Your Little Black Book privacy policy

{ Update: June 24, 2025 }

Mediavine Programmatic Advertising (Version 1.1)

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

First-party cookies are created by the website you are visiting. A third-party cookie is often used for behavioral advertising and analytics, and is created by a domain that is different from 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. Every web browser has features that allow you to block both first-party and third-party cookies and to clear your browser cache. The “Help” option in the menu of most browsers will tell you how to refuse new cookies, receive notifications of new cookies, disable existing cookies, and clear your cache. For more information about cookies and how to disable them, please visit All About Cookies.

Without cookies, you may not be able to fully use the website's content and features. Please note: refusing cookies does not mean you will no longer see ads on our site. If you opt out, you will still see non-personalized ads on the website.

The website collects the following data via a cookie when showing personalized advertisements:

• IP address
• Operating system type
• Operating system version
• device type
• Language of the website
• Web browser type
• Email address (in hashed form)

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

If you would like more information about these practices and your choices to opt-in or opt-out of this data collection, please visit the National Advertising Initiative opt-out page. You can also visit the websites of the Digital Advertising Alliance and the Network Advertising Initiative For more information about interest-based ads, visit the AppChoices app. You can download the AppChoices app from the Digital Advertising Alliance's AppChoices app to opt out of tracking in mobile apps, or use the settings on your mobile device to opt out.

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

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