Privacy Policy

Who we are

Our website address is: https://searchenginehubbub.com (formerly https://ppchubbub.com) and we are operated by Hubbub Marketing Limited.

Your privacy is very important to us. At Search Engine Hubbub we have a few fundamental principles that we follow:

• We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it. (We can’t stand services that ask you for things like your gender or income level for no apparent reason).
• We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products, or protect our rights. Unless you have expressed permission for us to do so.
• We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of our site.

Hubbub Marketing Limited  only operates searchenginehubbub.com. It is Search Engine Hubbub’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, Search Engine Hubbub 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. Search Engine Hubbub’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Search Engine Hubbub’s visitors use its website. From time to time, Search Engine Hubbub may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to Search Engine Hubbub’s websites choose to interact with Search Engine Hubbub in ways that require Search Engine Hubbub to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Search Engine Hubbub gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who comment on our blog to provide a username and email address. Those who wish to receive Search Engine hubbub updates via email, we collect their emails. In each case, Search Engine Hubbub collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Search Engine Hubbub. Search Engine Hubbub does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

Aggregated Statistics

Search Engine Hubbub may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites through Google Analytics. Search Engine Hubbub may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Search Engine Hubbub does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Log Files

Like many other Web sites, searchenginehubbub.com makes use of log files. The information inside the log files includes internet protocol ( IP ) addresses, type of browser, Internet Service Provider ( ISP ), date/time stamp, referring/exit pages, and number of clicks 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.

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 anonymised 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.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

Search Engine Hubbub 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 Search Engine Hubbub’s behalf or to provide services available at Search Engine Hubbub’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 Search Engine Hubbub’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them.

Search Engine Hubbub 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, Search Engine Hubbub discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Search Engine Hubbub believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Search Engine Hubbub, third parties or the public at large.

Email addresses

If you are a registered user of a Search Engine Hubbub website and have supplied your email address, Search Engine Hubbub 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 Search Engine Hubbub and our products. We primarily use our various product blogs to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum.

We will not share this personal information with or sell it to any other third-party unless we have your permission or the law requires us to.

Contacting Us

If you send us a request (for example via a support 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.

Search Engine Hubbub takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Any personal information we hold about you is stored and processed in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998.

Service Providers and Partners

• We use ReCaptcha for spam detection and prevention. When you register an account or complete a form on searchenginehubbub.com, you accept the ReCaptcha terms of service and privacy policy.
• We use Mailchimp to send Newsletter emails to users who subscribe to receive them. We only collect your email address for these if you have signed up via the Subscribe popup. You can review Mailchimp privacy policy for information on how they manage user data.

Links to external websites

Our website may contain links to other websites. We have no control of websites outside of searchenginehubbub.com. We are not responsible for the content of other websites, or for the protection or privacy of data you submit to them.

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.

Cookies

To make this site work properly, we sometimes place small data files called cookies on your device. Most big websites do this too. We use a number of different cookies on our site. If you do not know what cookies are, or how to control or delete them, then we recommend you visit http://www.aboutcookies.org for detailed guidance.

What are cookies?

A cookie is a small text file that a website saves on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site. It enables the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login, language, font size and other display preferences) over a period of time, so you don’t have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the site or browse from one page to another.

How do we use cookies?

Search Engine Hubbub uses cookies to help Search Engine Hubbub identify and track visitors, their usage of Search Engine Hubbub website, and their website access preferences. Search Engine Hubbub visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Search Engine Hubbub’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of Search Engine Hubbub’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

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 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

Search Engine Hubbub uses Google Analytics. Google Analytics is Google’s analytics tool that helps website and app owners to understand how their visitors engage with their properties. It may use a set of cookies to collect information and report website usage statistics without personally identifying individual visitors to Google. The main cookie used by Google Analytics is the ‘__ga’ cookie.

In addition to reporting website usage statistics, Google Analytics can also be used, together with some of the advertising cookies described, to help show more relevant ads on Google properties (like Google Search) and across the web and to measure interactions with the ads we show.

Learn more about Analytics cookies and privacy information. You can find out more about Google’s position on privacy as regards its analytics service at http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en/analytics/privacyoverview.html

Ads using cookies

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 Search Engine Hubbub and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Cookies from advertisers

From time to time the advertisers might use cookies to track various things like how many times you have seen an ad, whether you have clicked on an ad before, etc. This differs from campaign to campaign and cannot be specified on a page like this. We also use cookies to enable us to target advertising or promotions for our own products that your engagement with our site suggests would be relevant to you.

See http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/ for more information, how you can manage your preferences and opt out of receiving these cookies.

Google Adsense

These third-party ad servers or ad networks use technology to the advertisements and links that appear on searchenginehubbub.com send directly to your browsers. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. Other technologies (such as cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons) may also be used by the third-party ad networks to measure the effectiveness of their advertisements and / or to personalize the advertising content that you see.

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

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. searchenginehubbub.com’s privacy policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of, such other advertisers or web sites.

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.

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, please see here.

searchenginehubbub.com is participating in the Digital Advertising Alliance’s (DAA) Self-Regulatory Program for Online Behavioural Advertising: http://www.aboutads.info/choices/.

How to control cookies

You can control and/or delete cookies as you wish – for details, see aboutcookies.org. You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site and some services and functionalities may not work.

How long we retain your data

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

For users that 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.

Business Transfers

If Search Engine Hubbub, or substantially all of its assets were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Search Engine Hubbub 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 Search Engine Hubbub may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Search Engine Hubbub may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Search Engine Hubbub’s sole discretion. Search Engine Hubbub encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.