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)
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
protecting your private information is our priority. This Statement of Privacy applies to DickWizardry.com and Dick Wizardry and governs data collection and usage. For the purpose of this Privacy Policy, unless otherwise noted, all references to Dick Wizardry include DickWizardry.com The Dick Wizardry website is a News and Information blog. By using the Dick Wizardry website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.
Collection of your Personal Information
Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through Dick Wizardry’s public message boards, this information my be collected and used by others.
We do not collect any personal information about you unless toy voluntarily provide it to us. However, you may be required to provide certain personal information to us when you elect to use certain products or services available on the Site. These may include: (a) registering for an account on our Site; (b) entering a sweepstakes or contest sponsored by us or one of our partners; (c) signing up for special offers form third parties; (d) sending us an email message; (e) submitting your credit card or other payment information when ordering and purchasing products and services on our Site. To wit, we will use your information for but not limited to, communicating with you in relation to services and/or products you have requested from us. We also my gather additional personal or non-personal information in the future.
Sharing Information with Third Parties
Dick Wizardry does not sell, rent or lease it’s customers to third parties.
Dick Wizardry may share data with trusted partners to help perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Dick Wizardry, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.
Dick Wizardry is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com.
Third party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to your website.
Dick Wizardry may disclose your personal information, without notice, if required to do so by law or in the food faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Dick Wizardry or the Site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Dick Wizardry; and/or (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Dick Wizardry, or the public
Tracking User Behavior
Dick Wizardry my keep track of websites and pages our users visit within Dick Wizardry, in order to determine what Dick Wizardry services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Dick Wizardry to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.
Information about your computer hardware and software may be automatically collected by Dick Wizardry. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times to referring website addresses. This information is used for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Dick Wizardry website.
Automatically Collected Information
The Dick Wizardry website may use “cookies” to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.
Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it and its partners to serve ads to your users based on their visit to your sites and/or other sites on the Internet. Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the advertising opt-out page. (Alternatively, you can direct users to opt out of a third-party vendor’s use of cookies by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page.)
One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize Dick Wizardry pages, or register with Dick Wizardry site or services, a cookie helps, Dick Wizardry to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same Dick Wizardry website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved , so you can easily use the Dick Wizardry features that you customized.
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser settings to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Dick Wizardry services or websites you visit.
Use of Cookies
Dick Wizardry secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. Dick Wizardry uses the following methods for this purpose:
SSL Protocol
When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other websites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol.
We strive to take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or alteration of your personal information. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, you acknowledge that: (a) there are security and privacy limitations inherent to the internet which are beyond our control; and (b) security, integrity, and privacy of any and all information and data exchanged between you and us through this site cannot be guaranteed.
Security of your Personal Information
Dick Wizardry does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen. If you are under the age of thirteen, you must ask your parent or guardian for permission to use this website.
Children Under Thirteen
From time to time, Dick Wizardry may contact you via email for the purpose of providing announcements, promotional offers, alerts, confirmations, surveys, and/or other general communication. In order to improve our services, we may receive a notification when you open an email from Dick Wizardry or click on a link therein.
If you would like to stop receiving marketing or promotional communications via email from Dick Wizardry, you may opt out of such communications by unsubscribing on the website or in the emails sent.
E-mail Communications
We may store your data on servers provided by third party hosting vendors with whom we have contracted.
External Data Storage Sites
Dick Wizardry reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your account, by placing a prominent notice on our site and/or by updating the privacy information on this page. Your continued use of the site and/or services available through this site after such modifications will constitute your: (a) acknowledgment of the modified Privacy Policy; and (b) agreement to abide and be bound by that policy.
Changes to this Statement
Dick Wizardry welcomes your questions or comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Dick Wizardry has not adhered to this statement, please contact Dick Wizardry at:
Email Address: [email protected]
Effective as of November 10, 2018
