Privacy Policy

Last Updated: January 18, 2025

MLA Generator ("we," "us," or "our") is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website mlagenerator.com (the "Website") and use our citation generation services (the "Services"). Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. By accessing or using the Website or Services, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by the terms of this Privacy Policy.

1. Information We Collect

We may collect information about you in a variety of ways. The information we may collect includes:

a. Usage Data

We automatically collect certain information when you visit, use, or navigate the Website. This information does not reveal your specific identity (like your name or contact information) but may include device and usage information, such as your IP address, browser and device characteristics, operating system, language preferences, referring URLs, device name, country, location, information about how and when you use our Website, and other technical information. This information is primarily needed to maintain the security and operation of our Website, and for our internal analytics and reporting purposes.

b. Data Collected by Third-Party Vendors

We use third-party vendors, including Google, to serve ads on our Website. These vendors may use cookies (small text files placed on your device) and similar tracking technologies (like web beacons) to collect information about your activity on our Website and other websites in order to provide you with targeted advertising based on your interests.

Google Ads: We use Google AdSense to display ads on our Website. Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on our site. Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to our users based on their visit to our site and/or other sites on the Internet. Users may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google's Ads Settings. You can learn more about how Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services by reviewing Google's Privacy Policy at https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites

2. How We Use Your Information

We may use the information we collect from you for the following purposes:

• To operate and maintain the Website and Services.
• To improve our Website and Services.
• To monitor and analyze usage and trends to improve your experience with the Website.
• To enable third-party vendors, including Google, to serve ads based on your prior visits to our Website or other websites.
• To respond to legal requests and prevent harm.

3. Disclosure of Your Information

We may share information we have collected about you in certain situations. Your information may be disclosed as follows:

• Third-Party Service Providers: We may share your information with third-party vendors, service providers, contractors, or agents who perform services for us or on our behalf, including advertising, analytics, data analysis, hosting services, and customer service. These companies may have access to your usage data as necessary to perform their functions but are not permitted to share or use such information for any other purpose. As noted above, this includes our use of Google AdSense to serve ads on our site.
• Legal Requirements: We may disclose your information where we are legally required to do so in order to comply with applicable law, governmental requests, a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process, such as in response to a court order or a subpoena (including in response to public authorities to meet national security or law enforcement requirements).
• Vital Interests and Legal Rights: We may disclose your information where we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding potential violations of our policies, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person and illegal activities, or as evidence in litigation in which we are involved.

4. Cookies and Tracking Technologies

We and our third-party vendors may use cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies to collect and store your information. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. However, if you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this Website may then be inaccessible or not function properly.

5. Data Security

We use administrative, technical, and physical security measures to help protect your information. While we have taken reasonable steps to secure the information you provide to us, please be aware that despite our efforts, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and no method of data transmission can be guaranteed against any interception or other type of misuse. Any information disclosed online is vulnerable to interception and misuse by unauthorized parties. Therefore, we cannot guarantee complete security.

6. Children's Privacy

Our Services are not intended for individuals under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If we become aware that we have collected personal information from a child under 13, we will take steps to delete such information.

7. 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. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.