Ezoic Services
This website has an exclusive advertising contract with Ezoic Inc. (“Ezoic”), a renowned leader in website optimization, enhancing user experiences, optimizing ad performance, and generating revenue through advanced AI-powered technology.
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)
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
BY USING THIS SITE, YOU CONSENT TO COLLECTION AND USE OF YOUR INFORMATION AS DESCRIBED IN THIS PRIVACY POLICY.
Scattered Quotes reserves the right to update this Privacy Policy from time to time, by posting the new Privacy Policy on the Website at https://scatteredquotes.com/privacy-policy/. You are encouraged to review this Privacy Policy regularly for any changes.
This Privacy Policy was posted on 27 January 2017 and last updated on 1 February 2019. It govers the privacy terms of this website, located at https://scatteredquotes.com.
INFORMATION COLLECTED
Non-Personally Identifiable Information – Scattered Quotes collects non-personally identifying information that your browser makes available whenever you visit a website. This information includes your Internet connection and hardware specs, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your query and one or more cookies that may uniquely identify your browser.
Cookies – Scattered Quotes uses “Cookies” to identify the areas of this website that you have visited. A Cookie is a small piece of data stored on your computer or mobile device by your web browser. We use Cookies to personalize the Content that you see on this site. Most web browsers can be set to disable the use of Cookies. However, if you disable Cookies, you may not be able to access functionality on Scattered Quotes correctly or at all. We never place Personally Identifiable Information in Cookies. For more information on how to manage browser cookies, see http://www.allaboutcookies.org.
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
USE OF INFORMATION
Non-Personally Identifiable Information – The non-personally identifying information is obtained by technical means (such as the automatic recording performed by our servers or through the use of cookies) in order to monitor and analyze use of this website, for the technical administration, to increase the functionality and user-friendliness, to better tailor the site to most common user needs, to generate and derive useful data and information concerning the interests, characteristics and website use behavior of users.
Comments – When visitors leave comments on the site 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. If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue. If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year. Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Contact Form – Contact form does not track users by stealth, write any user personal data to the database, send any data to external servers and also does not use cookies. What it does use is Akismet (protection against spam), which might result to your data to be sent thought them as the service provider. Thus, you should also be aware of their privacy policy:
Akismet https://automattic.com/privacy/
INFORMATION SECURITY
Controlling Your Personal Information – Scattered Quotes does not provide any means through which you could enter your personal information with exception of information you may disclose in comments. You should be aware that when you voluntarily disclose personally identifiable information (e.g. user name, e-mail address) via comments, that information, along with any substantive information disclosed in your communication, can be collected, correlated and used by third parties and may result in unsolicited messages from other commenters or third parties. Such activities are beyond the control of Scattered Quotes. Please do not post any personal information in the comments, that you expect to keep private.
Be Aware – To prevent being a phishing website victim, always check domain details when you are visiting the website (e.g. URL address, SSL). Please, be aware that if you suspect the website you are on is a fake site leave immediately.
Embedded content from other websites – 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 – For your convenience, Scattered Quotes may provide links to certain third party websites or referrals to certain third parties’ products or services. If you choose to visit a third party’s website or use its products or services, please be aware that the third party’s privacy policy, and not this Privacy Policy, will govern your activities and any information you disclose while interacting with the third party.
Do Not Track (“DNT”) – This site does not support Do Not Track (“DNT”). Do Not Track is a preference you can set in your web browser to inform websites that you do not want to be tracked. You can enable or disable Do Not Track by visiting the Preferences or Settings page of your web browser. To learn more about Do Not Track, visit http://www.allaboutdnt.com/.
COLLECTION OF INFORMATION FROM CHILDREN
We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information relating to children. In the event that we learn that we have collected personally identifiable information (E.g. comment with personal information) from anyone under 13 years of age without prior parental consent, we will take steps to promptly delete such information.
We encourage parents and guardians to spend time discussing with minors their online activity, so as to be fully familiar with the websites they visit and the apps they use. Our Site is not intended for children under 13 years of age. If you are the parent or guardian of a child under the age of 13 and you believe your child has provided personal information on our Site without your consent that you would like us to delete, please contact us.
INTERNATIONAL VISITORS AND USERS
Scattered Quotes is hosted and operated in Czech republic (and EU). If you are visiting from the other regions with laws governing data collection and use that may differ from Czech law, please note that you are transferring your data to the Czech republic which does not have the same data protection laws as the other regions and by providing your data you consent to:
The use of your data for the purposes identified above in accordance with this Privacy Policy; and
The transfer of your personal data to the Czech republic as indicated above.
THIRD-PARTY SERVICE PROVIDERS
Advertising agencies, advertising networks, and other companies may place advertisements on this site, and on the Internet generally, and may use their own cookies, web beacons, and other technology to collect information about you. We do not control the use of such technology and have no responsibility for the use of such technology to gather information about you. Several of our service providers who utilize cookies and other tracking technologies on Scattered Quotes enable you to opt out of their internet-based advertising.
While the companies we work with may change from time to time, below is a list of our current third-party service providers, which we allow to collect and use information about you through our Site:
Google Analytics – Google Analytics, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to help us identify anonymous user interests, identify anonymous user demographics and to display advertising to previous visitors to this site. Google Analytics uses a cookie to provide analysis, anonymous interest data, and anonymous demographic data from visits to our sites and other sites on the Internet. Users may opt out of the use of the Google Analytics cookie by visiting the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Tool. And for any more informations about data they collect visit their Privacy guide.
Google Adsense – We use Google DART to serve ads on the Site. Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to our users based on their visit to our Site and other sites on the Internet. Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy. Tracking of users through the DART cookie mechanisms are subject to Google’s own privacy policies, where you can also read more about what data Google collects about you. You may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Ads Settings.
Ezoic – We also use the third party technology called Ezoic. Ezoic records data about the individuals and the traffic to this website. Ezoic is this website’s limited agent (and data controller in the EU context) for the purpose of providing Internet data and optimization services. Ezoic may use this data to improve its service or enable other services (e.g., using visitor traffic logs or data posted through the service to improve the optimization of other websites). For more information about the data collection and changing the privacy consent go to Ezoic Service Privacy Policy.
Amazon Associates – We are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites. We use Amazon to identify and collect anonymous user interests on our Site and to display ads to users on our Site. For information about Amazon and how it collects and processes data, please visit its Privacy Statement. You may opt-out of Amazon’s collection of data via your browser by visiting the Amazon Advertising Preferences Opt-out.
Other Affiliate networks or programs – We are also participanting in other affiliate programs, you can learn more in our Affiliate Disclaimer.
NO ERROR-FREE PERFORMANCE
Scattered Quotes does not guarantee error-free performance under this Privacy Policy. We may not always catch an unintended privacy issue, despite our reasonable efforts to do so. Accordingly, we welcome your feedback regarding any privacy concerns that you may have, including how we can improve this Privacy Policy. We will use reasonable efforts to comply with this Privacy Policy and will take prompt corrective action when we learn of any failure to comply with it.
AFFILIATE DISCLAIMER
As Scattered Quotes uses affiliate links, we recommend you to also read the Affiliate Disclaimer.
CONTACT
Your privacy matters to Scattered Quotes so whether you are new to this site or a long time visitor, please do take the time to get to know our practices. Questions, comments and requests regarding this Privacy Policy are welcomed and you can send them through the contact page.
THANK YOU
If you’ve read through the whole privacy policy, congratulations, you’ve unlocked a new achievement: Avid Privacy Policy Reader. We will consider adding printable diploma or badge in the future to celebrate your resiliency.
