Privacy Policy

🏢 1. Who We Are

PassiveMatches ("we", "us", "our") operates the website at passivematches.com. We provide a free, quiz-based tool that helps individuals discover passive income opportunities suited to their personal situation.

This Privacy Policy explains what personal information we collect, how we use it, how we protect it, and what rights you have over it. By using our site, you agree to the practices described in this policy.

🗂️ 2. Information We Collect

We collect only what we need to deliver personalized results. Here's exactly what that means:

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Quiz answers (anonymous)

When you take the quiz, we collect your responses — time availability, starting budget, skills, risk tolerance, and income goals. These answers are anonymous and not linked to any personal identity. They are used only to generate your personalized results in-session.

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Email address (optional)

After your results are calculated, you may optionally enter your email address to receive a personalized starter guide. This step is entirely voluntary — you can skip it and still see your full results. If you provide your email, it is stored securely and used only to send the guide and optional income tips (with easy unsubscribe).

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Usage data (analytics)

Like most websites, we may collect standard analytics data such as pages visited, time on site, browser type, and general geographic region. This data is aggregated and anonymized — it helps us understand how the site is being used so we can improve it. It is not linked to individual users.

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Cookies

We use minimal cookies to support basic site functionality (e.g., maintaining your quiz progress during a session). We do not use advertising cookies or cross-site tracking cookies. See Section 5 for full details.

⚙️ 3. How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect for the following purposes only:

To generate and display your personalized income stream results based on your quiz answers.
To send you the starter guide and relevant income tips if you opted in by email.
To improve the accuracy of our matching algorithm using aggregated, anonymized quiz data.
To monitor site performance and fix bugs using anonymized analytics.

We do not: sell, rent, or share your personal information with third parties for their own marketing purposes. We do not use your data for advertising targeting.

🤝 4. Affiliate Disclosure

PassiveMatches participates in affiliate programs. When you click a link to a partner platform on our results page and complete a registration or purchase, we may earn a small commission. This comes at no additional cost to you — the platform pays us a referral fee from their own margin.

Important: Affiliate relationships never influence how income streams are ranked or recommended. Every recommendation is driven entirely by how well it fits your quiz profile. We would rather give you the right answer than the most profitable one. Our ranking algorithm has no knowledge of which platforms have affiliate programs.

Partner platforms may include services such as Fundrise, M1 Finance, Printful, Etsy, Amazon Associates, ShareASale, Digistore24, and others. We only link to platforms we believe are legitimate, reputable, and relevant to the income stream matched to your profile.

🍪 5. Cookies

Our site uses a minimal number of cookies to ensure basic functionality:

Session cookies — used to remember your quiz progress during an active visit. These expire when you close your browser.
Analytics cookies — used by our analytics provider to measure aggregate site usage. No personally identifiable information is stored in these cookies.

We do not use advertising cookies, retargeting cookies, or cookies that track you across other websites. Third-party platforms linked from our results page may use their own cookies in accordance with their individual privacy policies.

You can control cookies through your browser settings. Disabling cookies may affect the functionality of the quiz progress feature.

🔗 6. Third-Party Services

We use a small number of third-party services to operate PassiveMatches. Each handles data in accordance with their own privacy policies:

MailerLite

Email marketing platform used to deliver your personalized starter guide and optional newsletter. Privacy policy ↗

Formspree

Used to process contact form submissions securely. Your message is forwarded to our support email. Privacy policy ↗

Google Fonts

Loads the Inter typeface used across our site. Google may log font request data per their own policy. Privacy policy ↗

Affiliate platforms

Platforms linked from results pages (e.g., Fundrise, Digistore24, Etsy) operate independently with their own data practices once you leave our site.

Once you leave PassiveMatches and visit a third-party platform, their privacy policy governs how your data is handled. We encourage you to review it before signing up.

🛡️ 7. Data Security

We take reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect any personal information you provide. Email addresses collected via our opt-in form are transmitted securely (HTTPS) and stored within our email service provider's encrypted infrastructure.

However, no method of data transmission over the internet is 100% secure. While we strive to protect your information, we cannot guarantee absolute security. In the unlikely event of a data breach that affects your personal information, we will notify affected users as required by applicable law.

✅ 8. Your Rights

Depending on your location, you may have the following rights regarding your personal data:

Right to access — request a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
Right to deletion — request that we delete your personal data, including your email address from our mailing list.
Right to rectification — request that we correct any inaccurate personal data we hold.
Right to object — object to certain uses of your personal data, including email marketing.
Right to unsubscribe — unsubscribe from any emails we send at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link in the email footer.

To exercise any of these rights, contact us at support@passivematches.com. We will respond within 30 days.

👶 9. Children's Privacy

PassiveMatches is not intended for users under the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you are a parent or guardian and believe your child has provided us with personal data, please contact us at support@passivematches.com and we will delete the information promptly.

🔄 10. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices, technology, or applicable law. Any changes will be posted on this page with an updated "Last updated" date at the top.

If we make material changes that significantly affect your rights or how we use your personal data, we will notify users who have opted in to email communications. Continued use of the site after changes are posted constitutes your acceptance of the updated policy.

✉️ 11. Contact Us

If you have any questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or how we handle your data, please reach out:

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support@passivematches.com

We typically respond within 24–48 business hours.

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