Privacy Policy

The privacy of our visitors to bigandlittlepicks.com is very important to us. If you subscribe to this website in any form, we will not spam you or sell your email address to anyone else. You can also unsubscribe at any time without any trouble or hassle.

Here is information on what types of personal information we receive and collect when you use and visit this website, and how we safeguard your information.  We never sell, give away, rent, or lease your personal information to third parties.  The following outlines our privacy policy. Please read this policy before using the site or submitting any personal information. By using the site, you accept the practices described here.

  • Before or at the time of collecting personal information, we will identify the purposes for which information is being collected.
  • We will collect and use of personal information solely with the objective of fulfilling those purposes specified by us and for other compatible purposes, unless we obtain the consent of the individual concerned or as required by law.
  • We will only retain personal information as long as necessary for the fulfillment of those purposes.
  • We will collect personal information by lawful and fair means and, where appropriate, with the knowledge or consent of the individual concerned.
  • Personal data should be relevant to the purposes for which it is to be used, and, to the extent necessary for those purposes, should be accurate, complete, and up-to-date.
  • We will protect personal information by reasonable security safeguards against loss or theft, as well as unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use or modification.
  • We will make readily available to customers information about our policies and practices relating to the management of personal information.


Log Files

As with most other websites, we collect and use the data contained in log files.  The information in the log files include your IP (internet protocol) address, your ISP (internet service provider, such as Comcast or AT&T), the browser you used to visit our site (such as Firefox, Safari, or Internet Explorer), the time you visited our site and which pages you visited throughout our site.


Advertisers

We use third party advertisements on this website.  Some of these advertisers may use technology such as cookies and web beacons when they advertise on our site, which will also send these advertisers (such as Google through the Google AdSense program) information including your IP address, your ISP , the browser you used to visit our site, and in some cases, whether you have Flash installed.  This is generally used for geotargeting purposes (showing Chicago real estate ads to someone in Chicago, for example) or showing certain ads based on specific sites visited (such as showing cooking ads to someone who frequents cooking sites.)

You can choose to disable or selectively turn off our cookies or third-party cookies in your browser settings, or by using Internet security programs.  However, this can affect how you are able to interact with our site as well as other websites.  This could include the inability to login to services or programs, such as logging into forums or accounts.

BigAndLittlePicks.com is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com.


Comments

We reserve the right to edit or remove comments left on this website at our sole discretion. If provided, site URLs (along with all other information) are published along with comments. Commentator email addresses are required with the submission of comments but are not disclosed, as long as the commentator does not enter their e-mail address directly into the main comment area in addition to the box supplied for their e-mail address.


External Links

This web site contains links to other external websites not owned by the owner of this website. We cannot control how your personal information is used on these other websites, so please be sure to see how they use your information by consulting their privacy policies respectively.


Social Media Platforms

This website uses social sharing buttons which helps users to share this site's content directly to a social media platform. Users should do so at their own discretion and note that the social media platform may track and save your request to share a web page respectively through your social media platform account. We are not responsible for republished content from this blog on other blogs or websites without our permission.


Our Contact Information

If you have any questions or concerns please do not hesitate to contact us. This privacy policy was updated in February of 2013. We reserve the right to make changes to this policy. You are encouraged to review the privacy policy whenever you visit the site to make sure that you understand how any personal information you provide will be used.

Disclosure

Let me be clear: We make money through the content that we freely share on BigAndLittlePicks.com; however, we promise to provide a fair and valuable assessment and review to our readers first and foremost. Seriously.

Thus, in accordance with the FTC Ruling for Bloggers:
  • Every piece of content has a financial impact.
  • Every piece of content may be used to promote products, services, and affiliate businesses.
  • We never promote or endorse a product or service that does not create high value for our readers.
  • Any products that we receive we have gotten free of charge and at no personal cost to ourselves.
  • Every contest and/or giveaway is paid by ourselves, unless otherwise stated.
  • We cannot guarantee that our review of a product, service, or business will be “positive” in nature; we promise to provide a fair and valuable assessment and review to our readers first and foremost.
  • We retain the right to provide select advertising and sponsorship across this blog property for the right partners and businesses and would never sponsor or advertise a product that we haven’t used myself or had experience using.
  • We promote affiliate partner businesses that are relevant to our readers. We will not necessarily note the use of an affiliate link every time.