Privacy Policy

Effective Date: July 3, 2026.

1.Introduction and Scope

This Privacy Policy sets out how Dudlewebs (Rahul K) uses and protects any information that you provide when using this website.

Dudlewebs is committed to ensuring that your privacy is fully protected in accordance with global data regulations, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA). Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified, it will only be used strictly in accordance with this privacy statement.

Dudlewebs may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page periodically to ensure that you are fully aware of and comfortable with any modifications.

2. Who We Are (Data Controller)

Our website address is: https://dudlewebs.com

This website is operated by:

  • Company Name: Dudlewebs (Rahul K)
  • Registered Address: 0, 88/10, Kunnoth, Menhanniam PO, Kozhikode, Kerala, India, Pincode: 673525.
  • Corporate Tax Details: Registered under GSTIN: 32CKAPR4010F1ZS (State Code: 32 – Kerala).
  • Contact Email: website@support.dudlewebs.com

3. What We Collect and Our Legal Basis (GDPR / CCPA Alignment)

Under data protection laws, we are required to map out the categories of personal information we collect, the sources of that data, our commercial purpose, and the GDPR Lawful Basis for processing.

We have collected the following categories of personal information from users over the preceding 12 months:

  • Identifiers: First name, last name, email address, postal address, phone number, and IP address.
    • Source: Direct user input (forms, comments, e-commerce checkouts).
    • Commercial Purpose: Fulfilling orders, customer support, website security, and account management.
    • GDPR Lawful Basis: Performance of a Contract / Legitimate Interest.
  • Commercial & Financial Information: Purchase records, products viewed, items added to cart, transaction details, financial history, recurring tokens for autopay, tax registration identification numbers (e.g., GSTIN/VAT).
    • Source: Direct e-commerce transactions, subscription forms, and store tracking.
    • Commercial Purpose: Processing payments, managing autopay renewals, delivering orders, calculating location-based taxes, internal record-keeping.
    • GDPR Lawful Basis: Performance of a Contract / Legal Obligation (Taxation compliance).
  • Internet & Network Activity: IP address, browser user agent string, page views, traffic logs, user IDs.
    • Source: Automated tracking (Cookies, WooCommerce, WP Statistics, Google Site Kit).
    • Commercial Purpose: Website optimization, statistics, fraud prevention, user session tracking.
    • GDPR Lawful Basis: Consent (for tracking) / Legitimate Interest (for security).
  • Professional / Employment: Job title, occupation, industry classification, corporate tax details.
    • Source: Direct user input (B2B forms).
    • Commercial Purpose: Customizing services, target market research, B2B tax compliance.
    • GDPR Lawful Basis: Legitimate Interest / Legal Obligation.
  • Inferences & Preferences: Selected interests, website user experience preferences.
    • Source: Direct input or cookie tracking behavior.
    • Commercial Purpose: Tailoring website layouts, sending relevant marketing.
    • GDPR Lawful Basis: Consent.

Sensitive Personal Information (SPI)

Dudlewebs does not intentionally collect or process any Sensitive Personal Information (such as government IDs, precise geolocation, biometrics, or racial background).

4. Specific Website Interactions and Data Collection

WooCommerce (E-commerce Store Features, Autopay & Tax Details)

While you visit our site, we will track:

  • Products you’ve viewed: We use this to, for example, show you products you’ve recently viewed.
  • Location, IP address and browser type: We use this for purposes like estimating taxes and shipping.
  • Shipping address: We’ll ask you to enter this so we can, for instance, estimate shipping before you place an order, and send you the order!

We also use cookies to keep track of cart contents while you’re browsing our site.

When you purchase from us, we’ll ask you to provide information including your name, billing address, shipping address, email address, phone number, credit card/payment details and optional account information like username and password. We will use this information for purposes, such as, to:

  • Send you information about your account and order.
  • Respond to your requests, including refunds and complaints.
  • Process payments, securely handle recurring authorization for Autopay settings, and prevent fraud.
  • Calculate mandatory regional tax details and duties based on your billing and shipping destination.
  • Set up your account for our store.
  • Comply with any legal obligations we have, such as corporate tax calculation and invoicing requirements.
  • Improve our store offerings.
  • Send you marketing messages, if you choose to receive them.

If you create an account, we will store your name, address, email, phone number, and tax details (if applicable), which will be used to populate the checkout for future orders.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: automattic.com. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Embedded Content from Other Websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

5. How We Use Cookies

A cookie is a small file that asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual by tailoring operations to your needs, likes, and dislikes.

  • WooCommerce Cookies: To keep track of your shopping cart data, WooCommerce sets cookies containing unique codes to associate items to your cart, remember your choices, and track when cart data changes. No personal information is stored within these specific cookies.
  • Comment Cookies: If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
  • Session and Login Cookies: If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser. When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
  • Editorial Cookies: If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
  • Traffic Log Cookies: We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyze web traffic data and improve our website structure. This data is exclusively processed for statistical analysis before being permanently wiped from our systems.
  • Control and Consent: In compliance with the GDPR and CCPA, we require your unambiguous affirmative consent via our cookie banner before firing any non-essential cookies. You can modify your browser settings to decline cookies, though this may restrict your ability to take full advantage of our website.

6. Website Analytics Frameworks

WP Statistics Plugin

We use the WP Statistics plugin to analyze traffic on our website. WP Statistics stores its data locally on our own server and does not transmit it to any third parties.

  • Data Logged: We track certain details about logged-in visitors on our site. Specifically, if you are logged in, we associate your account (username/ID) with your page visits.
  • Purpose: This helps us understand how registered members use our site and improve their experience.
  • Local & Secure Storage: These logs are kept securely on our server and are not shared externally.
  • Your Choices: You can choose to browse without logging in if you prefer not to link your visits with your user account. You may also contact us to request removal of any collected data where legally applicable.

Google Site Kit

Our website implements the Google Site Kit WordPress Plugin to configure and deploy official Google optimization products. By utilizing Site Kit, our environment connects with the following tools:

  • Google Analytics: Captures website traffic patterns, visitor interactions, e-commerce checkout events, and device telemetry. By default, Google Site Kit is configured to anonymize IP addresses upon activation to uphold EU data minimisation standards.
  • Google Search Console: Provides search engine indexing statistics and query profiles to optimize our site architecture.
  • Google AdSense / Tag Manager (If deployed): Measures advertising performance or handles tracking logic conditionally.

Consent Mode Deployment: We utilize advanced Google Consent Mode triggers via our consent management system. If you deny cookies, Google services dynamically adjust their scripts to execute cookieless pings instead of processing persistent digital tracking IDs. To review how Google manages data, visit the Google Privacy & Terms Portal (google.com).

7. Information Sharing, Disclosure, and Sales Opt-Out

Third-Party Disclosures for Business Purposes

Dudlewebs does not sell or lease your personal information. We only disclose data to trusted service providers (processors) contractually bound to absolute confidentiality. Over the past 12 months, we have shared identifiers, commercial data, and network activity with the following categories of providers for essential business functions:

  • Hosting and Infrastructure: To secure and maintain our digital ecosystem.
  • Payment Processors & Autopay Services: We accept recurring and single payments through third-party processors. When processing payments or initializing Autopay settings, some of your data will be passed to them, including information required to process or support the payment, such as the purchase total and billing information. We do not directly store raw credit card data on our servers; instead, we use secure, tokenized methods provided by our PCI-DSS compliant gateways.
  • Tax Automation & Invoicing Providers: If you complete a transaction requiring corporate invoice tracking, your billing and shipping records may be passed to automated tax configuration plugins or external accounting systems to accurately compile and audit statutory tax details.
  • Delivery and Shipping Services: To ship physical products to your designated address.
  • Customer Relationship (CRM) & Support Tools: To manage our interactions and help queries.
  • Marketing and Distribution Partners: Resellers and authorized partners, so that they may market Dudlewebs’s products and services, or market their own matching products, provided you have not opted out.

Administrative Disclosures

  • Password Resets: If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
  • Spam Detection: Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Legal and Safety Obligations

We will reveal your personal data if required to do so by Indian or international laws, subpoenas, court orders, or if we have a good-faith belief that disclosure is necessary to protect public safety, prevent illegal or unethical activities, or defend our legal rights.

CCPA Notice: “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information”

Under the CCPA, “sharing” includes cross-context behavioral advertising. While we do not monetize data by selling it, you have the absolute right to opt out of any data transfers that qualify as “sharing” or “selling” under California law. You may exercise this option or broadcast a Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal through your browser to stop tracking.

8. International Data Transfers (GDPR Compliance)

Dudlewebs operates globally, and your data may be transferred to and processed in countries outside the European Economic Area (EEA), including India and the United States. To ensure that your data is handled with an equivalent level of protection to European standards, we enforce strict compliance safeguards, including:

  • Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs): Contractual frameworks approved by the European Commission executed with all international processors (such as Google, specialized tax validation engines, and global payment gateways).

9. Data Retention Periods

We only store your information for as long as necessary to fulfill the specific purposes it was gathered for, or to meet mandatory legal, accounting, and tax reporting requirements.

  • Comments: If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
  • Registered Store Users: For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
  • E-commerce / Purchase History & Tax Invoices: We generally store information about you for as long as we need the information for the purposes for which we collect and use it, and we are not legally required to continue to keep it. For example, we will store transaction records, order summaries, and official tax details for up to 7 years to fully comply with tax reporting and auditing requirements under local and international regulations. This includes your name, email address, and billing and shipping addresses.
  • Statistical and Web Logs: Automatically deleted or fully anonymized within 30 days of creation.
  • WP Statistics Logs: Locally contained database logs matching user navigation histories are scrubbed or permanently decoupled from identity headers inside a rolling operational threshold.

10. Your Global Privacy Rights

For EU/EEA Residents (GDPR Rights)

If you reside within the European Union, you hold the following statutory rights under the GDPR:

  • Right of Access: Request copies of your personal data. You can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us.
  • Right to Rectification: Request corrections to inaccurate or incomplete profiles.
  • Right to Erasure (“Right to be Forgotten”): Request deletion of data where legal criteria are met. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
  • Right to Restrict or Object: Object to or restrict processing based on direct marketing or legitimate interests.
  • Right to Data Portability: Request transfer of your data to another organization in a structured format.
  • Right to Withdraw Consent: Revoke consent at any time without affecting past processing legality.
  • Right to Complain: Lodge an administrative complaint with an EU Data Protection Supervisory Authority.

For California Residents (CCPA/CPRA Rights)

If you are a California resident, you hold specific rights regarding your personal information:

  • Right to Know: Request details on the categories of data collected, commercial purposes, and third parties involved over the past year.
  • Right to Delete: Request deletion of your collected personal information.
  • Right to Correct: Request corrections to inaccurate personal records.
  • Right to Opt-Out: Stop any sale or sharing of your personal data.
  • Right to Non-Discrimination: We will never deny services, alter pricing, or degrade quality if you choose to exercise your privacy rights.

How to Exercise Your Rights

To invoke any of your rights listed above, please submit a verifiable privacy request to us via email or mail:

  • Email Contact: website@support.dudlewebs.com
  • Postal Mail: Dudlewebs (Rahul K), 0, 88/10, Kunnoth, Menhanniam PO, Kozhikode, Kerala, India, Pincode: 673525.

We will verify your identity using matching email records before completing requests to protect your security.

11. Data Security

We have put in place robust physical, electronic, and managerial systems designed to prevent unauthorized data access, modification, or exposure. All digital data exchanges are locked using secure SSL/TLS encryption transit models, and administrative systems are fortified with role-based accessibility permissions.

In the event of a verified data breach that impacts your rights, we will notify you and the appropriate regulatory oversight bodies within 72 hours of discovery, in line with statutory requirements.

12. Children’s Privacy

Our services are directed to a general audience and are not explicitly intended for minors under the age of 16. We do not knowingly collect, share, or sell personal information from individuals under 16 years of age. If we discover that a child under 16 has provided personal profile information to us, we will instantly purge the file from our active storage systems.

13. Links to External Sites

Our website contains hyperlinks directing to external sites of interest. Once you navigate away from our domain using these buttons, note that we hold zero administrative control over external environments. They operate under completely independent sets of policies; consequently, Dudlewebs cannot be held liable for the protection or privacy of data you provide while browsing external targets.