Note about GDPR and CPRA (Aug 24, 2023):

In accordance with the provisions of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the European Union and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CPRA) in California, we have taken steps to ensure compliance in relevant locations. Specifically, we have implemented the use of Non-Personalized Advertisements provided by Google AdSense.

As these regulations evolve and more guidance becomes available, we will continue to update our privacy policy to reflect any changes required by GDPR and CPRA. It's important to note that certain cookies are currently necessary for the functioning of advertisements, including those required for fraud prevention. Additionally, at present, we do not offer a method for users to access the website without encountering advertisements.

We are actively exploring solutions to provide users with a simpler way to opt-out of cookie usage. However, at this time, you have the option to either disable cookies through your browser settings or choose not to use our website if you wish to avoid cookies.

We remain committed to ensuring your privacy and providing clear options for control over your data. Please stay tuned for updates to our privacy policy as we work towards enhanced compliance and user choices.

We take privacy very seriously and we are dedicated to safeguarding and preserving your privacy when visiting our site or communicating with us electronically.

Except for the carefully selected and trusted services that we use for processing payments, publishing ads, managing our newsletter, rating and reviewing, logging into the website and our web host, no other party will have access to your personal information unless you happen to publish it yourself by adding it to a discussion forum, public comment on a message board, blog post, comment, review, etc. We do not share or in any way disclose your personal information or email list with third parties except those specifically named herein.

Spreadsheet123.com (further mentioned as "site") is a property of Spreadsheet123 LTD (further referred to as "We", "Us" or "Our") as well as the partners, associates, employees, and affiliates who help run this website and deliver the content to you.

You are strictly prohibited from the use of our service if you disagree or have any objections to this Privacy Policy in full or with any of its parts.

This Privacy Policy intends to explain and help you understand the following:

• Collection of Information - What personal information is collected (or not collected)
• Use of Collected Information - How the information is used
• Access to Collected Information - Who has access to the collected information
• Email and Newsletter Policy - Explicit and Implicit consent, email newsletter opt-in and opt-out policy
• Children's Privacy - Guidelines for children's privacy.

Collection of Information to Improve User Experience

Information that we might collect from you may include surveys, rating pages or content that you like, submitting your comments, completing polls, filling out a registration form to create your profile, sending feedback and/or suggestions via email, social media or surveys, sharing content via social media or submitting a search. The information we may collect from you can help us improve your experience with using our website and services.

In some cases, we may ask you to provide demographic information via surveys or through the creation of an online profile. This information may include the following: age, gender, marital status, number of children, homeownership, pets, profession, interests and/or favorites. This information may be used for marketing and/or targeting purposes. This information would also be used to help us tailor our content to your interests thus improve our services. Aggregated demographic information may be shared with advertisers. The information shared with advertisers and advertising agencies are purely aggregated statistics, such as a certain percentage of users who are married or have a pet and cannot be used for your identification.

We may run campaigns, surveys or contests on our website from time to time in which the user can submit their sensitive information, such as email address, mailing address or other information. We use this information for the sole purpose to contact the user if need be, to inform them of the outcome of the contest or response to their question in the survey. We do not share your personally identifiable details with third parties, but we may share or publish the results of a survey or campaign as aggregate statistical data.

We do not collect nor will ask you to provide us with sensitive personal information related to your political affiliation, race, religion or any data such as your birthday, social security number, etc. which can be potentially used to identify you.

We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law and share this information with law enforcement officials to help in the investigation of alleged unlawful activities to protect our rights and/or comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our website. For this type of disclosures, we do not hold any legal liability.

Payment Processing

Online Visitors will be asked to provide their full name, email address, postal address, phone number, as well as credit card number, expiration date and, in some cases card verification value (CVV) only when you wish to make donations or purchase a product or membership from our websites.

All transactions, where credit card or your bank account is required to occur over a secure connection protected through encryption such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

In some cases, we use ClickBank.com to process payments and in other cases, we may use PayPal.com. We do not keep any record of your bank account or credit card information! We do keep information such as a record of sales, which includes your names and email addresses, in order to provide technical assistance, process refunds and/or notify customers of changes or updates if necessary.

Your information, whether public or private, will not be sold, exchanged, transferred, or given to any other company for any reason whatsoever, without your consent, other than for the express purpose of delivering the purchased product or service requested.

Site Usage Statistics

Our server keeps a log of site usage statistics which involves keeping track of numbers of hits on various pages, IP addresses, browser types, access times, and the sites from which a visitor is referred. For example, if you find our site through a search engine, our logs will show that a visitor clicked through to our site from that search engine. Such information is used to verify the effectiveness of marketing efforts. It may also be used to help interested parties determine the number of visitors who find our site through their sites. In other cases, site statistics are provided to potential advertisers and link partners. These statistics cannot be used to identify an individual since they do not include any personal information.

Advertising

We use third-party advertising companies (Google, Media.net and Ezoic.com) to serve ads when you visit our website. We use advertising to fund this website, and that is why you can download so many useful templates for free. These advertisers may use technology such as cookies when they advertise on our site, which will also send these advertisers information including your web request, IP address, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your request, and the browser you used to visit our site.

This information is generally used for geotargeting purposes (showing ads to someone in their locale, for example) or showing certain ads based on specific sites visited (such as your search interests based ads) or changing the number of ads displayed.

• Media.net, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on our website, you can view their privacy policy here
• Google uses cookies to serve ads on our site. Google's use of the DoubleClick cookie enables it to serve ads on this site based on your visit to our site and other sites on the internet. To learn how Google manages cookies and data in its ads products, click here.
• We use the non-personalized ads setting in Google AdSense so that non-personalized ads are shown to users in the EEA. This makes the ads context-only for these users.
• You may opt-out of the use of the DoubleClick cookie by visiting the Google Advertising Privacy Policy.
• Ezoic Ads: See Ezoic's privacy policy to learn how they user information to serve ads.

Newsletter Subscriptions

Our newsletters are opt-in and completely optional. Online visitors who choose to be on our mailing lists and/or receive periodic email announcements provide their name and email address. We use a confirmed opt-in subscription process to prevent a person from subscribing someone without their permission. Anyone who wishes to can choose to be removed from our mailing list at any time, by using the unsubscribe link at the bottom of the newsletter(s), or contacting Spreadsheet123.com directly and asking to be removed.

We use MailChimp.com to manage and send newsletters. We do not share or sell our email lists and we do not store these lists outside of the MailChimp system.

See the MailChimp.com Privacy Policy for more information.

Use of Cookies

On occasion, we may gather information about your computer for our services and provide statistical information regarding the use of our website to our advertisers. Such information will not identify you personally it is statistical data about our visitors and the general use of our site. This statistical data does not identify any personal details whatsoever. The cookies may also be used to save your login credentials for the subsequent use of our website, such as username and/or password. All computers and smart devices have the ability to decline cookies. This can be done by activating the setting on your browser which enables you to decline the cookies. You can remove cookies manually from your computer or smart device, please refer to your browser and/or device manual to learn more.

Template Vault - Google Sheets and Docs Add-ons

The Template Vault add-on for Google Sheets and Docs is an add-on that allows copying spreadsheet templates and document templates to your Google Drive at your request. The Template Vault add-on requires access to be able to make a copy of the requested document to your Drive, but no user data is shared or stored by these add-ons. Use of these add-ons are not compulsory, any of the documents and templates can be accessed directly via appropriate links listed on Spreadsheet123.com

Children's Privacy

We prioritize children's safety, their privacy is our major concern.

We are in compliance with the requirements of COPPA (Children's Online Privacy Protection Act), we do not knowingly collect any information from anyone under 13 years of age. Our website, products, and services are all directed to people who are at least 13 years old or older. If we learn that we are in possession of personal information on a child under the age of 13, we will dispose of this information from our servers and systems immediately. We strongly recommend and encourage parents to supervise their children during an online session and also encourage reading these tips on protecting your children's privacy online.

Emails You Send Us

Email messages or communication sent to us are considered public statements. Unless stated otherwise in your email, we may publish the messages in whole or in part. We may include the author's name or/and business information in the messages unless you specifically express otherwise. We will not publish or otherwise disclose the author's personal information such as email address, mailing address or other personal information included in the email. In most cases, we request your permission before publishing or disclosing the content of any email message, but we are not obligated to do so.

Public Comments

We may allow comments to be added by users. As a reminder to you, any information disclosed in these comments becomes public information. We encourage you to exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information.

Links to External Websites

You may find links to external websites on our site. These websites conduct their own privacy policies which you should check. We do not accept any liability for their policies whatsoever as we have no control over them.

Privacy Policy Revisions

We may update this Policy from time to time by updating the information on this page. We encourage you to visit and review this page regularly to check what Spreadsheet123.com does to protect your privacy.

Contacting Us

We welcome any queries, comments or requests you may have regarding this Privacy Policy. We can be reached via our contact page.