Ad Badger Privacy Policy
Last Updated: May 25, 2018
Ad Badger LLC (“Ad Badger”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it through our compliance with this privacy policy (the “Privacy Policy”). This Privacy Policy describes the types of information Ad Badger may collect from you or that you may provide Ad Badger when you visit Ad Badger’s website located at [/adbadger.com/] (the “Website”) or access or use Ad Badger’s software, offerings, information portals, and registries (collectively, the “Services”), and Ad Badger’s practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.
This Privacy Policy applies to information Ad Badger collects:
- on the Website;
- through the Services; and
- when you interact with Ad Badger’s advertising and applications on third-party websites and services, if those applications or advertising include links to this Privacy Policy.
It does not apply to information collected by any third party (including Ad Badger’s affiliates and subsidiaries), including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or on the Website or Services.
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Website or Services. By accessing or using the Website or Services, you agree to this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy may change from time to time. Your continued use of this Website or the Services after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the Privacy Policy periodically for updates.
Children Under the Age of 16
Our Website and Services are not intended for children under 16 years of age. No one under age 16 may provide any information to or on the Website or Services. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16. If you are under 16, do not use or provide any information on this Website or our Services, register on the Website or for our Services, make any purchases through the Website or our Services, use any of the interactive or public comment features of this Website or our Services, or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or user name you may use. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 16, please contact us at support@adbadger.com.
Security
We have implemented industry-standard security measures designed to protect the personal information that you may provide. Access to your personal information on the Website or Services may be password-protected, and sensitive data protected by SSL technology.
The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you a password for access to certain parts of our Website or Services, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone. We urge you to be careful about giving out information in public areas of the Website or Services like message boards. The information you share in public areas may be viewed by any user of the Website or Services.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the Internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Website or the Services. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website or Services.
Third Party Websites and Services
Ad Badger’s Website and Services may provide links to third-party websites or services. Ad Badger does not control these third-party websites or services and cannot represent that their policies and practices will be consistent with this Privacy Policy. You should use other websites and services with caution. We encourage you to carefully review the privacy policy of any website or service before submitting personal information.
Ad Badger may also allow third-party advertisers to serve advertisements on our Website or Services. Ad Badger cannot control the activities of third-party advertisers, and this Privacy Policy does not apply to these activities. Please review the privacy policies of these advertisers for information as to how they use information they collect.
Information We Collect
We collect several types of information from and about users of our Website and our Services, including:
- Personal Information
Personal information is information by which you may be personally identified. Ad Badger uses personal information to better understand users’ needs and interests and to provide better services. You may be able to request information on our Website or Services, subscribe to mailing lists, participate in online discussions, provide feedback, submit information into registries, register for events, or apply for memberships. The types of personal information you provide to Ad Badger may include your name, address, phone number, email address, username, password, credit card or billing information, and account numbers. Ad Badger may use personal information to provide services that support the activities of our members. When accessing your registered account, your personal user information may be tracked by Ad Badger to ensure authorized access.
In order to use some features of the Ad Badger Website and Services, you may need to register and create an account by providing us with your name, email address, username, and password. The registration forms require users to give us accurate contact information. Your information may be used to send you information about Ad Badger, product updates, special offers, and newsletters, and to provide you with more customized services.
Our order forms securely collect visitor’s contact information and financial information (like your credit card number and other billing information). Contact information on order forms is used for order fulfillment and may be shared with our partners or resellers if that is necessary to fulfill your request. During the purchasing process, you may be given the opportunity to sign up for future e-mailings regarding our products, services, and promotions. You may also be given the option of registering a profile with Ad Badger, which may store your name, purchase history, and billing information to make it easier for you to shop and purchase products/services from us in the future.
- Automatic Information Collection
As you navigate through and interact with our Website or Services, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:
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- certain details of your access to and use of our Website and Services, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on or through the Website or Services;
- information about your mobile device and internet connection, including the device’s unique device identifier, IP address, operating system, browser type, mobile network information, and the device’s telephone number;
- metadata and other information associated with other files stored on your device; and
- real-time information about the location of your device.
The information we collect automatically helps us to improve our Website and Services and to deliver a better and more personalized experience, including by enabling us to:
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- estimate our audience size and usage patterns;
- store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Website or Services according to your individual interests;
- speed up your searches; and
- recognize you when you return to our Website or Services.
The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:
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- Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website or Services. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website or Services.
- Flash Cookies. Certain features of our Website or Services may use local stored objects (or Flash cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences and navigation to, from, and on our Website or Services. Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as are used for browser cookies.
- Web Beacons. Pages of our the Website and our e-mails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit Ad Badger, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).
We do not collect personal information automatically, but we may tie this information to personal information about you that we collect from other sources or that you provide to us.
Third Party Use of Cookies and Tracking Technologies
Some content or applications, including advertisements, on the Website or Services are served by third-parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers, and application providers. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use our Website or Services. The information they collect may be associated with your personal information or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.
We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly. For information about how you can opt out of receiving targeted advertising from many providers, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.
How We Use Your Information
We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.
We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this Privacy Policy:
- to our subsidiaries and affiliates;
- to contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business;
- to a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Ad Badger’s assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by Ad Badger about our users is among the assets transferred;
- to third parties to market their products or services to you if you have not opted out of these disclosures;
- to fulfill the purpose for which you provide it;
- for any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information;
- with your consent;
- to comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request;
- to enforce or apply our Terms of Use and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes; or
- if we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of Ad Badger, our customers, or others.
Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information
We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:
- Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. To learn how you can manage your Flash cookie settings, visit the Flash player settings page on Adobe’s website. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of the Website or Services may then be inaccessible or not function properly.
- Location Information. You can choose whether or not to allow the Website or Services to collect and use real-time information about your device’s location through the device’s privacy settings. If you block the use of location information, some parts of the Website or Services may then be inaccessible or not function properly.
- Disclosure of Your Information for Third-Party Advertising. If you do not want us to share your personal information with unaffiliated or non-agent third parties for promotional purposes, you can opt-out by checking the relevant box located on the form on which we collect your data (the order form or registration form). You can also always opt-out by logging into the Website or Services and adjusting your user preferences in your account profile by checking or unchecking the relevant boxes or by sending us an email stating your request to support@adbadger.com.
- Promotional Offers from Ad Badger. If you do not wish to have your contact information used by Ad Badger to promote our own or third parties’ products or services, you can opt-out by checking the relevant box located on the form on which we collect your data (the order form or registration form) or at any other time by logging into the Website or Services and adjusting your user preferences in your account profile by checking or unchecking the relevant boxes or by sending us an email stating your request to support@adbadger.com. If we have sent you a promotional email, you may send us a return email asking to be omitted from future email distributions. This opt out does not apply to information provided to Ad Badger as a result of a product purchase, warranty registration, product service experience or other transactions.
- Targeted Advertising. If you do not want us to use information that we collect or that you provide to us to deliver advertisements according to our advertisers’ target-audience preferences, you can opt-out by checking the relevant box located on the form on which we collect your data (the order or registration form). You can also always adjust your user advertising preferences in your account profile by checking or unchecking the relevant boxes or by sending us an email stating your request to support@AdBadger.com.
We do not control third parties’ collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. However these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way. You can opt out of receiving targeted ads from members of the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI“) on the NAI’s website.
Accessing and Correcting Your Information
You can review and change your personal information by logging into the Website or Services and visiting your account profile page.
You may also send us an email at support@AdBadger.com to request access to, correct or delete any personal information that you have provided to us. We cannot delete your personal information except by also deleting your user account. We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.
If you delete any content or materials you post, submit, publish, or display on message boards, chat rooms, personal web pages, or profiles, forums, bulletin boards, or other interactive features (collectively, “User Contributions“) on or through the Website or Services, copies of your User Contributions may remain viewable in cached and archived pages, or might have been copied or stored by other users. Proper access and use of information provided on the Website or Services, including User Contributions, is governed by our Terms of Use.
Your California Privacy Rights and Do-Not-Track Laws
California Civil Code Section § 1798.83 permits users of our Website and Services that are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please contact us at support@AdBadger.com.
Please note that Ad Badger does not respond to “do not track” signals or other similar mechanisms intended to allow California residents to opt-out of Internet tracking. Ad Badger may also track and/or disclose your online activities over time and across different websites to third parties when you use our Website or Services.
GDPR Compliance
Additional privacy policies in compliance with the EU’s GDPR regulations.
Contact Information
To ask questions or comment about this Privacy Policy and our privacy practices, contact us at: support@AdBadger.com.