Welcome to IACSEngineering.com (“we”, “us”, “our”). We take your privacy seriously. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and share information on our website, especially via Google Analytics (through the MonsterInsights WordPress plugin), and what choices you have regarding that data.
1. Information We Collect
When you visit our site, we collect the following information:
- Analytics Data: We use Google Analytics (via MonsterInsights) to track usage data such as number of visitors, pages visited, session duration, and geographic location (country) of users.
- Log Data: This includes your IP address (which may be anonymized in Google Analytics), browser type, device, pages you visit, and time of visits.
- Cookies & Tracking Technologies: We place cookies (via Google Analytics) to help understand how people use our site and to generate statistical user-data.
2. How We Use Your Data
We use the collected data for:
- Understanding Site Usage: To monitor how many people use our site, which pages are popular, and where our traffic comes from (countries).
- Improving the Website: By analyzing usage patterns, we can make our content and site structure better.
- Ad Support: We run Google AdSense ads, and the usage data helps manage and optimise our ad placements.
3. Third-Party Services
We rely on third-party services to process data:
- Google Analytics: All analytics data is sent to Google Analytics (via MonsterInsights), which processes and stores it according to its own policies.
- MonsterInsights: We use this WordPress plugin to connect our site to Google Analytics. MonsterInsights also provides features designed to help with privacy compliance.
4. Privacy & Compliance Features
- We do not collect personally identifying information (such as names or email addresses) via Google Analytics.
- We use MonsterInsights’ “Privacy Guard” feature, which helps prevent Personally Identifiable Information (PII) from being sent to Google Analytics.
- If you choose to use a cookie-consent plugin, MonsterInsights integrates with tools like Cookie Notice, CookieBot, CookieYes, and Complianz for GDPR / CCPA compliance.
- For users in the EU / EEA / UK, explicit consent for analytics cookies may be required under data protection laws.
5. Your Rights
Depending on your location (USA, EU, Australia, Canada), you may have the following rights:
- Access & Correction: You can request to see what data we have collected (e.g., about your visits).
- Deletion: You can ask us to delete your data, as allowed by law.
- Opt-Out:
- You can disable or block cookies through your browser settings.
- To opt-out of Google Analytics tracking, you can use Google’s Analytics opt-out tools.
- Consent Withdrawal: If you gave consent (for example, via a cookie banner), you can usually withdraw that consent through the same tool.
6. Data Security
We take reasonable steps to protect your information, including using secure connections (HTTPS) for data transmission. However, no internet method is 100% secure — we cannot guarantee absolute security.
7. Children
Our website is not intended for children under 13 (or the minimum age in your jurisdiction). We do not knowingly collect personal data from children below that age.
8. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make changes, we will update the “Last updated” date above. Please check back periodically.
9. Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns about this policy, or want to exercise your rights (access, deletion, etc.), contact us at: [email protected]