Privacy Policy - iLmrary

Last updated: July 30, 2026

This Privacy Policy explains how iLmrary.com collects, uses, shares, and protects personal information when you visit our website.

iLmrary.com is an English learning website. We publish vocabulary, grammar, sentence, and language learning content for students, teachers, and self-study readers worldwide.

By using iLmrary.com, you agree to the practices described in this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, please stop using the site.

1. Who We Are

For the purposes of data protection law, the controller of personal information collected through this website is iLmrary.com.

You can reach us about privacy matters at contact@ilmrary.com, or through our Contact page. Please begin your subject line with Legal so your message reaches the right place quickly.

We do not publish a physical business address on this website. If a data protection authority requires further details, we will provide them directly.

2. Summary of Key Points

We do not operate user accounts, comment sections, newsletters, or contact forms on this website.
Most information we handle is collected automatically by advertising and analytics services, not submitted by you.
We use cookies and similar technologies, including cookies set by advertising partners.
Visitors in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland are asked for consent before non-essential cookies are set.
We do not sell personal information for money.
You have rights over your personal information, and Section 17 explains how to use them.

3. Information You Provide Directly

Because this website has no accounts, comment section, newsletter, or contact form, we do not collect personal information through the site itself.

If you choose to email us, we receive your email address, your name if you include it, and whatever you write in your message. We use this only to read and answer your message, and to keep a record of the correspondence.

If you contact us through a social media platform instead, that platform handles your information under its own privacy policy, not this one.

4. Information Collected Automatically

When you visit iLmrary.com, certain information is collected automatically by our hosting, security, analytics, and advertising services. This may include:

Your IP address, which may be shortened or masked by some services
Browser type, browser version, and language settings
Device type, operating system, and screen characteristics
The pages you view on our site, and the time and duration of those visits
The website or search engine that referred you to us
General location inferred from your IP address, such as country or region
Interactions with advertisements shown on our pages
Technical log data, including errors and requests made to our servers

This information is collected through cookies, pixels, software development kits, server logs, and similar technologies. Some of it is personal information under data protection law, and some of it is not.

5. Cookies and Similar Technologies

We use cookies and similar technologies to keep the site working, to understand how it is used, and to support advertising.

Broadly, the cookies on this site fall into these groups:

Strictly necessary cookies, which are required for the site to load, stay secure, and function. These are set without consent because the site cannot operate without them.
Preference cookies, which remember choices such as your consent selections.
Analytics cookies, which help us understand which pages are read and how visitors move through the site.
Advertising cookies, which are set by advertising partners to select, deliver, measure, and in some cases personalize advertisements.

Analytics and advertising cookies are not set before consent for visitors in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland.

Our Cookie Policy describes the categories in more detail and explains how to change your choices at any time.

6. Legal Bases for Processing

If you are in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or Switzerland, we process personal information on the following legal bases under Article 6 of the GDPR and the equivalent provisions of UK and Swiss law:

Consent, for analytics cookies, advertising cookies, personalized advertising, and any other non-essential technology. You may withdraw consent at any time.
Legitimate interests, for keeping the website secure, preventing fraud and abuse, maintaining server logs, and understanding aggregate site performance. We balance these interests against your rights and freedoms.
Contract, where processing is needed to respond to a request you have made to us.
Legal obligation, where we must process information to comply with a law that applies to us.

Where we rely on consent, refusing or withdrawing it does not stop you from reading the site.

7. How We Use Information

We use the information described above to:

Deliver and display the content and pages you request
Keep the site secure and protect it against abuse, attacks, and fraud
Diagnose technical problems and improve site performance
Understand which topics and pages are read most, so we can improve our content
Display advertising, and where consent allows, personalized advertising
Measure the performance of advertising shown on our pages
Respond to emails and requests you send us
Comply with legal obligations and enforce our Terms of Service

8. Advertising

We display advertising on iLmrary.com, including advertising served through Google AdSense.

Google and its advertising partners use cookies and similar technologies to serve advertisements based on your prior visits to this and other websites. Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve advertisements to you based on your visits to our site and other sites on the internet.

Depending on your location and your consent choices, the advertising you see may be personalized or non-personalized. Non-personalized advertising still uses limited information such as general location and page content, and still relies on cookies for frequency capping, measurement, and fraud prevention.

You can review and adjust the advertising settings Google applies to you at Google Ads Settings, and you can learn how Google uses information from sites that use its services at Google’s policy page.

You can opt out of personalized advertising from many other providers through YourAdChoices in the United States, Your Online Choices in Europe, and the Network Advertising Initiative.

Advertisers and advertising networks are independent of us. Their collection and use of information is governed by their own privacy policies, and we do not control what they collect.

9. Analytics

We use analytics services, including Google Analytics, to understand how visitors use the site in aggregate. Analytics services may record pages viewed, session duration, referral sources, approximate location, and technical details about your device.

Google Analytics 4 does not log or store full IP addresses. You can prevent Google Analytics from using your data by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on.

Visitors in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland are shown a consent notice before non-essential cookies are set.

Where we serve Google advertising to these visitors, we use a Google-certified consent management platform that supports the IAB Transparency and Consent Framework, as Google requires, together with Google Consent Mode. This records your choices and passes them to our advertising and analytics partners.

You can change or withdraw your consent at any time through the cookie settings control available on this site. Withdrawing consent does not affect processing that already took place while consent was active.

11. Global Privacy Control and Browser Signals

Some browsers and extensions send an automated privacy signal such as Global Privacy Control. Where the law requires us to honour such a signal, for example under California law, we treat it as a valid request to opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information for that browser.

Because these signals are browser and device specific, you may need to enable the setting on each browser and device you use.

We do not sell personal information for money.

Some advertising practices, including the use of advertising cookies to personalize advertisements, are treated as a sale or sharing of personal information under certain US state privacy laws. Where that applies, you can opt out as described in Sections 11 and 17.

We share information with:

Service providers, such as our hosting provider, security and content delivery services, and analytics providers, which process information on our behalf
Advertising partners, including Google and its partners, subject to your consent choices
Legal and safety recipients, where disclosure is required by law, court order, or regulatory request, or where it is necessary to protect our rights, our users, or the public
A successor entity, if the website or its assets are transferred to another owner, in which case this Privacy Policy will continue to apply until the new owner publishes its own

We do not share your email correspondence with advertisers.

13. International Transfers

Our service providers and advertising partners operate in several countries, including the United States. This means personal information may be transferred outside your country of residence, including outside the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland.

Where such transfers occur, our providers rely on lawful transfer mechanisms, which may include the EU-US Data Privacy Framework and its UK and Swiss extensions, the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses, the UK International Data Transfer Agreement, or other approved safeguards.

14. Data Retention

We keep information only as long as it serves the purpose for which it was collected, or as long as the law requires.

Server and security logs are typically kept for a short period, then deleted or overwritten
Analytics data is retained according to the retention settings of the analytics service
Advertising data is retained by the advertising partner under its own policies
Email correspondence is kept while the matter is open, and for a reasonable period afterwards for reference

15. Security

We take reasonable technical and organizational steps to protect the information handled through this website, including encrypted connections and access controls on the systems we manage.

No website or internet transmission is completely secure. We cannot guarantee absolute security, and you send information to us at your own risk.

16. Children’s Privacy

iLmrary.com is intended for a general audience of English learners and is not directed at young children. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13, or under the higher age of consent that applies in some countries, which ranges up to 16 in parts of the European Union.

We do not knowingly serve personalized advertising to children.

We do not knowingly sell or share the personal information of visitors under 16, as those terms are used in United States state privacy laws.

If you believe a child has provided personal information to us, contact us at contact@ilmrary.com and we will delete it.

17. Your Privacy Rights

Your rights depend on where you live.

If you are in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or Switzerland, you have the right to:

Access the personal information we hold about you
Have inaccurate information corrected
Have your information erased in certain circumstances
Restrict how we process your information
Object to processing based on legitimate interests
Receive your information in a portable format
Withdraw consent at any time
Complain to a supervisory authority

If you live in California, Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, or another US state with a comprehensive privacy law, you have the right to:

Know what categories of personal information are collected and for what purpose
Access or receive a copy of your personal information
Correct inaccurate personal information
Delete your personal information
Opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information and of targeted advertising
Not be discriminated against for exercising these rights
Appeal a decision we make about your request, where state law provides for an appeal

To use any of these rights, email us at contact@ilmrary.com with Legal at the start of your subject line, and tell us what you would like us to do. Our Contact page lists the same details. We will respond within the time the applicable law allows.

Because this website has no accounts or logins, we may need additional information to verify your identity or to identify your data. If we cannot verify a request, we may be unable to act on it. You may use an authorized agent where the law permits, subject to proof of authorization.

18. Supervisory Authorities

If you are unhappy with how we handle your personal information, you may complain to your data protection authority.

In the United Kingdom, the Information Commissioner’s Office at ico.org.uk
In Switzerland, the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner at edoeb.admin.ch
In the European Economic Area, the supervisory authority of your country of residence, place of work, or the place of the alleged infringement

We would appreciate the chance to address your concerns before you contact a regulator.

19. Automated Decision-Making

We do not make decisions that produce legal effects or similarly significant effects about you through automated processing alone.

Advertising partners may use automated systems to select which advertisements you see. This does not produce legal or similarly significant effects.

20. Third-Party Links and Embedded Content

Our pages link to other websites, and may include embedded content such as videos from our channel or other platforms.

Embedded content behaves as if you had visited the other website, and that provider may collect information about you and set its own cookies. We do not control these practices. Please read the privacy policy of any third-party service you interact with.

21. Do Not Track

Some browsers offer a Do Not Track setting. There is no agreed industry standard for responding to it, and this website does not respond to Do Not Track signals. We do honour recognized opt-out signals as described in Section 11.

22. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy to reflect changes in our practices, technology, or legal requirements.

When we make a material change, we will revise the date at the top of this page, and where the law requires it, we will ask for your consent again. Please check this page from time to time.

23. Contact Us

For privacy questions, requests, or complaints:

Email: contact@ilmrary.com Contact page: https://ilmrary.com/contact/ Website: iLmrary.com

Begin your subject line with Legal for privacy and data protection requests.

This Privacy Policy should be read together with our Cookie Policy, Terms of Service, Disclaimer, Copyright Policy, Advertising Policy, and Corrections Policy.