The privacy of visitors to this site is very important to us. This Privacy Policy gives you information on what types of personal information we collect when you use this site, and our practices with respect to the use and disclosure of such information.  By visiting childrenofthedarkcontinent.com ("COTDC"), you agree to this Privacy Policy and to the Terms of Service (TOS) which is located HERE.

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Information You Give Us:

We receive and may store any personal information you enter on our Website or may give us in any other way. This information may include your name or email address, content you submit to the website, and other information.

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Information We Automatically Collect:

We may automatically receive and store certain types of information whenever you interact with us. For example, COTDC allows guest commenting. When you make a guest comment, we may publish the content of your comment and may collect your IP (internet protocol) address, the time and the date you made the comment. We do not use cookies to collect or store information about you.

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How We Use Information About You:

We may use the information that you provide for a variety of purposes, including to respond to your requests, to improve the overall quality of the Website, and to communicate with you, among other things.

When we disclose information about you:

We never disclose your personal information to third parties.

For information you give us, or information we automatically collect, certain records may be produced to law enforcement or private litigants in response to valid legal process. COTDC reserves the right to cooperate with government and law enforcement officials and private parties to enforce and comply with the law. We reserve the right to disclose any information about you to government or law enforcement officials or private parties as we, in our sole discretion, believe necessary or appropriate to respond to claims and legal process (including but not limited to subpoenas), to protect the property and rights of COTDC or a third party, to protect the safety of the public or any person, or to prevent or stop any activity we may consider to be or to pose a risk of being, illegal, unethical, inappropriate or legally actionable.

COTDC also reserves the right to but is not obligated to, refuse to disclose confidential sources or unpublished information we collect as part of our journalistic and/or newsgathering and reporting under federal and/or state law.

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Information Our Advertising Partners Automatically Collect:

We use third-party advertisements to support our site.  Some of these advertisers may use technology such as cookies and web beacons when they advertise on our site, which will send these advertisers (such as Google through the Google AdSense program) information including your IP address, your ISP, the browser you used to visit our site, and in some cases, whether you have Flash installed. You can choose to disable or selectively turn off our cookies or third-party cookies in your browser settings, or by managing preferences in programs such as Norton Internet Security.  However, this can affect how you are able to interact with our site as well as other websites.  COTDC has no control over these ad providers' practices and you should review their privacy policies and steps for managing cookies.

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We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our Web site. These companies may use aggregated information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, please see: http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp

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GDPR Disclaimer: Our advertising demand partners, supported advertising mediation partners, data partners, and fraud and measurement partners have a legitimate interest to collect and profile personal data in the form of IP address and cookie ID from users on our website in order to provide targeted online advertising and admeasurement. For more details including opt-out requests, access requests or complaints, please email legal@childrenofthedarkcontinent.com.