Privacy Policy

AbroadMate ("we," "us," or "our") operates the website abroadmate.me (the "Site"). This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our Site.

Please read this policy carefully. By using the Site, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy.

Information You Provide: When you use our contact form, we collect your name, email address, and the content of your message. We do not require you to create an account.

Automatically Collected Information: When you visit the Site, we may automatically collect certain information, including your IP address, browser type, operating system, referring URLs, pages viewed, and the dates/times of your visits.

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to enhance your experience, analyze site traffic, and serve relevant advertisements.

Essential Cookies: Required for the Site to function correctly. These cannot be disabled.

Analytics Cookies: We use Google Analytics to understand how visitors interact with our Site. Google Analytics collects information anonymously and reports website trends without identifying individual visitors.

Advertising Cookies: We use Google AdSense to display advertisements. Google may use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to our Site or other websites. You can opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google's Ad Settings.

We use the information we collect to:

• Operate and maintain the Site
• Respond to your inquiries and contact form submissions
• Analyze usage patterns to improve our content and tools
• Display relevant advertisements via Google AdSense
• Detect, prevent, and address technical issues or abuse

We may share your information with the following third parties:

• Google Analytics — for website analytics and traffic analysis
• Google AdSense — for displaying advertisements
• Vercel — for website hosting and deployment

These third parties have their own privacy policies addressing how they use such information. We encourage you to review their policies.

We retain your personal information only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy. Contact form submissions are retained for up to 12 months and then deleted.

Depending on your location, you may have the following rights regarding your personal data:

• The right to access your personal data
• The right to rectify inaccurate data
• The right to request deletion of your data
• The right to restrict processing of your data
• The right to data portability
• The right to object to processing

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at hello@abroadmate.me.

Our Site is not intended for children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you are a parent or guardian and believe your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us.

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the "Last updated" date. You are advised to review this page periodically.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us:

• By email: hello@abroadmate.me
• Via our Contact page