This notice and the options that follow apply only to residents of California and Virginia.
California and Virginia residents may request that we not disclose their personal information to third-parties in certain circumstances. Specifically, the California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”) and Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (“VCDPA”) allow you to opt out of (1) the use of your personal information to serve you interest-based, targeted advertisements (referred to as “sharing” for cross-context behavioral advertising in the CPRA), and (2) the “sale” of your personal information. In this context, “sale” has a broad definition and includes the conventional meaning of disclosing your personal information in exchange for money, as well disclosing it in exchange for any other thing of value. We do not “sell” your personal information in the conventional sense, but we may disclose data points such as your behavior on our website or app to services that allow us to show you interest-based advertisements, or to our business partners. To learn more about personal information and how we collect, use, and share it, please review our Privacy Policy.
To opt out of the “selling” and/or the use or “sharing” of your personal information for interest-based advertising, please submit the form below. Note that after you opt out we will continue to share your personal information with non-advertising based service providers as described in our Privacy Policy, and you will still see some non-targeted advertisements as you use our website. For your convenience, we have summarized additional steps you can take to opt out of having your online activity and device data collected by third parties in our Privacy Policy. If you have any questions or prefer to make your request over email, please contact us at contact@topicstalk.com.
Opt out of “Selling,” “Sharing,” and “Targeted Advertising”
By submitting this form, you affirm that the information you provide is accurate and agree that TopicsTalk may contact you to verify or confirm information regarding this request.
More information about your privacy choices.
In addition to California and Virginia residents’ ability to request that the TopicsTalk not to “sell” your Personal Information, there are a number of tools and methods that any user — regardless of location —may use to opt out of having your online activity and device data collected by third parties, which we have summarized below. We hope you find this information to be a helpful reference. Please note that using these tools to opt out of tracking and targeting does not mean that you will not receive advertising while using our Services or on other websites, nor will it prevent the receipt of interest-based advertising from third parties that do not participate in these programs. It will exclude you, however, from interest-based advertising conducted through participating networks and platforms, as provided by their policies and choice mechanisms.
Blocking Cookies in Your Browser. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but also usually allow you to modify your settings to disable or reject cookies, including cookies for interest-based advertising. If you delete your cookies or if you set your web browser to decline cookies, however, some features of the Services may not work or may not work as designed. You can usually find these settings in the Options or Preferences menu of your browser; links to instructions provided by several of the most common browsers are below. You can also learn more at www.allaboutcookies.org.
- Cookie settings in Google Chrome
- Cookie settings in Firefox
- Cookie settings in Internet Explorer
- Cookie settings in Safari web and iOS.
Blocking advertising ID use in your mobile settings. Your mobile device settings may provide functionality to limit use of the advertising ID associated with your mobile device for interest-based advertising purposes.
Advertising Industry Opt Out Tools. Many of the third party advertisers that use tracking or targeting tools in connection with our Services either directly, or are members of programs that, offer you additional choices regarding the collection and use of your information. You can learn more about the options available to limit these participating third parties’ collection and use of your information by visiting their websites:
- Opt Out of Interest Based Advertising (National Advertising Initiative)
- Your Ad Choices (Digital Advertising Alliance)
- Your Online Choices (European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance)
- Users of our mobile apps may opt out of receiving targeted advertising in mobile apps through participating members of the Digital Advertising Alliance by installing the AppChoices mobile app, available here, and selecting the user’s choices.
Platform Opt Out Tools. Google and Facebook offer opt-out features that let you opt-out of use of your information for interest-based advertising.
- Facebook: About Facebook Ads and Facebook Privacy Policy
- Google: The Services may deliver advertising using the vendor DoubleClick, a Google company. You can read about how DoubleClick uses cookies, use Google’s controls for blocking certain ads, or use Google’s Ad Settings Page to control how DoubleClick personalizes your ad experience. The Services also may use Google Analytics to track your usage, including the stitching of authenticated and unauthenticated sessions (which allows for the combination of data from your use of the Services while not signed in to your TopicsTalk account with your use of the Services while signed in to your TopicsTalk account). If you wish to opt-out of Google Analytics’ tracking, use this browser add-on provided by Google.
Mobile App Tracking Opt Out Tools. You can learn about your options to opt-out of mobile app tracking by certain advertising networks through your device settings. For more information about how to change these settings for Apple, Android or Windows devices, see:
- Apple: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4228
- Android: http://www.google.com/policies/technologies/ads/
- Windows: http://choice.microsoft.com/en-US/opt-out
Social Media Services Settings. If you choose to connect to the Services via a third-party platform or social media network, you may have the ability to limit the information that we may obtain from the third-party at the time you login to the Services using the third-party’s authentication service or otherwise connect your account. Subsequently, you may be able to control your settings through the third-party’s platform or service. For example, you may access and change your settings through the Facebook settings page for Apps and Websites. If you withdraw our ability to access certain information from a third-party platform or social media network, that choice will not apply to information that we have already received from that third-party.
Using Privacy Plug-ins or Browsers. You can block our websites from setting cookies used for interest-based ads by using a browser with privacy features, like Brave, or installing browser plugins like Privacy Badger, Ghostery or uBlock Origin, and configuring them to block third party cookies/trackers.