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Privacy Policy for Manu's Medley - www.manusmedley.com

This privacy policy describes how your personal information is collected, used and shared when you visit www.manusmedley.com

What data we collect?

You do not have to register or create an account to read the content on this website. So we do not take your personal information like name or email id. We don't ask, save, sell, transfer, share or rent any information including personal information to anyone other than what is mentioned in this privacy policy.

When you visit our website, we automatically collect certain information about your device called 'Device Information', which includes information about your web browser, IP address, time zone and some cookies installed in your device. In addition to this, we collect information about the individual pages that you view, what website or search terms referred you this website and information about how you interact with the website like number of pages you visited, time spent on website etc. We use the device information to improve and optimize our website by generating analytics about how our readers browse and interact with the website and provide you the best user experience. 

We collect device information using following technologies:

Cookies: These are data files placed on your device and include an anonymous unique identifier. For more information about cookies and how to disable them, visit https://www.allaboutcookies.org

Log files: These files track actions occurring on the website and collect data like your IP address, browser type, internet service provider, data and time stamps. These are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable. The purpose of this information is for analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users' movement on the website and gathering demographic information.

Electronic files like web beacons, tags and pixels are used to record how you browse the website.

Google DART cookies: Google is a third party vendor on our website. It uses cookies known as DART cookies to serve ads to our website visitors based on their visit to the website and other sites on the internet. Note that we do not have any access to or control over these cookies that are used by third party advertisers. You may decline the use of DART cookies at https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads

Our website may contain links to other websites. Please note, once you use those links to leave our site, we do not have any control over those websites. We will not be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information that you provide while visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy policy.

How we use the data?

By using this website, you are giving us the consent to gather data, personal information and device information which are mentioned above and is used for optimizing the website for best user experience and for third party services like Google Analytics and Google Ads which we are using in this website. We use Google Analytics to track how readers use our website like how many visitors per day, from which country, which device they used etc. You can check how Google uses your personal information in the link https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/. You may block google analytics tracking by installing an add on to your browser available at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Finally, we may also share your personal information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other lawful requests we receive or to otherwise protect our rights.

Behavioral Advertising:

As described above, we use your Personal Information to provide you with targeted advertisements or marketing communications we believe may be of interest to you. For more information about how targeted advertising works, you can visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s (“NAI”) educational page at https://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising/how-does-it-work.

You can opt-out of targeted advertising by visiting the following links

  • Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=ads
  • Google – https://www.google.com/settings/ads/anonymous
  • Bing – https://advertise.bingads.microsoft.com/en-us/resources/policies/personalized-ads

Additionally, you can opt-out of some of these services by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out portal at https://optout.aboutads.info/

Contact Us:

If you have any questions or concerns about our privacy policy, you may email us at manusmedley@gmail.com.

Updates:

We may update this privacy policy from time to time, to reflect any changes to our practices or for other regulatory, legal or operational reasons. This policy was last updated on 19th July 2025.


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