Which fish tank.com Privacy policy

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

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EZOIC SERVICE PRIVACY POLICY
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 it’s 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

Purpose/Activity	Type(s) of Data	Lawful basis for processing
To improve user experience	Identity Technical Usage	Your information helps us to provide you with a more pleasant, efficient experience on this website that may be customized to how you or others respond to content and ads on this or other websites.
To improve ad performance	Identity Technical Usage	Your information helps us to optimize the placement, size, timing and number of ads displayed to you. It enables us to make smart decision that help this website owner earn money but reduce the disruption of ads on your experience.
To improve content creation	Identity Technical Usage	Your information helps us learn what content you care about and enjoy and, the style of content you like and what you engage the most with. This helps us produce more content and features that you might like.
To improve website performance	Identity Technical Usage	Your information helps us measure various performance metrics about our site, such as site speed, so that we can improve the performance of this site.

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 fulfil 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 fulfil 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.

Below is a list of cookies that are commonly set on this website.

Below is a list of usage, technical and identify metrics that are commonly stored and processed when you use this website

Your location information, including country, state, city, metro and postal code

The webpage your were at before this website

The type of browser you use and the version

The brand and operating system of your device

What time zone you're in and what time it is there

What pages on this site you visit

How you interact with this website, including time spent, how much you scroll and your mouse movements

The size of your devices screen and the size of the browser on that screen

What content you share on the page

If you copy and paste content on this website

What ad or link you clicked on to arrive at this website

The type of internet connection you use and your ISP or service provider

How long it takes for this website's content to get transfered to your browser, load in your browser and render

The weather where you are currently located

Your age and gender

Your ip address

A unique id so that we can recognize you

What ads you click on

Cookies

Cookie Name	Category	Description	Duration
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.
ez_view_original_only	Preferences	Used by the analytics and personalization company, Ezoic, to show the original site without Ezoic's features.	525600 min
ez_view_optimized_only	Preferences	Used by the analytics and personalization company, Ezoic, to show the optimized site with Ezoic's features.	525600 min
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
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.	1440 min
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.

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

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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/

Lucky Orange Visitor Tracking Pixels

Lucky Orange is a online tool used by website owners to identify and improve user experience on their websites.They respect your right to control and be aware of the data that is collected about you. See their Data Privacy by clicking this link.

https://privacy.luckyorange.com

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, and Ebay.

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

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:

Facebook Privacy Policy

YouTube Privacy Policy

Twitter Privacy Policy

Pinterest Privacy Policy

Instagram Privacy Policy

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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