Privacy Policy for VirtuallyFoolProof
Last Updated: November 14, 2025
At VirtuallyFoolProof, we take your privacy seriously. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website. Please read this policy carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data.
Who We Are
VirtuallyFoolProof is a digital platform dedicated to providing valuable content, insights, and resources to our readers. Our website address is: https://virtuallyfoolproof.com. If you have any questions about this privacy policy, please contact us using the information provided at the end of this document.
Information We Collect
We may collect information about you in various ways. The information we may collect on the site includes:
Personal Data
When you interact with our website, we may collect personally identifiable information that you voluntarily provide to us, such as your name, email address, and any other information you choose to provide when filling out forms, subscribing to our newsletter, or leaving comments on our articles.
Derivative Data
Our servers automatically collect information when you access the site, including your IP address, browser type, operating system, access times, and the pages you have viewed directly before and after accessing our website. This helps us understand how visitors use our site and improve their experience.
How We Use Your Information
We use the information we collect in the following ways:
- To provide, operate, and maintain our website
- To improve, personalize, and expand our website
- To understand and analyze how you use our website
- To develop new products, services, features, and functionality
- To communicate with you, including sending newsletters and updates (if you’ve opted in)
- To send you promotional information about new content or special offers that may interest you
- To detect, prevent, and address technical issues
- To respond to your comments, questions, and provide customer service
Cookies and Tracking Technologies
We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track activity on our website and store certain information. Cookies are small data files that are placed on your device when you visit a website. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our website.
Types of Cookies We Use:
- Essential Cookies: These cookies are necessary for the website to function and cannot be switched off in our systems.
- Analytics Cookies: These cookies help us understand how visitors interact with our website by collecting and reporting information anonymously.
- Functionality Cookies: These cookies enable the website to provide enhanced functionality and personalization, such as remembering your preferences.
- Advertising Cookies: These cookies may be set through our site by our advertising partners to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant advertisements on other sites.
Third-Party Advertising
We use Google AdSense and other third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies may use information about your visits to this and other websites (not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number) to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.
Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on our site. Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to our site and other sites on the Internet. You may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google’s Ads Settings or by visiting www.aboutads.info.
Analytics
We may use third-party service providers, such as Google Analytics, to monitor and analyze the use of our website. These services collect, monitor, and analyze visitor data to help us understand how our site is used and how we can improve it. The information collected is typically anonymous and aggregated.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on our site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, along with the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help with spam detection. An anonymized string created from your email address may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. After approval of your comment, your profile picture may be visible to the public alongside your comment.
Media and Uploaded Content
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website. We recommend removing location data before uploading images to protect your privacy.
Embedded Content from Other Websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content such as videos, images, articles, and other media from external websites. Embedded content from other websites behaves in the same way as if the visitor has visited the other website directly. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Who We Share Your Data With
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer your personally identifiable information to outside parties except in the following circumstances:
- With service providers who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or serving our users, as long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential
- To comply with legal requirements, such as responding to a subpoena or similar legal process
- When we believe in good faith that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, protect your safety or the safety of others, investigate fraud, or respond to a government request
- With third-party advertisers and ad networks as described in the Third-Party Advertising section above
How Long We Retain Your Data
If you leave a comment on our site, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This allows us to recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users who register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
Your Data Protection Rights
Depending on your location, you may have the following rights regarding your personal data:
- The right to access: You have the right to request copies of your personal data.
- The right to rectification: You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate or complete information you believe is incomplete.
- The right to erasure: You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
- The right to restrict processing: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
- The right to object to processing: You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
- The right to data portability: You have the right to request that we transfer the data we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the information provided below.
Children’s Privacy
Our website does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected personal data from children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.
California Privacy Rights
If you are a California resident, you have specific rights regarding access to your personal information. California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits users who are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please contact us using the information below.
GDPR Compliance (European Users)
If you are located in the European Economic Area (EEA), you have certain data protection rights under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). We aim to take reasonable steps to allow you to correct, amend, delete, or limit the use of your personal data. If you wish to be informed about what personal data we hold about you and if you want it to be removed from our systems, please contact us.
Security of Your Information
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.
External Links
Our website may contain links to other websites 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 strongly advise you to review the privacy policy of every site you visit. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the “Last Updated” date at the top of this 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.
Consent
By using our website, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its terms.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this site, please contact us at:
VirtuallyFoolProof
Website: https://virtuallyfoolproof.com
Email: hello@virtuallyfoolproof.com
We are committed to resolving any privacy concerns you may have and will make every effort to respond to your inquiry promptly.