Effective Date: January 21, 2026
Last Updated: January 21, 2026
At brianzenarosa.com, we respect your privacy and are committed to protecting the personal data of our customers and website visitors. This policy explains how we collect, use, and safeguard your information.
1. Information We Collect
We only collect the minimum amount of data necessary to process your orders and provide a seamless experience:
- Identity & Contact Data: Name, email address, and business billing address provided during checkout.
- Transaction Data: Details about the databases you have purchased and payment confirmations (we do not store full credit card numbers; see Section 4).
- Technical Data: IP address, browser type, and usage data collected via cookies to improve website performance and security.
2. How We Collect Your Data
We use different methods to collect data from and about you:
- Direct Interactions: You provide your identity and contact data by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by email.
- Automated Technologies: As you interact with our website, we may automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment and browsing patterns via cookies.
3. How We Use Your Information
We use your data strictly for the following purposes:
- Order Fulfillment: To deliver the downloadable database files to your email immediately after purchase.
- Customer Support: To respond to your inquiries and troubleshoot any download issues.
- Legal Compliance: To comply with tax obligations (issuing invoices) and prevent fraudulent transactions.
- Marketing (Optional): If you “opt-in,” we may send you updates when new regional databases are released. You can unsubscribe at any time.
4. How We Protect Your Data
We implement industry-standard security measures to ensure your information remains safe:
- Encryption in Transit: Our website uses SSL/TLS encryption to protect all data sent between your browser and our servers.
- Secure Payments: We use Tier-1 PCI-compliant payment processors (like Stripe or PayPal). Your sensitive financial details never touch our servers.
- Data Minimization: We do not collect or “hoard” unnecessary data. If we don’t need it to fulfill your order, we don’t ask for it.
- Access Control: Access to your customer data is strictly limited to authorized personnel who need it to provide support.
5. Data Sharing & Third Parties
We do not sell or rent your personal customer data to third parties. We only share information with trusted service providers essential to our operations:
- Payment Processors: To securely process your transaction.
- Email Service Providers: To deliver your digital products and receipts.
- Analytics Providers: (e.g., Google Analytics) To understand how visitors use our site.
6. Your Legal Rights
Depending on your location (such as the UK, EU, or California), you have rights under the GDPR or CCPA, including:
- Access: Request a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
- Correction: Request that we fix any inaccurate information.
- Deletion: Request that we erase your personal data from our systems.
- Withdraw Consent: Unsubscribe from marketing communications at any time.
7. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or wish to exercise your data rights, please contact us at:
Email: brianzenarosa.seo@gmail.com
Website: brianzenarosa.com
Who we are
Our website address is: https://brianzenarosa.com.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
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.
Contact forms
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 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
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.
Analytics
Who we share your data with
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.
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.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
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