Privacy Policy

Last updated: June 24, 2026

1. Introduction

Welcome to sellingvis.com ("we," "our," or "us"). We are committed to protecting your personal information and your right to privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website at https://sellingvis.com (the "Site"). Please read this privacy policy carefully. If you do not agree with the terms of this privacy policy, please do not access the site.

We reserve the right to make changes to this Privacy Policy at any time and for any reason. We will alert you about any changes by updating the "Last updated" date of this Privacy Policy. Any changes or modifications will be effective immediately upon posting the updated Privacy Policy on the Site, and you waive the right to receive specific notice of each such change or modification.

This Privacy Policy is designed to comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) of the European Union, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), and other applicable data protection laws. We encourage you to periodically review this Privacy Policy to stay informed of updates.

2. Information We Collect

We collect information that you voluntarily provide to us when you register on the Site, express an interest in obtaining information about us or our content, when you participate in activities on the Site, or otherwise when you contact us. The personal information that we collect depends on the context of your interactions with us and the Site, the choices you make, and the features you use.

2.1 Personal Data You Provide

The personal information we may collect includes the following:

  • Contact Information: Such as your name, email address, and any other information you choose to provide when you subscribe to our newsletter, submit a contact form, or leave a comment.
  • Account Credentials: If you create an account, we collect your username and password. We use industry-standard encryption to protect your password.
  • Communication Data: Records of correspondence when you contact us, including emails, messages sent through our contact form, and any attachments you send.
  • User-Generated Content: Comments, forum posts, or other content you submit to the Site.

2.2 Information Automatically Collected

When you visit our Site, we automatically collect certain information about your device and usage patterns. This information does not reveal your specific identity but may include the following:

  • Log and Usage Data: IP address, browser type and version, operating system, referring/exit pages, date and time stamps, pages viewed, time spent on pages, clickstream data, and other diagnostic data.
  • Device Information: Device type, screen resolution, language preferences, and unique device identifiers.
  • Location Data: General geographic location derived from your IP address (city and country level only).
  • Analytics Data: We use third-party analytics services (such as Google Analytics) to help us understand how visitors engage with our content. These services may use cookies and similar technologies to collect information about your use of the Site.

3. How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect for various business purposes, as described below. We process your personal information for these purposes in reliance on our legitimate business interests, with your consent, to comply with legal obligations, and/or to fulfill a contract with you.

  • To provide and maintain our Site: Including monitoring usage, diagnosing technical problems, and improving site performance and security.
  • To communicate with you: Responding to your inquiries, sending newsletters you have subscribed to, providing customer support, and sending administrative notices.
  • To personalize your experience: Understanding your preferences and interests to deliver content and advertising relevant to you.
  • To improve our content: Analyzing usage patterns to understand what topics and formats resonate with our audience.
  • For advertising purposes: Serving relevant advertisements and measuring their effectiveness (see Section 4 for details).
  • To protect our rights: Detecting and preventing fraud, enforcing our Terms of Service, and complying with legal obligations.
  • To comply with legal obligations: Responding to lawful requests from public authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements.

4. Cookies and Tracking Technologies

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies (such as web beacons, pixels, and scripts) to access or store information. Cookies are small data files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Cookies are widely used by website owners to make their websites work more efficiently and to provide reporting information.

4.1 Types of Cookies We Use

  • Essential Cookies: These cookies are necessary for the Site to function properly. They enable core functionality such as security, network management, and accessibility. You may disable these by changing your browser settings, but this may affect how the Site functions.
  • Functional Cookies: These cookies enable the Site to provide enhanced functionality and personalization, such as remembering your preferences and settings. If you do not allow these cookies, some services may not function properly.
  • 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 understand which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors navigate the Site. We use Google Analytics for this purpose.
  • Advertising Cookies: These cookies are set through our site by our advertising partners. They may be used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant advertisements on other sites.

5. Google AdSense and Third-Party Advertising

We display advertisements on our Site through Google AdSense and potentially other third-party advertising networks. It is important that you understand how these services use your data.

5.1 Google AdSense

Google uses cookies to serve ads on our Site. Google's use of the DoubleClick DART cookie enables it to serve ads to our users based on their visit to our Site and other sites on the Internet. The DoubleClick DART cookie is used by Google in the ads served on publisher websites displaying AdSense for content ads. When users visit an AdSense publisher's website and either view or click on an ad, a cookie may be dropped on that end user's browser. The data gathered from these cookies will be used to help AdSense publishers better serve and manage the ads on their sites and across the web.

Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy at the following URL: https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads

5.2 How Google Uses Data

Google uses the information collected from cookies to:

  • Serve advertisements based on prior visits to our Site and other websites.
  • Measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns.
  • Personalize the ads you see based on your browsing history and interests.
  • Prevent fraud and abuse in advertising systems.
  • Compile aggregate statistics about ad performance.

5.3 Your Choices Regarding Interest-Based Advertising

You have several options to control or limit how advertising cookies are used:

5.4 Other Third-Party Advertisers

We may work with other third-party advertising companies beyond Google. These companies may also use cookies and similar technologies to collect information about your visits to our Site and other websites to provide relevant advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. We do not control these third-party cookies, and they are subject to the respective privacy policies of these third parties. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, please consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party ad servers.

6. GDPR Rights (For European Economic Area Residents)

If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), you have certain data protection rights under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). We aim to take reasonable steps to allow you to correct, amend, delete, or limit the use of your personal data. If you wish to be informed about what personal data we hold about you and if you want it to be removed from our systems, please contact us.

Under the GDPR, you have the following rights:

  • Right of Access (Article 15): You have the right to request copies of your personal data. We may charge a small fee for this service in certain circumstances.
  • Right to Rectification (Article 16): You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate or incomplete.
  • Right to Erasure / "Right to be Forgotten" (Article 17): You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
  • Right to Restrict Processing (Article 18): You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
  • Right to Data Portability (Article 20): You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions, in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format.
  • Right to Object (Article 21): You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions, including for direct marketing purposes.
  • Rights Related to Automated Decision-Making (Article 22): 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.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the information provided in the "Contact Us" section below. We may need to verify your identity before processing your request.

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority in your country of residence if you believe that our processing of your personal data violates the GDPR.

7. CCPA Rights (For California Residents)

If you are a California resident, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) provides you with specific rights regarding your personal information. This section describes your CCPA rights and explains how to exercise those rights.

Under the CCPA, California residents have the following rights:

  • Right to Know: You have the right to request that we disclose what personal information we collect, use, disclose, and sell about you. Specifically, you can request: (1) the categories of personal information we have collected about you; (2) the categories of sources from which the personal information is collected; (3) the business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling personal information; (4) the categories of third parties with whom we share personal information; and (5) the specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you.
  • Right to Delete: You have the right to request the deletion of your personal information that we have collected, subject to certain exceptions.
  • Right to Opt-Out: You have the right to opt-out of the sale of your personal information. We do not sell personal information in the traditional sense, but we do share data with advertising partners as described in this policy.
  • Right to Non-Discrimination: We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your CCPA rights. This means we will not deny you goods or services, charge you different prices or rates, or provide you a different level or quality of services.

To exercise your CCPA rights, please contact us using the information in the "Contact Us" section. We will verify your request using the information associated with your account or email address. You may also designate an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf.

In the preceding twelve (12) months, we may have collected the following categories of personal information: identifiers (such as name and email address), Internet or other electronic network activity information (such as browsing history and interactions with our Site), and inferences drawn from the above to create a profile about consumer preferences.

8. Data Security

We have implemented appropriate technical and organizational security measures designed to protect the security of any personal information we process. These measures include:

  • SSL/TLS encryption for data transmission between your browser and our servers.
  • Regular security assessments and vulnerability scanning of our systems.
  • Access controls and authentication mechanisms to restrict access to personal data.
  • Employee training on data protection and privacy practices.
  • Incident response procedures to address potential data breaches promptly.

However, despite our safeguards and efforts to secure your information, no electronic transmission over the Internet or information storage technology can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. In the event that any information under our control is compromised as a result of a breach of security, we will take reasonable steps to investigate the situation and, where appropriate, notify those individuals whose information may have been compromised, in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.

9. Children's Privacy (COPPA Compliance)

Our Site is not intended for children under the age of 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. In compliance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), we take the following measures:

  • We do not knowingly collect, use, or disclose personal information from children under the age of 13.
  • If we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under age 13 without verification of parental consent, we will take immediate steps to delete that information from our servers and records.
  • If you are a parent or guardian and believe that your child under the age of 13 has provided us with personal information, please contact us immediately using the information in the "Contact Us" section so that we can take the necessary actions to remove such information.
  • We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate in, and/or monitor and guide their children's online activity.

If you are between 13 and 18 years of age (or the age of digital consent in your jurisdiction), we recommend that you review this Privacy Policy with your parent or guardian and obtain their consent before using our Site or submitting any personal information.

10. 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 information to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

When we no longer need to retain your personal information, we will securely delete or anonymize it. In some circumstances, we may anonymize your personal information (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research or statistical purposes, in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.

11. International Data Transfers

Your information, including personal data, may be transferred to and maintained on computers located outside of your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those of your jurisdiction. If you are located outside the United States and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the data, including personal data, to the United States and process it there.

Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy, and no transfer of your personal data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.

12. Third-Party Websites

Our Site may contain links to third-party websites, plug-ins, and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our Site, we encourage you to read the privacy policy of every website you visit.

13. Changes to This Privacy Policy

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 Site. Your continued use of our Site after we post any modifications to the Privacy Policy on this page will constitute your acknowledgment of the modifications and your consent to abide and be bound by the modified Privacy Policy.

14. Contact Us

If you have any questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or our data practices, please contact us using the information below:

  • Email: [email protected]
  • Contact Form: Visit our Contact Us page
  • Mail: sellingvis.com, 1 Astronomy Way, Science Park, CA 94105, United States

We will endeavor to respond to all inquiries within 30 days. For GDPR-related requests, we will respond within the legally mandated one-month period. If your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests, it may take us longer, in which case we will notify you and keep you updated.

15. Consent

By using our website, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its terms. If you do not agree to this policy, please do not use our Site.

Your continued use of the Site following the posting of changes to this policy will be deemed your acceptance of those changes.