Privacy Policy
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Privacy Policy for DoWithAI
At DoWithAI (https://dowith-ai.com), we are committed to protecting the privacy of our visitors. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, and safeguard the limited personal data we process when you visit our website, which reviews AI tools for marketers. Our primary goal is to provide valuable content and facilitate access to helpful AI tools while respecting your privacy.
What Personal Data We Collect and Why
DoWithAI does not offer user accounts, comment sections, or direct email capture. This means we do not directly collect personal identifiable information (PII) such as your name, email address, or phone number. The personal data we collect is primarily pseudonymous or aggregated and is used exclusively for website analytics and affiliate tracking.
1. **Analytics Data (via Google Analytics 4 (GA4) and Microsoft Clarity):**
* **What we collect:** When you visit DoWithAI, we use Google Analytics 4 and Microsoft Clarity to understand how our website is used. These services collect information such as your anonymized IP address, device type, browser type, operating system, general geographic location (country/city), referring website, pages you visit, time spent on pages, scroll depth, mouse movements (Clarity), and click interactions.
* **Why we collect it:** This data helps us analyze website traffic, understand user behavior, identify popular content, improve website design, and enhance overall user experience. We use the data to make our site more relevant and easier to navigate for our visitors.
* **Legal Basis:** We rely on your explicit consent (obtained via our cookie consent banner) for the placement of analytics cookies and the initial collection of this data. Subsequently, we rely on our legitimate interest to process this pseudonymous data to improve and maintain our website’s performance and content.
2. **Affiliate Tracking Data:**
* **What we collect:** DoWithAI participates in various affiliate marketing programs, including Amazon Associates and direct partnerships with AI tool vendors. When you click on an affiliate link on our site and proceed to make a purchase or sign up on a third-party vendor’s site, a cookie may be placed by that third-party affiliate network or vendor. This cookie contains a unique identifier that tracks the referral from DoWithAI. It does not typically contain PII directly identifying you.
* **Why we collect it:** This tracking is essential for our business model, as it allows us to earn a commission for successful referrals. It enables the affiliate network or vendor to attribute the sale or lead to DoWithAI.
* **Legal Basis:** We rely on your explicit consent (obtained via our cookie consent banner) for the placement of affiliate tracking cookies. We rely on our legitimate interest to operate our affiliate business model.
Cookies and Similar Technologies
Cookies are small text files stored on your device (computer, tablet, smartphone) when you visit certain websites. They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently and to provide information to website owners.
DoWithAI uses cookies for two primary purposes:
1. **Analytics Cookies:** These cookies are set by Google Analytics 4 and Microsoft Clarity to collect the analytics data described above. They help us understand how visitors interact with our website by collecting and reporting information anonymously.
2. **Affiliate Cookies:** When you click on an affiliate link on DoWithAI, the respective affiliate network or vendor may set a cookie on your browser. This cookie tracks your referral from DoWithAI to their website to enable commission attribution. These are third-party cookies controlled by the affiliate networks/vendors.
You have the right to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. However, this may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website or impact the functionality of affiliate links.
How We Share Your Personal Data
We share your personal data only in limited circumstances:
* **Service Providers:** We share analytics data with Google (for GA4) and Microsoft (for Clarity), who act as our data processors. They process this data on our behalf to provide us with insights into website usage. We have data processing agreements in place with these providers to ensure your data is handled securely and in accordance with applicable privacy laws.
* **Affiliate Networks and Vendors:** When you click an affiliate link, your browser interacts directly with the third-party affiliate network or vendor. These third parties may collect data (via their cookies) to track your referral and subsequent actions (e.g., purchase). DoWithAI itself does not directly share your personal data with these networks; rather, their cookies facilitate the direct collection of tracking data by them. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of these third-party websites.
* **Legal Requirements:** We may disclose your information if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with legal obligations, protect our rights or property, or ensure the safety of our users or the public.
* **No Sale of Personal Data:** DoWithAI does not sell, rent, or lease any personal data collected from our website visitors to third parties for monetary or other valuable consideration.
Data Retention
We retain your personal data only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
* **Google Analytics 4:** We configure our GA4 settings to retain user-level and event-level data for the shortest practical period, typically 2 months (the minimum available setting), after which it is automatically deleted. Aggregated and anonymized data may be retained for longer periods for analytical purposes.
* **Microsoft Clarity:** Data collected by Microsoft Clarity is typically retained for 90 days.
* **Affiliate Tracking Data:** DoWithAI does not store this data. The retention periods for affiliate tracking cookies and associated data are determined by the respective third-party affiliate networks and vendors, typically ranging from 30 to 90 days, or longer as required for commission processing and validation.
Your Choices and Opt-Out Options
You have several options to control and manage your privacy on DoWithAI:
* **Cookie Consent Banner:** Upon your first visit to DoWithAI, a cookie consent banner will appear, allowing you to accept or decline non-essential cookies (including analytics and affiliate cookies). You can typically revisit your preferences at any time.
* **Browser Settings:** Most web browsers allow you to manage your cookie preferences. You can set your browser to refuse all cookies, delete specific cookies, or notify you when a cookie is being set. Please refer to your browser’s help menu for instructions.
* **Google Analytics Opt-out Add-on:** You can prevent your data from being used by Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on, available at: [https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout](https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout)
* **Do Not Track (DNT) Signals:** Some web browsers offer a “Do Not Track” signal. We respect DNT signals where technically feasible and required by law.
* **Ad Blockers:** Many ad-blocking browser extensions can also block analytics and affiliate tracking scripts.
Legal Basis for Processing
Our legal bases for processing personal data are as follows:
* **Consent:** For the deployment of non-essential cookies (such as analytics and affiliate cookies) on your device, we rely on your explicit consent, which you provide via our cookie consent banner.
* **Legitimate Interest:** We rely on our legitimate interest to operate, maintain, and improve our website, understand user engagement, ensure the security of our services, and manage our affiliate partnerships. This applies primarily to the processing of pseudonymous or aggregated data resulting from analytics and affiliate tracking, after consent for cookie placement has been obtained.
Your Data Protection Rights (GDPR & CCPA)
Depending on your location (e.g., in the European Economic Area under GDPR or California under CCPA), you may have the following rights regarding your personal data. Please note that given the limited amount of direct PII we collect, exercising some of these rights might be limited to the pseudonymous data we hold.
**Under GDPR, you have the right to:**
* **Access:** Request a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
* **Rectification:** Request correction of inaccurate or incomplete data.
* **Erasure (Right to be Forgotten):** Request deletion of your personal data under certain conditions.
* **Restriction of Processing:** Request that we restrict the processing of your data under certain conditions.
* **Object to Processing:** Object to our processing of your personal data under certain conditions.
* **Data Portability:** Request that we transfer the data we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
* **Withdraw Consent:** Withdraw your consent at any time where we relied on consent to process your personal data.
**Under CCPA, California consumers have the right to:**
* **Right to Know:** Request that we disclose what personal information we collect, use, disclose, and sell.
* **Right to Delete:** Request the deletion of your personal information collected by us.
* **Right to Opt-Out of Sale:** Request to opt-out of the sale of your personal information (DoWithAI does not sell personal information).
* **Right to Non-Discrimination:** Not be discriminated against for exercising your CCPA rights.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at hello@dowith-ai.com. We will respond to your request within the timeframes prescribed by applicable law. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority if you believe our processing of your personal data infringes applicable law.
Children’s Privacy
DoWithAI is not intended for or directed at children under the age of 16. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children under 16. If we become aware that we have inadvertently received personal data from a child under 16, we will delete such information from our records.
Links to Other Websites
Our website contains links to other websites, including affiliate links to AI tool vendors and Amazon Associates. This Privacy Policy applies only to DoWithAI. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of other websites. We encourage you to read the privacy policies of any third-party websites you visit.
International Data Transfers
The data we collect, particularly via Google Analytics and Microsoft Clarity, may be stored and processed on servers located outside of your country of residence, including in the United States. When such transfers occur, we implement appropriate safeguards to ensure your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and applicable data protection laws, such as relying on Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) approved by the European Commission.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. We will post any new Privacy Policy on this page with an updated “Effective Date.” We encourage you to review this policy periodically.
Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, please contact us at:
Email: hello@dowith-ai.com