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Privacy Policy

Krafty Sprouts Media, LLC provides this Privacy Policy to inform users of our policies and procedures regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of personally identifiable information received from users of Krafty Sprouts Media, LLC’s websites, located at the domains: Asoothingliving.com, Thebingeful.com, Thetechtian.com, Wheelsinquirer.com, Thexplorion.com, Martialarting.com, Kraftysprouts.media, Asoothingfood.com, Adultglamor.com, Kraftysprouts.com, Errorlogy.com, Homequirer.com, Reptibles.com, Birdingdigest.com, Bingesider.com (the “Krafty Sprouts Media, LLC Websites”). Please note that this Privacy Policy only applies to the Krafty Sprouts Media, LLC Websites.

Information Collection and Use

It is not necessary to provide Krafty Sprouts Media, LLC with your personally identifiable information to use the Krafty Sprouts Media, LLC Websites, and unless you subscribe to a Krafty Sprouts Media, LLC newsletter, Krafty Sprouts Media, LLC does not collect personally identifiable information in connection with the operation of the Krafty Sprouts Media, LLC Websites. Suppose you contact Krafty Sprouts Media, LLC by email through the Krafty Sprouts Media, LLC Websites.

In that case, Krafty Sprouts Media, LLC may keep a record of your contact information and correspondence. It may use your email address and any information that you provide to Krafty Sprouts Media, LLC, in your message to respond to you. Krafty Sprouts Media, LLC treats this information as it would treat any other unsolicited business correspondence and has no obligation to keep this information confidential or to take any security measures to protect it.

If you subscribe to a Krafty Sprouts Media, LLC newsletter, you will need to provide us with your email address.

We will use the email address you provide to us to subscribe to our newsletter(s) to send you the newsletter(s), marketing or promotional opportunities from us and our partners we believe may interest you, and certain administrative communications regarding the newsletters. We will not sell or rent your email address to anyone else for their marketing.

You may unsubscribe from any or all of our newsletters or marketing communications at any time using the link provided in the email, and we will delete your email address from our records.

When you visit a Krafty Sprouts Media, LLC Website, Krafty Sprouts Media, LLC’s servers automatically record information that your browser sends whenever you visit website (“Log Data”). This Log Data may include information such as your IP address, browser type, or the domain from which you are visiting. For most users accessing the Internet from an Internet service provider, the IP address will be different every time you log on.

Krafty Sprouts Media, LLC uses Log Data to monitor the use of the Krafty Sprouts Media, LLC Websites and the services we offer via the Krafty Sprouts Media, LLC Websites and for the Krafty Sprouts Media, LLC Website’s technical administration.

Cookies and Other Analytic Tools

Like many websites, Krafty Sprouts Media, LLC Websites also uses “cookie” technology to collect additional website usage data and to improve the Krafty Sprouts Media, LLC Website and the services offered via the Website.

A cookie is a small data file that Krafty Sprouts Media, LLC’s servers transfer to your computer’s hard disk. Krafty Sprouts Media, LLC may also use tracking pixels.

Tracking pixels are small graphic images, which are used in email messages to determine whether the messages were opened and the links were clicked, or are used on the Krafty Sprouts Media, LLC Websites to collect information about the browser and device viewing the Krafty Sprouts Media, LLC Websites. Krafty Sprouts Media, LLC does not use cookies or tracking pixels to collect personally identifiable information.

Krafty Sprouts Media, LLC mainly uses “session cookies,” which enable certain features of the Krafty Sprouts Media, LLC Websites and services offered via the Krafty Sprouts Media, LLC Websites to better understand how you interact with the Website and services we offer via the Krafty Sprouts Media, LLC Websites to monitor aggregate usage by our users and web traffic routing on the Krafty Sprouts Media, LLC Websites and to improve the Krafty Sprouts Media, LLC Websites and services offered via the Krafty Sprouts Media, LLC Websites. Session cookies should be deleted from your computer when you disconnect from or leave the Krafty Sprouts Media, LLC Websites.

Krafty Sprouts Media, LLC also uses a persistent cookie on some of the Krafty Sprouts Media, LLC Websites that stay on your computer for a period of time after you leave the Krafty Sprouts Media, LLC Websites, for the sole purpose of ensuring that, where rating, voting, or survey functions are available, you do not participate more than once.

Third-Party Advertisers

Krafty Sprouts Media, LLC Websites include advertising from third-party advertisers. Krafty Sprouts Media, LLC does not provide any personally identifiable information to these advertisers.

Third-party advertisers, or companies working on their behalf, may serve your browser the advertisements that appear on the Krafty Sprouts Media, LLC Websites, allowing them to receive Log Data (as defined above). They may also use cookies, JavaScript, tracking pixels, and other technologies to measure their ads’ effectiveness and personalize advertising content. Krafty Sprouts Media, LLC does not control any third-party advertiser tracking or measurement technologies, and this Privacy Policy does not cover the information practices of third-party advertisers. Please contact them directly for more information about their privacy practices.

Our advertising partners may include Facebook and Twitter. Facebook allows its users to control advertising on the Facebook platform. Instructions are here. Twitter allows its users to control advertising and cookie preferences on the Twitter service. Instructions are here. To learn more about interest-based advertising or to opt out of this type of advertising by those third parties that are members of self-regulatory programs such as the Network Advertising Initiative, please visit the NAI’s website, which will allow you to opt out of Interest-Based Advertising by one, or all, NAI members. Similarly, information regarding opting out of targeted advertising by Digital Advertising Alliance members can be found here.

Opting Out

Most Internet browsers automatically accept cookies. To opt-out of receiving cookies from us:

You can use our cookie management mechanism here:

  • asoothingliving.com
  • thetechtian.com
  • thebingeful.com

You can also disable all cookies (which will affect the functionality of most websites), or only third-party cookies, which may affect the functionality of some websites. Most advertisers use third-party cookies.

Then if you know which cookies you want to delete, you can delete those, or you can delete all of your cookies (which, again, will affect the functionality of most websites— for example, you may lose your login status).

You have to repeat the cookie management process for each browser you use. From our perspective, each browser is a separate device, and we do not use, track, or store any data from mobile browsers.

If you choose not to receive tracking pixels, you will need to disable HTML images in your email program and browser, but that may affect images in other emails you receive and the web pages you browse.

Krafty Sprouts Media, LLC also uses analytics and Ad technologies such as Google Analytics, Google Adsense, Plausible, Mediavine, SheMedia, OptAd360, comScore, and many more. For Google’s privacy practices, see this, and to opt-out of data recording and analysis by Google Analytics on the Krafty Sprouts Media, LLC Websites, see this. For comScore’s privacy practices, see this and this, and to opt-out of having comScore associate site visits with your browser, see this.

California Consumer Privacy Act

In accordance with the California Consumer Privacy Act legislation, compliance information and any user actions are available here: Addendum A – Special Information Regarding California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).

Do Not Track

Some web browsers may transmit “do not track” signals to the websites and other online services with which the browser communicates. Krafty Sprouts Media, LLC will treat a “do not track” signal as a request not to track the user for advertising purposes. For more information regarding Do Not Track mechanisms, see allaboutdnt.com.

United States Operation; International Rights

Our Services are operated from the United States, and the privacy laws of the United States may not be as protective as those in your jurisdiction. If you are located outside of the United States and choose to use the Services or provide your information to us, you agree that your information will be transferred, processed, and stored in the United States.

Your use of the Services represents your agreement to this practice. However, our collection, storage, and processing of your personal information will at all times, be in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Further, under the applicable laws of various countries, you may have certain rights concerning your personal data, such as under EU law, the right to access, rectification or erasure of, and restriction of processing or objection to the processing of your personal data, and the right to data portability. If you have questions about our collection or processing of your personal data, please contact us at hello” ‘@’ “kraftysprouts.com.

Before we process any request, we may request personal information to verify your identity where allowed by law. Where permitted by local law, we may reject unreasonable or impractical requests.

If you are a resident of the European Union, you also have the right to at no cost to lodge a complaint with EU data protection authorities. This right may also exist in other countries. If you have questions, please ask the data protection authority in your country.

Information Sharing and Disclosure

Krafty Sprouts Media, LLC cooperates with government and law enforcement officials or private parties to enforce and comply with the law. Krafty Sprouts Media, LLC may disclose any information about you to government or law enforcement officials or private parties as Krafty Sprouts Media, LLC, in its sole discretion, believes necessary or appropriate to respond to claims, legal processes (including subpoenas), to protect the property and rights of Krafty Sprouts Media, LLC or a third party, the safety of the public or any person, to prevent or stop any illegal, unethical, or legally actionable activity, or to comply with the law.

Suppose any or all of the assets of Krafty Sprouts Media, LLC are acquired by or merged with another entity. In that case, Krafty Sprouts Media, LLC will share with this entity some or all of the information collected through the Krafty Sprouts Media, LLC Websites.

Security

Because Krafty Sprouts Media, LLC does not collect any personally identifiable information from the Krafty Sprouts Media, LLC Websites, Krafty Sprouts Media, LLC does not take any specific security measures to protect the information we do collect.

Links to Other Sites

Krafty Sprouts Media, LLC Websites may contain links to other websites (“Linked Sites”) operated by Krafty Sprouts Media, LLC or third parties. Linked Sites may place their own cookies or other files on your computer, collect data or solicit personal information from you. This Privacy Policy addresses only the use and disclosure of information that Krafty Sprouts Media, LLC collects through the Krafty Sprouts Media, LLC Websites.

Other sites follow different rules regarding using or disclosing the personal information you submit to them. Krafty Sprouts Media, LLC does not exercise control over third-party Linked Sites. Your use of any Linked Site operated by Krafty Sprouts Media, LLC is subject to the terms and conditions provided by Krafty Sprouts Media, LLC for such Linked Site. Krafty Sprouts Media, LLC encourages you to read the privacy policies or statements of the other websites you visit.

Our Policy Towards Children

Krafty Sprouts Media, LLC Websites are not directed to children under 18. Suppose a parent or guardian becomes aware that his or her child has provided Krafty Sprouts Media, LLC, with personally identifiable information without their consent. In that case, he or she should contact Krafty Sprouts Media, LLC at hello” ‘@’ “kraftysprouts.com. If Krafty Sprouts Media, LLC becomes aware that a child under 13 has provided Krafty Sprouts Media, LLC with personally identifiable information, Krafty Sprouts Media, LLC will remove such information from our files.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

Krafty Sprouts Media, LLC reserves the right to change this policy at any time without prior notice. Any changes to this policy will be posted here. You are advised to consult this Privacy Policy regularly for any changes. If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at hello” ‘@’ “kraftysprouts.com.

Last Update: October 19, 2022