Privacy Policy

Who we are

Our website address is: https://takethissports.com.

TakeThis is a sports blog where we post articles related to sports such as the NFL, NBA, and more. These articles typically include content ranging from data analysis to predictions, insights, and opinion pieces.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Information We Collect

NextEnd Social Login

Nextend Social Login collects data when a visitor register, login or link the account with with any of the enabled social provider. It collects the following data: email address, name, social provider identifier and access token. Also it can collect profile picture and more fields with the Pro Addon’s sync data feature.

Forminator

All collected data might be shown publicly and we send it to our workers or contractors to perform necessary actions based on the form submission.

Askimet

We collect information about visitors who comment on Sites that use our Akismet anti-spam service. The information we collect depends on how the User sets up Akismet for the Site, but typically includes the commenter’s IP address, user agent, referrer, and Site URL (along with other information directly provided by the commenter such as their name, username, email address, and the comment itself).

LiteSpeed Cache

This site utilizes caching in order to facilitate a faster response time and better user experience. Caching potentially stores a duplicate copy of every web page that is on display on this site. All cache files are temporary, and are never accessed by any third party, except as necessary to obtain technical support from the cache plugin vendor. Cache files expire on a schedule set by the site administrator, but may easily be purged by the admin before their natural expiration, if necessary. We may use QUIC.cloud services to process & cache your data temporarily. Please see https://quic.cloud/privacy-policy/ for more details.

Cookies and Tracking Technologies

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to monitor activity on our website and store certain information. Cookies are files with small amounts of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect in the following ways:

  1. To provide and maintain our service: Including to monitor the usage of our service.
  2. To manage your account: To manage your registration as a user of the service.
  3. To improve our website: We continually strive to improve our website offerings based on the information and feedback we receive from you.
  4. To serve personalized ads: We may use the information to develop and display content and advertising tailored to your interests and/or location and to measure its effectiveness.

Disclosure of Your Information

We may share information we have collected about you in certain situations. Your information may be disclosed as follows:

  1. By Law or to Protect Rights: If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to comply with the law, legal requests, or to protect the rights, property, or safety of our users.
  2. Third-Party Service Providers: We may share your information with third parties that perform services for us or on our behalf, including data analysis, email delivery, hosting services, customer service, and marketing assistance.

Third-Party Advertising

We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies may use information about your visits to this and other websites contained in web cookies and other tracking technologies in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.

Google AdSense

We use Google AdSense to display ads on our website. Google AdSense may use cookies and web beacons to collect information as part of the ad-serving process. For more information on how Google uses data, visit Google’s AdSense Help Center.

Cookies and Tracking Technologies

  1. Definition of Cookies: Cookies are text files placed on your browser to store data that can be recalled by a web server in the domain that placed the cookie. We use cookies for storing preferences and settings, enabling you to sign in, providing interest-based advertising, combating fraud, analyzing how our products perform, and fulfilling other legitimate purposes.
  2. Types of Cookies: We use both session and persistent cookies:
    • Session cookies are temporary cookies that remain on your device until you leave the website.
    • Persistent cookies remain on your device for a set period or until you delete them.
  3. Your Choices Regarding Cookies: You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. If you choose to refuse cookies, you may still use our website, though your access to some functionality and areas of our website may be restricted.

Opting Out

You can opt-out of targeted advertising by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance’s Opt-Out page or using your browser settings to block cookies. Additionally, users can manage settings for Google ads via Google Ad Settings.

International Users

If you are accessing our website from outside the United States, please be aware that your information may be transferred to, stored, and processed in the United States where our servers are located. The data protection and other laws of the United States and other countries might not be as comprehensive as those in your country.

Your Rights

Depending on your location, you may have the following rights regarding your personal data:

  1. Right to Access: You may request a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
  2. Right to Rectification: You may request that we correct or update any personal data that is inaccurate.
  3. Right to Erasure: You may request that we delete your personal data under certain circumstances.
  4. Right to Object: You may object to our processing of your personal data under certain conditions.
  5. Right to Data Portability: You may request that we transfer your personal data to another organization or directly to you under certain conditions.

    Embedded content from other websites

    Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

    These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

    Who we share your data with

    If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

    Nextend Social Login stores the personal data on your site and does not share it with anyone except the access token which used for the authenticated communication with the social providers.

    How long we retain your data

    If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

    For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

    Nextend Social Login removes the collected personal data when the user deleted from WordPress.

    What rights you have over your data

    If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

    Where your data is sent

    Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

    Contact Us

    If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at [email protected]

    This Privacy Policy is effective as of May 2024 and may be updated from time to time. Please review it periodically.

    By using our website, you consent to our privacy policy.

    This privacy policy aims to comply with relevant privacy laws and Google AdSense requirements, including the GDPR and CalOPPA.

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