Your privacy is of utmost importance to us. This Privacy Policy outlines how we handle your personal information, describing our online practices and the choices available to you regarding the collection, use, and sharing of your information when you interact with our websites and mobile applications.
Information We Collect
Personally Identifiable Information
Certain features on our site, such as surveys, polls, and competitions, may require you to provide personal information, such as your name, email address, or phone number, to participate in these activities.
Non-Personally Identifiable Information
We, along with advertisers, advertising networks, and third-party service providers, may collect non-personally identifiable information when you visit our website or use our mobile applications. This information may include details such as your network or Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser type, operating system, the web pages you visit, the sites you visit before and after interacting with our platform, the type of mobile or handheld device you use to access our site, general location data, and other similar details.
Geo-location Information
When using our mobile application, you may be asked to share your geo-location information to enable us to provide a personalized experience tailored to your location.
Information from Social Networks
Our site or mobile application may use third-party social media plugins to request access to your social media accounts, enabling you to access features such as commenting, sharing articles, and interacting with other users. Granting such access may allow us to retrieve certain information from your social media profile, including personally identifiable details (e.g., name, email address, photo, gender, birthday, and location) and non-personally identifiable information (e.g., user files like photos and videos, your friends list, followers, likes, and posts).
How We Use the Information
The information you provide may be used to fulfill your requests for our products or services, respond to your inquiries, and offer additional products or services that may interest you.
We may also use this information to communicate with you, such as notifying you about contest wins, informing you about new products or updates, sending notifications, and soliciting your feedback on our products or services.
Cookies Notice
Cookies Notice, Analytics & Advertising Related Choices
When you use our services, we and our third-party partners—who provide content, advertising, functionality, measurement, or analytics—may use cookies, web beacons, and similar technologies to collect information about how you interact with our platform. This information is used for purposes such as storing and accessing data, personalizing your experience, measuring and analyzing service usage, selecting and delivering content, and targeting, delivering, and reporting on advertisements.
1. Cookies
- Cookies are small text files stored in your device’s browser when you visit a website. They enable the entity that placed the cookie to recognize you across multiple browsing sessions and websites.
- We and third parties use cookies for various purposes, such as remembering your login credentials and preferences, personalizing your experience by delivering relevant content and advertisements on our platform and other websites, and monitoring traffic and performance to enhance our services and improve your overall experience.
2. Beacons
- Web beacons, also known as “web tags” or “pixels,” are small graphics or scripts that transmit information from your device to a server. They can be embedded in websites, mobile content, videos, advertisements, or emails. Web beacons enable a server to gather specific information from your device, such as the time the beacon was viewed (and the content it was embedded in) and the IP address of the device used to view it.
- We and third parties use beacons for various purposes, including analyzing how our services are used and, in conjunction with cookies, delivering content and advertisements that are more relevant to your interests.
3. Analytics
- We may utilize third-party analytics services, such as Google Analytics, which employ cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies to collect information like your device identifiers and usage data. This data helps us analyze user interactions with our services, compile reports on service activities, and provide insights and other relevant information about how our services are used.
4. Advertising
- We also permit our third-party partners, including ad serving networks and unaffiliated advertisers (collectively referred to as “Advertisers”), to use cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies. These Advertisers may place their own cookies or tracking technologies to collect device identifiers and information about your online activities across multiple websites and services (and sometimes across different devices or browsers). This enables them to deliver interest-based advertising and other targeted content that may be of interest to you.
- We may not have direct access to these cookies; however, we may use statistical information derived from the cookies provided by these third parties to customize content and for other purposes outlined above.
- Advertisers may use persistent identifiers to track your internet usage across other websites within their networks beyond our services.
- In general, the information collected and generated by third parties is processed and stored by those third parties and will be governed by their respective privacy policies, which we do not control and for which we are not responsible.
5. Controls for Cookies
- Most web browsers allow you to modify your settings to disable or reject cookies. If you delete your cookies or set your web browser to decline cookies, some features of our services may not function properly or may not work as intended. You can usually manage these settings through the Options or Preferences menu in your browser. Below are links to instructions for several of the most common browsers:
- Cookie settings in Google Chrome
- Cookie settings in Firefox
- Cookie settings in Internet Explorer
- Cookie settings in Safari web and iOS.
6. Choices for Targeted Advertising and Analytics
- Many of the third-party advertisers that use tracking or targeting tools in connection with our services, either directly or as members of programs, offer additional choices regarding the collection and use of your information for targeted advertising. You can learn more about these options by visiting their respective websites:
- Opt Out of Interest Based Advertising (National Advertising Initiative)
- Your Ad Choices (Digital Advertising Alliance)
- Your Online Choices (European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance)
- About Facebook Ads and Facebook Privacy Policy
The Services may deliver advertising using the vendor DoubleClick, a Google company. You can read about how DoubleClick uses cookies, use Google’s controls for blocking certain ads, or use Google’s Ad Settings Page to control how DoubleClick personalizes your ad experience.
The Services may use Google Analytics to track your usage. If you wish to opt-out of Google Analytics’ tracking, use this browser add-on provided by Google.
Similarly, you can learn about your options to opt-out of mobile app tracking by certain advertising networks through your device settings. For more information about how to change these settings for Apple, Android or Windows devices, see:
- Apple: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4228
- Android: http://www.google.com/policies/technologies/ads/
- Windows: http://choice.microsoft.com/en-US/opt-out
Please note that opting out of advertising networks’ tracking and targeting does not mean you will no longer receive advertising while using our services or on other websites. It also does not prevent the receipt of interest-based advertising from third parties that do not participate in these programs. Opting out will exclude you from interest-based advertising conducted through participating networks, as outlined by their policies and choice mechanisms.
7. Third Party Partners
Below is a list of certain service providers with which we have a direct relationship for site operation, analytics, content management, and advertising. Please note that this list does not include advertisers, with whom we have no direct relationship, who advertise on our websites through ad serving networks. This list was last updated on March 8, 2021. Due to the ongoing development of our services, this information may be modified and updated periodically.
To learn more about your rights with respect to these partners, including any opt-out options, you can review their respective privacy policies, which provide additional details about their use of your data and how to exercise your rights to opt-out of that usage.
Site Analytics
Site Operations
Advertising
X formerly Twitter Advertising
X formerly Twitter Conversion Tracking
Social Media
Facebook Connect, Instagram, Messenger
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