Privacy Policy

WEBSITE VISITORS

 

Like most website operators, thejudge13.com collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. thejudge13.com’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how thejudge13.com’s visitors use its website. From time to time, thejudge13.com may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

 

thejudge13.com also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on thejudge13.com.com blog. thejudge13.com only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that blog commenter IP addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog where the comment was left.

 

GATHERING OF PERSONALLY-IDENTIFYING INFORMATION

 

Certain visitors to thejudge13.com’s websites choose to interact with thejudge13.com in ways that require thejudge13.com to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that thejudge13.com gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up for a blog at thejudge13.com.com to provide a username and email address. Those who engage in transactions with thejudge13.com are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, thejudge13.com collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with thejudge13.com. thejudge13.com does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

 

PROTECTION OF CERTAIN PERSONALLY-IDENTIFYING INFORMATION

 

thejudge13.com discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on thejudge13.com’s behalf or to provide services available at thejudge13.com’s websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using thejudge13.com’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. thejudge13.com will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, thejudge13.com discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only when required to do so by law, or when thejudge13.com believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of thejudge13.com, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an thejudge13.com website and have supplied your email address, thejudge13.com may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with thejudge13.com and our products. We primarily use our various product blogs to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. thejudge13.com takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

 

COOKIES

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. thejudge13.com uses cookies to help thejudge13.com identify and track visitors, their usage of thejudge13.com website, and their website access preferences. thejudge13.com visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using thejudge13.com’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of thejudge13.com’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

 

COMMENTS

Comments and other content submitted to the Akismet anti-spam service are not saved on our servers unless they were marked as false positives, in which case we store them long enough to use them to improve the service to avoid future false positives.

 

PRIVACY POLICY CHANGES

Although most changes are likely to be minor, thejudge13.com may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in thejudge13.com’s sole discretion. thejudge13.com encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.

 

 

 

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.

 

4 responses to “Privacy Policy

    • It is going well – seem to get a lot of positive feedback and 800-1000 uniwue reads a day over the past 2 weeks.
      Re: Privacy policy – it’s been on the list for while. The guy who does my business web site had been promising since inception to set it up, so I told him you guys were on to me and he presto!

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