Privacy Policy
Last updated: 2025-09-15
1. Information We Collect
Cert Study Hub is committed to protecting your privacy. We collect information necessary to provide our educational services and to display relevant advertisements:
- Personal Information: Contact information when you reach out to us via email
- Usage Data: IP addresses, browser type, device information, pages visited, time spent on pages
- Quiz Data: Quiz responses and scores (stored locally in your browser)
- Analytics Data: Website usage analytics through Google Analytics
- Advertising Data: Information collected by third-party advertising partners including Google AdSense
2. How We Use Your Information
We use the collected information to:
- Provide and improve our educational content and quiz services
- Analyze website usage to enhance user experience
- Respond to your inquiries and provide customer support
- Ensure the security and proper functioning of our website
- Display personalized advertisements through Google AdSense and other advertising partners
- Measure the effectiveness of advertisements and optimize ad delivery
- Comply with legal obligations and protect our rights
3. Information Sharing
We may share your information in the following circumstances:
- Third-Party Advertising Partners: We share information with Google AdSense and other advertising partners to display personalized ads and measure ad performance
- Analytics Providers: We share usage data with Google Analytics and similar services to analyze website performance
- Service Providers: With trusted service providers who assist in website operations (under strict confidentiality agreements)
- Legal Compliance: To comply with legal obligations, court orders, or government requests
- Protection of Rights: To protect our rights, prevent fraud, or ensure user safety
- With Your Consent: When you explicitly consent to sharing your information
Note: Third-party advertising partners, including Google, may use cookies and similar technologies to serve ads based on your visits to this site and other sites on the Internet.
4. Data Security
We implement appropriate security measures to protect your personal information against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction. However, no method of transmission over the internet is 100% secure.
5. Cookies and Tracking Technologies
Our website uses cookies, web beacons, and similar tracking technologies to:
- Remember your quiz progress and preferences
- Analyze website traffic and usage patterns
- Display personalized advertisements through Google AdSense
- Measure advertising effectiveness and optimize ad delivery
- Provide social media features and content
Types of Cookies We Use:
- Essential Cookies: Necessary for website functionality
- Analytics Cookies: Help us understand how visitors interact with our website
- Advertising Cookies: Used by Google AdSense and other advertising partners to serve personalized ads
- Preference Cookies: Remember your settings and preferences
Managing Cookies: You can control cookie settings through your browser preferences. You can also opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google's Ads Settingsor the Digital Advertising Alliance's opt-out page.
6. Third-Party Services and Advertising
Our website uses third-party services and contains third-party advertisements:
- Google AdSense: We use Google AdSense to display advertisements. Google may use cookies to serve ads based on your visits to this site and other sites on the Internet. You can opt out of personalized ads by visiting Google's Ads Settings.
- Google Analytics: We use Google Analytics to analyze website usage. You can opt out by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.
- Other Third-Party Services: We may use other third-party services for analytics, advertising, and website functionality.
These third-party services have their own privacy policies and data collection practices. We encourage you to review their privacy policies:
7. Children's Privacy
Our services are not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe we have collected such information, please contact us immediately.
7. Data Retention
We retain your personal information only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this privacy policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law. Quiz data stored locally in your browser will persist until you clear your browser data.
8. Your Rights and Choices
Depending on your location, you may have the following rights:
- Access: Request access to your personal information
- Correction: Request correction of inaccurate information
- Deletion: Request deletion of your personal information
- Portability: Request a copy of your data in a portable format
- Opt-out: Opt-out of certain data processing activities, including personalized advertising
- Withdraw Consent: Withdraw consent where applicable
- Object: Object to processing of your personal information
To exercise these rights or for questions about your data: Contact us at info@certstudyhub.com
9. International Users and Privacy Laws
GDPR (European Union): If you are located in the European Union, you have additional rights under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), including the right to data portability and the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.
CCPA (California): If you are a California resident, you have rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), including the right to know what personal information is collected, the right to delete personal information, and the right to opt-out of the sale of personal information.
Other Jurisdictions: We comply with applicable privacy laws in all jurisdictions where we operate.
10. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices, technology, legal requirements, or other factors. We will notify you of any material changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the "Last updated" date. We encourage you to review this policy periodically.
11. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, our data practices, or wish to exercise your rights regarding your personal information, please contact us at:
Email: info@certstudyhub.com
Subject Line: Privacy Policy Inquiry
We will respond to your inquiry within a reasonable timeframe as required by applicable law.
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)
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.