By visiting chickenfans.com, viewing our content, attending or viewing any of our events or programs, and/or using any of our services, you acknowledge that you accept the practices and policies outlined in this Privacy Policy.
This Privacy Policy is part of the ChickenFans Terms of Service and covers the treatment of user information, including Personally Identifiable Information or personal data, obtained by ChickenFans, including information obtained when you access or log in to ChickenFans, and/or register for content, webinars, or the forum provided by ChickenFans.
This Privacy Policy does not apply to the practices of companies that ChickenFans does not own or control, or to individuals whom ChickenFans does not employ or manage, including any of the third parties to which ChickenFans may disclose user information as set forth in this Policy.
ChickenFans may obtain the following types of information from you or concerning your computer or device (Information), which may include information that can be used to identify you as specified below (“Personally Identifiable Information”):
In certain cases, we may request that you provide some of the Information identified above in order to obtain specific products or services. If you choose not to provide the information we request, you may still use chickenfans.com, but you may be unable to access certain features or services.
When you register to receive any products or services from ChickenFans or provide information to ChickenFans in any other manner, you agree to provide only true, accurate, current, and complete information.
ChickenFans may automatically receive and log certain types of information when you visit or interact with our websites, services, mobile applications, or other products, including:
If you register for events or webinars provided by ChickenFans, we may receive information about you from the service providers that host or process registration for these programs or that provide other services to support these programs (such as technical support), which may include certain Personally Identifying Information or personal data identified above.
If you choose to use any third party website or service that is integrated with ChickenFans, including a third party social networking or blogging site, such as LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, or WordPress (“Third Party Websites”) – or if you use any ChickenFans application provided through any Third Party Website – we may receive information, including Personally Identifying Information, from such Third Party Websites, including, but not limited to:
For example, ChickenFans may offer the ability to use certain Third Party Websites to facilitate your registration on ChickenFans. We may also use information about your profile and connections on Third Party Websites to allow you to share or connect with your friends and contacts on ChickenFans or to personalize your experience. In addition, ChickenFans offers plug-ins and widgets from various Third Party Websites that allow you to share ChickenFans content off of our service, as discussed in “Disclosure of Information to Third Parties”.
Your decision to use or share with, a Third Party Website when accessing or using ChickenFans products and services is completely voluntary. ChickenFans is not responsible for compliance with the policies or practices of any Third Party Website. You should ensure that you are comfortable with the information such Third Party Websites may make available to CihckenFans by reviewing those Websites’ privacy policies and service terms, and by modifying your privacy settings and preferences on those Services.
Any information we receive from Third Party Websites will be governed by this Privacy Policy.
We use the Information we obtain from or concerning you or your computer or device to provide ChickenFans products and services, fulfill your requests, improve our products and services, personalize and tailor your experience on ChickenFans, operate our business, and understand how users are engaging with ChickenFans.
In addition, we may use information from or concerning you or your computer or device to facilitate the delivery of content or advertisements that we believe may be of interest to you or to communicate with you about new or existing products and services or special offers. For example, we may periodically send promotional materials or notifications related to our products and services to the email address associated with your account.
ChickenFans may place cookies on your computer or device that may contain anonymous Information that is associated with you. Cookies are small text files a website uses to recognize users and are typically placed on your hard disk by a web server. Cookies contain information that can later be read by a web server in the domain (here, chickenfans) that issued the cookie to you or that, in some cases, can be read by a third-party domain.
Our cookies may record information about your use of ChickenFans so that we can provide a continuous and more personalized experience for you, including for one or more of the following purposes: to help identify visitors; assess usage patterns; identify preferences; control the display of ads; diagnose problems with our servers; gather demographic information; analyze trends and usage patterns; conduct research; deliver editorial content; record registration and personalized information, and otherwise administer chickenfans.com products and services.
If you do not wish to have ChickenFans place and use cookies on your computer, you should set your browser preferences to refuse cookies before accessing ChickenFans. ChickenFans is not responsible for any failure by you or your browser to accurately implement or communicate your browser preferences or settings. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to sign in or use other interactive features of ChickenFans that depend on cookies.
ChickenFans does not control and is not responsible for the use of cookies by its third-party partners or advertisers. The use of cookies by some of these third parties is discussed below (see “Analytics Services”).
We offer several ways for you to update Personally Identifying Information that is obtained and stored by ChickenFans, or to change your account preferences on ChickenFans:
ChickenFans may disclose Information (including Personally Identifying Information) from or concerning you or your computer or device to third parties in the circumstances described below. By visiting, accessing, attending, or using ChickenFans’s products, services, or events, you consent to the disclosure of your Information to certain categories of third parties in the manner described below. This Privacy Policy does not apply to the policies or practices of any of these third parties.
ChickenFans relies on third party vendors and service providers to provide support and assistance for its products, services, and events (“Service Providers”), and we may disclose your Information (including Personally Identifying Information) to these Service Providers to the extent necessary to support our products, services or events, or as otherwise set forth below.
ChickenFans website services are hosted by One.com and Amazon Web Services, enterprise Webhosting platforms. All Information obtained and stored by ChickenFans websites ( see “What Types of User Information Does ChickenFans Obtain?”) is processed and stored on servers that are owned and operated by One or Amazon.
If you have elected to register for one of our sponsored webinars or events or to access research or content from ChickenFans, we may share your Information (including Personally Identifying Information) with the business partner(s) and/or sponsor(s) of the webinar, event, research and/or content. You agree that these sponsor(s) and/or business partner(s) may use your Personally Identifying Information to contact you to provide additional information about their products or services.
ChickenFans offers the ability to share ChickenFans content on Third Party Websites, including social networking and blogging services such as LinkedIn or Facebook, through “plugins” or “widgets” (such as LinkedIn’s “in” button or Facebook’s “Like” button). When you elect to share content and information with others on Third Party Websites, ChickenFans may transmit your Information (including Personally Identifying Information) to such Third Party Websites. This Information may be visible on the Third Party Website to anyone who has access to that content or Information. Your decision to share information in this manner is completely voluntary. You should ensure that you are comfortable with how Third Party Websites may share your Information by reviewing their privacy policies and/or modifying your privacy settings directly on those Third Party Websites.
When you visit ChickenFans websites, certain information about the content or activities you have engaged in on ChickenFans may be reflected in the Uniform Resource Locator (“URL”) for the page you are viewing on ChickenFans (i.e., the Internet “address,” commonly displayed in the browser window). For example, the date or title of an article you are viewing may appear in the URL for that page. In addition, if you are logged into a ChickenFans account, certain account information (may be visible in the URL when you visit your account on ChickenFans. If you leave ChickenFans to visit a third party website, including when you click on an advertisement or link or when you share information through a social plug-in (like the Linked In “in” button), the information contained in the URL may be transmitted to the third party website by your browser.
As discussed in “Third-Party Advertising on ChickenFans”, ChickenFans uses third-party advertisers, including ad networks, to advertise on its websites. In addition, as discussed in “Analytics Services”, ChickenFans uses third-party analytics products to obtain information about how users use and interact with ChickenFans. These third parties may receive Information (including Personally Identifying Information) from ChickenFans, as discussed in greater detail in “Security and Protection of Personally-Identifying Information”.
ChickenFans relies on Mediavine and Adsense to serve ads on the website:
For European visitors, the Cookie Wall allows you to provide fine-grained consent for the IAB third-party vendors and ad networks serving ads on ChickenFans. The appropriate vendor and ad network websites list can be found on the IAB network.
Visitors may visit these websites to opt out of the use of cookies for personalized advertising (if the vendor or ad network offers this capability). Alternatively, you can direct users to opt out of some third-party vendors’ uses of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info.
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:
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.
We may disclose your Information (including Personally Identifying Information) when we believe in good faith that disclosure is necessary to comply with any law, regulation, or legal request; enforce, apply, or investigate breaches of our terms of use and other agreements; respond to public requests; or protect the rights, property, user experience or safety of ChickenFans, our employees, our users, or others. This can include exchanging information for fraud protection and credit risk reduction with other companies and organizations.
ChickenFans encourages active participation by users, including through comments on chickenfans.com. However, please be aware that if you voluntarily disclose Information, personal or otherwise, on chickenfans.com, that Information can be viewed, collected, and used by others, including other users, search engines, advertisers, third party applications developers, and anyone with access to chickenfans.com has no control over the use, collection or disclosure of any Information that you post publicly on chickenfans.com.
If ChickenFans, or substantially all of its assets, is acquired by another company or party, user information will be one of the assets transferred or acquired by the purchaser. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur and that any purchaser of ChickenFans or its assets may continue to collect, use and disclose your Information as set forth in this Policy.
ChickenFans may allow third-party advertising serving companies, including ad networks (“Advertisers”), to display advertisements or provide other advertising services on chickenfans.com. These third party Advertisers may use techniques other than HTTP cookies to recognize your computer or device and/or to collect and record demographic and other information about you, including your activities on or off chickenfans.com. These techniques may be used directly on chickenfans.com. Please keep in mind that your web browser may not permit you to block the use of these techniques, and that browser settings that block conventional cookies may have no effect on such techniques.
Advertisers may use the information collected to display advertisements that are tailored to your interests or background and/or associate such information with your subsequent visits, purchases, or other activities on other websites. Advertisers may also share this information with their clients or other third parties.
ChickenFans has no responsibility for the technologies, tools, or practices of the Advertisers that provide advertising and related services on chickenfans.com. This Privacy Policy does not cover any collection, use, or disclosure of Information by Advertisers who provide advertising and related services on chickenfans.com. These Advertisers’ information gathering practices, including their policies regarding the use of cookies and other tracking technologies, are governed entirely by their own privacy policies, not this one.
ChickenFans currently may be using one or more of the following Advertisers to provide advertising and related services on chickenfans.com. If you would like to know about their information gathering and privacy practices, please visit the links below
ChickenFans uses the Standard Terms and Conditions set forth by the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB). See Standard Terms and Conditions
In addition, ChickenFans uses third-party analytics providers and products to obtain, compile and analyze Information (that may include Personally Identifying Information) about how users are using and interacting with chickenfans.com. ChickenFans may provide Information (including Personally Identifying Information) to these analytics providers for the purpose of obtaining statistics and other information about how users are using and interacting with ChickenFans. These analytics providers may use tracking techniques other than HTTP cookies to recognize your computer or device and/or to collect or compile this information. These techniques may be used directly on chickenfans.com. ChickenFans has no responsibility for the technologies, tools, or practices of the third parties that provide analytics products and services to ChickenFans. Please also keep in mind that your web browser may not permit you to block the use of these techniques, and that browser settings that block conventional cookies may have no effect on such techniques.
We have implemented reasonable security measures and practices to protect the confidentiality of your Personally-Identifying Information (other than Personally Identifying Information that you have elected to disclose to others). However, no security system is impenetrable. It may be possible for third parties to intercept or access the information you provide to ChickenFans. ChickenFans cannot guarantee the security of your Personally-Identifying Information, nor can we guarantee that information you supply will not be intercepted while being transmitted to ChickenFans. It is important for you to protect against unauthorized access to your password(s) and computer or device and to log off when using any shared computer.
We may contact you by e-mail, text message, or other equivalent electronic communications if you access ChickenFans products or services or register for events, webinars, or other content or services provided by ChickenFans. By visiting or using ChickenFans content, products, or services or registering for or attending ChickenFans events or webinars, you specifically consent to receive these e-mail or text message communications. If you do not want to receive emails, text messages, or other communications from us, please notify us by email or through our contact form and include sufficient information for us to identify your account, including your Name, Email Address (or Cellphone Number) and the specifics of your request. If you unsubscribe, ChickenFans may still contact you via email or text message for administrative purposes or concerning any products, services, or events for which you have registered or are using.
Chickenfans.com participates in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites.
ChickenFans retains the discretion to amend or modify this Privacy Policy from time to time. Use and disclosure of information we obtain is subject to the latter of (1) the Privacy Policy in effect at the time such information is collected or (2) any subsequent Privacy Policy of which you have noticed. If we make substantial material changes to how we collect, use or disclose Personally-Identifying Information, we will notify you by posting a clear and prominent announcement on chickenfans.com or through direct communication. Your continued access to or use of chickenfans.com following notice of material changes to this Privacy Policy shall constitute consent to any amendments and/or modifications. Your use of chickenfans.com is entirely voluntary, and you may discontinue the use of chickenfans.com at any time.
ChickenFans welcomes any questions or comments you may have regarding this Privacy Policy or its implementation. Any questions or comments should be submitted via mail or our contact form. We will undertake reasonable efforts to resolve or address your concern.
This Privacy Policy is effective as of February 2, 2022.
Last update: March 8, 2023.