Among other things, this page will tell you what information this website is gathering about you, how that information might be used, and other important information about how data is gathered.
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Affiliates
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Ads
There may be other forms of ads placed on this website, like display ads. This website may use third-party advertising companies to serve content and advertisements when you visit this website, which may use cookies. This may include Google ads, and it may also include other ad networks. So, what that mean for you? It means that when these ads are up, third party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website. Google uses cookies to help serve the ads it displays on the websites of its partners, like on this website when you see the ads. When visiting this website, a cookie may be dropped on your browser. Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and this website to serve ads based on your possible interests. You may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Ads Settings. This type of use of cookies may also be used for ad networks. This use of cookies is for both affiliates and ads.
Mediavine Programmatic Advertising (Ver 1.1)
The Website works with Mediavine to manage third-party interest-based advertising appearing 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.
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 All About 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. In the event you opt-out, you will still see non-personalized advertisements on the Website.
The Website collects the following data using a cookie when serving personalized ads:
- IP Address
- Operating System type
- Operating System version
- Device Type
- Language of the website
- Web browser type
- Email (in hashed form)
Mediavine Partners (companies listed below with whom Mediavine shares data) may also use this data to link to other end user information the partner has independently collected to deliver targeted advertisements. Mediavine Partners may also separately collect data about end users from other sources, such as advertising IDs or pixels, and link that data to data collected from Mediavine publishers in order to provide interest-based advertising across your online experience, including devices, browsers and apps. This data includes usage data, cookie information, device information, information about interactions between users and advertisements and websites, geolocation data, traffic data, and information about a visitor’s referral source to a particular website. Mediavine Partners may also create unique IDs to create audience segments, which are used to provide targeted advertising.
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 National Advertising Initiative opt out page. You may also visit Digital Advertising Alliance website and Network Advertising Initiative website to learn more information about interest-based advertising. You may download the AppChoices app at Digital Advertising Alliance’s AppChoices app to opt out in connection with mobile apps, or use the platform controls on your mobile device to opt out.
For specific information about Mediavine Partners, the data each collects and their data collection and privacy policies, please visit Mediavine Partners.
MORE STUFF JUST IN CASE
Information may be automatically collected about you and the device with which you access this website. For example, when you use this website, your IP address may be logged, along with operating system type, browser type, referring website, pages you viewed, and the dates and times when you accessed this website. Information may also be collected about actions you take when using this website, such as links clicked. As mentioned, information may also be logged using cookies, which are small data files stored on your browser by this website. There may be both session cookies, which expire when you close your browser, and persistent cookies, which stay on your browser until deleted. At this time, this information is used mainly to track and measure advertising, affiliate partners, and Google Analytics on this website. It also includes operating and maintaining this website. This website may also use third-party service providers for various parts of the website. Each third-party service provider’s use of your personal information is dictated by their respective privacy policies. Google Analytics is a third-party service provider used by this website. This service tracks this website’s usage and provides information such as referring websites and user actions on the Website. Google Analytics may capture your IP address, but no other personal information is captured by Google Analytics. From time to time, anonymous data may be used, which does not identify you alone, or when combined with data from other parties. This type of anonymous data may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses. Examples of this anonymous data may include analytics or information collected from cookies. And to a further understanding on the use of cookies… This website uses cookies to store visitors’ preferences, record user-specific information on what pages users access or visit, ensure that visitors are not repeatedly sent the same banner ads, customize website content based on visitors’ browser type or other information that the visitor sends. Cookies may also be used by third-party services, such as Google Analytics, as described. You may, at any time, prevent the setting of cookies, by this website, by using a corresponding setting of your internet browser and may thus permanently deny the setting of cookies. You can also delete already set cookies at any time in your web browser. But if you deactivate the setting of cookies in your browser, not all functions of this website may be entirely usable.
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