Privacy & Cookies Policy

Your privacy is critically important to us. It is Microwave Guides’ policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website. This Privacy Policy applies to https://microwaveguides.com/ (hereinafter, “us”, “we”, or “https://microwaveguides.com/”). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting personally identifiable information you may provide us through the Website. We have adopted this privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) to explain what information may be collected on our Website, how we use this information, and under what circumstances we may disclose the information to third parties. This Privacy Policy applies only to information we collect through the Website and does not apply to our collection of information from other sources.

This Privacy Policy, together with the Terms and conditions posted on our Website, set forth the general rules and policies governing your use of our Website. Depending on your activities when visiting our Website, you may be required to agree to additional terms and conditions.

What information do we collect from the people that visit our website?

Like most website operators, Microwave Guides collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Microwave Guides’ purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Microwave Guides’ visitors use its website. From time to time, Microwave Guides may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

Microwave Guides also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on https://microwaveguides.com/ blog posts. Microwave Guides only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to Microwave Guides’ websites choose to interact with Microwave Guides in ways that require Microwave Guides to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Microwave Guides gathers depend on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up for a blog at https://microwaveguides.com/ to provide a username and email address.

Security

The security of your Personal Information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Advertisements

Ads appearing on our website may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Microwave Guides and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Links To External Sites

Our Service may contain links to external sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy and terms and conditions of every site you visit.

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites, products or services.

This site may use Google AdWords for remarketing

https://microwaveguides.com/ uses remarketing services to advertise on third party websites (including Google) to previous visitors to our site. It could mean that we advertise to previous visitors who haven’t completed a task on our site, for example using the contact form to make an enquiry. This could be in the form of an advertisement on the Google search results page or a site in the Google Display Network. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on someone’s past visits. Of course, any data collected will be used in accordance with our own privacy policy and Google’s privacy policy.

You can set preferences for how Google advertises to you using the Google Ad Preferences page, and if you want to you can opt-out of interest-based advertising entirely by cookie settings or permanently using a browser plugin.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

Microwave Guides discloses potentially personally identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors, and affiliated organizations.

That need to know that information in order to process it on Microwave guides’ behalf or to provide services available at Microwave Guides’ website and that have agreed not to disclose it to others.

Some of those employees, contractors, and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Microwave Guides’ website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them.

Microwave Guides will not rent or sell potentially personally identifying and personally identifying information to anyone other than to its employees, contractors, and affiliated organizations.

As described above, Microwave Guides discloses potentially personally identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental requests, Or when Microwave Guides believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Microwave Guides, third parties or the public at large.

If you are a registered user of https://microwaveguides.com/ and have supplied your email address, Microwave Guides may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Microwave Guides and our products.

We primarily use our blog to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum.

If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users.

Microwave Guides takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Aggregated Statistics

Microwave Guides may collect statistics about the behaviour of visitors to its website. Microwave Guides may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Microwave Guides does not disclose your personally-identifying information.

Affiliate Disclosure

This site uses affiliate links and does earn a commission from certain links. This does not affect your purchases or the price you may pay.

Cookies

To enrich and perfect your online experience, Microwave Guides uses “Cookies”, similar technologies, and services provided by others to display personalized content, appropriate advertising and store your preferences on your computer.

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Microwave Guides uses cookies to help Microwave Guides identify and track visitors, their usage of https://microwaveguides.com/, and their website access preferences. Microwave Guides visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Microwave Guides’ websites, with the drawback that certain features of Microwave Guides’ websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

By continuing to navigate our website without changing your cookie settings, you hereby acknowledge and agree to Microwave Guides’ use of cookies.

CCPA Privacy Rights (Do Not Sell My Personal Information)

Under the CCPA, among other rights, California consumers have the right to:

Request that a business that collects a consumer’s personal data disclose the categories and specific pieces of personal data that a business has collected about consumers.

Request that a business delete any personal data about the consumer that a business has collected.

Request that a business that sells a consumer’s personal data, not sell the consumer’s personal data.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.

GDPR Data Protection Rights

We would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:

The right to access – You have the right to request copies of your personal data. We may charge you a small fee for this service.

The right to rectification – You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request that we complete the information you believe is incomplete.

The right to erasure – You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to data portability – You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.

Children’s Information

Another part of our priority is adding protection for children while using the internet. We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate in, and/or monitor and guide their online activity.

Microwave Guides does not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information from children under the age of 13. If you think that your child provided this kind of information on our website, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately and we will do our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Microwave Guides may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Microwave Guides’ sole discretion. Microwave Guides encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.

Contact Information

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us