Last Updated: 16/02/2025
At Boostmylinks, we value your privacy and are committed to protecting the personal data you share with us. This Privacy Policy outlines the types of personal information we collect, how it is used, and the measures we take to safeguard your data. Please read this policy carefully to understand how we handle your personal information.
Who We Are
Our website address is: https://boostmylinks.com.
Information We Collect
- 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. This helps in detecting spam and improving user experience.An anonymized string (also known as a hash) created from your email address may be provided to the Gravatar service to check if you are using it. You can read the Gravatar privacy policy here: Gravatar Privacy Policy.After your comment is approved, your profile picture will be visible to the public in the context of your comment. - Media
If you upload images to our site, avoid including images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors may download and extract location data from these images. - Cookies
Our site uses cookies for a variety of purposes:- Comment Cookies: If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt to save your name, email, and website in cookies. These cookies last for one year.
- Login Cookies: When you log in, we set up cookies to save your login information and screen display preferences. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me,” your login will persist for two weeks.
- Post Edit Cookies: If you edit or publish an article, we save a temporary cookie that expires after one day.
- Embedded Content
Articles on our site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the same way as if the visitor had visited the other website. These external sites may collect data about you, use cookies, track your interaction, and monitor your behavior, especially if you’re logged in to those sites.
Tracking Card Metrics and IP Addresses
As part of our services, we may collect and track IP addresses for the purpose of monitoring the usage of our Google Review Cards, including scan counts, timestamps, and other card metrics. This helps us to provide you with detailed analytics about customer engagement and card interactions.
How We Use Your Data
We use the personal information we collect to:
- Provide and maintain our website.
- Improve and personalize your experience on our site.
- Respond to your inquiries, comments, and requests.
- Detect and prevent fraudulent activity.
- Send you updates, newsletters, and marketing communications (only if you’ve consented).
- Monitor card usage metrics and improve customer engagement.
Data Retention
We retain your data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law.
- Comments: If you leave a comment, both the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely to automatically approve any follow-up comments.
- User Profiles: For registered users, we store the personal information they provide in their profile. Users can access, edit, or delete their personal information at any time.
Your Rights Over Your Data
As a user, you have the following rights:
- Access: You can request an exported file of the personal data we hold about you.
- Correction/Deletion: You can request that we correct or erase your personal data.
- Data Portability: You have the right to transfer your data to another service if feasible.
- Objection: You can object to the processing of your data in certain situations, including for marketing purposes.
Data Breach Notification
In the unlikely event of a data breach that compromises your personal data, we will notify you without undue delay. You will be informed of the nature of the breach, the personal data involved, and the steps we are taking to mitigate the situation.
Third-Party Services
We may use third-party services to help provide and manage our services. These third-party services include:
- Stripe Payments: For processing payments made on our website. Stripe’s Privacy Policy can be found here.
- Zoho Email Marketing: For managing our email marketing campaigns. Zoho’s Privacy Policy is available here.
- Apple Pay and Google Pay: For processing payments made through mobile payment systems. Apple’s Privacy Policy can be found here, and Google’s Privacy Policy can be found here.
These third-party services may collect and process data separately from Boostmylinks, so please review their respective privacy policies for more details on how they handle your personal information.
Sharing Your Data
We do not sell or share your personal data with third parties except in the following cases:
- With trusted service providers who assist us in operating our website and conducting our business.
- When required by law or to protect our rights, property, and safety.
Security of Your Data
We take appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your personal data from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. However, no method of transmission over the internet is 100% secure, and we cannot guarantee the absolute security of your data.
Where Your Data is Stored
Your data is stored in secure servers located within Australia. We may transfer your personal data to other countries in line with the services we provide, and we ensure that all data transfers comply with applicable data protection laws.
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 significant changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. Please check this page periodically for updates.
Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns about our Privacy Policy or the way we handle your data, please contact us at:
Email: admin@boostmylinks.com
Address: Unit 37/ 94 Meredith street, Bankstown, NSW, 2200