This Privacy Policy explains how Rate Famous People ("we", "us", "our") collects, uses, and protects your personal data when you visit our website (ratefamouspeople.com).
1. Information We Collect
We receive and store certain information when you interact with our platform:
- Account Information: When you sign in using Google Login, we collect basic profile information provided by Google, strictly limited to your email address, full name, and profile picture URL. We do not have access to your Google password.
- Usage Data: We store a record of the votes you cast and your interactions with the platform to maintain the integrity of our ranking system.
- Technical Data: Our servers automatically collect standard internet log information, including your IP address, browser type, and operating system, largely for security purposes and bot mitigation.
2. How We Use Your Information
We use the collected information for the following purposes:
- To authenticate your identity and maintain your personal account.
- To securely register and calculate your votes in our database.
- To detect, prevent, and mitigate malicious activities, such as vote manipulation and bot traffic.
We do not sell your personal data to third parties.
3. Third-Party Services
We utilize trusted third-party providers to operate our platform:
- Google Authentication: Used exclusively for secure sign-in.
- Cloudflare Turnstile: Used to protect our site from bots and spam attacks. Cloudflare may process your IP address and device behavior to verify that you are human.
- Google AdSense: We may display advertising on our platform. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to our website or other websites. You can opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings.
4. Data Security
We implement standard, commercially reasonable security measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, disclosure, or destruction. All account interactions are handled securely over HTTPS.
5. Your Rights & Data Deletion
You have the right to request access to the personal data we hold about you. You may also request the complete deletion of your account and all associated voting data at any time. To initiate a deletion request, please contact us using the reporting tool provided at the bottom of our pages.
6. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or for operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. We encourage you to review this page periodically.
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