WhaleWisdom.com is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. We want to tell you how we use and protect your personal information. This includes informing you of your rights regarding your personal information that we hold.
This General Data Protection Notice sets out how we may use, process and store your personal information. We may get that information from you or our partners, through contracts or other legal arrangements you have with us or our partners on behalf of us, in order to deliver contractual/legal obligations. In other cases, we will get that information from you with your permission and consent, or we may receive your personal information from third parties who you have given consent to pass this information on to us.
The law that governs personal data in the EU: REGULATION (EU) 2016/679 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation) (“GDPR”). More information on GDPR: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/en/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32016R0679
We may collect and process your information for the following purposes:
We, as well as other companies, use tracking technologies to collect and store data about your computer or mobile device and your activities on this website. A cookie is a small file that a web site places on your computer to store information. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. Cookies contain no personally identifiable data, so the protection of your privacy is ensured. Depending on your settings, your Internet browser will automatically accept Cookies. However, you can change your browser settings at any time by visiting the links below.
If you do not accept the cookies you will still be able to browse our site, but some parts of the site may not work.
For more information on cookies, you can visit https://www.aboutcookies.org.
Google Analytics cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited. Click here for an overview of privacy at Google.
To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Web beacons, which are also known as clear GIFs, Web bugs or pixel tags, are often used in combination with cookies. They are images (often transparent) that are part of Web pages. Web beacons let us collect various site usage information such as count users who have visited which pages on the website or opened an email and for other related website statistics.
A Flash cookie, also known as a local shared object, is a text file that is sent by a Web server to a client when the browser requests content supported by Adobe Flash, a popular browser plug-in. We may use flash cookies to improve the user’s experience.
Some content, including advertisements, on our website are served by third-parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers, and application providers. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use the website. The information they collect may be associated with your personal information or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.
We do not control these third-party tracking technologies or how they may be used. We urge you to contact the service provider directly if you have any concern about your personal data residing in their systems.
We do not keep your personal information for longer than required. We will keep your personal information:
In compliance with Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”), this Site is not directed at children under the age of 13 and we do not intend to collect any personal identifiable information, such as name, home address, e-mail address, telephone number, or social security number, from children under the age of 13. If you are under the age of 13, please do not provide us with your personal identifiable information.
If you are under the age of 16 (EU & elsewhere), please ask your parent/guardian for their consent before submitting your personal information to this site.
If you have any reason to believe that a child under the age of 13 or 16 has provided us with his or her personal identifiable information, please contact us immediately for removal of that information from our databases.
WhaleWisdom.com recognizes your legal rights to your data. Email us at contact@whalewisdom.com to access the following rights:
Additionally, if you do not want us to use cookies to serve you interest-based advertisements on behalf of our business partners, you may opt out using the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out mechanism, which is available here, and Network Advertising Initiative’s opt-out mechanism, which is available here.
Please note that there are additional companies listed on these sites than those that drop cookies when you visit our website.
We store our data in the US. Wherever we transfer your data outside the US, we do it with the user’s consent. We take sufficient measures to safeguard all personal data that we capture.
We reserve the right, at any time and without notice, to add to, change, update, or modify this Privacy Notice, simply by posting such change, update, or modification on the Site and without any other notice to you. Any such change, update, or modification will be effective immediately upon posting on the Site.
