Privacy Policy — Forest Pulse

📅 Last updated: April 28, 2025

1. Introduction

Welcome to Forest Pulse. We are committed to protecting your personal information.

2. Information We Collect

Usage Data: IP address, browser type, pages visited.
Cookies for experience improvement.
Contact info if you contact us.

3. Google AdSense

We use Google AdSense to display advertisements. Opt out at Google Ads Settings.

5. Third-Party Advertising & Services

We use Google AdSense, a third-party advertising service provided by Google LLC. Google and its partners may use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this site or other websites. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to websites.

Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to our users based on their visit to our sites and/or other sites on the Internet. Users may opt out of personalised advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings or aboutads.info.

We may also use third-party analytics tools (such as Google Analytics) to understand traffic patterns on this site. These services may collect information about your use of the site using cookies and similar technologies.

5. Your Rights

Request access or deletion via our Contact page.

5. GDPR — Your Data Rights

If you are located in the European Economic Area (EEA), you have the following rights under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR): Right of Access (request a copy of your data), Right to Rectification (correct inaccurate data), Right to Erasure (request deletion), Right to Restrict Processing, Right to Data Portability, and Right to Object to processing based on legitimate interests. To exercise any of these rights, contact us via our contact page. We will respond within 30 days as required by GDPR. We do not sell personal data. Advertising is served via Google AdSense; for Google's data practices, see Google's Privacy Policy.

6. Data Retention

Contact form submissions are retained for up to 12 months. Analytics data is retained in anonymised form for up to 26 months. We comply with applicable data protection laws including GDPR where applicable.

GDPR — Rights of European Users

If you are located in the European Economic Area (EEA), you have the following rights under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR):

Right to access — you may request a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
Right to rectification — you may request correction of inaccurate data.
Right to erasure — you may request deletion of your personal data.
Right to restrict processing — you may request that we limit how we use your data.
Right to data portability — you may request your data in a machine-readable format.
Right to object — you may object to processing based on legitimate interests or for direct marketing.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us via our contact page. We will respond within 30 days.

CCPA — Rights of California Residents

If you are a California resident, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) grants you specific rights regarding your personal information:

Right to know — you may request disclosure of the categories and specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you.
Right to delete — you may request deletion of personal information we have collected from you.
Right to opt-out — you may opt out of the sale of your personal information. We do not sell personal information.
Right to non-discrimination — we will not discriminate against you for exercising your CCPA rights.

To submit a CCPA request, contact us via our contact page.

Opt-Out of Personalised Advertising

We use Google AdSense to display advertisements. Google and its partners may use cookies to serve personalised ads based on your browsing history. You can opt out of personalised advertising at any time:

Google Ads Settings — manage or opt out of Google personalised ads
aboutads.info — industry-wide opt-out tool
NAI Opt-Out — Network Advertising Initiative opt-out

You may also disable cookies in your browser settings; however, this may affect site functionality.