At Toptenslist.com, your privacy is unequivocally sacred to us. This policy gives information about the types of information we receive and collect when you interact with and use our website. It also outlines why we collect this data and how we make use of this information.
Non-Personally Identifiable Data
This site tracks routine non-personally identifiable information about visitors, including their IP addresses, timestamps, browser details, referral pages and frequency of visits. None of this data can personally detect specific visitors to this site; it can, however, help us gather generic insight concerning their online behavior. We make use of this information only to improve our site’s user experience and performance.
Personal Information
This site will never collect and store information, which can personally detect specific visitors, except when visitors themselves knowingly provide us such data. These include their name, email address, personal comments, hyperlinks and opinions, to name a few. When visiting this site, you, the user, are in complete control of what personally identifiable information you opt to provide us in response to our articles, pages, contact forms, and promotional contests. We do not, however, sell, rent, or exchange visitors’ personal identification information to others.
Browser Cookies and Web Scripts
This site makes use of cookies, which are small-sized text files stored to your local hard drive by your browser application. Cookies store information about visitors’ preferences and browsing history. We use this information in order to better serve the site users and/or present visitors with customized content, advertisements and social media features. Our advertising and analytics partners, both in-house and third-party, may use these cookies and web scripts to study and analyze visitor behavior in order to target ads and other useful information.
However, the aforementioned cookies and web scripts do not give us access to your computer or any personally identifiable information about you, except for the information that you opt to share with us. You may choose to enable or disable cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies; nevertheless, you can usually change your browser settings to disable cookies. It is worth nothing that doing so, however, may prevent you from accessing some features and functions of this site.
Managing Your Privacy
If you are concerned about sharing your browsing behavior data and other non-personally identifiable information, you can change your browser settings to disable cookies. We, however, do not recommend this as you may not be able to enjoy all features and functions of this site. You may want to consult your browser documentation for information on how to go about blocking cookies and other visitor tracking mechanisms.
External Web Links
This privacy policy is only applicable to all the web pages that form a part of this website. Please note that this site may contain external links to other websites and social media pages. We are in no way responsible for the privacy practices of these external sites and pages; these are governed by their own privacy policies.
Though the content on such sites and pages may be related to our articles, posts and topics, we are in, no way whatsoever, associated with the owners and operators of these external sites; nor do we endorse any material, products, services, celebrities, personalities, ideas and opinions that these sites may support or endorse. In case you wish to voice any grievances relating to such sites, please contact them directly.
Note About Google AdSense
Some of the advertisements appearing on our sites are served by Google, Inc., and affiliated companies. These ads may be controlled using special cookies, which allow Google to display ads based on users’ visits to this site and other sites. These cookies use non-personally identifiable information and do not track personal information about you, including your name, physical address, email address, age and the like. Any tracking done by Google through cookies and other methods is subject to Google’s own privacy policies. If you wish to opt out of Google’s cookie usage mechanism, please visit Google Advertising’s privacy policy and terms at https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads.
Sharing of Content over Social Networking sites
Please also note that our website offers a function to share the content on this site on social networks. If the user is enabling this function, then the social network operator will get information such as the pages visited, IP address of the user and a record of the cookies. The accumulation of this information is based on the privacy policy of companies who offer these services.
Please go to the following links for more information about the processing of your information.
Facebook http://www.facebook.com/about/privacy
Google YouTube https://policies.google.com/privacy
Twitter https://twitter.com/privacy
Pinterest https://policy.pinterest.com/en/privacy-policy
How to refuse installation or/and delete cookies
If you do not wish to give out this information (in the form of cookies), you can disable this function. This will differ from browser to browser. Some of the common browsers and how to automatically delete cookies are given down below.
Google Chrome: https://support.google.com/accounts/topic/7189049?hl=en&ref_topic=3382297
Mozilla Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences
Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies#ie=ie-11-win-7
Apple Safari: https://support.apple.com/en-in/HT201265
WARNING: If you disable or delete technical cookies, their might be slight impairment in the use of that particular website.
Third-party technical Cookies
This website also utilizes some third party technical cookies. If you wish to disable this function, go to the Cookies section found in the third part websites.
| Source | Cookie name | Cookie Type | Cookie policy |
| Google Analytics | __utma, __utmb, __utmc, __utmz | Tecnico | support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245 |
Commenting
We have also enabled the commenting service which allows users to make and publish their comments on the contents of this website. While commenting on posts, the users’ information (such as the email address etc.) may be used to send notifications of comments on the same section.
We have also enabled third party comment plugins on our website. This means that it may collect web traffic data for the articles where the comment service is installed even when the content commenting service is not actively utilized by the user.
Facebook Comments (Facebook, Inc.)
Facebook comments (by Facebook, Inc.) enable a user to share their comments onto their Facebook wall. Users can post their views and opinions under our content through their Facebook account.
Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.
Place of processing: US – Privacy Policy.
When you register for the mailing list of our subscription box, you are automatically added to our contact list which will enable you to receive e-mails containing data of commercial or promotional nature.
Updates and Changes
As this site continues to grow in size and viewership, we may add new features, topics, services and functionality. If such changes and updates directly affect this privacy policy, we shall update this policy document and notify visitors about the same.
(LAST UPDATED: 12.OCTOBER.2018)
