PRIVACY POLICY

HOW THE INFORMATION WE GATHER IS USED

ANY INFORMATION YOU WILLINGLY SUBMIT TO THE WEBSITE: Personal information like your name and email address are examples of the data that we may collect from you. An example of how such information is given out willingly is when you subscribe to a newsletter, submit an agreement online, or leave a comment. You might need to create a user profile that will enable you to have a username and password. While your username will be stored on our database, we won’t keep your password.

ANY DATA COLLECTED FROM OTHER PEOPLE:

Your data might not necessarily come from you, it can come from other places. An example of this is when your Information is transferred to us from a third-party software you used.

AUTOMATICALLY-COLLECTED INFORMATION:

Some information is collected about you and the device you used to log on to the website. We’ll log your IP address, pages you viewed, type of operating system, the website that referred you, the browser you’re using, the date and time you logged on to the website when you make use of the website. Information like the link you clicked on will be collected also because they are your activities on the site.

THE USE OF YOUR INFORMATION

All the information that has been gathered might be used thus:

  • To keep the website running
  • To tailor the website to your identity, using it to create an account for you and to identify you as a user on the website
  • So that information on promos like newsletters can be sent to you. Also, information on how to stop getting emails in the
  • future will be contained in each promotion.
  • For you to get administrative communications, like security alerts, administrative emails, technical notices, policy updates or confirmation emails
  • To reply to any question you have or your comments
  • To offer you user support
  • For the tracking and measurement of website adverts
  • Help you in processing your payment for any goods or service you bought via the website
  • For the protection of your account against any activity that is illegal or was not authorized by you

THIRD-PARTY USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

When you explicitly authorize us to share your information, we may share them with third parties.
In order to service various aspects of the website, the website might use third-party service providers. The prospective privacy policies dictate each third-party service provider’s use of personal information. The following third-party service providers are currently used by the following websites:

GOOGLE ANALYTICS- information such as referring websites and user actions on websites is used and provided by this service tracks website. No other personal information is captured by google analytic but they may capture your IP address.
wood fence SECURITY & ANTI SPAM- in order to protect the website from spam comments, this service is used for security against hackers and other attackers. Certain information will be collected by wordfence, some of which may be personal information you submitted to the website. Information such as name, email address, and IP address.
Your personal information is not shared at this time with any other third-party applications. From time to time, this may be amended based on the discretion of the website.

We will not sell, distribute or reveal your email address or other personal information without your permission except when required by law: however, personal information collected through the website to third parties who require all or portion of our business, which may be the result of the merger, consolidation, or purchase of all or a portion of our assets, or in connection with any bankruptcy or reorganization proceeding brought by or against us might not be transferred or disclosed by us.

ANONYMOUS DATA

We may announce data which does not identify you alone, or when combined with data from other parties from time to time. For the purpose of marketing, advertisement, or other use, this type of anonymous data may be provided to other parties. Analytics or information collected from cookies might be examples of this anonymous data.

PUBLICLY VISIBLE INFORMATION

Certain information may be publicly visible if you create a user profile on the website or leave a comment.

SECURITY

Your privacy is very important to us.

We’ll make sure that any information you provide is safe with us. We have in place physical, electronic and managerial procedures protecting and making sure that your information is secure with us, with this, there will be no unauthorized access or disclosure.

USE OF COOKIES

A small file that requests your consent to be placed on the hard drive of your computer is what cookies are. The file is added immediately you accept it and the cookie is used in analyzing web traffic, or it informs you when you visit a specific site. With cookies, web applications are able to reply to you personally.

By gathering information and data on your preferences, we can personalize the operations of the web application to suit your needs, likes, and dislikes.

We’re able to identify the pages that are being used with the help of traffic log cookies. With this, we’ll able to gather data to analyze traffic on our website, thereby helping in the improvement of our website so that we can tailor it to suit the needs of our customers. We’ll immediately remove the data from our system after using it for the purpose of statistical analysis.

With cookies in general, we’re able to monitor the pages that you find useful or the one you do not believe is useful to you, and with this, we can provide a website that is better for you. Apart from the information you shared with us, a cookie will not give us access to any other information about you on your computer.

You can either decline or accept cookies. A lot of web browsers accept cookies automatically, but you can tailor your browser to ask for your permission before accepting or declining cookies. This might not allow you to use the site to its full advantage.

Mediavine Programmatic Advertising

The Website uses Mediavine to manage all third-party advertising on the Website. Mediavine serves content and advertisements when you visit the Website, which may use first and third-party cookies. A cookie is a small text file which is sent to your computer or mobile device (referred to in this policy as a “device”) by the web server so that a website can remember some information about your browsing activity on the Website. The cookie may collect information relating to your use of the Website, information about your device such as the device’s IP address and browser type, demographic data and, if you arrived at the Website via a link from a third-party site, the URL of the linking page.

First party cookies are created by the website that you are visiting. A third-party cookie is frequently used in behavioral advertising and analytics and is created by a domain other than the website you are visiting. Third-party cookies, tags, pixels, beacons and other similar technologies (collectively, “Tags”) may be placed on the Website to monitor interaction with advertising content and to target and optimize advertising. Each internet browser has functionality so that you can block both first and third-party cookies and clear your browser’s cache. The “help” feature of the menu bar on most browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new cookies, how to receive notification of new cookies, how to disable existing cookies and how to clear your browser’s cache. For more information about cookies and how to disable them, you can consult the information at www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/.

Without cookies you may not be able to take full advantage of the Website content and features. Please note that rejecting cookies does not mean that you will no longer see ads when you visit our Site.

The Website may collect IP addresses and location information to serve personalized ads and pass it to Mediavine. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices to opt-in or opt-out of this data collection, please visit http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp. You may also visit http://optout.aboutads.info/#/ and http://optout.networkadvertising.org/# to learn more information about interest-based advertising. You may download the AppChoices app at http://www.aboutads.info/appchoices to opt out in connection with mobile apps, or use the platform controls on your mobile device to opt out.

Mediavine partners with the following data processors:

  1. Pubmatic. You may find Pubmatic’s privacy policy through this link. The data collected on the Website may be transferred to Pubmatic and its demand partners for interest-based advertising. Statistical information and other non-cookie technologies (such as eTags and web or browser cache) may be used by third parties on this Website. Browser settings that block cookies may have no effect on these technologies, but you may clear your cache to delete such trackers. Data collected from a particular browser or device may be used with another computer or device that is linked to the browser or device on which such data was collected.
  2. Criteo. You may find Criteo’s privacy policy through this link. The data collected on the Website may be transferred to Criteo and its demand partners for interest-based advertising. Criteo may collect, access, and use non-identifying data to improve the Criteo Technology and other Criteo products, programs, and/or services. This non-identifying data may include on-site user behavior and user/page content data, URLs, statistics, or internal search queries. The non-identifying data are collected through the ad call and stored with a Criteo cookie for a maximum period of 13 months.
  3. Pulsepoint. You may find Pulsepoint’s privacy policy through this link.
  4. LiveRamp. You may find LiveRamp’s privacy policy through this link. When you use the Website, we share information that we may collect from you, such as your email (in hashed, de-identified form), IP address or information about your browser or operating system, with LiveRamp Inc, and its group companies (‘LiveRamp’). LiveRamp may use a cookie on your browser and match your shared information to their on- and offline marketing databases and those of its advertising partners to create a link between your browser and information in those other databases. This link may be shared by our partners globally for the purpose of enabling interest-based content or advertising throughout your online experience (e.g. cross device, web, email, in-app, etc.) by third parties unaffiliated with our website. These third parties may in turn link further demographic or interest-based information to your browser. To opt out of LiveRamp’s targeted advertising, please go here: https://liveramp.com/opt_out/
  5. RhythmOne. You may view RhythmOne’s privacy policy through this link. RhythmOne uses cookies and similar tracking technologies (such as mobile device identifiers and digital fingerprinting) to provide its services. RhythmOne may use aggregated information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other Websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, please visit the following webpage: http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp.
  6. District M. You may find District M’s privacy policy through this link.
  7. YieldMo. You may find YieldMo’s privacy policy through this link. If you want to opt out of receiving interest based ads from Yieldmo or exercise your right under the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) to opt-out of the sale of your personal information, you may do so through this link.
  8. The Rubicon Project. You may find Rubicon’s privacy policy through this link. If you want to opt out of receiving interest based ads from Rubicon or exercise your right under the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) to opt-out of the sale of your personal information, you may do so through this link. You may also utilize the Network Advertising Initiative’s opt-out page, the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page, or the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page.
  9. Amazon Publisher Services. You may find Amazon Publisher Services’ privacy policy through this link.
  10. AppNexus. You may find the AppNexus privacy policy through this link.
  11. OpenX. You may find OpenX’s privacy policy through this link.
  12. Verizon Media formerly known as Oath. You may find Verizon Media’s privacy policy through this link. You may also utilize the Network Advertising Initiative’s opt-out page, the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page, or the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page to opt-out of the use of cookies for interest-based advertising.
  13. TripleLift. You may find TripleLift’s privacy policy through this link. To opt out of receiving interest-based advertising (including retargeting) from TripleLift’s services through the use of cookies in your current browser and for more information on what it means to opt-out, please go to www.triplelift.com/consumer-opt-out.
  14. Index Exchange. You may find Index Exchange’s privacy policy through this link. You may also utilize the Network Advertising Initiative’s opt-out page, the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page, or the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page to opt-out of the use of cookies for interest-based advertising.
  15. Sovrn. You may find Sovrn’s privacy policy through this link.
  16. GumGum. You may find GumGum’s privacy policy through this link. GumGum may (i) use place and use cookies on end users’ browsers or use web beacons to collect information about end users who visit such Publisher Websites and (ii) link such collected end user information to other end user information provided by third parties in order to deliver targeted Advertisements to such end users.
  17. Digital Remedy. You may find Digital Remedy’s privacy policy through this link.
  18. MediaGrid. You may find MediaGrid’s privacy policy through this link. MediaGrid may collect and store information about end-user interactions with this website through cookies, advertising IDS, pixels and server-to-server connections. MediaGrid was receive the following information: the page an End-User has requested and the referring/exit pages; Timestamp information (i.e., the date and time the End-User has visited the page); IP address; mobile device identifier; device model; device operating system; browser type; carrier; gender; age; geolocation (including GPS coordinates); clickstream data; cookie information; first-party identifiers’; and hashed email addresses; demographic and inferred interest information; and post-conversion data (from both online and offline behaviour). Some of this data is gathered from this website and others is gathered from advertisers. MediaGrid uses this data to provide its services. You may also utilize the Network Advertising Initiative’s opt-out page, the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page, or the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page to opt-out of the use of cookies for interest-based advertising or review their privacy policy for more information.
  19. RevContent – You may find RevContent’s privacy policy through this link. RevContent may collect information about your browser or device, including browser type, IP Address, device type, user agent string, and operating system. RevContent also collects information about the websites you visit through their services, such as date and time of access and specific pages accessed and the content and ads you click on. You may opt-out of any personalization track by opting-out of RevContent’s data collection.
  20. Centro, Inc. – You may find Centro’s privacy policy through this link. You may find opt-out information for Centro’s services through the privacy policy link.
  21. 33Across, Inc. – You may find 33Across’s privacy policy through this link. To opt-out of personalized advertising, please visit https://optout.networkadvertising.org/?c=1.
  22. Conversant. LLC – You may find Conversant’s privacy policy through this link. Conversant uses information that does not directly identify you, such as information about your browser type, time and date of visit, your browsing or transaction activity, the subject of advertisements clicked or scrolled over, and a unique identifier (such as a cookie string, or a unique advertising identifier provided by your mobile device) during your visits to this and other websites and apps in order to provide advertisements about goods and services likely to be of greater interest to you. Conversant may use technologies such as cookies and other tracking technologies to collect this information. To learn more about interest-based advertising, or to opt-out, you can visit www.youronlinechoices.eu or https://www.networkadvertising.org/.