Privacy Policy

1. Who We Are

EarnOnlineGuide ("we", "us", "our") operates the website https://earnonlineguides.com. We publish educational guides about remote work, freelancing, online income and digital skills. For data-protection inquiries, contact privacy@earnonlineguides.com.

2. Information We Collect

a) Information you provide. When you submit our contact form, subscribe to a newsletter, or send us an email, we receive the information you share — typically your name, email address and the contents of your message.

b) Information collected automatically. Like most websites, we automatically collect technical information when you visit, including: IP address (truncated for analytics), browser type and version, operating system, referring website, pages viewed, time spent on pages, device type, and approximate geographic region.

c) Cookies and similar technologies. We use cookies, web beacons and similar storage technologies to operate the site, remember preferences, measure traffic and serve advertising. See the cookies section below for details and controls.

3. How We Use Your Information

• To deliver, maintain and improve the website.
• To respond to messages submitted through our contact form or sent by email.
• To send newsletter emails (only to users who opt in) and provide an unsubscribe option in every email.
• To analyse aggregate traffic, content performance and user behaviour so we can improve our guides.
• To detect, prevent and respond to security incidents, fraud and abuse.
• To comply with legal obligations.

4. Legal Bases for Processing (GDPR)

If you are in the European Economic Area, United Kingdom or another GDPR-equivalent jurisdiction, our legal bases for processing your personal data are: (a) consent for non-essential cookies, advertising personalisation and newsletter subscriptions; (b) legitimate interests for analytics, security and content improvement; and (c) contract / pre-contract when responding to inquiries you initiate.

5. Advertising (A-ADS)

EarnOnlineGuide is funded by display advertising served through A-ADS (Anonymous Ads). A-ADS serves contextual, non-personalised advertising inside sandboxed iframes. It does not build advertising profiles about you, does not require cookies to deliver ads, and does not use cross-site advertising identifiers.

We do not use Google AdSense, Google Ad Manager, DoubleClick, or any personalised advertising network, and we do not run retargeting or behavioural advertising of any kind.

Because our advertising is not personalised, there is no advertising profile to opt out of. Ad requests are still loaded from A-ADS servers, which — like any web request — process your IP address and browser user agent to deliver the ad and prevent fraud, under A-ADS' own privacy policy.

6. Analytics

We use Google Analytics 4 to understand which pages perform well and how readers move through the site. Analytics data is aggregated and is not used to identify you personally. Google Analytics is loaded in Google Consent Mode v2 with analytics and advertising storage set to denied by default: no analytics cookies are written until you accept them in our cookie notice. If you decline, no analytics cookies are stored.

7. Cookies

We use two categories of cookies and browser storage:

• Strictly necessary — your cookie choice (eog_consent_v1, stored in local storage), your dismissal of an ad unit for the current session, and security/anti-bot cookies set by our hosting provider (__cf_bm).
• Analytics cookies — Google Analytics (_ga, _ga_*), written only after you accept.

We set no advertising cookies. You can also disable cookies in your browser settings at any time; disabling certain cookies may reduce site functionality.

8. Newsletter & Email

If you subscribe to our newsletter, we store your email address solely to send you the newsletter. We will never sell or rent your email address. Every email contains a one-click unsubscribe link, and you may also email privacy@earnonlineguides.com to be removed at any time.

9. Data Sharing

We do not sell your personal information. We share data only with: (a) service providers who host the site, send email or provide analytics on our behalf, under contractual confidentiality obligations; (b) advertising partners as described above; and (c) law-enforcement or regulators where legally required.

10. International Data Transfers

Our service providers may process data in the United States and other countries. When data is transferred outside your country of residence, we rely on appropriate safeguards such as Standard Contractual Clauses or equivalent mechanisms.

11. Data Retention

We retain personal data only as long as needed for the purpose for which it was collected. Contact-form messages are retained for up to 24 months unless ongoing correspondence requires longer retention. Newsletter subscriber data is retained until you unsubscribe.

12. Your Rights

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to:

• Access the personal data we hold about you.
• Request correction of inaccurate data.
• Request deletion of your data.
• Object to or restrict certain processing.
• Withdraw consent at any time.
• Lodge a complaint with your local data-protection authority.

California residents (CCPA / CPRA): you have the right to know what personal information is collected, to delete it, to opt out of any "sale" or "share" of personal information (we do not sell personal data), and to be free from discrimination for exercising these rights.

To exercise any of these rights, contact privacy@earnonlineguides.com.

13. Children's Privacy

This site is not directed at children under 13 and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe a child has provided us with information, please contact us and we will delete it.

14. Security

We use industry-standard administrative, technical and physical safeguards to protect personal information. No system is perfectly secure, however, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

15. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Material changes will be reflected in the "Last updated" date at the top of the page and, where appropriate, communicated via a notice on the site.

16. Contact

Questions about this policy? Email privacy@earnonlineguides.com or use our contact form. See also our terms, disclaimer and editorial policy.