Welcome to ASecurityGuru.com. Protecting your privacy is our priority. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and safeguard your information when you visit our site.
1. Information We Collect
a. Personal Information — When you interact with our site (e.g., subscribing to newsletters, contacting us), we may collect your name and email address.
b. Non-Personal Information — We may also collect browser type and version, IP address, and pages viewed with time spent on the site.
2. How We Use Your Information
- To improve and personalize your experience on the site.
- To send newsletters or respond to inquiries.
- To analyze and understand how users engage with the site.
3. Sharing Your Information
We do not sell, trade, or rent your personal information to third parties. However, we may share information with service providers who assist in maintaining the site, or to comply with legal requirements and prevent fraud or abuse.
4. Cookies and Tracking Technologies
We use cookies to enhance your browsing experience — to analyze website traffic and remember your preferences. You can disable cookies through your browser settings, though this may impact your experience.
5. Third-Party Advertising (Google AdSense)
This site uses Google AdSense to display advertisements. Google AdSense uses cookies and similar tracking technologies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this site and other sites on the internet.
Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to our website. Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads based on your visits to our site and other sites on the internet.
You may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google's Ads Settings. For more information on how Google uses data, visit How Google uses data when you use our partners' sites or apps.
Our site also uses Google Analytics (via Site Kit) to understand how visitors interact with the site, which may involve anonymized usage data. Learn more at Google Analytics Privacy.
6. Third-Party Data Sources
Our free tools use the following public third-party data sources:
- CVE Tracker — Data sourced from the NIST National Vulnerability Database (NVD) public API. "This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD."
- Security News — Headlines and summaries aggregated from publicly available RSS feeds published by The Hacker News, Bleeping Computer, Krebs on Security, Security Week, Dark Reading, and CISA. We display short summaries and link to original articles; we do not reproduce full articles.
7. Affiliate Links Disclosure
Some pages on this site — including the Courses page — contain affiliate (referral) links to Udemy. If you click one of these links and enroll in a course, we may earn a referral commission at no additional cost to you. We only link to courses taught by Raghu (the author of this site). Referral commissions help support the free content and tools on this site.
8. Third-Party Links
Our site may contain links to third-party websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of those sites and encourage you to review their privacy policies before providing any personal information.
9. Data Security
We implement measures to secure your information, including encrypted data transmission and regular monitoring for vulnerabilities. Despite these efforts, no method of transmission over the Internet is 100% secure.
10. Your Rights
You have the right to request access to your personal data, request corrections or deletions, and opt out of marketing communications. For any of these requests, please contact us at guruappsec@gmail.com.
11. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Updates will be posted on this page with the revised effective date.
12. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at:
Email: guruappsec@gmail.com
Website: ASecurityGuru.com
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