Privacy Policy

Effective Date: 01.03.2025

 

 

1. Introduction
This Privacy Policy explains how Nicotine Insight ("we," "us," or "our") collects, uses, and protects your personal data when you visit our website, nicotineinsight.com. We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it in compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

 

2. Data We Collect
When you use our website, we may collect the following personal data:

• Email Address (only if provided voluntarily for our newsletter)
• IP Address (processed by Google Analytics, but not stored directly by us)
• Cookies (used for analytics purposes, processed by Google Analytics, but not stored directly by us)

We do not collect sensitive personal data such as age verification, health-related information, or financial details.

 

3. How We Collect Data
We collect data through:

• Newsletter Subscription Forms (email addresses submitted by users)
• Google Analytics (tracks visitor behavior through cookies and logs IP addresses)

We do not store IP addresses or email addresses directly in our systems.

 

4. How We Use Your Data
We use collected data for the following purposes:

• Website Analytics (to improve user experience and understand website performance)
• Advertising Tracking (to assess website traffic sources and effectiveness)

We do not sell or share your personal data with third parties.

 

5. Third-Party Services
We use Google Analytics to collect website usage data. Google may store cookies on your device as part of this service. For more information, please refer to Google’s Privacy Policy.

We do not use any other advertising or tracking tools beyond Google Analytics.

 

6. Data Retention

• Email addresses are retained until a user unsubscribes from our newsletter.
• Google Analytics stores anonymized data as per its default retention settings. We do not directly store user data.

 

7. Your Rights Under GDPR
If you are located in the European Economic Area (EEA), you have the following rights regarding your personal data:

• Right to Access – You can request details on the data we hold about you.
• Right to Correction – You can request updates to inaccurate data.
• Right to Deletion – You can request that we delete any personal data we have stored.
• Right to Restrict Processing – You can ask us to limit how we use your data.
• Right to Data Portability – You can request a copy of your data in a machine-readable format.

To exercise any of these rights, contact us at: gdpr [at] nicotineinsight [dot] com

 

8. Cookies & Tracking
We use cookies to enhance your browsing experience. These cookies are used only for analytics and do not track personal behavior across multiple websites.

You can disable cookies through your browser settings. However, this may affect the functionality of our website.

 

9. Data Security
We implement standard security measures provided by WordPress and A2 Hosting to protect user data. However, no method of online transmission is 100% secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

 

10. Updates to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Any changes will be posted on this page with an updated "Effective Date." We encourage users to review this page periodically.

 

11. Contact Information
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at:
gdpr [at] nicotineinsight [dot] com