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Privacy Policy

Last Updated January 23, 2024

General

Soap Opera Network (hereinafter: “SON”) respects the right to privacy of each individual who visits this website or responds to our interactive advertisements. This privacy policy outlines the information SON will collect and how we will use that information. This statement will also instruct you on what to do if you do not want your personal information collected or shared when you visit SON or respond to our advertisements.

Individually Identifiable Information

We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our Web site. These companies may use aggregated information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, click here.

Advertising

We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our Web site. These companies may use aggregated information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, click here.

Our Use of Cookies

A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. Cookies may be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.  Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.

We use cookies for the following purposes:

(a) authentication – we use cookies to identify you when you visit our website and as you navigate our website;
(b) advertising – we use cookies to help us to display advertisements that will be relevant to you; and
(c) analysis – we use cookies to help us to analyze the use and performance of our website and services;

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics to analyze the use of our website. Google Analytics gathers information about website use by means of cookies. The information gathered relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of our website. Google’s privacy policy is available at: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/

Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies and to delete cookies. The methods for doing so vary from browser to browser, and from version to version. You can however obtain up-to-date information about blocking and deleting cookies via these links:

(a) https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en (Chrome);
(b) https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences (Firefox);
|(c) http://www.opera.com/help/tutorials/security/cookies/ (Opera);
(d) https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies (Internet Explorer);
(e) https://support.apple.com/kb/PH21411 (Safari); and
(f) https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10-microsoft-edge-and-privacy (Edge).

Please note that blocking cookies may have a negative impact on the functions of many websites, including our Site. Some features of the Site may cease to be available to you.

Affiliate Link Disclosure

Certain posts found at soapoperanetwork.com contain affiliate links. When you click on an affiliate link and later make a purchase, we may receive a small commission from that transaction. Clicking on an affiliate link that earns commission does NOT incur additional charges or cost you anything. Mentions of associated products/services/businesses within the blog’s content may or may not be noted as an affiliate in every reference. Money earned via affiliate links helps pay the fees to keep this site up and running. Thank you for supporting our site through the brands we work with and the products they provide.

Children

SON has no intention of collecting any individually identifiable information such as name, address, telephone number, or e-mail address from individuals under the age of 13. Where appropriate, SON will specifically instruct children not to submit such information on our Web site or in response to advertisements. If a child has provided us with individually identifiable information, that child’s parent or guardian should contact us at the e-mail address or phone number listed at the bottom of this policy if they would like this information deleted from our records.

Non-Individually Identifiable Information Collected Automatically

In some cases, we may collect information about you that is not individually identifiable. Examples of this type of information include the type of Internet browser you are using, the type of computer operating system you are using and the domain name of the Web site from which you linked to our site or advertisement.

Information We May Place Automatically On Your Computer’s Hard Drive

When you view one of our Web sites or advertisements, we may store some information on your computer. This information will be in the form of a “cookie” or similar file and will help us in many ways. For example, cookies allow us to tailor this website or advertisement to better match your interests and preferences. With most Internet browsers, you can erase cookies from your computer hard drive, block all cookies, or receive a warning before a cookie is stored. Please refer to your browser instructions or help screen to learn more about these functions.

Who to Contact

If you have submitted individually identifiable information through a SON or interactive advertisement and would like that information deleted from our records, please contact us at [email protected]. We will delete this information from our existing files.