Privacy Policy

The Black Belt News Network respects your privacy and are committed to protecting it through compliance with our privacy policy. This policy describes the types of information we may collect from you and our practices for collecting data, including using cookies and other tracking technologies to facilitate serving relevant ads to you.

We may use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies may use information (not including any Personally-Identifying Information) about your visits to the website and other websites that are contained in web cookies in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. Using a tool created by the Network Advertising Initiative, you can opt out of several third-party ad servers’ and networks’ web cookies simultaneously. 

DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYTICS

In addition to information collected through cookies and for advertising purposes, we collect and process other data to operate our business and improve our services, including:

- Website analytics and usage metrics through services like Google Analytics

- Financial information related to our operations

- Information about our funding sources and supporters

- Other operational metrics necessary for business intelligence purposes

SERVICE PROVIDERS AND THIRD PARTIES

We may share your information with various third parties who perform services on our behalf, including:

- Website hosting and technology providers

- Analytics companies that help us understand our audience

- Financial service providers that facilitate our operations

- Business intelligence and reporting tools that help us make data-driven decisions

- Other service providers necessary for our operations

We require all third parties to respect the security of your information and to treat it in accordance with the law. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your information for their own purposes and only permit them to process your information for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.

If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, please follow the following links: http://networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp, http://preferences-mgr.truste.com/, or http://www.aboutads.info/choices/. Please contact us if you would like to know the identity of the third-party advertising companies we are currently using to serve ads.