The privacy of our visitors or users is of utmost important. We collect the data of our visitors as per the web laws and international privacy laws for the betterment of users’ search suggestions and improvement of data and other data collection tasks for future. All the personal information is extremely confidential and is explained in this article as per the laws. The Buyers Trend uses the personal data as per cyber laws and after the willful content of our visitors, the data collection and cookies policy are described in the sections below:
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Affiliate Program
The Buyers Trend is registered under the Amazon affiliate program, i.e. we collect a small marketing share if one of the products is bought or viewed by a customer by clicking a link through our website. The unit price will remain same either it is bought from an affiliate program or a direct link. Amazon Affiliate program is sponsored by Amazon LLC Associates Program that links to the primary site.
Information Gathering
Upon a visit, the user is prompted to provide any of the following details i.e. email address, name or home address, or sometimes alternative contact information i.e. phone number etc. to enhance seller to customer relationship and keep you updated from the newer products and newsletters. Sometimes, it becomes mandatory to provide the necessary information to proceed i.e. while commenting or chatting with our customer care. All the email and billing information is kept extremely confidential and will not be shared with any third-party app or person whatsoever.
Cache and Cookies
Cookies are collected automatically by your web browser; most of the websites ask for cookies collection upon landing to the page, some collect it without asking. Your ISP and internet browser, search engine, and analytical tools may collect the cookies along with the search and shopping history to enhance search results and ads placed on your IP address.
Some of the associates may collect information automatically because of the Google algorithms that include Google Adsense, Amazon Associates, or Google Analytics. These websites use cookies and JavaScript files to improve user experience and placing ads & offers to your search results. Users can disable cookies if they wish to, it is an easy process through your internet browser. The Buyers Trend has no control or access to your cookies or cache. All the cookies are collected and used officially either through user permission or via your web browser by the third-party advertisers. The Buyers Trend cannot prevent any action of the advertisers if they are collecting your data for any use.
Data we Collect
We collect the following data from users for better site performance and enhanced user experience. These are Internet Protocol or IP address of your internet connection to check either the user is eligible to use the website or not. It also estimates shipping cost and other products lined up for users according to geographical locations and currency. The log in details are stored on the internet and secured web servers, the time zone information, browser version, and plug-in details are also collected along with IP settings. The internet browser and OS version details are also collected automatically by our web servers. The reference URL is also stored in the TheBuyersTrend database for better performance and accurate analytics.
Why Collect Data?
We use user data for several constructive reasons:
- To provide the best possible user experience and improve our website as per the viewers’ needs.
- For improvement of the website and market the best newsletter information for interested viewers.
- Ensuring the safety of users and improve previous security measures by asking users for confidential information i.e. email address, name, or other contact information.
- Allow seamless viewing experience to recurring visitors so that they need not fill form every time they visit TheBuyersTrend.
- Provide customers with the best services in which they had shown interest in the past.
Security of Information
We secure your personal data with best of our resources, our system is up-to-date and ready to tackle any cyber-attack that may steal your information, we have designed a multi-layered security system to protect against hacks as per the PCI standards.
However, we are not responsible for any phishing attack or your internal communication glitches i.e. offline or online viruses, please note that we will not be responsible for any of these attacks that happen out of our domain. All said, the system is made secure to the best of our resources; still, any attack that breaches all the security measures is possible and we do not guarantee 100% safety of your data. We will still be happy to guide you restoring or changing information when the data is breached by a hacker/hackers.
Advertisement
The Buyers Trend is associated with the Google Adsense and Amazon Affiliate program for ads. Both the ad servers are allowed to gather the general information i.e. IP address, name, and other necessary information excluding your email address and passwords. The other stakeholders using cookies on The Buyers Trend are Google that creates ads on our site. For the purpose, DART cookie is enabled based on the search history and buying trends of users from social media and world wide web. If you are not interested in DART cookies, disable it simply by clicking on the top right or left corner of your ad and content network privacy policy settings. All the general data is gathered to provide an enhanced and to-the-point experience to advertisers on Google Analytics. The Buyers Trend may add other third-party advertisers as partners without user consent as the rightful owner of the domain. The third-party ad servers may have dedicated privacy policies relating user experience. Still, we do not provide personal information i.e. username, password, and other data to any of our partner.
Policy for Underage users
For underage users i.e. users below 18 years, we do not collect any of their information nor provide any of the data to the concerned third-party networks or our direct affiliates.