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    Privacy Policy | Desking App

    A Personal Note from Our Team

    At Desking App, we believe in building relationships based on transparency and trust. We understand that privacy matters are deeply personal, and we want you to feel completely comfortable and informed about how we handle your information. Think of this policy as an open conversation about how we work to enhance your experience while respecting your boundaries.

    1. Definitions

    Service – Service is the https://desking.app website operated by Desking App.

    Personal Data – Personal Data means data about a living individual who can be identified from those data (or from those and other information either in our possession or likely to come into our possession).

    Usage Data – Usage Data is data collected automatically either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).

    Cookies – Cookies are small files stored on your device (computer or mobile device).

    Data Controller – Data Controller means the natural or legal person who (either alone or jointly or in common with other persons) determines the purposes for which and the manner in which any personal information are, or are to be processed. For the purpose of this Privacy Policy, we are a Data Controller of your Personal Data.

    Data Processors (or Service Providers) – Data Processor (or Service Provider) means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the Data Controller. We may use the services of various Service Providers in order to process your data more effectively.

    Data Subject (or User) – Data Subject is any living individual who is using our Service and is the subject of Personal Data.

    2. Understanding Cookies: A Human Explanation

    What Exactly Are Cookies?

    Cookies are small text files that are placed on your device when you visit websites. They’re like helpful notes that websites leave for themselves to remember your preferences and activities. Just as you might bookmark a page or remember someone’s name, cookies help us recognize you and make your visits more seamless and personalized.

    Why We Use Cookies

    We use cookies because they help us:

    • Remember your preferences and settings
    • Understand how you use our content so we can improve it
    • Show you relevant information that matches your interests
    • Keep our services secure and functioning properly
    • Support our ability to continue creating free, valuable content

    3. Comprehensive Cookie Categories

    Essential Cookies (Strictly Necessary)

    Why we need them: These cookies are the foundation that keeps our website working. Without them, basic features would break, and your experience would be frustrating.

    What they do:

    • Keep you logged in during your session
    • Remember items in your shopping cart (if applicable)
    • Ensure our pages load quickly and correctly
    • Maintain your privacy and security settings
    • Protect against cross-site request forgery attacks

    Examples:

    • session_id – Maintains your login session
    • csrf_token – Protects against malicious attacks
    • load_balancer – Distributes traffic efficiently

    Retention: These are primarily session cookies that expire when you close your browser.

    Performance and Analytics Cookies

    Why we use them: These cookies help us understand how real people use our website. They’re like having a friendly conversation with our visitors about what works and what doesn’t.

    What they help us learn:

    • Which articles are most helpful to our readers
    • How long people spend reading our content
    • What features people use most often
    • How visitors navigate through our site
    • Where we can improve the user experience

    Tools we use:

    • Google Analytics 4 (with IP anonymization)
    • Hotjar (for user behavior insights)
    • Microsoft Clarity (for usage patterns)

    Specific cookies:

    • _ga – Distinguishes unique users (2 years)
    • _gid – Distinguishes unique users (24 hours)
    • _gat – Throttles request rate (1 minute)

    Retention: Up to 14 months

    Functionality and Personalization Cookies

    Why we value them: These cookies help us treat you as an individual rather than just another visitor. They remember your choices and preferences to create a more personal experience.

    What they remember:

    • Your preferred language and region settings
    • Text size and display preferences
    • Whether you’ve interacted with certain features
    • Your content preferences and interests
    • Custom layouts and theme choices

    Examples:

    • lang_preference – Stores your language choice
    • text_size – Remembers your preferred text size
    • theme_selection – Saves your visual theme preference

    Retention: Up to 12 months

    Advertising and Marketing Cookies

    Why they’re important: These cookies help us keep Desking App free and accessible to everyone. They enable us to show you relevant ads rather than random promotions, and they help us understand which content resonates with our audience.

    What they accomplish:

    • Show you ads for products you might genuinely find useful
    • Prevent you from seeing the same ad repeatedly
    • Measure the effectiveness of our content and campaigns
    • Help us understand what topics interest our readers
    • Support our affiliate marketing efforts

    Advertising Partners:

    • Google AdSense (primary advertising partner)
    • Amazon Associates (affiliate program)
    • Impact Radius (affiliate network)
    • ShareASale (affiliate network)

    Key advertising cookies:

    • _gcl_au – Google AdSense conversion tracking (3 months)
    • IDE – Google AdSense advertising (13 months)
    • test_cookie – Google AdSense check (15 minutes)

    Retention: Up to 18 months

    Social Media Cookies

    Why we include them: These cookies make it easy for you to share content you love and engage with our community through your preferred social platforms.

    What they enable:

    • Easy sharing of articles on social media
    • Displaying social media feeds and content
    • Integration with social media commenting systems
    • Social media advertising and retargeting

    Platforms:

    • Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Instagram

    Examples:

    • _fbp – Facebook pixel (3 months)
    • personalization_id – Twitter integration (2 years)

    Retention: Varies by platform, typically 2-24 months

    Affiliate Marketing Cookies

    Why they’re necessary: These cookies are essential for our affiliate relationships. They help ensure we get proper credit when you make purchases through our recommendations, which supports our ability to create free content.

    How they work:

    • Track when you click on product recommendations
    • Attribute purchases to our referrals
    • Help us understand which recommendations are most valuable
    • Support our honest review process

    Affiliate Networks:

    • Amazon Associates, Commission Junction, PartnerStack

    Examples:

    • amzn_* – Amazon affiliate tracking (30 days)
    • awin_* – Awin affiliate network (30 days)

    Retention: 30-90 days depending on the program

    4. Information Collection and Use

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

    Types of Data Collected

    Personal Data
    While using our Service, 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
    • Phone number
    • Address, State, Province, ZIP/Postal code, City
    • Cookies and Usage Data

    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 the instructions provided in any email we send.

    Usage Data
    We may also collect information on how the Service is accessed and used (“Usage Data”). This Usage Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

    Tracking & Cookies Data
    We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our Service and we hold certain information.

    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. Other tracking technologies are also used such as beacons, tags and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyse our Service.

    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 Service.

    5. Use of Data

    Desking App uses the collected data for various purposes:

    • To provide and maintain our Service
    • To notify you about changes to our Service
    • To allow you to participate in interactive features of our Service when you choose to do so
    • To provide customer support
    • To gather analysis or valuable information so that we can improve our Service
    • To monitor the usage of our Service
    • 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

    6. Legal Basis for Processing Personal Data under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

    If you are from the European Economic Area (EEA), Desking App’s legal basis for collecting and using the personal information described in this Privacy Policy depends on the Personal Data we collect and the specific context in which we collect it.

    Desking App may process your Personal Data because:

    • We need to perform a contract with you
    • You have given us permission to do so
    • The processing is in our legitimate interests and it is not overridden by your rights
    • For payment processing purposes
    • To comply with the law

    7. Retention of Data

    Desking App 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 (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

    Desking App will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of our Service, or we are legally obligated to retain this data for longer periods.

    8. Transfer of Data

    Your information, including Personal Data, may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those of your jurisdiction.

    If you are located outside United States and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the data, including Personal Data, to United States and process it there.

    Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.

    Desking App will take all the steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your Personal Data will take place to an organisation or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.

    9. Disclosure of Data

    Business Transaction

    If Desking App is involved in a merger, acquisition or asset sale, your Personal Data may be transferred. We will provide notice before your Personal Data is transferred and becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy.

    Disclosure for Law Enforcement

    Under certain circumstances, Desking App may be required to disclose your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).

    Legal Requirements

    Desking App may disclose your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

    • To comply with a legal obligation
    • To protect and defend the rights or property of Desking App
    • To prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service
    • To protect the personal safety of users of the Service or the public
    • To protect against legal liability

    10. Security of Data

    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.

    11. Our Policy on “Do Not Track” Signals under the California Online Protection Act (CalOPPA)

    We do not support Do Not Track (“DNT”). Do Not Track is a preference you can set in your web browser to inform websites that you do not want to be tracked.

    You can enable or disable Do Not Track by visiting the Preferences or Settings page of your web browser.

    12. Your Data Protection Rights under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

    If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), you have certain data protection rights. Desking App aims to take reasonable steps to allow you to correct, amend, delete or limit the use of your Personal Data.

    If you wish to be informed about what Personal Data we hold about you and if you want it to be removed from our systems, please contact us.

    In certain circumstances, you have the following data protection rights:

    • The right to access, update or delete the information we have on you. Whenever made possible, you can access, update or request deletion of your Personal Data directly within your account settings section. If you are unable to perform these actions yourself, please contact us to assist you.
    • The right of rectification. You have the right to have your information rectified if that information is inaccurate or incomplete.
    • The right to object. You have the right to object to our processing of your Personal Data.
    • The right of restriction. You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal information.
    • The right to data portability. You have the right to be provided with a copy of the information we have on you in a structured, machine-readable and commonly used format.
    • The right to withdraw consent. You also have the right to withdraw your consent at any time where Desking App relied on your consent to process your personal information.

    Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before responding to such requests.

    You have the right to complain to a Data Protection Authority about our collection and use of your Personal Data. For more information, please contact your local data protection authority in the European Economic Area (EEA).

    13. Service Providers

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

    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 Service. 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 Service 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.

    Advertising

    We may use third-party Service Providers to show advertisements to you to help support and maintain our Service.

    Google AdSense & DoubleClick Cookie – Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on our Service. Google’s use of the DoubleClick cookie enables it and its partners to serve ads to our users based on their visit to our Service or other websites on the Internet. You may opt out of the use of the DoubleClick Cookie for interest-based advertising by visiting the Google Ads Settings web page: http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/

    Third Party Advertising Networks – We allow third-party companies to serve ads and/or collect certain anonymous information when you visit our web site. These companies may use non-personally identifiable information (e.g., click stream information, browser type, time and date, subject of advertisements clicked or scrolled over) during your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services likely to be of greater interest to you. These companies typically use a cookie or third party web beacon to collect this information.

    Affiliate Marketing

    We participate in affiliate marketing programs that use cookies to track referrals. Our affiliate partners include:

    Amazon Associates – Amazon uses cookies to track referrals from our site to Amazon.com. Their privacy policy can be viewed at https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html

    Other Affiliate Networks – We work with various affiliate networks including ShareASale, Impact Radius, and Commission Junction. These networks use cookies to track referrals and conversions.

    14. Your Control and Choices

    Browser-Level Controls

    You have complete control over cookies through your browser settings. Here’s how to manage them in popular browsers:

    Google Chrome:

    1. Click the three dots in the top right corner
    2. Select “Settings” then “Privacy and security”
    3. Choose “Cookies and other site data”
    4. Adjust your preferences as needed

    Mozilla Firefox:

    1. Click the menu button and select “Options”
    2. Select “Privacy & Security”
    3. Under “Enhanced Tracking Protection,” choose your preferred level
    4. Manage exceptions for specific websites

    Safari:

    1. Choose Safari > Preferences
    2. Click Privacy
    3. Select “Prevent cross-site tracking” and “Block all cookies” as desired

    Microsoft Edge:

    1. Select Settings and more > Settings
    2. Choose “Privacy, search, and services”
    3. Under “Tracking prevention,” choose your preferred level
    4. Manage exceptions in “Allowed to track”

    Specific Opt-Out Links

    Our Cookie Preference Center

    We provide a comprehensive cookie management tool that allows you to:

    • Accept all cookies
    • Reject all non-essential cookies
    • Customize preferences by category
    • Withdraw consent at any time
    • View detailed information about each cookie type

    15. Affiliate Marketing Transparency

    How Our Affiliate Relationships Work

    We believe in complete transparency about our affiliate relationships:

    Our Philosophy:

    • We only recommend products we genuinely believe in
    • Affiliate income supports our free content creation
    • We maintain editorial independence in all reviews
    • We disclose affiliate relationships clearly

    Commission Structure:

    • Typical commissions: 2-10% of sale price
    • No additional cost to you for using our links
    • Does not influence our review scores or recommendations

    Tracking Methods:

    • Cookie-based tracking (30-90 days typically)
    • Direct attribution through affiliate networks
    • Transparent reporting and analytics

    16. Children’s Privacy

    Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 18 (“Children”).

    We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 18. 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.

    17. 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.

    We will let you know via email and/or a prominent notice on our Service, prior to the change becoming effective and update the “effective 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.

    18. Contact Us

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

    By email: [email protected]