Your privacy is important to us

It is Variety Talk’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website. This Privacy Policy applies to varietytalk.com (hereinafter, “us”, “we”, or “varietytalk.com”). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting personally identifiable information you may provide us through the Website. We have adopted this privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) to explain what information may be collected on our Website, how we use this information, and under what circumstances we may disclose the information to third parties. This Privacy Policy applies only to information we collect through the Website and does not apply to our collection of information from other sources.

This Privacy Policy, together with the Terms of service posted on our Website, set forth the general rules and policies governing your use of our Website. Depending on your activities when visiting our Website, you may be required to agree to additional terms of service.

Website Disclaimer

The content of this website is provided for information purposes only. Every effort is made to ensure the site is up to date and accurate, no legal liability or other responsibility is accepted by or on behalf of the varietytalk.com for any errors, omissions, or statements on this site, or any site to which these pages connect.

Any action you take upon the information on this website is strictly at your own risk, and we will not be liable for any losses and damages in connection with the use of our website.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, Variety Talk collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Variety Talk’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Variety Talk’s visitors use its website. From time to time, Variety Talk may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

Variety Talk also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on https://varietytalk.com blog posts. Variety Talk only discloses logged in user and commenters IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to Variety Talk’s websites choose to interact with Variety Talk in ways that require Variety Talk to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Variety Talk gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up for a blog at https://varietytalk.com to provide a username and email address.

Security

The security of your Personal Information is important to us, but remembers 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 Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Advertisements

Ads appearing on our website may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Variety Talk and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Links To External Sites

Our Service may contain links to external 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 and terms of service 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, products or services.

Variety Talk uses Google AdWords for re-marketing

Variety Talk uses the re-marketing services to advertise on third party websites (including Google) to previous visitors to our site. It could mean that we advertise to previous visitors who haven’t completed a task on our site, for example using the contact form to make an inquiry. This could be in the form of an advertisement on the Google search results page, or a site in the Google Display Network. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on someone’s past visits. Of course, any data collected will be used in accordance with our own privacy policy and Google’s privacy policy.

You can set preferences for how Google advertises to you using the Google Ad Preferences page, and if you want to you can opt out of interest-based advertising entirely by cookie settings or permanently using a browser plugin.

Aggregated Statistics

Variety Talk may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its website. Variety Talk may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Variety Talk does not disclose your personally-identifying information.

CCPA Privacy Rights (Do Not Sell My Personal Information)

Under the CCPA, among other rights, California consumers have the right to:

Request that a business that collects a consumer’s personal data disclose the categories and specific pieces of personal data that a business has collected about consumers.

Request that a business delete any personal data about the consumer that a business has collected.

Request that a business that sells a consumer’s personal data, not sell the consumer’s personal data.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.

Affiliate Disclosure

This site uses affiliate links and does earn a commission from certain links. This does not affect your purchases or the price you may pay.

Cookies

To enrich and perfect your online experience, Variety Talk uses “Cookies”, similar technologies and services provided by others to display personalized content, appropriate advertising and store your preferences on your computer.

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Variety Talk uses cookies to help Variety Talk identify and track visitors, their usage of https://varietytalk.com/, and their website access preferences. Variety Talk visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Variety Talk’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of Variety Talk’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

By continuing to navigate our website without changing your cookie settings, you hereby acknowledge and agree to Variety Talk’s use of cookies.

GDPR Data Protection Rights

We would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:

The right to access – You have the right to request copies of your personal data. We may charge you a small fee for this service.

The right to rectification – You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request that we complete the information you believe is incomplete.

The right to erasure – You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to data portability – You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.

Children’s Information

Another part of our priority is adding protection for children while using the internet. We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate in, and/or monitor and guide their online activity.

Variety Talk does not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information from children under the age of 13. If you think that your child provided this kind of information on our website, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately and we will do our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.

Business Transfers

If Variety Talk, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Variety Talk goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of Variety Talk may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Variety Talk may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Variety Talk’s sole discretion. Variety Talk encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.