Privacy Policy

Effective Date: 08/19/2024
Last Updated:

1. Introduction

Welcome to Blerdz.net ("Company," "we," "us," or "our"). We value your privacy and are committed to safeguarding your personal data. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, disclose, and protect your information when you visit our website, including any information we collect when you use services like Google AdSense. This policy also explains your rights under U.S. federal laws and specific state regulations, including California (CCPA/CPRA), Colorado (CPA), Connecticut (CTDPA), Utah (UCPA), and Virginia (VCDPA).

2. Information We Collect

We collect various types of information, including:

a. Personal Data

Information that can be used to identify you directly or indirectly, such as:

  • Name

  • Email address

  • Postal address

  • Telephone number

  • IP address

b. Non-Personal Data

Information that does not identify you personally, such as:

  • Browser type and version

  • Operating system

  • Internet service provider (ISP)

  • Pages you visit on our website

  • Time and date of your visit

  • Time spent on those pages

c. Cookies and Tracking Technologies

We use cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies to collect data about your browsing activities. This helps us personalize your experience, deliver relevant ads, and understand how you use our website.

3. How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect in the following ways:

  • To Operate Our Website: To ensure the functionality and performance of our website.

  • To Improve Our Services: To understand how users interact with our website and make improvements.

  • To Communicate With You: To respond to your inquiries, send newsletters, or provide customer support.

  • To Personalize Your Experience: To provide personalized content, advertisements, and offers.

  • To Comply with Legal Obligations: To comply with applicable laws and regulations.

4. Google AdSense

We use Google AdSense to serve ads on our website. Google AdSense may use cookies and web beacons to collect non-personally identifiable information. Google’s use of the DoubleClick cookie enables it and its partners to serve ads to our users based on their visit to Blerdz.net and/or other sites on the Internet.

a. Personalized Ads

Google may use your information to deliver personalized ads. You can opt-out of personalized ads by visiting Google Ads Settings.

b. Third-Party Advertisers

Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to our website or other websites.

5. Legal Bases for Processing

We process your personal data based on the following legal grounds:

  • Consent: When you have given us clear consent for processing your data for a specific purpose (e.g., subscribing to our newsletter).

  • Contractual Necessity: When we need to process your data to fulfill a contract with you (e.g., to process payments or deliver services).

  • Legitimate Interests: When processing is necessary for our legitimate interests (e.g., improving our services), except where such interests are overridden by your rights and interests.

  • Legal Obligation: When we are legally required to process your data (e.g., complying with a court order or tax obligations).

6. How We Share Your Information

We may share your information with third parties under the following circumstances:

  • With Service Providers: We may share your information with service providers who perform services on our behalf, such as hosting, data analysis, payment processing, and customer service.

  • For Legal Reasons: We may disclose your information if required by law or if we believe in good faith that such action is necessary to comply with legal obligations, protect and defend our rights or property, or act in urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users or the public.

  • With Advertising Partners: We share information with advertising partners, including Google, to serve relevant ads. These partners may use cookies and other tracking technologies to collect data about your online activities over time and across different websites.

7. Your Privacy Rights

You have the following rights regarding your personal data:

a. California Residents (CCPA/CPRA)

  • Right to Know: You have the right to request information about the personal data we collect, use, and disclose about you.

  • Right to Delete: You can request that we delete your personal data, subject to certain exceptions.

  • Right to Opt-Out: You have the right to opt-out of the sale or sharing of your personal data.

  • Right to Non-Discrimination: We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your CCPA/CPRA rights.

b. Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, and Virginia Residents (CPA, CTDPA, UCPA, VCDPA)

  • Right to Access: You have the right to confirm whether we process your personal data and to access such data.

  • Right to Correction: You may request that we correct inaccuracies in your personal data.

  • Right to Deletion: You have the right to request the deletion of your personal data.

  • Right to Opt-Out: You may opt-out of the processing of your personal data for targeted advertising, sale of personal data, or profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects.

  • Right to Appeal: If we deny your request, you have the right to appeal our decision.

8. Data Security

We take the security of your data seriously and implement reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect your personal data from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. However, no method of transmission over the internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure.

9. Data Retention

We will retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, including the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

10. Children's Privacy

Our website is not intended for children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children under 13. If we learn that we have collected personal data from a child under 13, we will delete that data as quickly as possible.

11. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the "Last Updated" date.

12. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us