Privacy Policy

1. Introduction

Welcome to ngrams.org ("we," "us," or "our"). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy will inform you about how we look after your personal data when you visit our website (regardless of where you visit it from) and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.

This privacy policy aims to give you information on how we collect and process your personal data through your use of this website, including any data you may provide through this website when you sign up for our services, use our tools, or engage with our content.

It is important that you read this privacy policy together with any other privacy notice or fair processing notice we may provide on specific occasions when we are collecting or processing personal data about you so that you are fully aware of how and why we are using your data.

2. Information We Collect

We collect several types of information from and about users of our website, including:

Personal Data

Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It does not include data where the identity has been removed (anonymous data).

We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together as follows:

• Identity Data includes first name, last name, username or similar identifier.
• Contact Data includes email address and telephone numbers.
• Technical Data includes internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access this website.
• Usage Data includes information about how you use our website, products, and services.
• Profile Data includes your username and password, your interests, preferences, feedback, and survey responses.
• Marketing and Communications Data includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.

Non-Personal Data

We also collect, use and share Aggregated Data such as statistical or demographic data for any purpose. Aggregated Data could be derived from your personal data but is not considered personal data in law as this data will not directly or indirectly reveal your identity. For example, we may aggregate your Usage Data to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific website feature.

3. How We Use Your Information

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:

• To register you as a new customer.
• To process and deliver our services including managing payments and fees.
• To manage our relationship with you including notifying you about changes to our terms or privacy policy.
• To administer and protect our business and this website (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting, and hosting of data).
• To deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you and measure or understand the effectiveness of the advertising we serve to you.
• To use data analytics to improve our website, products/services, marketing, customer relationships, and experiences.
• To make suggestions and recommendations to you about goods or services that may be of interest to you.

Note that we may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent, in compliance with the above rules, where this is required or permitted by law.

4. Cookies and Similar Technologies

Our website uses cookies and similar tracking technologies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.

What are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site.

Types of Cookies We Use

We use the following types of cookies:

• Strictly Necessary Cookies: These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website.
• Analytical/Performance Cookies: These allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
• Functionality Cookies: These are used to recognize you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalize our content for you and remember your preferences.
• Targeting Cookies: These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose, such as Google AdSense.

How to Control Cookies

You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this website may become inaccessible or not function properly.

5. Third-Party Advertising (Google AdSense)

We use Google AdSense, a web advertising service provided by Google, Inc. ("Google"), to serve advertisements on our website. Google AdSense may use cookies, web beacons, and other technologies to collect information about your use of our website and other websites, including your IP address, web browser, pages viewed, time spent on pages, links clicked, and conversion information.

Google AdSense & Privacy

Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to our site and/or other sites on the Internet. You may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings.

Google AdSense may collect and process data about you, for the following purposes:

• To track and measure advertising performance and effectiveness.
• To serve personalized ads to you based on your interests, preferences, and online activity.
• To create advertising profiles and interest categories for analytics and personalization.
• To use information for security and fraud detection purposes.

For more information about how Google collects and processes data, please visit Google's Privacy Policy.

Personalized Advertising

We and our third-party vendors, including Google, use first-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookie) and third-party cookies (such as the DoubleClick cookie) together to inform, optimize, and serve ads based on your past visits to our website.

We have implemented the following Google AdSense features:

• Remarketing with Google AdSense
• Google Display Network Impression Reporting
• DoubleClick Platform Integration
• Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting

6. Sharing Your Information

We may share your personal information with the following parties:

• Service Providers: We may share your information with third-party vendors, service providers, contractors, or agents who perform services for us or on our behalf and require access to such information to do that work. Examples include data analysis, email delivery, hosting services, customer service, and marketing efforts.
• Advertising Partners: We may share your information with third-party advertising companies to display ads on our site, including Google via the Google AdSense program.
• Business Transfers: If we are involved in a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or a portion of our assets, your information may be transferred as part of that transaction.
• With Your Consent: We may disclose your personal information for any other purpose with your consent.
• Legal Obligations: We may disclose your information where we are legally required to do so in order to comply with applicable law, governmental requests, a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process.

7. Data Security

We have implemented appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered, or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors, and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.

We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.

8. Your Rights and Choices

Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data:

• Right to Access: You have the right to request access to your personal data.
• Right to Rectification: You have the right to request correction of your personal data.
• Right to Erasure: You have the right to request that we delete your personal data in certain circumstances.
• Right to Restrict Processing: You have the right to request restriction of processing of your personal data.
• Right to Data Portability: You have the right to request the transfer of your personal data to you or to a third party.
• Right to Object: You have the right to object to processing of your personal data, including for direct marketing purposes.
• Right to Opt-Out of the Sale of Personal Information: If applicable under local law, you have the right to opt-out of the sale of your personal information.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the details provided in the "Contact Us" section below.

Opting Out of Google AdSense Personalized Advertising

You can opt out of Google AdSense personalized advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings.

9. Children's Privacy

Our website is not intended for children under 16 years of age. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16. If you are a parent or guardian and you believe your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us so that we can take necessary actions.

10. International Data Transfers

Our operations are based in the United States, and your personal information may be transferred to, stored, or processed in the United States or other countries where our servers are located or where our service providers operate. These countries may have data protection laws that are different from those in your country.

By using our services or providing us with your personal information, you consent to the transfer, storage, and processing of your personal information to countries outside of your country of residence, including the United States.

Where we transfer your personal data to countries outside the European Economic Area (EEA), we will ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to your personal data by implementing appropriate safeguards, such as using specific contracts approved by the European Commission.

11. 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 and updating the "Last Updated" date at the top of this privacy policy.

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.