Who We Are
At The Big Game Hunting Blog, we take online privacy seriously and we respect the concerns of our community of users. In this policy, we describe our privacy practices with regard to information we collect through TheBigGameHuntingBlog.com and affiliated sites (the “Site”), to help you make informed decisions about how you share information when you visit or use the Site.
This privacy policy has been compiled to better serve those who are concerned with how their ‘Personally Identifiable Information’ (PII) is being used online. PII, as described in US privacy law and information security, is information that can be used on its own or with other information to identify, contact, or locate a single person, or to identify an individual in context. Please read our privacy policy carefully to get a clear understanding of how we collect, use, protect or otherwise handle your Personally Identifiable Information in accordance with our website.
If there are any questions regarding this privacy policy, you may contact us using the information below or through the contact form on this page.
TheBigGameHuntingBlog.com
7383 Remcon Circle #13529
El Paso, Texas 79912
Our website address is: https://thebiggamehuntingblog.com.
What Personal Data We Collect And Why We Collect It
Our Cookie Policy
In compliance with the European Union legislation, we inform you that our website will store some information about your preferences on your own computer inside a tiny file called a ‘cookie’.
A cookie is a small piece of data that a website asks your browser to store on your computer or mobile device. The cookie allows the website to “remember” your actions or preferences over time.
You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site and some services and functionalities may not work.
Most browsers support cookies, but users can set their browsers to decline them and can delete them whenever they like. A third-party website called aboutcookies.org has been setup to help you with instructions how you can do that on various browsers.
We use cookies to:
1) Identify you as a returning user and to count your visits in our traffic statistics analysis;
2) remember your custom display preferences;
3) Suggest any recent searches youíve made on our site
4) Other usability features including tracking whether you’ve already given your consent to cookies
Enabling cookies from our website is not strictly necessary for the website to work but it will provide you with a better browsing experience.
The cookie-related information is not used to identify you personally and the pattern data is fully under our control. These cookies are not used for any purpose other than those described here.
There may also be other types of cookies created after you’ve visited our website. We use Google Analytics, a popular web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. Google Analytics uses cookies to help us to analyse how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of our website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of our website, compiling reports on website activity and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. Google undertakes not to associate your IP address with any other data held by Google.
Type and Purpose of Collection
We collect information at various points in the Website to facilitate its use by our customers. Non-Personal Information: Upon accessing the Website, certain non-personal information will be automatically collected without your knowledge or consent, such as your IP address, location data (which is anonymous) and the referring website (Non-Personal Information). We use Non-Personal Information to examine our traffic and to view how our customers use the Website. This type of information will not allow you to be personally identified. For example, we use cookies, which contains only certain statistical information. You can instruct your computer to inform you whenever a cookie is being sent, or you can disallow cookies through your web browser. If you do choose to disallow cookies, your experience on the Website may be diminished, or your ability to choose some of the options on the Website may be limited.
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Sharing Information
We will not sell, rent or disclose to outside parties the information we collect, save and except that we may share the collected information with other parties as follows:
(a) Affiliated Service Providers: We have agreements with various affiliated service providers to facilitate the functioning of the Website, with whom we may share the information we have collected. For example, we may share your credit card information with the credit card service provider to process your purchase. All administrative service providers that we use are required to have the same level of privacy protection as we have, and therefore we expect that your information will be handled with the same level of care that we employ. Additionally, for example, we may use analytic or marketing services such as Google Analytics, Google Adsense, Taboola, or RevContent, to which collection you hereby unconditionally consent.
(b) Where required by law: We may share the collected information where required by law, specifically in response to a demand from government authorities where such demand meets the legal requirements.
(c) Statistical Analysis: We may share Non-Personal Information and aggregated information with third parties, including but not limited to for advertising or marketing purposes. No Personal Information will be shared in this manner.
(d) Transactions: In connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing or acquisition, or in any other situation where Personal Information may be disclosed or transferred as one of our business assets.
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Affiliates
This site is also a member of several affiliate marketing programs. This means we will earn a small commission (at no extra cost to you) if you make a purchase after clicking on an affiliate link from this web site. The affiliate programs and their privacy policies are listed below.
The Big Game Hunting Blog 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.ca, Amazon.co.au, and other Amazon stores worldwide.
If you click on any link to Amazon.com (or any variation of it such as Amazon.co.uk) from this site, you are consenting to receiving a tracking cookie from Amazon that lasts 24 hours.
If you click on any link to Muzzle-Loaders.com from this site, you are consenting to receiving a tracking cookie from Muzzle-Loaders.com that lasts 90 days.
Muzzle-Loaders.com Privacy Policy: https://www.muzzle-loaders.com/terms
If you click on any link to LuckyGunner.com from this site, you are consenting to receiving a tracking cookie from Lucky Gunner that lasts 90 days.
Lucky Gunner Privacy Policy: https://www.luckygunner.com/privacy-policy
If you click on any link to Shareasale.com (or affiliated programs such as Lucky Shot or Optics Planet) from this site, you are consenting to receiving a tracking cookie from them that lasts up to 30 days.
Share a Sale Privacy Policy: https://www.awin.com/us/privacy
Lucky Shot Privacy Policy: https://luckyshotusa.com/pages/privacy-policy
Optics Planet Privacy Policy: https://www.opticsplanet.com/our-policy.html
If you click on any link to AvantLink.com (or affiliated programs such as Brownell’s, Black Ovis, Meat, Natchez Shooter’s Supplies, Palmetto State Armory, Sitka Bear, Sportsman’s Warehouse, or YETI.) from this site, you are consenting to receiving a tracking cookie from them that lasts up to 90 days.
AvantLink Privacy Policy: https://www.avantlink.com/privacy
Mailing List
The purpose of adding subscribers to our mailing list is to deliver high quality articles and resources to our audience on a weekly basis, with the occasional promotion of various products and hunting opportunities. All emails sent are CAN SPAM compliant and have an opt out link at the bottom of each email.
If you opt into receiving our newsletter, your information will be stored with MailChimp. When visitors subscribe to our mailing list, we collect the data shown in the opt in form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
The MailChimp Privacy Policy is available here: https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/
We use pop-ups via Leadpages as one method of adding subscribers to our mailing list.
Lead Pages Privacy Policy: https://www.leadpages.com/privacy
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.
Payments
Payments made for services provided by HuntingGuns101.com and Muzzleloaders101.com are processed securely by Stripe. We do not process or store your payment details.
Stripe Privacy Policy: https://stripe.com/privacy
Analytics
This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solutions on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content.
You can read the Google privacy policy here: https://privacy.google.com/businesses/compliance/#?modal_active=none
We also use social media buttons and plugins on this site that allow you to connect with your social network in various ways. For these to work the following social media sites including, Facebook Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube, will set cookies through our site which may be used to enhance your profile on their site or contribute to the data they hold for various purposes outlined in their respective privacy policies, which are listed below.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy
Instagram: https://help.instagram.com/155833707900388
Twitter: https://twitter.com/en/privacy
YouTube: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2801895?hl=en
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.) from other sites like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube. 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
We do not share any of our customer data with anyone outside of our organization.
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.
We keep contact form entries for one year and analytics records for 50 months.
What rights you have over your data
If you have left comments on this site, have subscribed to our newsletter, or have sent us an email through our contact form, 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 we send your data
This site is based and hosted in the United States. Unless otherwise specified, we do not sent your data anywhere else.
Contact information
If there are any questions regarding this privacy policy, you may contact us using the information below or through the contact form on this page.
thebiggamehuntingblog.com
7383 Remcon Circle #13529
El Paso, Texas 79912
How We Protect Your Data
How do we protect your information?
John McAdams is the data protection officer for The Big Game Hunting Blog and may be reached at the contact information listed above.
We only provide articles and information.
We use regular Malware Scanning.
Your personal information is contained behind secured networks and is only accessible by a limited number of persons who have special access rights to such systems, and are required to keep the information confidential.
We implement a variety of security measures when a user enters, submits, or accesses their information to maintain the safety of your personal information.
In order to be in line with Fair Information Practices we will take the following responsive action, should a data breach occur:
We will notify you via email within 72 hours.
We also agree to the Individual Redress Principle which requires that individuals have the right to legally pursue enforceable rights against data collectors and processors who fail to adhere to the law. This principle requires not only that individuals have enforceable rights against data users, but also that individuals have recourse to courts or government agencies to investigate and/or prosecute non-compliance by data processors.
COPPA (Children Online Privacy Protection Act)
When it comes to the collection of personal information from children under the age of 13 years old, the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) puts parents in control. The Federal Trade Commission, United States’ consumer protection agency, enforces the COPPA Rule, which spells out what operators of websites and online services must do to protect children’s privacy and safety online.
We do not specifically market to children under the age of 13 years old.
CAN SPAM Act
The CAN-SPAM Act is a law that sets the rules for commercial email, establishes requirements for commercial messages, gives recipients the right to have emails stopped from being sent to them, and spells out tough penalties for violations.
To be in accordance with CANSPAM, we agree to the following:
- Not use false or misleading subjects or email addresses.
- Identify the message as an advertisement in some reasonable way.
- Include the physical address of our business or site headquarters.
- Monitor third-party email marketing services for compliance, if one is used.
- Honor opt-out/unsubscribe requests quickly.
- Allow users to unsubscribe by using the link at the bottom of each email.
Policy Changes
We reserve the right to amend this privacy policy at any time with or without notice. However, please be assured that if the Privacy Policy changes in the future, we will not use the personal information you have submitted to us under this Privacy Policy in a manner that is materially inconsistent with this Privacy Policy, without your prior consent.
Acceptance Of This Policy
Continued use of our site signifies your acceptance of this policy. If you do not accept the policy then please do not use this site.
Privacy Policy Last Updated: 19 October 2018