Privacy Policy

Last Updated: July 1, 2020

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT AND ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS

Please read this Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy” or “Agreement”) carefully before accessing or using BulldogGuide.com (“BulldogGuide”, “We”, “Us” or “Our”). This Agreement sets forth the legally binding terms for your use of the BulldogGuide website (the “Site”). BulldogGuide is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy sets forth our current privacy practices with regard to the information we collect when you or your computer interact with the Site. By accessing or using the Site, you acknowledge and fully understand BulldogGuide’s Privacy Policy and freely consent to the information collection and use practices described in this Privacy Policy. The term “User” (each a “User” and collectively “Users”) refers to a Visitor to the Site.

REVISIONS TO PRIVACY POLICY

BulldogGuide reserves the right, at any time, to modify, alter, or update this Privacy Policy without prior notice. Modifications shall become effective immediately upon being posted on this page (www.BulldogGuide.com/privacy/). Your continued use of the Site after amendments are posted constitutes an acknowledgement and acceptance of this Privacy Policy and its modifications. If at any time you do not agree to any modification or amendment to this Privacy Policy, you agree that your sole remedy is to discontinue using the Site. You agree to review this Privacy Policy periodically so that you are aware of any such modifications.

INFORMATION WE COLLECT AND HOW WE USE IT

Log information: When you visit the Site, We may collect certain non-personally identifiable information to administer the Site and analyze its usage. Examples of information we may collect include: your Internet protocol address; the kind of browser or computer you use; state or country from which you accessed the Site; date and time of your visit; name of your Internet service provider; and Web page you linked to the Site from.

Information you provide: BulldogGuide collects personally identifiable information you knowingly and voluntarily provide Us for Member profiles, including but not limited to a Member’s location, home country, first name, gender, biography, education, occupation, personal interests, and age. This information, as well as a Member’s profile photo, are displayed and shared with other Users to facilitate interaction on the Site. Members are given the ability to edit their profile information at any time in their user control panel.

Cookies: BulldogGuide may use cookies to personalize or enhance your user experience. A cookie is a small text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a Web Server in the domain that issued the cookie to you. One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. For example, if you personalize a web page, or navigate within a site, a cookie helps the site to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. Hence, this simplifies the process of delivering relevant content and eases site navigation by providing and saving your preferences and login information as well as providing personalized functionality. You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies. If you reject cookies by changing your browser settings then be aware that this may disable some of the functionality on our Website.

We may sponsor a promotion, sweepstake, survey or contest on the Site and you may be asked to provide personally identifiable information, including but not limited to your name, e-mail address, phone number, and/or home address, in order to participate. By entering such promotion, sweepstake, survey or contest, you provide BulldogGuide with express permission to share your personally identifiable information with the co-sponsor(s) of the promotion/sweepstake/contest. Personally identifiable information will be used to notify the finalists and/or winners and to award prizes. BulldogGuide and/or the co-sponsor(s) reserve the right to publish names of contest/promotion/sweepstake winners and their cities or towns of residence to ensure transparency in the contest/promotion/sweepstake process and for promotional purposes.

We may from time to time aggregate statistical information regarding our Users, traffic patterns and Site usage. In addition, we may report aggregate information to our advertisers. Such aggregate information will not individually identify any User.

Except as otherwise disclosed in this Privacy Policy, BulldogGuide will not sell, rent, share, trade, or disclose personal information we collect from you to third parties without your permission except to the extent necessary including: (I) to fulfill your service requests for services; (II) to protect ourselves from liability; (III) to respond to legal process or comply with law; (IV) or in connection with a merger, acquisition, or liquidation of the Site.

THIRD PARTY ADVERTISING AND LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES

The Site includes third-party advertising, and some of our advertisers use third-party companies to serve their advertisements that appear on the Site. Often, these third-party advertising companies, employ cookies and other technologies to measure the effectiveness of their advertisements and to show you advertisements that are more relevant and interesting to you. We do not provide any personally identifiable information to them, and we do not have access to or control cookies that may be placed by such companies. The Site may also contain links to websites operated by third parties. BulldogGuide does not control the privacy policies of advertisers and other third party websites for which BulldogGuide provides links and advertisements. If you click through an advertisement or link to a third party’s website, you will be subject to that advertiser’s or third party’s privacy policy, which you should review. The BulldogGuide Privacy Policy only governs information collected on the Site. BulldogGuide does not assume responsibility or liability for any third party’s policies or actions.

E-MAIL COMMUNICATIONS

You understand and agree that BulldogGuide may contact you regarding account status, changes to this Private Policy, our Terms of Use Agreement, to confirm your registration, for customer service purposes or for any other reason related to your use of the Site.

From time to time, you will receive newsletters and email communications from Us about Site-related matters. If you do not wish to receive such mailings, simply un-check the box “Receive Email from Administrators” under the “Edit Options” section of your profile settings. By becoming a Site Member you are consenting to the receipt of these communications.

CHILDREN’S PRIVACY

In compliance with the Federal Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA), Users under the age of thirteen (13) are not eligible to use the Site. We will never knowingly request or collect personal information from any person under the age of thirteen (13). You represent and warrant that you have reached the age of majority and are otherwise competent to enter into contracts in your jurisdiction, and in any event are at least eighteen (18) years of age to agree to and enter into this Agreement on your own behalf and to use the Site. The Site is not intended for use by individuals under eighteen (18) years of age.

Security

Every precaution is taken to ensure that all identifiable information is properly protected and is kept secure against misuse, improper modification, or loss. All collected personal information that is stored on BulldogGuide’s servers is regarded as confidential and is not made available to the outside public. Our agents may have access to personally identifiable information needed to perform their functions, but may not use it for other purposes.

Mediavine Programmatic Advertising

The Website uses Mediavine to manage all third-party advertising 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. The cookie may collect information relating to your use of the Website, information about your device such as the device’s IP address and browser type, demographic data and, if you arrived at the Website via a link from a third-party site, the URL of the linking page.

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 www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-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.

The Website may collect IP addresses and location information to serve personalized ads and pass it to Mediavine. 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 https://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp. You may also visit https://optout.aboutads.info/#/ and https://optout.networkadvertising.org/# to learn more information about interest-based advertising. You may download the AppChoices app at https://www.aboutads.info/appchoices to opt out in connection with mobile apps, or use the platform controls on your mobile device to opt out.

Mediavine partners with the following data processors:

1. Pubmatic. You may find Pubmatic’s privacy policy through this link. The data collected on the Website may be transferred to Pubmatic and its demand partners for interest-based advertising. Statistical information and other non-cookie technologies (such as eTags and web or browser cache) may be used by third parties on this Website. Browser settings that block cookies may have no effect on these technologies, but you may clear your cache to delete such trackers. Data collected from a particular browser or device may be used with another computer or device that is linked to the browser or device on which such data was collected.
2. Criteo. You may find Criteo’s privacy policy through this link. The data collected on the Website may be transferred to Criteo and its demand partners for interest-based advertising. Criteo may collect, access, and use non-identifying data to improve the Criteo Technology and other Criteo products, programs, and/or services. This non-identifying data may include on-site user behavior and user/page content data, URLs, statistics, or internal search queries. The non-identifying data are collected through the ad call and stored with a Criteo cookie for a maximum period of 13 months.
3. Pulsepoint. You may find Pulsepoint’s privacy policy through this link.
4. LiveRamp. You may find LiveRamp’s privacy policy through this link. When you use the Website, we share information that we may collect from you, such as your email (in hashed, de-identified form), IP address or information about your browser or operating system, with LiveRamp Inc, and its group companies (‘LiveRamp’). LiveRamp may use a cookie on your browser and match your shared information to their on- and offline marketing databases and those of its advertising partners to create a link between your browser and information in those other databases. This link may be shared by our partners globally for the purpose of enabling interest-based content or advertising throughout your online experience (e.g. cross device, web, email, in-app, etc.) by third parties unaffiliated with our website. These third parties may in turn link further demographic or interest-based information to your browser. To opt out of LiveRamp’s targeted advertising, please go here: https://liveramp.com/opt_out/
5. RhythmOne. You may view RhythmOne’s privacy policy through this link. RhythmOne uses cookies and similar tracking technologies (such as mobile device identifiers and digital fingerprinting) to provide its services. RhythmOne may use aggregated information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other Websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, please visit the following webpage: https://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp.
6. District M. You may find District M’s privacy policy through this link.
7. YieldMo. You may find YieldMo’s privacy policy through this link. If you want to opt out of receiving interest based ads from Yieldmo or exercise your right under the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) to opt-out of the sale of your personal information, you may do so through this link.
8. The Rubicon Project. You may find Rubicon’s privacy policy through this link. If you want to opt out of receiving interest based ads from Rubicon or exercise your right under the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) to opt-out of the sale of your personal information, you may do so through this link. You may also utilize the Network Advertising Initiative’s opt-out page, the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page, or the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page.
9. Amazon Publisher Services. You may find Amazon Publisher Services’ privacy policy through this link.
10. AppNexus. You may find the AppNexus privacy policy through this link.
11. OpenX. You may find OpenX’s privacy policy through this link.
12. Verizon Media formerly known as Oath. You may find Verizon Media’s privacy policy through this link. You may also utilize the Network Advertising Initiative’s opt-out page, the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page, or the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page to opt-out of the use of cookies for interest-based advertising.
13. TripleLift. You may find TripleLift’s privacy policy through this link. To opt out of receiving interest-based advertising (including retargeting) from TripleLift’s services through the use of cookies in your current browser and for more information on what it means to opt-out, please go to www.triplelift.com/consumer-opt-out.
14. Index Exchange. You may find Index Exchange’s privacy policy through this link. You may also utilize the Network Advertising Initiative’s opt-out page, the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page, or the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page to opt-out of the use of cookies for interest-based advertising.
15. Sovrn. You may find Sovrn’s privacy policy through this link.
16. GumGum. You may find GumGum’s privacy policy through this link. GumGum may (i) use place and use cookies on end users’ browsers or use web beacons to collect information about end users who visit such Publisher Websites and (ii) link such collected end user information to other end user information provided by third parties in order to deliver targeted Advertisements to such end users.
17. Digital Remedy. You may find Digital Remedy’s privacy policy through this link.
18. MediaGrid. You may find MediaGrid’s privacy policy through this link. MediaGrid may collect and store information about end-user interactions with this website through cookies, advertising IDS, pixels and server-to-server connections. MediaGrid was receive the following information: the page an End-User has requested and the referring/exit pages; Timestamp information (i.e., the date and time the End-User has visited the page); IP address; mobile device identifier; device model; device operating system; browser type; carrier; gender; age; geolocation (including GPS coordinates); clickstream data; cookie information; first-party identifiers’; and hashed email addresses; demographic and inferred interest information; and post-conversion data (from both online and offline behaviour). Some of this data is gathered from this website and others is gathered from advertisers. MediaGrid uses this data to provide its services. You may also utilize the Network Advertising Initiative’s opt-out page, the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page, or the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page to opt-out of the use of cookies for interest-based advertising or review their privacy policy for more information.
19. RevContent – You may find RevContent’s privacy policy through this link. RevContent may collect information about your browser or device, including browser type, IP Address, device type, user agent string, and operating system. RevContent also collects information about the websites you visit through their services, such as date and time of access and specific pages accessed and the content and ads you click on. You may opt-out of any personalization track by opting-out of RevContent’s data collection.
20. Centro, Inc. – You may find Centro’s privacy policy through this link. You may find opt-out information for Centro’s services through the privacy policy link.
21. 33Across, Inc. – You may find 33Across’s privacy policy through this link. To opt-out of personalized advertising, please visit https://optout.networkadvertising.org/?c=1.
22. Conversant. LLC – You may find Conversant’s privacy policy through this link. Conversant uses information that does not directly identify you, such as information about your browser type, time and date of visit, your browsing or transaction activity, the subject of advertisements clicked or scrolled over, and a unique identifier (such as a cookie string, or a unique advertising identifier provided by your mobile device) during your visits to this and other websites and apps in order to provide advertisements about goods and services likely to be of greater interest to you. Conversant may use technologies such as cookies and other tracking technologies to collect this information. To learn more about interest-based advertising, or to opt-out, you can visit www.youronlinechoices.eu or https://www.networkadvertising.org/.

CONTACT US

If you have any questions or concerns regarding our Privacy Policy, please contact us.