PRIVACY POLICY
Progress Pulse LLC
Effective Date: 7 August 2026
Progress Pulse LLC publishes independent product reviews and comparisons at https://www.progresspulsellc.com. We collect very little information about you. If you subscribe to our newsletter, we collect your email address. If you simply read the Site, our hosting, security and analytics tools record limited technical information about your visit, and affiliate links you follow are tracked by the retailer you are sent to. We do not sell your personal information. This Policy explains all of this in detail.
1. INTRODUCTION
1.1 This Privacy Policy (the "Policy") explains how Progress Pulse LLC ("Progress Pulse", "we", "us" or "our") collects, uses, discloses and retains personal information in connection with the website at https://www.progresspulsellc.com and our email newsletter (together, the "Site").
1.2 "Personal information" means information that identifies, relates to, describes, or is reasonably capable of being associated with, a particular individual or household. It does not include information that has been aggregated or deidentified so that it can no longer reasonably be linked to an individual.
1.3 By using the Site you acknowledge that you have read this Policy. This Policy forms part of, and is incorporated into, our Terms and Conditions. Our use of cookies and similar technologies is described in more detail in our Cookie Policy, which should be read alongside this Policy.
2. WHO WE ARE AND HOW TO CONTACT US
2.1 Progress Pulse LLC is a limited liability company formed under the laws of the State of Texas, with its principal place of business at Texas.
2.2 Progress Pulse LLC is the business responsible for the personal information described in this Policy.
2.3 You can contact us about privacy at contact@progresspulsellc.com. We aim to respond to privacy inquiries within a reasonable period and, where applicable law prescribes a response period, within that period.
3. SCOPE OF THIS POLICY
3.1 This Policy applies to personal information we collect through the Site, through our email newsletter, and through direct correspondence with us.
3.2 This Policy does not apply to: (a) any website, marketplace, retailer or platform operated by a third party, including any Merchant to which we link and any website reached through an affiliate link; (b) any purchase you make from a third party after leaving the Site; or (c) any social media platform on which we may maintain a presence, which will apply its own privacy notice to your interactions with that platform.
3.3 We do not operate the Site as a service provider or processor on behalf of any other business, and we do not process personal information on behalf of any manufacturer, brand or retailer.
3.4 The Site is intended for users located in the United States. It is not directed to individuals in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland, and it is not designed to comply with the data protection laws of those territories.
4. PERSONAL INFORMATION YOU PROVIDE TO US
4.1 Newsletter subscription. If you subscribe to our email newsletter, we collect your email address. Any name or other detail you choose to enter into an optional field is collected only if you provide it. We also record the date and time of your subscription, and the internet protocol address from which it was submitted, in order to evidence your consent.
4.2 Correspondence. If you contact us by email or through any contact or feedback form on the Site, we collect your email address, the content of your message and any information you choose to include in it, together with any attachments.
4.3 Editorial submissions and comments. If the Site makes available any comment, question, product suggestion or survey functionality, we collect the information you submit through it, together with any name or display name you provide.
4.4 You are not required to provide any personal information in order to read the Site. Providing your email address is entirely voluntary, and is required only if you wish to receive our newsletter or to receive a reply from us.
4.5 Please do not send us sensitive information. We do not need, request or wish to receive information such as government identification numbers, financial account or payment card numbers, health information, precise geolocation, or information revealing racial or ethnic origin, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, union membership or biometric or genetic data.
5. INFORMATION WE COLLECT AUTOMATICALLY
5.1 When you visit the Site, information about your visit is recorded automatically by our hosting, security, content delivery and analytics infrastructure. This information typically includes:
(a) your internet protocol address, which may be truncated or otherwise reduced in precision by the relevant tool;
(b) an approximate location derived from that address, generally no more precise than city, region or country level;
(c) your browser type and version, operating system, device type, screen or viewport dimensions and language settings;
(d) the pages and Reviews you view, the date and time of your visit, the time spent on a page, and the sequence in which pages are viewed;
(e) the referring website or search result that brought you to the Site, and any campaign or link parameters contained in the address you used; and
(f) outbound clicks, including clicks on affiliate links, and technical error and security event records.
5.2 We do not collect precise geolocation data, and we do not use technologies designed to determine your exact physical position.
5.3 Some of this information is collected through cookies and similar technologies. The categories in use, their purposes and their duration are described in our Cookie Policy.
5.4 Where we can do so consistently with the purpose for which the information is collected, we treat automatically collected information in aggregate form and do not attempt to associate it with a named individual.
6. SOURCES OF THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT
6.1 We collect personal information from the following sources:
(a) directly from you, when you subscribe, contact us or submit material to us;
(b) automatically from your device and browser when you use the Site, as described in Section 5; and
(c) from the service providers we engage to host, secure, measure and deliver the Site and our newsletter, which generate records of your interaction with those services.
6.2 We do not purchase personal information, we do not obtain personal information from data brokers, and we do not acquire mailing lists or subscriber lists from any third party.
6.3 We do not receive personal information about you from Merchants or affiliate programs. Where a Merchant reports a commission to us, it does so in the form of aggregated or transaction-level reporting that does not identify the customer to us. Section 9 explains this in more detail.
7. INFORMATION WE DO NOT COLLECT
7.1 We do not operate user accounts, and we do not collect or store passwords or authentication credentials.
7.2 We do not sell products, and we therefore do not collect payment card numbers, bank account details, billing addresses or shipping addresses.
7.3 We do not collect biometric information, genetic information, health information or precise geolocation.
7.4 We do not use the Site to build advertising profiles about you, and we do not operate our own advertising network.
7.5 If a feature that changes the position described in this Section 7 is added to the Site in future, we will update this Policy before that feature becomes operational.
8. COOKIES AND SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES
8.1 We and our service providers use cookies, pixels, tags, local storage and similar technologies on the Site.
8.2 These technologies are used to operate the Site securely, to remember your preferences, to measure how the Site is used and how our Reviews perform, and to attribute outbound clicks on affiliate links.
8.3 Third parties, including Merchants whose affiliate links appear on the Site and the providers of any analytics tools we use, may also set or read cookies in your browser in connection with your use of the Site.
8.4 Full details, including the categories of cookies used, their purposes, the parties that set them, their duration and how to refuse or delete them, are set out in our Cookie Policy.
8.5 You can control cookies through your browser settings, and, where we make one available on the Site, through our cookie preference tool. Refusing non-essential cookies does not prevent you from reading the Site.
9. AFFILIATE LINKS AND ATTRIBUTION TRACKING
9.1 The Site is monetized through affiliate marketing, including participation in the Amazon Associates Program. Certain links on the Site and in our newsletter carry a tracking parameter identifying Progress Pulse as the referring publisher.
9.2 When you click such a link, you leave the Site. The Merchant records the referral, typically by setting a cookie in your browser or by recording the tracking parameter, so that a qualifying transaction can be attributed to us and a commission paid.
9.3 From that moment, the Merchant's own privacy notice, cookie notice and terms govern the handling of your information. We do not control, and are not responsible for, the Merchant's practices. Amazon's privacy notice is available at https://www.amazon.com/privacy.
9.4 We do not receive from Merchants any information identifying you as an individual. Affiliate reporting made available to us consists of aggregated and transaction-level data such as the number of clicks, the categories of items ordered, order quantities, order values and commission earned. It does not include customer names, email addresses, shipping addresses or payment information.
9.5 We may record, using our own analytics, the fact that an outbound click occurred and the page from which it originated. This is used to understand which Reviews are useful to readers.
9.6 If you do not wish a Merchant to associate your visit with our referral, you may navigate to the Merchant's website directly rather than through a link on the Site, and you may clear or block cookies in your browser.
10. ANALYTICS AND MEASUREMENT
10.1 We use analytics to understand how many people read the Site, which Reviews are read, how readers arrive, and where the Site is not performing well.
10.2 Our analytics provider is https://www.wix.com/, and its privacy notice is available at https://www.wix.com/about/cookie-policy.
10.3 Where the provider offers configuration options that reduce the personal information processed, such as truncating internet protocol addresses, disabling advertising features, disabling cross-site identifiers or shortening retention periods, we enable them where they are compatible with the measurement we need.
10.4 Analytics information is used for our own internal reporting. We do not use it to target advertising to you, and we do not combine it with information obtained from other websites for that purpose.
10.5 You can object to analytics measurement by refusing analytics cookies through the mechanisms described in our Cookie Policy, and, where the provider offers one, by using its opt-out tool.
11. HOW WE USE PERSONAL INFORMATION
11.1 We use the personal information described in this Policy for the following purposes:
(a) to operate, maintain and secure the Site, including to deliver pages, prevent abuse, detect and investigate fraudulent, malicious or automated activity, and diagnose technical faults;
(b) to send you our newsletter, where you have subscribed, and to manage your subscription, including honoring unsubscribe requests and suppressing further sends;
(c) to respond to your enquiries, corrections, permission requests, copyright complaints and privacy requests, and to keep a record of that correspondence;
(d) to publish, moderate and manage comments and other material you submit, where that functionality is available;
(e) to measure and analyze use of the Site, to understand which Reviews readers find useful, and to plan and improve our editorial coverage;
(f) to measure the performance of affiliate links and to reconcile commission reporting from Merchants;
(g) to comply with our legal obligations, including record keeping in relation to commercial email and in relation to copyright notices;
(h) to establish, exercise or defend legal claims, and to enforce our Terms and Conditions; and
(i) to evaluate or effect a corporate transaction of the kind described in Section 13.1(e).
11.2 We do not use your email address for any purpose other than those described in this Section 11. In particular, we do not use it to serve or target advertising, and we do not upload it to any advertising platform to build or match audiences.
11.3 We may create aggregated or deidentified information from the personal information we hold, and may use and disclose that information for any lawful purpose. Where we do so, we maintain that information in deidentified form and do not attempt to reidentify it, except as permitted by applicable law to test our deidentification measures
12. EMAIL NEWSLETTER AND YOUR MARKETING CHOICES
12.1 We send our newsletter only to email addresses that have been submitted to us for that purpose. We do not add addresses obtained from any other source.
12.2 Newsletter delivery is handled by our email service provider https://www.namecheap.com/.
12.3 Our email service provider may record whether a message was delivered, opened or clicked. We use that information to measure interest in our Reviews, to remove inactive addresses, and to identify delivery problems. If you prefer that we not record message opens, you can generally prevent it by configuring your email client not to load remote images.
12.4 Every commercial message we send includes a functioning unsubscribe link. You may also unsubscribe by writing to contact@progresspulsellc.com. We will give effect to your request promptly, and in any event within ten business days.
12.5 After you unsubscribe we retain a record of your address on a suppression list, for the purpose of ensuring that we do not send you further commercial messages. We do not use a suppression list for any other purpose.
12.6 We may still send you administrative messages, such as a confirmation of your unsubscribe request or a reply to an enquiry you have sent us.
13. DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
13.1 We disclose personal information only in the following circumstances:
(a) to service providers who perform functions on our behalf, as described in Section 14;
(b) where you direct or knowingly permit disclosure, including by submitting material intended for publication on the Site;
(c) where we are required to do so by law, regulation, legal process, subpoena, court order or governmental request, and where we consider such disclosure to be lawful and appropriately limited;
(d) where we consider disclosure reasonably necessary to investigate or prevent fraud, security incidents, abuse of the Site, or unlawful activity, to enforce our Terms and Conditions, or to establish, exercise or defend legal claims; and
(e) to a prospective or actual acquirer, successor or assignee, and to its advisers, in connection with a merger, acquisition, reorganization, financing, sale of assets, or insolvency, in which case the recipient will remain subject to this Policy in respect of information transferred until you are notified of any change.
13.2 We do not disclose personal information to Merchants, manufacturers, brands, advertisers or affiliate networks.
13.3 We do not disclose your email address to any third party for that party's own marketing purposes, and we will not do so without your express consent.
13.4 Where information you submit is published on the Site, for example in a comment, it becomes publicly visible and may be indexed by search engines and copied by others. Do not submit information you do not wish to be public.
14. SERVICE PROVIDERS AND OTHER RECIPIENTS
14.1 We engage a small number of service providers to operate the Site. The categories are: website hosting and content delivery; domain, security and bot protection; analytics; email newsletter delivery; and, where used, website platform, form handling and comment management.
14.2 The identities of our current providers are set out in our Cookie Policy where they set or read cookies, and are available on request in respect of providers that do not.
14.3 We engage service providers under written terms that limit their use of personal information to the performance of services for us, prohibit their use of that information for their own purposes or for cross-context behavioral advertising, and require appropriate confidentiality and security measures.
14.4 Merchants and other third parties whose links you follow, and third parties that set cookies through the Site, act for their own purposes and are not our service providers. Their handling of your information is governed by their own notices.
15. SALE AND SHARING OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
15.1 We do not sell personal information, and we have not sold personal information in the twelve months preceding the Effective Date of this Policy.
15.2 We do not share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising or targeted advertising, and we have not done so in the twelve months preceding the Effective Date of this Policy.
15.3 We do not use or disclose sensitive personal information for the purpose of inferring characteristics about you.
15.4 We do not knowingly sell or share the personal information of any individual under 16 years of age.
15.5 We receive commission from Merchants in respect of qualifying transactions. That commission is payment for referral of website traffic. It is not consideration for the disclosure of personal information by us, because we do not disclose personal information to Merchants.
16. DATA RETENTION
16.1 We retain personal information only for as long as necessary for the purposes described in this Policy, and thereafter for the period required to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes and enforce our agreements.
16.2 Our retention practice is as follows:
(a) newsletter subscriber email addresses and consent records are retained for as long as you remain subscribed, and consent records are retained for a reasonable period after unsubscribe in order to evidence the lawfulness of past sends;
(b) suppression list entries are retained indefinitely, because deleting them would risk sending you further messages;
(c) correspondence is retained for as long as necessary to deal with the matter, and thereafter for a reasonable period for record-keeping purposes;
(d) published comments and other submissions are retained for as long as the relevant Content remains published, unless removed earlier;
(e) server, security and error logs are retained for the period configured by the relevant provider, which is typically short and measured in days or months rather than years; and
(f) analytics information is retained for the period configured with our analytics provider, and aggregated reporting derived from it may be retained indefinitely.
16.3 Where we no longer need personal information, we delete it or deidentify it. Deletion from backup media occurs in the ordinary course of backup rotation.
17. INFORMATION SECURITY
17.1 We maintain administrative, technical and physical safeguards designed to protect personal information against accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorized disclosure and unauthorized access. These include encryption of traffic to and from the Site in transit, access controls limiting access to the small number of individuals who need it, use of reputable service providers, and prompt application of security updates.
17.2 The measures we apply are proportionate to the very limited categories of personal information we hold, which do not include payment, financial, health or government identification information.
17.3 No method of transmission over the internet and no method of electronic storage is completely secure. We cannot guarantee absolute security, and any transmission of information to us is at your own risk.
17.4 We do not claim certification or accreditation under any information security standard or framework.
17.5 If a security incident affecting your personal information occurs, we will notify you and any regulator to the extent and in the manner required by applicable law.
18. CHILDREN'S PRIVACY
18.1 The Site is a general audience publication. It is not directed to children, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13, as that term is used in the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, 15 U.S.C. Sections 6501 to 6506, and the rule made under it at 16 C.F.R. Part 312.
18.2 We do not offer accounts, we do not require registration to read the Site, and our newsletter is offered only to individuals aged 18 or over.
18.3 If we become aware that we have collected personal information from a child under 13 without verifiable parental consent, we will delete it promptly.
18.4 A parent or legal guardian who believes that a child under 13 has provided personal information to us may contact us at contact@progresspulsellc.com to request its review and deletion. We may ask for information reasonably necessary to verify the relationship before acting on the request.
19. YOUR PRIVACY CHOICES AND CONTROLS
19.1 Reading without providing information. You can read the entire Site without giving us any personal information.
19.2 Newsletter. You can unsubscribe at any time using the link in any message we send or by writing to contact@progresspulsellc.com.
19.3 Cookies. You can refuse or delete cookies through your browser settings and, where available, through the cookie preference tool on the Site. Our Cookie Policy explains how.
19.4 Affiliate tracking. You can avoid affiliate attribution by navigating to a Merchant directly rather than through a link on the Site, or by clearing or blocking cookies.
19.5 Access and deletion. Whether or not applicable law requires it, you may ask us to confirm what personal information we hold about you, to correct it, or to delete it, by writing to contact@progresspulsellc.com. We will deal with your request in accordance with Section 20 where a statutory right applies, and, where none applies, we will still consider and respond to your request.
19.6 We will not discriminate against you, deny you access to the Site, or degrade the Site experience because you have exercised a privacy right or refused non-essential cookies.
20. STATE CONSUMER PRIVACY RIGHTS
20.1 A number of United States states, including California, Colorado, Connecticut, Virginia and others, have enacted consumer privacy statutes granting residents rights in relation to their personal information. Those statutes apply only to businesses that meet the applicability thresholds set out in each statute, which are generally based on revenue, on the number of consumers whose information is processed, or on revenue derived from the sale of personal information.
20.2 We do not represent that any particular state statute applies to us. Whether a given statute applies depends on the scale of our processing at the relevant time, which we monitor.
20.3 Regardless of whether a statutory right applies to you, we will honor requests of the following kinds, so far as it is technically feasible and consistent with our legal obligations, from any individual whose personal information we hold:
(a) to confirm whether we process your personal information and to obtain access to it;
(b) to obtain a copy of the personal information you provided to us, in a portable format;
(c) to correct inaccurate personal information;
(d) to delete personal information we hold about you, subject to the exceptions permitted by applicable law, including our need to maintain a suppression list under Section 16.2(b);
(e) to opt out of any sale of personal information, any sharing of personal information for cross-context behavioral or targeted advertising, and any profiling in furtherance of decisions producing legal or similarly significant effects, none of which we currently undertake; and
(f) not to be subjected to discriminatory treatment for exercising any of these rights.
20.4 To make a request, write to contact@progresspulsellc.com with the words "Privacy Request" in the subject line, stating the right you wish to exercise and the email address, if any, that you have provided to us.
20.5 Verification. Because we hold so little information, the principal means by which we can verify a request is the email address associated with it. We will generally ask you to submit your request from, or confirm it by reply to, the email address that appears in our records. Where we cannot verify a request to a reasonable degree of certainty, we will tell you and, where applicable law permits, decline to act on it.
20.6 Authorized agents. You may use an authorized agent to submit a request on your behalf where applicable law provides for this. We may require written proof of the agent's authority and may require you to verify your identity with us directly.
20.7 Appeals. Where applicable state law provides a right to appeal a refusal of a privacy request, you may appeal by writing to contact@progresspulsellc.com with the words "Privacy Appeal" in the subject line within the period allowed by that law. We will respond in writing with our decision and the reasons for it, and will inform you how to contact your state attorney general if you remain dissatisfied.
20.8 There is no fee for making a request, unless applicable law permits a charge for requests that are manifestly unfounded, excessive or repetitive, in which case we will tell you before proceeding.
21. CALIFORNIA SPECIFIC DISCLOSURES
21.1 This Section 21 addresses disclosures relevant to residents of California. It applies to the extent the relevant California law applies to us.
21.2 Categories of personal information. In the twelve months preceding the Effective Date of this Policy, the categories of personal information we have collected are: identifiers, being an email address and an internet protocol address; internet or other electronic network activity information, being browsing and interaction information of the kind described in Section 5; and, where you send it to us voluntarily, the contents of your correspondence. We collect these categories from the sources described in Section 6, for the purposes described in Section 11, and we disclose them for business purposes only to the categories of recipient described in Sections 13 and 14.
21.3 Sale and sharing. As stated in Section 15, we do not sell personal information and we do not share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising.
21.4 Sensitive personal information. We do not collect sensitive personal information as that term is used in California law, and we therefore do not use or disclose it for purposes requiring a right to limit.
21.5 Shine the Light. California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits California residents to request information about the disclosure of personal information to third parties for those third parties' direct marketing purposes. We do not make such disclosures. You may direct any request under that Section to contact@progresspulsellc.com.
21.6 Notice of practices. This Policy is published in accordance with the California Online Privacy Protection Act, California Business and Professions Code Sections 22575 to 22579, which requires operators of commercial websites collecting personally identifiable information from California residents to post a privacy policy identifying the categories of information collected, the categories of third parties with whom it may be shared, the process for reviewing and requesting changes to that information, the process by which changes to the policy are notified, and the policy's effective date. Those matters are addressed in Sections 4 to 6, Sections 13 and 14, Sections 19 and 20, Section 25 and the Effective Date shown above respectively.
21.7 Minors. We do not offer any service permitting a registered minor to post content, and we therefore do not operate a removal mechanism under California Business and Professions Code Section 22581. Any individual may nonetheless ask us to remove material they have submitted, by writing to contact@progresspulsellc.com.
22. OPT-OUT PREFERENCE SIGNALS AND DO NOT TRACK
22.1 Some browsers and extensions transmit opt-out preference signals, such as Global Privacy Control, indicating a preference to opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information.
22.2 We do not sell or share personal information, so there is no sale or sharing for such a signal to stop. Where we are able to detect such a signal, we treat it as an instruction not to enable any future sale or sharing in respect of that browser, and, where technically feasible, as a refusal of non-essential cookies.
22.3 There is no uniform industry standard for responding to "Do Not Track" browser signals. We do not currently respond to them, and we do not track our users across third-party websites over time.
23. AUTOMATED DECISION-MAKING AND PROFILING
23.1 We do not use automated decision-making, including profiling, to make any decision about you that produces a legal effect or a similarly significant effect.
23.2 We do not use artificial intelligence to evaluate individual readers, to score them, or to make inferences about their personal characteristics.
23.3 Automated processing is limited to the ordinary operation of the Site, including security filtering, bot and abuse detection, spam filtering of submissions, and aggregate analytics reporting.
23.4 If we introduce any automated processing that would fall within Section 23.1, we will update this Policy and, where applicable law requires it, provide the relevant notice and the ability to opt out before doing so.
24. THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES AND USERS OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES
24.1 The Site links to third-party websites, including Merchant and manufacturer websites. We are not responsible for their content or for their privacy practices, and this Policy does not apply to them. You should read the privacy notice of any website you visit.
24.2 Progress Pulse is established in the United States, and the personal information we collect is stored and processed in the United States by us and by our service providers.
24.3 The Site is intended for users in the United States. If you access the Site from outside the United States, you do so on your own initiative, and you understand that your information will be processed in the United States, where data protection laws may differ from those of your country of residence.
25. CHANGES TO THIS POLICY AND HOW TO CONTACT US
25.1 We may update this Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices, in the tools we use, or in applicable law.
25.2 The current version is always available on the Site, and the Effective Date at the top of this document shows when it last changed. Where a change is material, we will bring it to your attention by a notice on the Site and, if you are a newsletter subscriber, by email.
25.3 We will not apply a material change retroactively to personal information already collected in a way that is incompatible with the notice in force when it was collected, without first obtaining your consent where applicable law requires it.
25.4 If you have any question, complaint or request about this Policy or about our handling of your personal information, please contact us at contact@progresspulsellc.com.
25.5 If you are not satisfied with our response, you may be entitled to complain to the attorney general of your state or to another regulator with jurisdiction over the matter.