The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to inform you what personal information may be collected on vintagecalc.com (“Website”) and how it may be used.
Contact email: please use the contact form, the link is at the bottom of the page.
Our mailing address is
vintagecalc.com
PO box #111605, Naples
Florida 34108 United States
We value very highly your privacy; we will never voluntarily give or sell your personal information without your consent to anyone unless required by law.
WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT AND HOW IS IT USED?
In order to read the pages from this Website, you do not have to provide any personal information to us.
You may choose to subscribe to our mailing list in which case in order to be able to contact you we will collect your name, country and email address and we may be made aware of the IP address of the computer you used at that moment. No attempt is made to validate or verify the name or country and if you are concerned that your IP address can be traced, we suggest you use a VPN (Virtual Private Network) service which can effectively hide this. We do not sell any of this information nor do we give it to anyone except for the express purpose to send you the newsletter, if applicable. If you post something on the site ( a comment ) we also receive the IP address used by your browser at that moment. We do not give this information to anyone.
We use log files ( like many other websites) that your browser sends whenever you visit our Website: we may be made aware of your IP address, operating system type, browser type, referring website, the pages of our Website that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages and other statistics. We do not specifically collect this logs but they exists and may be used for debugging information in case of a problem. We may also collect information about actions you take when using the Website, such as links clicked. All of this information is not linked to anything that is personally identifiable. Non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses. We do not do that at this time but we may do that in the future.
Cookies: We may log information using cookies, which are small data files stored on your browser by the Website. We use cookies to save browsing preferences and to optimize your browsing experience, record information on what pages users access or visit, customize Website content based on visitors’ browser type or other information that the visitor sends.
Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but what information we have and we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies. By using this Website, you consent to the use of such cookies and the sharing of data captured by such cookies with our third-party partners. We do not share currently with anyone but may choose to do that in the future for the purpose to show ads.
You can turn off the use of cookies at any time by changing your specific browser settings. If you choose to do that the information on the site will still be available but some elements may not be displayed properly.
We may use the information collected in the following ways:
- To operate and maintain the Website
- To interact with external social networks and platforms (e.g. social media widgets and share bars)
- To send you newsletters. Each email will provide information on how to unsubscribe
- To respond to your comments or inquiries
- To track and measure advertising on the Website
THIRD-PARTY USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
We may share your non-personally identifiable information with third parties for online behavioral advertising. We do not do that at this time but we may do it in the future.
Additionally, the Website may use third-party service providers to service various aspects of the Website. Each third-party service provider’s use of your personal information is dictated by their respective privacy policies. When you click on links on our Website, they may direct you away from our site. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of other sites. Please refer to the privacy policy of the listed services for detailed information.
The Website currently uses the following third-party service providers:
- Google Analytics – this service tracks Website usage and provides information such as referring websites and user actions on the Website. Google Analytics may capture your IP address, but no other personal information is captured by Google Analytics. For more information on Google’s Analytics privacy policies, please visit this site.
- Facebook Pixel – this service is not currently in use but may be used in the future to track your actions on this Website for purposes of promotional retargeting via Facebook ads.
- Pinterest Tag – this service is not currently in use but may be used in the future to track your actions on this Website for purposes of promotional retargeting via Pinterest ads.
- MailerLite and Mailchimp – these services are currently not in use but may be used in the future used for the delivery of emails. We may store the name you provided and email address (which you provide voluntarily), for purposes of delivering such communications. How MailerLite and Mailchimp use your personal information is subject to MailerLite privacy policy https://www.mailerlite.com/legal/privacy-policy and Mailchimp privacy policy https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/.
We may allow third-party companies to serve ads when you visit our Website. These companies may use non-personally identifiable information during your visits to the Website in order to provide advertisements about goods and services likely to be of greater interest to you. These companies typically use cookies to collect this information. To learn more about this behavioral advertising practice and understand your choices to opt-in or opt-out of this data collection, please visit http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp. We do not use this services now but we may use them in the future.
Retargeting Ads
From time to time, the Website may engage in remarketing efforts with third-party companies, such as Google, Facebook, or Pinterest in order to market the Website. These companies use cookies to serve ads based on someone’s past visits to the Website.
Facebook: Opt-out of Facebook online behavioral remarketing here
Google: Opt-out of Google online behavioral remarketing here
Pinterest: Opt-out of Pinterest online behavioral remarketing here or your Pinterest personalization settings, the AdChoices website optout.aboutads.info, or your mobile ad identifier settings.
Affiliate Program Participation
The Website may engage in affiliate marketing, which is done by embedding tracking links into the Website. If you click on a link for an affiliate partnership, a cookie will be placed on your browser to track any sales for purposes of commissions.
vintagecalc.com may be 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 links to Amazon.com. As part of this Amazon Associates program, the Website may posts customized links, provided by Amazon, to track the referrals to their website. This program utilizes cookies to track visits for the purposes of assigning commission on these sales.
Opt-out – Subscribers may unsubscribe anytime from future email communications and every email delivered will contain an “Unsubscribe” link.
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 www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-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.
To summarize in plain English: we do not ask for, nor do we store, any personal information unless you choose to subscribe to our email in which case we will need and store your email address and whatever name/title you give us.