Information Collection and Use

It is not necessary to provide Blogpapi Media with your personally identifiable information to use the Blogpapi Media Websites, and unless you subscribe to a Blogpapi Media newsletter, Blogpapi Media does not collect personally identifiable information in connection with the operation of the Blogpapi Media Websites. If you contact Blogpapi Media by email through the Blogpapi Media Websites, Blogpapi Media may keep a record of your contact information and correspondence, and may use your email address, and any information that you provide to Blogpapi Media in your message, to respond to you. Blogpapi Media treats this information as it would treat any other unsolicited business correspondence, and has no obligation to keep this information confidential, nor to take any security measures to protect this information.

If you subscribe to a Blogpapi Media newsletter, you will need to provide us with your email address. We will use the email address you provide to us to subscribe to our newsletter(s) to send you the newsletter(s), marketing or promotional opportunities from us and our partners we believe may interest you, and certain administrative communications regarding the newsletters. We will not sell or rent your email address to anyone else for their marketing. You may unsubscribe from any or all of our newsletters or marketing communications at any time using the link provided in the email, and we will delete your email address from our records.

When you visit a Blogpapi Media Website, Blogpapi Media’s servers automatically record information that your browser sends whenever you visit a website (« Log Data »). This Log Data may include information such as your IP address, browser type or the domain from which you are visiting. For most users accessing the Internet from an Internet service provider, the IP address will be different every time you log on. Blogpapi Media uses Log Data to monitor use of the Blogpapi Media Websites and the services we offer via the Blogpapi Media Websites and for the Blogpapi Media Website’s technical administration.

Cookies and Other Analytic Tools

Like many websites, blogpap Media Websites also use « cookie » technology to collect additional website usage data and to improve the Blogpapi Media Website and the services offered via the Web Site. A cookie is a small data file that Blogpapi Media’s servers transfer to your computer’s hard disk. blogpap Media may also use tracking pixels. Tracking pixels are small graphic images, which are used in email messages to determine whether the messages were opened and the links were clicked, or are used on the blogpap Media Websites to collect information about the browser and device viewing the blogpap Media Websites. blogpap Media does not use cookies or tracking pixels to collect personally identifiable information.

blogpap Media mainly uses « session cookies », which enable certain features of the blogpap Media Websites and services offered via the blogpap Media Websites, to better understand how you interact with the Web Site and services we offer via the blogpap Media Websites, to monitor aggregate usage by our users and web traffic routing on the blogpap Media Websites, and to improve the blogpap Media Websites and services offered via the blogpap Media Websites. Session cookies should be deleted from your computer when you disconnect from or leave the blogpap Media Websites.

blogpap Media also uses a persistent cookie on some of the blogpap Media Websites that stays on your computer for a period of time after you leave the blogpap Media Websites, for the sole purpose of ensuring that, where rating, voting, or survey functions are available, you do not participate more than once.

Third Party Advertisers

Blogpapi Media Websites includes advertising from third party advertisers. Blogpapi Media does not provide any personally identifiable information to these advertisers.

Third party advertisers, or companies working on their behalf, may serve directly to your browser the advertisements that appear on the Blogpapi Media Websites, which allows them to receive Log Data (as defined above). They may also use cookies, JavaScript, tracking pixels and other technologies to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize advertising content. Blogpapi Media does not control any third party advertiser tracking or measurement technologies, and the information practices of third party advertisers are not covered by this Privacy Policy. Please contact them directly for more information about their privacy practices.

Our advertising partners may include Facebook and Twitter. Facebook allows its users to control advertising on the Facebook platform. Instructions are here: https://www.facebook.com/help/568137493302217. Twitter allows its users to control advertising and cookie preferences on the Twitter service. Instructions are here: https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/twitter-cookies.

California Consumer Privacy Act

In accordance with the California Consumer Privacy Act legislation, compliance information and any user actions are available here: Addendum A – Special Information Regarding California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Do Not Track

Some web browsers may transmit « do not track » signals to the websites and other online services with which the browser communicates. Blogpapi Media will treat a “do not track” signal as a request not to track the user for advertising purposes. For more information regarding Do Not Track mechanisms, see allaboutdnt.com.

United States Operation; International Rights;

Our Services are operated from the United States, and the privacy laws of the United States may not be as protective as those in your jurisdiction. If you are located outside of the United States and choose to use the Services or provide your information to us, you agree that your information will be transferred, processed, and stored in the United States. Your use of the Services represents your agreement to this practice. However, our collection, storage, and processing of your personal information will at all times be in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Further, under the applicable laws of various countries, you may have certain rights concerning your personal data, such as under EU law, the right to access to, rectification or erasure of, and/or restriction of processing or objection to processing of your personal data, and the right to data portability. If you have questions about our collection or processing of your personal data, please contact us at [email protected]. Before we process any request, we may request personal information to verify your identity where allowed by law. Where permitted by local law, we may reject requests that are unreasonable or impractical.

If you are a resident in the European Union, you also have the right to at no cost to lodge a complaint with EU data protection authorities. This right may also exist in other countries. If you have questions, please ask the data protection authority in your country.

Information Sharing and Disclosure

Blogpapi Media cooperates with government and law enforcement officials or private parties, to enforce and comply with the law. Blogpapi Media may disclose any information about you to government or law enforcement officials or private parties as Blogpapi Media, in its sole discretion, believes necessary or appropriate to respond to claims, legal process (including subpoenas), to protect the property and rights of Blogpapi Media or a third party, the safety of the public or any person, to prevent or stop any illegal, unethical, or legally actionable activity, or to comply with the law.

If any or all of the assets of Blogpapi Media are acquired by, or merged with another entity, Blogpapi Media will share with this entity some or all of the information collected through the Blogpapi Media Websites.

Security

Because Blogpapi Media does not collect any personally identifiable information from the Blogpapi Media Websites, Blogpapi Media does not take any specific security measures to protect the information we do collect.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

Our Policy Towards Children

Blogpapi Media Websites are not directed to children under 18. If a parent or guardian becomes aware that his or her child has provided  Blogpapi Media with personally identifiable information without their consent, he or she should contact Blogpapi Media at [email protected]. If Blogpapi Media becomes aware that a child under 13 has provided Blogpapi Media with personally identifiable information, Blogpapi Media will remove such information from our files.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

Blogpapi Media reserves the right to change this policy at any time without prior notice. Any changes to this policy will be posted here. You are advised to consult this Privacy Policy regularly for any changes. If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at [email protected].