Privacy
DeepBlueDiving.org (“DeepBlueDiving.org“) operates DeepBlueDiving.org and may operate on other websites. It is DeepBlueDiving.org’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites. We do comply with General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (EU) 2016/679.
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, DeepBlueDiving.org collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. DeepBlueDiving.org’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how DeepBlueDiving.org’s visitors use its website. From time to time, DeepBlueDiving.org may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
Data Controller
DeepBlueDiving.org is the controller of any personally-identifiable-information gathered by DeepBlueDiving.org.
Contact us at any time to:
- Request access to any information that DeepBlueDiving.org has about you
- Correct any information that DeepBlueDiving.org has about you
- Delete any information that DeepBlueDiving.org has about you
If you have any additional questions about DeepBlueDiving.org’s collection and storage of data, please contact us at:
[email protected]
Information Collection And Use
We collect several different types of information for various purposes to provide and improve our Service to you.
Types of Data Collected
Personal Identifiable Information
While using our Service, we may ask you to provide us with – or gather automatically – certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you (“Personal Data”). Personally identifiable information collected by DeepBlueDiving.org includes:
- Cookies and Usage Data
- Your computer’s IP address
- Your email address (if you’ve left a comment on the site)
Usage Data
We collect information about how our Service is accessed and used (“Usage Data”). This Usage Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.
Tracking & Cookies Data
We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our Service and hold certain information.
Cookies are files with small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. Tracking technologies also used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze our Service.
You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Service.
Examples of Cookies we use:
- Session Cookies. We use Session Cookies to operate our Service.
- Preference Cookies. We use Preference Cookies to remember your preferences and various settings.
- Security Cookies. We use Security Cookies for security purposes.
IP Address
Any time you visit this website, a record of that visit is stored on this website’s servers. This data is used to identify any technical issues with the website and is stored by a 3rd party for 36 months.
Email Address
If you leave a comment on this website, you are required to include an email address. This email address is not displayed publicly but is available to the website administrator and stored on the website’s servers until such time as the comment is deleted. That information is used to determine whether future comments should be automatically approved or manually reviewed by the website administrator before the comment can be published in order to reduce spam.
You may request that your comment and email address stored on the website’s servers be deleted at any time by contacting the administrator by sending an email address to [email protected]
Use of Data
DeepBlueDiving.org uses the collected data for various purposes:
- To provide and maintain the Service
- To notify you about changes to our Service
- To allow you to participate in interactive features of our Service when you choose to do so
- To provide customer care and support
- To provide analysis or valuable information so that we can improve the Service
- To monitor the usage of the Service
- To detect, prevent and address technical issues
DeepBlueDiving.org only discloses visitor IP addresses, logged in user information and commenter IP addresses and emails under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that commenter IP addresses and email addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog/site where the comment was left.
Visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.
Transfer Of Data
Your information, including Personal Data, may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from your jurisdiction.
If you are located outside the United States and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the data, including Personal Data, to the United States and process it there.
Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.
DeepBlueDiving.org will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.
Disclosure Of Data
Legal Requirements
DeepBlueDiving.org may disclose your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:
- To comply with a legal obligation
- To protect and defend the rights or property of DeepBlueDiving.org
- To prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service
- To protect the personal safety of users of the Service or the public
- To protect against legal liability
Security Of Data
The security of your data is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Service Providers
We may employ third party companies and individuals to facilitate our Service (“Service Providers”), to provide the Service on our behalf, to perform Service-related services or to assist us in analyzing how our Service is used.
These third parties have access to your Personal Data only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.
Analytics
We may use third-party Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service.
- Google Analytics
- Google Webmaster Tools/Google Search Console
Aggregated Statistics
DeepBlueDiving.org may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. DeepBlueDiving.org may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, DeepBlueDiving.org does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described above.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
DeepBlueDiving.org discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on DeepBlueDiving.org’s behalf or to provide services available at DeepBlueDiving.org’s websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using DeepBlueDiving.org’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. DeepBlueDiving.org will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, DeepBlueDiving.org discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when DeepBlueDiving.org believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of DeepBlueDiving.org, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an DeepBlueDiving.org website and have supplied your email address, DeepBlueDiving.org may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with DeepBlueDiving.org and our products. If you send us a request (for example via email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. DeepBlueDiving.org takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
Business Transfers
If DeepBlueDiving.org, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event that DeepBlueDiving.org goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of DeepBlueDiving.org may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.
Links To Other Sites
Our Service may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit.
We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.
Ads
Ads appearing on any of our websites may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by DeepBlueDiving.org and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
Ezoic Privacy Policy
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EZOIC SERVICE PRIVACY POLICY
deepbluediving.org ("Website") uses a third party technology called Ezoic.
INFORMATION ABOUT OUR ORGANIZATION AND WEBSITE
Ezoic is committed to protecting your privacy. We will only use the information that we collect lawfully in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (Regulation (EU) 2016/679).
Ezoic's principal activities are:
- Website analytics
- Website personalization
- Website hosting
Our privacy policy covers Ezoic Inc., Ezoic Limited and this Website:
Ezoic Inc.
6023 Innovation Way, Carlsbad, California, United States
Ezoic Limited
Northern Design Centre, Abbott's Hill, Gateshead, NE8 3DF United Kingdom
DATA
In order to provide our products and services and related support, it is necessary for Ezoic to transfer your personal data outside of the European Union. In such case, the data controller for this data for EU residents is Ezoic Inc. having its registered offices at 6023 Innovation Way, Carlsbad, California, United States. All questions of requests regarding the processing of data may be addresses to [email protected]
PROVIDING VISITORS WITH ANONYMOUS ACCESS
If you do not consent to such collection, you can access this website without disclosing your personal data.
AUTOMATIC COLLECTION OF INFORMATION
Ezoic records data about the individuals and the traffic to this website. Ezoic is this website's limited agent (and data controller in the EU context) for the purpose of providing Internet data and optimization services. Ezoic may use this data to improve its service or enable other services (e.g., using visitor traffic logs or data posted through the service to improve the optimization of other websites).
Personal Information
Ezoic may collect personal information as defined in GDPR (such as IP address and a unique id in a cookie) about visitors to your website for the purposes of statistics, analytics and personalization. In addition, Ezoic works with numerous third parties for the collection and storage of data and the providing of analytics and advertising services.
Use of Personal Information
| Purpose/Activity | Type(s) of Data | Lawful basis for processing |
| To improve user experience |
| Your information helps us to provide you with a more pleasant, efficient experience on this website that may be customized to how you or others respond to content and ads on this or other websites. |
| To improve ad performance |
| Your information helps us to optimize the placement, size, timing and number of ads displayed to you. It enables us to make smart decision that help this website owner earn money but reduce the disruption of ads on your experience. |
| To improve content creation |
| Your information helps us learn what content you care about and enjoy and, the style of content you like and what you engage the most with. This helps us produce more content and features that you might like. |
| To improve website performance |
| Your information helps us measure various performance metrics about our site, such as site speed, so that we can improve the performance of this site. |
PROCESSING OF DATA AND CONSENT
We will process the data we collect about you to improve the operation of this and other websites. This information helps us make decisions about what content to show, how it should be formatted, the number, size and placement of advertisements and how content should be delivered to individuals. This information is also used for analysis of performance and reporting.
USE OF APPLICATION LOGS
Our servers automatically record information (“Application Log Data”) created by your use of this website. Application Log Data may include information such as your IP address, browser type, operating system, the referring web page, pages visited, location, your mobile carrier, device and application IDs, search terms, and cookie information. We use this information to diagnose and improve our services. Except as stated in section (Data Retention), we will either delete the Application Log Data or remove any account identifiers, such as your username, full IP address, or email address, after 48 months.
DATA RETENTION
The personal information we collect is retained for no longer than necessary to fulfill the stated purposes in section “PROCESSING OF DATA AND CONSENT” above or for a period specifically required by law or regulation that Ezoic is obligated to follow. Personal data used to fulfill verification of certain types of services such as SSL certificate, payments, and billing will be retained for a minimum of 5 years depending on the class of product or service and may be retained in either a physical or electronic format. Even if you request deletion or erasure of your data, we may retain your personal data to the extent necessary and for so long as necessary for our legitimate business interests or performance of contractual obligations. After the retention period is over, Ezoic securely disposes or anonymizes your personal information in order to prevent loss, theft, misuse, or unauthorized access.
CONFIDENTIALITY / SECURITY
We have implemented security policies, rules and technical measures to protect the personal data that we have under our control from: unauthorized access improper use or disclosure unauthorized modification unlawful destruction or accidental loss. All our employees and data processors, who have access to, and are associated with the processing of personal data, are obliged to respect the confidentiality of our visitors’ personal data. We ensure that your personal data will not be disclosed to State institutions and authorities except if required by law or other regulation
DATA ACCESS & DELETION
You have the right to view information that we have collected about you and to request deletion of any personal information we may have. You can use this data lookup tool to complete these actions.
Cookies
Below is a list of cookies that are commonly set on this website.
Cookie Name Category Description ezovuuidtime_# Necessary Used by the analytics and personalization company, Ezoic, to record the time of your visit to this website so different visits can be differentiated from each other. ezovuuid_# Necessary Used by the analytics and personalization company, Ezoic, to uniquely identify a visit by you to this website. Used for analytics and personalization of your experience. active_template::# Necessary Used by the analytics and personalization company, Ezoic, to store which template you are viewing on this website. ez_pub_site Necessary Used by the analytics and personalization company, Ezoic, to only show the site with Ezoic's features enabled. ezCMPCookieConsent Necessary Used by the analytics and personalization company, Ezoic, to track when a user consents to cookies. ez_rdr_count Necessary Used by the analytics and personalization company, Ezoic, to track redirects ez_rdr Necessary Used by the analytics and personalization company, Ezoic, to track redirects. __utmt_f Necessary Used to throttle the speed of requests to the server. cookieconsent_dismissed Necessary Used to track closure of a cookie consent dialog. __utmt_e Necessary Used to throttle the speed of requests to the server. wfwaf-authcookie-# Necessary This cookie is used by the Wordfence firewall to perform a capability check of the current user before WordPress has been loaded. wp-settings-# Necessary Stores the settings of the wordpress user that is logged in. wp-settings-time-# Necessary Stores the id of the wordpress user that is logged in. wordpress_logged_in_# Necessary Used by Wordpress sites to identify the user. wordpress_test_cookie Necessary WordPress sets this cookie when you navigate to the login page. The cookie is used to check whether your web browser is set to allow, or reject cookies. wordpress_sec_# Necessary Used by Wordpress sites for security purposes. __cfduid Necessary Used by the content network, Cloudflare, to identify trusted web traffic. cf_ob_info Necessary Used by Content Delivery Network, Cloudflare, to protect against fraud and speed up web delivery. cf_use_ob Necessary Used by Content Delivery Network, Cloudflare, to protect against fraud and speed up web delivery. wp-postpass_# Necessary Used by Wordpress sites for security / login purposes BCSI-CS-# Necessary Used by networks with Bluecoat technology proxy servers to identify users. session_depth Necessary Used to track the number of pages you visit in a session on this site. BCSI-AC-# Necessary Used by networks with Bluecoat technology proxy servers to identify users. ez_view_original_only Preferences Used by the analytics and personalization company, Ezoic, to show the original site without Ezoic's features. ez_view_optimized_only Preferences Used by the analytics and personalization company, Ezoic, to show the optimized site with Ezoic's features. ez_view_optimized_only
Preferences Used by the analytics and personalization company, Ezoic, to show the original site without Ezoic's features. speed_no_process Preferences Used by the analytics and personalization company, Ezoic, to turn off site speed features for this user. sitespeed_preview Preferences Used by the analytics and personalization company, Ezoic, to allow this user to preview certain site speed features. ez_ad_position_version Preferences Used by the analytics and personalization company, Ezoic, to determine if they use the Ad Tester product for this user, used by the Ad Tester extension. ezpicker_showall Preferences Used by the analytics and personalization company, Ezoic, to tell the ezpicker app to show all placeholders. ezpicker_nocache Preferences Used by the analytics and personalization company, Ezoic, to tell the ezpicker app to run without using the cache. ezpicker Preferences Used by the analytics and personalization company, Ezoic, to turn on ezpicker GED_PLAYLIST_ACTIVITY Preferences Used to track activity related to embeded YoutTube videos SL_GWPT_Show_Hide_tmp Preferences SL_wptGlobTipTmp Preferences ezoref_# Statistics Used by the analytics and personalization company, Ezoic, to store the referring domain (the website you were at before you can to this website). ezopvc_# Statistics Used by the analytics and personalization company, Ezoic, to store the number of pages that you have viewed on this site in this session. ezoadgid_# Statistics Records an id that to your age and gender category. For example, id 923 might be for males between 20 and 30 years old. ezoab_# Statistics Used by the analytics and personalization company, Ezoic, to split test different features and functionality. ezosuigenerisc Statistics Used by the analytics and personalization company, Ezoic, to uniquely identify you across different websites on the internet so your experience can be customized. ezovid_# Statistics Used by the analytics and personalization company, Ezoic, to uniquely identify a visit by you to this website. Used for analytics and personalization of your experience. ezoawesome_# Statistics Used by the analytics and personalization company, Ezoic, for fraud and invalid activity detection. ezux_tos_# Statistics Used by the analytics and personalization company, Ezoic, to record the amount of time you have spent on this website. ezux_lpl_# Statistics Used by the analytics and personalization company, Ezoic, to record the time that you loaded the last page on this website. ezuz_ifep_# Statistics Used by the analytics and personalization company, Ezoic, to record whether you have engaged with the content on this site. Used for analytics purposes to improve user experience. ezux_et_# Statistics Used by the analytics and personalization company, Ezoic, to record the amount of time that you engaged with content on this website. Used for analytics purposes to improve user experience. ezouid_# Statistics Used by the analytics and personalization company, Ezoic, to uniquely identify you as a visitor on this website. Used for analytics and personalization of your experience. ezosuigeneris Statistics Used by the analytics and personalization company, Ezoic, to uniquely identify you across different websites on the internet so your experience can be customized. ezostid_# Statistics Used by the analytics and personalization company, Ezoic, to test different features and functionality and to record which features and functionality are available to you so you receive a consistent experience. ezds Statistics Used by the analytics and personalization company, Ezoic, to store the pixel size of your screen to help personalize your experience and ensure content fits. AMP_ECID_EZOIC Statistics Used by personalization and analytics company Ezoic for statistics on Accelerated Mobile Pages ezouspvv Statistics Used by the analytics and personalization company, Ezoic, to track how many pages a user has visited. ez_recommended_pages Statistics Used by the analytics and personalization company, Ezoic, to track users visiting from the recommended pages widget. ezouspvh Statistics Used by the analytics and personalization company, Ezoic, to track how many pages a user has visited since their last visit. ezouspva Statistics Used by the analytics and personalization company, Ezoic, to track how many pages a user has visited all time. ezepvv Statistics Used by the analytics and personalization company, Ezoic, to track which pages this user has viewed. ezCMPCCS Statistics Used by the analytics and personalization company, Ezoic, to track when a user consents to statistics cookies. ezohw Statistics Used by the analytics and personalization company, Ezoic, to store the pixel size of your browser to help personalize your experience and ensure content fits. __qca Statistics Collects anonymous data on the user's visits to the website, such as the number of visits, average time spent on the website and what pages have been loaded with the purpose of generating reports for optimising the website content. _ga Statistics Used to distinguish users by Google Analytics _gid Statistics Used to distinguish users by Google Analytics _gat Statistics Used to distinguish users by Google Analytics __utma Statistics Collects data on the number of times a user has visited the website as well as dates for the first and most recent visit. Used by Google Analytics. __utmb Statistics Registers a timestamp with the exact time of when the user accessed the website. Used by Google Analytics to calculate the duration of a website visit. __utmc Statistics Registers a timestamp with the exact time of when the user leaves the website. Used by Google Analytics to calculate the duration of a website visit. __utmz Statistics Collects data on where the user came from, what search engine was used, what link was clicked and what search term was used. Used by Google Analytics. ezutm_185006 Statistics Used by the analytics and personalization company, Ezoic, to store the list of utm parameters that they have access to. ezutm_# Statistics Used by the analytics and personalization company, Ezoic, to store the list of utm parameters that they have access to. _pk_id..# Statistics Used by Matomo (Piwik) for analytics tracking, storing a unique visitor ID. _pk_ref..# Statistics Used by Matomo (Piwik) for analytics tracking, storing the referring site. __utmd Statistics Used by Google Analytics to track your activity on a website. __utmv Statistics Used to store visitor-level custom variable data in Google Analytics. _gat_gtag_UA_# Statistics Used by Google Analytics for user tracking. ezdg Marketing Used by the analytics and personalization company, Ezoic, to store demographic information like age and gender. _sm_au Marketing Used by Google Adwords to retarget ads to users. __gads Marketing Used to register what ads have been displayed to the user. cto_optout Marketing Used by ad network Criteo to record if you've opted of personalized ads. mindspark_extension_api_features_# Marketing Used by advertising company Mindspark to identify api features. mindsparktb_# Marketing Used by advertising company Mindspark to identify users. mindsparktbsupport_# Marketing Used by advertising company Mindspark to identify users.
Below is a list of usage, technical and identify metrics that are commonly stored and processed when you use this website
| Your location information, including country, state, city, metro and postal code |
| The webpage your were at before this website |
| The type of browser you use and the version |
| The brand and operating system of your device |
| What time zone you're in and what time it is there |
| What pages on this site you visit |
| How you interact with this website, including time spent, how much you scroll and your mouse movements |
| The size of your devices screen and the size of the browser on that screen |
| What content you share on the page |
| If you copy and paste content on this website |
| What ad or link you clicked on to arrive at this website |
| The type of internet connection you use and your ISP or service provider |
| How long it takes for this website's content to get transferred to your browser, load in your browser and render |
| The weather where you are currently located |
| Your age and gender |
| Your ip address |
| A unique id so that we can recognize you |
| What ads you click on |
A list of Vendors that may be used on this website
Data Usage Purposes
Necessary
Necessary cookies help make a website usable by enabling basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. The website cannot function properly without these cookies.
Preferences
Preference cookies enable a website to remember information that changes the way the website behaves or looks, like your preferred language or the region that you are in.
Statistics
Statistic cookies help website owners to understand how visitors interact with websites by collecting and reporting information anonymously.
Marketing
Marketing cookies are used to track visitors across websites. The intention is to display ads that are relevant and engaging for the individual user and thereby more valuable for publishers and third party advertisers.
Contacting Us
If there are any questions regarding this privacy policy or you wish to unsubscribe from our site and services you may contact us using the information below or by writing to us at:
2885 Sanford Ave
Grandville, MI 49418
USA
Summary of Requests
If you'd like to see a summary of the requests to know user information, requests to delete user information and requests to opt-out of CCPA compliance that this business has received: https://g.ezoic.net/privacy/deepbluediving.org/annualRequestSummary regarding deepbluediving.org
Email:
[email protected]
We use Ezoic to provide personalization and analytic services on this website, as such Ezoic’s privacy policy is in effect and can be reviewed here.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, DeepBlueDiving.org may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in DeepBlueDiving.org’s sole discretion. DeepBlueDiving.org encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. If you have a DeepBlueDiving.org account, you might also receive an alert informing you of these changes. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.
Contact Information
If you have any questions about our privacy policy or data collection and usage, please contact the website administrator at [email protected]
