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

scubadivingoverload.com (“Website”) uses a third party technology called Ezoic. The privacy policy in relation to Ezoic’s services is available here.

IN accordance with CCPA requirements, you will find here an overview of requests received.

Advertising

ScubaDivingOverload.com will be affiliated with several agencies for the purpose of advertising.

I want to be fully transparent and will list here all the agencies the website will be affiliated with.

In most cases advertising or marketing agencies collect some data from users for advertising purposes.

Advertising Privacy Statement

Marketing agencies or advertising agencies use standard tools for the placement of ads. This includes tools provided by Google and its affiliates.

Cookies

A cookie is a file containing an identifier that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser.

The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.

Cookies may be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date.

A session cookie will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.

Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.

By using scubadivingoverload.com, you consent to the use of cookies and the sharing of data captured by such cookies with our advertising partners and their affiliates.

For European Economic Area Residents

If you reside in a country in the European Economic Area (EEA), then under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and applicable data protection laws you have the rights, among other things, to access your personal data, have us erase it, and/or restrict its further processing.

For California Residents

California law gives residents the right to opt out of the “sale” of their personal information to third parties, including for advertising purposes.

Under California law, the sharing of your information with a service provider for advertising purposes could be considered a “sale.” 

Comments

When visitors leave comments on ScubaDivingOverload.com we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it.

The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/.

After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely.

This helps us recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

Where your data is sent

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.