Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy outlines the policies of Espy Reviews LLC (“Company”) regarding the collection and usage of information, including personally identifiable data (“Personal Data”), and other data obtained from visitors to the Company website located at espy reviews(“Website”). The Company, as the owner and operator of the Website, is a limited liability company established under the laws of the state of Massachusetts, United States.
We value your privacy and are committed to safeguarding it. The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to inform you about the Personal Data we may collect and how it will be utilized. Please note that this statement solely pertains to this Website and does not extend to information collected through other means (including offline methods) or from sources not specified herein. By choosing to use the Website, you implicitly agree to the practices outlined in this Privacy Policy.
WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT AND HOW IS IT USED?
Information You Voluntarily Submit to the Website:
The Website may gather personal information from you, such as your name or email address. For instance, you may willingly provide information to the Website by leaving comments, subscribing to newsletters, submitting contact forms, or purchasing memberships. Personal Data may encompass, but is not restricted to, your name, email address, phone number, and credit or debit card details.
Our legal basis for processing this information is your consent, and by voluntarily furnishing us with Personal Data, you are consenting to its utilization in accordance with this Privacy Policy. If you provide Personal Data to us, you acknowledge and agree that such data may be transferred and stored from your current location to the offices and servers of the Company and the authorized third parties referenced below.
Information We Collect from Others:
The Website may receive information about you from other sources. For instance, if you use third-party software via the Website, they may transmit information to us for fulfillment. We do not govern the data privacy or protection policies of third parties, and we are not accountable for the privacy practices of these third parties. Our legal basis for processing this information is our legitimate interests, specifically monitoring and enhancing our services, and the legitimate interests of our customers.
Automatically-Collected Information:
The Website automatically collects certain information about you and the device you use to access the Website. For instance, when you utilize the Website, it logs your IP address, operating system type, browser type, referring website, viewed pages, and the dates/times of access. Additionally, the Website may collect data about actions you take while using it, such as clicking on links.
Cookies:
The Website may utilize cookies, which are small data files stored on your browser by the Website. It may utilize both session cookies, which expire when you close your browser, and persistent cookies, which remain on your browser until deleted, to offer you a more personalized experience on the Website.
HOW YOUR INFORMATION MAY BE USED
The Website may utilize the collected information in the following ways:
To operate and maintain the Website; To fulfill orders or oversee contests or promotions; To send you promotional materials, such as newsletters. Each promotional email will provide instructions on how to opt out of future mailings; To send you administrative communications, such as administrative emails, confirmation emails, technical notices, updates on policies, or security alerts; To respond to your comments or inquiries; To provide you with user support; For training and quality control; To track and measure advertising on the Website; or, To protect, investigate, and deter unauthorized or illegal activity.
LEGAL BASES FOR PROCESSING DATA UNDER THE GENERAL DATA PROTECTION REGULATION (“GDPR”)
As the “controller” of your Personal Data under the GDPR, we rely on the following lawful bases to collect and process your Personal Data:
Legitimate Interest: This refers to our business interest in conducting and managing our business to provide you with the best service/product and the most secure experience. We ensure that we assess our legitimate interests against any potential impact on you (both positive and negative) and your rights before processing your Personal Data for our legitimate interests. We refrain from using your Personal Data for activities where our interests are overridden by the impact on you, unless we have your consent or are otherwise mandated or permitted by law. For further details on how we evaluate our legitimate interests concerning specific activities, please contact us at info@espyreviews.com. Performance of Contract: This involves processing your data when it is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are a party or to take steps at your request before entering into such a contract. Compliance with Legal or Regulatory Obligations: This entails processing your Personal Data when necessary to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation to which we are subject. Consent: This applies when you have consented to a specific use of your Personal Data. Vital Interest: This involves processing your Personal Data to protect the vital interests of you or another natural person.
How to File a GDPR Complaint:
We strive to address any queries or concerns you may have about our use of your information. However, if you wish to lodge a complaint under the General Data Protection Regulation, you have the right to do so with a supervisory authority in the European Union (or European Economic Area) state where you work, normally reside, or where any alleged infringement of data protection laws occurred.
WHERE YOUR PERSONAL DATA IS HELD
Personal Data may be stored at our offices and those of our affiliates, parent or related companies, third-party agencies, service providers, representatives, and agents as described below (refer to “Third Party Use of Personal Information” below).
Some of these third parties may be located outside the European Economic Area.
THIRD-PARTY USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
Company may share your Personal Data with specific third parties as detailed below:
Third-Party Vendors: We may share your information with third-party vendors or service providers who assist us in providing our products or services or maintaining the Website, including database hosting and data processing services, and aid us in responding to your requests for information. Parent Companies and Affiliates: We may share your information with a parent company, subsidiaries, joint ventures, or other companies under common control (collectively referred to as “Affiliates“), provided that we ensure our Affiliates comply with this Privacy Policy. Business Transfers: As our business evolves, we may sell or acquire businesses or assets. In such instances, Personal Data may be part of the transferred assets. We may also share Personal Data with potential buyers. Typically, information will be anonymized, although this may not always be feasible. The recipient of the information will be bound by confidentiality obligations. Related Companies: We may share your Personal Data with our Related Companies for purposes consistent with this Privacy Policy. Third Parties with Permission: We may share your information with third parties to whom you request us to send your information. Agents, Consultants, and Related Third Parties: Like many businesses, Company occasionally engages other companies to perform certain business-related functions. These functions may include mailing information, maintaining databases, and processing payments. When we enlist another entity to carry out such functions, we only provide them with the necessary information to perform their designated function. Legal Requirements: Company may disclose your Personal Data if required by law or in good faith belief that such action is necessary to (i) comply with a legal obligation or respond to requests from law enforcement or other government officials concerning investigations or alleged illegal activity, or in connection with our own investigation of suspected or actual illegal activity, in which case we may (and you hereby authorize us to) disclose information without subpoenas or warrants served on us,
Registration and Use of Personal Information
Registration is not required in order to use or access this Website. However, this Website may make forums, comments, blogs, message boards or similar available to its users. You may be required to register for these features, particularly if you wish to leave comments or provide articles.
If you do register, and in the process provide us with personally identifiable information, rest assured that any such information you provide will not be shared with any third-party organization except with your express consent or as otherwise provided for in this Privacy Policy.
Please note that if you post comments or articles to any forum, blog or message board on this Website, any personally identifiable information you provide in those comments or articles may be read, collated and used by anyone viewing them. As such, Company is not responsible for personally identifiable information you may choose to make available through these channels.
ANONYMOUS DATA
From time to time, Company may use anonymous data, which does not identify you alone, or when combined with data from other parties. This type of anonymous data may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses. Examples of this anonymous data may include analytics or information collected from cookies.
COOKIES
The Website uses cookies to store visitors’ preferences, record user-specific information on what pages users access or visit, ensure that visitors are not repeatedly sent the same banner ads, customize content based on visitors’ browser type or other information that the visitor sends. Cookies may also be used by third-party services, such as Google Analytics, as described herein.
What are 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. The Cookie will collect information relating to your use of the Website, information about your device such as the device’s IP address and browser type, demographic data and, if you arrived at the Website via a link from third party site, the URL of the linking page.
In addition to Cookies, the Website may use web beacons. Web beacons allow us to count the number of users who have visited or accessed the Website and to recognize users by accessing our cookies. We may employ web beacons to facilitate Website administration and navigation, to track the actions of users of the Website, to compile aggregate statistics about Website usage and response rates, and to provide an enhanced online experience for visitors to the Website. We may also include web beacons in HTML-formatted e-mail messages that we send to determine which e-mail messages were opened. A web beacon is often invisible because it is only 1 x 1 pixel in size with no color. A web beacon can also be known as a web bug, 1 by 1 GIF, invisible GIF and tracker GIF.
What are the different types of cookies and how do we use them?
Essential – These are Cookies which are essential for the running of the Website. Without these Cookies, parts of the Website would not function. These Cookies do not track where you have been on the internet and do not gather information about you that could be used for marketing purposes.
Examples of how we may use essential Cookies include:
- Setting unique identifiers for each unique visitor, so that website numbers can be analyzed.
Functional – These Cookies are used to remember your preferences on the Website and to provide enhanced, more personal features. The information collected by these Cookies is usually anonymized, so we cannot identify you personally. Functional Cookies do not track your internet usage or gather information which could be used for selling advertising.
Examples of how we may use functional Cookies include:
- Gathering data about visits to the Website, including numbers of visitors and visits, length of time spent on the Website, pages clicked on or where visitors have come from
- Eliminating the need for returning users to re-enter their login details.
Analytical Performance – Analytical performance Cookies are used to monitor the performance of the Website, for example, to determine the number of page views and the number of unique users our Website has. We use this information to improve user experience or identify areas of the Website which may require maintenance. The information is anonymous (i.e. it cannot be used to identify you and does not contain personal information such as your name and email address) and it is only used for statistical purposes.
Examples of how we may use analytical Cookies include:
- Measuring users’ behavior
- Analyze which pages are viewed and how long for and which links are followed to better develop the Website
Advertising – Behavioral advertising Cookies, which may be placed on your device by us or our trusted third-party service providers, remember that you have visited a website and use that information to provide you with advertising which is tailored to your interests. This is often called online behavioral advertising and is done by grouping together shared interests based upon web browsing history. Your web browsing history can be used to infer things about you (e.g. your age, gender etc.), and this information may also be used to make advertising on websites more relevant to you. Although behavioral advertising Cookies can track your activity around the internet, these Cookies cannot identify you personally.
Examples of how we may use advertising Cookies include:
- Manage online advertising. the Website may use Cookies together with web beacons to provide advertising to you and to enable us to manage our relationship with those advertisers by, for example, tracking how many unique users have seen a particular advertisement or followed a link in an advertisement.
Third Party Cookies – You may notice on some pages of the Website that Cookies have been set that are not related to us. When you visit a page with content embedded from, for example, YouTube or Facebook, these third party service providers may set their own Cookies on your device. We do not control the use of these third party Cookies and cannot access them due to the way that Cookies work, as Cookies can only be accessed by the party who originally set them. Please check the third party websites for more information about these Cookies.
Users may, at any time, prevent the setting of cookies, by the Website, by using a corresponding setting of your internet browser and may thus permanently deny the setting of cookies. Furthermore, already set cookies may be deleted at any time via an Internet browser or other software programs. This is possible in all popular Internet browsers. However, if users deactivate the setting of cookies in your Internet browser, not all functions of our Website may be entirely usable.
How can you manage or opt-out of cookies?
Cookies, including those which have already been set, can be deleted from your hard drive. You can also change the preferences/settings in your web browser to control Cookies. In some cases, you can choose to accept Cookies from the primary site, but block them from third parties. In others, you can block Cookies from specific advertisers, or clear out all Cookies. Deleting or blocking Cookies may reduce functionality of the Website. To learn more about how to reject Cookies, visit espyreviews or go to the help menu within your internet browser. If you experience any problems having deleted Cookies, you should contact the supplier of your web browser.
Opting out of Analytical Performance Cookies
If you would like to opt out of Analytics Cookies, please do so by clicking on the links below:
Google Analytics: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Opting out of Behavioral Advertising Cookies
If you would like more information about how to opt out of interest-based advertising in desktop and mobile browsers on a particular device, You may download the App Choices to opt out in connection with mobile apps, or use the platform controls on your mobile device to opt out.
ADVERTISING
Display Ads
We may use third-party advertising companies to serve content and advertisements when you visit the Website, which may use cookies. No personally identifiable information is shared with the Website’s ad providers. 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 http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp.
Mediavine Programmatic Advertising (Version 1.1)
Our Website collaborates with Mediavine to manage third-party interest-based advertising displayed on the Website. When you visit the Website, Mediavine serves content and advertisements that may utilize first and third-party cookies. These cookies are small text files sent to your computer or mobile device by the web server, allowing the website to remember certain information about your browsing activity on the Website.
First-party cookies are generated by the website you are visiting, while third-party cookies are commonly used in behavioral advertising and analytics and are created by a domain other than the one you are visiting. Third-party cookies, tags, pixels, beacons, and similar technologies (“Tags”) may be employed on the Website to monitor interaction with advertising content, target, and optimize advertising. Most internet browsers offer functionality to block both first and third-party cookies and clear browser caches. You can usually find guidance on how to manage cookies in your browser’s “help” feature.
Please note that rejecting cookies may limit your access to the full range of Website content and features. However, opting out of cookies does not necessarily mean you will no longer see ads when visiting our Site. If you opt out, you may still encounter non-personalized advertisements on the Website.
When serving personalized ads, the Website collects the following data using cookies:
- 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 utilize this data to link to other end-user information independently collected by the partner, delivering targeted advertisements. These partners may also gather data about end users from various sources, such as advertising IDs or pixels, and link that data to information collected from Mediavine publishers to deliver interest-based advertising across various online platforms, including devices, browsers, and apps. This data may include usage data, cookie information, device information, interaction information between users and advertisements and websites, geolocation data, traffic data, and information regarding a visitor’s referral source to a particular website. Furthermore, Mediavine Partners may create unique IDs to generate audience segments for targeted advertising purposes.
For further information on this practice and to understand your options for opting in or out of this data collection, please visit the National Advertising Initiative opt-out page. You can also refer to the Digital Advertising Alliance website and Network Advertising Initiative website for more details about interest-based advertising. To opt out in connection with mobile apps, you may download the AppChoices app via the Digital Advertising Alliance’s AppChoices app, or utilize platform controls on your mobile device.
For specific details about Mediavine Partners, the data each collects, and their respective data collection and privacy policies, please visit the Mediavine Partners page.
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Retargeting Ads
Periodically, the Website may initiate remarketing campaigns in collaboration with third-party companies like Google, Facebook, Pinterest, or Instagram to promote the Website. These companies utilize cookies to display ads tailored to individuals based on their previous visits to the Website. Consequently, after visiting the Website, you may encounter advertisements for our services on other platforms. It’s important to note that your personally identifiable information is not utilized by any remarketing service apart from presenting you with offers from our Company. We enlist the following third-party service providers for remarketing:
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ADDITIONAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS
Your use of our services and products may be governed by additional terms and conditions beyond what is outlined in this Privacy Policy. These additional terms could be agreements or conditions you have accepted or signed with our Company. Please refer to those documents for further information as necessary.
In addition to the provisions outlined in this Privacy Policy, we retain the right to disclose both personally identifiable and non-personally identifiable information about you in the following circumstances:
(a) Compliance with government requests or legal obligations. (b) Adherence to the requirements of the law or legal proceedings. (c) Protection of our legal rights, property, or the rights and property of our Website or other users. (d) Safeguarding the health and safety of our customers or the general public in emergency situations.
These disclosures may involve sharing information with third-party entities and organizations for purposes including but not limited to credit risk reduction and fraud prevention.
Changes to Our Privacy Policy
Our Website may evolve over time, necessitating occasional adjustments to this Privacy Policy. Therefore, the Company reserves the right to update or amend this Privacy Policy as needed. In such instances, we will notify you via email in advance of any changes, provided that we have your email address on record. We encourage you to review this policy periodically, especially before you disclose any Personal Data. Your ongoing use of the Website following any modifications or revisions to this Privacy Policy signifies your acceptance of the terms outlined in the updated Privacy Policy.
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CONTACT INFORMATION
At any time, please contact us at info@espyreviews.com for questions related to this Privacy Policy.
Last updated: October 1, 2024.
