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Facebook Share
We embed a Facebook widget to allow you to see number of likes/shares/recommends and “like/share/recommend” our webpages. This widget may collect your IP address, your web browser User Agent, store and retrieve cookies on your browser, embed additional tracking, and monitor your interaction with the widget, including correlating your Facebook account with whatever action you take within the widget (such as “liking/sharing/recommending” our webpage), if you are logged in to Facebook. For more information about how this data may be used, please see Facebook’s data privacy policy: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/update
Pinterest Share
We use Pinterest Save widget at our website to allow you to pin images to Pinterest from our webpages. These requests may track your IP address in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://policy.pinterest.com/en/privacy-policy
Reddit Badge
We use Reddit Badge widget at our website which may log information when you interact with the widget. This may include your IP address, user-agent string, browser type, operating system, referral URLs, device information (e.g., device IDs), pages visited, links clicked, user interactions (e.g., voting data), the requested URL and hardware settings, in accordance with their privacy policy: https://www.redditinc.com/policies/privacy-policy
Twitter Sharing
We use a Twitter Tweet widget at our website. As a result, our website makes requests to Twitter’s servers for you to be able to tweet our webpages using your Twitter account. These requests make your IP address visible to Twitter, who may use it in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://twitter.com/en/privacy#update
Google AdSense
Google and its partners place and read advertising cookies on a web browser to serve ads based on a user’s prior visit to our Site or other websites. Google AdSense sets, reads, collects and stores first-party cookies, in combination with using web beacons to collect information as a result of ad serving, on this Site.
Google stores a record of the ads we serve in their logs. These server logs typically include visitors’ web requests, IP address, browser type, browser language, the date and time of their request, and one or more cookies that may uniquely identify their browser. This data is stored for a number of reasons, the most important of which are to improve their services and to maintain the security of their systems. This log data is anonymized by removing part of the IP address (after 9 months) and cookie information (after 18 months).
Users may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Ads Settings.
Visit Google’s Advertising page for more about Google ads, how your information is used in the context of advertising, and how long Google stores this information. Or to learn more, please see How Google uses information.
Google Analytics
Google Analytics collects first-party cookies as well as data relating to the IP address, device or browser, and activities carried out on this Site in order to measure user interactions and to generate reports on these statistics.
Google Analytics also collects Internet Protocol (IP) addresses to ensure the security of the service and to tell us which region (country, state or city) our visitors are from (this is called “geolocation by IP”).
IP address anonymization is being used on this Site. IP anonymization or IP masking occurs as soon as the data is received by the Analytics collection network, before any data storage or processing. Google anonymizes the IP as soon as it is technically feasible, at the earliest possible stage in the collection network. Analytics’ anonymization feature replaces the last octet of IP addresses for IPv4 addresses and the last 80 bits of IPv6 addresses with zeros in memory, shortly after they are sent to the Analytics collection network. In this case, the full IP address is never written to disk. Google Analytics will not have access to the full IP address of visitors; however, the
Google Analytics is compatible with a browser add-on that the user can optionally install in order to deactivate Google Analytics measurement for any site they access. Note that this add-on only disables Google Analytics measurement.
For more information, see Google’s Privacy & Terms.
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Last updated November 13, 2020