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Effective date: 15 June 2025

Last Updated: 15 June 2025

Elicit Folio (“us”, “we”, or “our”) operates the website (the “Service”).

This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of personal data when you use our Service and the choices you have associated with that data.

We use your data to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy. Unless otherwise defined in this Privacy Policy, terms used in this Privacy Policy have the same meanings as in our Terms and Conditions.

Who we are

Data Controller: Elicit Folio
Contact: info@elicitfolio.com

Our website address is: https://elicitfolio.com/

Please note that your information may be transferred to, stored, and processed in the United States or other countries where we or our service providers operate. By using our Service, you consent to this transfer.

Definitions

For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:

  • Service means the website operated by Elicit Folio, accessible at https://elicitfolio.com/.
  • Personal Data means information about a living individual who can be identified from that data (or from that and other information we have or are likely to have).
  • Usage Data means data collected automatically, either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, page visit duration).
  • Cookies are small files stored on your device (computer or mobile device).
  • Data Controller means the natural or legal person who determines the purposes and manner in which any personal data are processed. For this policy, Elicit Folio is the Data Controller of your Personal Data.
  • You means the individual accessing or using the Service, or the company/legal entity on behalf of which that individual is using the Service.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

We collect information from you when you subscribe to our newsletter or respond to a giveaway/contest winner announcement. We also receive, collect and store any information you enter on our website or provide us in any other way. In addition, we collect the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet; login; e-mail address; password; computer and connection information and purchase history. We may use software tools to measure and collect session information, including page response times, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information, and methods used to browse away from the page. We also collect personally identifiable information (including name, email, password, communications); payment details (including credit card information), comments, feedback, product reviews, recommendations, and personal profile.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Advertising

We may use third-party Service Providers to show advertisements to you to help support and maintain our Service.

Mediavine Programmatic Advertising (Ver 1.1)

The Website works with Mediavine to manage third-party interest-based advertising appearing on the Website. Mediavine serves content and advertisements when you visit the Website, which may use first and third-party cookies. A cookie is a small text file which is sent to your computer or mobile device (referred to in this policy as a “device”) by the web server so that a website can remember some information about your browsing activity on the Website.

First party cookies are created by the website that you are visiting. A third-party cookie is frequently used in behavioral advertising and analytics and is created by a domain other than the website you are visiting. Third-party cookies, tags, pixels, beacons and other similar technologies (collectively, “Tags”) may be placed on the Website to monitor interaction with advertising content and to target and optimize advertising. Each internet browser has functionality so that you can block both first and third-party cookies and clear your browser’s cache. The “help” feature of the menu bar on most browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new cookies, how to receive notification of new cookies, how to disable existing cookies and how to clear your browser’s cache. For more information about cookies and how to disable them, you can consult the information at All About Cookies.

Without cookies you may not be able to take full advantage of the Website content and features. Please note that rejecting cookies does not mean that you will no longer see ads when you visit our Site. In the event you opt-out, you will still see non-personalized advertisements on the Website.

The Website collects the following data using a cookie when serving personalized ads:

  • IP Address
  • Operating System type
  • Operating System version
  • Device Type
  • Language of the website
  • Web browser type
  • Email (in hashed form)

Mediavine Partners (companies listed below with whom Mediavine shares data) may also use this data to link to other end user information the partner has independently collected to deliver targeted advertisements. Mediavine Partners may also separately collect data about end users from other sources, such as advertising IDs or pixels, and link that data to data collected from Mediavine publishers in order to provide interest-based advertising across your online experience, including devices, browsers and apps. This data includes usage data, cookie information, device information, information about interactions between users and advertisements and websites, geolocation data, traffic data, and information about a visitor’s referral source to a particular website. Mediavine Partners may also create unique IDs to create audience segments, which are used to provide targeted advertising.

If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices to opt-in or opt-out of this data collection, please visit National Advertising Initiative opt out page. You may also visit Digital Advertising Alliance website and Network Advertising Initiative website to learn more information about interest-based advertising. You may download the AppChoices app at Digital Advertising Alliance’s AppChoices app to opt out in connection with mobile apps, or use the platform controls on your mobile device to opt out.

For specific information about Mediavine Partners, the data each collects and their data collection and privacy policies, please visit Mediavine Partners.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

What do we use your information for?

We collect such non-personal and personal information for the following purposes:

  • To personalize your experience (your information helps us to better respond to your individual needs)
  • To stay in touch with you
  • To be able to contact our Visitors and Users with general or personalized service-related notices and promotional messages. We may contact you to notify you regarding your account, to troubleshoot problems with your account, to resolve a dispute, to collect fees or monies owed, to poll your opinions through surveys or questionnaires, to send updates about our company, or as otherwise necessary to contact you to enforce our User Agreement, applicable national laws, and any agreement we may have with you. For these purposes we may contact you via email, telephone, text messages, and postal mail.
  • To improve our website (we continually strive to improve our website offerings based on the information and feedback we receive from you)
  • To create aggregated statistical data and other aggregated and/or inferred Non-personal Information, which we or our business partners may use to provide and improve our respective services; 
  • To administer a contest, promotion, survey or other site feature
  • To comply with any applicable laws and regulations.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

We retain other personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this policy unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, 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 can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

For EU and California residents: You have specific rights regarding your personal data. To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at info@elicitfolio.com.

GDPR and CCPA Addendum

Your Rights Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), you have certain data protection rights under the GDPR. We aim to take reasonable steps to allow you to correct, amend, delete, or limit the use of your personal data.

You have the right to:

  • Access and receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
  • Request that we correct any personal data that is inaccurate or incomplete.
  • Request the deletion of personal data under certain conditions.
  • Object to our processing of your personal data.
  • Request restriction of processing your personal data.
  • Request data portability for the personal data you provided to us.
  • Withdraw your consent at any time (where we rely on your consent to process your data).

If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at info@elicitfolio.com.

Your Rights Under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)
If you are a California resident, you have specific rights regarding your personal information under the CCPA. These include the right to:

  • Know what personal information we collect, use, disclose, and sell.
  • Request that we delete your personal information.
  • Opt out of the sale of your personal information (note: we do not sell your personal information).
  • Non-discrimination for exercising your CCPA rights.

To make a CCPA request, please contact us at info@elicitfolio.com.

Verification of Requests

Before fulfilling any GDPR or CCPA requests, we may ask you to verify your identity to protect your privacy and security. If you have any questions or wish to exercise your rights, please email us at info@elicitfolio.com

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information. This does not include trusted third parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or servicing you. Our company is hosted on the Bluehost platform, which provides web hosting and database storage. If you make a purchase, payment details are processed securely via WooCommerce, which comply with PCI-DSS standards. Your data may be stored through data storage, databases and the general applications. They store your data on secure servers behind a firewall. 

All direct payment gateways offered by Bluehost and used by our company adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of credit card information by our store and its service providers. We may also release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others rights, property, or safety. However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses. 

Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or offer third party products or services on our website. Through our content, we are a part of the Amazon Associates Program. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. Other third party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We therefore have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these sites.

Children’s Privacy

Our website and services are not intended for children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from anyone under the age of 13. If you are under 13, please do not use this website or provide any personal information to us.

If we become aware that we have collected personal data from a child under 13 without verification of parental consent, we will take steps to remove that information from our servers promptly. If you believe that we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us at info@elicitfolio.com.

By using our site, you consent to our privacy policy. 

Changes to our Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time, so please review it frequently. If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or wish to withdraw your consent, please contact us at info@elicitfolio.com.