Who we are
Privacy Policy for The Everyday Money Upgrade
**Effective Date:** September 15, 2025
**Last Updated:** September 15, 2025
Introduction
Welcome to The Everyday Money Upgrade (“we,” “our,” or “us”). We are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring you have a positive experience on our website. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website theeverydaymoneyupgrade.com.
Information We Collect
Personal Information
We may collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us when you:
- Subscribe to our email newsletter
- – Purchase products through our Gumroad store
- – Contact us via email or contact forms
- – Leave comments on our blog posts
This information may include:
- Name and email address
- – Payment information (processed securely by Gumroad)
- – Communication preferences
- – Any information you choose to provide in communications with us
Automatically Collected Information
When you visit our website, we automatically collect certain information about your device and usage patterns:
- IP address and location data
- – Browser type and version
- – Operating system
- – Pages visited and time spent on pages
- – Referring website
- – Device information
How We Use Your Information
We use the information we collect to:
- Provide and maintain our website services
- – Send you our email newsletter (with your consent)
- – Process transactions through our third-party payment processor
- – Respond to your inquiries and provide customer support
- – Improve our website content and user experience
- – Comply with legal obligations
- – Prevent fraud and enhance security
Information Sharing and Disclosure
We do not sell, trade, or rent your personal information to third parties. We may share your information with:
Service Providers
- **MailerLite:** For email marketing services (with your consent)
- – **Gumroad:** For processing digital product purchases
- – **Google Analytics:** For website analytics and performance monitoring
- – **Google AdSense:** For displaying relevant advertisements
Legal Requirements
We may disclose your information if required by law or in response to valid legal requests.
Cookies and Tracking Technologies
Our website uses cookies and similar tracking technologies to:
- Remember your preferences
- – Analyze website traffic and usage patterns
- – Display personalized advertisements through Google AdSense
- – Provide social media features
You can control cookies through your browser settings, but disabling cookies may affect website functionality.
Third-Party Services
Google AdSense
We use Google AdSense to display advertisements. Google may use cookies to serve ads based on your visits to our site and other websites. You can opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google’s Ad Settings.
Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics to understand how visitors interact with our website. Google Analytics collects information anonymously and reports website trends without identifying individual visitors.
MailerLite
Our email newsletter is managed through MailerLite. When you subscribe, your email address is stored on MailerLite’s servers. You can unsubscribe at any time using the link in our emails.
Gumroad
Product purchases are processed through Gumroad. Gumroad’s privacy policy governs the collection and use of payment information during transactions.
Data Security
We implement appropriate technical and organization
Comments
Suggested text: 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
Suggested text: 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
Suggested text: 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 visit our login page, 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.
Embedded content from other websites
Suggested text: 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.
Who we share your data with
Suggested text: If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
How long we retain your data
Suggested text: 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.
What rights you have over your data
Suggested text: 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.
Where your data is sent
Suggested text: Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.