BabyPips.com does not send SPAM or sell email addresses.

Last Updated: May 01, 2024

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BabyPips.com LLC (“BabyPips.com” or “babypips.com” or “we” or “us” or “site”) is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy sets out our privacy policy and explains what we do with the personal information that we collect from you.

If you have any questions or concerns regarding this policy, you should contact us at [email protected].

 

This Privacy Policy answers the following questions:

  • What information do we collect about you?
  • How do we collect information about you?
  • How do we use your personal information?
  • What are your rights as a user of our site?
  • Do we share your personal information?
  • How do we respect children’s privacy?
  • Will you ever transfer my information?
  • How do we protect your information?
  • How will you know when this privacy policy has changed?

What information does BabyPips.com collect about you?

BabyPips.com collects information about site visitors and members in different ways.  

Information You Provide

We may ask you for some or all of the following types of information when you register with our site, access various content or features, register for contests or sweepstakes, submit comments and other content, order products, apply for a job, or directly contact us with questions or feedback.

  • Display name, username, and email address,
  • Stories, comments, and photos shared in our forums or through commenting systems,
  • Communication preferences,
  • Search queries,
  • Payment information, such as credit card number and expiration date,
  • Personal details required for identity and job verification when applying for a job,
  • Correspondence and other information that you send to us

The information you provide may include Personal Information.  Please be aware, that by posting information to forums or social networking facilities available via our site, you will be making this information available to the public. You should be careful about revealing any sensitive details about yourself.

Information Automatically Collected

We also may collect certain information automatically when you visit the site (“Usage Information”), including:

  • Device Information, including but not limited to unique device identifiers, screen resolutions, browser types, browser language, and operating systems,
  • IP addresses, which is the number assigned to an Internet-connected device such as a tablet or smartphone,
  • Geolocation information, including but not limited to your Internet provider or host,
  • Sites you visited before visiting our site,
  • Pages you view and links you click on within our site,
  • Information collected through cookies, web beacons, and other technologies,
  • Information about your interactions with e-mail messages, such as the links clicked on and whether the messages were opened or forwarded,
  • Local storage information (including personal information), collected from and stored locally on your device, using mechanisms such as browser web storage (including HTML 5), which allows for data to be stored on a browser even after the browser has been closed and the reopened, and application data caches, which allow for data to be stored on your device, enabling an application to run without an Internet connection and to load content faster.

Except to the extent required by applicable law, we do not consider Usage Information to be Personal Information. However, Usage Information may be combined with your Personal Information. To the extent that we combine Usage Information with your Personal Information, we will treat the combined information as Personal Information under this Privacy Policy.

Other than a username, email address, and IP address provided at your discretion, we don’t generally collect any other forms of “personally identifying information”.  BabyPips.com does not buy or otherwise receive data about you from data brokers.

How does BabyPips.com collect data about you?

BabyPips.com collects data when you use or browse the site, whether you use the site using a web browser on your own computer, tablet, or mobile device.  We Use IP Addresses, Cookies, Web Beacons, and Other Technologies to automatically collect usage information

IP Addresses

Your Web browser or email application automatically provides your Internet Protocol address (“IP address”) to other computers with which you communicate over the Internet so that they know where to send you information.

We receive an IP address each time you view one of our Web pages because the browser automatically reports it to us. We also may store the IP address when you register with BabyPips.com, post a message, or buy something from us.

We may use IP addresses for various purposes, including:

  • Diagnosing service or technology problems.
  • Assessing and maintaining system security.
  • Displaying the most appropriate advertising or content.
  • Studying how people use our site and how we can improve it.
  • Reporting to advertisers about aggregate, but not individual, information derived from IP addresses.

Cookies

Data collection devices, such as “cookies,” are used to store, and sometimes track, information about you. Generally, these cookies help provide personalized services and promote trust and safety. We use cookies to deliver a more personalized service to you. We also may use cookies to measure your visiting patterns in the aggregate. We use this research to understand how our users’ habits are similar or different from one another so that we can make each new experience on BabyPips.com a better one. We may also use this information to better personalize the content, banners, and promotions that you and other Users will see on our site.

You are always free to decline our cookies if you wish and if your browser permits, however, please know that doing so may interfere with the proper functioning of certain parts of our site.

Some of our third-party advertising partners may distribute cookies to users of our site or in advertisements that are provided to us. BabyPips.com has no access to or control over these cookies from third parties. These advertisers may be engaging in online behavioral advertising as defined by the Digital Advertising Alliance and FTC.

Web Beacons

We use web beacons (invisible images often referred to as pixel tags or clear GIFs) on our site in order to recognize users, assess traffic patterns, identify preferred content, and measure site engagement. We also include web beacons in our email messages, including newsletters, in order to count how many email messages have been opened.

We also use reputable third parties to collect information, through the use of web beacons, browser cookies, and other tracking technologies. We may collect various data provided by your browser while you are on our site via web beacons. This data is collected in aggregate but may include or be associated with other non-personal information or personal information that users have voluntarily submitted.

Embedded Scripts

An embedded script is programming code designed to collect information about your interactions with the Services. It is temporarily downloaded onto your device from our web server or a third party with whom we work is active only while you are connected to the Services, and is deleted or deactivated thereafter.

Single Sign-On
You can log in to our site using a Single Sign-on (SSO) service like your Google or Facebook account. This service will authenticate your identity and provide you the option to share certain personal information with us such as your name and email address to pre-populate our sign-up form.  Such services may give you the option to post information about your activities on this site to your profile page to share with others within your network.

Other Technologies

Other Technologies are technologies that store information in your browser or device utilizing local shared objects or local storage, such as flash cookies, HTML cookies, and other web application software methods. These technologies can operate across all of your browsers, and in some instances may not be fully managed by your browser and may require management directly through your installed applications or device

Third Parties

We may obtain information about you from other sources, including service providers and third-party services, and combine such information with information we have collected about you.  To the extent we combine such third-party sourced information with Personal Information we have collected about you on the Services, we will treat the combined information as Personal Information under this Privacy Policy. We are not responsible for the accuracy of any information provided by third parties or third-party policies or practices

How does BabyPips.com use your personal information?

BabyPips.com collects personal information to provide you, the user, with the best and most personalized experience possible, and to provide our advertisers with an efficient way to reach the right audience. In short, by knowing a little about you, BabyPips.com can deliver more relevant content and advertisements to you.

Our uses of your personal can fall into the following general categories:

  1. Operationally Necessary. We may use cookies, web beacons, or other similar technologies that are necessary to the operation of our site, services, applications, and tools. This includes technologies that allow you access to our site, services, applications, and tools, that are required to identify irregular site behavior, prevent fraudulent activity, and improve security, or that allow you to make use of our functions such as saved search, or similar functions.  
  2. Performance-Related. We may use cookies, web beacons, or other similar technologies to assess the performance of our site, applications, services, and tools, including as part of our analytic practices to help us understand how our visitors use our site, determine if you have interacted with our messaging, determine whether you have viewed an item or link, or to improve our website content, applications, services, or tools;
  3. Functionality-Related. We may use cookies, web beacons, or other similar technologies that allow us to offer you enhanced functionality when accessing or using our site, services, applications, or tools. This may include identifying you when you sign into our site or keeping track of your specified preferences, interests, or past items viewed so that we may enhance the presentation of content on our site;
  4. Advertising or Targeting-Related. We may use first-party or third-party cookies and web beacons to deliver content, including ads relevant to your interests, on our site or on third-party sites. This includes using technologies to understand the usefulness of the advertisements and content that has been delivered to you, such as whether you have clicked on an advertisement.

More specific purposes for our use of your personal information include:

  • Contacting you with surveys, legal notices, and other information that may be relevant to your use of our site,
  • Maintaining or administering our site, performing business analyses, or for other internal purposes to improve the quality of our business, the site, and other products and services we offer,
  • Publishing stories, comments, and other information posted in our interactive online features,
  • Processing employment applications and inquiries,
  • Creating articles and other content,
  • Conduct research on our user’s demographics, interests, and behavior based on the information you provide us when you register, use the site, or participate in contests or other promotions on our site, or based upon the information on our server log files. This research is compiled and analyzed on an aggregated basis and cannot individually identify you.

Use of these technologies by authorized third-party service providers

We may work with third-party companies, commonly known as service providers, who are authorized to place third-party cookies, web beacons, or similar technologies for storing information on our site or in our services, applications, and tools with our permission. These service providers help us to provide you with a better, faster, and safer experience.

These service providers may use these technologies to help us deliver our own content and advertising, and compile anonymous site metrics and analytics. We do not permit any of these service providers to collect any of your personal information on our site or in our services, applications, or tools for their own purposes. Third-party cookies are covered by the third parties’ privacy policy.

With the exception of the use of such technologies by our service providers or other authorized third parties, we do not permit any third-party content on our site to include or utilize any cookies, web beacons, local storage, or similar technologies for tracking purposes or to collect your personal information. If you believe a listing or other third-party content might be collecting personal information or using tracking technologies on our site, please report it to [email protected].

Our Third-Party Service Providers

Ad networks and exchanges operated by authorized third parties

We may use third parties, such as advertising networks or exchanges, to allow us to serve you advertisements. These third-party ad networks and exchange providers may use third-party cookies, web beacons, or similar technologies to collect information. They may also collect your device identifier, IP address, or identifier for advertising (IDFA). The information that these third parties collect may be used to assist us in providing you with more relevant advertising that we serve on our site. Third-party cookies are covered by the third parties’ privacy policy.

Many of our advertisers or partners link from our site to areas on their own sites where they sell their own products and services.  If you follow links from our site to others, you should be aware that you are doing business with those other sites, which have their own privacy and data collection practices. BabyPips.com makes a reasonable effort to make sure our advertising partners have legitimate business practices, but we will not be responsible or liable for these independent policies (and we may not even know what they are). For more information regarding a site and its privacy policies, please review that site’s terms of service, privacy policy and/or cookie policy.

Your Rights as a User.

You can request access, correction, updates, or deletion of your personal information at any time.  Send your requests to an administrator at [email protected].

Your Choices and our use of cookies, web beacons, and similar technologies

We offer certain site features, services, applications, and tools that are available only through the use of these technologies. You are always free to block, delete, or disable these technologies if your browser, installed application, or device so permits. However, if you decline cookies or other similar technologies, you may not be able to take advantage of certain site features, services, applications, or tools. You may also be required to re-enter your password more frequently during your browsing session. For more information on how you can block, delete, or disable these technologies, please review your browser or device settings.

Generally, these technologies allow our site, services, applications, and tools to store relevant information in your browser or device and later read that information in order to identify you to our servers or internal systems. Where applicable, we protect our cookies and other similar technologies to help ensure that only we and/or our authorized service providers can interpret them by assigning them a unique identifier that is designed for interpretation only by us. We do not store any of your personal information on any of our cookies or other similar technologies

Your Choices and Advertising on our Site

We partner with a third-party ad network to either display advertising on our site or to manage our advertising on other sites. Our ad network partner uses cookies and Web beacons to collect information about your activities on this and other sites to provide you with targeted advertising based on your interests.  If you wish to not have this information used for the purpose of serving you targeted ads, you may opt out by clicking here (or if located in the European Union, by clicking here). Please note this does not opt you out of being served advertising.  You will continue to receive generic ads.

U.S. readers also interested in opting out of certain data collection processes should visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s Opt-Out Page.

To Unsubscribe From Our Communications
You may unsubscribe from our marketing communications by clicking on the “unsubscribe” link located on the bottom of our email newsletters, updating your communication preferences, or by sending an email to [email protected].

Does BabyPips.com share your personal information?

BabyPips.com will not disclose any personally identifiable information about individual users, except as described in this Privacy Policy.   

We do not give, rent, lend, or sell individual information to our advertisers.

We will share personal information with companies, organizations or individuals outside of BabyPips.com when we have your opt-in or other consent to do so.

We may share your information publicly and with our partners such as service providers, third-party content providers, advertisers or connected sites, but in a manner that does not reveal your personally identifiable information and which is aggregated with other user information to show usage of BabyPips.com and third-party products and services offered on our site and trends based on such categories as age, gender, geographical origination, and other demographic characteristics.  For example, we might tell an advertiser that there are 20,000 registered email subscribers in Gotham City, but we will not tell them that Batman is one of them, nor will we tell them that his email address is [email protected].

If you post content to our site, in on our forums or through any commenting or messaging systems, other site users will be able to see your posted content and may communicate with you.  If you send communications through our site using our Forums Message feature, the recipients of your communications, and anyone they send your communication to, along with our site administrators, will be able to see your communications.  If you do not want others to see your posted information or correspondence, or communicate with you, please do not post anything to or through our site.

Business Sales or Bankruptcy

In the event of a sale or other transfer of assets or of any portion of our business, we reserve the right to transfer any and all information that we collect from visitors, or that we otherwise collect concerning or in connection with the site, to a third party. In the event BabyPips.com enters a business transition, such as a merger, acquisition by another company, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, your personally identifiable information may be among the assets transferred.  We’ll notify you well before any info about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.

As Required by Law

We may disclose account information where we have reason to believe that disclosing the information is necessary to identify, contact, or bring legal action against someone who may be violating the law or may be causing injury to or interference with (either intentionally or unintentionally) BabyPips.com’s rights or property, other site users, or anyone else that could be harmed by such activities. BabyPips.com may disclose or access account information when we believe in good faith that the law requires it and for administrative and other purposes that we deem necessary to maintain, service, and improve our services.  

Do we respect children’s privacy?

Our site is not directed at children under the age of 13. We operate our site in compliance with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act and will not knowingly collect or use personally identifiable information from anyone under 13.  In the event that we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under age 13, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. If you believe that we might have any information from or about a child under age 13, please contact us at [email protected].

Will you ever transfer my information?

Our site is operated in the United States. If you are located in the European Union, EEA, or elsewhere outside of the United States, please be aware that any information you provide to us will be transferred to, and processed in, the United States. By using our site, participating in any of our services or providing us with your information, you consent to this transfer.

Also, third parties with whom we share, who process, or who store your data may also be located outside of the European Union, EEA or the country where you are connecting from.  We’ve made an effort to review and understand those third parties’ privacy policies and that they comply with existing privacy laws of the United States and GDPR. We cannot, however, guarantee that those third parties will continue to adhere to those laws and regulations at all times.

How do we protect your information?

Using magic, of course!  Just kidding.

We encrypt your information using SSL and require the use of VPNs and, in some instances, multi-factor authentication to gain access to company systems or service provider systems used to operate our site. We review our information collection, storage and processing practices, as well as restrict access to personal information to a limited set of company employees or service providers that are subject to the obligation of strict confidentiality as relates to that information, and who will be subject to discipline, including termination, if they violate that obligation.

We will do all that we reasonably can to ensure that all of the information you give us when paying is secure by using an encrypted secure payment mechanism and 3rd party payment processor. However, in the absence of negligence on our part, any failure by us to comply with this contract or our Privacy Policy or breach by us of our duties under applicable laws, we will not be legally responsible to you for any loss that you may suffer if a third party gains unauthorized access to any information that you give us.

How will you know whether BabyPips.com’s Privacy Policy has changed?

We may change this Privacy Policy at any time, but we will give notice of any material changes (or any notices that we are required to give you) on our website and/or in email messages.  When required by law, we will obtain your consent or reconsent of this Privacy Policy.

You can access, change, or delete your personal information at any time by contacting our support team at [email protected].

Last Updated: May 01, 2024