HamRadioSecrets.com
Privacy Policy

This privacy policy clearly indicates how, at HamRadioSecrets.com, we are dedicated to protecting your data and privacy.

We recognize that your privacy is important. This document outlines the types of personal information we receive and collect when you use HamRadioSecrets.com, as well as some of the steps we take to safeguard information. This will help you make an informed decision about sharing personal information with us.

HamRadioSecrets.com strives to maintain the highest standards of decency, fairness and integrity in all our operations. Likewise, we are dedicated to protecting our customers' and online visitors' privacy on our website.

About Our Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that HamRadioSecrets.com stores on your computer, which your browser provides to HamRadioSecrets.com each time you return to the site. We use cookies to help us identify and track visitors, their use of our website, and their website access preferences.

Google Analytics Cookies

HamRadioSecrets.com uses Google Analytics to analyze the use of this website. Google Analytics collects demographic and interest data, and generates statistical and other information about website use, by means of cookies. These cookies are kept on your computer. We share this information with Google, which will store and use this information on its servers. Google's privacy policy is available here.

HamRadioSecrets.com uses information from Google Analytics to track the number of visits to the website, browsers and operating systems. No personally identifiable information is obtained from these cookies. We use the information that Google Analytics generates relating to our website to create reports about the use of the site. These reports allow us to update the site and improve your usage of it.

If you do not wish your data to be collected via Google Analytics, you can install its opt-out browser extension or add-on here.

Advertising Cookies

We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads on our website. These companies use cookies and web beacons in their ads to ascertain how many times you've seen an advertisement. We share this information with these companies, but do not provide them with any personally identifiable information for cookie or web beacon use, so they cannot personally identify you with that information from our website.

Amazon advertises on our website. Here is a link to their privacy policy.

As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.

You may opt out of personalized ads for over 125 different ad networks. Click here to do that.

Affiliate Products and Services

We receive a small affiliate commission for some of the [products/services] sold on HamRadioSecrets.com.

By clicking on a product or service link, you consent to that platform's use of cookies, as outlined in the link below. The affiliate services platforms we use are:

Amazon
Amazon Privacy Policy

Rakuten
Rakuten Privacy Policy

Sitesell
Sitesell inc. Privacy Policy

ShareAsale (Part of Awin)
ShareAsale End User Privacy Policy

HamRadioPrep
HamRadioPrep Privacy Policy

Survival Frog
Survival Frog Privacy Policy

Refusing Cookies

You can set your browser to accept or refuse all cookies automatically, or notify you when a cookie is being requested. Taking this action should not cause a problem with the continued use of our site. Consult the Help section of your browser for guidance on how to refuse all cookies or to notify you when a cookie is requested.

If you choose to refuse HamRadioSecrets.com's cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the site.

Social Media

You will notice on this website that there are links to social media sites. When you click on them or leave a comment, your browser connects directly with that site and sends information such as your IP address, the date and time of your visit and information about how you use the social site.

To learn how they collect data and what they do with it, please view their individual privacy policies by using the following links:

        Facebook - Data Policy

        Facebook - Cookies Policy
       
        Google+ and YouTube
       
        Pinterest
       
        Reddit
       
        Tumblr
       
        Twitter
       
One way to prevent social media sites from collecting data on your activities on our site is to log out of any session you might have opened with them before using our site.

We also use Vimeo.com to display our animated information. Please view Vimeo's privacy policy and Vimeo's data transfer statement for more information.

Our Privacy Policy on
Personally Identifiable Information

HamRadioSecrets.com may collect and use your personal information for the following purposes:

• To run and operate our site.
• To display content on the site correctly.
• To improve customer service.
• To help us respond to your customer service requests and support needs more efficiently.
• To personalize your user experience.
• To understand how our users as a group use the services and resources provided on our site.
• To improve our site.
• To improve our products and services.
• To run a promotion, contest, survey or other site feature.
• To send information to you that you agreed to receive about topics we think will be of interest to you.
• To send periodic emails, which may include electronic newsletters and/or autoresponder series of emails.
• To respond to your enquiries, questions, and/or other requests.
  

HamRadioSecrets.com may collect personally identifiable information from you in a variety of ways, including, but not limited to, when you visit our site, register on the site, or fill out a form, and in connection with other activities, services, features or resources we make available on our site.

If you complete a form, we will require your name and your email address, and will ask for information relevant to the purpose of the form.

If you submit content to us, we will ask for your name and email address. Photos you include with your submission, or details in your submission, may personally identify you.

If you request to be notified about comments on any content you submit to us, or request to be notified when others submit content, we will require your first name and your email address.

You can always refuse to supply personally identifiable information and visit our site anonymously. However, it may prevent you from engaging in certain site-related activities.

If we make material changes in the collection of personally identifiable information, we will inform you by placing a notice on our site. We will use personal information received from you for internal purposes only and will not sell it or provide it to third parties.

We also collect each visitor's IP address, which helps us combat spam and fraud. We do not use IP addresses for any other purpose.

RSS

HamRadioSecrets.com offers RSS (Really Simple Syndication) to enable you to easily follow updates to our site's content. We use FeedBlitz to let you subscribe to these updates via your email address. Here is FeedBlitz's policy on privacy.

We also provide links for easy access to MyYahoo! and Feedly RSS readers in the Recent Articles section of our website. Before you choose to use either as your RSS reader, please review its privacy policy.

Off-site Resources

HamRadioSecrets.com contains links to other websites which we feel may be of interest to you. However, once you have used them to leave our site, we have no control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information you provide to them while visiting such sites. These external sites are not governed by this privacy statement. Always exercise caution by reviewing the privacy statement of the website in question before continuing to use it.

Buying Our eBooks

We advertise our eBooks on our website. However, you can only buy them on third party platforms. When you click to buy one of our eBooks on our site, you are taken to the third party platform you chose to buy from. You may view their respective privacy policy by clicking the following links:

Amazon Kindle Store

KoboBooks.com Store

Apple iBooks Store

Gumroad.com

Non-personally Identifiable Information

We may collect non-personally identifiable information about you whenever you interact with our site. Non-personally identifiable information may include the browser name, the type of computer and technical information about your method of connecting to our site, such as the operating system and the Internet service provider you used, and other similar information.

Children's Privacy Protection

This website is directed to adults. It is not directed to children under the age of 16. We operate our site in compliance with current regulations. Anyone under the age of 16 must provide verifiable parental consent, or that of their legal guardian, to use this site. We do not knowingly collect or use personally identifiable information from anyone under 16 years of age.

Release of Information

If we sell HamRadioSecrets.com, the information we have obtained from you through your voluntary participation in our site may transfer to the new owner as a part of the sale so that the service provided to you may continue. In that event, you will receive notice through our website of that change in control and practices, and we will make reasonable efforts to ensure that the purchaser honors any opt-out requests you might make.

Data Storage

Personally identifiable information and non-personally identifiable information collected by this site  is stored on our host's servers. That host is SiteSell Inc., located at 1000 Saint-Jean Boulevard, Suite 702, Pointe-Claire, QC H9R 5P1 Canada.

How You Can Review
Correct or Remove Information

We provide this privacy policy as a statement to you of our commitment to protect your personally identifiable information.

If you have submitted personally identifiable information through our website and would like to review that information, click on this link.

You can also request to edit or delete any of your information from the servers by
clicking on this link.

Site Search Module

The search module is powered by DuckDuckGo because it does not collect, nor does it share, information about you or your searches. You will find their privacy policy here. The DuckDuckGo.com search module is preset to search HamRadioSecrets.com first. Subsequently, you can extend your search for information to the entire World Wide Web.

Updates and Effective Date

HamRadioSecrets.com reserves the right to make changes in this policy. If there is a material change in our cookie and privacy practices, we will indicate on our site that those practices have changed and provide a link to the updated privacy policy. We encourage you to periodically review this policy so that you will know what information we collect and how we use it.

Agreeing to Terms

If you do not agree to HamRadioSecrets.com's privacy policy as posted here on this website, please do not consent to the setting of cookies and the collection and storage of your personally identifiable information.

Your explicit consent indicates acceptance of this privacy policy in its entirety.

Last updated: December 21, 2023 at 12:25 Eastern Time

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