Privacy Policy - CourtBound.com

Our users and customers are important to us, so we take your privacy seriously.

Who we are

Our website address is: https://courtbound.com.

The Type of Data we Collect

Like most website operators, we collect non-personally identifying data about how our site is used, such as the browser types, referring site, IP address, time and day of visits, pages visited, etc. From time to time, we may make this aggregate data available by publishing a report to internal stakeholders on how our site is used and traffic. This allows us to better serve our website users and customers.

We also collect data that you may submit on one of our contact forms in order to respond to your enquiries.

If you opt-in to receive our newsletter, we collect your data to contact you and any other data that will better help us to send you content that is relevant to you.

Ws collect data you submit on our ecommerce forms when you shop with us to enable us to fulfill and deliver orders. If you enter credit card data into our ecommerce forms to place an order, this data is encrypted and securely sent and stored on our payment partners site. Credit card data not stored on our site, and we ask you do not enter any credit card data into our contact forms.

Website Traffic

We use Google Analytics to track traffic and site usage. We also use server site application to track and log visitor that will tell us what IP address was used to visit the site. We are able to tell what general location you are in such as your city by your IP and the network you used. Your internet provider may be required to disclose the information they have based on your IP if required by law.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookies

A “cookie” is a small data text file that is placed in your browser and allows CourtBound.com to recognize you each time you visit this site (customization etc). Cookies themselves do not contain any personal information, and CourtBound.com does not use cookies to collect personal information. Cookies may also be used by 3rd party content providers such as news feeds.

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks, if cookies are not manually cleared by our development team within that time frame. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Google Analytics cookies and identifiers

Google Analytics mainly uses first-party cookies to report on visitor (aka. user) interactions on Google Analytics customers’ websites. Users may disable cookies or delete any individual cookie. Learn more

In addition, Google Analytics supports an optional browser add-on that – once installed and enabled – disables measurement by Google Analytics for any site a user visits. Note that this add-on only disables Google Analytics measurement.

Where a site or app uses Google Analytics for Apps or the Google Analytics for Firebase SDKs, Google Analytics collects an app-instance identifier — a randomly generated number that identifies a unique installation of an App. Whenever a user resets their Advertising Identifier (Advertising ID on Android, and ID for Advertisers on iOS), the app-instance identifier is also reset.

Where sites or apps have implemented Google Analytics with other Google Advertising products, like Google Ads, additional advertising identifiers may be collected. Users can opt-out of this feature and manage their settings for this cookie using the Ads Settings. Learn more

Google Analytics also collects Internet Protocol (IP) addresses to provide and protect the security of the service, and to give website owners a sense of which country, state, or city in the world their users come from (also known as “IP geolocation”). Google Analytics provides a method to mask IPs that are collected (detailed below) but note that website owners have access to their users’ IP addresses even if the website owners do not use Google Analytics.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Who we share your data with

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

We share your data only with our trusted suppliers and service partners in order to deliver order related emails to you and fulfill your orders and to respond to enquiries. This could include various production partners, suppliers and email service providers. In all cases, our suppliers and partners are required to have strict privacy policies in order to do business with us and required to adhere to privacy policies by law.

CourtBound.com uses Google Analytics to track traffic to the site and to improve our content to our visitors. Learn how Google uses data when you use our partners’ sites or apps.

CourtBound.com implements the Google Display Advertiser feature which collects anonymous demographic and interest data about traffic to CourtBound.com through Google advertising cookies and anonymous identifiers. We use these identifiers to better understand our general audience in order to choose advertising that is most relevant and useful to our audience. We also use this information to create content that we believe our audience will find most relevant or useful. It is against CourtBound.com policy to merge any personally-identifiable information with non-personally identifiable information collected through any Google advertising product or feature should this be possible.

You can opt out of the Google Analytics Advertising Features CourtBound.com uses, including through Ads Settings, Ad Settings for mobile apps or any other available means (for example, the NAI’s consumer opt out) by visiting Google Analytics’ currently available opt-outs for the web.

Under no circumstances do we sell or rent or share any user data with any other party unless required by law.

Mailing List

When you subscribe to our mailing list, your email address is used for CourtBound.com to contact you with news, offers and other information we think you will be interested from time to time. We use a third-party secure service that allows us to create, send and manage newsletter emails. You may opt-out of this list at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link in the news letter you have received or by contacting CourtBound.com directly through our contact form and requesting to opt-out with the correct email address to remove. Under no circumstances do we sell or rent or share any list information with any other party unless required by law.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website, we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. Credit card and other payment data may be sent to a payment processor. Your name and address may be sent to a product suppliers and a payment processor in order to fulfill your order. Your email address may be sent to our administrators along with any other information to submit if you submit a form on our site. Your email may also be sent to our email mail list provider if you opt in to our email list or our email provider transational in order to fulfill transactional emails.