Last updated: July 16, 2026
Welcome to TOP Thesaurus. This Privacy Policy explains how information may be collected, used, stored, and shared when you visit top-thesaurus.org, contact us, subscribe to our communications, leave a comment, or otherwise interact with the website.
By using this website, you acknowledge the practices described in this Privacy Policy.
Information We Collect
The information collected through TOP Thesaurus depends on how you use the website.
Information You Provide Voluntarily
You may voluntarily provide personal information when you:
- Contact us by email or through a contact form
- Subscribe to a newsletter or mailing list
- Submit a comment
- Participate in a survey, giveaway, or promotion
- Report a correction or provide feedback
This information may include your name, email address, message, and any other information you choose to provide.
Please do not submit sensitive personal information through the website or by email.
Information Collected Automatically
When you visit TOP Thesaurus, the website and its service providers may automatically collect technical and usage information, including:
- Internet Protocol address
- Browser type and version
- Device type
- Operating system
- Referring website
- Pages visited
- Links clicked
- Date and time of access
- Approximate geographic location
- Time spent on pages
- Website errors and performance data
This information may be collected through server logs, cookies, pixels, analytics tools, and similar technologies.
How We Use Information
Information may be used to:
- Operate, maintain, and improve the website
- Respond to questions, feedback, and support requests
- Understand how visitors use the website
- Identify technical problems and prevent abuse
- Improve our articles, recommendations, and website design
- Send newsletters or updates when you have requested them
- Measure the effectiveness of content and advertising
- Protect the website against fraud, spam, and security threats
- Comply with applicable legal obligations
- Enforce our policies and protect our legal rights
We do not use information for purposes that are materially different from those described in this Privacy Policy without providing appropriate notice.
Cookies and Similar Technologies
Cookies are small files stored on your browser or device. They may help websites remember preferences, understand visitor activity, maintain security, and provide relevant advertising.
TOP Thesaurus and its service providers may use:
- Essential cookies necessary for basic website operation
- Preference cookies that remember visitor choices
- Analytics cookies that help us understand website traffic and usage
- Advertising cookies that may help display and measure advertisements
- Affiliate cookies that allow a retailer to recognize that a visitor arrived through one of our affiliate links
Cookies may be temporary and deleted when you close your browser, or they may remain on your device until they expire or are manually deleted.
You can control or delete cookies through your browser settings. Blocking certain cookies may affect how some parts of the website function.
Where legally required, visitors may be shown a cookie-consent notice that allows them to accept, reject, or manage certain nonessential cookies.
Analytics
We may use third-party analytics services to understand how visitors find and use TOP Thesaurus. These services may collect information such as pages visited, device details, approximate location, referral source, and interactions with the website.
Analytics information is generally used in aggregated form to evaluate website performance, improve content, and understand audience interests.
The analytics providers we use may process data according to their own privacy policies.
Affiliate Links
TOP Thesaurus participates in affiliate marketing programs, including the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program.
When you click an affiliate link, the retailer or affiliate network may use cookies or similar technologies to record that you were referred by our website. If you complete a qualifying purchase, we may receive a commission.
Affiliate tracking is operated by the relevant retailer or affiliate network. Their handling of your information is governed by their own privacy policies.
For more information, please read our Affiliate Disclosure.
Advertising
TOP Thesaurus may display advertisements supplied by third-party advertising companies.
Advertising providers may use cookies, pixels, device identifiers, or similar technologies to:
- Display advertisements
- Measure advertisement performance
- Limit repeated advertisements
- Detect invalid traffic
- Personalize advertisements where permitted
Depending on your jurisdiction and the services used on the website, you may have the right to opt out of personalized advertising or certain data-sharing activities.
Comments
When comments are enabled and you leave a comment, we may collect the information entered in the comment form, along with your IP address and browser information, to assist with spam prevention and website security.
Comments and the names associated with them may be publicly visible. Do not include private or sensitive information in a public comment.
We may moderate, edit, refuse, or remove comments that are unlawful, abusive, misleading, promotional, irrelevant, or otherwise inappropriate.
Contact Forms and Email
When you contact us, we may retain your message and contact information for as long as reasonably necessary to respond, maintain records, prevent abuse, and address follow-up matters.
Email communications are not guaranteed to be completely secure. Please avoid sending confidential financial, medical, identification, or account information by email.
Newsletter Communications
When newsletter subscriptions are offered, we may use a third-party email service to store subscriber information and deliver messages.
You may unsubscribe from marketing emails at any time by using the unsubscribe link included in the email or by contacting us.
Transactional or administrative messages may still be sent when necessary to respond to a request or manage a service you have requested.
Information Sharing
We may share information in limited circumstances with:
- Website hosting and infrastructure providers
- Security, backup, and spam-prevention services
- Analytics and performance providers
- Email and newsletter platforms
- Advertising providers
- Affiliate networks and retailers
- Professional advisers
- Government authorities when legally required
- A buyer or successor in connection with a merger, acquisition, sale, or transfer of website assets
Service providers may access information only as reasonably necessary to perform services on our behalf or operate their own services under their respective terms and privacy policies.
We may also disclose information when we reasonably believe it is necessary to prevent fraud, investigate abuse, protect safety, enforce our policies, or comply with a lawful request.
Sale or Sharing of Personal Information
TOP Thesaurus does not sell personal information in exchange for money.
However, certain advertising, analytics, or affiliate technologies may be considered a “sale,” “sharing,” or use for targeted advertising under some privacy laws. Where applicable, eligible visitors may request to opt out through an available privacy or cookie-control mechanism or by contacting us.
Data Retention
We retain information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this policy, including legal, accounting, security, dispute-resolution, and operational purposes.
Retention periods may vary depending on the nature of the information and why it was collected.
Data Security
We use reasonable administrative and technical measures intended to protect information under our control.
No website, server, email system, or internet transmission can be guaranteed to be completely secure. You provide information through the website at your own risk.
Your Privacy Rights
Depending on where you live, you may have rights concerning your personal information, including the right to:
- Request access to personal information
- Request correction of inaccurate information
- Request deletion of certain information
- Object to or restrict certain processing
- Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent
- Request a portable copy of certain information
- Opt out of certain advertising or data-sharing activities
- Appeal a decision concerning a privacy request
These rights may be subject to exceptions and identity-verification requirements.
To submit a privacy request, email [email protected] with the subject line “Privacy Request.” Describe your request and the email address or interaction connected with the information.
We may request additional information reasonably necessary to verify your identity and protect against fraudulent requests.
Do Not Track Signals
Some browsers provide a “Do Not Track” setting. Because there is no universally accepted standard for responding to these signals, the website may not respond to every Do Not Track request.
Where required, we will honor legally recognized browser-based opt-out signals.
Children’s Privacy
TOP Thesaurus 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 you believe a child has submitted personal information through the website, contact us so that we can review and remove it where appropriate.
External Websites
Our articles may link to Amazon, manufacturers, retailers, research organizations, social networks, and other third-party websites.
We do not control the privacy, security, content, or data-handling practices of external websites. Visiting a third-party website is subject to that website’s policies and terms.
International Visitors
TOP Thesaurus is operated for a primarily United States audience but may be accessed from other countries.
Information may be processed in countries where our hosting providers, service providers, or website operators maintain facilities. Those countries may have data-protection rules different from those in your country.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy to reflect changes to the website, its services, legal requirements, or data practices.
The revised policy will be published on this page with an updated “Last updated” date. Continued use of the website after an update constitutes acknowledgment of the revised policy.