Privacy Policy
Who We Are
Our website address is: https://mdcatguru.com
At MDCATGURU.com, we are committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy outlines the types of personal data we collect and how it is used and protected.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the information shown in the comments form, as well as the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help detect spam.
An anonymized string (hash) created from your email address may be sent to the Gravatar service to check if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy. Once your comment is approved, your profile picture may become publicly visible in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, please avoid including embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors to the website can download and extract location data from these images.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site, you may choose to save your name, email address, and website in cookies. This is for your convenience so you don’t have to re-enter your details for future comments. These cookies will last for one year.
When you visit our login page, a temporary cookie is set to check if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
If you log in, several cookies will be stored to save your login information and display preferences:
- Login cookies last for two days.
- Display option cookies last for one year.
- If “Remember Me” is selected, your login will persist for two weeks.
- Logging out removes the login cookies.
When editing or publishing an article, an additional cookie is stored in your browser. This cookie contains no personal data and simply records the post ID of the article. It expires after one day.
Embedded Content from Other Websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (such as videos, images, and articles). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the same way as if you visited the external website directly.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with the embedded content — especially if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Who We Share Your Data With
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email for security purposes.
How Long We Retain Your Data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This allows us to recognize and automatically approve follow-up comments without manual moderation.
For users who register on our website (if applicable), we store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can view, edit, or delete their personal information at any time, except for their username. Website administrators can also access and modify this information.
Your Data Rights
If you have an account on this site or have left comments, you can request an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided.
You may also request the deletion of any personal data we hold about you. This excludes any data we are required to retain for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where Your Data Is Sent
Visitor comments may be reviewed through an automated spam detection service.
Ezoic Services
Ezoic Services
This website uses the services of Ezoic Inc. (“Ezoic”), including to manage third-party interest-based advertising. Ezoic may employ a variety of technologies on this website, including tools to serve content, display advertisements and enable advertising to visitors of this website, which may utilize first and third-party cookies.
A cookie is a small text file sent to your device by a web server that enables the website to remember information about your browsing activity. First-party cookies are created by the site you are visiting, while third-party cookies are set by domains other than the one you’re visiting. Ezoic and our partners may place third-party cookies, tags, beacons, pixels, and similar technologies to monitor interactions with advertisements and optimize ad targeting. Please note that disabling cookies may limit access to certain content and features on the website, and rejecting cookies does not eliminate advertisements but will result in non-personalized advertising. You can find more information about cookies and how to manage them here.
The following information may be collected, used, and stored in a cookie when serving personalized ads:
- IP address
- Operating system type and version
- Device type
- Language preferences
- Web browser type
- Email (in a hashed or encrypted form)
Ezoic and its partners may use this data in combination with information that has been independently collected to deliver targeted advertisements across various platforms and websites. Ezoic’s partners may also gather additional data, such as unique IDs, advertising IDs, geolocation data, usage data, device information, traffic data, referral sources, and interactions between users and websites or advertisements, to create audience segments for targeted advertising across different devices, browsers, and apps. You can find more information about interest-based advertising and how to manage them here.
You can view Ezoic’s privacy policy here, or for additional information about Ezoic’s advertising and other partners, you can view Ezoic’s advertising partners here.