Ezoic Services

Ezoic Services
This website uses the services of Ezoic Inc. (“Ezoic”), including to manage third-party interest-based advertising. Ezoic may employ a variety of technologies on this website, including tools to serve content, display advertisements and enable advertising to visitors of this website, which may utilize first and third-party cookies.
A cookie is a small text file sent to your device by a web server that enables the website to remember information about your browsing activity. First-party cookies are created by the site you are visiting, while third-party cookies are set by domains other than the one you're visiting. Ezoic and our partners may place third-party cookies, tags, beacons, pixels, and similar technologies to monitor interactions with advertisements and optimize ad targeting. Please note that disabling cookies may limit access to certain content and features on the website, and rejecting cookies does not eliminate advertisements but will result in non-personalized advertising. You can find more information about cookies and how to manage them here.
The following information may be collected, used, and stored in a cookie when serving personalized ads:

IP address
Operating system type and version
Device type
Language preferences
Web browser type
Email (in a hashed or encrypted form)

Ezoic and its partners may use this data in combination with information that has been independently collected to deliver targeted advertisements across various platforms and websites. Ezoic’s partners may also gather additional data, such as unique IDs, advertising IDs, geolocation data, usage data, device information, traffic data, referral sources, and interactions between users and websites or advertisements, to create audience segments for targeted advertising across different devices, browsers, and apps. You can find more information about interest-based advertising and how to manage them here.
You can view Ezoic’s privacy policy here, or for additional information about Ezoic’s advertising and other partners, you can view Ezoic’s advertising partners here.

Privacy Policy

We know you care about how information about you is used – privacy of our users is important to us.

By visiting this Website, you are accepting the privacy practices described on this page and Website’s Terms and Conditions. If you have any concern about privacy of this Website, please send a thorough description to privacy@theathleteblog.com and we will resolve it.

How We Process Information

The Athlete Blog uses only the information users provide voluntarily for responding to requests, providing our services and communicating. We do not source, collect or store personal information about individuals, such as names and contact details, unless we receive a specific permission to use it in another manner, for example to add a person to one of our mailing lists.

The Athlete Blog will not sell or trade personal/account information to others. However, we may release account information when such release is reasonably necessary to comply with the law; enforce the terms of any of our user agreements; or protect the rights, property, and safety of The Athlete Blog, users of this Website and others.

We may engage third parties to perform functions on our behalf or provide us with services. Examples include processing credit card payments, providing marketing assistance, customer services, communication. These bodies have access to personal information needed to perform their functions and do not retain, share, store or use personally identifiable information for any secondary purposes.

In any case, all information that goes through this Website (to and from user) is protected through an SSL encryption and is, therefore, secured.

Embedded Information

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.

Links to Other Websites

The Athlete Blog is not responsible for the contents, reliability or privacy practices of any other websites to which we provide a link.

We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this website.

Transactional Information

If you purchase products or services through this Website, we may request non-financial information, including your name, address, email address, and information about the product or service you are purchasing.

Payments are processed by third-party payment processors (e.g., PayPal), so please refer to the applicable processor’s terms and privacy policy for more information about how payment information is processed and stored.

Automatic Information

We receive and analyze certain types of automatic information whenever you interact with this Website.

Examples include the Internet Protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet; computer and connection information such as browser type and version, operating system, and platform; the full Uniform Resource Locators (URL) clickstream to, through, and from our website, including date and time.

Cookies

We may also receive information from cookies, which are pieces of data your browser stores and sends back to us when making requests. This information is used to improve user experience, understand user activity, improve the quality of our services, including serving appropriate advertising.

Even though personal information is not being collected via cookies, your previously provided personally identifiable information may be tied to cookies.

We use third-party advertising companies and may share aggregate cookie and tracking information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about visits to this Website in order to provide targeted advertisements about goods and services of interest to our visitors.

Analytics

We also use analytics partners (such as Google Analytics) to help analyze usage patterns, traffic and demographics on our Website. As an example, we may analyze and measure, in the aggregate, the number of unique visitors to our Services or audience data (such as age, gender and interests).

These statistics will not include any personally identifying information or track particular user movement.

Changes

The Athlete Blog reserves the right to update, modify, change this Privacy Policy at any time without notice. If we do, we will let you know by revising the date at the bottom of the page.

If you continue to use our Services after changes get into effect, you consent to revised Privacy Policy. We encourage you to review this policy whenever you access or use this Website, our services or otherwise interact with us.

This Privacy Policy was last reviewed and updated on September 5, 2018.