BehindMLM is powered by WordPress and due to the nature of the platform, collects and retains information about visitors to our website.

Below you’ll find a breakdown of each instance we retain your information when you use our site.

Comments and the Contact Form

When you leave a comment on BehindMLM, we record your entered username, email address and website (if optionally provided).

This is information you willingly provide to us when leaving a comment.

In addition to this information we also record your IP address, which is used to monitor for spam.

This information is stored each time a comment is left, so as to maintain functionality of our website.

We also collect and store your entered name and email address when you use our contact form.

Information you provide to us when you leave a comment is retained indefinitely.

Information you provide to us via the contact form is retained until our correspondence via email is complete. At this point the emails we’ve received are deleted.

In certain circumstances, based on the nature of the content, we may indefinitely archive email correspondence for future reference.

Note that we do not sell or share stored information with any third-parties.

By default BehindMLM also leaves a temporary cookie on your system when you leave a comment.

This is done so your browser remembers your commenter details and you don’t have to re-enter them each time you leave a comment. The temporary cookie is valid for one year at a time.

You can choose to opt out of this by disabling cookies in your browser settings.

Subscriptions

When you opt in to receive notifications of new articles on BehindMLM or comments on an article, you provide us with your email address.

This information is kept to enable subscription services to function correctly until you opt out of receiving the service(s) you’ve subscribed for.

Note that we do not automatically add you to any additional mailing lists or newsletters when you subscribe for new articles and/or comments.

Advertising

BehindMLM uses third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our website.

These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.

If you would like more information about this practice and would like to know your options in relation to·not having this information used by these companies, click here.

Project Shield

BehindMLM uses Project Shield to protect the technological integrity of our website.

Project Shield is an initiative to expand Google’s own Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) mitigation capabilities to protect free expression online.

Project Shield collects web traffic logs, and other data on how we serve your traffic, to help improve Project Shield’s service and performance.

Project Shield does not collect data to improve search results or target advertising.

For more information on how Google will process the data it collects through Project Shield please refer to Google’s Privacy Policies.