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Privacy Policy
How advertising on Boat Biscuit works, and how our anonymous reader-signal tools collect and publish data, in plain terms.
Mediavine Programmatic Advertising (Ver 1.1)
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:
- IP Address
- Operating System type
- Operating System version
- Device Type
- Language of the website
- Web browser type
- Email (in hashed form)
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.
Reader signals & research data
Alongside the advertising described above, Boat Biscuit runs its own anonymous reader-signal tools. They are optional: they record only what you choose to tap, plus ordinary page analytics.
- What we record: emoji reactions (❤️/👎) on images; “Save this” on images and “Save this article” (saved items are kept in your own browser, and saves are counted anonymously); answers to mini polls; the optional one-tap “why?” after a reaction; “Lived it / Remember it / Before my time” on nostalgia posts; guess-the-price answers; Hot or Not image picks; and page analytics: which images were viewed, scroll depth and time on page.
- Stored with each signal: a random session ID (not linked to your name, email or any account), device type, how you arrived (for example a search engine or social site) and approximate region at the state or province level, read from the network edge. Your IP address is not stored with these signals. If you arrived from one of our ads, we also store that ad platform’s aggregate audience breakdown for the ad (the age and gender mix of everyone it reached), never anything about you individually.
- What these tools do not collect: your name, email address, account details, precise location, IP address or anything you type. Our newsletter is separate and is covered by the rest of this policy.
- Images: photos on the site are described by attributes such as style, colour and era. There is no facial recognition, and people are never identified.
- How results are published: only as totals across many readers. Small groups are never reported.
- Your choices: simply don’t tap if you’d rather not take part. Clearing your browser storage removes anything you have saved.
The full explanation is on our Data Collection page.