Homeschool Genie

Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

Effective Date: April 30, 2025

This Privacy Policy explains how Homeschool Genie (“we,” “our,” or “us”) collects, uses, shares, and protects your information when you visit our website, https://homeschoolgenie.com (“Site”). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal information.

1. Who We Are

Homeschool Genie is operated by Jonathan Lappin. For any privacy-specific concerns, please contact us using the details below.
Contact Email: homeschoolgenie.ai@gmail.com

2. What Personal Data We Collect and Why

  • Personal Information: If you register, subscribe to a newsletter, comment, or fill out a contact form, we may collect your name, email address, or other relevant details. This is used to provide our services, respond to inquiries, or deliver requested content.
  • Comments: When visitors leave comments, we collect the data shown in the comments form, your IP address, and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
  • Media: If you upload images to the Site, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS).
  • Contact Forms: Information submitted via contact forms is retained for customer service purposes but is not used for marketing.
  • Cookies: Our Site uses cookies to enhance user experience, analyze site usage, and serve personalized ads. You may control or delete cookies in your browser settings. See the “Cookies” section below for details.
  • Analytics: We use Google Analytics to collect anonymized data about site usage. See the “Analytics” section for more.
  • Third-Party Advertising: We use Google AdSense to display ads, which may use cookies and web beacons for ad personalization and measurement.

3. Cookies

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track activity on our Site, remember your preferences, and improve user experience. Third parties (such as Google) may also use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website and other sites.

Most browsers allow you to block or delete cookies via settings. Disabling cookies may affect some features of this Site.

4. Google AdSense, Ezoic Services, and Third-Party Advertising

Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to our website or other websites. Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads based on your visit to our Site and/or other sites on the Internet.

We also use the services of Ezoic Inc. (“Ezoic”) 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. These technologies may utilize first and third-party cookies, tags, beacons, pixels, and similar technologies to monitor interactions with advertisements and optimize ad targeting.

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. 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.

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.

5. Analytics

We use Google Analytics to collect anonymized, aggregated statistics to help us understand visitor behavior and improve our services. For more information, visit Google Analytics privacy policy. You may opt out using the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on.

6. How We Use Your Information

  • To provide and improve our services
  • To personalize your experience
  • To communicate with you, if requested
  • To analyze website usage and trends
  • To display ads and measure their effectiveness
  • To detect, prevent, and address technical issues

7. Who We Share Your Data With

We do not sell or rent your personal information. We may share your information with third-party service providers (such as website hosting, analytics, advertising networks) as needed to operate the Site. These providers may have access to your data only to perform tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for other purposes.

8. How Long We Retain Your Data

  • If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely.
  • Contact form entries are kept for up to 12 months for customer service purposes.
  • Analytics data is stored for up to 26 months.
  • Other user-submitted data is retained only as long as necessary for the purposes stated in this policy.

9. What Rights You Have Over Your Data

If you have an account or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You may also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you, subject to legal and administrative requirements. To exercise these rights, contact us at homeschoolgenie.ai@gmail.com.

If you are a resident of the EEA or California, you have specific rights under data protection laws, including the right to access, correct, or delete your data.

10. Where Your Data Is Sent

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. Data may be processed and stored on servers outside your country, including in the United States. We ensure that any data transfers comply with applicable privacy laws and safeguard your personal information.

11. Children’s Privacy

Our Site is intended for a general audience and does not knowingly collect information from children under 13. If you believe a child has provided us with personal data, please contact us immediately, and we will promptly delete such information.

12. How We Protect Your Data

We use industry-standard security measures to protect your personal data, including SSL encryption, regular software updates, strong password policies, and restricted access to sensitive information.

13. Data Breach Procedures

If a data breach occurs, we will notify affected users as required by law, investigate the breach, and take steps to minimize damage and prevent future incidents.

14. Automated Decision Making and Profiling

We do not engage in automated decision making or profiling with user data beyond what is described for advertising and analytics.

15. Industry Regulatory Disclosure Requirements

If required by law or as a member of a regulated industry, we will disclose information as required to authorities.

16. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy periodically. We will notify you of any material changes by posting the updated policy on this page with a new effective date.

17. Contact Information

For any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or your data, please contact:
Email: homeschoolgenie.ai@gmail.com

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