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.
