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If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
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These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
Ads appearing on our site may be delivered to Users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile non-personal identification information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This privacy policy does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
We also use your data for advertising purposes. We use third-party advertising companies who serve ads to help keep content free. For these partners, we put additional resources on how your data can be used to prevent it from misuse. For instance, we do not allow these partners to take your information for profiling and personalizing ads on other sites.
Please review the following for a full list of partners and purposes:
– PubGalaxy (Titan Gate AD)
(1) Google: Google Analytics helps us analyze visitor activity on our website. It counts the number of visitors and provides insights into overall behavior, such as the average length of time spent on the site or the number of pages viewed per user. The information collected via Google Analytics is aggregated anonymously and contains no personal data. To learn more about Google Analytics privacy and to opt out of having your data used by Google Analytics, click here.
(2) Azerion: We have authorized Azerion as our advertising partner to process personal data via pixel and similar technologies for the following purposes:
- Identifying interest segments of end users based on the pages they visit on our site and sharing this information with advertisers.
- Providing reports and insights on the audience who visit our site.
Azerion’s processing of personal data includes operations such as collection, recording, organization, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure, transmission, dissemination, or making the data otherwise available. The types of personal data collected include online identifiers such as IP addresses, user agents, HTTP header data, and interest segments about end users who access our pages and information.
Azerion is authorized to engage third parties (such as Amazon Web Services) to process personal data for these purposes.
(3) Third-party websites, products & services: Our site may contain links to or provide access to third-party websites, products, and services. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of these third parties, nor are we responsible for the information or content their products and services contain. This Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected by our site. We recommend reading the privacy policies of any third parties before using their websites, products, or services.