Revealed Truth Privacy Policy

Last Updated On 27-Aug-2023
Effective Date 27-Aug-2023

This privacy policy has been compiled to better serve those who are concerned with how their ‘Personally identifiable information’ (PII) is being used online. PII, as used in US privacy law and information security, is information that can be used on its own or with other information to identify, contact, or locate a single person, or to identify an individual in context. Please read our privacy policy carefully to get a clear understanding of how we collect, use, protect or otherwise handle your Personally Identifiable Information in accordance with our website.

RevealedTruth.com is a small personal blog located in the USA that intends to comply with GDPR (and other international regulations) as well as US federal and state laws.  Bill Ogden and Revealed Truth respect your privacy and provide the following information about how we operate the RevealedTruth.com website.

This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of personal data when you use our Service and the choices you have associated with that data.

This Privacy Policy describes the policies of Revealed Truth, 1617 Fletchers Way, MD 21777, (the) United States of America, email: BillOgden@RevealedTruth.com, phone: 301-810-5007 on the collection, use and disclosure of your information that we collect when you use our website (https://www.revealedtruth.com) (the “Service”). By accessing or using the Service, you are consenting to the collection, use and disclosure of your information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. If you do not consent to the same, please do not access or use the Service.

We may modify this Privacy Policy at any time without any prior notice to you and will post the revised Privacy Policy on the Service. The revised Policy will be effective immediately when the revised Policy is posted in the Service. Your continued access or use of the Service after such time will constitute your acceptance of the revised Privacy Policy. We therefore recommend that you periodically review this page.

How We Use Your Information:

We will use the information that we collect about you for the following purposes:

• Support
• Manage user account

If we want to use your information for any other purpose, we will ask you for consent and will use your information only on receiving your consent and then, only for the purpose(s) for which grant consent unless we are required to do otherwise by law.

How We Share Your Information:

We will not transfer your personal information to any third party without seeking your consent, except in limited circumstances as described below:

• Analytics

We require such third party’s to use the personal information we transfer to them only for the purpose for which it was transferred and not to retain it for longer than is required for fulfilling the said purpose.

We may also disclose your personal information for the following: (1) to comply with applicable law, regulation, court order or other legal process; (2) to enforce your agreements with us, including this Privacy Policy; or (3) to respond to claims that your use of the Service violates any third-party rights. If the Service or our company is merged or acquired with another company, your information will be one of the assets that is transferred to the new owner.

Your Rights:

Depending on the law that applies, you may have a right to access and rectify or erase your personal data or receive a copy of your personal data, restrict or object to the active processing of your data, ask us to share (port) your personal information to another entity, withdraw any consent you provided to us to process your data, a right to lodge a complaint with a statutory authority and such other rights as may be relevant under applicable laws. To exercise these rights, you can write to us at BillOgden@RevealedTruth.com. We will respond to your request in accordance with applicable law.

Do note that if you do not allow us to collect or process the required personal information or withdraw the consent to process the same for the required purposes, you may not be able to access or use the services for which your information was sought.

Security:

The security of your information is important to us and we will use reasonable security measures to prevent the loss, misuse or unauthorized alteration of your information under our control. However, given the inherent risks, we cannot guarantee absolute security and consequently, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us and you do so at your own risk.

Third Party Links & Use Of Your Information:

Our Service contains links to other websites that are not operated by us. This Privacy Policy does not address the privacy policy and other practices of any third parties, including any third party operating any website or service that may be accessible via a link on the Service. We strongly advise you to review the privacy policy 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 or services.

Grievance / Data Protection Officer:

If you have any queries or concerns about the processing of your information that is available with us, you may email our Grievance Officer at Revealed Truth, 1617 Fletchers Way, email: BillOgden@RevealedTruth.com. We will address your concerns in accordance with applicable law.

Definitions

Unless otherwise defined in this Privacy Policy, terms used in this Privacy Policy have the same meanings as in our Terms of Service, accessible from Revealed Truth – Terms of Use

Service

“Service” is the https://www.RevealedTruth.com website operated by William D. Ogden (aka: Bill Ogden).

Personal Data

“Personal Data” is data about a living individual who can be identified from that data

Usage Data

“Usage Data” is data collected automatically either generated by use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).

Cookies

“Cookies” are small pieces of data stored on your device (computer or mobile device).

Data Controller

“Data Controller” refers to the person (or persons) who determines how and why any personal information is processed.  For this Privacy Policy, we are a Data Controller of your Personal Data.

Data Processors (Service Providers)

“Data Processor” (or Service Provider) means any person or organization who processes the data on behalf of the Data Controller (i.e.: Revealed Truth).

For this Privacy Policy, we are a Data Processor of your Personal Data.  We also use various other Service Providers to improve our service and process your data more effectively.

Data Subject (User)

“Data Subject” is any living individual who becomes the subject of “Personal Data” by using our Service.

Information Collection and Use

We collect several types of information for various purposes to provide and improve our Service to you.

Types of Data Collected:

PERSONAL DATA

While using our Service, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you (“Personal Data”). Personally identifiable information may include:

• Email address
• First name and last name
• Phone number
• Address, State, Province, ZIP/Postal code, City
• Cookies and Usage Data

We may use your Personal Data to contact you with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials and other information that may be of interest to you. You may opt out of receiving any, or all, of these communications from us by following the unsubscribe link or instructions provided in any email we send or by contacting us.

USAGE DATA

We may also collect information on how the Service is accessed and used (“Usage Data”). This Usage Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

TRACKING COOKIES DATA

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our Service and hold certain information.

Cookies are files with small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. Tracking technologies also used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze our Service.

You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Service.

Cookie Consent

When you first access this service, you will be asked for your consent in regards to cookies. You may:

• “Accept All Cookies” – All cookies used by this service will operate
• “Reject All Cookies” – No cookies used by this service will work, which will limit site performance.
• “Customize” – If you select this option, a pop-up will allow you to customize your cookie preferences by selecting what types of cookies you will permit to operate.

Examples of Cookies we may use:

• Session Cookies. We use Session Cookies to operate our Service.
• Preference Cookies. We may use Preference Cookies to remember your preferences and various settings.
• Security Cookies. We use Security Cookies for security purposes.

Use of Data

Subscription Forms:  Revealed Truth collects the names and email addresses of those who submit that information to download information and/or subscribe to newsletters or email updates.  You are under no obligation to sign up to receive communications from us and can unsubscribe at any time using a link at the bottom of any email you receive from us.

Email Inquiries:  If you send an email communication to us, the return email address may be used to answer the email.

Voluntary Customer Surveys:  We may occasionally conduct customer surveys. We encourage participation in these surveys because they provide us with important information that helps us improve the services we offer. We may take the information we receive from individuals responding to our surveys and combine it with information from others to create broader, generic responses to the survey questions. This aggregated; non-personally identifying information may be shared with third parties.

Additionally, Revealed Truth may use collected data for the following purposes:

• To provide and maintain our Service
• To notify you about changes to our Service
• To allow you to participate in interactive features of our Service when you choose to do so
• To provide customer support
• To gather analysis or valuable information so that we can improve our Service
• To monitor the usage of our Service
• To detect, prevent and address technical issues
• To provide you with news, special offers and general information about other goods, services and events which we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or inquired about, unless you have opted not to receive such information.

Legal Basis for Processing Personal Data Under General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

If you are from the European Economic Area (EEA), the legal basis for collecting and using the personal information described in this Privacy Policy depends on the Personal Data we collect and the specific context in which we collect it.

Revealed Truth may process your Personal Data because:

• You have given us permission to do so
• You have requested information from us
• For payment processing purposes
• We need to perform a contract with you
• The processing is in our legitimate interests and it’s not overridden by your rights
• To comply with the law

Retention of Data

Revealed Truth will retain your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

Revealed Truth will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes.

Transfer of Data

Your information, including Personal Data, may be transferred to – and maintained on – computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those in your jurisdiction.

If you are located outside United States and choose to provide information to us, please note that we may transfer the data, including Personal Data, to data servers located in the United States and process it here.

Your consent to this Privacy Policy and submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.

Revealed Truth will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.

Disclosure of Data

Disclosure for Law Enforcement

Under certain circumstances, Revealed Truth may disclose your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).

Legal Requirements

Revealed Truth may disclose your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

• To comply with a legal obligation
• To protect and defend the rights or property of Revealed Truth
• To prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service
• To protect the personal safety of users of the Service or the public
• To protect against legal liability

Data Security

The security of your data is important to us, but 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 Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

“Do Not Track” Signals

“Do Not Track” is a preference you can set in your web browser to inform websites that you do not want to be tracked.  You can enable or disable Do Not Track by visiting the Preferences or Settings page of your web browser.

Service Providers

We may employ third party companies and individuals to facilitate our Service (“Service Providers”) to provide service on our behalf or to assist us in analyzing how our Service is used.

These third parties have access to your Personal Data only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.

Analytics

We use third-party Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service.

GOOGLE ANALYTICS

• Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Service. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.
• You can opt-out of having made your activity on the Service available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js, and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity.
• For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy Terms web page: http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/.

Behavioral Remarketing

Revealed Truth does not use remarketing services to advertise on third party websites to you after you visited our Service.

Payments

Revealed Truth does not currently sell paid products, so we do not gather any sales related information.

Links to Other Sites

RevealedTruth.com contains links to other 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 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 or services.

Children’s Privacy

Our Service does not knowingly solicit or collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the “effective date” at the top.

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

Contact Us

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

• By email: BillOgden@RevealedTruth.com
• By phone: 301-810-5007
• By mail: 1617 Fletchers Way, Point of Rocks, MD 21777, USA