Privacy Policy
Welcome to Rae Gun Ramblings
Rae Gun Ramblings has created this Privacy Policy in order to set forth the principles governing our
information-gathering and dissemination practices, including but not limited to such activities as
forums, chat rooms, personal profile pages, product reviews, article commentary, blogs, RSS
feeds and newsletters, among other offerings. Rae Gun Ramblings has a strong commitment to the privacy
of our users. Please note that this Privacy Policy applies only to information collected through
Rae Gun Ramblings and not to information collected offline or to information you may provide to any
third-party sites to which Rae Gun Ramblings may link, except as expressly provided herein.
Information We Collect
There are two kinds of information that Rae Gun Ramblings can obtain about you: “Anonymous
Information” and “Personally Identifiable Information.”
“Anonymous Information” consists of non-personally-identifiable data, such as your Internet
Protocol (“IP”) address or domain, or information about your usage on Rae Gun Ramblings that is used for
administrative purposes only. For example, an IP address is a unique string of numbers that is
assigned to your computer by your Internet Service Provider. Web servers automatically identify
your computer by its IP address. We may collect our users’ IP addresses for such purposes as to
help diagnose problems with our servers and to report aggregate information to our advertisers,
corporate affiliates and consultants, and to third parties that perform particular services on our
behalf.
We may also use the information linked to IP addresses to ban users who violate our Terms and
Conditions of use.
“Personally Identifiable Information” is any information that personally identifies you, such as
your name, street address, email address, or telephone number. We collect such information
when, for example, you enter a contest, subscribe to our email newsletter, and participate in other
interactive online activities such as forums.
When we collect Personally Identifiable Information from you, you will have the opportunity to
“opt in” to receive email or other digital communications from us and/or our business partners.
If you have submitted your personal information to Rae Gun Ramblings, you may correct, amend or delete
the Personally Identifiable Information maintained on file about you if it is incorrect.
In all cases, we will only use your information as permitted by law. Notwithstanding any other
provision of this Privacy Policy, however, we may disclose Personally Identifiable Information
to others if we are required to do so by law or we in good faith believe that such action is
necessary to (a) comply with the law or with legal process; (b) protect and defend our rights and
property; (c) protect against misuse or unauthorized use of the Site; or (d) protect the personal
safety or property of our users or the public. Please note that we may not provide you with notice
prior to disclosure in such cases.
Use of “Cookies”
Rae Gun Ramblings uses “cookies” – data that is transferred from Rae Gun Ramblings to your hard drive for record-
keeping purposes. We use cookies to deliver content specific to your interests and to save your
password so you do not have to re-enter it each time you visit Rae Gun Ramblings. Some of the
advertisements appearing on Rae Gun Ramblings are delivered by our third-party ad network,
DoubleClick. In the course of serving advertisements, DoubleClick may place or recognize a
unique “cookie” in your browser’s cache, and may use Anonymous Information (including
date/time of the banner ad displayed, the ad that was displayed and the IP address of the visitor)
about your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and
services of interest to you and to collect statistical information. For more information about
DoubleClick’s privacy policy, please click here. If you would like to “opt out” of having a
unique cookie placed on your hard drive by DoubleClick, please click here or here.
Disclosure of Information through Business Transfers
As we continue to develop our business, we may buy, merge or partner with other companies or
businesses, and in so doing, acquire customer information. In such transactions, user information
may be among the transferred assets. Similarly, in the event that a portion or all of Rae Gun Ramblings’s
assets are sold or transferred to a third party, customer information (including your email
address) would likely be one of the transferred business assets.
Third Party Web Sites
Rae Gun Ramblings contains links to third-party Web sites not owned or controlled by Rae Gun Ramblings.
Rae Gun Ramblings is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such third-party Web sites.
Inclusion of any linked Web site on Rae Gun Ramblings does not imply or express an approval or
endorsement of the linked Web site by us, or of any of the content, opinions, products or services
provided on these Web sites. Even if an affiliation exists between Rae Gun Ramblings and a third-party
Web site, we exercise no control over linked sites. Each of these linked sites maintains its own
independent privacy and data collection policies and procedures. If you visit a Web site via a link
from one of our Sites, we encourage you to consult that Web site’s privacy policy before
providing any personal information, and whenever interacting with any such Web site.
Public Forums
Rae Gun Ramblings may make chat rooms, forums, blogs, article commenting, and personal profile pages
available to users. Please remember that any such information that you may choose to provide in
these areas becomes accessible to the public, and also becomes the property of Rae Gun Ramblings in
accordance with our Terms and Conditions, and we may use such information in any way that
we see fit. Consequently, you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal
information or to upload material of any kind.
Security
Rae Gun Ramblings has reasonable security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of
the information under our control. Security of information communicated by or to us over the
Internet is of utmost concern to us; however, no data transmission over the Internet can be
guaranteed to be 100% secure. Please note that your email, like most, if not all, unencrypted
Internet communications, may potentially be accessed and viewed by other Internet users,
without your knowledge and permission, while in transit to us. For that reason, to protect your
privacy, please do not use email to communicate information to us that you consider
confidential. While we strive to protect your personal information, Rae Gun Ramblings cannot ensure or
warrant the security of any information you transmit to us. Once we receive your transmission,
we will use reasonable efforts to ensure its security on our internal systems. Depending on the
nature of the inquiry, your communication may be discarded or archived.
Policy Regarding Minors
Children should always ask parents before providing any personal information online. No
information should be submitted to or posted on #NAME# by any minor (a person under 18
years of age) without the consent of a parent or guardian. Unless otherwise disclosed during
collection, we do not knowingly provide any Personally Identifiable Information about minors,
regardless of its source, nor is this information knowingly used by Rae Gun Ramblings for any marketing
or promotional purposes. Minors are not eligible to participate in contests.
Rae Gun Ramblings abides by the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act. In the event that we learn that
we have collected information from any child under the age of 13 without verification of parental
consent, we will delete this information from our database as quickly as reasonably possible. If
you believe that any Site has collected any information about anyone under 13, please contact
Rae Gun Ramblings’s Site Administrator via postal mail or email at one of the addresses listed below.
Financial Relationships
Please note that Rae Gun Ramblings may have financial relationships with some of the merchants/vendors
mentioned on this website. In some instances, Rae Gun Ramblings may be compensated if consumers
choose to utilize the links located throughout the content on this site and generate sales for said
merchant/vendor.
Limitation of Liability
Rae Gun Ramblings PROVIDES THE INFORMATION, SERVICES AND PRODUCTS ON THIS WEB
SITES “AS IS” WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND. YOU AGREE THAT Rae Gun Ramblings
SHALL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY CONTENT FOUND ON OUR FORUMS THAT
ANY DOWNLOADING OF MATERIALS FOUND ON OR THROUGH #NAME# FORUMS
IS DONE AT YOUR OWN RISK, AND THAT Rae Gun Ramblings IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR
UNSOLICITED COMMUNICATIONS THAT ARISE FROM YOUR POSTINGS. Rae Gun Ramblings
SHALL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE IN ANY MANNER FOR THE ACTS OF ANY THIRD
PARTY, INCLUDING WITOUT LIMITATION, ANY THIRD PARTY AD NETWORK.
Consent and Modifications to this Privacy Statement
Rae Gun Ramblings is controlled, operated and administered entirely within the United States. By using
Rae Gun Ramblings and/or participating in the activities of Rae Gun Ramblings Community, you signify your
agreement to the terms of this Privacy Statement. If you do not agree with this Privacy
Statement, please do not disclose any personal information through our site. Rae Gun Ramblings may
modify this Privacy Statement at any time, at its discretion, and modifications are effective upon
being posted on this the applicable Site. You are responsible for reviewing this Privacy
Statement periodically to ensure that you are aware of any changes to it.
This Privacy Policy is effective as of May 2018 and supersedes all earlier versions of our
Privacy Policy
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:
- 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.
- 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.
- Pulsepoint. You may find Pulsepoint’s privacy policy through this link.
- 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/
- 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.
- District M. You may find District M’s privacy policy through this link.
- 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.
- 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.
- Amazon Publisher Services. You may find Amazon Publisher Services’ privacy policy through this link.
- AppNexus. You may find the AppNexus privacy policy through this link.
- OpenX. You may find OpenX’s privacy policy through this link.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Sovrn. You may find Sovrn’s privacy policy through this link.
- 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.
- Digital Remedy. You may find Digital Remedy’s privacy policy through this link.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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/.
