Effective Date: September 21, 2025
The website Picks and Guitars (https://picksandguitars.com) values the privacy of its visitors. This policy explains how we collect, use, and protect your information in compliance with LGPD, GDPR, and Google AdSense/Ads guidelines.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the information provided in the form, along with the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent data. This helps us detect and prevent spam.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be sent to the Gravatar service to check if you are using it. The Gravatar privacy policy is available at: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After your comment is approved, your profile picture will be publicly visible in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the site, avoid uploading files with embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors to the site can download and extract such data from published images.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site, you may choose to save your name, email, and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you don’t have to re-enter your details when leaving another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
Our site also uses cookies to personalize content and ads, as well as to analyze traffic, providing a more complete user experience.
Advertising Cookies and Other Information
Picks and Guitars uses Google advertising cookies and those from other companies to display relevant ads based on your interests.
Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s previous visits to this or other websites.
You can disable personalized advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings or, more broadly, by going to aboutads.info.
For more information, please also review Google’s Privacy Policy.
Ezoic Services
Ezoic Services
This website uses the services of Ezoic Inc. (“Ezoic”), including to manage third-party interest-based advertising. Ezoic may employ a variety of technologies on this website, including tools to serve content, display advertisements and enable advertising to visitors of this website, which may utilize first and third-party cookies.
A cookie is a small text file sent to your device by a web server that enables the website to remember information about your browsing activity. First-party cookies are created by the site you are visiting, while third-party cookies are set by domains other than the one you’re visiting. Ezoic and our partners may place third-party cookies, tags, beacons, pixels, and similar technologies to monitor interactions with advertisements and optimize ad targeting. Please note that disabling cookies may limit access to certain content and features on the website, and rejecting cookies does not eliminate advertisements but will result in non-personalized advertising. You can find more information about cookies and how to manage them here.
The following information may be collected, used, and stored in a cookie when serving personalized ads:
- IP address
- Operating system type and version
- Device type
- Language preferences
- Web browser type
- Email (in a hashed or encrypted form)
Ezoic and its partners may use this data in combination with information that has been independently collected to deliver targeted advertisements across various platforms and websites. Ezoic’s partners may also gather additional data, such as unique IDs, advertising IDs, geolocation data, usage data, device information, traffic data, referral sources, and interactions between users and websites or advertisements, to create audience segments for targeted advertising across different devices, browsers, and apps. You can find more information about interest-based advertising and how to manage them here.
You can view Ezoic’s privacy policy here, or for additional information about Ezoic’s advertising and other partners, you can view Ezoic’s advertising partners here.
Data Analytics
We use Google Analytics to collect data about site usage, such as pages visited, time spent, and user interactions.
Google may combine this data with information from other services. To learn more about how Google collects and processes data, visit: How Google uses information from sites or apps.
If you wish, you can disable Google Analytics by installing the browser opt-out add-on.
User Rights
You have the right to request access to, correction of, or deletion of your personal data, as well as to withdraw consent at any time.
To exercise your rights, please contact us by email: info@picksandguitars.com.
You may also visit our Transparency page for more details.
Contact Us
If you have questions, suggestions, or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please contact us:
Email: info@picksandguitars.com
Website: https://picksandguitars.com
