At Mind My Review, safeguarding user privacy is our top priority. To this end, we have developed and are continuously upholding a comprehensive privacy compliance framework. This framework empowers users to access and assert their privacy rights effectively.
This policy outlines the information we collect, its usage, sharing practices, and your options regarding certain uses. Below are key points from our full privacy policy for your convenience, though the complete version governs our practices.
During your website visits, we gather data on your interaction, including the site’s origin and destination, and technical details about your device and system. When using our services, we may request Personal Information, potentially sensitive, to match you with third-party service providers or platforms offering product offers.
Our data collection adheres to relevant laws, potentially triggering additional privacy rights in certain territories. Residents of states with specific privacy regulations should consult corresponding notices.
Collected website data is utilized to fulfill service requests, enhance services over time, assess analytics, statistics, and manage payment issues with our Partners (as detailed in section 3.1.1).
We won’t share your data unless compelled by law, necessary to deliver our website and services, or upon your consent.
While our Site may link to third-party websites, we aren’t accountable for their privacy practices; thus, review their policies when accessing them.
We strongly recommend understanding and revisiting our full privacy policy periodically.
Last Updated: Feb 25, 2024
This Privacy Policy outlines Mind My Review’s (“NI”, “we”, “our”, or “us”) data collection practices concerning this site (including its subdomains, features, and services available thereon, collectively the “Site”), as well as your use or interaction with any feature, content, offer, element, or service we provide via the Site (the “Services”).
We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time. Any changes will be posted on the Site, with the “Last Updated” statement at the top indicating the effective date of the revised version. By accessing or using the Site after this date, you agree to the updated Privacy Policy. For significant changes, we will provide conspicuous notice, such as posting a notification on the Site, at least seven (7) days before the changes take effect. In such instances, the changes will become effective seven (7) days after the notification is posted.
This Privacy Policy includes:
1. Terms of Use. This Privacy Policy is an integral component of Our Services’ Terms of Use (the “Terms”). Any capitalized term within this Privacy Policy that remains undefined will hold the meaning ascribed to it in the Terms.
For the context of this Privacy Policy, “Personal Information” refers to data that, either independently or when combined with other information, can identify an individual. This may include but is not limited to, a first and last name, email address, phone number, physical address, and other contact details. In certain jurisdictions, an IP address may also be deemed as Personal Information based on its specific usage. In such cases, we treat the IP address as Personal Information in all respects of handling and protection.
You are under no legal obligation to provide us with Personal Information, nor are you compelled to utilize the Site. However, by accessing or engaging with the Services offered on the Site, you implicitly consent to this Privacy Policy and our outlined information practices. Should you disagree with this Privacy Policy, please refrain from accessing or utilizing the Site or the Services.
Our data processing procedures adhere to principles of consent, contractual obligations, legitimate interests, and legal requirements.
2. Our Legal Bases of Processing: We handle and utilize Personal Information in alignment with relevant data protection legislation.
Our legal justifications for processing your Personal Information typically include one or more of the following:
2.1. Consent. If deemed necessary, we may seek your consent to process your Personal Information for the provision of supplementary services (such as subscribing to newsletters or furnishing Personal Information for personalized offers). In instances where consent serves as our legal basis, you retain the right to withdraw your consent by submitting a request through our contact form. It’s important to note that incomplete or irrelevant inquiries may not elicit a response. Upon verifying your request, we will reach out to you accordingly.
2.2. Contract Performance: Your access or usage of the Site signifies your intention to utilize our Services and solicits our provision thereof. To facilitate this, we may need to process certain Personal Information. For instance, we may require details about your hometown to furnish you with moving offers from our Partners (as outlined in section 3.1.1).
2.3. Legitimate Interests. Your Personal Information may be utilized if we have legitimate business grounds to do so. This includes operating, enhancing, and promoting the Services—for instance, by tailoring your experience or analyzing usage patterns—and safeguarding our business interests, such as managing fraud or ensuring the security of the Site.
2.4. Legal Obligations. We may employ your Personal Information in specific situations to adhere to regulatory obligations, such as addressing complaints from users or authorities.
Your Personal Information is gathered through various channels, including when you directly provide us with your information, when we collect it from your device, when you interact with us directly, or when we receive it from your interactions with others.
3. Information We Process. When you visit the Site or utilize the Services, we may gather certain information about your visit and usage of the Site and the Services through one or more of the following methods:
3.1. Information You Provide to Us: Certain Services necessitate the submission of Personal Information for their use. You must expressly and actively consent to such Services and features. For instance, submitting your personal information and preferences to be contacted by our Partners (as detailed in section 3.1.1) regarding personalized offers, or subscribing to newsletters available on certain Sites. Additionally, some information will be collected upon your consent to this Privacy Policy, as delineated below.
3.1.1. Third Party Forms and Services: The Site features a compilation of service providers, partners, platforms, brands, and commercial entities (referred to collectively as “Partners”), along with their respective products and services (referred to collectively as “Products”). We may offer you access to offers and Products from Partners through online request forms, to be completed by you based on your choice and consent. The information you provide in these forms will be utilized to facilitate your connection and/or engagement with the relevant Partners (“Lead”). Additionally, the information you submit will be shared directly with our Partners and will be handled in accordance with their privacy policies as well as this one. The Personal Information you provide will be utilized by Us as described in section 2 above.
3.1.2. Contact Us. If you send us a request, whether through filling out our form, sending an email, or by other means, you may furnish us with certain Personal Information, such as your name and email address. This information, along with the content of your request, will be utilized to address your inquiry and for our legitimate business purposes, as delineated in sections 4 and 5 below.
3.1.3. Blogs, Newsletters, Surveys and Promotions. The Site may contain a blog forum, reviews, and articles displaying information about the Partners, Products, and the relevant market vertical. The Site may also offer you the opportunity to subscribe to newsletters. Your interaction (such as subscribing to a newsletter) may require you to provide certain Personal Information such as your name and email address.
3.2. Information We Collect from You: We gather data regarding your utilization of the Services and your engagement with the Site or the Services through the following means:
3.2.1. Device Information: In order to ensure delivery and compatibility, as well as to customize language, geographic location, and time zone settings, we collect device information including: device type and version, operating system type and version, language settings, and details extractable from a user agent such as browser type and screen resolution.
3.2.2. Interactions and Usage: To facilitate the provision of Services, maintain Site operations, continually enhance its functionality, and synchronize with our Partners and affiliates, we gather information concerning your interaction and utilization of the Services. This may include: URLs from which you were directed to the Site and to which you are referred from the Site, internal URLs of the Site (such as your views or clicks), date/time stamps of Site use, and the timing of clicks and page-views.
3.2.3. Log Files: We gather information through server log files and utilize tracking technologies within the Site, such as pixel tags. This enables us to analyze trends and monitor users’ engagement and interaction with the Site and associated Services. The data collected may encompass internet protocol (IP) addresses assigned to your device by your Internet Service Provider. We collect IP addresses for specific purposes and for a limited duration. Firstly, to enhance our understanding of your geographic location (country, region, and language) and provide Services in your preferred language. Secondly, we employ automated tools to scrutinize IP addresses and identify fraudulent activity. Lastly, we may retain your IP address to substantiate any consents you have granted us or our Partners.
3.2.4.Cookies and Similar Technologies. The Site may utilize “cookies” and other anonymous web tracking technologies, such as “web beacons,” either implemented by us or by third-party service providers. A cookie is a small file containing a string of characters that is sent to your computer when you visit a website. Upon revisiting the website, the cookie enables the website to recognize your browser. Cookies may store your online preferences and other information about your interactions on the Site. You have the option to reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent to your browser. However, please note that some features or services on the Site may not function properly without cookies, and may become unavailable to you in such cases. A pixel tag, on the other hand, is a type of technology placed on a website to track activity, including when emails are opened or accessed (if applicable). Pixel tags are often used in conjunction with cookies.
Please refer to our Cookie Policy for comprehensive details regarding the types of cookies used and how we utilize cookies/tracking technologies on our Site.
3.3. Information we receive from Third Parties: The Site and Services are operated and provided in collaboration, synchronization, and interaction with various third parties, including Partners, affiliates, and other entities. To facilitate such synchronization and provide tailored offers and services from Partners, we may receive information from third parties, including:
1. An internal user identifier generated by our system for each user.
2. Details of Products you purchased or applied for from the Partners.
3. A summary of actions taken by you (e.g., clicks, purchases, views, form submissions, or phone calls).
On certain Sites, you may have the option to consume the Service on a click-by-call basis. In such instances, a third-party vendor facilitates call transmission, tracking, and feedback for success. In these cases, the phone number from which you called will be provided to us (without any other attached information), for a limited time and for the purpose of resolving referrals and successful calls with our Partners. Except for this purpose, we do not make any other use of such information unless you explicitly consent.
4. The Way We Use Personal Information: In addition to the uses of information we collect (including Personal Information, collectively referred to as “your Information”) described elsewhere in this Privacy Policy, we also use Personal Information in the following ways:
– Administer and make available the Site and Services to you.
– Further develop and enhance the Site and the Services.
– For counting and tracking purposes of referrals and ads.
– Validate users as humans and monitor for anti-fraud purposes.
– Respond to your inquiries and other communications.
– Identify or authenticate your access and use of the Site.
– Market personalized offers to you.
We share your Information with our storage providers, other service providers, social media platforms, enforcement forces (if needed), Partners, affiliates, analytic tools and map features.
5. Sharing Your Information with Third Parties.
We do not share Personal Information about you with third parties, except in the following circumstances:
5.1. Data Storage and Security Platforms (“Data Platforms”): We utilize third-party cloud and storage services to store and retain all Information collected about you. This entails sending or sharing your Information with third-party entities situated anywhere in the world, including in the U.S., for the purpose of storing such information on our behalf or for other processing requirements. These entities include Amazon Web Services (whose privacy policy is accessible at: https://aws.amazon.com/privacy/). We utilize Data Platforms that uphold stringent privacy protection and data security policies, ensuring strict compliance with applicable data protection laws.
5.2. Third-Party Service Providers. We may send or share your Information with various third-party service providers who assist us in our business operations. For example, these may include customer service operators and email or phone administration providers. Additionally, we may engage service providers to help us understand how our users utilize the Site and Services, and to operate and enhance them. These providers will process your Personal Information solely on our behalf.
5.3. Social Media Platforms. We may share information with social media platforms (such as Facebook, Tik-Tok, etc.) for marketing and operation purposes. Such social media platforms may collect your Personal Information independently and may combine the non-identified information provided by us, with your Personal Information which they collect and to which you gave your separate and independent consent. Any such action and any Personal Information that may derive from it is subject to the social media’s own privacy policy and is not, governed, controlled, or known by us. To the extent provided by law, you may opt out this data sharing according to section 9 below (State Privacy Notice).
5.4. Enforcement. We may share your Personal Information with any third-party if we believe that disclosure of such information is helpful or reasonably necessary to: (a) comply with any applicable law, regulation, legal process, or governmental request; (b) enforce our Terms of Use, including investigations of potential violations thereof; (c) detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud or security issues; and/or (d) protect against harm to the rights, property or safety of NI, our affiliated entities, our users, yourself, and/or the public.
5.5. Offerors. In case you will choose and be interested to receive offers from our Partners, based on your Personal Information, the Services may offer you to submit an online request, (”Request”). In such a case, we will send your Request information or otherwise share it to/with our Partners and service providers in order for such Partners to provide you with personalized offers and to contact you with the information you have requested. When you submit a Request, both NI and offerors may contact you directly with quotes or offers via all means of communication provided by you: mail, email, telephone, text message, and others. You may receive telemarketing calls from offerors or third parties on their behalf (including using an automatic telephone dialing system or an artificial or prerecorded voice) as a consequence of submitting a request through our services, even if your telephone number is registered on a state, corporate or federal do not call registry. You acknowledge that: (a) the Partners may contact you using the Request information which you submitted; (b) we do not control the way in which Partners may contact you, or the subject matter of such contact; and (c) each Partner is required to provide its own privacy policy, and so it would not necessarily adhere to this Privacy Policy.
5.6. Affiliates, Merger, Sale or Bankruptcy. We may share your information with our group companies (e.g. parent company, subsidiary, sister company or other affiliated entities). In the event that NI or one of our affiliated entities is acquired by, or merged with, a third-party entity, or otherwise sells all or part of our/its assets, we may (and hereby reserve the right to) transfer or assign the Personal Information and other information we have collected or received. In such a case, the acquiring entity will handle the Service data practices and provide you with any of your rights as per the law that applies to you.
We may also share some non-Personal Information with the following type of third parties and under the following circumstances:
5.7. Analytic Tools. We may use analytics tools, including Google Analytics and Tableau. These tools help us understand users’ behavior on our Site and Services, including tracking page content, and click/touch, movements, scrolls and keystroke activities. For further information about cookies, please see our Cookie Policy. Click here for further information about Google cookies. For further information on how Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services click here. Click here to opt out of Google Analytics.
5.8. Google Maps. The Site may include Google Maps features and content. The use of such Google Maps features and content is subject to the then-current version of the Google Privacy Policy available at https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.
6. Links to and Interaction with Third-Party Properties. The Site may link to third-party websites (such as those of Partners), content, and other online properties (collectively, “Third-Party Properties”). Data associated with your clicking through to such Third-Party Properties, as well as any Personal Information you provide on such Third-Party Properties, is provided to the third-party. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of such third parties, or for such Third-Party Properties, Products, and respective data collection practices. We encourage you to read the terms and conditions and privacy policy of each Third-Party Property that you choose to use or interact with.
7. Choices and Opt-Out. It is your choice to provide us with your information for the uses described in this Privacy Policy. You can decide at any time to exercise your rights with respect to your Personal Information according to the law that applies to you. For example (where applicable and relevant):
7.1. Cookies and Tracking Technologies. you may set your browser to refuse and/or block any cookies from the Site or third-party services (for more details please refer to Section 3.2.4 hereof).
7.2. User Rights. When applicable, you may request to access and update or remove your Personal Information from our servers.
7.3. EU Data Subject Rights. If you are an EU resident, any Personal Information we collect about you according to this Privacy Policy is handled and treated in compliance with the GDPR. As an EU-based user you may:
Access the Personal Information that we keep about you. We will need to ask you to provide us certain with credentials to make sure that you are who you claim you are. If you find that the Personal Information is not accurate, complete or updated, then please provide us with the necessary information to correct it.
Contact us if you want to withdraw your consent to the processing of your Personal Information. Exercising this right will not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.
Request to delete or restrict access to your Personal Information. If you exercise one (or more) of the above-mentioned rights, in accordance with the provisions under the law, you may request to be informed that third parties that hold your Personal Information, in accordance with this Privacy Policy, will act accordingly.
Object to the processing of your Personal Information for direct marketing purposes, in case your Personal Information is used for such purpose.
Have a right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority.
State Privacy Notice. In some instances, privacy state laws may apply to our data sharing. This section may apply to you and supplement the main privacy policy. Various state privacy laws provide specific rights to their residents in relation to their Personal Information. If you are a resident of one of the relevant states and to the extent provided by law, you may:
Request to Know/Access. You may have the right to know what information we have collected, used, or disclosed in the preceding twelve (12) months. Please read Section 3.1 (Information you provide to us), Section 3.2 (Information we collect) and Section 3.3 (Information we receive from third parties) to check the applicability and the conditions to exercise this right. We will also disclose to you the specific pieces of Personal Information that we collected about you if we receive your request for such information in accordance with the sections mentioned above, and verify your identity.
Request of Deletion. You may have the right to request that we delete from our databases any of your Personal Information that we collect and retain, subject to certain exceptions (such as detecting security incidents, debugging, complying with legal obligations, etc.). We will delete your Personal Information from our records once we verify your identity and unless an exception applies.
Request to Opt-Out from Sale or Share of Personal Information. Though we do not currently sell Personal Information, state privacy laws may consider some of our use of cookies as a “sale” of Personal Information. As a resident of one of those states you may click the “do not sell my Personal Information” link at the bottom of our homepage, check the box and opt out of such “sale” of information to third parties. When you opt out, you may still see general audience advertising regarding our services.
No Discrimination. We will not discriminate against you for exercising your above rights, by: (A) denying you goods or services; (B) charging you different rates for goods or services; (C) providing you with a different level or quality of goods or services; or (D) suggesting that you will receive a different price, rate, level, or quality of goods or services. We may have a different rate or provide a different level or quality of service if the difference is reasonably related to the value provided to you by the Personal Information we collect.
Handling Privacy Requests. We endeavor to respond to a verifiable consumer request within forty-five (45) days of its receipt. If the exercise of your right requires more time (up to 45 additional days), we will inform you of the reason and extension period in writing. We may deny your request if we couldn’t verify your request or if we must retain your Personal Information for certain activities (such as detecting security incidents, debugging, complying with legal obligations, etc.).
Do Not Track Notice. Some web browsers offer a “Do Not Track” (“DNT”) signal. A DNT signal is an HTTP header field indicating your preference for tracking your activities on the Service or through cross-site user tracking. We do not currently respond to DNT signals.
8. Information Security. We, and respective third-party services/affiliate entities implement data security systems and procedures to secure the information transmitted, processed and stored on the Site, our computer servers and systems. For example, the Site is encrypted by using SSL and so as any other information at transport, we periodically review our information and data collection practices to ensure constant monitoring, we use third-party processing and serving services that implement various information security standards and certifications (at rest and transmission), and we monitor and filter access to data when it comes to personnel in our organization. Such systems and procedures reduce the risk of security breaches, but they do not provide absolute security, as there is no such thing when it comes to the worldwide network. Therefore, we cannot guarantee that the Site and our servers are immune to unauthorized access to the information stored therein and to other information security risks.
9. Children’s Privacy. The Site or the Services are not designed to attract users under the age of 18. Accordingly, we do not intend to collect Personal Information from anyone we know to be under 18. If we learn that we have collected Personal Information from a child under 18, we will use commercially reasonable efforts to delete that information as quickly as possible. If you believe that we might have any such information, please contact us through this form.
10. Commitment. Protecting your privacy online is an evolving practice, and we use our best efforts to evolve our Site in a manner that meets these requirements and best practices as per all jurisdictions in which the Site is available.