Privacy Policy

Who we are

Our website address is:

https://effortrealm.com

If you would like to contact us about this website or if you have any questions about privacy related to the site then please use the contact form provided.

This site is hosted by Hostinger.

Why we collect data

We process the personal data you provide via the contact form (such as your name, email address, and any other details included in your message) to respond to your inquiry. By submitting the contact form, you give your consent for us to process this data for the purpose of addressing your query. We process your data through the contact form because we also have a legitimate interest in receiving and responding to enquiries.

Amazon Associates Program

Our website participates in the Amazon Europe Core S.à r.l. Associates Program. As part of this program, Amazon may collect information to track visits and assign commissions through the use of cookies. These cookies are only downloaded to your machine after you click a link to Amazon and are provided by Amazon, not by this site. As an Amazon Associate, we earn from qualifying purchases. This means that if you click on an Amazon link on our site and make a purchase, we may receive a commission. Please see their privacy policy for more details

Freedom.to affiliate program

This site participates in the Freedom.to affiliate program. When you click on a relevant affiliate link, cookies may be used by our partner (Freedom) to track your referral and ensure we may earn a commission. Please see their privacy policy for more details

Cookies & Cookie Management

The CookieYes consent management script allows you to give prior consent before any unnecessary cookies are set.

Another cookie which may be set is from CookieYes, who help us manage our compliance with privacy standards around the world. CookieYes state that they do not collect personal data through this cookie. It should be noted that an anonymised truncated form of your IP address is stored by CookieYes for the purpose of complying with GDPR. This lacks the last three digits of the IP address.

A session cookie may be set if you use the contact form. This cookie relates to the use of Wordpress, which is the system on which our contact form is based.

Other cookies may be set as the website evolves and this privacy policy will be updated at that time. You are and will always be able to change your preferences for different categories of cookies by revisiting your consent. If you clear your cookies you will have to indicate your consent preferences again.

Google Analytics may set cookies on your device to collect the information set out in the Google Analytics section of this privacy policy (found at the bottom of this page). If you prefer not to be tracked by Google Analytics, you can choose to reject cookies when prompted by our website’s cookie consent banner. Alternatively, you can install the Google Analytics Opt-Out Browser Add-on.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

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 with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Disclaimer: This website does not control third-party data collection.

How long we retain your data

Contacting this site will require us to hold personal data about you for the purposes of dealing with and replying to your enquiry. This data will be held for as long as is necessary to process and respond to your enquiry or until you request that it is deleted or in any event no longer than two years (whichever is the earlier). If there are legal or regulatory considerations then the enquiry may be held for up to six years.

The personal data that will be held will be your email address and any other personal data provided in any other part of the form or other method of contact (e.g. your name). It is necessary to retain this data so that your enquiry can be responded to effectively. All data associated with your enquiry will be stored in the European Union and/or the UK. It is possible your data may also be stored in the United States. If you use the contact form to contact us then your data will be stored in Protonmail's mail servers and Hostinger's servers. For technical reasons Ionos’s sending email servers are used when you submit your enquiry but no data is retained by this website on Ionos’s servers. Please see Ionos’s privacy policy for further details. For Hostinger please see their privacy policy. For Protonmail see their privacy policy.

What rights you have over your data

You have the right to amend any personal data we hold, request that we delete it and you have the right to review the data. You also have the right to object to your data being processed. You also have the right to request a copy of your data.

As the site evolves there may be other types of personal data which will be collected and stored. This privacy policy will be updated when that occurs. Data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes may have different rules with regards to what rights you have to amend, delete or review it.

Right to lodge a complaint

If you believe your data protection rights have been violated and you live in the UK, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).

You can contact the ICO at:

https://ico.org.uk/

If you live outside the UK, you may lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority in your country of residence.

Who we share your information with

No personally identifiable information is shared and recorded with CookieYes. Please see their privacy policy for further details and how they comply with GDPR.

EffortRealm acts as a Data Controller. Protonmail acts as an independent Data Controller. Ionos and Hostinger act as Data Processors. Ninja forms and WP mail SMTP also act as Data Processors.

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics to help us understand how visitors interact with our website. This service collects data such as:

• An anonymised IP address
• Browser type and version
• Device information
• Referring website
• Pages visited and time spent on each page
• Geographic location (approximate)

We use this information to:

• Measure the impact of our traffic generation strategies, ensuring there is sufficient traffic to our site
• Assess how well our content is performing and make improvements where needed

See the cookies section of this privacy policy for details of Google Analytics cookies

IP anonymisation is enabled in Google Analytics, which means your IP address is truncated before being stored or processed. This prevents your full IP address from being used to identify you

For more information about how Google handles collected data, please visit Google’s Privacy Policy.

Cloudflare

Our website uses Cloudflare Turnstile, a CAPTCHA service provided by Cloudflare, Inc., to protect our forms from spam and abuse

Turnstile may collect limited technical information about your device and interaction with the form to verify that submissions are not automated. No cookies are set or stored on your device by Turnstile.

For more information about how Cloudflare handles data, please see their privacy policy

Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Changes will be posted on this page.