Affiliate and Privacy Policy

January 12, 2016

Do we use ‘cookies’?

The EsportSet.com website utilizes cookies from third-party partners to deliver a more personal and customized content and services to you. These cookies allow the external partners to track usage patterns to provide improvements to our website and deliver content that is specific to your interests. Cookies in and of themselves do not personally identify users, although they do identify a user’s computer. Most web browsers accept cookies by default, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you decline to accept cookies, you may not receive the full benefits that our website has to offer. We have a knowledge base article which you can read to learn more about how we use cookies.

How to manage Cookies in your browser

The “Help” section on the menu bar of most internet browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to make the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie and how to disable cookies altogether. Please note that certain features of the Website may no longer be available to you if you disable cookies.

You also can manage your cookies preferences using the following links for some of the most popular internet browsers:

Google Chrome - https://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en-GB&answer=95647&p=cpn_cookies

Firefox- http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Blocking%20cookies

Internet Explorer - https://www.microsoft.com/info/uk-en/cookies.mspx

Microsoft Edge - https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10-microsoft-edge-and-privacy

Safari - https://support.apple.com/kb/ph19214?locale=en_US

Opera - http://www.opera.com/help/tutorials/security/privacy/

To find out more about using your browser settings to control cookies please visit: http://www.allaboutcookies.org

Third-party disclosure

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your Personally Identifiable Information unless we provide users with advance notice. This does not include website hosting partners and other parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or serving our users, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release information when it’s release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others’ rights, property or safety.

However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.

Third-party links

Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or offer third-party products or services on our website. These third-party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We therefore have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these sites.

Log Files

For technical reasons, data such as the following, which your internet browser transmits to us or to our web space provider (so called server log files), is collected:

  • type and version of the browser you use
  • operating system
  • websites that linked you to our site (referrer URL)
  • websites that you visit
  • date and time of your visit
  • your Internet Protocol (IP) address.

This anonymous data is stored separately from any personal information you may have provided, thereby making it impossible to connect it to any particular person. The data is used for statistical purposes in order to improve our website and services.

How do we protect your information?

We do not use vulnerability scanning and/or scanning to PCI standards. We only provide articles and information. We never ask for credit card numbers.

Google

Google’s advertising requirements can be summed up by Google’s Advertising Principles. They are put in place to provide a positive experience for users. https://support.google.com/adwordspolicy/answer/1316548?hl=en

Google Analytics is a web analytics tool we use to help understand how visitors engage with this website. It reports website trends using cookies and web beacons without identifying individual visitors. Google Analytics Terms of Service: https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/us.html

Yandex Metrica

Yandex Metrica is a web analytics tool we use to help understand how visitors engage with this website. It reports website trends using cookies and web beacons without identifying individual visitors. Yandex Metrica Terms of Service: https://yandex.com/legal/metrica_termsofuse/

Disqus

Disqus - blog commenting service. If you own a registered Disqus account, you can use the self-serve deletion feature in Settings > Account > Delete Your Disqus Account. If you are a guest, you can unsubscribe from emails by replying to any notification with the word “unsubscribe” in response. You can also contact EsportSet.Com to delete your comments for you, if desired. See https://help.disqus.com/commenting/gdpr-delete-or-access-user-data for more details.

We have no control over the data that Disqus collects in the process, or over the extent of the data that Disqus collects. Disqus Privacy Policy: https://help.disqus.com/terms-and-policies/disqus-privacy-policy

Twitter

Our website employs components provided by Twitter.

Each time our website receives an access request equipped with a Twitter component, the component prompts your browser to download an image of this component from Twitter. Through this process, Twitter is informed precisely which page of our website is being visited. We have no control over the data that Twitter collects in the process, or over the extent of the data that Twitter collects. To the best of our knowledge, Twitter collects the URL of each website accessed as well as the IP address of the user, but does so solely for the purpose of displaying Twitter components. Additional information may be obtained from the Twitter data privacy policy, at: http://twitter.com/privacy.

You may change your data privacy settings in your account settings, at http://twitter.com/account/settings.

YouTube

On our website we use components (videos) of YouTube.

When you display a page that has an embedded video, a connection will be made to the YouTube server and the content will appear on the website via a communication to your browser. We have no control over the data that YouTube collects in the process, or over the extent of the data that YouTube collects.

Further information about data protection by YouTube is provided by Google under the following link: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/

Amazon

EsportSet.com is 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, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.de, Amazon.fr, Amazon.it, Amazon.in, Amazon.es and other Amazon stores worldwide.

Information/Cancellation/Deletion

On the basis of the Federal Data Protection Act, you may contact us at no cost if you have questions relating to the collection, processing or use of your personal information, if you wish to request the correction, blocking or deletion of the same, or if you wish to cancel explicitly granted consent. Please note that you have the right to have incorrect data corrected or to have personal data deleted, where such claim is not barred by any legal obligation to retain this data.

Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act Compliance

We are in compliance with the requirements of COPPA (Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act); we do not collect any information from anyone under 13 years of age. Our website, products and services are all directed to people who are at least 13 years old or older.