Privacy Statement for
MakingFriends.com
MakingFriends.com, Inc. has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for this website.
MakingFriends.com, Inc. complies with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA.) This means that we never collect personal information from children under 13 years of age.
MakingFriends.com never sells or gives your email address or other personal information to anyone for any purpose. MakingFriends.com never uses any information collected for any other purpose than that which is requested by the individual providing it. MakingFriends.com never sends out spam.
We may use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, and to administer our Web site. Your IP address is used to help identify you and your shopping cart.
Our site uses cookies to keep track of your shopping cart.
Our site’s registration form, on-line survey, and contest forms may ask users to volunteer contact information (like their name and email address) and demographic information (like their zip code). This is all optional. The customer’s contact information is used to contact the visitor when necessary. Users may opt-out of receiving future mailings by clicking on the link at the bottom of our emails. Profile data (like troop level) may be collected at our site. We use this data to tailor our site. This information may be shared with advertisers on an aggregate basis. You can disable and/or opt out of cookie usage either through their browser preferences or through an opt out such as the Network Advertising site.
(https://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp).
This site contains links to other sites. MakingFriends.com is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites.
Our site uses an order form for customers to request products. We collect visitor’s contact information (like their email address) and financial information (like their credit card numbers). Contact information from the order form is used to send orders to our customers and to get in touch with the visitor when necessary. Financial information that is collected is used to bill the user for products.
We use an outside ad company to display ads on our site. These ads may contain cookies. While we use cookies in other parts of our website, cookies received with ads are collected by our ad company, and we do not have access to this information.
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This site gives users the option of removing, changing or modifying information previously provided by emailing terri[email protected]
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this website, you can contact
MakingFriends.com, Inc.
P.O. Box 1331 Carolina Beach, NC 28428
Mediavine Programmatic Advertising (Ver 1.1)
The Website works with Mediavine to manage third-party interest-based advertising appearing on the Website. Mediavine serves content and advertisements when you visit the Website, which may use first and third-party cookies. A cookie is a small text file which is sent to your computer or mobile device (referred to in this policy as a ādeviceā) by the web server so that a website can remember some information about your browsing activity on the Website.
First party cookies are created by the website that you are visiting. A third-party cookie is frequently used in behavioral advertising and analytics and is created by a domain other than the website you are visiting. Third-party cookies, tags, pixels, beacons and other similar technologies (collectively, āTagsā) may be placed on the Website to monitor interaction with advertising content and to target and optimize advertising. Each internet browser has functionality so that you can block both first and third-party cookies and clear your browserās cache. The "help" feature of the menu bar on most browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new cookies, how to receive notification of new cookies, how to disable existing cookies and how to clear your browserās cache. For more information about cookies and how to disable them, you can consult the information at All About Cookies.
Without cookies you may not be able to take full advantage of the Website content and features. Please note that rejecting cookies does not mean that you will no longer see ads when you visit our Site. In the event you opt-out, you will still see non-personalized advertisements on the Website.
The Website collects the following data using a cookie when serving personalized ads:
- IP Address
- Operating System type
- Operating System version
- Device Type
- Language of the website
- Web browser type
- Email (in hashed form)
Mediavine Partners (companies listed below with whom Mediavine shares data) may also use this data to link to other end user information the partner has independently collected to deliver targeted advertisements. Mediavine Partners may also separately collect data about end users from other sources, such as advertising IDs or pixels, and link that data to data collected from Mediavine publishers in order to provide interest-based advertising across your online experience, including devices, browsers and apps. This data includes usage data, cookie information, device information, information about interactions between users and advertisements and websites, geolocation data, traffic data, and information about a visitorās referral source to a particular website. Mediavine Partners may also create unique IDs to create audience segments, which are used to provide targeted advertising.
If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices to opt-in or opt-out of this data collection, please visit National Advertising Initiative opt out page. You may also visit Digital Advertising Alliance website and Network Advertising Initiative website to learn more information about interest-based advertising. You may download the AppChoices app at Digital Advertising Allianceās AppChoices app to opt out in connection with mobile apps, or use the platform controls on your mobile device to opt out.
For specific information about Mediavine Partners, the data each collects and their data collection and privacy policies, please visit Mediavine Partners.