Privacy Policy

Privacy

Explore.com provides this Privacy Policy to inform users of our policies and procedures regarding the collection, use and disclosure of personally identifiable information received from users of Explore's website, located at the domain Explore.com (the "Explore Website"). Please note that this Privacy Policy only applies to the Explore Website.

Information Collection and Use

It is not necessary to provide Explore with your personally identifiable information to use the Explore Website, and Explore does not collect personally identifiable information in connection with the operation of the Explore Website.  If you contact Explore by email through the Explore Website, Explore may keep a record of your contact information and correspondence, and may use your email address, and any information that you provide to Explore in your message, to respond to you.  Explore treats this information as it would treat any other unsolicited business correspondence, and has no obligation to keep this information confidential, nor to take any security measures to protect this information.

When you visit the Explore Website, Explore's servers automatically record information that your browser sends whenever you visit a website ("Log Data"). This Log Data may include information such as your IP address, browser type or the domain from which you are visiting. For most users accessing the Internet from an Internet service provider, the IP address will be different every time you log on. Explore uses Log Data to monitor use of the Explore Website and the services we offer via the Explore Website and for the Explore Website's technical administration.

Cookies and Other Analytic Tools

Like many websites, Explore also uses "cookie" technology to collect additional website usage data and to improve the Explore Website and the services offered via the Web Site. A cookie is a small data file that Explore's servers transfer to your computer's hard disk. Explore may also use tracking pixels. Tracking pixels are small graphic images, which are used in email messages to determine whether the messages were opened and the links were clicked, or are used on the Explore Website to collect information about the browser and device viewing the Explore Website. Explore does not use cookies or tracking pixels to collect personally identifiable information.

Explore mainly uses "session cookies", which enable certain features of the Explore Website and services offered via the Explore Website, to better understand how you interact with the Web Site and services we offer via the Explore Website, to monitor aggregate usage by our users and web traffic routing on the Explore Website, and to improve the Explore Website and services offered via the Explore Website. Session cookies should be deleted from your computer when you disconnect from or leave the Explore Website.

Explore also uses a persistent cookie that stays on your computer after you leave the Explore Website, for the sole purpose of ensuring that you receive a variety of Explore content (also called "frequency-capping").

Third Party Advertisers

The Explore Website includes advertising from third party advertisers. Explore does not provide any personally identifiable information to these advertisers.

Third party advertisers, or companies working on their behalf, may serve directly to your browser the advertisements that appear on the Explore Website, which allows them to receive Log Data (as defined above). They may also use cookies, JavaScript, tracking pixels and other technologies to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize advertising content. Explore does not control any third party advertiser tracking or measurement technologies, and the information practices of third party advertisers are not covered by this Privacy Policy. Please contact them directly for more information about their privacy practices.

Opting Out

Most Internet browsers automatically accept cookies. You can instruct your browser, by editing its options, to stop accepting cookies or to prompt you before accepting a cookie from the websites you visit. If you choose not to receive tracking pixels, you will need to disable HTML images in your email program and browser, but that may affect images in other emails you receive and the web pages you browse.

Explore also uses analytics technologies such as Google Analytics, Quantcast and comScore. For Google's privacy practices see www.google.com/analytics/learn/privacy.html and to opt out of data recording and analysis by Google Analytics on the Explore Website, see https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. For Quantcast's privacy practices see https://www.quantcast.com/privacy/, and to opt out of receiving interest-based content and ads enabled by Quantcast, see https://www.quantcast.com/opt-out/. For comScore's privacy practices see http://www.comscore.com/About-comScore/Privacy-Policy and http://www.scorecardresearch.com/privacy.aspx, and to opt out of having comScore associate site visits with your browser, see http://www.scorecardresearch.com/preferences.aspx.

Explore may allow third-party companies, including ad networks, to serve advertisements, provide other advertising services and/or collect certain information when you visit our website.

To learn more about Interest-Based Advertising or to opt-out of this type of advertising by those third parties that are members of self-regulatory programs such as the Network Advertising Initiative, please visit the NAI's website <http://optout.networkadvertising.org>, which will allow you to opt out of Interest-Based Advertising by one, or all, NAI members.

Do Not Track

Some web browsers may transmit "do not track" signals to the websites and other online services with which the browser communicates. Explore currently does not take action in response to these signals. Also, please note that regardless of Explore's practices with respect to "do not track" signals, third party service providers Explore has engaged may use cookies to collect your personal information or online activities over time and across different web sites. For more information regarding Do Not Track mechanisms, see http://allaboutdnt.com/.

Information Sharing and Disclosure

Explore cooperates with government and law enforcement officials or private parties, to enforce and comply with the law. Explore may disclose any information about you to government or law enforcement officials or private parties as Explore, in its sole discretion, believes necessary or appropriate to respond to claims, legal process (including subpoenas), to protect the property and rights of Explore or a third party, the safety of the public or any person, to prevent or stop any illegal, unethical, or legally actionable activity, or to comply with the law.

If any or all of the assets of Explore are acquired by, or merged with another entity, Explore will share with this entity some or all of the information collected through the Explore Website.

Security

Because Explore does not collect any personally identifiable information from the Explore Website, Explore does not take any specific security measures to protect the information we do collect.

Links to Other Sites

The Explore Website may contain links to other web sites ("Linked Sites") operated by Explore or third parties. Linked Sites may place their own cookies or other files on your computer, collect data or solicit personal information from you. This Privacy Policy addresses only the use and disclosure of information that Explore collects through the Explore Website. Other sites follow different rules regarding the use or disclosure of the personal information you submit to them. Explore does not exercise control over third party Linked Sites. Your use of any Linked Site operated by Explore is subject to the terms and conditions provided by Explore for such Linked Site.  Explore encourages you to read the privacy policies or statements of the other websites you visit.

Our Policy Towards Children

The Explore Website is not directed to children under 18. If a parent or guardian becomes aware that his or her child has provided Explore with personally identifiable information without their consent, he or she should contact Explore at staff@Explore.com.  If Explore becomes aware that a child under 13 has provided Explore with personally identifiable information, Explore will remove such information from our files.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

Explore reserves the right to change this policy at any time without prior notice. Any changes to this policy will be posted here.  You are advised to consult this Privacy Policy regularly for any changes. If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at staff@Explore.com.

Last Update: January 6, 2017

Mediavine Programmatic Advertising (Ver 1.1)

The Website works with Mediavine to manage third-party interest-based advertising appearing on the Website. Mediavine serves content and advertisements when you visit the Website, which may use first and third-party cookies. A cookie is a small text file which is sent to your computer or mobile device (referred to in this policy as a "device") by the web server so that a website can remember some information about your browsing activity on the Website.

First party cookies are created by the website that you are visiting. A third-party cookie is frequently used in behavioral advertising and analytics and is created by a domain other than the website you are visiting. Third-party cookies, tags, pixels, beacons and other similar technologies (collectively, "Tags") may be placed on the Website to monitor interaction with advertising content and to target and optimize advertising. Each internet browser has functionality so that you can block both first and third-party cookies and clear your browser's cache. The "help" feature of the menu bar on most browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new cookies, how to receive notification of new cookies, how to disable existing cookies and how to clear your browser's cache. For more information about cookies and how to disable them, you can consult the information at All About Cookies.

Without cookies you may not be able to take full advantage of the Website content and features. Please note that rejecting cookies does not mean that you will no longer see ads when you visit our Site. In the event you opt-out, you will still see non-personalized advertisements on the Website.

The Website collects the following data using a cookie when serving personalized ads:

  • IP Address
  • Operating System type
  • Operating System version
  • Device Type
  • Language of the website
  • Web browser type
  • Email (in hashed form)

Mediavine Partners (companies listed below with whom Mediavine shares data) may also use this data to link to other end user information the partner has independently collected to deliver targeted advertisements. Mediavine Partners may also separately collect data about end users from other sources, such as advertising IDs or pixels, and link that data to data collected from Mediavine publishers in order to provide interest-based advertising across your online experience, including devices, browsers and apps. This data includes usage data, cookie information, device information, information about interactions between users and advertisements and websites, geolocation data, traffic data, and information about a visitor's referral source to a particular website. Mediavine Partners may also create unique IDs to create audience segments, which are used to provide targeted advertising.

If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices to opt-in or opt-out of this data collection, please visit National Advertising Initiative opt out page. You may also visit Digital Advertising Alliance website and Network Advertising Initiative website to learn more information about interest-based advertising. You may download the AppChoices app at Digital Advertising Alliance's AppChoices app to opt out in connection with mobile apps, or use the platform controls on your mobile device to opt out.

For specific information about Mediavine Partners, the data each collects and their data collection and privacy policies, please visit Mediavine Partners.