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Privacy Policy

Effective date: April 24, 2026
Last updated: July 21, 2026

The Black Coffee Life respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect, how we use and disclose it, and the choices and rights that may be available to you.

The Black Coffee Life is owned and operated by:

Sharpologist.com LLC
1511 Texas Avenue South, Suite 265
College Station, Texas 77840
United States

In this policy, “The Black Coffee Life,” “we,” “us,” and “our” refer to Sharpologist.com LLC and this website. “Website” refers to TheBlackCoffeeLife.com and its pages, forms, and related services.

1. Scope of This Policy

This Privacy Policy applies when you:

  • Visit or interact with the Website
  • Subscribe to an email newsletter
  • Submit a contact form
  • Leave a comment
  • Click an affiliate link
  • View or interact with advertising
  • Communicate with us about the Website

This policy does not control the privacy practices of websites, advertisers, merchants, affiliate networks, social networks, or other third parties that we do not own or operate.

2. Information We Collect

The information we collect depends on how you use the Website.

Information You Provide

You may provide information directly to us when you:

  • Subscribe to an email list
  • Complete a form
  • Contact us
  • Leave a comment
  • Respond to an email
  • Participate in a survey, quiz, promotion, or similar feature

This information may include:

  • Your name
  • Your email address
  • The contents of your message or comment
  • Answers submitted through a form, quiz, or questionnaire
  • Any other information you choose to provide

Please do not submit sensitive personal information through the Website.

Information Collected Automatically

When you visit the Website, we and our service providers may automatically collect information such as:

  • Internet Protocol address
  • Browser type and version
  • Device type and operating system
  • Referring and exit pages
  • Pages viewed
  • Links clicked
  • Date and time of visits
  • Approximate geographic location derived from an Internet Protocol address
  • Cookie identifiers and similar technical identifiers
  • Information about how you interact with the Website
  • Advertising and affiliate interaction data

This information may be collected through server logs, cookies, pixels, tags, local storage, and similar technologies.

3. How We Use Information

We may use information for the following purposes:

  • To operate, maintain, and improve the Website
  • To provide requested content or services
  • To respond to messages and inquiries
  • To send newsletters and other communications you requested
  • To understand how visitors find and use the Website
  • To measure the performance of articles, forms, email campaigns, affiliate links, and advertisements
  • To personalize content or advertising where permitted
  • To detect spam, fraud, abuse, and security threats
  • To diagnose technical problems
  • To enforce our policies
  • To comply with applicable laws
  • To establish, exercise, or defend legal claims

We may combine information collected through different parts of the Website when permitted by law.

4. Cookies and Similar Technologies

Cookies are small files that websites or service providers store on a browser or device. We may use cookies and similar technologies for several purposes.

Essential Technologies

These technologies support functions such as:

  • Website operation
  • Security
  • Spam prevention
  • Form submission
  • Remembering privacy choices

Some essential technologies may operate without consent where permitted by law.

Analytics Technologies

Analytics technologies help us understand matters such as:

  • How many people visit the Website
  • Which pages visitors view
  • How visitors reach the Website
  • How visitors navigate the Website
  • Whether Website features work as intended

Advertising Technologies

Advertising providers may use cookies and similar technologies to:

  • Select and display advertisements
  • Limit how often an advertisement is displayed
  • Measure advertising performance
  • Detect invalid traffic or fraud
  • Personalize advertisements where permitted and consented to

Affiliate Technologies

When you click an affiliate link, an affiliate network or merchant may use cookies or other identifiers to determine whether a purchase or other qualifying action should be credited to The Black Coffee Life.

You can manage nonessential cookies through our consent or privacy-preferences tool, where available. You can also adjust your browser settings to block or delete cookies. Blocking cookies may affect some Website features.

5. Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager

We use Google Analytics 4 to understand how visitors use the Website.

Google Analytics may collect information such as:

  • Pages viewed
  • Visit duration
  • Referring sources
  • General device and browser information
  • Approximate location
  • Interactions with Website features

Google Tag Manager helps us manage analytics and other Website tags. Google Tag Manager itself is primarily a tag-management tool, but services loaded through it may collect information according to their own functions and privacy practices.

Google may process information collected through its services in accordance with Google’s privacy policies and its explanation of how Google uses information from sites and apps that use Google services.

You may be able to limit Google Analytics collection through our cookie-preference tool, your browser settings, or Google’s analytics opt-out tools.

6. Email Subscriptions and SendFox

We use SendFox to manage email subscriptions and send newsletters.

When you subscribe, we may collect:

  • Your email address
  • Your name, when requested
  • The date and source of your subscription
  • Your consent record
  • Information about email delivery, opens, and link clicks

We use this information to deliver the communications you requested, manage the email list, evaluate newsletter performance, and maintain appropriate consent and unsubscribe records.

SendFox processes information on our behalf according to its own terms, privacy policy, and data-processing practices.

You may unsubscribe at any time by using the unsubscribe link included in an email. We may retain limited information after an unsubscribe request to ensure that we continue to honor the request and meet legal or recordkeeping obligations.

7. Contact Forms

When you submit a contact form, we may collect your name, email address, message, Internet Protocol address, browser information, and other information included in the form.

We use this information to:

  • Respond to your inquiry
  • Maintain records of the communication
  • Prevent spam and abuse
  • Protect the security of the Website
  • Comply with legal obligations

Do not include confidential, medical, financial, or other sensitive information in a contact form.

8. Comments

When visitors leave comments, we may collect:

  • Information entered in the comment form
  • Internet Protocol address
  • Browser user-agent information
  • Submission date and time
  • Information used for spam detection

An anonymized value created from your email address may be provided to an avatar service to determine whether you use that service. If your comment is approved, your profile image may be publicly visible with your comment.

Comments and information displayed with them may remain publicly available unless removed by us. We may retain comments to preserve the context of discussions, maintain moderation records, and detect spam.

Please do not publish private or sensitive information in a comment.

9. Advertising and Google AdSense

We may use Google AdSense and other advertising services to display advertisements on the Website.

When advertising is enabled, Google and its advertising partners may use cookies, device identifiers, Internet Protocol addresses, browsing information, and similar technologies to:

  • Display advertisements
  • Select advertisements based on context or interests
  • Measure advertisement performance
  • Limit advertisement frequency
  • Detect fraud and invalid traffic
  • Produce aggregated reporting

Google may use information from visits to this Website and other websites to provide personalized advertising where allowed and where the required consent has been obtained.

Nonpersonalized advertisements may still use cookies or similar technologies for functions such as frequency control, aggregated reporting, security, and fraud prevention.

Visitors in the European Economic Area, United Kingdom, Switzerland, and other regions where consent is required will be presented with privacy choices before nonessential advertising technologies are used.

You can manage advertising choices through:

  • Our Website privacy-preference tool
  • Google’s advertising settings
  • Your browser or device privacy settings
  • Applicable industry opt-out tools
  • Global Privacy Control, where legally required and technically supported

For additional information, review Google’s explanation of how it uses information from websites and applications that use Google services.

10. Affiliate Links

Some links on the Website are affiliate links. If you click an affiliate link and make a purchase or complete another qualifying action, we may receive a commission or other compensation.

Affiliate merchants and networks may collect information about the link you clicked, your browser or device, and transactions associated with the referral. Their collection and use of information are governed by their own privacy policies.

Affiliate compensation does not increase the price you pay unless a merchant clearly states otherwise.

Our use of affiliate links is also addressed in our Disclosures page.

11. How We Disclose Information

We may disclose information to the following categories of recipients.

Service Providers

We may use companies that provide services such as:

  • Website hosting
  • Content management
  • Security and spam prevention
  • Analytics
  • Email delivery and list management
  • Contact-form processing
  • Advertising
  • Affiliate tracking
  • Technical support

These providers may process information only as needed to provide services to us, subject to their contractual obligations and applicable law.

Advertising and Analytics Partners

We may disclose online identifiers, device information, Internet Protocol addresses, browsing activity, and interaction information to analytics and advertising providers.

Depending on the law that applies, certain advertising or analytics disclosures may be considered a “sale,” “sharing,” or use for targeted advertising, even when no money is exchanged for the information.

Legal and Safety Disclosures

We may disclose information when we reasonably believe disclosure is necessary to:

  • Comply with a law, regulation, subpoena, court order, or legal process
  • Respond to lawful government requests
  • Protect our rights, property, or safety
  • Protect users or members of the public
  • Investigate fraud, abuse, or security incidents
  • Enforce Website policies

Business Transfers

Information may be disclosed or transferred as part of a merger, acquisition, financing, reorganization, sale of assets, bankruptcy, or similar business transaction.

12. Sale and Sharing of Personal Information

We do not sell personal information in exchange for money.

Some analytics, affiliate, and advertising activities may be treated as the sale or sharing of personal information, or as targeted advertising, under certain US state privacy laws.

Where applicable, you may request to opt out through our privacy-preference tool or by contacting us. We will also process legally recognized browser-based opt-out signals, such as Global Privacy Control, where required by applicable law and supported by our systems.

13. Legal Bases for International Visitors

Where the General Data Protection Regulation, United Kingdom General Data Protection Regulation, or a similar law applies, we process personal information under one or more of the following legal bases:

Consent

We may rely on consent for:

  • Email subscriptions
  • Nonessential analytics cookies
  • Personalized advertising
  • Other nonessential tracking technologies

You may withdraw consent at any time. Withdrawal does not affect processing that occurred before consent was withdrawn.

Legitimate Interests

We may process information when reasonably necessary for interests such as:

  • Operating and improving the Website
  • Understanding Website use
  • Preventing spam and fraud
  • Protecting Website security
  • Responding to inquiries
  • Maintaining business records

We consider whether these interests are outweighed by your privacy rights.

Contractual Necessity

We may process information when necessary to provide a service or respond to a request that you initiate.

Legal Obligations

We may process information when necessary to comply with laws, regulations, court orders, or other legal obligations.

14. International Data Transfers

Sharpologist.com LLC is located in the United States. Our service providers may process information in the United States and other countries.

The privacy and data-protection laws of those countries may differ from the laws where you live. Where required, we and our service providers may use safeguards recognized by applicable law for international transfers.

By using the Website or submitting information, you understand that information may be processed outside your country, subject to applicable legal protections.

15. Data Retention

We retain information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this policy, including to:

  • Provide requested services
  • Maintain business and consent records
  • Respond to inquiries
  • Detect and prevent fraud or abuse
  • Resolve disputes
  • Enforce agreements
  • Meet tax, accounting, legal, and regulatory requirements

Retention periods vary by the type of information and how it is used.

For example:

  • Newsletter information may be retained while you remain subscribed.
  • Limited suppression information may be retained after you unsubscribe.
  • Contact messages may be retained while needed for communication or recordkeeping.
  • Comments may be retained to preserve discussion context and moderation history.
  • Analytics information is retained according to the settings of the analytics service.
  • Server and security logs may be retained for a limited period for troubleshooting, security, and fraud prevention.

We may retain anonymized or aggregated information that no longer identifies you.

16. Your Privacy Rights

Depending on where you live and the law that applies, you may have the right to:

  • Request access to personal information about you
  • Request correction of inaccurate information
  • Request deletion of personal information
  • Request a portable copy of certain information
  • Restrict certain processing
  • Object to certain processing
  • Withdraw consent
  • Opt out of targeted advertising
  • Opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information
  • Appeal a decision concerning a privacy request
  • Lodge a complaint with a data-protection authority
  • Receive equal service and pricing without unlawful discrimination for exercising a privacy right

These rights are not absolute. Applicable law may permit or require us to retain or continue processing certain information.

To submit a request, contact us using the information in the “Contact Us” section.

We may need to verify your identity before completing a request. We will use information provided in connection with the request only to verify and process the request.

Where permitted, an authorized agent may submit a request on your behalf. We may require proof of the agent’s authority and may ask you to verify your identity directly.

17. California and Other US State Privacy Disclosures

This section applies only to the extent required by applicable state privacy law.

During the preceding 12 months, we may have collected the following categories of personal information:

Identifiers

Examples include:

  • Name
  • Email address
  • Internet Protocol address
  • Cookie or device identifiers

Sources may include you, your browser or device, and service providers.

Internet or Electronic Activity

Examples include:

  • Browsing activity
  • Pages viewed
  • Links clicked
  • Referring sources
  • Interactions with forms, email, advertisements, or affiliate links

Sources may include your browser or device, analytics providers, email providers, advertising providers, and affiliate networks.

Approximate Geolocation

Approximate location may be inferred from an Internet Protocol address.

We do not intentionally collect precise geolocation through the Website.

Commercial Information

Affiliate networks or merchants may report that a click, purchase, or other qualifying action was associated with an affiliate referral.

We generally do not receive full payment-card information from affiliate merchants.

Communications and User-Submitted Content

Examples include:

  • Contact-form messages
  • Comments
  • Email correspondence
  • Form or questionnaire responses

Inferences

Analytics or advertising providers may create broad inferences about visitor interests based on Website activity.

We use these categories for the business and commercial purposes described elsewhere in this policy.

We may disclose identifiers and Internet or electronic activity information to service providers, analytics providers, advertising partners, affiliate networks, and merchants.

We do not knowingly sell personal information for money. Advertising or analytics disclosures may be considered “sharing,” a “sale,” or targeted advertising under certain state laws.

We do not knowingly use or disclose sensitive personal information for purposes that require a separate right to limit its use.

18. Global Privacy Control and Do Not Track

Some browsers offer a Global Privacy Control signal or other preference signals.

Where required by applicable law and supported by our systems, we treat a recognized Global Privacy Control signal as a request to opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information or targeted advertising for that browser or device.

Traditional “Do Not Track” signals do not have a single, universally accepted technical or legal standard. The Website may not respond to every Do Not Track signal.

You can also manage privacy choices through our Website consent or privacy-preference tool, when available.

19. Email Choices

You may unsubscribe from marketing or newsletter emails by using the unsubscribe link included in the message.

We may still send limited nonmarketing messages when necessary to:

  • Confirm an unsubscribe request
  • Respond to a communication
  • Provide legally required notices
  • Address security or administrative matters

20. Data Security

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures designed to protect personal information against unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, or disclosure.

No method of Internet transmission or electronic storage is completely secure. We cannot guarantee absolute security.

21. Children’s Privacy

The Website is intended for a general audience and is not directed to children under 13.

We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under 13 without appropriate authorization, we will take reasonable steps to delete it.

A parent or guardian who believes that a child has provided personal information may contact us.

22. Third-Party Websites and Services

The Website may link to third-party websites and services, including:

  • Retailers
  • Affiliate merchants
  • Social networks
  • Embedded content providers
  • Advertising providers
  • Other publications and resources

We do not control these third parties. Their privacy policies and terms apply when you use their websites or services.

A link does not necessarily imply that we endorse a third party’s privacy or security practices.

23. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy to reflect changes in:

  • Website features
  • Service providers
  • Advertising or analytics practices
  • Legal requirements
  • Business operations

The revised policy will be posted on this page with a new “Last updated” date. Material changes may also be communicated through the Website, consent tool, or email when appropriate.

Your continued use of the Website after an updated policy becomes effective is subject to the revised policy, except where applicable law requires additional notice or consent.

24. Contact Us

Questions, concerns, or privacy requests may be submitted through The Black Coffee Life contact page.

You may also contact us by mail:

Sharpologist.com LLC
Attn: Privacy Request
1511 Texas Avenue South, Suite 265
College Station, Texas 77840
United States

Please include enough information for us to understand and respond to your request. Do not send copies of government identification unless we specifically request information needed to verify your identity.