Privacy Policy
Who we are
NetworkProGuide.com is operated by Clank LLC. All references to “us” or “we” or “our” throughout this document is to Clank LLC.
Your privacy is very important to us. We have a few fundamental principles that we follow:
- We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it.
- We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products, or protect our rights.
- We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of our site.
It is our policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.
We take privacy seriously and aim to be as transparent as possible. If you ever have questions about our terms, privacy settings, or anything else related to how this website operates, please contact us directly.
Website visitors
Like most website operators, we collect non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Our purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how our visitors use our websites. From time to time, we may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
We also collect potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for users leaving comments on our blogs. We only discloses logged in commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that we use and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that blog commenter IP addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog where the comment was left.
Gathering of personally-identifying information
Certain visitors to our websites choose to interact with us in ways that require us to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that we gather depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who comment or use contact forms on our blog to provide a username and email address. Those who wish to receive updates via email, we collect their emails. In each case, we collect such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with us. We do not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.
Aggregated statistics
We may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to our websites. For instance, we may monitor the most popular pages on the NetworkProGuide.com website. We may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, we do not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
Analytics
We use Google Analytics to track user behaviors and statistics like total pages visited, time on page, and similar features.
These stats do not include personally identifying information and they are completely anonymous as any personally identifying information such as IP address is striped or anonymized before being stored. This analytical data is useful so we can tell how many visitors we get in a given month and which pieces of content are the most valuable to our readers.
However if you really do not want your session analytics tracked you can use this plugin from Google. Please read more on this help page.
Protection of certain personally-identifying information
We disclose potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of our employees, contractors, and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on our behalf or to provide services available at our websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors, and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using our websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. We will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to our employees, contractors, and affiliated organizations, as described above, we disclose potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order, or other legal governmental request, or when we believe in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of us, third parties, or the public at large. If you send us a request (for example via a contact email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users.
We take all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information. We will use technical and organizational measures to safeguard your personal data, for example:
- We store your personal data on secure servers
- We have SSL encryption throughout our website
- Access to your personal data is limited to authenticated and approved staff
While we will use all reasonable efforts to safeguard your personal data, you acknowledge that the use of the internet is not entirely secure and for this reason we cannot guarantee the security or integrity of any personal data that are transferred from you or to you via the internet.
Cookies
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. We use cookies to help identify and track visitors usage of our website and their website access preferences. Our visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using our websites, with the drawback that certain features of our websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name and email address in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you click on any affiliate links placed on this website those may also use cookies to track user actions(e.g. sales). We do not have access to those cookies and we do not have access to any personally identifying information through those cookies.
Some of our other third-party advertising partners may use cookies and web beacons on our site as well.
We have no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.
You should consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information on their practices as well as for instructions about how to opt-out of certain practices. Our privacy policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of, such other advertisers or web sites.
If you would like to learn more about cookies, as well as how to disable them, please go to allaboutcookies.org. If you do decide to disable cookies, please be aware that this will negatively impact on your experience of using our website and may disable some parts of our website.
Advertising
NetworkProGuide.com (“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 cookies. Mediavine may collect IP addresses and location to serve personalized ads. 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.
Mediavine Programmatic Advertising (Ver 1.1)
The Website works with Mediavine to manage third-party interest-based advertising appearing 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.
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 All About 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. In the event you opt-out, you will still see non-personalized advertisements on the Website.
The Website collects the following data using a cookie when serving personalized ads:
- IP Address
- Operating System type
- Operating System version
- Device Type
- Language of the website
- Web browser type
- Email (in hashed form)
Mediavine Partners (companies listed below with whom Mediavine shares data) may also use this data to link to other end user information the partner has independently collected to deliver targeted advertisements. Mediavine Partners may also separately collect data about end users from other sources, such as advertising IDs or pixels, and link that data to data collected from Mediavine publishers in order to provide interest-based advertising across your online experience, including devices, browsers and apps. This data includes usage data, cookie information, device information, information about interactions between users and advertisements and websites, geolocation data, traffic data, and information about a visitor’s referral source to a particular website. Mediavine Partners may also create unique IDs to create audience segments, which are used to provide targeted advertising.
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 National Advertising Initiative opt out page. You may also visit Digital Advertising Alliance website and Network Advertising Initiative website to learn more information about interest-based advertising. You may download the AppChoices app at Digital Advertising Alliance’s AppChoices app to opt out in connection with mobile apps, or use the platform controls on your mobile device to opt out.
For specific information about Mediavine Partners, the data each collects and their data collection and privacy policies, please visit Mediavine Partners.
Links to third party sites
Our Site includes links to other websites whose privacy practices may differ from those of ours. If you submit personal information to any of those sites, your information is governed by their privacy policies. We encourage you to carefully read the privacy policy of any Web site you visit.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
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.
Media
All media used on this site is in the context of a review or used to create a transformative piece of content with our own opinions & added comments.
As such, all media on this site that is copyrighted has been published with the fair use clause under local copyright law or a license has been purchased for its use. However if you see any material that you own and you want it taken down, please contact us directly and we will immediately remove this material. You can contact us on this page.
Media is often sourced with a reference to the original creator and/or copyright holder. Because of this it is possible that some works may reference a person or organization that doesn’t wish to be credited, or doesn’t wish to have anything displayed on this site. We take these privacy concerns very seriously and we take action immediately upon being notified.
Retention of data
Unless otherwise stated in this policy, your data will be retained for a period of up to 6 years from the date of your last interaction with us.
What rights you have over your data?
You have the right to request access to personal data that we may process about you, require that we correct any inaccurate data we hold about you or, in some circumstances, require that we erase some personal data which we hold about you.
If you wish to exercise any of these rights, you should contact us using our contact form on our Contact Us page and include:
- proof of your identity;
- where you want access to personal data, which data you want access to;
- where you want us to correct inaccurate data, specify which data is inaccurate; and
- where you want us to erase your data, provide us with enough information to identify you.
- specify the personal data you want access to, including any account or reference numbers where applicable.
If you have any concerns or questions as to the way in which we process your information, please do contact us.
If you wish to opt out of ad services such as Google AdSense trackers you can visit this page for help.
Business transfers
If Clank LLC, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the event that Clank LLC goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of Awesome Motive may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.
Privacy policy changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, we may change our Privacy Policy from time to time, and in our sole discretion. We encourage visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to our Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.
Contact us
If you need to get in touch for any reason or if you have any questions about this privacy policy you can use this contact page to send us an email. We typically respond within 3-5 business days but if you do not hear back within a week please feel free to send a follow-up message.