IP Illustrated Privacy Policy
Moon 40 Creative, LLC d/b/a IP Illustrated (“IP Illustrated”) respects your privacy. We strive to use information to provide the best possible service while respecting the confidentiality of information we are entrusted with. This Privacy Policy outlines the types of personal information we may receive or collect when you use our services, as well as some of the methods we use to safeguard your personal information.
Collection of personal information
We collect personal information in order to understand your specific needs to serve you better. Personal information is information about you that is personally identifiable, such as your name, address, email address, or phone number. IP Illustrated may use cookies and other technologies to enhance your online experience and to learn about how you use our website and services. A “cookie” is a small file containing a string of characters that uniquely identifies your browser. While most browsers accept cookies by default, you can manually set your browser to refuse all cookies, accept cookies from specific websites, or highlight when a cookie is sent to your browser. IP Illustrated’s servers may also automatically record information when you visit our website, including the URL that directed you to our website, your IP address, browser type and the date and time of your visit.
How we use your information
The information IP Illustrated collects is used to comprehensively understand your needs and interests and permits IP Illustrated to deliver a more consistent and personalized experience. For example, IP Illustrated may use your information to:
- providing, maintaining, improving and developing our content, products, and services;
- communicate with you about new content, products, and services;
- analyze the effectiveness of our content, products, and services;
- provide service and support;
- provide personalized promotional offers;
- select content to be communicated to you; and
- contact you for market research regarding IP Illustrated content, products, or services.
Your information may be aggregated with other clients’ information on a purely non-identifiable basis to understand how our products are used to help make them better.
Policy on sharing your information
IP Illustrated will not sell, rent, or lease your personal information to others. However, IP Illustrated may share aggregate user information with companies working on our behalf and IP Illustrated-owned business entities for the purposes detailed above. In any such cases, however, we require that the companies or entities adhere to privacy standards and policies at least as restrictive as those I.P. Illustrated has in place.
Sites covered by this Privacy Policy
The IP Illustrated website (www.ipllustrated.com) may from time-to-time link to third-party websites for your convenience and to provide easy access to additional useful information. Should you select such a link you will leave the IP Illustrated website. IP Illustrated does not control those sites nor their privacy practices, which may differ from IP Illustrated’s practices and policies. Any personal data you choose to provide to or that is collected by such third parties is not in any way covered by the I.P. Illustrated Privacy Policy. We recommend that you read over such website’s privacy policy before providing any personal information. A link to another website from I.P. Illustrated does not constitute an endorsement or representation about the value, quality or usefulness of anything found on that third-party website.
Google Analytics
In order to optimize our website, we use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 (“Google”). Google Analytics uses “cookies,” which are small text files placed on your computer, to help us analyze how you use our website, including but not limited to the date and time of your visit, operating system, browser type, referring website, and pages viewed. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States.
We automatically enable IP anonymization on our website so that your IP address will be truncated by Google within the EU member states or EEA member states to prevent users from being identified. Only in exceptional cases will the IP address be transferred to Google on a server in the United States and thereafter be truncated.
On behalf of IP Illustrated, Google will use this information for the purpose of compiling reports on website activity and providing other services relating to website activity and Internet usage. The IP address that was transmitted by your browser will not be combined by Google with any other data. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser; however, please note that if you do this, you may not be able to use the full functionality of our website.
You may also prevent the collection and processing of the data that was generated by the cookie (and that is related to the use of our website, including your IP address) by downloading and installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.
Email Lists
- P. Illustrated uses an email marketing service provided by MailChimp. Mailchimp collects email addresses from our readers when they elect to subscribe to email delivery from our website.
Readers may unsubscribe at any time by clicking on the “Unsubscribe” link located at the bottom of their emails. We do not, and will not, sell, rent, or distribute our email lists to third parties unless required by law. You can view MailChimp’s privacy policy here: https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/.
OptinMonster is used to embed MailChimp forms and all pop-up notifications. You can read their privacy policy here: https://optinmonster.com/privacy/.
Affiliate Partnerships
IP Illustrated partners with Amazon Services LLC Associates Program to promote or recommend products that this affiliate program provide. We embed customized referral links, provided by the affiliate program, into our website to track visits to our affiliate partners’ websites. If you click on an affiliate link, a small text file called a “cookie” will be stored in your browser by the affiliate program to track any sales for the purpose of assigning commissions. This does not change the cost to you, but supports the continued development of IP Illustrated.
Third-party Advertising
We may use a third-party network advertisers to serve the advertisements on this website. Network advertisers are third parties that display advertisements based on your visits to this website and other websites you have visited. Third-party ad serving enables us to financially support the website.
Keeping your information secure
IP Illustrated values your trust and takes it seriously. To prevent unauthorized access and disclosure, to maintain data accuracy, and to ensure the appropriate use of your information, IP Illustrated utilizes industry standard physical, technical and administrative procedures to safeguard any personal information we collect.
Sale of Website and Assets
In the event that our website is acquired or sold, or in the event of an insolvency or bankruptcy, the information we have collected about you may be one of the assets merged or sold in connection with that transaction.
Changes to this policy
The world of technology changes quickly. If and when there are future changes to our Privacy Policy in response we will post them at www.ipillustrated.com/privacy-policy.
We value your opinions and suggestions. Please email us at info@ipillustrated.com with any questions or concerns.