– Your Privacy is Critically Important to Us

It is Skouterz.com’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website. This Privacy Policy applies to https://skouterz.com/ (hereinafter, “us”, “we”, or “https://skouterz.com/“).

We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting personally identifiable information you may provide us through the Website. We have adopted this privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) to explain what information may be collected on our Website, how we use this information, and under what circumstances we may disclose the information to third parties.

This Privacy Policy applies only to information we collect through the Website and does not apply to our collection of information from other sources.

This Privacy Policy, together with the Terms and Conditions posted on our Website, set forth the general rules and policies governing your use of our Website. Depending on your activities when visiting our Website, you may be required to agree to additional terms and conditions.

– Website Visitors

Like most website operators, Skouterz.com collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Skouterz.com’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Skouterz.com’s visitors use its website.

From time to time, Skouterz.com may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website. Skouterz.com also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on https://skouterz.com/ blog posts. Skouterz.com only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below.

– Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to Skouterz.com’s website choose to interact with Skouterz.com in ways that require Skouterz.com to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Skouterz.com gathers depend on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors that sign up for our newsletter at https://skouterz.com/ to provide an email address only.

– Security

The security of your personal information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

– Advertisements

Ads appearing on our website may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Skouterz.com and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

– Links to External Sites

Our Service may contain links to external sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions of every site you visit. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites, products or services.

– https://skouterz.com/ uses Google AdWords for Re-marketing

https://skouterz.com/ uses the remarketing services to advertise on third party websites (including Google) to previous visitors to our site. It could mean that we advertise to previous visitors who haven’t completed a task on our site, for example using the contact form to make an inquiry. This could be in the form of an advertisement on the Google search results page or a site in the Google Display Network.

Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on someone’s past visits. Of course, any data collected will be used in accordance with our own privacy policy and Google’s privacy policy. You can set preferences for how Google advertises to you using the Google Ad Preferences page, and if you want to you can opt-out of interest-based advertising entirely by cookie settings or permanently using a browser plugin.

– Social Media Privacy

We embed the Facebook Comments plugin to allow you to leave a comment at our website using your Facebook account. This plugin may collect your IP address, your web browser User Agent, store and retrieve cookies on your browser, embed additional tracking, and monitor your interaction with the commenting interface, including correlating your Facebook account with whatever action you take within the interface (such as “liking” someone’s comment, replying to other comments), if you are logged into Facebook. For more information about how this data may be used, please see Facebook’s data privacy policy: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/update

We embed a Facebook widget to allow you to see a number of likes/shares/recommends and “like/share/recommend” our webpages. This widget may collect your IP address, your web browser User Agent, store and retrieve cookies on your browser, embed additional tracking, and monitor your interaction with the widget, including correlating your Facebook account with whatever action you take within the widget (such as “liking/sharing/recommending” our webpage), if you are logged in to Facebook. For more information about how this data may be used, please see Facebook’s data privacy policy: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/update

We use a Twitter Tweet widget on our website. As a result, our website makes requests to Twitter’s servers for you to be able to tweet our webpages using your Twitter account. These requests make your IP address visible to Twitter, who may use it in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://twitter.com/en/privacy#update

We use a Linkedin Share widget at our website to allow you to share our webpages on Linkedin. These requests may track your IP address in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy

We use the Pinterest Save widget at our website to allow you to pin images to Pinterest from our webpages. These requests may track your IP address in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://policy.pinterest.com/en/privacy-policy

We use the Buffer widget at our website to allow you to add our webpages to your Buffer account, which collects log data from your browser. This Log Data may include information such as your IP address, browser type or the domain at which you are interacting with the widget, in accordance with their privacy policy: https://buffer.com/privacy

We use the Xing Share widget at our website to allow you to share our webpages on Xing and this let Xing collate data about you automatically by means of tracking, in accordance with their privacy policy: https://privacy.xing.com/en/privacy-policy

We use the Reddit Badge widget at our website which may log information when you interact with the widget. This may include your IP address, user-agent string, browser type, operating system, referral URLs, device information (e.g., device IDs), pages visited, links clicked, user interactions (e.g., voting data), the requested URL and hardware settings, in accordance with their privacy policy: https://www.redditinc.com/policies/privacy-policy

We use the StumbleUpon Badge widget at our website which may log information when you interact with the widget. Log Data is a form of Non-Identifying Information, in accordance with their privacy policy: http://www.stumbleupon.com/privacy

– Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

Skouterz.com discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Skouterz.com’s behalf or to provide services available at Skouterz.com’s website, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Skouterz.com’s website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Skouterz.com will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone.

Skouterz.com discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or another governmental request, or when Skouterz.com believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Skouterz.com, third parties or the public at large.

If you are a registered user of https://skouterz.com/ and have supplied your email address, Skouterz.com may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Skouterz.com and our services. We primarily use our blog to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum.

If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users.

Skouterz.com takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

– Aggregated Statistics

Skouterz.com may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its website. Skouterz.com may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Skouterz.com does not disclose your personally-identifying information.

– Affiliate Disclosure

This site uses affiliate links and does earn a commission from certain links. This does not affect your purchases or the price you may pay.

– Cookies

To enrich and perfect your online experience, Skouterz.com uses “Cookies”, similar technologies and services provided by others to display personalized content, appropriate advertising and store your preferences on your computer.

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns.

Skouterz.com uses cookies to help Skouterz.com identify and track visitors, their usage of https://skouterz.com/, and their website access preferences. Skouterz.com visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Skouterz.com’s website, with the drawback that certain features of Skouterz.com’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies. By continuing to navigate our website without changing your cookie settings, you hereby acknowledge and agree to Skouterz.com’s use of cookies.

– E-commerce

Those who engage in transactions with Skouterz.com – by purchasing Skouterz.com’s services, are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, Skouterz.com collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Skouterz.com.

Skouterz.com does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

– Business Transfers

If Skouterz.com, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Skouterz.com goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur and that any acquirer of Skouterz.com may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.

– Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Skouterz.com may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Skouterz.com’s sole discretion. Skouterz.com encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.