Privacy Policy

What we collect, why we collect it, and the choices you have

Last updated: 2026

This policy explains what information Ranking Hours collects when you visit ranking-hours.uz, why we collect it, how it's used, and the choices available to you as a reader. It applies to this website specifically — if you follow a link to a retailer, a manufacturer's site, or another third party, their own privacy policy governs what happens from that point forward, not this one.

1. Information We Collect

Ranking Hours collects information in a few different ways, depending on how you use the site. Most of it is the ordinary technical information any website picks up automatically, described in Section 2 below. Beyond that, we only collect what you choose to give us directly, and we try to keep that list as short as it genuinely needs to be for the site to function well.

If you send a message through our Contact page or FAQ form, we receive whatever you include — typically your name, an email address to reply to, and the content of your message. We don't require an account to read comparisons, browse categories, or use the site's search, so for most visitors, no personal information is collected at all beyond standard server logs and the cookies described in Section 3.

We also don't ask for information we don't need to fulfil a specific purpose. There's no requirement to create a profile, verify your identity, or provide payment details anywhere on this site, since Ranking Hours doesn't sell products directly — comparisons link out to third-party retailers, who have their own separate data practices for any purchase you go on to make.

2. Server Logs

Like most websites, our server automatically keeps log files. This is standard practice, and it helps us catch attacks, fix bugs, and keep the site running smoothly.

Every time you visit the site, our server records the following:

IP address - the address your internet provider assigns your connection.
Browser and device info - your browser type, version, and operating system.
Timestamps - the date and time of each visit.
Referrer and exit pages - the page that linked you here, and the page you left from.
Basic usage stats - clicks, page views, and how long you spend on a page.

None of this includes your name, home address, passwords, or payment details. It's anonymous data, used only to keep the site running well and understand general traffic patterns. This kind of logging happens on nearly every website you've ever visited, ad-supported or not, since it's built into how web servers function at a basic technical level rather than being a choice specific to this site.

3. Cookies & Tracking Technologies

Cookies are small text files a site stores in your browser to remember information between visits. We use a few different categories:

Essential cookies - needed for basic site functionality, such as remembering a filter selection while you browse comparisons in a single session.
Analytics cookies - help us understand which pages get read, how visitors move through the site, and where to focus future comparisons.
Advertising cookies - used by Google AdSense and similar ad networks to serve ads and measure their performance. These may track browsing activity across different websites, not just this one.

You can control or delete cookies through your browser settings at any time. Blocking cookies entirely may affect how well certain features of the site work, though the comparisons themselves will still be fully readable.

Google's own use of advertising cookies is governed by Google's Privacy & Terms, which you can review directly on Google's website for the most current details on how ad personalization data is handled. Most modern browsers also let you clear existing cookies and set a preference to block new ones from specific categories of site, which is a useful complement to the opt-out tools described later in this policy.

Alongside cookies, this site and its advertising and analytics partners may use web beacons (sometimes called pixel tags or clear GIFs) — small, often invisible graphics embedded in a page or email that confirm when that page has been viewed or a message has been opened. On this site, these are generally used by the same analytics and advertising providers described above, for the same purposes: measuring which pages get read and how ad campaigns perform, rather than collecting any additional personal information beyond what's already described in this policy.

4. How We Use Information

Technical information from server logs and analytics is used to keep the site secure, diagnose problems, and understand which comparisons and categories are actually useful to readers — that data regularly shapes what we choose to research and write next, and which categories get more attention in future updates.

Information you provide directly, such as a message sent through the Contact page, is used only to respond to your inquiry, investigate a correction report, or follow up on a comparison request. We don't use contact-form submissions for marketing, and we don't sell personal information to third parties under any circumstances.

Legal basis for processing

For visitors covered by the GDPR, our basis for processing server-log and analytics data is legitimate interest — specifically, keeping the site secure and understanding how it's used. Where you contact us directly, the basis is your consent, given by the act of sending the message. Advertising cookies are used based on consent collected through the site's cookie controls, where applicable in your region.

5. Data Retention

Server logs are generally retained for a limited period sufficient to diagnose issues and detect abuse, after which they're deleted or aggregated into anonymous statistics that no longer identify an individual visitor. Messages sent through the Contact page are kept long enough to resolve the inquiry and to maintain a record in case a related issue comes up again on the same page later — not indefinitely for their own sake.

If you'd like a message you sent us deleted sooner than our normal retention period, you can request that directly, and we'll act on it unless we're required to keep the record for a legal reason, such as an active dispute or a regulatory obligation that overrides the standard deletion timeline.

6. International Data Transfers

Because this site is accessed globally and relies on third-party hosting, analytics, and advertising providers, information may be processed on servers located outside your own country, including in the United States and the European Union. Where this happens, our third-party providers are generally responsible for putting appropriate safeguards in place under their own compliance frameworks — we don't operate separate international data centers ourselves, and we rely on the contractual and technical protections our hosting and advertising partners maintain as part of their own services, which are typically reviewed and updated on their end as regulations evolve.

7. Do Not Track Signals

Some browsers offer a "Do Not Track" (DNT) setting that sends a signal to websites requesting that your browsing not be tracked. There's currently no single, universally agreed standard for how sites should respond to DNT signals, and — like most websites — we do not currently change our data collection based on this signal specifically. Instead, we rely on the cookie controls described in Section 3 and the industry opt-out tools listed in Section 8 to give you meaningful, practical control over advertising tracking.

8. Opting Out of Interest-Based Advertising

Beyond your browser's own cookie settings, several industry tools let you opt out of interest-based advertising across many participating sites at once, not just this one:

The Digital Advertising Alliance's opt-out page, for US-based interest-based advertising preferences.
The Network Advertising Initiative's opt-out tool, covering many of the same ad networks from a different registry.
Your Online Choices, the equivalent industry opt-out resource for visitors in the EU and UK.
Google's own Ad Settings page, specifically for controlling how Google personalizes ads based on your activity.

These tools are run by the advertising industry and by Google respectively, not by us directly — we link to them here because they're the most effective way to control cross-site ad tracking, well beyond what a single site's cookie banner can offer on its own. Opting out through these tools generally means you'll still see ads on this site, just less tailored to your browsing history elsewhere, and the preference usually applies across any device where you've set it in that browser.

9. Other Third-Party Services

Some other ad and analytics partners may also use cookies or similar tools on our pages, and can see your IP address when their scripts load.

These partners use that data to measure their campaigns and personalize ads. We don't control how they use it - that's governed by their own privacy policies, not ours.

This policy only covers our own site, not those third parties - check their own privacy pages for details. If you want to limit third-party tracking generally, browser extensions or ad-blockers can help, though some may also affect how comparison images or certain interactive features on this site load.

Some comparisons on this site include affiliate links to retailers. Clicking one of these links may let the retailer know you came from Ranking Hours, which is how affiliate commissions are tracked. This typically works through a short-lived cookie or a URL parameter set at the moment you click, rather than any ongoing tracking of your activity on the retailer's site afterward — what that retailer does with your data once you're there is covered entirely by their own privacy policy, not ours. More detail on how affiliate links work on this site is on our Affiliate Disclosure page.

10. Your Privacy Rights (GDPR & CCPA)

If you're covered by the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) or the EU's GDPR, you have the following rights over your data:

Right to access: request a copy of any personal data we hold about you.
Right to correction: ask us to fix inaccurate or outdated information.
Right to deletion: ask us to delete your data, as long as it doesn't conflict with a legal requirement to keep it.
Right to restrict processing: ask us to pause how your data is used for analytics or marketing.
Right to portability: request your data in a format you can transfer elsewhere.
Right to non-discrimination: using these rights will never get you worse treatment or reduced access to our content.

To exercise any of these rights, just contact us using the details in Section 14 below. We aim to respond within 30 business days. In most cases, given how little personal information this site actually collects, a request can be resolved much faster than that — the 30-day figure is a legal maximum set by the relevant regulations, not a typical wait time.

11. How We Secure Information

We use standard security practices appropriate for a site of this size — encrypted connections (HTTPS) between your browser and our server, and limiting access to any data we do hold, such as Contact page submissions, to the people who genuinely need it to respond properly. No method of transmission or storage is completely immune to risk, and we can't guarantee absolute security, but we take reasonable, proportionate steps given the limited amount of personal data this site actually collects. We also periodically review which third-party services have access to any data we hold, and remove access that's no longer needed.

12. Children's Privacy

We take children's privacy seriously, and encourage parents and guardians to stay involved in kids' internet use in general.

We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child has submitted personal data to us, please contact us right away, ideally with enough detail — such as the approximate date and the page involved — for us to locate the specific submission quickly.

We'll act quickly to find and delete that data from our records, and to confirm back to you once that's been done.

13. Changes to This Policy

We may update this policy from time to time to reflect changes in privacy laws, our hosting setup, or how our ad partners work. When a change is significant enough to meaningfully affect how your data is handled, we'll aim to make that clear, rather than only updating the "last updated" date quietly at the top of the page.

Updates take effect as soon as they're posted here. We'd encourage you to check back occasionally - continuing to use the site after a change means you accept the updated policy.

If any part of this policy is ever found unenforceable by a court, only that part would be adjusted - the rest of the policy stays in effect.

14. Contact Us

Questions about this policy, or a request to exercise one of the rights listed in Section 10, can be sent through our Contact page, or directly by email at abdullohmahmudov660@gmail.com. Please include enough detail for us to identify what data you're asking about, since a vague request can slow down how quickly we're able to act on it.

15. Advertising on This Site Specifically

This site displays advertising through Google AdSense, a third-party advertising network. Google may use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this site or other websites, and Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads based on your visits to this site and other sites on the internet.

We don't hand-pick which specific ads appear on a given page, and an ad's presence next to a comparison shouldn't be read as an endorsement of whatever product or service it's promoting. If you'd like more detail on how Google specifically handles advertising data, Google publishes its own privacy and terms documentation covering that directly, which we'd encourage reviewing for the most current details.

16. Links to Other Websites

Nearly every comparison on this site links out to a manufacturer's product page or a retailer where the compared products can be bought. Once you click through to one of those sites, this privacy policy no longer applies — you're subject to that site's own privacy practices, which we don't control and haven't reviewed on your behalf, and which can differ significantly from what's described here.

We encourage reading the privacy policy of any third-party site before providing personal information there, particularly at checkout, since the level of protection and the specific data collected can vary considerably from one retailer to another.

17. California "Shine the Light" Disclosure

California residents may request information once a year about whether we've disclosed personal information to third parties for their own direct marketing purposes. As described earlier in this policy, we don't sell personal information, and contact-form submissions are used only to respond to your specific inquiry — so in practice, there generally isn't third-party direct-marketing disclosure to report on our end. If you'd still like written confirmation of this for your own records, the contact details in Section 14 can be used to request it, and we'll respond in writing within a reasonable timeframe.

18. A Plain-Language Summary

Legal documents like this one are necessarily thorough, so here's the short version of what actually happens in practice, in case the sections above felt like more detail than you needed:

Browsing the site — reading comparisons, using filters, searching — triggers standard server logging and, if you haven't opted out, advertising and analytics cookies.
No account, sign-up, or payment information is ever required to use the site's core content, comparisons, or category browsing.
Sending us a message through the Contact page shares whatever you choose to include, used only to handle that specific request and nothing beyond it.
We don't sell personal information, and we don't use contact-form details for marketing.
Clicking an affiliate link may notify the retailer where you came from, which is how affiliate commissions work — the purchase itself is between you and that retailer, and your payment details never pass through us.
You can control cookies through your browser, and control cross-site ad personalization through the industry opt-out tools listed in Section 8.

If anything above raises a question this summary doesn't answer, the full sections earlier in this policy go into more detail, and Section 14 is there if you'd rather just ask us directly rather than digging through the rest of the document.

19. Email Communications

If you email us directly or through the Contact page, we'll use that email address only to reply to you regarding your specific inquiry, and never for anything beyond that. We don't add addresses collected this way to a newsletter or marketing list — at the time of writing, this site doesn't operate a newsletter or send unsolicited marketing emails of any kind, to anyone. If that changes in the future, any such list will be opt-in only, clearly described before you subscribe, and easy to leave at any time through a link in every message.

20. Consent for Visitors in the EEA and UK

For visitors browsing from the European Economic Area, the UK, or other regions with similar consent requirements, non-essential cookies — including the analytics and advertising cookies described in Section 3 — are only set with your consent, typically gathered through a cookie banner or similar mechanism on your first visit. You can withdraw that consent at any time through your browser's cookie settings, and doing so won't affect your ability to read comparisons or use the site's core features — only the personalization of ads and some analytics detail will change.

Where this leaves you as a reader

In plain terms: browsing this site, reading comparisons, and using the category filters doesn't require you to hand over any personal information at all. Standard technical logging and advertising cookies apply, as they do on the large majority of ad-supported websites, and you retain meaningful control over the cookie portion through your browser settings.

The only point where you actively choose to share something is the Contact page, and what you share there is used only to handle whatever you asked about. If any of this ever feels unclear when applied to a specific situation you're personally in, Section 14 above is the fastest way to ask us directly.