Effective Date: September 2, 2026 | Last Updated: September 2, 2026

1. Introduction & Scope

GenAlphaMagazines ("we," "our," or "us") respects your personal privacy and is committed to protecting the information you share with us. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, utilize, process, and safeguard your data when you visit our website (https://www.genalphamagazines.com) and associated digital publications.

2. Information We Collect

We collect information in two main categories:

• Information You Voluntarily Provide: This includes your name, email address, and message contents when you subscribe to our email newsletter, submit a news tip, contact our editorial team, or leave comments.
• Automatically Collected Telemetry Data: When you access our website, our servers automatically record standard log files, including your IP address, browser user-agent, operating system, referring URL, pages viewed, time spent, and performance metrics (such as Core Web Vitals).

3. Cookies and Advertising Technologies (Google AdSense)

We use cookies, web beacons, and similar tracking technologies to enhance user navigation, analyze web traffic, and serve contextual advertisements:

• Google AdSense & DoubleClick Cookies: Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on our site. Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to our users based on their visits to our site and/or other sites across the Internet.
• Opting Out of Personalized Advertising: Users may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings or through the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page at www.aboutads.info.

4. Legal Bases for Data Processing (GDPR & International Compliance)

If you reside in the European Economic Area (EEA), United Kingdom, or Canada, our processing of your personal information is governed by legitimate interests, contractual necessity, compliance with legal obligations, or your explicit consent (such as email newsletter opt-ins).

5. Your Privacy Rights (GDPR & CCPA)

Depending on your jurisdiction, you have the following enforceable rights:

• Right to Access & Portability: You may request copies of personal information we hold about you.
• Right to Rectification: You may request correction of inaccurate or incomplete data.
• Right to Erasure ("Right to be Forgotten"): You may request the deletion of your personal data from our active databases.
• Right to Opt-Out of Sale / Sharing: We do not sell personal data to third-party data brokers.

6. Contact Our Data Protection Officer

For questions or requests regarding this Privacy Policy, contact us at intouchmagazines26@gmail.com.