Blogs.Monster Privacy Policy

Blogs.Monster Privacy Policy

Last Updated: October 15, 2021

**Blogs.Monster Inc.** knows you care about how your personal information is used and shared, and we take your privacy seriously. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, and share your personally identifiable information (**“Personal Information”**) through our website (www.Blogs.Monster.com) and our services. Please read it carefully.

Remember that your use of **Blogs.Monster** is at all times subject to the **Terms of Use**, which incorporates this Privacy Policy. Any terms we use in this Privacy Policy without defining them have the definitions given to them in the Terms of Use.

This Privacy Policy includes additional notices that may apply to you if you are a California consumer. Please see the section further below titled **“Additional Notices for California Residents”** for more details.

What does this Privacy Policy cover?

This Privacy Policy details how we collect, receive, use, store, share, transfer and process your Personal Information. It also describes the choices you have regarding the use of your Personal Information, as well as your rights and how you execute these rights.

This Privacy Policy only applies to the processing of your Personal Information by **Blogs.Monster** as a data controller, meaning where we process your Personal Information for our purposes. This Privacy Policy does not apply to any processing of your Personal Information by **Blogs.Monster** as a data processor on behalf of a Publisher. Publishers will have their own privacy practices governing their use of Personal Information as outlined in their own terms of use and/or privacy policies.

Will Blogs.Monster ever change this Privacy Policy?

We’re constantly trying to improve our services, so we may need to change this Privacy Policy from time to time as well, but we will alert you to changes by placing a notice on our site, by sending you an email, and/or by some other means.

Please note that if you’ve opted not to receive legal notice emails from us (or you haven’t provided us with your email address), those legal notices will still govern your use of **Blogs.Monster**, and you are still responsible for reading and understanding them.

What Information does Blogs.Monster collect?

We collect and process Personal Information about you when you interact with us and our services, as well as when you subscribe to any of our paid or unpaid services. This may include:

  • your first and last name;
  • your email address;
  • your phone number;
  • your payment details (including billing address, credit card details, where you make a purchase from us);
  • your location and/or mailing address;
  • your photograph;
  • your marketing preferences, including any consents you have given us;
  • information related to the browser or device you use to access our website (including your IP address);
  • any information we collect online from you and maintain in association with your account, such as your username and password;
  • your subscription status with **Blogs.Monster** newsletters;
  • any other information you provide us when communicating with us.

We also collect information on the use of our website via Cookies. Please view the section **“Cookies”** below for more information.

How does Blogs.Monster use your Personal Information?

We process this Personal Information for the following purposes:

  • To establish and fulfill a contract with you, for example when you subscribe to a subscription Service. This may include verifying your identity, taking payments, communicating with you, providing customer service;
  • As required by Blogs.Monster to enable our business and pursue our legitimate interests. In particular we use you Personal Information for the following purposes:
    • to provide services you have requested, and respond to any communications, comments or complaints you send us;
    • to monitor the use of our services and to help us monitor, improve and protect our services, content and website;
    • allow you to create, maintain, customize and secure your account with us;
    • to personalize our services for you;
    • to monitor any user accounts to prevent, investigate and/or report fraud, misrepresentation, terrorism, security incidents or crime in accordance with applicable law;
    • to invite you to take part in surveys or market research.
  • Compliance with applicable laws and protection of Blogs.Monster’s legitimate business interests and legal rights, including but not limited to use in connection with legal claims, compliance, regulatory, investigative purposes...

Where our use of Personal Information is made pursuant to a balancing of our legitimate interests with your privacy interest, we will provide more information about our balancing analysis and process on request. Please send any such requests to privacy@Blogs.Monsterinc.com.

How will Blogs.Monster share the Personal Information it receives?

We may share your Personal Information with third parties as described below:

  • Affiliates: We may disclose your Personal Information to our subsidiaries and/or corporate affiliates for the purposes as described above.
  • Publishers: when you subscribe to a Publisher’s newsletter, we provide them the information necessary (including your name and email address) to provide you their newsletter(s)...
  • Our Service Providers: We share your Personal Information with third party service providers that provide services on our behalf...
  • Other users: If your user profile allows it, you may choose to populate certain user profile information... Any user profile information uploaded may be displayed to other users...
  • Prospective sellers or buyers: We may share and/or transfer customer information in connection with the sale or merger of our business or assets...
  • Government authorities and/or law enforcement officials: If required for the purposes as described in this Privacy Policy, if mandated by law or if required for the legal protection of our legitimate interests in compliance with applicable laws...

Where will we send your Personal Information?

**Blogs.Monster** is established in the US and uses service providers established both in the US and in other countries to process Personal Information as described in this Privacy Policy. As such, your Personal Information may be shared internationally.

Is Personal Information about you secure?

Your account is protected by a password for your privacy and security. You must prevent unauthorized access to your account and Personal Information by selecting and protecting your password appropriately... We endeavor to protect the privacy of your account and other Personal Information we hold in our records, but unfortunately, we cannot guarantee complete security...

What are your rights?

Depending on applicable local laws, you may be entitled to ask **Blogs.Monster** for a copy of your Personal Information, to correct it, erase or restrict its processing, or to ask us to transfer some of this information to other organizations...

We hope that we can satisfy any queries you may have about the way we process your Personal Information. If you have any concerns about how we process your Personal Information, or would like to opt out of marketing, you can get in touch at privacy@Blogs.Monsterinc.com.

You can access, edit, or delete some personal information by yourself

Through your account settings, you may access, and, in some cases, edit or delete the following information you’ve provided to us: name and password, email address, user profile information, including images you may have uploaded to the site. If you have any questions about viewing or updating information we have on file about you, please contact us at privacy@Blogs.Monsterinc.com.

You can unsubscribe from our marketing communications

You may unsubscribe from our marketing communications by clicking on the **“unsubscribe”** link located on the bottom of our e-mails, updating your communication preferences or by contacting us at privacy@Blogs.Monsterinc.com.

You have the right to complain to your local data protection authority

In the event you have unresolved concerns, please note that you have the right to complain to a data protection authority...

How long will Blogs.Monster retain your data?

We retain information about you only for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected...

Automated individual decision-making, including profiling

We do not process your Personal Information for automated individual decision-making, including profiling.

Cookies

We use cookies on our website... We use the following categories of cookies on our website:

  • Category 1: Strictly Necessary Cookies
  • Category 2: Performance Cookies
  • Category 3: Functionality Cookies

Publisher cookies

In addition to the cookies **Blogs.Monster** uses, Publishers on **Blogs.Monster** may choose to set certain tracking and analytics cookies, subject to the Publisher’s own terms and policies...

Disabling and opting-out of cookies

Current versions of web browsers offer enhanced user controls regarding the placement and duration of both first and third party cookies...

Questions about this policy?

The data controller for this processing is **Blogs.Monster, Inc.**

If you have any questions or concerns regarding our privacy policies, please send us a detailed message to privacy@Blogs.Monsterinc.com.