[Last updated: August 22, 2019]
ThreePointsBarbedWire.com recognizes that your privacy is important.
This
document outlines the types of personal and non-personal information we
receive when you use ThreePointsBarbedWire.com, as well as what we do
with that information.
ThreePointsBarbedWire.com hopes this will help you make an informed decision about sharing your information with this site.
This Privacy Policy applies only to information we collect through ThreePointsBarbedWire.com and does not apply to our collection of information from other sources, including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or other social media platforms or resources.
ThreePointsBarbedWire.com collects information about you automatically and invisibly every time you log onto this site.
ThreePointsBarbedWire.com
logs the address and name of your Internet Protocol (IP) provider, the
unique identifier number of your computer or other device, your
computer’s operating system type, your browser, the referring website, the pages
of ThreePointsBarbedWire.com that you accesses, and the dates and times
you accessed this site.
ThreePointsBarbedWire.com utilizes “cookie”
technology to recognize you, your computer, and your location when you
visit this site again.
ThreePointsBarbedWire.com collects and stores
this information whether you are aware of this collection or not, and
regardless of your agreement with this collection.
If you do not wish to have your information collected and stored, do not use this site.
ThreePointsBarbedWire.com also collects personally identifiable
information from the visitors to our website on a voluntary basis.
Personal
information collected on a voluntary basis may include your name,
address, email address, telephone number, country, and company name.
This
information is collected if you request information from us, sign up to
join our email list, participate in a contest or sweepstakes, or
request some other service or information from us.
If you don’t wish ThreePointsBarbedWire.com to have this information about you, don’t give it to us.
You have the right to opt-out of future use of your email address. If
you no longer wish to receive emails from us, just click “unsubscribe”
at the bottom of any email you have received from
ThreePointsBarbedWire.com.
If you have submitted personal information
through our website and would like that information deleted from our
records or would like to update or correct that information, please
contact ThreePointsBarbedWire.com using the form on our Contact page.
Please note that we may need to retain certain information for
record keeping purposes or to complete transactions, or when required by
law.
If ThreePointsBarbedWire.com is sold, the information we have
obtained from you through your voluntary participation in our site may
transfer to the new owner as a part of the sale in order that the
service being provided to you may continue.
In that event, you will receive notice through our website of that change in control and practices, and we will make reasonable efforts to ensure that the purchaser honors any opt-out requests you might make of us.
What do we do with all of this information? We track usage of this site,
what you look at, what you interact with, and what you share on social
media.
This helps us determine if what we write about is interesting
to our readers. This also helps us to sell advertising on this site,
acquire sponsors, and market information, materials and products.
We also use this information to protect the interests of ThreePointsBarbedWire.com, its owner, publisher, writers, readers, advertisers, sponsors and affiliates.
If you visit ThreePointsBarbedWire.com and/or voluntarily choose to
contact ThreePointsBarbedWire.com using the contact form(s), contact
page(s), or through any other method, we will strive to keep your
personal information as confidential as possible, with the exception of
investigations and security.
We may release information about you
when legally required to do so, at the request of governmental or other
authorities conducting an investigation, in response to a subpoena or
other legal process, or to verify or enforce compliance with applicable
laws and the Policies governing ThreePointsBarbedWire.com and/or the
interests of this site’s owner, publisher, writers, advertisers,
sponsors, and affiliates.
We may also disclose such user information whenever we believe disclosure is necessary to protect the rights, property, or safety of ThreePointsBarbedWire.com, or any of our respective affiliates, business partners, customers or others.
If you post comments on social media sites (Facebook, Twitter,
Instagram, etc.) via your own or someone else’s account or feed, or on
any other website, forum or public posting area, we are not responsible
for the privacy of your submissions, or for the accuracy of any
information contained in those submissions.
Any information that you
disclose on social media sites becomes public information. We cannot
prevent such information from being used in a manner that may violate
this Policy, the law, or your personal privacy.
Ultimately, you are responsible for yourself and your personal information, don’t expect to be safe from consequences when you play on the Internet.
Threats of any kind made to ThreePointsBarbedWire.com, its owners, publishers, writers, agents or assigns will be investigated, publicly exposed, and criminally prosecuted to the fullest extent possible, including (but not limited to):
These actions will be at the sole discretion of ThreePointsBarbedWire.com.
The data we have collected and stored about you will be used to those ends.
You don’t like what we have to say and you speak out against us, fine. If you threaten anyone, incite others to act on those threats, or you act
on them yourself, we’ll swear in a posse and we’ll be a-comin’ for ya.
You've been warned.
ThreePointsBarbedWire.com also collects information about you that is
not personally identifiable using cookies and/or web beacons.
We may
use cookies to help you personalize your online experience. Cookies are
identifiers that are transferred to your computer's hard drive through
your web browser to enable our system to recognize your browser.
The
purpose of a cookie is to tell the web server that you have come to the
site for the first time, or have returned to a specific page. If you
personalize the site's pages, or register with any of our site's
services, a cookie enables ThreePointsBarbedWire.com to recall your
specific information on subsequent visits. The information that is
stored in these cookies will not allow us to identify you personally.
You
have the ability to accept or decline cookies by modifying settings in
your browser. Please note that if you choose to decline cookies, you may
not be able to use the full functionality of this site.
A web beacon is a transparent image file used to monitor your journey around a single website or collection of sites. They are also referred to as web bugs. They are commonly used by sites that use third-party services to monitor traffic, for navigational purposes and to help analyze how visitors use the site. They may be used in association with cookies to understand how visitors interact with the pages and the content on the pages of a website.
ThreePointsBarbedWire.com uses third-party service providers to service
various parts of this site. Each third-party service provider’s
collection and use of your personal and non-personal information is
controlled by their respective privacy policies.
ThreePointsBarbedWire.com currently uses the following third-party service providers:
Google
Analytics – this service tracks visitor usage of our site and provides
information such as referring websites and user actions while on
ThreePointsBarbedWire.com.
We use this information, which does not
identify individual users, to analyze trends, administer the site, track
users' movements around the site, and to gather demographic information
about our user base as a whole.
NOTE: Google is capturing your data any time you are on the Internet, whether you access ThreePointsBarbedWire.com or not. Google is solely responsible for the information they collect from you and what they do with that data.
Contact Google for more information about their policies concerning your
personal and/or non-personal information.
ConvertKit– this service is used by ThreePointsBarbedWire.com for delivery of our email updates and newsletters to readers who have subscribed to our email newsletter. We store your name and email address for purposes of delivering such communications.
For ConvertKit’s collection and/or use of your data
themselves, please refer to the ConvertKit.com privacy policy for
further information.
At this time, your personal information is not collected by or shared with any other third-party applications on behalf of ThreePointsBarbedWire.com.
This list may be amended at any time at ThreePointsBarbedWire.com’s sole discretion.
Our Website may use third parties, such as network advertisers, to serve
advertisements on our Website and may use traffic measurement services
to analyze traffic on our Website.
Network advertisers are third
parties that display advertisements based on your visits to our Website
and other websites you have visited. Third-party ad serving enables us
to target advertisements to you for products and services in which you
might be interested.
Our third-party ad network providers, the
advertisers, the sponsors and/or traffic measurement services may
themselves set and use their own cookies, web beacons, and other
technologies on your computer and track certain behavioral information
regarding users of your computer via your IP address or other device
identifier.
Third-party cookies, web beacons and other third-party
technologies are governed by each third party's specific privacy policy,
not this one. We have NO control over what ads are served from
third-party advertisers.
To opt out of third-party tracking on our Website, use the following tools:
You
may opt out of the Google Ad Network (Double Click) by clicking here and opt out of Google
Analytics by clicking here.
If you would like to opt-out of having
interest-based information collected during your visits to this or other
websites, both the National Advertising Initiative (the "NAI") and the
Digital Advertising Alliance (the "DAA") offer opt-out tools to assist
you in managing your choices. Click here to visit the NAI opt-out page
and click here for the DAA Opt-Out Page.
You may wish to visit NAI's
Learn More Page to learn more about interest-based advertising and your
choices regarding having this information used by third parties and
your "opt-out" choices.
Opting out through the DAA or NAI only means
that those DAA or NAI members will no longer be able to deliver
targeted content and/or advertisements to you, which will affect our
website as well as other unaffiliated websites, but does not mean you
will no longer receive any targeted content and/or advertisements.
Also, if your browsers are configured to reject cookies when you visit these opt-out pages, or you subsequently erase your cookies, use a different computer or change web browsers, your opt-out choices may not, or may no longer, be effective.
ThreePointsBarbedWire.com is not responsible for your choices in these matters.
ThreePointsBarbedWire.com may contain links to, or advertisements about,
other sites that are not controlled by ThreePointsBarbedWire.com. Other
sites may also reference, advertise or link to
ThreePointsBarbedWire.com without our consent or control.
ThreePointsBarbedWire.com does not endorse or sponsor other websites, and is not responsible for their privacy practices or content.
ThreePointsBarbedWire.com expressly
disclaims any statements or assertions made on such other websites, and
denies all liability associated with your use of, and the content on,
such other websites and advertisements.
Please be advised that the
practices described in this Privacy Policy do not apply to information
gathered through other websites. If you respond to an offer and provide
information directly to another company, that information will be
subject to their privacy policy, not this Privacy Policy.
If you later decide that you do not want that third party to use your information, you will need to contact the third party directly.
ThreePointsBarbedWire.com is not responsible for the manner in which other businesses collect or use your personal information. We encourage you to be aware of when you leave our site and to read the privacy policies of each website that you use.
From time to time ThreePointsBarbedWire.com may conduct a promotion
event which may or may not involve a third party vendor. If you choose
to enter a contest, sweepstakes or promotion offered by
ThreePointsBarbedWire.com, your information may be disclosed to third
parties for purposes of posting your entry with attribution, fulfilling
your prize, or including your name on a winners list, or as otherwise
necessary for purposes of the contest, sweepstakes or promotion.
ThreePointsBarbedWire.com
may also require you to consent to the use of your information, such as
name, voice, or likeness, in advertising, promotional, and marketing
materials, in which case the rules will so state.
In addition,
ThreePointsBarbedWire.com may offer promotional content, including
sweepstakes and promotions, sponsored by or co-branded with a third
party, who may directly obtain the personal information that you submit.
Please refer to the rules of the particular contest, sweepstakes or
promotion for additional information.
ThreePointsBarbedWire.com may
conduct voluntary surveys of visitors to this site to obtain aggregate
demographic information about such visitors. Collected information may
be compiled and shared in the aggregate (without personally identifiable
information) with advertisers and other third parties.
We also may
partner with third parties for joint marketing events including
promotions and surveys. If you participate in such as an event,
including a promotion or survey as stated above, we may share your
information with the third party at the sole discretion of
ThreePointsBarbedWire.com.
If you do not wish to have your
information collected, stored, and shared, do not participate in any
promotions, surveys, contests, or other marketing events on
ThreePointsBarbedWire.com.
For more information regarding third party advertisers, see our Terms of Use Advertiser and Affiliate Disclaimers.
ThreePointsBarbedWire.com is operated in the United States and
is aimed at the residents of Robles Junction/Three Points, Arizona, USA.
By accessing ThreePointsBarbedWire.com, participating in any of our
services, and/or providing us with your information, all users,
including, without limitation, users in the member states of the
European Union, Canada or elsewhere outside of the United States, fully
understand and consent to this Privacy Policy and you consent to the
collection, transfer, storage and processing of your information to and
in the United States.
In addition, you waive any restrictions on such
collection, transfer or storage of your information imposed by the laws
of any country other than the United States.
If you are reading this from anyplace on the globe, and you don’t like the fact that we keep tabs on who you are and what you do while on this site, hit the ‘back’ button and get off our site.
This website is written for adults, and while some of our readers may be a little immature, they are still old enough to be called adults.
ThreePointsBarbedWire.com is NOT aimed at, or targeted to, children age
16 or below.
We operate our site in compliance with the Children’s
Online Privacy Protection Act, and we do not knowingly solicit, collect,
store or use personally identifiable information about children, or
sell, distribute or otherwise share information on children who may
wander onto this site.
We really doubt any children who do stray into our territory will stay very long, since what we talk about is not quite as interesting as cow snot to a kid, but who knows. If you are 16 years old or younger, go home.
ThreePointsBarbedWire.com reserves the right to make changes in this
policy. It is our Policy and we can do what we want with it.
If
there is a material change in our privacy practices, we will place a
notice on our site that our privacy practices have changed and provide a
link to the new privacy policy for a reasonable amount of time.
The
most current version of this Privacy Policy will be available on the site and will supersede all previous versions of this Privacy Policy.
When we amend this Privacy Policy, we will also revise the “last
updated” date located at the top of this Privacy Policy.
We encourage you to periodically review this policy so that you will know what information we collect and how we use it. By providing information to ThreePointsBarbedWire.com or using our site in any way after this Privacy Policy has been revised, you consent and agree to the revised Privacy Policy.
If you do not agree to ThreePointsBarbedWire.com’s Privacy
Policy and related Terms of Use, as posted here on this website, please
do not use this site or any services offered by this site.
Your use of this site indicates acceptance of this Privacy Policy and related Terms of Use.
If you require any further information regarding anything on this page, please contact us at ThreePointsBarbedWire.com and we'll do our best to assist you. You may contact us using the form on our Contact page.
Thank you for taking the time to read this Privacy Policy. Please also read the ThreePointsBarbedWire.com Terms of Use. If you have any questions or comments please use the Contact page.
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