Privacy Policy

At best-speech-topics.com we are dedicated to protecting your data and privacy.

We recognize that your privacy is important to our visitors. This document outlines the types of personal information we receive and collect when you use best-speech-topics.com, as well as some of the steps we take to safeguard information. The policies set forth in this document will help you make an informed decision about sharing personal information with us.

best-speech-topics.com strives to maintain the highest standards of decency, fairness, and integrity in all our operations. Likewise, Best Speech Topics dedicates itself to protecting our customers' and online visitors' privacy on our website.

About Our Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that best-speech-topics.com stores on your computer, which your browser provides to best-speech-topics.com each time you return to the site. We use cookies to help us identify and track visitors, their use of our website, and their website access preferences.

Google Analytics Cookies

best-speech-topics.com uses Google Analytics to analyze the use of this website. Google Analytics collects demographic and interest data and generates statistical and other information about website use, through cookies. Your computer keeps and stores these cookies. We share this information with Google, which saves and uses this information on its servers. Google's privacy policy is available at https://policies.google.com/privacy.

best-speech-topics.com uses information from Google Analytics to track the number of visits to the website, browsers and operating systems. Our website obtains no personally identifiable information from these cookies. We use the information that Google Analytics generates relating to our website to create reports about the use of the site. These reports allow us to update the site and improve your use of it.

If you do not want the collection of your data via Google Analytics, you can install its opt-out browser extension or add-on. https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/

Statcounter

Statcounter is an online service which helps us to understand our visitors; for example, how visitors find our website, how long they spend on our site, which web pages they are most interested in etc. We use Statcounter because a better understanding of how visitors are interacting with our website helps us to improve the content, design, and functionality of our site. This knowledge allows us to offer a better online experience to our visitors.

Statcounter uses cookies and other technologies to collect data on visitors and visitor activity on our website. This data includes:

  • Time and date of visit (this can help us to identify and plan for busy periods on our website)
  • IP address (this is a numerical label assigned to a device by an Internet Service Provider to enable the device to access the internet)
  • Browser and Operating System (this can help us to make sure that our website functions correctly in the browsers/operating systems used to access our site)
  • Device Information, e.g. device type and screen size (this can help us to make sure that our website functions correctly in the devices used to access our site)
  • Referring Data, e.g. a search engine link (this can help us to understand which search engines are helping visitors to find our website)

Furthermore, when you visit our website, a Statcounter cookie (called "is_unique") may be placed in your browser. This cookie is used only to determine whether you are a first-time or returning visitor and to estimate unique visits to the site.

You can learn more about cookies from StatCounter and set your browser to refuse same by clicking here. For further details, please see the Statcounter privacy policy.

Advertising Cookies

We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads on our website. These companies use cookies and web beacons in their ads to ascertain how many times you've seen an advertisement. We share this information with these companies, but do not provide them with any personally identifiable information for cookie or web beacon use, so they cannot personally identify you with that information from our website.

You may opt out of personalized ads for over 125 different ad networks. Click here to do that.

Google serves some third-party advertisements. Google's cookie enables it to serve ads to our visitors based on their visits to other sites on the Web. You may opt out of personalized ads by visiting the Google advertising privacy policy.

This link from Google provides more information about how Google manages data in its ad products.

Mediavine serves some third-party ads, and Mediavine partners with various third-party providers. Each provider is a data processor on behalf of Mediavine and Mediavine'™s publishers. For more information about how each provider processes data, and how to opt-out of the data collection, please see this page.

Affiliate Products and Services

We receive an affiliate commission for some of the products and services sold on best-speech-topics.com.

The affiliate services platform we use is Amazon.

By clicking on a product or service link, you consent to that platform's use of cookies, as outlined in the links below.

Amazon Europe privacy policy

Amazon Canada privacy policy

Amazon US privacy policy

Refusing Cookies

You can set your browser to accept or refuse all cookies automatically, or notify you when a website page requests a cookie. Taking this action should not cause a problem with the continued use of the best-speech-topics.com site. Consult the Help section of your browser for guidance on how to refuse all cookies or to notify you when a website requests a cookie.

If you choose to refuse best-speech-topics.com's cookies, you may not be able to experience the interactive features of the site entirely.

Personally Identifiable Information

best-speech-topics.com may collect and use your personal information for the following purposes:

  • To run and operate our site.
  • To display content on the site correctly.
  • To improve customer service.
  • To help us respond to your customer service requests and support needs more efficiently.
  • To personalize your user experience.
  • To understand how our users as a group use the services and resources provided on our site.
  • To improve our site.
  • To improve our products and services.
  • To run a promotion, contest, survey or other site feature.
  • To send information to you that you agreed to receive about topics we think will be of interest to you.
  • To send periodic emails, which may include electronic newsletters or autoresponder series of emails.
  • To respond to your inquiries, questions, or other requests.

best-speech-topics.com may collect personally identifiable information from you in a variety of ways, including, but not limited to, when you visit our site, register on the site, or fill out a form, and in connection with other activities, services, features or resources we make available on our website.

Specifically, if you subscribe to our newsletter, we will ask for your first name and will require your email address.

If you complete a form, we will require your name and your email address and will ask for information relevant to the purpose of the submission.

If you submit content to us, we will ask for your name and email address. Photos you include with your submission, or details in your written comments may personally identify you.

You can always refuse to supply personally identifiable information and visit our site anonymously. However, it may prevent you from engaging in certain Site-related activities.

If we make material changes in the collection of personally identifiable information, we will inform you by placing a notice on our site. We will use personal information received from you for internal purposes only and will not sell it or provide it to third parties.

We also collect each visitor's IP address, which helps us combat spam and fraud. We do not use IP addresses for any other purpose.

best-speech-topics.com contains links to other websites that may be of interest to you. However, once you have used them to leave our site, we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information you provide while visiting such sites. This privacy statement does not govern these sites. Always exercise caution by reviewing the privacy statement of the website in question before continuing to use it.

Non-personally Identifiable Information

We may collect non-personally identifiable information about you whenever you interact with our site. Non-personally identifiable information may include the browser name, the type of computer and technical information about your method of connecting to our website, such as the operating system and the Internet service provider you used, and other similar information.

Social media

You will find links to Facebook on the best-speech-topics.com website. When you click on them or leave a comment, your browser connects directly with that site and sends data such as your IP address, the date and time of your visit and information about how you use the social site.

To prevent Facebook from collecting your data, you should log out of your Facebook account while using this site.

Children's Privacy Protection

best-speech-topics.com is a family-friendly site but is not intended for use by children without parental supervision, particularly children under sixteen years of age.

I operate in compliance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act and Article 8 of the GDPR.

I will never knowingly collect or use personal information from anyone under 16 years of age. Children under that age must have permission from a parent or legal guardian before asking questions, sharing stories or buying anything from this site.

If you have concerns about your children's activities or their privacy on this site, please contact me here.

Release of Information

If we sell best-speech-topics.com, the information we have obtained from you through your voluntary participation in our site may transfer to the new owner as a part of the sale so that the service provided to you may continue. In that event, you will receive notice through our website of that change in control and practices, and we will make reasonable efforts to ensure that the purchaser honors any opt-out requests you might make.

Data Storage

Our host is SiteSell Inc. SiteSell stores personally identifiable information and non-personally identifiable information collected by this site on its servers. The location of SiteSell Inc. is 1000 Saint-Jean Boulevard, Suite 702, Pointe-Claire, QC H9R 5P1 Canada.

best-speech-topics.com is a participant of the AddThis.com program, which provides online tools that leverage data to help publishers understand their audiences and drive traffic to their Sites. AddThis.com may transfer your data on a global basis. AddThis.com will transfer data to countries (including the United States) where data protection laws may differ from those in the originating country. Transfers of personal information to countries outside the European Economic Area will be subject to the requirements of the European Union Standard Contractual Clauses. If you do not wish AddThis.com to collect your data, you may opt-out by visiting optout.aboutads.info or the NAI opt-out program.

MailChimp, our newsletter service provider, collects some information.

You can see how Mailchimp handles data on the following link: MailChimp.

Search Box

Google Inc ("Google") powers the search box on this web site ("Search Box"). You acknowledge and agree that Google's privacy policy (located at https://www.google.com/privacy.html) shall apply to your use of the Search Box and by using the Search Box you consent to Google using your data under its privacy policy.

Mediavine Programmatic Advertising

Mediavine Programmatic Advertising (Ver 1.1)

The Website works with Mediavine to manage third-party interest-based advertising appearing on the Website. Mediavine serves content and advertisements when you visit the Website, which may use first and third-party cookies. A cookie is a small text file which is sent to your computer or mobile device (referred to in this policy as a "device") by the web server so that a website can remember some information about your browsing activity on the Website.

First party cookies are created by the website that you are visiting. A third-party cookie is frequently used in behavioral advertising and analytics and is created by a domain other than the website you are visiting. Third-party cookies, tags, pixels, beacons and other similar technologies (collectively, "Tags") may be placed on the Website to monitor interaction with advertising content and to target and optimize advertising. Each internet browser has functionality so that you can block both first and third-party cookies and clear your browser's cache. The "help" feature of the menu bar on most browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new cookies, how to receive notification of new cookies, how to disable existing cookies and how to clear your browser's cache. For more information about cookies and how to disable them, you can consult the information at All About Cookies.

Without cookies you may not be able to take full advantage of the Website content and features. Please note that rejecting cookies does not mean that you will no longer see ads when you visit our Site. In the event you opt-out, you will still see non-personalized advertisements on the Website.

The Website collects the following data using a cookie when serving personalized ads:

  • IP Address
  • Operating System type
  • Operating System version
  • Device Type
  • Language of the website
  • Web browser type
  • Email (in hashed form)

Mediavine Partners (companies listed below with whom Mediavine shares data) may also use this data to link to other end user information the partner has independently collected to deliver targeted advertisements. Mediavine Partners may also separately collect data about end users from other sources, such as advertising IDs or pixels, and link that data to data collected from Mediavine publishers in order to provide interest-based advertising across your online experience, including devices, browsers and apps. This data includes usage data, cookie information, device information, information about interactions between users and advertisements and websites, geolocation data, traffic data, and information about a visitor's referral source to a particular website. Mediavine Partners may also create unique IDs to create audience segments, which are used to provide targeted advertising.

If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices to opt-in or opt-out of this data collection, please visit National Advertising Initiative opt out page. You may also visit Digital Advertising Alliance website and Network Advertising Initiative website to learn more information about interest-based advertising. You may download the AppChoices app at Digital Advertising Alliance's AppChoices app to opt out in connection with mobile apps, or use the platform controls on your mobile device to opt out.

For specific information about Mediavine Partners, the data each collects and their data collection and privacy policies, please visit Mediavine Partners.

How You Can Correct or Remove Information

We provide this privacy policy as a statement to you of our commitment to protect your personally identifiable information. If you have submitted personally identifiable information through our website and would like to review that information, click on this link.

You can also request to edit or delete any of your information from the servers by clicking on this link.

Updates and Effective Date

best-speech-topics.com reserves the right to make changes in this policy. If there is a material change in our cookie and privacy practices, we will indicate on our site that those practices have changed and provide a link to the updated privacy policy. We encourage you to periodically review this policy so that you will know what information we collect and how we use it.

Agreeing to Terms

If you do not agree to best-speech-topics.com's privacy policy as posted here on this website, please do not consent to the setting of cookies and the collection and storage of your personally identifiable information.

Your explicit consent indicates acceptance of this privacy policy in its entirety.

Last updated: May 26, 2022

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