At smartwatchcrunch.com we consider the privacy of our visitors to be extremely important. This privacy policy document describes in detail the types of personal information received and collected by smartwatchcrunch.com and how it is used.
This privacy policy applies to the use of smartwatchcrunch.com or the online visitor to this site. To make it clear, this pertains to the information/data you provide while filling up a form or leaving comments on our site and our site alone. We are not responsible for any third-party links that may be on our website. You should carefully review the privacy policies of any other site you visit.
If we make any changes to this privacy policy, we will notify you of such changes on our website.
If you have additional questions or require more information about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us.
Who We Are:
Smartwatchcrunch.com is owned and operated by Shahryar Amin. He believes in full transparency on the internet and people’s right to privacy.
What Personal Data We Collect and Why We Collect It?
Comments:
Though comments are usually off for posts older than 3 months, we may keep the comment section open if the post is relevant and people are still interested in it.
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
Contact Forms:
We use contact forms to communicate with our visitors. The data collected in these forms are used to send you the information you have requested or to answer any questions you may have. The data collected may include your name, email address, and any other information you provided in the “Message” section.
This information is used to respond to you, regarding the reason you contacted us. We will not share this information with any third party without your consent. Your data is safe with us.
Embedded Content from Other Sites:
You may find several types of embedded content (videos, images, articles) on our website. Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if you had 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 tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Analytics:
We use Google Analytics on our website which will automatically collect information about your device, browser, and IP address. This information is used to help us understand our website traffic and improve our site. This type of data is purely for statistical and analytical purposes.
The data collected by Google Analytics is stored on Google’s servers. You can find more information about their privacy policy here.
Log Files:
We use log files on our website that automatically collect your IP address, browser type, ISP, referring/exit pages, and date/time stamps. This information is used to analyze trends, administer the site, track user movement around the site, and gather demographic information. This data is not personally identifiable and is used for statistical analysis only.
Who Are Our Ad Partners:
We use Mediavine as our third-party ads provider. Such ad servers may use technologies like Javascript, cookies, and web beacons to collect information about your interaction on our website. This information may include your IP address, ISP, browser type, referring/exit pages, and date/time stamps. Such type of data is utilized by these companies to personalize ads or track the success of their marketing campaigns. Please note that we have no access or right to this type of information.
Here are more details from Mediavine:
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.
What Rights You Have Over Your Data:
California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) Compliance:
Under the CCPA, California residents have certain rights with respect to their personal information. These include the right to:
– Request that we disclose what personal information we collect about you,
– Request that we delete your personal information, and
– Opt out of the sale of your personal information.
To make a request under the CCPA, please contact us through our contact form.
GRPR Data Protection Rights Compliance:
Visitors from the European Union have certain rights with respect to their personal information. To give you a gist, your GDPR Rights include
- The right to be informed
- The right of access
- The right to rectification
- The right to erasure
- The right to restrict processing
- The right to data portability
- The right to object
- Rights around automated decision-making and profiling.
You would find full detail about your rights on this website: gdpr.eu.
We hereby comply to the extent that we can with all the provisions under GDPR. As far as ads partners are concerned, we use only those that fully comply with GDPR requirements.
Children’s Information:
We do not knowingly collect or solicit any information from anyone under the age of 13. If you are under 13, please do not use our website or send us your personal information through our contact form.
If parents believe that their child has submitted personal information to us without their consent, they should contact us immediately. We will delete such information from our records.