PRIVACY POLICY


Data Processor

 

Advertise.com

Email: dataprotectionofficer@advertise.com

Updated: December 30, 2019

This Privacy Policy applies to this website located at http://www.advertise.com (the “Service”), which is owned and operated by Advertise.com, Inc. (“Advertise.com”, “we”, “us”, or “our”). This Privacy Policy describes what information is collected by us from any user of the Service (collectively or individually “user(s),” “yourself,” or “you”), as well as our use and disclosure of that information. We treat your privacy seriously.

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully, as it governs your use of the Service. Your use of our Service indicates to us that you have read and accepted our privacy practices, as outlined in this Privacy Policy.

We use your data to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy.

MINORS UNDER THE AGE OF 18 MUST NOT PROVIDE ANY PERSONAL INFORMATION, INCLUDING THEIR EMAIL ADDRESS, TO ADVERTISE.COM. IF ADVERTISE.COM IS NOTIFIED IT HAS PERSONAL INFORMATION ABOUT A MINOR UNDER THE AGE OF 18, THAT INFORMATION WILL BE PROMPTLY DELETED FROM OUR DATABASE.

Definitions

Service

Service is the http://www.advertise.com website and advertising network operated by Advertise.com.

Personal Information

Personal Information means data about a living individual who can be identified from the data (or from those and other information either in our possession or likely to come into our possession).

Usage Data

Usage Data is data collected automatically either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).

Cookies

Cookies are small pieces of data stored on your device (computer or mobile device).

Data Controller

Data Controller means the natural or legal person who (either alone or jointly or in common with other persons) determines the purposes for which and the manner in which any personal information are, or are to be, processed.

Data Processors (or Service Providers)

Data Processor (or Service Provider) means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the Data Controller.

We may use the services of various Service Providers in order to process your data more effectively. For the purpose of this Privacy Policy, we are a Data Processor of your Personal Information.

Data Subject (or User)

Data Subject is any living individual who is using our Service and is the subject of Personal Information.

Information Collection and Use

We collect several different types of information for various purposes to provide and improve our Service to you (subject to your consent when required by applicable laws).

Types of Data Collected

Personal Information

While using our Service, we may collect certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you (“Personal Information”). Personally identifiable information we may collect includes:

·       IP Address
    Device ID

Browser, Network, and Device Information

We also collect information when you use our Services relating to your web site browser, network, device, and other similar information. This information is collected to ensure you have a consistent experience when using our Services, to ensure our content is displayed properly, and to improve the overall quality of our Services. If we serve ads, this information is also used to ensure advertisements are properly displayed to you. Personal information collected related to your browser, network, and device information, includes:

• Device ID
• Operating System
• Query Terms
• Browser Type
• Network Type
• Cookies
• Usage Data
* and other similar information

Registration

The website at http://www.advertise.com is free to view without registering. However, if you decide to register for our Services, whether as a Publisher or Advertiser, or otherwise, you must provide certain personal information. This personal information is necessary to manage your account, to provide our Services, and for other customer management or internal account purposes. In this case, the personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:

  • Full Name
  • Phone Number

·       Address
    Social Security Number

  • Banking Information
  • Credit Card

·       Email Address
*    and other similar information

We may allow you to register for our Services using a single sign-on (“SSO”) third party service, such as Facebook. This is provided for convenience. Through this sign-up process, we may collect your name, email, or other information provided by the SSO partner. Advertise.com does not collect your password for this third party service at any time.

Usage Data

We may also collect information how the Service is accessed and used (“Usage Data”). This Usage Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

Tracking Cookies Data

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our Service and hold certain information.

Cookies are files with small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. Tracking technologies also used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze our Service.

You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Service.

Examples of Cookies we use:

  • Session Cookies. We use Session Cookies to operate our Service.
  • Preference Cookies. We use Preference Cookies to remember your preferences and various settings.
  • Advertising Cookies. Advertising Cookies are used to serve you with advertisements that may be relevant to you and your interests.

Use of Data

Advertise.com uses the collected data for various purposes:

  • To provide and maintain our Service
  • To notify you about changes to our Service
  • To allow you to participate in interactive features of our Service when you choose to do so
  • To provide customer support
  • To gather analysis or valuable information so that we can improve our Service
  • To monitor the usage of our Service
  • To detect and prevent fraud
  • To detect, prevent and address technical issues
  • To pay or to receive payments related to our Service.

Legal Basis for Processing Personal Information Under General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

If you are from the European Economic Area (EEA), Advertise.com’s legal basis for collecting and using the personal information described in this Privacy Policy depends on the Personal Information we collect and the specific context in which we collect it.

Advertise.com may process your Personal Information because:

  • We need to perform a contract with you
  • You have given us permission to do so
  • The processing is in our legitimate interests and it’s not overridden by your rights
  • For payment processing purposes
  • To comply with the law

Retention of Data

Advertise.com will retain your Personal Information only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your Personal Information to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

Advertise.com will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of our Service, or we are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.

Transfer of Data

Your information, including Personal Information, may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from your jurisdiction.

If you are located outside United States and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the data, including Personal Information, to United States and process it there.

Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.

Advertise.com will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your Personal Information will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.

Disclosure of Data

Generally

We share your personal information as necessary to provide our Services, and for the purposes set forth in this Privacy Policy. We may also share your personal information, including usage data, and other information we have collected about you in accordance with this Privacy Policy, with third parties to allow third parties to deliver advertising, marketing, or other content through the Services for commercial purposes. We may also share aggregate data for marketing purposes.

Business Transaction

If Advertise.com is involved in a merger, acquisition or asset sale, your Personal Information may be transferred. We will provide notice before your Personal Information is transferred and becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy.

Disclosure for Law Enforcement

Under certain circumstances, Advertise.com may be required to disclose your Personal Information if required to do so by law, or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).

Legal Requirements

Advertise.com may disclose your Personal Information in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

  • To comply with a legal obligation
  • To protect and defend the rights or property of Advertise.com
  • To prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service (e.g. to prevent or investigate fraud)
  • To protect the personal safety of users of the Service or the public
  • To protect against legal liability

Security of Data

The security of your data is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

“Do Not Track” Signals

We do not support Do Not Track (“DNT”). Do Not Track is a preference you can set in your web browser to inform websites that you do not want to be tracked.

You can enable or disable Do Not Track by visiting the Preferences or Settings page of your web browser.

Your Data Protection Rights Under General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), you have certain data protection rights. Advertise.com aims to take reasonable steps to allow you to correct, amend, delete, or limit the use of your Personal Information.

If you wish to be informed what Personal Information we hold about you and if you want it to be removed from our systems, please contact us.

In certain circumstances, you have the following data protection rights:

  • The right to access, update or to delete the information we have on you. Whenever made possible, you can access, update or request deletion of your Personal Information by contacting us at dataprotectionofficer@advertise.com.
  • The right of rectification. You have the right to have your information rectified if that information is inaccurate or incomplete.
  • The right to object. You have the right to object to our processing of your Personal Information.
  • The right of restriction. You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal information.
  • The right to data portability. You have the right to be provided with a copy of the information we have on you in a structured, machine-readable and commonly used format.
  • The right to withdraw consent. You also have the right to withdraw your consent at any time where Advertise.com relied on your consent to process your personal information.

Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before responding to such requests.

You have the right to complain to a Data Protection Authority about our collection and use of your Personal Information. For more information, please contact your local data protection authority in the European Economic Area (EEA).

Service Providers

We may employ trusted third party companies and individuals who are compliant with CCPA and GDPR to facilitate our Service (“Service Providers”), to provide the Service on our behalf, to perform Service-related services, or to assist us in analyzing how our Service is used.

These third parties have access to your Personal Information only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.

Analytics

We may use third-party Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service.

Google Analytics

Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Service. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.

You can opt-out of having made your activity on the Service available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js, and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity.

For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy Terms web page: http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/

Payments

We may provide paid products and/or services within the Service. In that case, we use third-party services for payment processing (e.g. payment processors).

We may store and collect your payment card details. That information is provided directly to our third-party payment processors whose use of your personal information is governed by their Privacy Policy. These payment processors adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of payment information.

The payment processors we work with are:

American Express
Their Privacy Policy can be viewed at
https://www.americanexpress.com/us/content/legal-disclosures/privacy-center.html?inav=footer_privacy_statement

Authorize.net

Their Privacy Policy can be viewed at https://www.authorize.net/company/privacy/

Mastercard

Their Privacy Policy can be viewed at https://www.mastercard.us/en-us/about-mastercard/what-we-do/privacy.html

PayPal

Their Privacy Policy can be viewed at https://www.paypal.com/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full

Visa

Their Privacy Policy can be viewed at https://usa.visa.com/legal/privacy-policy.html

Links to Other Sites

Our Service may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit.

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.

Children’s Privacy

Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 18 (“Children”).

We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 18. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your Children has provided us with Personal Information, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Information from children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.

California Residents – California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”)

The California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) provides California residents with the right to request certain information regarding our collection of personal information from California consumers. If you are a California consumer, you have a right to request the following:

(1) The categories of personal information we may have collected about you;

(2) The categories of sources from which the personal information may have been collected;

(3) The business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling personal information;

(4) The categories of third parties with whom we share personal information; and/or

(5) The specific pieces of personal information we may have collected about you.

The categories of information you may provide us are listed in the “Types of Data Collected” section of this Privacy Policy.

Advertise.com may share personal information, such as your IP address and Device ID, and billing information with service providers solely for a business purpose pursuant to a written contract between Advertise.com and the service provider. Advertise.com service providers use the personal information as necessary to perform the business purpose stated in a written contract with the service provider. 

Advertise.com does not “sell” your personal information as that term is defined under CCPA, however if you would like to receive further confirmation that any personal information we may have about you is not “sold” to third parties, you may contact our Data Protection Officer with your “do not sell my personal information” request as follows:

Email: dataprotectionofficer@advertise.com

You may also request that Advertise.com delete your personal information by contacting us at the email or phone number provided above. Please understand that Advertise.com is required by CCPA to first verify any request received prior to complying with any CCPA request. 

In some instances, Advertise.com is not required by CCPA to delete personal information. In such instance, Advertise.com will notify you if your personal information was unable to be deleted for one of the permitted exceptions under CCPA.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.

We will let you know via email and/or a prominent notice on our Service, prior to the change becoming effective and update the “effective date” at the top of this Privacy Policy.

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

Contact Us

Data Processor

Advertise.com

15303 Ventura Blvd., Suite #1150

Sherman Oaks, CA 91403

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or have any requests regarding Personal Information we may have collected about you, please contact us at the following email address:

Email: dataprotectionofficer@advertise.com

We will respond to reasonable requests for access, revision, or deletion requests to the extent required or permitted by law. Please note, if your request for access or revisions is too burdensome, creates an excessive expense upon Advertise.com, or violates the rights of other individuals, Advertise.com will weigh the risks to your individual privacy and act accordingly.