Privacy Policy

Last revised on 12 February 2021

Babble Digital Inc t/a The Puzzle Nerds Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy describes how your personal information is collected, used, and shared when you visit or make a purchase from https://thepuzzlenerds.com/ (the “Site”).

This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of personal data when you use our Service and the choices you have associated with that data. We use your data to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy. Unless otherwise defined in this Privacy Policy, terms used in this Privacy Policy have the same meanings as in our Terms and Conditions, accessible from https://thepuzzlenerds.com/

Information Collection And Use

We collect several different types of information for various purposes to provide and improve our Service to you.

Types of Data Collected

Personal Data

While using our Service, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you (“Personal Data”). Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:

Email address
First name and last name
Phone number
City, Country
Cookies and Usage Data

Usage Data

We may also collect information about how the Service is accessed and used (“Usage Data”). This Usage Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

We may also collect information on how the Service is accessed and used (“Usage Data”). This Usage Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

Data Retention

When you place an order through the Site, we will maintain your Order Information for our records unless and until you ask us to delete this information.

Tracking & Cookies Data

We use “cookies” on this site. A cookie is a piece of data stored on a site visitor’s hard drive to help us improve your access to our site and identify repeat visitors to our site. For instance, when we use a cookie to identify you, you would not have to log in a password more than once, thereby saving time while on our site. Cookies can also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our site. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information on our site.
Some of our business partners may use cookies on our site (for example, advertisers). However, we have no access to or control over these cookies.

Third party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to your website or other websites.
Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to your users based on their visit to your sites and/or other sites on the Internet.
Users may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Ads Settings. (Alternatively, you can direct users to opt out of a third-party vendor’s use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info.)

If you have not opted out of third-party ad serving, the cookies of other third-party vendors or ad networks may also be used to serve ads on your site, which should also be disclosed in your privacy policy in the following manner:

Notify your site visitors of the third-party vendors and ad networks serving ads on your site.
Provide links to the appropriate vendor and ad network websites.
Inform your users that they may visit those websites to opt out of the use of cookies for personalized advertising (if the vendor or ad network offers this capability). Alternatively, you can direct users to opt out of some third-party vendors’ uses of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info.

Because publisher sites and laws across countries vary, we’re unable to suggest specific privacy policy language. However, you may wish to review resources such as the Network Advertising Initiative for guidance on drafting a privacy policy. For additional details regarding cookie consent notices, please refer to cookiechoices.org.

Advertising and Analytics

When you access and use the Services and other websites, we may serve you advertisements regarding goods and services that may be of interest to you (or in some cases, to users who our service providers deem to have characteristics similar to our customers) based on information relating to your access to and use of the Services and other websites. To do so, we or our service providers may place or recognize a unique cookie on your browser (alone or in conjunction with web beacons, pixel tags or other tracking technologies). If you would like more information about this practice and to learn about your choices in connection with these practices, please visit http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp and http://www.aboutads.info/

We use Facebook Custom Audiences to deliver advertisements to Website Visitors on Facebook based on email addresses that we have collected. You may learn more about Facebook Custom Audiences by visiting https://www.facebook.com/help/381385302004628 , and you may learn how to opt-out of receiving advertisements from Cvent based on your email address by visiting the section below titie "Choices about How We se and Disclose your Information". We also may use information associated with Visitor social media accounts, such as demographic and other information about an individual's title, industry or organization, to improve our marketing efforts if that individual connects those social media accounts to a Website profile.

We may use the information we have collected from you to enable us to display advertisements from our Customers to their target audience of users. As one example, meeting space providers may purchase advertisements which are presented selectively through the Cvent Supplier Network to meeting planners who have previously awarded a minimum volume of meetings business to that provider or to competing venues in the target metropolitan area. Even though we don not disclose Personal Information for these purposes, if any End-User clicks on or otherwise interacts with an advertisement, the advertising Customer may assume that the End-User meets its target criteria.

Facebook Custom Audience Ads

We may display interest based-ads to you when you are using Facebook through a tool offered by Facebook called the Custom Audience Tool. This tool allows us to personalize our ads based on your shopping experience with us. We don not share any of your personal information, including your shopping history with Facebook. The tool allows us to convert your email address to a unique number that Facebook uses to match to unique numbers Facebook generates from email addresses for users.
I would like to opt OUT of Facebook Custom Audience ads.

Facebook Conversion Tracking Pixel

With your permission, our website utilizes the Conversion Tracking Pixel service of Facebook Inc., 1601 S.California Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA ("Facebook"). This tool allows us to follow the actions of users afte they are redirected to a provider's website by click on a Facebook Advertisement. We are thus able to record the efficacy of Facebook advertisements for statistical and market research purposes. The collected data remain anonymous. This means that we cannot see the personal data of any individual user. However, the collected data are saved and processed by Facebook. We are informing you on this matter according to our information at this time. Facebook is able to connect the data with your Facebook account and use the data for their own advertising purposes, in accordance with Facebook's Data Use Policy found under https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy . Facebook Conversion Tracking also allows Facebook and its partners to show you advertisements on and outside Facebook. In addition, a cookie will be saved onto your computer for these purposes.
Only user over 13 years of age may give their permission. If you are younger than this age, please consult your legal guardians.

Please click here if you would like to revoke your permission: https://www.facebook.com/ads/website_custom_audiences/

You can opt out of targeted advertising by:

COMMON LINKS INCLUDE:
FACEBOOK - https://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=ads
GOOGLE - https://www.google.com/settings/ads/anonymous
BING - https://advertise.bingads.microsoft.com/en-us/resources/policies/personalized-ads

Additionally, you can opt out of some of these services by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out portal at: http://optout.aboutads.info/.

DO NOT TRACK
Please note that we do not alter our Site’s data collection and use practices when we see a Do Not Track signal from your browser.

Use of Data

The Puzzle Nerds uses the collected data for various purposes:

To provide and maintain the Service
To notify you about changes to our Service
To allow you to participate in interactive features of our Service when you choose to do so
To provide customer care and support
To provide analysis or valuable information so that we can improve the Service
To monitor the usage of the Service
To detect, prevent and address technical issues

Transfer Of Data

Your information, including Personal Data, may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from your jurisdiction.

If you are located outside Canada and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the data, including Personal Data, to Canada and process it there. Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.

The Puzzle Nerds will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.

Disclosure Of Data

Legal Requirements
The Puzzle Nerds may disclose your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary:

To comply with a legal obligation
To protect and defend the rights or property of The Puzzle Nerds
To prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service
To protect the personal safety of users of the Service or the public
To protect against legal liability

Security of Data

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us.

The security of your data is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Service Providers

We may employ third party companies and individuals to facilitate our Service (“Service Providers”), to provide the Service on our behalf, to perform Service-related services or to assist us in analyzing how our Service is used. These third parties have access to your Personal Data only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purposes.

Sharing your Personal Information

We share your Personal Information with third parties to help us use your Personal Information, as described above. For example, we use Shopify to power our online store--you can read more about how Shopify uses your Personal Information here: https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy. We also use Google Analytics to help us understand how our customers use the Site--you can read more about how Google uses your Personal Information here: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/. You can also opt-out of Google Analytics here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Finally, we may also share your Personal Information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other lawful request for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights.

Analytics

We may use third-party Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service.

Google Analytics – Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Service. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network. You can opt-out of having made your activity on the Service available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js, and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity. For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en

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Links To Other Sites

Our Service may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third party sites or services.

All matters concerning orders between you and any third party vendor, including but not limited to loan terms, mortgage terms, purchase terms, payment terms, warranties, guarantees, maintenance, and delivery, are solely between you and the third-party vendor. thepuzzlenerds.com does not endorse, warrant, or guarantee any product or service offered through this web site or any related communications such as email or newsletter and will not be a party to or monitor any transaction between you and third-party providers of products or services.

You should always exercise appropriate caution and perform due diligence when transacting with any vendor, as you alone are responsible for your decision to transact with any third party vendor of loans, mortgages, services, or products. You will not consider thepuzzlenerds.com, nor will thepuzzlenerds.com be construed as a party to such transactions, whether or not thepuzzlenerds.com may have received some form of revenue or other remuneration in connection with the transaction. thepuzzlenerds.com will not liable for any costs or damages arising out of, either directly or indirectly, you or any other person involved or related to any transaction with a third-party vendor.

Children Policy

Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 18 (“Children”). We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 18. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your Child has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.

User-generated content we never allow on thepuzzlenerds.com:

Because thepuzzlenerds.com may host message boards, comments, forums, and receive electronic communications on the site and therefore redistribute material that is submitted or posted by you, we must obtain certain rights over those materials. By sending or transmitting to us creative suggestions, ideas, notes, concepts, information, or other materials (collectively, “Materials”), or by posting such Materials to any area of the site, you grant us and our designees a worldwide, non-exclusive, sub-licensable, assignable, royalty free, perpetual, irrevocable right to use, reproduce, distribute, create derivative works of, publicly perform, publicly display, digitally perform, make, have made, sell, offer for sale and import such Materials in any media now known or hereafter developed, for any purpose whatsoever, commercial or otherwise, without compensation to the provider of the Materials. None of the Materials disclosed in message boards, comments, or other forums shall be subject to any obligation, whether of confidentiality, attribution, or otherwise, on our part and we shall not be liable for any use or disclosure of any Materials.

You also warrant that the holder of any Rights in such content has completely and effectively waived all such rights and validly and irrevocably granted to you the right to grant the license stated above. You acknowledge that transmissions to, from and/or through this site are not confidential, and your communications may be read, changed, or interrupted by others. You acknowledge that by using or accessing this site no confidential, fiduciary, contractually implied or other relationship is created between you and thepuzzlenerds.com.

Furthermore, user-generated content may be removed for the following reasons:

Content created solely for the purpose of advertising or other commercial content, including company logos, company names, links, images, videos or banners, spam, unwanted contact, or content that is shared repeatedly in a disruptive manner.
Content that endorses or promotes illegal or harmful activity or that is profane, vulgar, obscene, threatening, or harassing.
Content that is discriminatory.
Attempts to impersonate another person, account, or entity, including a representative of thepuzzlenerds.com.
Content that is illegal or that violates another person’s or entity’s rights, including intellectual property rights and privacy rights
Content that is sufficient to identify a listing’s location or other content that may pose a personal safety risk to a thepuzzlenerds.com community member.

Code of Conduct

While using thepuzzlenerds.com you agree to comply with all applicable laws, rules, and regulations. In addition, you specifically agree not to:

Use the site for any unlawful purpose.
Transmit any content or information that is unlawful, fraudulent, abusive, libelous, defamatory, obscene, or otherwise objectionable, or infringes on our or any third party’s intellectual property or other rights.
Transmit any content or non-public information about companies without the authorization to do so or any trade secret of any third party.
Transmit any content or information such as advertisements, solicitations, chain letters, pyramid schemes, investment opportunities, or other unsolicited commercial communication except as otherwise specifically permitted by us.
Engage in spamming or flooding.
Transmit any software or other materials that contain any virus, worm, time bomb, Trojan horse, or other harmful or disruptive components.
Modify, adapt, sublicense, translate, sell, reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble any portion of the site.
Harvest or collect information about site visitors or members without their express consent.
Restrict or inhibit any other visitor or member from using the site, including, without limitation, by means of “hacking” or “cracking” or defacing any portion of the site.
Remove any copyright, trademark, or other proprietary rights notices contained in the sites.
Frame or mirror any part of the site without our prior written authorization
Use any robot, spider, site search/retrieval application, or other manual or automatic device or process to retrieve, index, data mine, or in any way reproduce or circumvent the navigational structure or presentation of the site or it’s contents.
Express or imply that any statements you make are endorsed by us, without our prior written consent.
You alone are responsible for the content and the consequences of your communications. thepuzzlenerds.com reserves the right to terminate your site usage privileges immediately and without notice, if it becomes aware and determines, in its sole discretion, that you are violating any of the Terms and Conditions of Use.

thepuzzlenerds.com reserves the right, but in no way shall we be obligated or required, to delete any inappropriate, objectionable, or offensive material from our site. We intend to fully cooperate with any law enforcement officials and/or agencies in the investigation of any person or persons who violate these Terms of Use or any law.

Changes To This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. We will let you know via email and/or a prominent notice on our Service, prior to the change becoming effective and update the “effective date” at the top of this Privacy Policy. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

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