Privacy Policy

Effective Date: September 28, 2026

Welcome to Figurative Devices.

Website: FigurativeDevices.com
Owner and Operator: Ahmad Naeem
Contact: contact@figurativedevices.com

This Privacy Policy explains how Figurative Devices may collect, use, store, and protect information when you visit or interact with our website.

We respect your privacy and aim to be transparent about the information and technologies used on the website.

1. Information We Collect

We may collect information that you voluntarily provide to us, as well as certain information that may be collected automatically when you visit the website.

The information we collect depends on how you interact with Figurative Devices and which website features or services are active.

Information You Provide

You may voluntarily provide information when you contact us by email or use an available website feature that requests information.

This information may include:

• Your name
• Email address
• Message details
• Information contained in your communication
• Any other information you voluntarily provide

We use this information primarily to respond to inquiries, provide assistance, address reported issues, and improve the website.

2. Information Collected Automatically

When you visit Figurative Devices, certain technical information may be collected automatically through standard web technologies.

Depending on the services and features in use, this information may include:

• IP address
• Browser type and version
• Device type
• Operating system
• Pages visited
• Date and time of visits
• Referring website or page
• General website usage information
• Technical information about your interaction with the website

This information may be used to understand website usage, maintain security, identify technical problems, prevent abuse, and improve our content and user experience.

3. Cookies and Similar Technologies

Figurative Devices may use cookies and similar technologies such as local storage, pixels, web beacons, and other identifiers.

Cookies are small text files that websites may store on a visitor’s device. They can help websites remember information, provide functionality, understand usage, maintain security, and support advertising.

The types of cookies used may include the following.

Essential Cookies

Essential cookies may be used to support basic website functionality, security, authentication where applicable, spam prevention, and other necessary website operations.

These cookies may be required for the website or particular features to function properly.

Analytics Cookies

Where analytics services are enabled, cookies or similar technologies may be used to understand how visitors interact with the website.

Analytics information may include:

• Number of visitors
• Popular pages
• Traffic sources
• General visitor interactions
• Website performance information

This information helps us understand how people use Figurative Devices and improve our content and website experience.

Advertising Cookies

If advertising is enabled on Figurative Devices, third-party advertising providers, including Google, may use cookies or similar technologies to display and measure advertisements.

These technologies may be used to:

• Display advertisements
• Measure advertising performance
• Understand interactions with advertisements
• Support personalized advertising where permitted
• Detect and prevent invalid or fraudulent activity

4. Google AdSense and Advertising

Figurative Devices may use Google AdSense to display advertisements.

Google and its advertising partners may use cookies, advertising identifiers, web beacons, IP addresses, or similar technologies in connection with advertising displayed on our website.

These technologies may allow Google and its partners to serve advertisements based on a user’s previous visits to this website or other websites.

Google may also use information to measure advertising performance, provide relevant advertising, detect invalid activity, and maintain the security of its advertising systems.

Third-party vendors and advertising partners may also place and read cookies on visitors’ browsers or use similar technologies as part of the advertising services used on the website.

Google’s use of advertising cookies and related technologies is subject to Google’s applicable policies.

Users may manage personalized advertising preferences through Google Ads Settings.

Users can also learn more about how Google uses information from websites and apps that use its services through Google’s information and privacy resources.

5. Advertising Choices and Consent

Where required by applicable law, visitors may be presented with a consent or privacy message before certain non-essential cookies or advertising technologies are used.

For visitors in the European Economic Area, United Kingdom, and Switzerland, applicable consent choices may be presented in accordance with relevant privacy and advertising requirements.

Visitors may manage available privacy and advertising choices through the consent mechanism presented on the website and through available browser or advertising settings.

6. Third-Party Services

We may use third-party services to help operate, secure, analyse, and improve Figurative Devices.

Depending on the services enabled on the website, these may include:

• Google AdSense
• Google Analytics, where enabled
• Security and spam-prevention services
• Hosting and content-delivery services
• External content providers
• Other website functionality or analytics services

Third-party providers may process information according to their own privacy policies and terms.

We encourage visitors to review the privacy information provided by third-party services that they interact with through our website.

7. Embedded Content

Some articles or pages on Figurative Devices may contain embedded content from external websites, including:

• Images
• Videos
• Educational resources
• External references
• Other embedded media

Embedded content from another website may behave in the same way as if the visitor had visited that external website directly.

The third-party website may collect information, use cookies, or monitor interactions with its content according to its own privacy policy.

8. How We Use Information

Information collected through Figurative Devices may be used for purposes including:

• Providing and maintaining the website
• Providing educational resources
• Responding to visitor inquiries
• Improving articles and educational content
• Understanding website usage
• Analysing website performance
• Maintaining website security
• Preventing spam, abuse, and fraudulent activity
• Detecting technical problems
• Supporting advertising and measuring advertising performance where applicable
• Complying with applicable legal obligations

We do not sell or rent personal information to third parties.

9. Comments and User Submissions

If commenting or another user-submission feature is available on the website, information submitted through that feature may be collected.

This may include information entered by the visitor and technical information such as an IP address or browser information.

Such information may be used for:

• Publishing and managing submissions
• Responding to users
• Spam detection
• Security
• Website administration

We may remove submissions that contain spam, unlawful material, harmful content, or material that violates our website rules.

10. Information Sharing

We may share information with service providers when reasonably necessary to operate, maintain, secure, analyse, or improve the website.

Examples may include hosting providers, security services, analytics providers, advertising providers, and technical service providers.

We may also disclose information where required by applicable law, legal process, or to protect the rights, security, and integrity of the website, its users, or others.

We do not sell personal information for money.

11. Data Retention

We retain information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by applicable law.

Retention periods may depend on:

• The purpose for which the information was collected
• Security requirements
• Legal obligations
• Website administration
• Communication requirements
• The nature of the information

12. Your Privacy Rights

Depending on your location and applicable privacy laws, you may have rights regarding your personal information.

These may include the right to:

• Request access to personal information we hold about you
• Request correction of inaccurate information
• Request deletion of certain information
• Object to or restrict certain processing
• Request information about how your data is used
• Manage applicable cookie or advertising preferences

To make a privacy-related request, please contact us using the contact details provided below.

We may need to verify your request before taking action where required for security or legal reasons.

13. Children’s Privacy

Figurative Devices provides educational content intended for a broad audience, including students, teachers, writers, and English learners.

We do not knowingly collect personal information from children in circumstances where applicable law requires parental or guardian consent.

If you believe that a child has provided personal information to us in circumstances where such collection was not appropriate, please contact us.

We will review the request and take appropriate action where required.

14. External Links

Figurative Devices may contain links to external websites, resources, or services.

We do not control those external websites and are not responsible for their:

• Privacy practices
• Security
• Content
• Availability
• Terms or policies

Visitors should review the privacy policies of external websites before providing them with personal information.

15. Data Security

We take reasonable measures to protect information handled through Figurative Devices.

However, no website, online service, or method of transmitting information over the internet can guarantee complete security.

Visitors should understand that information transmitted over the internet may involve security risks despite reasonable protective measures.

16. International Data Processing

Some third-party service providers used by Figurative Devices may process information in countries other than the country where a visitor is located.

Where applicable, those providers may use contractual, technical, or other safeguards for international data transfers in accordance with their policies and applicable requirements.

17. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes to:

• Our website
• Website features
• Third-party services
• Advertising services
• Data-processing practices
• Applicable legal or regulatory requirements

When changes are made, we will update the Effective Date shown at the beginning of this Privacy Policy.

We encourage visitors to review this page periodically.

18. Contact Us

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, want to make a privacy-related request, or have concerns about how information is handled, please contact us.

Figurative Devices
Website: FigurativeDevices.com
Owner and Operator: Ahmad Naeem
Email: contact@figurativedevices.com