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Privacy Policy

Last Updated: August 9, 2020

The following privacy notice applies to BlexMedia.com and any sites which are operated by BlexMedia.com.  We may change or update this policy from time to time, and we will notify you of any changes by changing the “last updated” notice set forth above. Accordingly, you should frequently visit this web page. Any updated policy shall be effective immediately after it is posted. Your use of BlexMedia.com indicates you have read and understood this Privacy Policy and indicates your agreement to abide by the Terms of Service in effect.  BlexMedia.com is intended for viewing solely in the United States. In addition, when using specific services or entering contests or sweepstakes, you agree to abide by any guidelines or rules posted in connection with such services, contests or sweepstakes, all of which are hereby incorporated by reference into this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with any posted guidelines or rules, or with any part of this Privacy Policy, you must not use BlexMedia.com. BlexMedia.com reserves the right to deny or restrict your access. Please read on for details.

What Does This Privacy Policy Cover?

This Privacy Policy covers how BlexMedia.com treats information that BlexMedia.com collects and receives about you via BlexMedia.com, including information related to your past use of BlexMedia.com. BlexMedia.com has prepared a detailed policy in order for you to know as much as possible about BlexMedia.com practices so that you can make informed decisions. By using BlexMedia.com and thereby agreeing to this Privacy Policy, you expressly consent to BlexMedia.com use and disclosure of automatic and personal information provided to BlexMedia.com when you interact with our website, as described in this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy does not apply to: (i) the practices of companies or other third parties that BlexMedia.com does not own or control, or people that BlexMedia.com does not employ or manage; or (ii) any offline matters, activities or information that BlexMedia.com or any affiliate collects about you or anybody else.

YOUR CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS

Residents of the State of California, under a provision of the California Civil Code, have the right to request from companies conducting business in California a list of all third parties to which the company has disclosed personal information during the preceding year for direct marketing purposes. Alternatively, the law provides that if the company has a privacy policy that gives either an opt-out or opt-in choice for use of your personal information by third parties (such as advertisers or affiliated companies) for marketing purposes, the company may instead provide you with information on how to exercise your disclosure choice options. BlexMedia.com qualifies for the alternative option by allowing you to opt-out or opt in to the use of your personal information by third parties for direct marketing purposes as described below. Therefore, we are not required to maintain or disclose a list of the third parties that received your personal information for marketing purposes during the preceding year.

If you are a California resident and request information about how to exercise your third party disclosure choices you must send an email request to BlexMedia@gmail.com with the phrase “Your California Privacy Rights” in the subject line. The response will be sent to the email address from which the request was received. We will not accept requests via postal mail, the telephone or by facsimile. We are not responsible for notices that are not labeled or sent properly, or do not have complete information.

The information learned from BlexMedia.com users, members and customers helps BlexMedia.com personalize and continually improve your experience at BlexMedia.com Here are the types of information BlexMedia.com gathers and how this information is used:

Automatic Information:

BlexMedia.com receives and stores certain types of Automatic Information whenever you interact with BlexMedia.com. Here are the types of Automatic Information BlexMedia.com gathers and how it is used:

IP Address:

Your Internet Protocol (“IP”) address is a unique identifier used to connect your computer to the Internet. Your IP address also is stored in BlexMedia.com user registration databases when you register with BlexMedia.com.

IP addresses may be used for various purposes, including to:

Help BlexMedia.com identify you and your shopping cart and to gather broad demographic information.
Diagnose service or technology problems reported by BlexMedia.com users or engineers that are associated with the IP addresses controlled by a specific Web company or ISP. Estimate the total number of users visiting BlexMedia.com from specific countries or regions of the world.
Track visits to and business at BlexMedia.com stores. Help determine which users have access privileges to certain content that BlexMedia.com hosts.

Comment Service and Cookies

In order to further enhance the user experience, BlexMedia.com runs a comment service on some or all of BlexMedia.com sites where users can discuss common topics of interest. Users have the option of signing up for this service, and to do so must submit some valid information. BlexMedia.com uses this information to screen out users who leave comments prohibited by our Terms of Service and to pick out topics of interest to commenters. BlexMedia.com will not pass this information to any other organization except in aggregate form.  The Comment Service may use cookies. A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user’s computer tied to information about the user. We may use both session ID cookies and persistent cookies. For the session ID cookie, once users close the browser, the cookie simply terminates. A persistent cookie is a small text file stored on the user’s hard drive for an extended period of time. Persistent cookies can be removed by following the user’s Internet browser help file directions. We store a cookie on each user’s machine that contains user specific information. You can configure your browser to accept all cookies, reject all cookies, or notify you when a cookie is set. If you reject all cookies, you will not be able to use BlexMedia.com products or services that require you to “sign in,” and you may not be able to take full advantage of all offerings. However, not all BlexMedia.com services require that you accept cookies.

Personal Information

  1. Activity. We may ask for some personal information, including your e-mail address, for certain activities on the Websites, such as for uploading pictures and posting comments.
  2. Usage Information. We may record information about your usage, such as when you use the Websites, the channels, groups, and favorites you subscribe to, the contacts you communicate with, and the frequency and size of data transfers, as well as information you display or click on in the Websites (including UI elements, settings, and other information). We may use clear GIFs (a.k.a. “Web Beacons”) in HTML-based emails sent to our users to track which emails are opened by recipients.
  3. Content Uploaded to Site. Any personal information or picture content that you voluntarily disclose online (on discussion boards, in messages and chat areas, etc.) becomes publicly available and you acknowledge that third parties may access, collect and use such content.

Uses

  1. Personalized Features.  If you submit personally identifiable information to us through the Websites, we may use your personal information to operate, maintain, and provide to you the features and functionality of the Websites, as well as provide special personalized features to you.
  2. Other Users.  Certain information may be displayed to other users when you upload pictures or send messages through the Websites and other users can contact you through messages and comments. Any pictures that you submit to the Websites may be redistributed through the Internet and other media channels, and may be viewed by the general public.
  3. Use of Email for Administrative Purposes.  We do not use your email address or other personally identifiable information to send commercial or marketing messages without your consent or except as part of a specific program or feature for which you will have the ability to opt-in or opt-out. We may, however, use your email address without further consent for non-marketing or administrative purposes (such as for customer service purposes).
  4. Usage Trends; Optimization and Functionality.  We use both your personally identifiable information and certain non-personally-identifiable information (such as anonymous user usage data, cookies, IP addresses, browser type, clickstream data, etc.) to improve the quality and design of the Websites and to create new features, promotions, functionality, and services by storing, tracking, and analyzing user preferences and trends.

Comments

In order to enhance their use of BlexMedia.com, users can choose to leave comments on particular articles of interest. Commenters may register anonymously. However, if a third party complains that a comment breaches our Terms of Service (e.g. libels them), then in accordance with our Terms of Service, we will make reasonable efforts to contact the commenter and alert them to the situation. If we are required to by law to disclose commenters’ contact information, we will attempt to contact commenters to give them the opportunity to respond to such requests. Please refer to our Terms of Service for more information.

Mailing Lists & Service Emails

BlexMedia.com may launch a mailing list, in order to provide subscribers with relevant information – breaking news, or weekly or daily round-ups, for example. In order to sign up to receive regular emails from a site’s mailing list, users must submit information including a valid email address and demographic information such as location and interests. This information will be used in aggregate form only in order to assess general user interest in various internal and third party products and services, and your personal and contact information will not be passed to any other organization. Users who choose to sign up for a mailing list will receive regular emails from the site. BlexMedia.com may from time to time track user email usage in a continued effort to improve our services. Most of the time, these will be content from the site in question, but we may occasionally send out an email from a third party sponsor. This will be infrequent, and does not represent an endorsement by BlexMedia.com of any products advertised therein. It will clearly be marked as advertising. Since editorial independence is critical to us, you can be sure that we will never send out a sponsored email in the guise of a glowing product review. If you do not wish to receive emails from third party advertisers, please do not sign up for the mailing list.

Links

BlexMedia.com contain links to other sites. Please be aware that BlexMedia.com is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every Web site that collects personally identifiable information. This Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected by BlexMedia.com.

To personalize your experience when you visit BlexMedia.com.

Mobile Device Unique Identifier: BlexMedia.com may from time to time provide services that allow users to access and customize Internet content through mobile phones, PDAs and other alternative devices. These devices may collect different information than what is collected by computers.
When connecting to BlexMedia.com using a mobile device that provides Internet access, if the mobile device service provider uniquely identifies the device, BlexMedia.com will receive this information.
BlexMedia.com may use this unique mobile device identification information to offer extended services and/or functionality.
Certain BlexMedia.com services may require collection of the phone number for your device. BlexMedia.com may associate that phone number to the mobile device identification information.

Physical Location

Some mobile phone service providers in the United States are required to operate a system that will pinpoint the physical location of devices that use their service.Depending on the provider and if you are located in the United States, BlexMedia.com may automatically receive this information.
BlexMedia.com may use and store this information to provide enhanced location-based services as well as to serve location-targeted advertising.

Personal Information:

BlexMedia.com also receives and stores information that personally identifies you. The types of personally identifiable information that may be collected at BlexMedia.com include: name, address, email address, phone number, fax number, billing address, shipping address, product selections, order number, referring URL, IP address, password, username, how you got to know about BlexMedia.com, gender, occupation, personal interests, your age and information about your interests in and use of various products, programs and services. You voluntarily provide this personally identifiable information when you enter it on BlexMedia.com to sign up as a member of BlexMedia.com, whether in connection with a newsletter subscription, when you enter a sweepstakes, promotion or contest and/or other special benefits.

At BlexMedia.com, you can submit personally identifiable information about other people. For example, you might submit a person’s name and email address to email a BlexMedia.com news story and, if you are located in the United States, order a gift on BlexMedia.com and want it sent directly to the recipient, you might submit the recipient’s name and address. The types of personally identifiable information that may be collected and stored about other people at BlexMedia.com include: recipient’s name, address, email address and telephone number. BlexMedia.com does not knowingly share with, rent, transfer or sell personally identifiable information that you submit about other people to any third parties or nonaffiliated entities.

New categories of marketing communications may be added to the account preferences page from time to time. Users who visit this page can opt out of receiving future marketing communications from these new categories or they can unsubscribe by following instructions contained in the messages they receive. BlexMedia.com reserves the right to send you certain communications relating to BlexMedia.com services, such as service announcements, administrative messages and the BlexMedia.com newsletter without offering you the opportunity to opt-out of receiving them.

If you are located in the United States and make a purchase on BlexMedia.com, BlexMedia.com will collect and store your personally identifiable information. When processing an order on BlexMedia.com, BlexMedia.com needs to know your name, mailing address, billing address, email address, telephone number, product selection, order number, credit card number, security code and expiration date. This information is necessary to process your order and to keep you updated on your shipping status. BlexMedia.com may share such information with companies that help us process information, extend credit, fulfill customer orders, deliver products to you, manage and enhance customer data, provide customer service, assess your interest in our products and services, or conduct customer research or satisfaction surveys. These companies are also obligated to protect your personal information in accordance with BlexMedia.com’s policies.

Does Blex Media Ever Share Information with Other Parties?

Disclosure of Information to Outside Parties: BlexMedia.com does not rent, sell, or share personal information about you with other people or nonaffiliated companies except to provide products or services you’ve requested, when we have your permission, or under the following circumstances. BlexMedia.com may disclose information about you to those whose practices are not covered by this Privacy Policy under certain circumstances including, but not limited to:

BlexMedia.com provides the information to trusted partners who work on behalf of or with BlexMedia.com and under confidentiality arrangements. These companies may use your personal information to help BlexMedia.com communicate with you about offers from BlexMedia.com and our marketing partners.

BlexMedia.com responds to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise BlexMedia.com’s legal rights or defend against legal claims.

BlexMedia.com shares information in order to investigate, prevent or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of BlexMedia.com’s terms of use or as otherwise allowed by law.

BlexMedia.com may also disclose information about you if it determines that for national security, law enforcement, or other issues of public importance, disclosure is necessary.

BlexMedia.com displays targeted advertisements based on personal information. Advertisers (including ad serving companies) may assume that people who interact with, view or click on targeted ads meet the targeting criteria (for example, women ages 18-24 from a particular geographic area). By interacting with or viewing an ad you are consenting to the possibility that the advertiser will make the assumption that you meet the targeting criteria used to display the ad.

Due to the existing regulatory environment, BlexMedia.com cannot ensure that all of your private communications and other personal information will never be disclosed in ways not otherwise described in this Privacy Policy. By way of example (without limiting the foregoing), third parties may unlawfully intercept or access transmissions or private communications.

Links to Outside Third Parties:

BlexMedia.com may establish relationships with business partners by creating a link between their sites and BlexMedia.com. BlexMedia.com is not, however, responsible for the content, maintenance or privacy policies of those sites. Once you click over to a third party site, BlexMedia.com encourages you to check its privacy policy.

BlexMedia.com may contain links to other sites whose information practices may be different than the information practices of BlexMedia.com. Users who click over to a third party site from a link on BlexMedia.com must be aware that BlexMedia.com makes no warranties with regard to that site’s policies or business practices. BlexMedia.com is not responsible for any transactions that occur between the user and the third party site. Please consult the other sites’ privacy policies, as BlexMedia.com has no control over information that is submitted to or collected by these third parties. Should a user purchase any products or services from that third party site, the user must contact the third party site directly regarding any disputes that might occur, including but not limited to delayed shipping, missing products, damaged goods or pricing and billing discrepancies. BlexMedia.com is not responsible for the actions of any third-party site.

Business Transfers:

As BlexMedia.com continues to develop its business, it might sell or buy assets. In such transactions, customer information generally is one of the transferred business assets. Also, in the event that BlexMedia.com or substantially all of its assets are acquired, customer information will be one of the transferred assets.

Children’s Guidelines:

BlexMedia.com does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13, nor does it contact children under the age of 13 about special offers or for marketing purposes without a parent’s permission. BlexMedia.com encourages parents and legal guardians to monitor their children’s Internet use. Also, BlexMedia.com strongly encourages parents to help BlexMedia.com enforce its Privacy Policy by instructing their children never to provide personal information on BlexMedia.com without permission.

It is possible that due to fraud or deception by others, BlexMedia.com may unknowingly receive information pertaining to children under the age of 13. If BlexMedia.com is notified of this, once BlexMedia.com has verified the information, BlexMedia.com will promptly delete the information from its servers or otherwise obtain parental consent.

Public Forums:

BlexMedia.com has chat rooms, forums, message boards and newsgroups available to its users. Please remember that any information disclosed in these areas becomes public information. Exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information, personally identifiable information you submit to one of these forums can be read, collected, or used by other individuals to send you unsolicited messages. BlexMedia.com is not responsible for the personally identifiable information you choose to submit in these forums. As these forums are public and open for users to interact with each other, BlexMedia.com expects all its users to respect the rights of others.

Consent to International Information Transfers:

BlexMedia.com is operated in the United States and is intended for viewing solely in the United States. While BlexMedia.com is committed to providing your information with a high level of privacy protection, you should know that the general level of protection for personal information in the United States may not be the same as that provided in other countries. If you are located outside of the United States, please be aware that any information you provide to BlexMedia.com will be transferred to the United States. By using BlexMedia.com, participating in any BlexMedia.com services and/or providing BlexMedia.com with personally identifiable information, you fully understand and unambiguously consent to this transfer and the collection and processing of information in the United States

Advertising

Third Party Advertising and Cookies – Some of our third party advertising partners may distribute cookies to users in advertisements that are provided to us. BlexMedia.com has no access to or control over these cookies once we have received the advertisements from third parties. These advertisers may be engaging in online behavioral advertising as defined by the Digital Advertising Alliance and FTC.
Opt-out – As part of our commitment to transparency and your privacy, we provide the following links to opt-out of cookies provided by both our first party ad server and many third party advertising partners who may be engaging in online behavioral advertising:

Business Transitions

In the event BlexMedia.com goes through a business transition, such as a merger, acquisition by another company, or sale of a portion of its assets, users’ personal information will, in most instances, be part of the assets transferred.

Legal Disclaimer

Though we make every effort to preserve user privacy, BlexMedia.com may need to disclose personal information when required by law wherein 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 BlexMedia.com or affiliates.

Information Security

BlexMedia.com has technical, administrative and physical safeguards in place to help protect against unauthorized access to, use or disclosure of user information we maintain. Under our security practices and policies, 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 at BlexMedia@gmail.com. We will work with you to address any problems.

Notification of Changes

Whenever BlexMedia.com changes its privacy policy, we will post those changes to this Privacy Policy page, and other places we deem appropriate so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.

 

Contact Information

If you have any questions or suggestions regarding our privacy policy, please contact the editor of the GM site in question, or send an email to help at BlexMedia.com, or by mail to:

BlexMedia.com

469 West 153rd Street, Fourth Floor
New York, NY 10031

Please contact us with any question in the form below

Effective Date

This Privacy Policy is effective June 20, 2014

 

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