, we use cookies and similar tracking technologies (like web beacons and pixels) to access or store information. Specific information about how we use such technologies and how you can refuse certain cookies is set out in our Cookie Policy.
Key technologies we may use include:

Essential Website Cookies: Necessary for the website to function (e.g., session cookies, comment cookies if you leave a comment).
Google Analytics: We use Google Analytics to collect information about your use of our website to help us understand how users engage with the site and to improve our Services. Google Analytics may use cookies to collect information such as your IP address, time of visit, whether you are a return visitor, and any referring website. You can learn about Google’s practices by going to policies.google.com/privacy and opt-out of them by downloading the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on, available at tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Google Tag Manager: We may use Google Tag Manager to manage and deploy marketing tags (snippets of code or tracking pixels) on our website. Google Tag Manager itself does not collect personal data but facilitates the management of tags that might.
WordPress: Our website is built on WordPress, which uses cookies for basic functionalities like user sessions and comment submissions (e.g., to remember your details if you leave a comment).
You can typically remove or reject cookies via your browser settings. To do this, follow the instructions provided by your browser (usually located within the “settings,” “help,” “tools,” or “edit” facility).

HOW LONG DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION?
We will only keep your personal information for as long as it 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). No purpose in this policy will require us keeping your personal information for longer than 2 years after your last interaction or account closure, or as long as you have an active subscription/license.
When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymize such information, 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.
HOW DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION SAFE?
We have implemented appropriate technical and organizational security measures designed to protect the security of any personal information we process. For example, our website uses SSL/TLS encryption. However, despite our safeguards and efforts to secure your information, no electronic transmission over the Internet or information storage technology can be guaranteed to be 100% secure, so we cannot promise or guarantee that hackers, cybercriminals, or other unauthorized third parties will not be able to defeat our security and improperly collect, access, steal, or modify your information. Although we will do our best to protect your personal information, transmission of personal information to and from our Services is at your own risk.
WHAT IS OUR STANCE ON THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES?
The Services may contain links to third-party websites, online services, or mobile applications that are not affiliated with us. We are not responsible for the privacy or security practices of these third parties. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any third-party sites you visit.
DO WE COLLECT INFORMATION FROM MINORS?
Our Services are not directed to children under the age of 13 (or 16 in some jurisdictions). We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 (or 16). If we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under such age, we will take steps to delete such information as soon as possible. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under the relevant age, please contact us at hey@advancedformblocker.com.
WHAT ARE YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS?
Depending on your location (e.g., EEA, UK, California), you may have certain rights regarding your personal information. These may include the right to:

Request access to and obtain a copy of your personal information.
Request correction of any inaccurate or incomplete personal information.
Request erasure of your personal information.
Restrict the processing of your personal information.
Object to the processing of your personal information (e.g., for direct marketing).
Request data portability (if applicable).
Withdraw your consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process your personal information.
Lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.
If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at hey@advancedformblocker.com. We will respond to your request in accordance with applicable data protection laws.
If you are a resident of California, you are granted specific rights regarding access to your personal information. Please see “11. DO CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS HAVE SPECIFIC PRIVACY RIGHTS?” below.

CONTROLS FOR DO-NOT-TRACK FEATURES
Most web browsers and some mobile operating systems and mobile applications include a Do-Not-Track (“DNT”) feature or setting you can activate to signal your privacy preference not to have data about your online browsing activities monitored and collected. At this stage, no uniform technology standard for recognizing and implementing DNT signals has been finalized. As such, we do not currently respond to DNT browser signals or any other mechanism that automatically communicates your choice not to be tracked online. If a standard for online tracking is adopted that we must follow in the future, we will inform you about that practice in a revised version of this privacy policy.
DO CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS HAVE SPECIFIC PRIVACY RIGHTS?
Yes, if you are a resident of California, you are granted specific rights regarding access to your personal information under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) / California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA).
California Civil Code Section 1798.83, also known as the “Shine The Light” law, permits our users who are California residents to request and obtain from us, once a year and free of charge, information about categories of personal information (if any) we disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes and the names and addresses of all third parties with which we shared personal information in the immediately preceding calendar year. If you are a California resident and would like to make such a request, please submit your request in writing to us using the contact information provided below.
Under the CCPA/CPRA, California residents have the right to:

Request to know what personal information we have collected about them, including the categories of personal information, the sources from which it was collected, the business or commercial purpose for collecting, selling, or sharing personal information, the categories of third parties to whom we disclose personal information, and the specific pieces of personal information we have collected about them.
Request deletion of their personal information, subject to certain exceptions.
Request correction of inaccurate personal information.
Opt-out of the “sale” or “sharing” of their personal information (Note: AdvancedFormBlocker.com currently does not sell personal information in the traditional sense. However, some interpretations of “sale” or “sharing” under CCPA/CPRA might include the use of certain analytics or advertising cookies. You can manage cookie preferences as described in Section 4).
Limit the use and disclosure of sensitive personal information (if collected).
Not be discriminated against for exercising their CCPA/CPRA rights.
To exercise these rights, please contact us at hey@advancedformblocker.com. We will verify your request using the information associated with your account or by requesting additional information.

UPDATES TO THIS POLICY
We may update this privacy policy from time to time. The updated version will be indicated by an updated “Last Updated” date and the updated version will be effective as soon as it is accessible. If we make material changes to this privacy policy, we may notify you either by prominently posting a notice of such changes or by directly sending you a notification. We encourage you to review this privacy policy frequently to be informed of how we are protecting your information.
HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US ABOUT THIS POLICY?
If you have questions or comments about this policy, you may email us at hey@advancedformblocker.com.