Protecting your privacy is very important to us. The following will help you understand how CoolStuffBlast.com collects, uses and safeguards the personal information you provide to us on this site.

By using our Services, you agree to the collection, use, disclosure, and procedures this Privacy Policy describes.

What information is being collected?

Currently, no personal information is being collected unless you choose to create an account with us. You can create an account directly with CoolStuffBlast.com. If you sign-in directly to CoolStuffBlast.com, your email, username and IP address are then stored in our database. We do not share this information or use this information for anything other than tailoring your experience on CoolStuffBlast.com. This data will be stored until it is requested that we remove it by the owner. You are not required to create an account to use the site.

We use Google Analytics to track and aggregate traffic to the site. CoolStuffBlast.com and its partners use cookies, pixels (sometimes also referred to as “web beacons”), server logs, and other similar technology to analyze trends, administer the website, track users’ movements around the website, and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. You can control the use of cookies at the individual browser level, but if you choose to disable cookies, it may limit your use of certain features or functions on our website or service. Non-personal information that we collect using these technologies may be combined with other information about you, including Personal Information.

We use Google Analytics to track and aggregate traffic to the site. This includes nothing that is identifiable to an individual person.

We use Google Adsense to serve 3rd-party ads to users of CoolStuffBlast.com who are not citizens of the European Union (EU).

We are 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 linking to Amazon.com. Additionally, we participate in the affiliate programs of ThinkGeek.com through Commission Junction and Etsy through Affiliate Window.

Passive collection. The Site collects and stores information that is generated automatically as you use it, including your preferences and anonymous usage statistics. This information may include Internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, the files viewed on our site (e.g., HTML pages, graphics, etc.), operating system, date/time stamp, and/or clickstream data. We use this data to analyze trends in the aggregate and administer the site. Non-personal information that we passively collect may be combined with other information about you, including Personal Information.

What are your choices in regards to stop this data collection?

You can delete your account at your convenience by using the “Delete Account” button on your profile or contacting us with a request to delete your account.

Mailing List

CoolStuffBlast.com may launch a mailing list for some or all of the CoolStuffBlast.com websites. In order to sign up to receive regular emails from our mailing list, users must submit information including a valid email address and demographic information. This information will be used in aggregate form only in order to assess general user interest in various internal and third party products and services, and your personal and contact information will not be passed to any other organization. Users who choose to sign up for a mailing list will receive regular emails from the site, including new products added to the site. Users will NOT receive emails from third party site sponsors.

Third Party Cookies

Some of our business partners may use cookies on our site (for example, advertisers). However, CoolStuffBlast.com has no access to or control over these cookies, once we have given permission for them to set cookies for advertising. This privacy statement covers the use of cookies by CoolStuffBlast.com only and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Third Party Advertising (non-EU users)

CoolStuffBlast.com uses third-party advertising companies including Google, among others, to serve ads when you visit our websites. Advertisers may engage in the collection of non-personally identifiable information about end users by third parties through the use of cookies and pixel tags. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, or to opt out of behavioral targeting, visit http://www.networkadvertising.org/optout_nonppii.asp

Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on your site. Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to your users based on their visit to your sites and other sites on the Internet. Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.

Legal Disclaimer

Though we make every effort to preserve user privacy, CoolStuffBlast.com may need to disclose personal information when required by law wherein we have a good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a current judicial proceeding, a court order or legal process served on any of the CoolStuffBlast.com websites.

Business Transitions

In the event CoolStuffBlast.com goes through a business transition, such as a merger, acquisition by another company, or sale of a portion of its assets, users’ personal information will, in most instances, be part of the assets transferred.

Links

The CoolStuffBlast.com websites contain links to other sites. Please be aware that CoolStuffBlast.com is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by CoolStuffBlast.com.

What if this privacy policy changes?

Whenever CoolStuffBlast.com changes its privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, and other places we deem appropriate.