Effective date: March 23, 2021

This Privacy Policy describes how your personal information is collected, used, and shared when you visit or make a purchase from SmartCast Media.com (the “Site”).

What information do we collect?

  • We collect information from you when you visit the Site, place an order, subscribe for emails, enter a contest or sweepstakes, respond to a survey or communication such as e-mail, or participate in another site feature.
  • When ordering or registering, we may ask you for your name, e-mail address, mailing address and phone number.
  • We may also collect information about gift recipients so that we can fulfill the gift purchase. The information we collect about gift recipients is not used for marketing purposes.
  • Like many websites, we use “cookies” to enhance your experience and gather information about visitors and visits to our websites. Please refer to the “What are the sources of personal information?” section below for information about cookies and how we use them.
  • Credit card information is not collected by this site. Your financial sales transaction occurs within a third party’s payment platform; therefore, this site will not collect or retain your financial information.

How do we use your information?

We may use the information we collect from you when you subscribe, create an account, enter a contest or promotion, respond to a survey or marketing communication, browse the Site, or use certain other site features in the following ways:

  • To personalize your site experience and to allow us to deliver the type of content and product offerings in which you are most interested.
  • To allow us to better service you in responding to your customer service requests.
  • To quickly process your transactions by remembering previously entered information.
  • To administer a contest, promotion, survey or other site feature.
  • If you have opted-in to receive our e-mail newsletter, we may send you periodic e-mails. If you would no longer like to receive promotional e-mail from us, please refer to the “How can you opt-out, remove or modify information you have provided to us?” section below. If you have not opted-in to receive e-mail newsletters, you will not receive these e-mails. Visitors who register or participate in other site features such as marketing programs and ‘members-only’ content will be given a choice whether they would like to be on our e-mail list and receive e-mail communications from us.
  • To deliver targeted advertising about goods and services that may be of interest to you.
  • To analyze data about how the Site is being used.

How do we protect visitor information?

We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information. Your personal information is contained behind secured networks and is only accessible by a limited number of persons who have special access rights to such systems and are required to keep the information confidential. Personal information is stored and accessed through a secured server. All sensitive/credit information you supply is transmitted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology and then encrypted into our databases to be only accessed as stated above.

What are the sources of personal information?

Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computer’s hard drive through your web browser, if you allow, that enables the Site’s or service provider’s system to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information. For instance, we use cookies to help us remember and process the items in your shopping cart. They are also used to help us understand your preferences based on previous or current site activity, which enables us to provide you with improved services. We also use cookies to help us compile aggregate data about site traffic and interaction so that we can offer better user experiences and tools in the future.

We may contract with third-party service providers to assist us in better understanding our site visitors. These service providers are not permitted to use the information collected on our behalf except to help us conduct and improve our business.

We use Google Analytics to receive insights on how the Site is being used and the effectiveness of our marketing and advertising initiatives. To read Google’s privacy policy, visit https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/.  Users who do not wish to have their visit information collected by Google Analytics may opt-out by downloading a browser extension or by disabling cookies in their browser settings.

Additionally,  we may contract with third-party providers of marketing and advertising services who collect and utilize your anonymized personal information, such as internet activity including browsing history, the websites you visited before or after you used our services and Site, search history and information regarding your interaction with our advertisements. This use of your information is to deliver targeted advertising about goods and services that may be of interest to you.

Do we disclose the information we collect to outside parties?

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information unless we provide you with advance notice, except as described below. The term “outside parties” does not include Smartcast Media. It also does not include website hosting partners and other parties who assist us in operating the Site, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce the Site policies, or protect ours or others’ rights, property, or safety.

However, anonymized, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses. We may contract with third-party providers, including Google and Facebook, to place targeted ads on other websites. These providers may collect information from us in order to inform, optimize, and serve ads based on your visits to the Site. This information is collected anonymously through the use of a pixel tag, which is industry standard technology used by most major websites.

How can you opt-out, remove or modify information you have provided to us?

To modify your e-mail subscriptions, please let us know by modifying your preferences in the “My Account” section. Please note that due to email production schedules you may receive any emails already in production.

To delete all of your online account information from our database, sign into the “My Account” section of the Site and remove your shipping addresses, billing addresses & payment information. Please note that we may maintain information about an individual sales transaction in order to service that transaction and for record keeping.

To customize your personal information settings within other websites and media companies:

  • You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent.
  • To learn how you can manage your Flash cookie settings, visit the Flash player settings page on Adobe’s website.
  • If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of the Services may then be inaccessible or not function properly. Cookie-based opt-outs are NOT effective on many mobile devices. However, on many mobile devices, application users may opt out of certain mobile ads via their device settings.
  • Please note that not all tracking will stop even if you delete cookies.
  • If you opt-out of cookies, we may work with third parties, to use non-personal information to delivery targeted advertisements to you based upon your online activities and other information.
  • The online advertising industry provides a service through which you may opt-out of receiving targeted ads from certain data partners and other advertising partners that participate in self-regulatory programs. You can learn more here http://optout.networkadvertising.org/?c=1 (or If you would like additional information about online tracking and various opt-out mechanisms, please see http://donottrack.us/ )
  • In addition, we may use Google Ads, so we are advertising the Site online through a form of tracking called remarketing, Third party vendors, including Google, show our ads on various sites across the Internet, and use cookies to serve you ads based on your past visits to this Site.  You can opt out of Google’s use of cookies by visiting Google’s Ads Settings https://www.google.com/settings/ads/plugin. Alternatively, you can opt out of a third party vendor’s use of cookies by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page. See http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/.
  • Please note that by opting out, you will continue to see generic advertising that is not tailored to your specific interests and activities. To be clear, cookie-based opt-outs must be performed on each device and browser that you wish to have opted-out. For example, if you have opted out on your device browser, that opt-out will not be effective on your mobile device. You must separately opt out on each device.

Third party links

In an attempt to provide you with increased value, we may include third party links on the Site. These linked websites have separate and independent privacy policies. We therefore have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these linked sites (including if a specific link does not work).

Changes to our policy

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page. Policy changes will apply only to information collected after the date of the change. This policy was last modified on March 23, 2021.

Questions and feedback

We welcome your questions, comments and concerns about privacy. Send any feedback pertaining to privacy or other topics to info@smartcastmedia.com.

Online Policy Only

This online privacy policy applies only to information collected through the Site and not to information collected offline. Terms and Conditions Please also visit our Terms and Conditions section establishing the use, disclaimers, and limitations of liability governing the use of the Site.

Your consent

By using the Site, you consent to our privacy policy.