Privacy Policy

Updated September 24, 2024.

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At CigarScoreLounge.com we consider the privacy of our visitors to be extremely important. This privacy policy document describes in detail the types of personal information is collected and recorded by CigarScoreLounge.com and how we use it.

Who We Are

CigarScore.com, CigarScoreLounge.com, CigarScore Lounge, CigarScore TV, and the CigarScore brand is a wholly-owned subsidiary of DwizzyWid Media, LLC, which owns this site.

Our mailing address is DwizzyWid Media, LLC, PO Box 442, Midlothian, Texas 76065.

Our website address is https://www.cigarscorelounge.com.

What Personal Data We Collect and Why We Collect It

To deliver a more personal experience on this site, we do collect some personal information. We use software that's publicly available to deliver the most relevant information possible whenever we can. Our goal is to give you the best experience possible when browsing or buying on CigarScoreLounge.com.

Some of the information we might collect from you is your first and last name, phone number, mailing address, and sometimes your IP address for security. However, we typically don't ask for or retain your mailing address unless we're sending you something in the mail after you purchase a product, and we only log your IP address for security reasons pertaining to your username and password if you log in.

We collect this information via technical processes such as contact forms, comments, cookies, analytics, and third-party embeds.

User Data

In addition to contact forms, we use surveys and questionnaires to better understand our users. By answering a survey or questionnaire or otherwise completing any form on CigarScoreLounge.com, you consent for us to collect your user data. We only use this information for good, we promise! We collect and use data tied to your account which is tied to an email address. This data allows us to better understand our users and to deliver a customized experience where we can. We may also use your information to verify your identity and eligibility to legally purchase cigars. We do not share your user data with anyone.

Comments

If/when you 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.

You can delete your comments at any time.

Media

If you upload images to the website (for example, for a testimonial) 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.

Contact forms

If you fill out a contact form or fill out an application, we might also collect some additional information from you.

In addition to the fields into which you input your information or other data, we might collect your IP address for geolocation. We do this mostly to know what country or part of the world our traffic is coming from. This does not tell us your home address. Any IP address or geolocation information is tied only to the information you submitted on the form, not to a particular username or anything else. We keep the information in these forms indefinitely.

We do use IP addresses or geolocation information for marketing purposes. We may use the information you send us via contact forms for marketing purposes.

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to save 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.

Log Files

Like many other Web sites, CigarScoreLounge.com makes use of log files. These files merely log visitors to the site – usually a standard procedure for hosting companies and a part of hosting services' analytics. The information inside the log files includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date/time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. This information is used to analyze trends, administer the site, track user's movement around the site, and gather demographic information. IP addresses and other such information are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable.

Cookies and Web Beacons

CigarScoreLounge.com uses cookies to store information about visitors' preferences, to record user-specific information on which pages the site visitor accesses or visits, and to personalize or customize our web page content based on visitors' browser type or other information that the visitor sends via their browser.

If you have an account and you log in to this site, 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 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.

You can always clear the cookies of your browser in the settings area of your browser.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles and/or blog posts 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.

An example of this would be YouTube videos found on this site that might show related or relevant content after the video has finished.

Analytics

We use a tool called “Google Analytics” to collect information about how you use this site. Google Analytics collects information such as how often users visit this site, what pages they visit when they do so, and what other sites they used prior to coming to this site. We use the information we get from Google Analytics only to improve this site. Google Analytics collects only the IP address assigned to you on the date you visit this site, rather than your name or other identifying information. We do not combine the information collected through the use of Google Analytics with personally identifiable information.

Although Google Analytics plants a permanent cookie on your web browser to identify you as a unique user the next time you visit this site, the cookie cannot be used by anyone but Google.

Google’s ability to use and share information collected by Google Analytics about your visits to this site is restricted by the Google Analytics Terms of Use and the Google Privacy Policy.

You can prevent Google Analytics from recognizing you on return visits to this site by disabling cookies on your browser.

We also use tracking code generated from Facebook. We use this data is to customize content and advertising, provide social media features, and analyze traffic to the site. We also share information about your use of our site with our trusted social media, advertising and analytics partners. Here is Facebook's Privacy Policy.

We use tracking code from these and other 3rd party sources to help us track visitors to our site, follow traffic sources and patterns, and to see if our ads are working. We also use this tracking data so we can advertise to you after you've left our site.

Our Advertising Partners

Some of our advertising partners may use cookies and web beacons on our site. Our advertising partners include …

  • Google
  • Amazon
  • Facebook

You may consult this listing to find the privacy policy for each of the advertising partners of CigarScoreLounge.com.

These third-party ad servers or ad networks use technology in their respective advertisements and links that appear on CigarScoreLounge.com and which are sent directly to your browser. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. Other technologies (such as cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons) may also be used by our site's third-party ad networks to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on the site.

CigarScoreLounge.com has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.

Third-Party Privacy Policies

You should consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information on their practices as well as for instructions about how to opt-out of certain practices. CigarScoreLounge.com's privacy policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of, such other advertisers or websites. You may find a comprehensive listing of these privacy policies and their links here: Privacy Policy Links.

If you wish to disable cookies, you may do so through your individual browser options. More detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers can be found at the browsers' respective websites. What Are Cookies?

Who We Share Your Data With

Other than the 3rd parties listed on this Privacy Policy, we do not share your data with anyone else.

How long we retain your data

Unless otherwise stated, we retain the data you give us indefinitely. As long as you have an active profile on our site, we keep your information. You can delete your account at any time.

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 who register on our website (if any), 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.

Children's Information

We believe it is important to provide added protection for children online. We encourage parents and guardians to spend time online with their children to observe, participate in and/or monitor and guide their online activity.

CigarScoreLounge.com does not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13. If a parent or guardian believes that CigarScoreLounge.com has in its database the personally-identifiable information of a child under the age of 13, please contact us immediately (using the contact in the first paragraph) and we will use our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.

Online Privacy Policy Only

This privacy policy applies only to our online activities and is valid for visitors to our website and regarding information shared and/or collected there. This policy does not apply to any information collected offline or via channels other than this website.

Consent

By using our website, you hereby consent to our privacy policy and agree to its terms.

Copyright

DwizzyWid Media, LLC (“DwizzyWid Media”) respects the intellectual property rights of others and expects its users to do the same. It is DwizzyWid Media's policy, in appropriate circumstances and at its discretion, to disable and/or terminate the accounts of users who repeatedly infringe or are repeatedly charged with infringing the copyrights or other intellectual property rights of others.

In accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998, the text of which may be found on the U.S. Copyright Office website at https://www.copyright.gov/legislation/dmca.pdf, DwizzyWid Media will respond expeditiously to claims of copyright infringement committed using the DwizzyWid Media website (the “Site”) that are reported to DwizzyWid Media's Designated Copyright Agent, identified in the sample notice below.

If you are a copyright owner, or are authorized to act on behalf of one, or authorized to act under any exclusive right under copyright, please report alleged copyright infringements taking place on or through the Site by completing the following DMCA Notice of Alleged Infringement (“Notice”) and delivering it to DwizzyWid Media's Designated Copyright Agent. Upon receipt of the Notice as described below, DwizzyWid Media will take whatever action, in its sole discretion, it deems appropriate, including removal of the challenged material from the Site. If DwizzyWid Media removes or disables access to content in response to a Notice, we may notify the user with details about the Notice so that they can submit a counter-notice. DwizzyWid Media may also send a complete copy of the Notice to users where appropriate.

THIS BLOG or any site owned and operated by DwizzyWid Media, LLC, claims no credit for any images posted on this site unless otherwise noted. Images on this blog are copyright to its respectful owners. If there is an image appearing on this blog that belongs to you and do not wish for it to appear on this site, please E-mail with a link to said image and it will be promptly removed.

Additional information

We use website tracking code from our email marketing software, ActiveCampaign. This code allows us to see what pages you've visited on our site. We only have access to this information after you've opted in to receive emails from us. You can request your account and all of the information we have on you to be deleted at any time.

We use this tracking code to follow your behavior on our site. Using this information, we can send you relevant emails based on what you view.

How we protect your data

To protect your data, we've restricted access to the owners of this website. We use two-factor authentication to restrict access and prevent anyone other than an administrator from accessing your data.

What this means is that any time someone tries to log into the site as an administrator, in addition to their username and password, they're also required to input a 6 digit number provided by a secured and approved device. These 6 digit numbers reset every 30 seconds. If the code you enter doesn't match the code provided by the secured app, login access is denied. It's pretty cool.

Update

This Privacy Policy was last updated on: Tuesday, September 24th, 2024.

Should we update, amend or make any changes to our privacy policy, those changes will be posted here.