1. Introduction

Empire Forged (“I”, “us”, “we”, or “our”) operates the website www.empireforged.com

(the “Website”). This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of personal data when you use our Website and the choices you have associated with that data.

We use your data to provide and improve the Website. By using the Website, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy.

2. Information Collection and Use

We collect several different types of information for various purposes to provide and improve our Website for you.

• 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.

Types of Data Collected

Personal Data

While using our Website, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you (“Personal Data”). Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:

Email address

First name and last name

Cookies and Usage Data

We collect this information only when you voluntarily provide it to us, such as when you sign up for our newsletter or interact with our AI chatbots.

Non-Personal Data

We may also collect information that does not identify you personally (“Non-Personal Data”). This may include:

Internet Protocol (IP) address

Browser type and version

Operating system

Referring website

Pages visited on our Website

Date and time of your visit

Use of Data

Empire Forged uses the collected data for various purposes:

To provide and maintain the Website

To notify you about changes to our Website

To allow you to participate in interactive features of our Website when you choose to do so

To provide customer support

To gather analysis or valuable information so that we can improve our Website

To monitor the usage of our Website

To detect, prevent and address technical issues

To provide you with news, special offers and general information about other goods, services and events which we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about unless you have opted not to receive such information

3. Cookies

Cookies are files with a small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. Tracking technologies also used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze our Website.

You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Website.

Examples of Cookies we use:

Session Cookies. We use Session Cookies to operate our Website.

Preference Cookies. We use Preference Cookies to remember your preferences and various settings.

Security Cookies. We use Security Cookies for security purposes.

Marketing Cookies. We use Marketing Cookies to track your activity on our Website and other platforms to deliver personalized advertising and content.

Affiliate Cookies: We use affiliate links to earn commissions. When you click a link to a product, the affiliate network (such as Amazon Associates, Impact, Clickbank, JVzoo or ShareASale) places a cookie on your device to track your purchase for commission purposes.

4. Third-Party Services

We may employ third-party companies and individuals to facilitate our Website (“Service Providers”), to provide the Website on our behalf, to perform Website-related services or to assist us in analyzing how our Website is used.

These third parties have access to your Personal Data only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.

Analytics

We may use third-party Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Website.

Google Analytics Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Website. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network. You can opt-out of having made your activity on the Website available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js, and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity.

For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en

Email Marketing

We may use your Personal Data to contact you with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials and other information that may be of interest to you. You may opt out of receiving any, or all, of these communications from us by following the unsubscribe link or instructions provided in any email we send.

FluentCRM & Brevo FluentCRM is an email marketing plugin for WordPress and Brevo is an email sending service. We use FluentCRM (self-hosted automation) with Brevo to manage our email list and deliver newsletters, resources and other communications to our subscribers. For more information on the privacy practices of Brevo, please visit their Privacy Policy: https://www.brevo.com/legal/privacypolicy/

5. Data Security

The security of your data is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

6. Children’s Privacy

Our Website is not intended for children under 13 years of age. We do not knowingly collect personal identifiable information from children under 13. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.

7. User Rights

You have the following rights regarding your Personal Data:

Access: You have the right to access the Personal Data we hold about you.

Correction: You have the right to request that we correct any inaccuracies in your Personal Data.

Deletion: You have the right to request that we delete your Personal Data.

To exercise these rights, please contact us at [email protected].

8. Data Retention

We will retain your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

9. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

10. Governing Law

This Privacy Policy shall be governed and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Illinois, United States, without regard to its conflict of law provisions.

11. Contact Us

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

By email: [email protected]