This privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) details the use and collection of your information by the websites (the “Sites”) and Apps operated and owned by SEARCHENGINEDADDY LLC (“SEARCHENGINEDADDY”, “us” or “we”) and governs your access to the content and services hosted on our platform (the “Services”) and Apps.
We value your privacy and recognize our role in protecting your personal data. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully before using or proceeding to access the Sites. Your use of the Sites and Services indicate that you are accepting the policies and practices described in this Privacy Policy. To access our terms of use, please click HERE.
When we refer to “Personal Data,” we mean any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (“data subject”); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly, or indirectly, by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, or an online identifier.
In addition to Personal Data, we collect general information (“Usage Data”) regarding your use of the Services provided on our Sites. This Usage Data can include demographic information, information about your preferences, interests, search queries, and online activity. When Usage Data includes Personal Data, we treat the Personal Data as described by this Privacy Policy.
SEARCHENGINEDADDY directly and through third-parties collects information that you provide to us from your use of the Services, and from other sources. The information we collect and how we process it depends on how you use and access the Services and we combine all of the information we have about you so that we can analyze it and provide better Services to you. We collect information, including Personal Data, as follows:
We share Personal Data within SEARCHENGINEDADDY Media (including our affiliates and subsidiaries) to fulfill our obligations to you and operate our business consistent with this Privacy Policy and applicable data protection law. In addition to what is already stated in this Privacy Policy, we will also share your Personal Data with third-parties in the following situations and for the following purposes:
Vendors and suppliers : We share the Personal Data we collect with our service providers, vendors (including ad networks), and suppliers for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including so they can provide their services to us and you and to help us communicate with you about products and services, offers, events and promotions that we believe may be of interest to you. Unless stated in this Privacy Policy, our service providers and vendors are only permitted to access your information in connection with performing such services.
Enabling Services on the Sites : We offer a variety of services and functions through the Services. Personal Data that is collected through the Services will be used/and or disclosed to third-parties in order to enable us to provide the Services. For example, the Services allow you to interface with third-party websites, content, advertising, and features. To facilitate that interaction, we use your Personal Data and/or disclose your Personal Data to the third-party operating the websites and features.
Legal and Other Similar Uses : Though we make every effort to preserve user privacy, SEARCHENGINEDADDY may need to disclose Personal Data when required by law when we have a good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a current judicial proceeding, a court order or legal process served on SEARCHENGINEDADDY or its affiliates. If we intend to turn over information related to you for any of these reasons we will use commercially reasonable efforts to provide you with advance notice, unless we are prohibited from doing so by law or court order.
Online advertising : We use industry standard website tracking and delivery technology to serve you relevant advertising on and off the Services. Our services display advertisements to you via targeted advertising methods. This permits us to show you certain advertising about products and services tailored to your individual interests based on information we receive from visitors of the Services and by third-parties. You may also see certain ads through your use of the Services because we participate in advertising networks. Ad networks allow us to target our advertising to users through the use of click-stream, demographic, behavioral and contextual information. The use of third-party tracking technologies to collect this information is often subject to their own privacy policies.
Cookies : SEARCHENGINEDADDY places small data files called cookies on your device to ensure that the Sites function properly, to track how you use our Sites, to improve our Sites and your user experience, and to tailor our Sites to your interests. Cookies are small text files that are saved on your computer or mobile device when you visit the Sites. They enable the Sites to record and/or remember your actions and preferences. SEARCHENGINEDADDY uses the following cookies on our Sites:
We use cookies that expire once you close your browser (called session cookies) and cookies that stay on your device until you delete them or they expire (called persistent cookies).
We honor the GPC signal. If you are on a browser that supports GPC, you may enable GPC through your browser. You will be able to opt-out of the sale/sharing or processing of your personal data or information through the browser. For more information on GPC, click here.
Our Sites often contain or link to content that is hosted and served by third-parties. These third-parties may collect information about you through the use of their own cookies and web beacons may independently collect data or solicit Personal Data. SEARCHENGINEDADDY is not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. For questions about these sites, please consult their individual privacy policies. This Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected by SEARCHENGINEDADDY through our Sites. If you choose to purchase a product or service via our site, some special terms apply. Payments are handled by a third party payment processor, whose own terms and privacy policy will govern your transaction. We do not process, record or maintain your credit card, bank account or payment information, though the third party payment processor and/or the merchant may provide us with some data relating to your order, such as what you purchased and how much you spent. We expressly disclaim any and all liability related to your use of any third party payment processor’s system, including its privacy practices. When we link to an e-commerce site and you make a purchase on that site, we sometimes receive a small cut of the revenue. The commercial relationships with e-commerce sites are handled by a third-party company. We use the third party to help us automate the process of linking to products, especially as it distances our editorial staff from creating affiliate links themselves. Our journalists are not involved – our reviews are driven entirely by our editorial staff based on what we think. We don’t let any monetary incentives influence our editorial choices.
In the event SEARCHENGINEDADDY goes through a business transition, such as a merger, acquisition by another company, or sale of a portion of its assets, your information may be disclosed in connection with the negotiation of such transaction and/or sold or transferred as part of such a transaction as permitted by law and/or contract.
We care about the privacy of children. Accordingly, we do not direct our Sites to children under the age of 16 or knowingly collect Personal Data from them. If we learn that a user is under 16, we will promptly delete any Personal Data that the individual has provided to us.
SEARCHENGINEDADDY has technical, administrative and physical safeguards in place to help protect against unauthorized access to, use or disclosure of Personal Data we maintain. Under our security practices, access to personally identifiable information is authorized only for those who have a business need for such access, and sensitive records are to be retained only as long as necessary for business or legal needs and destroyed before disposal. Although we work hard to protect personal information that we collect and store, no program is one hundred percent secure and we cannot guarantee that our safeguards will prevent every unauthorized attempt to access, use or disclose personal information.
If you become aware of a security issue, please email us through our contact form. We will work with you to address any problems.
We retain the information we collect about you for as long as necessary to fulfill the purpose we collected it for and for the purpose of satisfying any legal, accounting or reporting requirements. To determine the appropriate retention period, we consider the amount, nature and sensitivity of the Personal Data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your Personal Data, the purposes for which we process your Personal Data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements. For information about deleting your Personal Data, including your account, see below.
If you are a resident of the EEA or Switzerland, you are entitled to certain rights under Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of the European Union 27 April 2016 (the “General Data Protection Regulation” or “GDPR”). These include, without limitation, the right: (i) to access your personal data, (as that term is defined under the GDPR), (ii) to request deletion of your personal data in our possession, (iii) to restrict processing of your personal data, and (iv) to receive your personal data in a portable manner. We will only process your personal data as described in this Privacy Policy and only for the duration necessary. To exercise any of these rights, please click on the “Your Privacy Choices”. As a security measure, we may ask you to verify your identity. We may contact you to ask you for further information to help you exercise your legal rights or to speed up our response. We will try to respond to requests within one month and we will let you know if we need longer, for example, because your request is complicated. We may have an overriding lawful basis for processing your Personal Data, or certain exemptions may apply. You have the right to complain about data privacy matters to the relevant data protection regulator in your country of residence, a list of whom is located here: Read on edpb.europa.eu
We invite you to raise your concerns with us first, so that we can try to resolve them.
We are headquartered in the United States. Users are advised that your Personal Data may be hosted, transferred or processed on servers and databases located outside your resident country or other governmental jurisdictions that are not members of the EEA or recognized by the European Commission as possessing adequate privacy protections. Each of those jurisdictions maintain their own data protection laws. To provide adequate safeguards, standard contractual clauses (SCC) may be used when transferring your personal data internationally and solely as outlined in this Privacy Policy. More information on SCCs is located below.
Standard contractual clauses for data transfers between EU and non-EU countries. Read on ec.europa.eu
If you are a resident of the state of California, you are entitled to certain rights with respect to your personal information (“PersonaI Information”) as defined under the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) and as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”). This includes the following rights:
To exercise your right to know, delete or to opt-out of a sale or sharing of your Personal Information, please click on the “Your Privacy Choices”. You will be directed to a form to exercise your choice or provide further information to process your request. To exercise any of the other rights above, please email us through our contact form with your request. For any of the requests above, you may be asked for further information such as your user account name or your state or country of residence so that we may verify your identity.
The sources and categories of certain Personal Information collected are as indicated in this privacy policy for the business purposes above.
In the past 12 months, any sale, share or disclosure of Personal Information was in accordance with the sections linked above and as otherwise stated in this Privacy Policy.
We do not sell or share Personal Information to third parties (as that term is defined under the CCPA. In the past 12 months, we have not sold, shared or disclosed Personal Information to third parties.
We do not direct our Sites to children under the age of 16 or knowingly collect Personal Information from them. Accordingly, we do not have actual knowledge of Personal Information of consumers under the age of 16 that the Company has sold or shared.
We may use or disclose your Sensitive Personal Information as permitted under the CPRA as proportionately necessary and not for any other purpose. This may include:
As indicated above in our privacy policy, we honor the GPC signal. You may enable GPC to opt-out of a sale or sharing of your Personal Information. For more information, please click here.
You may authorize an agent to submit requests to exercise any of the rights above to us by having them email us through our contact form. Under the CCPA, an authorized agent is a person or a business registered with the California secretary of state, authorized on your behalf to submit these requests. We will still need to verify your identity unless your agent has a signed power of attorney on your behalf. We reserve the right to deny any request if an agent cannot provide proof that they are authorized.
If you are a Colorado resident, you have certain rights with respect to your “Personal Data” as defined and described under the Colorado Privacy Act (“CPA”). These rights include:
To exercise your right to access/know, delete or to opt-out of a sale or share of your Personal Data, please click on the “Your Privacy Choices”. You will be directed to a form to exercise your choice or provide further information to process your request. To exercise any of the other rights above, please email us through our contact form with your request. For any of the requests above, you may be asked for further information such as your user account name or your state or country of residence so that we may verify your identity. You may also opt-out of the sale of your Personal Data by enabling the GPC as described here.
The categories of Personal Data collected and processed are as indicated in this privacy policy for the business purposes above:
We do not sell Personal Data to Third Parties (as defined under the CPA). We act as controllers and process Personal Data in accordance with our privacy policy.
We do not sell Personal Data to Third Parties (as defined under the CPA). We act as controllers and process Personal Data in accordance with our privacy policy.
You (the “Consumer”) may authorize an agent to submit requests to exercise any of the rights above to us by having them email us through our contact form. Under the CPA, an authorized agent is a person or entity authorized by a Consumer to act on the Consumer’s behalf. We will still need to verify the agent’s authority and your identity unless your agent has a signed power of attorney on your behalf. We reserve the right to deny any request if an agent cannot provide proof that they are authorized.
If you are a Connecticut resident, you have certain rights with respect to your “Personal Data” as defined and described under the Connecticut Data Privacy Act (“CTDPA”). These rights include:
To exercise your right to access, delete or to opt-out of a sale or share of your Personal Data, please click click on the “Your Privacy Choices”. You will be directed to a form to exercise your choice or provide further information to process your request. To exercise any of the other rights above, please email us through our contact form with your request. For any of the requests above, you may be asked for further information such as your user account name or your state or country of residence so that we may verify your identity. You may also opt-out of the sale of your Personal Data by enabling the GPC as described here.
The categories of Personal Data collected and processed are as indicated in this privacy policy for the business purposes above :
We do not sell Personal Data to third parties (as defined under the VDCPA). We act as controllers and process Personal Data in accordance with our privacy policy.
You (the “Consumer”) may authorize an agent to submit requests to exercise any of the rights above to us by having them email us through our contact form. Under the CTDPA, an authorized agent is a person or entity authorized by a Consumer to act on the Consumer’s behalf, to opt out of the processing of the consumer’s personal data for one or more purpose listed above. We will still need to verify the agent’s authority and your identity unless your agent has a signed power of attorney on your behalf. We reserve the right to deny any request if an agent cannot provide proof that they are authorized.
If you are a Nevada resident, under Nevada privacy law SB220, you may opt out of companies transacting in your personal data and “selling” it to third parties as defined under the law. To exercise your opt-out right, please contact us through our contact form. Please note that there are legitimate business exceptions that the law affords to companies and your request may not be processed if it falls under such exceptions.
If you are a Virginia resident, you have certain rights with respect to your Personal Data as described under the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (VDCPA). These rights include:
To exercise your right to know, delete or to opt-out of a sale of your Personal Information, please click on the “Your Privacy Choices”. You will be directed to a form to exercise your choice or provide further information to process your request. To exercise any of the other rights above, please email us through our contact form.com with your request. For any of the requests above, you may be asked for further information such as your user account name or your state or country of residence so that we may verify your identity. You may also opt-out of the sale of your Personal Data by enabling the GPC as described here.
The categories of Personal Data collected and processed are as indicated in this privacy policy for the business purposes above :
We do not sell Personal Data to third parties (as defined under the VDCPA). We act as controllers and process Personal Data in accordance with our privacy policy.
If you are a Utah resident, you have certain rights with respect to your Personal Data as described under the Utah Consumer Privacy Act (UCPA). These rights include:
To exercise your right to access or delete Personal Data, please click here. You will be directed to a form to exercise your choice or provide further information to process your request. To exercise any of the other rights above, please email us through our contact form with your request. For any of the requests above, you may be asked for further information such as your user account name or your state or country of residence so that we may verify your identity. You may also opt-out of the sale of your Personal Data by enabling the GPC as described here.
The categories of Personal Data collected and processed are as indicated in this privacy policy for the business purposes above :
We do not sell Personal Data to third parties (as defined under the VDCPA). We act as controllers and process Personal Data in accordance with our privacy policy.
SEARCHENGINEDADDY may make changes to this privacy policy at any time. If and when we do, we will inform you by posting the revised privacy policy here. You are responsible for periodically visiting this page to check for any changes. Any changes that are made will apply to both personal information that we help prior to the effective date of the amended privacy policy and any personal information that we collect on or after such effective date. Your continued use of the Sites after this privacy policy has been amended shall be deemed to be your continued acceptance of the terms and conditions of the privacy policy, as amended.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us through our contact form.