Our website address is: https://wisepicksreviews.com. At WisePicksReviews.com we respect your privacy and handle your personal data carefully. This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect, how we use it, and with whom we share it. We collect only the information you voluntarily provide – for example, your name and email address via our contact form, comments, or suggestion submissions. We use this information solely to respond to your inquiries or to process your suggestions and comments. We do not sell your personal information to anyone.

Our practices comply with applicable data protection laws such as the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), where they apply. Under these laws, you have certain rights over your personal data, which we describe below. Please read this policy carefully. By using our Site or providing us with personal data, you agree to the terms of this policy.

Information We Collect

We collect personal data that you provide to us through the Site. This includes:

Contact and Suggestion Forms: When you contact us or submit a review suggestion, we collect your name and email address (and any other information you choose to include in the message).

Comments: If you leave a comment on the Site, we collect the information shown in the comment form (name, email, and comment content) as well as your IP address and browser user agent string to help with spam detection. After you submit a comment and it is approved, your profile picture (avatar) may be visible to the public next to your comment. We may also use an anonymized hash of your email address with the Gravatar service to determine if you have a Gravatar profile.

User Accounts: If the Site offers user registration and you create an account, we store any personal information you provide in your user profile (for example, username, name, email, and any profile details). All users can view, edit, or delete their personal profile information at any time (except the username, if applicable). Website administrators may also have access to this profile information.

Media Uploads: If you upload images or other media to the Site (for example, in a comment), we may receive any metadata included with the file. For instance, images can contain embedded location data (EXIF GPS coordinates). We do not intentionally collect or process your geolocation from image files, but please be aware that visitors to the website could download and extract this information. We recommend that you avoid uploading images with embedded sensitive location data.

We do not collect any sensitive personal data, such as financial information, government-issued identification numbers, or health data. We only collect the personal data described above, which you choose to provide.

Use of Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics (a web analytics service by Google LLC) to help us analyze how visitors use our Site so that we can improve its performance and your experience. Google Analytics uses cookies to collect information such as which pages you visit and how long you spend on them. Importantly, Google Analytics collects non-personally identifiable information only (for example, your IP address and browser type in anonymized form). We do not associate your Google Analytics data with any personal information you have provided to us. We do not share your personal data with Google; only aggregated reports of website traffic and usage patterns are generated. For more information on Google’s practices, you can review Google’s Privacy Policy.

Cookies and Tracking

We and our third-party partners use cookies and similar tracking technologies to improve Site functionality and user experience. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your device. We use both first-party cookies (set by our Site) and third-party cookies (set by services like Google Analytics or affiliate programs). You can configure your browser to refuse cookies or to alert you when cookies are being sent. However, if you disable cookies, some features of the Site may not work correctly.

Specific cookies we use include:

Commenter Cookies: If you leave a comment, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. These cookies are for your convenience so you do not have to re-enter your information when you leave another comment. They last for one year.

Login Cookies: If you visit our login page or log in, we set temporary cookies to store your login status and preferences:

A temporary session cookie is set when you visit the login page to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

If you log in, a login cookie is set. By default, this cookie lasts for two days. If you select “Remember Me” during login, the login persists for two weeks.

We also set a screen option cookie when you log in to save your display preferences. This cookie lasts for one year.

If you log out, the login cookies are removed from your browser.

Publishing Cookies: If you edit or publish an article on the Site (if you have such access), a cookie is saved in your browser containing the post ID of the content you just edited. This cookie contains no personal data and expires after one day.

Analytics Cookies: Google Analytics uses cookies to collect information about your browsing behavior (pages visited, session duration, etc.). We use this anonymous data to understand and improve the performance of our Site. Google’s analytics cookies are third-party cookies (you can learn more in Google’s Cookie Policy).

Affiliate Tracking Cookies: When you click on an affiliate link on our Site, that affiliate program may set a cookie to track your referral and potential commission for that referral. These are managed by the affiliate networks we partner with.

Comments and Interactions

When visitors leave comments or interact (e.g., suggestions, contact forms) on the Site, we collect the data shown in the comment/suggestion form, plus the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help detect and block spam. We may use an automated spam detection service (such as Akismet) which checks comments and submissions for spam. These services receive your comment content, IP address, and user agent string for analysis. After a comment is approved and published, any author profile picture (avatar) associated with the commenter’s email (via Gravatar or similar service) is visible to the public alongside the comment.

If you provide your name, email, or website in a comment, you can choose to save this information in a cookie for convenience. This way, you won’t need to fill in these details again when leaving another comment. You can remove this cookie from your browser at any time.

Embedded Content from Other Websites

Some pages on this Site may include embedded content (such as videos, images, or articles) from other websites (for example, YouTube or Twitter embeds). Embedded content from other websites behaves as if you have visited the other website directly. These external sites may collect data about your activity (such as the time of your visit), use cookies, and track your interactions with the embedded content. We do not control the data collection practices of third-party sites. If you have accounts with those third parties (for example, you are logged into YouTube when watching an embedded video), your visit and interactions may be linked to your account on that service. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any external sites to understand how they handle data.

Who We Share Your Data With

We share your personal data only in ways that are consistent with this Privacy Policy and applicable law. In particular:

Google Analytics: We provide Google Analytics with the non-identifiable analytics data it uses to produce reports. Google does not receive your personal identifiers from us—only anonymized usage data. You can review Google’s privacy terms for more information.

Affiliate Networks: We participate in affiliate marketing programs. If you click on an affiliate link on our Site and make a purchase, we may share your referral information (via cookies or link parameters) with our affiliate partners so they can track the referral and award any commission. Affiliate partners only receive the information needed to credit the referral. They have their own privacy policies.

Spam Detection Services: As mentioned, to protect against spam, we may use a spam detection service. These services receive the information you enter in forms (comments or suggestions), your IP address, and user agent, solely to detect and filter spam content.

Password Reset Security: If you request a password reset (for example, if you have an account and have forgotten your password), we will send you a reset email to the address you provided. For security purposes, this password reset email includes the IP address from which the request was made. This is intended to help you recognize if the request was legitimate.

No Sale of Personal Data: We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal information with third parties. We do not share personal data with advertisers or unrelated parties.

Our third-party service providers (such as Google Analytics, affiliate networks, and spam detectors) operate under their own privacy policies. We encourage you to review their terms and policies to understand how they process data.

Data Retention

We retain the personal data you provide for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this policy or as required by law. In particular:

Comments: Any comment you leave on our Site, along with its metadata (such as IP address, browser data), is stored indefinitely. This allows us to recognize and approve any follow-up comments you make without delay.

User Accounts: For registered users (if registration is available), we retain the personal information in your user profile as long as your account remains active. You may view, edit, or delete most of this information at any time (except changing your username). If you delete your account, or if we delete it, your profile information will be removed.

Contact and Suggestion Form Data: Messages you send to us via contact or suggestion forms are retained according to our record-keeping policies. We keep these messages in order to address your requests, provide support, and for our records.

Legal Obligations: We may retain certain information to comply with legal obligations (for example, tax, fraud prevention, or security requirements). Even if you delete information or we delete it for you, we may retain backup copies for a reasonable time as required by law or for internal business purposes.

In summary, we keep your data only as long as needed to provide the Site’s services and for legal compliance. We will delete or anonymize personal data when it is no longer required for these purposes.

Your Rights

Depending on where you live and the applicable laws, you may have the following rights regarding your personal data:

Right of Access: You can request a copy of the personal data we hold about you. This allows you to verify the lawfulness of our processing and to ensure we have the correct data.

Right to Correction: You can request that we update, correct, or complete any personal data we hold about you that is inaccurate or incomplete.

Right to Deletion (Erasure): You can ask us to delete your personal data under certain conditions (for example, if the data is no longer necessary for the purposes collected, or if you withdraw consent). Please note that this does not include data we are obliged to keep for legal or administrative reasons (such as fraud prevention, tax obligations, or other regulatory requirements).

Right to Data Portability: To the extent applicable, you may request a copy of your personal data in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format (e.g., CSV or JSON). This allows you to transfer your data to another service if you wish.

Right to Withdraw Consent: Where our processing of your personal data is based on your consent (such as setting a cookie), you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time. This will not affect the lawfulness of any processing we carried out prior to your withdrawal.

Right to Restrict Processing: In some cases, you may request that we limit the way we use your personal data. For example, if you contest the accuracy of your data, you may ask us to suspend its processing while we verify its validity.

Right to Object: You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data if you believe we are doing so without a lawful reason.

Right to Lodge a Complaint: If you are in the EU, UK, or certain other jurisdictions, you can complain to a supervisory authority (such as the Information Commissioner’s Office in the UK or a Data Protection Authority in the EU) if you believe we have violated data protection laws in our handling of your personal data.

If you have an account on this Site, or if you have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of all your personal data that we hold (for example, a list of your comments or your profile information). You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you, subject to the exceptions noted above. To exercise any of these rights or for any privacy-related inquiries, please contact us at contact@wisepicksreviews.com. We will respond to your request promptly, as required by law.

Children’s Privacy

Our Site is intended for a general audience and is not directed specifically at children under the age of 13 (or the applicable age of consent in your jurisdiction). We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you are under 13 (or applicable age), please do not provide any personal data on this Site or in our services. If we become aware that we have collected personal data from a child under 13 without appropriate parental consent, we will promptly delete that information from our records. If you believe that we may have collected personal data from a child, please contact us at contact@wisepicksreviews.com so we can take immediate action.

Data Security

We take the security of your personal data seriously and have implemented reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect it. For example, we use secure HTTPS connections to encrypt data transmitted to and from our Site. Our databases are protected by access controls, firewalls, and other security tools. However, no method of internet transmission or electronic storage is completely secure. We cannot guarantee absolute security of your data. By using the Site, you acknowledge and accept that we will take reasonable measures to protect your data, but we cannot be held liable for unauthorized access or breaches beyond our control.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices, technology, or legal requirements. When we make changes, we will revise the “Last updated” date at the top of this page. We encourage you to review this policy periodically to stay informed about how we are protecting your information. Your continued use of the Site after any changes are made constitutes your acceptance of the updated Privacy Policy.

Contact Information

If you have any questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or our data practices, please contact us at contact@wisepicksreviews.com. We will strive to respond to your inquiry promptly. You can also reach us at the following (if applicable):

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We are committed to addressing any questions or concerns you have about your privacy.

Last updated: 4 september 2025