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Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy governs your use of RealWorldCatalog.com, including your interaction with emails received if you sign up to receive posts from the website in email form. By using this site and/or signing up for emails, you agree to this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy, you may not use this site.

Updating This Privacy Policy

We may update this privacy policy by posting a new version on this website. You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are familiar with any changes.

Information Collected

We may collection the following kinds of information:

  1. If you subscribe to RealWorldCatalog.com, either for free or with a paid subscription, you will be required to provide your email.
  2. If you opt to receive posts in email form, we track email analytics such as opens and clicks. You can find more information here.
  3. We also use first-party, cookie-free analytics to understand how visitors and members interact with content on RealWorldCatalog.com. When you’re logged in as a member, we may record which posts you view to help improve your experience and better understand what content is most engaging. This data is never shared with third parties. You can find more information here.
  4. If you comment on RealWorldCatalog.com, you will create additional user-generated content.
  5. Payments related to RealWorldCatalog.com are handled through Stripe. We never see or retain your full credit card number.

We have the following legal grounds for the collection of data:

Explicit Consent - When you sign up for any Content (either free or paid) or any other account on RealWorldCatalog.com, you provide explicit consent for us to collect the above listed personal information.

Provision of Services - If you agree to provide payment in exchange for services of RealWorldCatalog.com, we will need to collect the above listed personal information in order to provide those services.

Legitimate Interests - We may have additional legitimate interests, including account maintenance and administrative purposes, for the collection of the above listed personal information.

What We Use Information For

We may use collected information for the following purposes:

  • To fulfill or meet the reason you provided the information. Specifically, if you provide your personal information to access content on RealWorldCatalog.com, we will use that information to process your payment and facilitate delivery.
  • To create, maintain, customize, and secure your account with RealWorldCatalog.com.
  • To provide you with support and to respond to your inquiries, including to investigate and address your concerns and monitor and improve our responses.
  • To administer RealWorldCatalog.com, and to enable your access to the website and your use of website features.
  • To deliver posts from RealWorldCatalog.com in email form to subscribers.
  • To send to you other newsletter and account-related email.
  • To send to you statements and invoices, to collect payments from you, and to prevent transaction fraud.
  • To respond to law enforcement requests and as required by applicable law, court order, or governmental regulations.
  • To send you marketing communications.

Data Processors

RealWorldCatalog.com uses the following data processor with respect to the personal information collected:

  • Stripe - Stripe manages all payment processing and subscription management. Your credit card payment details are managed by Stripe and not released to us except the date and amount of each payment, the last four digits of your credit card, expiration date, and zip code. You can find Stripe's Privacy Policy here.

Ghost

RealWorldCatalog.com is powered by Ghost. You can find Ghost's Privacy Policy here.

We Don't Sell Your Personal Information

We do not and have no intention of ever selling data collected through RealWorldCatalog.com.

Data Retention Policy

Data will only be retained until you request us to delete it pursuant to this Privacy Policy.

Securing Your Data

We will take reasonable technical and organizational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information.

Personal Information in Comments

We do not monitor comments on RealWorldCatalog.com for disclosure of any personal information you may post in any user-generated content.

Cross-border Data Transfers

Information that we collect may be stored and processed in and transferred between any of the countries in which we operate to enable the use of the information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. You agree to such cross-border transfers of personal information.

In addition, personal information that you post to in comments on RealWorldCatalog.com will be published on the internet and may be available around the world.

Children’s Privacy

We do not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from anyone under the age of 18 or knowingly allow such persons to register with RealWorldCatalog.com. If you are under 18, please do not send any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, or email address. No one under age 18 is allowed to provide any personal information to or on RealWorldCatalog.com. In the event that we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under age 18 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. If you believe that we might have any information from or about a child under 18, please contact us.

California Online Privacy Protection Act Notice

RealWorldCatalog.com does not track users, who interact with its website across the web, and therefore does not use “do not track” signals.

RealWorldCatalog.com does not authorize the collection of personally identifiable information from users for third party use through advertising technologies.

Your Rights

You have the following rights on this website:

Right to be forgotten - You may cancel your account at any time. If you wish your data to be permanently deleted, you may contact us at info@realworldcatalog.com and we will remove your data as expeditiously as possible.

Right to object - We have never performed any data science projects on user data and do not anticipate doing so in the future. If, at some point in the future we determine a use for any sort of data science project on our user data, we will notify you in writing before doing so. In that event you may remove your contact data from any such project by emailing us at info@realworldcatalog.com with the subject line “Opt Out of Data Science”.

Right to access and rectification - You can contact us at info@realworldcatalog.com at any time to access copies of all user data we retain for you. We will remove, update, or change any personal information about you from our servers immediately upon your request.

Right of portability - We will provide you with information you have voluntarily entrusted to us, such as your email address, upon your request.

Right of restriction - You can make a request for restriction or suppression of your personal data through the contact information at the end of this privacy policy.

Without prejudice to any other administrative or judicial remedy, if located in the European Union, you shall have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of your habitual residence, place of work or place of the alleged infringement if you consider that the processing of personal data relating to you infringes the GDPR.

In addition to the above, an “unsubscribe” option is automatically included in the footer of every emails generated as a result of your subscription to info@realworldcatalog.com. This allows you to easily unsubscribe from these emails. In the event you unsubscribe, we will immediately stop sending you these emails. Please note that unsubscribing from emails with the “unsubscribe” button does not cancel your account with RealWorldCatalog.com. In order to do so, please log in at RealWorldCatalog.com and cancel your account.

Non-Discrimination

We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your GDPR, CCPA, or other consumer privacy rights. Unless permitted by law, we will not:

  • Deny you goods or services.
  • Charge you different prices or rates for goods or services, including through granting discounts or other benefits, or imposing penalties.
  • Provide you a different level or quality of goods or services.
  • Suggest that you may receive a different price or rate for goods or services or a different level or quality of goods or services.

However, the nature of the services provided through RealWorldCatalog.com will require basic information including an active account and your email address in order for us to provide these services. Should you opt out entirely, we will be unable to provide you any of these services.

Other Websites

RealWorldCatalog.com may contain links to other websites and/or embedded links to other content on the Internet, such as tweets and YouTube videos. We are not not responsible for the contents of those third-party websites or responsible for the privacy policies or practices of any third party.

Contact Us

If you have any questions, complaints, or requests concerning your data, this Privacy Policy, please contact us at info@realworldcatalog.com

Last updated 7 September 2025