Privacy Policy

Oz Media Services LLC, dba “Oz Media” (“us,” “we,” or “our”) operates The Weather Station Experts’ website (the “Service”). This page informs you of our policies regarding collecting, using, and disclosing personal information when you use our Service. We will not use or share your information with anyone except as described in this Privacy Policy. We use your Personal Information for providing and improving the Service. By using the Service, you agree to the collection and use of information per this policy.

Our Privacy Policy, In Plain English

We understand that these privacy policies can be long and hard to read. While you should read the full policy, here’s a plain English summary of the contents.

We are strong proponents of online privacy and are grateful for the trust you place in us to keep your data safe. It is the reason why we request the minimum amount of information from users to provide the service and have taken additional security steps to keep attackers out.

We make every attempt to collect as little information as possible on our users while still being able to maintain an adequate level of service. In most situations, this is only your name and e-mail address. However, in some situations, such as contests and giveaways, we may need to ask for more information for shipping or legal reasons in your specific locality.

We don’t sell your information to third parties, nor disclose it to authorities without due cause or process. However, we and select third parties track your IP address and other information that isn’t linked to your personal identity for services like Google Analytics, spam blocking, and advertising through partners such as Ezoic and Google AdSense.

We have taken steps on our end to further protect your privacy. We don’t accept advertising from select categories with historically poor privacy practices (the full list is below, under “Advertising”). We are also working to limit our use of third-party cookies, ahead of the end of third-party cookie support in the Chrome web browser this year.

Clicking on links on our site may take you to third parties, some of which where we may be compensated for certain actions. Remember, when you leave our site, the privacy policy of the site you visit applies, not ours.

Information Collection And Use

While using our Service, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you. Personally identifiable information (“Personal Information”) typically includes, but is not limited to:

• Name
• E-mail address

Information collection and use may vary based on the application. We may require that you provide additional information, and when that occurs, we will specify in plain language the need for that data and its intended use. You can also choose to provide additional information above our requirements, but such participation is voluntary.

How This Data is Used

The above information is used solely by Oz Media and The Weather Station Experts for communication between us and you, the user. This data is not sold nor accessible by third parties.

For the purpose of this privacy policy, “third parties” are defined as individuals or organizations with a business relationship with us, but with no control over the day-to-day operations of our sites. In the event of an acquisition, all individuals who have shared information with us will have the opportunity to opt out and have any personally identifiable information removed prior to the finalization of the acquisition.

Log Data

We collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our Service (“Log Data”). This Log Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, and the time spent on those pages, and other statistics.

Additionally, we make use of the Google Analytics platform to understand our readers better. This software uses cookies, to obtain high-level “audience measurement” data such as the referral web domain, type of operating system/browser used, date and time of visit, and other information relating to activities on Our Site to understand its usage better, analyze trends, and optimize the Site experience. It is not linked to any personally identifiable information.

You may opt-out of Google Analytics tracking on Our Site and others by installing this Google-provided browser plug-in, available for several browsers including Google Chrome, Safari, and Firefox.

We also log the IP address, user agent, and referrer of all incoming visitors to our site, which is used by our security plugin, Wordfence. As a participant in the Wordfence Security Network, we send this information to Wordfence servers, where it is compared with a malicious IP database, and access to our services is granted or denied based on the results. Defiant, the parent company of Wordfence, stores this information for 90 days, unless the IP is used again for malicious purposes. In that case, the timer resets.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Cookies

Cookies are files with a small amount of data, which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your computer’s hard drive. We use “cookies” to collect information. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, it may render some portions of our Service unusable.

Google Analytics also uses cookies as part of its tracking code. Users are urged to read Google, Inc.’s privacy policy to understand how their data is handled.

Google has announced the end of support for third-party cookies by the end of 2022. We expect our partners to comply with this policy during the year, so this portion of our privacy policy is subject to change as that occurs.

In certain circumstances, our security plugin Wordfence may place cookies on your device to prevent unintended lockouts.

Advertising

Our site displays advertising from our partners, including Google Adsense. Users are reminded that these partners use cookies to serve relevant ads, which may already be present on your computer due to visiting another site that uses one of our advertising partners, not necessarily due to visiting our site.

Users are reminded that once they leave our site by clicking on an ad, the policies of the site you visit may change and be less or more strict than ours. Review their privacy policy if you have any concerns.

Google Adsense provides a method for you to opt out of this type of cookie-based tracking by visiting this page. Other advertising partners might have similar opt-out methods. We will update this privacy policy with any relevant information on opting out of tracking, although most major ad networks participate in a central site for opting out, located at https://www.aboutads.info.

To further protect our users, we do not permit advertising from businesses in the following sensitive categories due to their content and/or historically poor data privacy practices: “get rich quick” schemes, sexually suggestive advertising, Astrology & Esoteric topics, social casino games, alcohol advertisements, and betting sites. While no ads from these categories should appear on our site, our ad partners may erroneously show ads from these businesses through erroneous or intentional misclassification of the ad or other reasons out of our control.

Affiliate Links

Our site may contain links to retailers and partners who pay us a small commission if you purchase on their site within a given period of time. We receive no personally identifiable information as a result of this transaction. In addition, we use Google Analytics to track when these links are clicked to count conversions, which does not link the event to any personally identifiable information either, or anything you may have purchased as a result of clicking that link. You can review our Affiliate Policy by clicking here.

Service Providers

We may employ third-party companies and individuals to facilitate our Service, provide the Service on our behalf, perform Service-related services, or assist us in analyzing how our Service is used. These third parties have access to your Personal Information only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.

Security

The security of your Personal Information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Links To Other Sites

Our Service may contain links to other sites that we do not operate. If you click on a third-party link, it will direct you to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for any third-party sites or services’ content, privacy policies, or practices.

Children’s Privacy

Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 18 (“Children”) but does generally contain information suitable for children.

We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 18. However, if you are a parent or guardian and aware that your child has provided us with Personal Information, please contact us. If we discover that a child under 18 has provided us with Personal Information, we will delete such information from our servers immediately.

Compliance With Laws

We will disclose your Personal Information only where required to do so by law or subpoena.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. Therefore, you are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at [email protected]

Last updated: April 22, 2022 – Defined “third party,” edits to plain language policy, added Wordfence disclosure

February 25, 2022 – Added plain language policy