Who we are
Our website address is: https://spark-filter.com. SparkFilter is a full-service digital marketing agency providing SEO, AEO/GEO, PPC, WordPress development, and social media management services to businesses in the US, UK, Canada, and Australia.
Comments
If visitors leave comments on our blog, we collect the data shown in the comment form, along with the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help with spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to check whether you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After your comment is approved, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Contact & Consultation Forms
When you fill out our contact form or book a growth consultation, we collect the information you provide, which may include your name, email address, phone number, industry, and message content. We use this information solely to respond to your inquiry, prepare quotes or proposals, and provide the digital marketing services you request. We do not sell this information to third parties.
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 location data from images on the website.
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 you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies last for one year.
If you visit our login page (for site administrators), we 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 also set up several cookies to save your login information and screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me,” your login persists for two weeks. Logging out removes these cookies.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie is 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.
Analytics and Advertising Cookies
We use tools such as Google Site Kit (Google Analytics and/or Google AdSense/Ads) and the Meta (Facebook) Pixel to understand how visitors use our site and to measure the performance of our advertising campaigns. These tools may set cookies and collect data such as your IP address, pages visited, and interactions with our site. This helps us improve our SEO, PPC, and social media services and measure campaign ROI for our own marketing.
You can control or disable cookies through your browser settings; disabling cookies may affect some site functionality.
Embedded Content from Other Websites
Pages and blog posts on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles, social media posts). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor had visited the other website directly.
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 if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Who We Share Your Data With
If you request a password reset (for site administrators), your IP address is included in the reset email.
We may share the information you submit through our contact and consultation forms with trusted third-party service providers who help us operate our business (e.g., email delivery services, CRM tools, WhatsApp Business messaging, and analytics/advertising platforms such as Google and Meta). We do not sell or rent your personal information to third parties for their own marketing purposes.
How Long We Retain Your Data
If you leave a blog comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely so we can recognize and approve follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
Contact form and consultation booking submissions are retained for as long as necessary to respond to your inquiry, deliver services, and comply with our legal and accounting obligations, after which they are securely deleted or anonymized.
For users who register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information provided in their user profile. 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 submitted a contact form, left a comment, or have an account on this site, you can request 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 data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, tax, or security purposes.
If you are located in the UK, EU, or a jurisdiction with similar data protection laws, you may also have rights to restrict or object to processing of your data, and to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority.
Where Your Data Is Sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. Contact form submissions may be processed and stored using third-party business tools (such as email hosting and CRM/WhatsApp messaging providers) which may store data outside your country of residence.
Contact Us About This Policy
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or wish to exercise any of your data rights, please contact us via WhatsApp or through the email listed on our Contact page: https://spark-filter.com/contact/.