Privacy Policy

Reality Blurb found at https://realityblurb.com/ (“Website”) is governed by this privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”).

We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it. This Privacy Policy informs you what personally identifiable information we may collect and how it may be used. This statement only applies to this Website.

What Information Do We Collect and How Is It Used?

Information You Voluntarily Submit: We may collect personal information such as your name or email address when you leave a comment, subscribe to a newsletter, or submit a contact form. If you create a user profile, we will store your username, but your password will not be visible in our records.
Information from Others: If you link your Facebook and/or Google accounts to your user profile, we will receive your name, email address, and profile picture associated with that account. The Website utilizes the Facebook commenting system, so your profile picture will appear if you comment on a post.
Automatically-Collected Information: We collect information about you and your device when you access the Website. This includes IP address, operating system type, browser type, referring website, pages viewed, and access dates/times. We also collect information about actions you take on the Website, such as links clicked.
Cookies: We use cookies to provide a personalized experience on the Website. You can control the use of cookies through your browser settings.

How Your Information May Be Used

To operate and maintain the Website;
To create your account and customize the Website for your account;
To send you promotional and administrative communications;
To respond to your comments or inquiries;
To provide user support;
To track and measure advertising on the Website;
To protect against unauthorized or illegal activity.

Third-Party Use of Personal Information

We may share your information with third parties when you explicitly authorize us to share your information. Additionally, we use third-party service providers to operate various aspects of the Website:

Google Analytics: Tracks Website usage and provides information such as referring websites and user actions.
Mail Chimp: Used for email updates and newsletters.
LiveRamp ATS and ID5: Used for advertising and ad targeting. To opt-out of LiveRamp, please click here https://liveramp.com/opt_out/. You can learn more about how ID5 works and opt out of ID5 data collection by visiting https://id5.io/platform-privacy-policy

We do not sell, distribute, or reveal your email addresses or other personal information without your consent, except as required by law.

Anonymous Data

We may use anonymous data, which does not identify you alone, or when combined with data from other parties. This data may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.

Publicly Visible Information

If you create a user profile or leave a comment, certain information may be publicly visible, such as your username, avatar, and profile description. Your email address will not be publicly available.

Cookies

The Website uses cookies to store visitors’ preferences and record user-specific information. Cookies may also be used by third-party services like Google Analytics. You can manage cookie settings through your browser.

Advertising

Display Ads: Third-party advertising companies may use cookies to serve ads.
Retargeting Ads: We may engage in remarketing efforts with third-party companies like Google or Facebook.
Affiliate Program Participation: The Website may engage in affiliate marketing, which embeds tracking links. As part of the Amazon Associates program, we may post customized links to track referrals.

Newsletters

We may send newsletters for advertising purposes. These emails may contain tracking pixels to analyze the success of marketing campaigns.

Rights Related to Your Personal Information

Opt-out: You can opt-out of future email communications by following the unsubscribe links in our emails.
Access: You can request access to the personal information we have about you.
Amend: You can contact us to amend or update your personal information.
Forget: You can request that we erase your personal data.

Sensitive Personal Information

Do not submit sensitive personal information (e.g., social security number, health information) to the Website.

Children’s Information

We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 16. If you believe we have such information, please contact us at [email protected], and we will remove it.

Advertising

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 “device”) 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, “Tags”) 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 browser’s 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 browser’s 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 visitor’s 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 Alliance’s 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.

Contact Information

For questions related to this Privacy Policy, contact us at [email protected].

Last updated: July 16, 2024