Privacy Policy

The Weld Guru respects the privacy of our visitors. The list below is a description of the types of information we receive when you visit our site. Rest assured that we try our best to protect all the information provided. If you have any concerns, please contact us and we’ll do our best to address any issue.

Decency

Integrity at all costs is our standard. It is why we disclose that we receive compensation for some of the products we mention, and it is also why we only list products we believe in.

Third-Party Advertising

Advertising is provided to the Weld Guru by third parties that automatically feed it to the site. We have very little control over what appears.

These companies often collect and use information (not personally identifiable information such as your name, address and phone) on past internet visits to display advertising that is relevant to your life. For more information on this technology visit Google

Visitors to the Weld Guru can always opt-out of this process, including Google Analytics for Display Advertising and retargeting and customize Google display network ads using the Ad Preferences Manager and the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on.

At times we might work with a behavioral advertising company. These companies use cookies to obtain non-personally identifiable information during your site visit.  If you’d like to learn more about this type of advertising, we suggest visiting the Network Advertising Initiative’s opt-out link at http://optout.networkadvertising.org/?c=1.

The DoubleClick DART Cookie and Google:

  • Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on the Weld Guru site.
  • Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to visitors based on their visit to the Weld Guru and other sites on the Internet.
  • Users may opt-out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the site  Google ad and content network privacy policy.

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.

Personal Information We Collect

The Weld Guru does collect limited amounts of personally identifiable information from the visitors to our website when you specifically provide it via a form. This is completely voluntary.  

Once submitted it is stored on our server and protected as best we can. This is not a guarantee of protection, but we do our best. We do not sell information to any third party. It is for internal purposes only.

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.

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.

Use Of Cookies And Web Beacons

Often cookies are used to personalize an online experience.

You can decide not to allow the use of cookies by adjusting your web browser settings. This site may also use web beacons.

This is a transparent image file used to monitor your journey around a single website or collection of sites.

They are also referred to as web bugs and are commonly used by sites that hire third-party services to monitor traffic. This in no way is a virus or spam.  

They are used in some cases to serve third party ads to our site.

We do not provide any personally identifiable information to these beacons or cookies.

Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act

This website is directed to adults; it is not directed to children under the age of 13. We operate the Web Guru site in compliance with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, and will not knowingly collect or use personal information from anyone under 13 years of age.

Non-Personal Information

Some information collected is non-personal and is obtained in order to understand how visitors use our site. The information is collected for internal review and is not shared outside of the Web Guru or for commercial purposes.

Release Of Information

If Weld Guru is sold to another party, the information does transfer to the new owners.  In the event this happens, we will make reasonable efforts to ensure that the purchaser abides by these terms and conditions.

How To Correct Or Remove Information

We provide this privacy policy as a statement to you of our commitment to protect your personal information.

If you have submitted personal information through our website and would like that information deleted from our records or would like to update or correct that information, please get in touch via our contact page.

Updates And Effective Date

The Weld Guru completely reserves the right to make changes it the policies listed on this page.

We encourage all visitors that use the site to review this policy.

Agreeing To Terms

If you do not agree to Weld Guru Privacy Policy as posted here, then we humbly suggest that you do not continue with the site visit or use any of the information or services offered by this site.

Your use of the Web Guru site indicates acceptance of this privacy policy.