Privacy Policy

At Scam Protection Watch, accessible from scamprotectionwatch.com (and associated subdomains), one of our main priorities is the privacy of our visitors. This Privacy Policy document contains types of information that is collected and recorded by Scam Protection Watch and how we use it.

If you have additional questions or require more information about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us through our Contact Page.

1. Information We Collect

Scam Protection Watch provides an interactive scam risk assessment. The information we collect is designed to help generate your personalized risk profile. We collect the following details:

• Basic Identification: Your first name (used to customize the interactive experience).
• General Location: City and state (used to analyze location-specific fraud patterns).
• Assessment Responses: Your answers to the exposure risk questions (e.g., whether you receive suspicious messages, password reuse patterns, and data breach awareness).

We do not collect highly sensitive personally identifiable information (PII) such as your email address, phone number, physical home address, credit card numbers, or social security numbers during the assessment scan.

2. How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect in various ways, including to:

• Provide, operate, and maintain our website.
• Improve, personalize, and expand our website's interactive tools.
• Understand and analyze how you use our website.
• Develop new products, services, features, and functionality.
• Generate your personalized Scam Risk Score and profile assessment.
• Recommend relevant protection services or affiliate products based on your risk profile.

3. Log Files

Scam Protection Watch follows a standard procedure of using log files. These files log visitors when they visit websites. All hosting companies do this and a part of hosting services' analytics. The information collected by log files includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. These are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable. The purpose of the information is for analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users' movement on the website, and gathering demographic information.

4. Cookies and Web Beacons

Like any other website, Scam Protection Watch 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.

5. Advertising Partners Privacy Policies

You may consult this list to find the Privacy Policy for each of the advertising partners of Scam Protection Watch.

Third-party ad servers or ad networks use technologies like cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons that are used in their respective advertisements and links that appear on Scam Protection Watch, 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 Scam Protection Watch has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.

6. Third Party Privacy Policies

Scam Protection Watch'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.

7. GDPR Data Protection Rights

We want 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.
• The right to rectification – You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate.
• 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.

8. 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.

Scam Protection Watch 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.