The Civil Engineering‘s Privacy Policy: What You Need to Know About How We Protect Your Data
Introduction
Welcome to The Civil Engineering’s privacy policy. We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This policy explains how we collect, use, share, and protect information in relation to our website https://thecivilengineerings.com.
The purpose of this privacy policy is to inform you, as a user of our website, about the types of data we collect about you, how we use that data, whether we disclose your data to anyone, and your rights regarding the personal data you provide to us.
We urge you to read this document carefully to fully understand our practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it.
Information We Collect
The Civil Engineering collects information in a few different ways:
Personal Information
When you sign up for our newsletter, request information, participate in surveys, interact on the blog, or otherwise communicate with us, we may collect personal information such as your name, email address, phone number, location, and any other information you choose to provide.
Usage Information
We collect information about your usage of our website and services. This includes your IP address, browser type, operating system, referral URLs, device information, pages viewed, links clicked, time spent on pages, and other actions taken through our site. This allows us to understand how you use our site and improve your experience.
Technical Information
We may also collect technical information to identify your device for security purposes, troubleshoot problems, and monitor usage and metrics. This may include cookies, web beacons, pixels, browser data, or other technologies to collect information and analyze trends.
Information from Third Parties
We may collect limited data from third party sources to supplement the information we collect. For example, we may use third party tools to identify your approximate location based on your IP address in order to customize certain services to your area.
How We Use Information
The Civil Engineering collects information to provide our readers with the best possible experience on our website and to operate, maintain, enhance, and develop our services.
Here are some of the ways we may use the information we collect:
- To understand our readers’ interests and preferences, so we can provide content and services that are most relevant. We may use your interactions with the site to customize your experience and the content shown to you.
- To monitor and analyze site usage and traffic, so we can improve the site’s design and functionality. We may use various analytics services for this purpose.
- To communicate with you by email about content you have interacted with or subscribed to. You can control your email preferences anytime.
- To serve targeted advertisements to you as you browse the web. We allow third party ad networks to collect information about your browsing activities over time and across sites when you use our site.
- For internal operations such as troubleshooting, data analysis, research, and service improvement. This allows us to improve the site and enhance the user experience.
- For legal compliance purposes such as enforcing our Terms of Service, preventing fraud, complying with legal requirements, and protecting user safety.
We strive to use information about you in a responsible manner that respects your privacy and benefits our readers. We only collect and use information that helps us achieve the purposes outlined in this policy.
Sharing Information
The Civil Engineering may share your personal information with third parties in certain situations:
- Service Providers: We may share information with third party companies and individuals we hire to perform services on our behalf, such as hosting the website, analyzing data, providing marketing assistance, processing payments, and providing customer service. These third parties only have access to the personal information needed to perform these limited functions on our behalf.
- Business Transfers: If we are acquired by or merged with another company, if substantially all of our assets are transferred to another company, or as part of a bankruptcy proceeding, we may transfer the personal information we have collected from you to the other company.
- In Response to Legal Process: We may disclose your personal information to comply with the law, a judicial proceeding, court order, or other legal process.
- To Protect Us and Others: We may disclose personal information when we believe it is appropriate to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person, violations of our Terms of Service or this Privacy Policy, or as evidence in litigation in which The Civil Engineering is involved.
- Aggregate Information: We may share aggregate information about website users with advertisers, sponsors or other third parties for marketing and promotional purposes. For example, we may tell advertisers the number of visitors to our website and the most popular features or services accessed. This aggregate information does not contain any personal information.
Cookies and Tracking Technologies
We and our partners use various technologies to collect and store information when you visit our website, and this may include using cookies or similar tracking technologies to identify you across different services and devices.
Cookies are small data files that are served by our platform and stored on your device. Our website uses cookies dropped by us or third parties for a variety of purposes including to operate and personalize the website, track users’ movements and activities, analyze how website is performing, keep track of preferences, and serve ads.
There are different types of cookies:
- Essential cookies: These cookies are essential for our website to function properly and cannot be switched off. They are usually only set in response to actions made by you which amount to a request for services, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in or filling in forms.
- Analytics cookies: These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our site. They help us to know which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the site. The information collected through these cookies is aggregated and therefore anonymous. If you do not allow these cookies we will not know when you have visited our site.
- Advertising cookies: These cookies are used to deliver advertisements that are more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement as well as help measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns. They remember that you have visited a website and this information is shared with other organizations such as advertisers.
You can control and/or delete cookies as you wish – for details, see aboutcookies.org. You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site and some services and functionalities may not work.
Third Party Advertising
The Civil Engineering website partners with Ezoic, a leader in website optimization and AI-powered ad technology. Ezoic uses various technologies to enhance user experiences and generate revenue through advertising. For more details on Ezoic’s advertising partners, visit their website. please see Ezoic’s Advertising Partner Page here.
This website displays third party advertising on the website, including ads from Google AdSense and Ezoic. These advertising partners may use cookies and web beacons to collect non-personally identifiable information from users about their browsing activities in order to display targeted ads on this site and on other sites across the Internet.
Users can opt out of Google’s use of cookies by visiting Google’s Ads Settings. They can also opt out of a third-party vendor’s use of cookies by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page.
Ezoic is a third party ad network that provides ad serving technology and services on The Civil Engineering. It collects anonymous browsing data using first- and third-party cookies and web beacons to display ads that are relevant to site visitors. More information about Ezoic’s data collection practices can be found in their privacy policy.
Users have the option to disable Ezoic cookies through their browser settings if they do not wish to have information collected for advertising purposes. However, this may affect the performance and display of ads on the site.
The Civil Engineering does not have direct access to or control over the cookies and tracking technologies that may be used by third party advertisers and ad networks. Please refer to their respective privacy policies for more details on their practices and your opt-out choices.
Security
We take reasonable security measures to protect against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction of the information we collect and store. This includes implementing technical, administrative, and physical security controls.
Some examples of our security practices include:
- Encrypting data in transit and at rest
- Restricting access to sensitive information to only authorized personnel
- Implementing multi-factor authentication for access to systems
- Conducting security audits and vulnerability scans
- Using reputable third party services and vendors
- Maintaining physical security of our offices and servers
While we follow generally accepted standards and best practices to protect your information, no security system is impenetrable. We cannot guarantee the security of our systems 100%. In the event that any information under our control is compromised, we will take reasonable steps to investigate and remediate the situation.
If you ever have concerns about the security of your information, please don’t hesitate to contact us at [email protected]. We take security issues very seriously and appreciate any feedback that can help us improve.
Your Choices
We aim to provide you with as much control over your personal information as possible.
Opting out of data collection:
- You can opt out of certain website analytics tracking by using the Do Not Track setting in your browser. This tells websites you visit that you do not want your online activities tracked.
- You can opt out of targeted advertising by adjusting the ad settings on your device, or by visiting sites like www.aboutads.info which have opt-out programs from advertising networks.
- You can opt out of Google’s use of cookies by visiting Google’s Ads Settings. You can also install the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.
- You can opt out of our email marketing by clicking the “unsubscribe” link located at the bottom of each email. This will remove you from all future marketing communications.
- You can request to have your personal information deleted or removed from our systems by emailing [email protected]. We will respond within 30 days.
- You have the right to request what personal information we have collected about you.
We aim to allow you control over your personal data while still providing a quality service. Please contact us if you have any additional questions!
Children’s Privacy
The Civil Engineering blog takes children’s privacy seriously. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13 without parental consent.
If we learn that a child under 13 has provided us with personal information without parental consent, we take steps to delete the information. Parents who believe their child has submitted personal information to The Civil Engineering blog without their consent can contact us to have the information removed.
For children resident in the EU, where processing of personal information is based on consent, we will not knowingly engage with children under the age of digital consent established by local data protection law. We will make reasonable efforts to verify parental consent, taking into account available technology.
The Civil Engineering blog does not target its content to children or knowingly collect information from children. Our content is intended for users 18 and older. Parents should supervise their children’s online activities and consider using parental control tools available from online services and software manufacturers to help provide a child-friendly online environment. These tools can prevent children from disclosing personal information and restrict access to certain content.
Changes to the Policy
We may change this privacy policy from time to time. We will post any privacy policy changes on this page and, if the changes are significant, we may choose to provide a more prominent notice or send you an email notification. We encourage you to review this privacy policy periodically to stay informed on how we are protecting your information.
We will also keep prior versions of this Privacy Policy in an archive for your review.