Privacy Policy

The following privacy policy describes how CostAide collects, uses, protects and shares data that can be classified as personal and non-personal identification information.

Personal identification information

In order for our sites’ feature to work at the maximum capacity, we would require our users to share personally identifiable information like when they visit our site, make a comment on our site, or when they contact us for inquiries. If we run any kind of email promotion or surveys for a short period of time, we may ask for personal details which you can choose not to give. Typical identity information including name and email address.

Users can though visit our site without giving any such personal info. All private information asked would be for supplying voluntarily and will only affect that particular feature in our site.

Non-personal identification information

Information that cannot be lead back to you is also being collected while you are surfing our site. That information is usually collected to provide you with the better user experience. We don’t sell such data for monetary gains. Third party applications that we use on site may use non-identifiable data like IP address, country, device, browser, internet service provider to provide you relevant advertisement and other services.

In order to assess how our articles work, we will look into how users are interacting with our site using metrics like time on site, bounce rate, number of pages visited, and other similar data. Such data will only be used internally.

Policies Regarding Website Cookies

Web cookies are something that you can turn off in your browser settings if you want. Cookies are information shared between our server and your computer. Cookies are used for making your site experience smoother. If cookies are turned off, we can’t assure that all parts of our site will perform as it is intended to.

How Do We Use Your Data?

Your data would be used to help yourselves. Unlike the stigma, we hardly use your data against you.

  • To effectively communicate with users
  • To provide a better site experience for users
  • To send bulk emails to interested users
  • To display targeted advertisements
  • To retarget you to resources related to your own country
  • To secure our site efficiently
  • To modify a particular content section
  • To make our articles better

How Well Protected Are Your Data?

We take the utmost importance to protect your private data. All privacy pieces of information are stored with multiple levels of security to avoid misuses.

Online safety is not easy with all sort of software getting updated all the time, thus causing small errors that can be exploited by talented scammers. Online safety isn’t something we can’t give a 100% guarantee on. But we do everything in our capacity. Our websites are hosted by reputed websites managers who do security measures like the safety firewall.

Passwords and other details that can give access to your private data is shared only with a few selected personals in our company.

How Do We Deal With Third Parties and Your Data?

In the case of third-party companies, we don’t sell your data unless we have your consent to do so. Most of the time, such data gets straightly shared with third parties without going through us.

What Happens To Your Data When We Partner Up?

If we sell our site, partially or fully, your data will also be carried over to the new partner/owner. But we will make sure that the new partner agrees with the privacy policy of ours at the time of the partnership. We won’t deal with others if the end result will compromise your data’ safety.

Cookies and Web Beacons

Like any other website, Cost Aide uses ‘cookies’. These cookies are used to store information including visitors’ preferences, and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. The information is used to optimize the users’ experience by customizing our web page content based on visitors’ browser type and/or other information.

Google DoubleClick DART Cookie

Google is one of a third-party vendor on our site. It also uses cookies, known as DART cookies, to serve ads to our site visitors based upon their visit to www.website.com and other sites on the internet. However, visitors may choose to decline the use of DART cookies by visiting the Google ad and content network Privacy Policy at the following URL – https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads

Our Advertising Partners

Some of advertisers on our site may use cookies and web beacons. Our advertising partners are listed below. Each of our advertising partners has their own Privacy Policy for their policies on user data. For easier access, we hyperlinked to their Privacy Policies below.

Users may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Ads Settings. (Alternatively, you can opt out of a third-party vendor’s use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info.)

Advertising Partners Privacy Policies

You may consult this list to find the Privacy Policy for each of the advertising partners of Cost Aide.

Third-party ad servers or ad networks uses technologies like cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons that are used in their respective advertisements and links that appear on Cost Aide, which are sent directly to users’ browser. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. These technologies are used to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on websites that you visit.

Note that Cost Aide has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.

Third Party Privacy Policies

Cost Aide’s Privacy Policy does not apply to other advertisers or websites. Thus, we are advising you to consult the respective Privacy Policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information. It may include their practices and instructions about how to opt-out of certain options.

You can choose to disable cookies through your individual browser options. To know more detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers, it can be found at the browsers’ respective websites.

CCPA Privacy Rights (Do Not Sell My Personal Information)

Under the CCPA, among other rights, California consumers have the right to:

Request that a business that collects a consumer’s personal data disclose the categories and specific pieces of personal data that a business has collected about consumers.

Request that a business delete any personal data about the consumer that a business has collected.

Request that a business that sells a consumer’s personal data, not sell the consumer’s personal data.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.

GDPR Data Protection Rights

We would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:

The right to access – You have the right to request copies of your personal data. We may charge you a small fee for this service.

The right to rectification – You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request that we complete the information you believe is incomplete.

The right to erasure – You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to data portability – You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.

Children’s Information

Another part of our priority is adding protection for children while using the internet. We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate in, and/or monitor and guide their online activity.

Cost Aide does not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information from children under the age of 13. If you think that your child provided this kind of information on our website, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately and we will do our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.

Changes to this privacy policy

CostAide has the discretion to update this privacy policy at any time. When we do, we will post a notification on the main page of our Site. We encourage Users to frequently check this page for any changes to stay informed about how we are helping to protect the personal information we collect. You acknowledge and agree that it is your responsibility to review this privacy policy periodically and become aware of modifications.

Your acceptance of these terms

By using this Site, you signify your acceptance of this policy. If you do not agree to this policy, please do not use our Site. Your continued use of the Site following the posting of changes to this policy will be deemed your acceptance of those changes.

Contacting us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this site, please contact us.

This document was last updated on July 4, 2022