Privacy Policy

Effective Date: June 9, 2026

Welcome to Cebu Finds (“we,” “our,” or “us”). We operate the website cebufinds.com (the “Service”). We are committed to protecting your personal data and respecting your privacy in accordance with Republic Act No. 10173, also known as the Philippine Data Privacy Act of 2012 (DPA).

This Privacy Policy informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use, disclosure, and protection of personal data when you use our Service, as well as the choices you have associated with that data.

1. Information Collection and Use

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

A. Personal Data Voluntarily Provided by You

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. This occurs across different pages on our website:

  • Newsletter Signup: We collect your Email Address ONLY to send you our monthly newsletter and local updates.
  • Contact Page: We collect your Full Name, Email Address, and Message Content to address your inquiries and provide support.
  • Submit Content Page (Contributors): We collect your Full Name, Email Address, Content/Pitch Details, and any File Uploads or Google Doc Links you share with us for editorial review.
  • Get Featured Page (Businesses/Advertisers): We collect your First Name, Last Name, Business Email Address, Business Name, and Website/Social Media Links. Providing a Phone or Viber Number is entirely optional and will only be used if you choose to provide it for your listing or direct coordination.

B. Automatically Collected Technical Data

When you interact with our forms or browse our website, our form plugins and security systems automatically collect basic technical metadata for performance, user experience, and security reasons:

  • IP Address: Collected to identify and block automated spam, malicious attacks, and fraudulent submissions.
  • Timestamp: The exact date and time your form submission was received.
  • Browser & Device Data: Information about your browser type, version, and device type (e.g., mobile vs. desktop) to ensure our forms and content render properly for you.

2. Tracking and Analytics Data

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our Service and hold certain information to improve our platform’s Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and user experience.

  • Google Analytics: We use Google Analytics and related performance optimization tools to monitor, analyze, and report on website traffic and user behavior. Google Analytics collects anonymized data regarding your visit.
  • Google Places API: Our website may use Google Places services to help autocomplete, verify, or display location data for local directory listings.

3. Email Marketing and Communications

We send emails to users who interact with our forms or explicitly opt-in to receive our content.

  • Service Provider: We use Hostinger Reach as our email marketing software to manage and distribute our monthly newsletter.
  • Privacy Practices: Your email data processed by Hostinger Reach is governed by their privacy standards. For more information, please review the Hostinger Privacy Policy.
  • Opting Out: You can unsubscribe from our monthly newsletter at any time by clicking the “Unsubscribe” link located at the bottom of any email we send.

4. Advertisements (Ads)

We plan to open our website to digital advertisements in the future (such as Google AdSense or programmatic banner ads). These ad networks may use cookies and tracking identifiers to serve contextually relevant advertisements to you based on your browsing habits.

5. Payments and Financial Data

Cebu Finds does not sell products or services directly on the website, nor do we capture, process, or store financial information, credit card numbers, or transaction data on cebufinds.com. Any future premium arrangements or featured services are coordinated externally via email.

6. Data Sharing and Third-Party Disclosures

We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal data to third parties. We only share information with trusted third-party service providers necessary to run our website safely:

  • Security & Anti-Spam Providers: We use or plan to use automated anti-spam tools and security services (such as Akismet, CleanTalk, or Cloudflare Turnstile) to analyze form data and protect our site from spam and cyber threats.

7. Children’s Privacy

Our Service is intended for a general audience and does not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 13. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal data, please contact us immediately so we can remove it from our records.

8. Your Data Privacy Rights (Under the Philippine DPA)

As a data subject in the Philippines, you have specific rights regarding your personal information under the Data Privacy Act of 2012:

  • The right to be informed about how your data is collected and processed.
  • The right to reasonable access to your personal data held by us.
  • The right to dispute, correct, or update any inaccuracy in your data.
  • The right to suspend, withdraw, or order the blocking or erasure of your personal data from our systems.

9. 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 and updating the “Effective Date” at the top. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes.

10. Contact Us

If you have any questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy or your data privacy rights, you can reach us through the following channels: