Save Water Daily

Privacy Policy

How we collect, use, and protect information at Save Water Daily.

Save Water Daily (savewaterdaily.com) publishes water conservation guides and reader tools at no cost. This document sets out what data the Site handles, why we handle it, who else touches it, and the choices you have. It applies to every page under savewaterdaily.com and to any email that begins from a form or address published here. The public editorial byline for most articles is Abhijit Surve, reachable at [email protected] for editorial questions that do not involve personal data. Anything relating to privacy, cookies, or the rights below goes to [email protected].

Personal Data You Give Us Directly

The Site collects information from you only when you send it to us. Three points on the Site invite you to do that:

  • Contact form. The contact page asks for a name, an email address, a subject line, and a message. We use those fields to answer you and, if the exchange leads somewhere useful, to keep a short record of what was discussed.
  • Newsletter signup. If you subscribe to updates from Save Water Daily, we store the email address you enter and the date you subscribed. We do not require a name, a location, or any profile information.
  • Reader contributions. If you send a story, a photo, a case study of a retrofit you completed, or a question for Maren, we store what you send us long enough to write a reply or, with your consent, publish part of it.

We do not buy email lists, import contacts from third-party address books, or run promotional tracking pixels in the newsletter beyond the standard open metric most mail providers embed by default.

Technical Data the Site Records Automatically

Web servers log basic technical information for every request they receive. A typical log line contains an IP address, a timestamp, the URL requested, the response code, an approximate user agent string (browser and operating system), and the referring URL if your browser sent one. This data is used to keep the Site online, to spot abuse (spam floods, scraping, repeated failed requests), and to produce aggregate readership counts. Individual log lines are retained for around ninety days and then rotated out.

Cookies and Similar Technologies

A cookie is a small text file that a website asks your browser to store. Save Water Daily uses three kinds:

  • Functional cookies that remember whether you have already dismissed the cookie notice, which display mode you selected, and other short-lived state that keeps the pages working.
  • Analytics cookies that give us aggregated numbers on how articles are being read (visits, average time on page, exit points). We do not use analytics cookies to build a personal profile of any individual reader.
  • Advertising cookies placed by Google and its ad partners, which are covered in detail in the next section.

Every modern browser lets you inspect stored cookies, delete them, block third-party cookies entirely, or open a private window that stores nothing between sessions.

Google AdSense and Third-Party Advertising Vendors

The Site carries display advertising served through Google AdSense. AdSense uses cookies and web beacons to serve and measure ads, and additional third-party ad servers or ad networks may also serve ads that appear on Save Water Daily. Those third parties automatically receive your IP address, the fact that you visited the Site, the page you were on, and, if enabled in your browser, cookies previously set by their systems. You can view Google’s Advertising Cookies and Web Beacons policy at https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads, and Google’s general privacy policy at https://policies.google.com/privacy.

Save Water Daily has no control over the individual cookies set by third-party ad networks, the specific ads chosen for a given impression, or the further use those networks make of the data they collect. Their practices are governed by their own privacy policies.

DoubleClick DART Cookie

Google, as a third-party vendor, uses the DoubleClick DART cookie to serve ads based on your visits to Save Water Daily and to other sites on the internet. You can opt out of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy at https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads. After opting out, you will still see advertising, but it will not be tailored to your combined browsing history.

Ad Personalization Controls

You have direct control over the ads Google shows you across every site in its network, not only on this one. The relevant Google-run pages are:

For opt-outs that extend across many ad networks at once, industry tools are available:

Newsletter

Newsletter emails go only to addresses that submitted the subscription form on this Site, and every email carries a working unsubscribe link. Unsubscribing removes your address within a few minutes. We do not sell the newsletter list, swap it with other publishers, or use it for third-party promotional content.

Data Retention

How long we keep something depends on what it is and why we have it:

  • Contact-form messages: up to twelve months, then deleted unless the thread became part of an ongoing project.
  • Newsletter subscription record: until you unsubscribe, or until a hard bounce marks the address as undeliverable.
  • Server request logs: around ninety days, then rotated out.
  • Aggregated analytics: retained indefinitely at the aggregate level, with no identifiers attached.

Data Security

Every page and form on the Site uses HTTPS, backend access is restricted to accounts with strong passwords, and the hosting environment applies standard patching and firewalling. No system can promise absolute security, but the volume of data we hold is deliberately limited.

Rights of Visitors in the EEA and UK (GDPR)

If you are located in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, the General Data Protection Regulation (and the UK GDPR) applies to your personal data. The legal bases we rely on to process it are the ones set out in Article 6(1):

  • Consent for advertising cookies and any other non-essential cookie that requires your active agreement through the consent banner.
  • Legitimate interest for basic site operation, server-log security, aggregate analytics, and fraud prevention. The interest is running a functional public website; we have weighed it against the limited privacy impact of these activities.
  • Contract (or steps toward one) for newsletter delivery to the address you subscribed with, and for responding to messages you send through the contact form.

Under the GDPR you have the right to:

  • Access the personal data we hold about you and receive a copy of it.
  • Correct data that is inaccurate or incomplete.
  • Ask for erasure of data we no longer need, or that was given only with consent you have since withdrawn.
  • Restrict processing while a dispute or accuracy check is pending.
  • Receive your data in a portable, machine-readable format where processing was based on consent or contract.
  • Object to processing that relies on legitimate interest.
  • Withdraw consent at any time, without affecting the lawfulness of earlier processing.
  • Lodge a complaint with your national data-protection authority.

To exercise any of these rights, email [email protected] with a short description of what you want to do. GDPR gives us up to thirty calendar days to respond, and we aim to reply well inside that window.

Rights of California Residents (CCPA and CPRA)

If you are a California resident, the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended by the CPRA, gives you specific rights over your personal information. The categories of personal information Save Water Daily collects, as defined by the CCPA, are:

  • Identifiers (email address if you submit a form, IP address in server logs).
  • Internet or network activity information (pages visited, referring URLs, browser details, aggregated behavior).
  • Geolocation data at country and region level, derived approximately from your IP address.
  • Inferences drawn by advertising vendors from your browsing across ad-supported sites.

We do not sell personal information for money. However, the CCPA defines “sale” and “share” broadly enough that the use of third-party advertising cookies (including those set by Google and other ad partners described above) may qualify as a “sharing” of identifiers and internet activity for cross-context behavioral advertising. To the extent that applies, California residents have the following rights:

  • Right to know what personal information we collect, use, disclose, or share.
  • Right to delete personal information we hold about you, subject to legal exceptions.
  • Right to correct inaccurate personal information.
  • Right to opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information (“Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information”).
  • Right to limit the use of sensitive personal information. Save Water Daily does not knowingly collect sensitive categories such as precise geolocation, government IDs, financial account credentials, or health data.
  • Right to non-discrimination. We will not deny service, charge different prices, or reduce the quality of the Site because you used any of the rights above.

To submit a CCPA request, email [email protected] with “CCPA Request” in the subject line and enough detail to identify the request (for example, the email address you used, or the browser you want us to act on for an ad opt-out). To opt out of advertising-related sharing specifically, use the Google Ads Settings link and industry opt-out pages listed earlier, which apply immediately at the browser or account level.

Children’s Privacy (COPPA)

Save Water Daily is written for a general adult audience and is not directed to children under the age of thirteen. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under thirteen, and we do not build features, contests, or interactive tools aimed at that age group. If you are a parent or guardian and believe that a child under thirteen has submitted personal information through the Site, email [email protected] and we will delete that information from our records.

International Visitors and Data Transfers

Save Water Daily serves readers globally, and the servers, email providers, and advertising partners we use may process data in the United States, the European Union, and other regions. If you use the Site from a country different from where our providers operate, your information may cross those borders. Where required, our providers rely on standard contractual clauses or equivalent safeguards to keep transfers lawful.

Third-Party Links

Articles link to external sources, product manufacturers, government utilities, and other publishers. Those sites operate under their own privacy policies, which we do not control.

Changes to This Policy

If the practices described here change, we will update this page and revise the Last Updated date at the bottom. Material changes (new categories of data, new advertising partners, new user rights) will be flagged in the newsletter or in a notice on the Site itself.

Contact

Questions about this policy, requests under GDPR or CCPA, or reports of a suspected privacy issue should go to:

Effective date: July 24, 2026

Last Updated: July 24, 2026