Privacy Policy

Welcome to our Privacy Policy. This policy describes how we collect, use, process, and disclose your information, including personal information, in conjunction with your access to and use of our typing test platform.

We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully to understand our practices regarding your personal data.

By using our Service, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Service.

2.1 Information You Provide to Us

We collect information you provide directly to us when you:

• Create or modify your account
• Complete typing tests
• Fill in forms on our platform
• Participate in competitions or surveys
• Communicate with us

This information may include:

• Name, email address, and other contact information
• Username and password
• Profile information and preferences
• Typing test results and statistics
• Feedback and correspondence

2.2 Information We Collect Automatically

When you use our Service, we automatically collect certain information, including:

• Usage data (such as typing speed, accuracy, and test completion rates)
• Device information (such as IP address, browser type, operating system)
• Location information (country or region)
• Log data (access times, pages viewed, time spent on pages)
• Cookies and similar tracking technologies

We use the information we collect for various purposes, including to:

• Provide, maintain, and improve our Service
• Create and manage your account
• Process and track your typing test results
• Personalize your experience and provide content recommendations
• Communicate with you about our Service, updates, and promotional offers
• Monitor and analyze trends, usage, and activities in connection with our Service
• Detect, investigate, and prevent fraudulent transactions and other illegal activities
• Comply with legal obligations

3.1 Legal Basis for Processing

We process your personal information based on the following legal grounds:

• Consent: Where you have given us consent to process your personal data for specific purposes.
• Contract: Where processing is necessary for the performance of a contract with you.
• Legitimate Interests: Where processing is necessary for our legitimate interests, provided those interests are not overridden by your rights and freedoms.
• Legal Obligation: Where processing is necessary to comply with a legal obligation.

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track activity on our Service and hold certain information. Cookies are files with a small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier.

4.1 Types of Cookies We Use

• Essential Cookies: Necessary for the operation of our website. These enable core functionality such as security, account management, and network management.
• Analytical/Performance Cookies: Allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors and see how visitors move around our website. This helps us improve the way our website works.
• Functionality Cookies: Used to recognize you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalize our content for you and remember your preferences.
• Targeting Cookies: Record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited, and the links you have followed. We use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests.

4.2 Managing Cookies

You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Service.

For more information about cookies and how to manage them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.

We may share your personal information with the following categories of recipients:

5.1 Service Providers

We may employ third-party companies and individuals to facilitate our Service, provide the Service on our behalf, perform Service-related services, or assist us in analyzing how our Service is used. These third parties have access to your personal information only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.

5.2 Analytics Providers

We use analytics providers such as Google Analytics to help us understand how users engage with the Service. These analytics providers may use cookies and similar technologies to collect information about your use of the Service and other websites.

5.3 Business Transfers

If we are involved in a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or a portion of our assets, your personal information may be transferred as part of that transaction. We will notify you via email and/or a prominent notice on our Service of any change in ownership or uses of your personal information.

5.4 Legal Requirements

We may disclose your personal information if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g., a court or a government agency).

5.5 With Your Consent

We may share your personal information with other parties with your consent or at your direction.

The security of your personal information is important to us. We implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your personal information against unauthorized or unlawful processing, accidental loss, destruction, or damage.

However, please note that no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

6.1 Data Retention

We will retain your personal information only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your personal information to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

We will also retain usage data for internal analysis purposes. Usage data is generally retained for a shorter period, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of our Service, or we are legally obligated to retain this data for longer periods.

Depending on your location, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information. These may include:

7.1 Access and Information

You have the right to request access to the personal information we hold about you and to receive information about how we process it.

7.2 Correction

You have the right to request that we correct any inaccurate or incomplete personal information we hold about you.

7.3 Erasure

You have the right to request that we delete your personal information in certain circumstances, such as when it is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected.

7.4 Restriction of Processing

You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances, such as when you contest the accuracy of the data.

7.5 Data Portability

You have the right to receive your personal information in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format and to transmit that data to another controller.

7.6 Objection

You have the right to object to the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances, such as for direct marketing purposes.

7.7 Automated Decision-Making

You have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affects you.

7.8 Exercising Your Rights

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the contact information provided at the end of this Privacy Policy. We may need to verify your identity before responding to your request.

Our Service is not directed to children under the age of 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under 13, we will take steps to delete that information as quickly as possible.

If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us so that we can take necessary actions.

Your personal information may be transferred to and processed in countries other than the country in which you are resident. These countries may have data protection laws that are different from the laws of your country.

Specifically, our servers are located in the United States, and our service providers and partners operate around the world. This means that when we collect your personal information, we may process it in any of these countries.

However, we have taken appropriate safeguards to require that your personal information will remain protected in accordance with this Privacy Policy. These include implementing the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses for transfers of personal information between our group companies and third-party providers, which require all companies to protect personal information they process from the EEA in accordance with European Union data protection law.

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the "Last Updated" date at the top of this Privacy Policy.

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

If we make material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you either through the email address you have provided us or by placing a prominent notice on our website.