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At Whichfishtank.com we are dedicated to protecting your data and privacy.
We recognize that your privacy is important. This document outlines the types of personal information we receive and collect when you use whichfishtank.com, as well as some of the steps we take to safeguard information. This will help you make an informed decision about sharing personal information with us.
Whichfishtank.com strives to maintain the highest standards of decency, fairness and integrity in all our operations. Likewise, we are dedicated to protecting our customers' and online visitors' privacy on our website.
Ezoic
EZOIC SERVICE PRIVACY POLICY
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whichfishtank.com ("Website") uses a third party technology called Ezoic.
INFORMATION ABOUT OUR ORGANIZATION AND WEBSITE
Ezoic is committed to protecting your privacy. We will only use the information that we collect lawfully in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (Regulation (EU) 2016/679).
Ezoic's principal activities are:
- Website analytics
- Website personalization
- Website hosting
Our privacy policy covers Ezoic Inc., Ezoic Limited and this Website:
Ezoic Inc.
6023 Innovation Way, Carlsbad, California, United States
Ezoic Limited
Northern Design Centre, Abbott's Hill, Gateshead, NE8 3DF United Kingdom
DATA
In order to provide our products and services and related support, it is necessary for Ezoic to transfer your personal data outside of the European Union. In such case, the data controller for this data for EU residents is Ezoic Inc. having its registered offices at 6023 Innovation Way, Carlsbad, California, United States. All questions of requests regarding the processing of data may be addresses to data@ezoic.com
PROVIDING VISITORS WITH ANONYMOUS ACCESS
If you do not consent to such collection, you can access this website without disclosing your personal data.
AUTOMATIC COLLECTION OF INFORMATION
Ezoic records data about the individuals and the traffic to this website. Ezoic is this website's limited agent (and data controller in the EU context) for the purpose of providing Internet data and optimization services. Ezoic may use this data to improve its service or enable other services (e.g., using visitor traffic logs or data posted through the service to improve the optimization of other websites).
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Ezoic may collect personal information as defined in GDPR (such as IP address and a unique id in a cookie) about visitors to your website for the purposes of statistics, analytics and personalization. In addition, Ezoic works with numerous third parties for the collection and storage of data and the providing of analytics and advertising services.
Use of Personal Information
- Identity
- Technical
- Usage
- Identity
- Technical
- Usage
- Identity
- Technical
- Usage
- Identity
- Technical
- Usage
PROCESSING OF DATA AND CONSENT
We will process the data we collect about you to improve the operation of this and other websites. This information helps us make decisions about what content to show, how it should be formatted, the number, size and placement of advertisements and how content should be delivered to individuals. This information is also used for analysis of performance and reporting.
USE OF APPLICATION LOGS
Our servers automatically record information (“Application Log Data”) created by your use of this website. Application Log Data may include information such as your IP address, browser type, operating system, the referring web page, pages visited, location, your mobile carrier, device and application IDs, search terms, and cookie information. We use this information to diagnose and improve our services. Except as stated in section (Data Retention), we will either delete the Application Log Data or remove any account identifiers, such as your username, full IP address, or email address, after 48 months.
DATA RETENTION
The personal information we collect is retained for no longer than necessary to fulfill the stated purposes in section “PROCESSING OF DATA AND CONSENT” above or for a period specifically required by law or regulation that Ezoic is obligated to follow. Personal data used to fulfill verification of certain types of services such as SSL certificate, payments, and billing will be retained for a minimum of 5 years depending on the class of product or service and may be retained in either a physical or electronic format. Even if you request deletion or erasure of your data, we may retain your personal data to the extent necessary and for so long as necessary for our legitimate business interests or performance of contractual obligations. After the retention period is over, Ezoic securely disposes or anonymizes your personal information in order to prevent loss, theft, misuse, or unauthorized access.
CONFIDENTIALITY / SECURITY
We have implemented security policies, rules and technical measures to protect the personal data that we have under our control from: unauthorized access improper use or disclosure unauthorized modification unlawful destruction or accidental loss. All our employees and data processors, who have access to, and are associated with the processing of personal data, are obliged to respect the confidentiality of our visitors’ personal data. We ensure that your personal data will not be disclosed to State institutions and authorities except if required by law or other regulation
DATA ACCESS & DELETION
You have the right to view information that we have collected about you and to request deletion of any personal information we may have. You can use this data lookup tool to complete these actions.
Cookies
Below is a list of cookies that are commonly set on this website.
| Cookie Name | Category | Description |
|---|---|---|
| ez_pub_site | Necessary | Used by the analytics and personalization company, Ezoic, to only show the site with Ezoic's features enabled. |
| ezCMPCookieConsent | Necessary | Used by the analytics and personalization company, Ezoic, to track when a user consents to cookies. |
| ez_rdr_count | Necessary | Used by the analytics and personalization company, Ezoic, to track redirects |
| ez_rdr | Necessary | Used by the analytics and personalization company, Ezoic, to track redirects. |
| __utmt_e | Necessary | Used to throttle the speed of requests to the server. |
| __utmt_f | Necessary | Used to throttle the speed of requests to the server. |
| session_depth | Necessary | Used to track the number of pages you visit in a session on this site. |
| __cfduid | Necessary | Used by the content network, Cloudflare, to identify trusted web traffic. |
| cf_use_ob | Necessary | Used by Content Delivery Network, Cloudflare, to protect against fraud and speed up web delivery. |
| cf_ob_info | Necessary | Used by Content Delivery Network, Cloudflare, to protect against fraud and speed up web delivery. |
| PHPSESSID | Necessary | A unique identifier used to preserve states across pages. |
| ez_view_original_only | Preferences | Used by the analytics and personalization company, Ezoic, to show the original site without Ezoic's features. |
| ez_view_optimized_only | Preferences | Used by the analytics and personalization company, Ezoic, to show the optimized site with Ezoic's features. |
| ez_view_optimized_only | Preferences | Used by the analytics and personalization company, Ezoic, to show the original site without Ezoic's features. |
| speed_no_process | Preferences | Used by the analytics and personalization company, Ezoic, to turn off site speed features for this user. |
| sitespeed_preview | Preferences | Used by the analytics and personalization company, Ezoic, to allow this user to preview certain site speed features. |
| ez_ad_position_version | Preferences | Used by the analytics and personalization company, Ezoic, to determine if they use the Ad Tester product for this user, used by the Ad Tester extension. |
| ezpicker_showall | Preferences | Used by the analytics and personalization company, Ezoic, to tell the ezpicker app to show all placeholders. |
| ezpicker_nocache | Preferences | Used by the analytics and personalization company, Ezoic, to tell the ezpicker app to run without using the cache. |
| ezpicker | Preferences | Used by the analytics and personalization company, Ezoic, to turn on ezpicker |
| SL_GWPT_Show_Hide_tmp | Preferences | |
| SL_wptGlobTipTmp | Preferences | |
| ezCMPCCS | Statistics | Used by the analytics and personalization company, Ezoic, to track when a user consents to statistics cookies. |
| __qca | Statistics | Collects anonymous data on the user's visits to the website, such as the number of visits, average time spent on the website and what pages have been loaded with the purpose of generating reports for optimising the website content. |
| ezosuigenerisc | Statistics | Used by the analytics and personalization company, Ezoic, to uniquely identify you across different websites on the internet so your experience can be customized. |
| ezosuigeneris | Statistics | Used by the analytics and personalization company, Ezoic, to uniquely identify you across different websites on the internet so your experience can be customized. |
| ezds | Statistics | Used by the analytics and personalization company, Ezoic, to store the pixel size of your screen to help personalize your experience and ensure content fits. |
| ez_recommended_pages | Statistics | Used by the analytics and personalization company, Ezoic, to track users visiting from the recommended pages widget. |
| AMP_ECID_EZOIC | Statistics | Used by personalization and analytics company Ezoic for statistics on Accelerated Mobile Pages |
| ezouspvv | Statistics | Used by the analytics and personalization company, Ezoic, to track how many pages a user has visited. |
| ezouspvh | Statistics | Used by the analytics and personalization company, Ezoic, to track how many pages a user has visited since their last visit. |
| ezouspva | Statistics | Used by the analytics and personalization company, Ezoic, to track how many pages a user has visited all time. |
| ezepvv | Statistics | Used by the analytics and personalization company, Ezoic, to track which pages this user has viewed. |
| ezohw | Statistics | Used by the analytics and personalization company, Ezoic, to store the pixel size of your browser to help personalize your experience and ensure content fits. |
| _gid | Statistics | Used to distinguish users by Google Analytics |
| _ga | Statistics | Used to distinguish users by Google Analytics |
| __utmc | Statistics | Registers a timestamp with the exact time of when the user leaves the website. Used by Google Analytics to calculate the duration of a website visit. |
| __utmz | Statistics | Collects data on where the user came from, what search engine was used, what link was clicked and what search term was used. Used by Google Analytics. |
| __utmb | Statistics | Registers a timestamp with the exact time of when the user accessed the website. Used by Google Analytics to calculate the duration of a website visit. |
| __utma | Statistics | Collects data on the number of times a user has visited the website as well as dates for the first and most recent visit. Used by Google Analytics. |
| __utmd | Statistics | Used by Google Analytics to track your activity on a website. |
| ezdg | Marketing | Used by the analytics and personalization company, Ezoic, to store demographic information like age and gender. |
| __gads | Marketing | Used to register what ads have been displayed to the user. |
| cto_optout | Marketing | Used by ad network Criteo to record if you've opted of personalized ads. |
Below is a list of usage, technical and identify metrics that are commonly stored and processed when you use this website
A list of Vendors that may be used on this website
Data Usage Purposes
Necessary
Necessary cookies help make a website usable by enabling basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. The website cannot function properly without these cookies.
Preferences
Preference cookies enable a website to remember information that changes the way the website behaves or looks, like your preferred language or the region that you are in.
Statistics
Statistic cookies help website owners to understand how visitors interact with websites by collecting and reporting information anonymously.
Marketing
Marketing cookies are used to track visitors across websites. The intention is to display ads that are relevant and engaging for the individual user and thereby more valuable for publishers and third party advertisers.
Contacting Us
If there are any questions regarding this privacy policy or you wish to unsubscribe from our site and services you may contact us using the information below or by writing to us at:
2885 Sanford Ave
Grandville, MI 49418
USA
Summary of Requests
If you'd like to see a summary of the requests to know user information, requests to delete user information and requests to opt-out of CCPA compliance that this business has received: https://g.ezoic.net/privacy/whichfishtank.com/annualRequestSummary regarding whichfishtank.com
About Our Cookies
A cookie is a string of information that whichfishtank.com stores on your computer, which your browser provides to whichfishtank.com each time you return to the site. We use cookies to help us identify and track visitors, their use of our website, and their website access preferences.
Google Analytics Cookies
Whichfishtank.com uses Google Analytics to analyze the use of this website. Google Analytics collects demographic and interest data, and generates statistical and other information about website use, by means of cookies. These cookies are kept on your computer. We share this information with Google, which will store and use this information on its servers. Google's privacy policy is available at:
https://policies.google.com/privacy
Whichfishtank.com uses information from Google Analytics to track the number of visits to the website, browsers and operating systems. No personally identifiable information is obtained from these cookies. We use the information that Google Analytics generates relating to our website to create reports about the use of the site. These reports allow us to update the site and improve your usage of it.
If you do not wish your data to be collected via Google Analytics, you can install its opt-out browser extension or add-on...
https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/
Advertising Cookies
We use third-party advertising companies such as Google Adsense to serve ads on our website. These companies use cookies and web beacons in their ads to ascertain how many times you've seen an advertisement. We share this information with these companies, but do not provide them with any personally identifiable information for cookie or web beacon use, so they cannot personally identify you with that information from our website.
You may opt out of personalized ads for over 125 different ad networks.
Click the link below to do that.
http://www.aboutads.info/choices/
Some third-party advertisements are served by Google. Google's cookie enables it to serve ads to our visitors based on their visits to other sites on the Web. You may opt out of personalized ads by visiting the Google ad opt-out page
https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated
This link from Google provides more information about how Google manages data in its ad products.
https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites
Affiliate Products and Services
We receive an affiliate commission for some of the products sold on whichfishtank.com.
The affiliate services platforms we use are Amazon, ClickBank, Ebay and Chewy.Com
By clicking on a product or service link, you consent to that platform's use of cookies, as outlined in the link below.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=502584
https://support.clickbank.com/hc/en-us/articles/360004023572-Customer-Privacy-Policy
https://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/policies/privacy-policy.html
https://www.chewy.com/app/content/privacy
Social Media
On this website there are links to Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Pinterest and Instagram. When you click on them or leave a comment, your browser connects directly with that site and sends information such as your IP address, the date and time of your visit and information about how you use the social site.
Should you wish to prevent those platforms from collecting data, please view their individual policies by using the following links:
If you use these platforms, you may also want to review and adjust your privacy settings if needed.
Refusing Cookies
You can set your browser to accept or refuse all cookies automatically, or notify you when a cookie is being requested.
Taking this action should not cause a problem with the continued use of our site. Consult the Help section of your browser for guidance on how to refuse all cookies or to notify you when a cookie is requested.
If you choose to refuse whichfishtank.com's cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the site.
Personally Identifiable Information
Whichfishtank.com may collect and use your personal information for the following purposes:
- To run and operate our site.
- To display content on the site correctly.
- To improve customer service.
- To help us respond to your customer service requests and support needs more efficiently.
- To personalize your user experience.
- To understand how our users as a group use the services and resources provided on our site.
- To improve our site.
- To improve our products and services.
- To run a promotion, contest, survey or other site feature.
- To send information to you that you agreed to receive about topics we think will be of interest to you.
- To send periodic emails, which may include electronic newsletters and/or autoresponder series of emails.
- To respond to your enquiries, questions, and/or other request.
Whichfishtank.com may collect personally identifiable information from you in a variety of ways, including, but not limited to, when you visit our site, register on the site, or fill out a form, and in connection with other activities, services, features or resources we make available on our site.
If you complete a form, we will require your name and your email address, and will ask for information relevant to the purpose of the form.
If you submit content to us, we will ask for your name and email address. Photos you include with your submission, or details in your submission, may personally identify you.
If you request to be notified about comments on any content you submit to us, or request to be notified when others submit content, we will require your first name and your email address.
This site also uses Facebook commenting. Facebook stores all of your comments and may show them on your timeline, depending on your Facebook settings.
You can always refuse to supply personally identifiable information and visit our site anonymously. However, it may prevent you from engaging in certain site-related activities.
If we make material changes in the collection of personally identifiable information, we will inform you by placing a notice on our site. We will use personal information received from you for internal purposes only and will not sell it or provide it to third parties.
We also collect each visitor's IP address, which helps us combat spam and fraud. We do not use IP addresses for any other purpose.
Non-personally Identifiable Information
We may collect non-personally identifiable information about you whenever you interact with our site. Non-personally identifiable information may include the browser name, the type of computer and technical information about your method of connecting to our site, such as the operating system and the Internet service provider you used, and other similar information.
Children's Privacy Protection
This website is directed to adults. It is not directed to children under the age of 16. We operate our site in compliance with current regulations. Anyone under the age of 16 must provide parental consent to use this site. We do not knowingly collect or use personally identifiable information from anyone under 16 years of age.
Release of Information
If we sell whichfishtank.com, the information we have obtained from you through your voluntary participation in our site may transfer to the new owner as a part of the sale so that the service provided to you may continue. In that event, you will receive notice through our website of that change in control and practices, and we will make reasonable efforts to ensure that the purchaser honors any opt-out requests you might make.
Data Storage
Personally identifiable information and non-personally identifiable information collected by this site is stored on our host's servers. That host is SiteSell Inc., located at 1000 Saint-Jean Boulevard, Suite 702, Pointe-Claire, QC H9R 5P1 Canada.
If you wish to review your information stored on the SiteSell servers for Whichfishtank.com, click on this link:
How You Can Correct or Remove Information
We provide this privacy policy as a statement to you of our commitment to protect your personally identifiable information. If you have submitted personally identifiable information through our website and would like to download and review that information, click on this link.
You can also request to edit or delete any of your information from the servers by clicking on this link
Updates and Effective Date
Whichfishtank.com reserves the right to make changes in this policy. If there is a material change in our cookie and privacy practices, we will indicate on our site that those practices have changed and provide a link to the updated privacy policy. We encourage you to periodically review this policy so that you will know what information we collect and how we use it.
Agreeing to Terms
If you do not agree to Whichfishtank.com's privacy policy as posted here on this website, please do not consent to the setting of cookies and the collection and storage of your personally identifiable information.
Your explicit consent indicates acceptance of this privacy policy in its entirety.
Last updated: 14th February 2019
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