Privacy Policy
CF Alerts Corp dba Fire Brick Group (“Company,” or “We”) respects your privacy and we are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this Private Policy. This policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you provide when you (1) visit thehistorytoday.com (our “Site”), (2) interact with email, text or other electronic messages between you and the Site or when you (3) interact with our advertising (“Advertising”) on other websites (if such advertising includes links to this policy). This policy also describes our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.
Please take a minute to read the following policy so you understand how we use the personal information we ask you to submit. As we update and expand our services, this policy may change, so please refer back to it periodically. If you use our Site or any of our many offerings and services (the “Services”), you confirm that you are not an individual in the European Union (EU) and agree to this policy.
If you have questions or concerns regarding this policy, please contact us or write to us at CF Alerts Corp. dba Fire Brick Group, 5944 Coral Ridge Drive, Suite 158, Coral Springs, FL 33076.
Your Consent
By using the Services and our Site, you consent to the collection and use of certain information about you, as specified in the Privacy Policy. We encourage users of the Site to frequently check our Privacy Policy for changes.
Please read this entire Privacy Policy carefully before using the Site or providing us with any information that is personally identifiable to a user (PII) and information that is not personally identifiable to a user (non-PII)(together, “Information”). When you access or use the Site, you consent to the collection, use, processing, and disclosure of your Information in accordance with this Policy by us, our third party marketing partners, and our parent, subsidiaries and entities under common control with us (“Affiliates”). If you do not agree to the terms of this Policy, you are not authorized to use the Site.
How We Collection Information and the Types Collected
We and our marketing partners and Affiliates collect Information in a number of different ways. We collect Information when a user registers on our Site and provides us identifying PII such as your name, email, address and telephone number. We also use technological means to collect Information about a user such as your activity on the Site, including the date and time of your visit, search terms you use and content you access, your device identification, and the type of browser you are using, where you were browsing before they arrived at our Site, your IP address, general geographic area and if you are on a mobile device, which carrier you use. We also collect information through cookies, pixel tags and other tracking technologies as described below in the Privacy Policy. This Information may be supplemented or verified by third party services.
We also offer an affiliate program, where affiliate members direct customers to the Site through links on our Site. We ask affiliates for information, including their site name (URL), mailing address, primary contact, pay-to address, technical contact, and other site-related information, to determine whether a site will be included in our affiliate program. The information collected from our affiliates is used strictly for our affiliate program; none of this information is used for general marketing purposes.
If you reached the Site by clicking on a link or an ad from another website or from an email sent from one of our marketing partners, then we may also capture that information to understand your interests and to keep track of third parties who direct users to our Site. We track and record a user’s behavior while on our Site and associate it with the user’s PII so that if a user returns to our Site, we can, for example, avoid showing the user the same offers or results.
In order for a user to take full advantage of the Site, we ask users to voluntarily provide their PII to us. If a user chooses not to provide us with their PII by simply not entering it on the Site or not otherwise providing it to us, the user will not be able to access or use certain of the services or features available through the Site.
How We Use the Information We Collect
We may use the Information (whether PII or non-PII) that a user provides us to, among other things:
- Help administer and protect the security of the Site and provide communication and other services and, in that regard, may share Information with third parties, including vendors and contractors who provide services to us;
- Contact users regarding customer service and administrative issues, such as questions about a user’s specific request, or otherwise respond to a user’s comments or requests;
- Send users emails with information and offers from us, our marketing partners and/or Affiliates;
- Maintain suppression or opt-out lists that we may share with third parties so that a user is not contacted when the user has asked not to be;
- Develop and/or enhance products and/or services by our Affiliates and/or third parties;
- Protect the rights and property of CF Alerts Corp and our affiliated entities;
- Develop and/or enhance products and/or services by our Affiliates and/or third parties;
- Protect the personal safety of users and the general public;
- Make telephone calls and send text messages to you with information and offers provided you consent to be marketed to in this manner as described further below;
- Compile anonymous statistical information and analysis which may be provided to Affiliates and other third parties;
- Provide, sell, or rent your Information to Third Party Marketing Partners, Affiliates and other third parties for advertising and promotional purposes; and
- Permit you to access certain web-based programs or applications on the Site.
- In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
- For any other purpose with your consent.
Use Of Data By Third Parties
We allow advertising companies, marketing partners and affiliates, etc. (Third Parties) to place advertisements on our website, some of which include the transfer of user data to third parties. Our third party partners may store and use it for their internal purposes and may also share it with other entities.
Should you consent to the relevant disclosures your user data may be used by these third parties for the purposes of delivering newsletters, content and other relevant updates via email and/or SMS. In order to opt-out from continued marketing from third parties please reply directly to the message with a request to STOP or unsubscribe.
Who We Are
We are an online consumer service that provides lifestyle information to our users and introduces third parties to our users who may have relevant offers. You can contact our team at:
CF Alerts Corp dba Fire Brick Group
5944 Coral Ridge Drive, Suite 158
Coral Springs, FL 33076
privacy@firebrickgroup.com
Behavioral Advertising
Behavioral advertising enables us and our marketing partners and Affiliates to deliver to users what is hoped to be more relevant information and offers for products or services. We track online behavior principally by a user’s email address while our third party marketing partners and Affiliates may use cookies, web beacons and other technological means on your computer, device, or directly in our emails/communications to track users’ online behavior and to collect Information. In either case, identifying a user and their past online behavior enables the tailoring of targeted offers and advertisements. We may share this and other Information with our third party marketing partners and Affiliates and may be compensated for doing so.
Cookies
Cookies are small pieces of data that are sent to your browser from a web server and stored on your hard drive and/or your mobile device. In general, we use cookies and similar technologies to help us better serve you and improve your experience on our Site. As you browse areas of the Site, cookies may be placed on your computer’s hard drive and/or your mobile device which may allow us to collect information, such as your internet protocol address and mobile device identifier. Cookies allow us to track your account so you don’t need to retype the information each time you visit our Site. Cookies also allow us to provide certain services and features to you. You may refuse cookies in your browser, but doing so may result in certain services and features not functioning properly.
We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads and/or collect certain information when you visit our Site. These advertisers may also serve cookies when you click on advertisements on the Site, or use pixel tags, web beacons, or similar technologies to collect non-personally identifiable aggregated information when users visit the Site in order to provide advertisements on our Site, other sites, and other forms of media about goods and services that may be of interest to you. This common practice is known as “online behavioral advertising” or “interest based advertising”. To learn more about this practice or to opt-out of this use of your anonymous information, please visit: http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp. In addition, if you want to prevent a third-party advertiser from collecting data, you may visit each ad network’s web site individually and opt-out. We do not have access to personal information, if any, gathered by advertisers.
Third Party Cookies
Notwithstanding any other provision, we partner with third parties that collect information across various channels, including offline and online, for purposes of delivering more relevant advertising to you or your business. Our partners may place or recognize a cookie on your computer, device, or directly in our emails/communications, and we may share personal information with them if you have submitted such information to us, such as your name, postal address, email address, or device ID. Our partners may link the hashed or obfuscated personal information we share with them to the cookie stored on your browser or device, and they may collect information such as your IP address, browser or operating system type and version, and demographic or inferred-interest information. Our partners use this information to recognize you across different channels and platforms, including but not limited to, computers, mobile devices, and Smart TVs, over time for advertising, analytics, attribution, and reporting purposes. For example, our partners may deliver an ad to you in your web browser based on a purchase you made in a physical retail store, or they may send a personalized marketing email to you based on the fact that you visited a particular website. Your data may be transferred outside of the country from which it was originally collected. To learn more about interest-based advertising in general and to opt out, please visit http://www.aboutads.info/choices. To opt-out of the use of your mobile device ID for targeted advertising, please see ttp://www.aboutads.info/appchoices.
Log Files
When you visit our Website, we track internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, platform type, date/time stamp and number of clicks to analyze trends and administer the Site, track users’ movement in the aggregate and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. We use your IP address at times to help identify you as you browse and to gather broad technical and demographic information on who uses the Site.
Web Beacons
We may use standard internet technology, called Web Beacons (also called clear gifs, pixel tags or web bugs) that are tiny graphics with a unique identifier that are used to track online movements. Unlike cookies, which are stored on the user’s computer, a web beacon is embedded invisibly on a webpage (or email). Web beacons help us better manage content through the service by informing us what content and which campaigns are effective. This allows us and our third party partners to gauge the effectiveness of marketing campaigns by showing how many emails the recipients have opened or by sending/receiving an anonymous identification number when you travel to a site from an online advertisement. We do not tie clear gifs to personally identifiable information.
Third Party Analytics
We may use Google Analytics and similar tools provided by our third party partners to help analyze how users interact with the Site and display customized ads and other content to our users during a current browsing session or in the future when the user is online. These analytics are performed by using the technological means described above to monitor a user’s interactions with the Site and do not involve the collection of any additional PII.
Other Websites; Links
We and our Affiliates and marketing partners may advertise and promote the Site and we may permit our marketing partners to place ads and other content, including links to other websites, on the Site. While we try to post links only to third-party websites that share our respect for privacy, this Policy and our privacy practices do not extend to and may differ from those of third-party websites that can be accessed through links on this Site. You should review the applicable privacy policies of the third-party websites before registering with, providing Information to or navigating those websites.
Site Policy Regarding Children Under the Age of 13
The Site is intended to comply with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). COPPA requires that website operators never knowingly collect PII from anyone under the age of 13 without prior verifiable parental consent. The Site is not intended for children under the age of 18 and we do not knowingly collect or use PII from children under the age of 18. If we discover personal data from a child under the age of 18, we will eliminate that data.
By using the Site, you agree to provide us with accurate information concerning your age or identity if we request it. You also agree not to assist children under the age of 18 in accessing a Site or to attempt to contact children under 18 through the Site.
Telephone Consumer Protection Act
We may seek your consent to receive telemarketing calls and/or text (SMS) messages from us, our Affiliates and marketing partners in accordance with the rules under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”). If you provide your express consent via your electronic signature for TCPA purposes, even if your mobile or landline telephone number is listed on the federal or a State’s Do-Not-Call Registry, you expressly consent to; (a) receive telemarketing calls, text (SMS) messages, and any other means of communication that your wireless device may be capable of receiving (e.g. mms, video etc.) from the persons named in the consent (including through the use of automated dialing equipment); and (b) receive future information about products and services from us, our marketing partners, Affiliates and other third parties to whom we may provide your Information via other means such as email. You may revoke your consent to be contacted in this manner by any reasonable means at any time (see the Opting-Out section below).
Merely accessing our Site without providing your express written consent for TCPA purposes does not constitute your consent to receive telemarketing calls.
Non-Discrimination
We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). Unless permitted by the CCPA, we will not:
- Deny you goods or services.
- Charge you different prices or rates for goods or services, including through granting discounts or other benefits, or imposing penalties.
- Provide you a different level or quality of goods or services.
- Suggest that you may receive a different price or rate for goods or services or a different level or quality of goods or services.
Opting-Out
You may opt-out from receiving future offers from us including have your email address removed – unsubscribed – from email marketing lists by following the Opt-Out instructions contained in the marketing communication or as specified below. If you receive offers or other communications from our third party marketing partners and would like to opt-out from future communications from them, you must contact them directly. In general, it takes up to 10 days for an Opt-Out request to take effect. A third party’s use of Information is subject to their privacy policy.
You may opt out from the collection of online viewing data for behavioral advertising purposes by companies who have elected to participate in one of the behavioral advertising opt-out mechanisms such as the Digital Adverting Alliance’s opt-out program located at http://www.aboutads.info/choices or the Network Advertising Initiative at http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp. As is the case with most websites, we have not elected to participate in any of these programs at this time.
You may disable cookies, web beacons and other technological means placed by us, our Affiliates and third party partners by adjusting their browser or email client settings. You may also opt out from the collection of online viewing data for analytics purposes performed by Google Analytics by going to Ad Settings under their Google account.
You may revoke your consent to receive telemarketing calls from us and/or the persons named in the consent by emailing privacy@firebrickgroup dot com and indicating that you do not want to receive any further telemarketing from us or the persons named in the consent.
Security of Your Information
We use commercially reasonable efforts to prevent unauthorized access, use, alteration or disclosure, or accidental loss or destruction of your Information. We currently do not encrypt Information that we store.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Your Information passes through entities that we are unable to control. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee that our security measures or those of our Affiliates or third parties who access or transmit your Information will prevent your Information from being illegally accessed, stolen or altered. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures.
Your California Privacy Rights
The California “Shine the Light” law permits users who are California residents to request information regarding our disclosure of their Information to third parties including the categories of Information shared and a list of the names and addresses of third parties with whom the Information was shared. If you are a California resident and would like a copy of this notice, please submit a request as specified below.
This Site does not include Do Not Track technology at this time. Do Not Track is a privacy preference that you can set in your web browser to indicate that you do not want certain information about your webpage visits collected across web sites when you have not interacted with that service on the page. For all the details, including how to activate Do Not Track, visit www.donottrack.us.
Access to Information, Where to Request Data and to Opt-Out
All users who provide their Information to us may modify and correct their Information by contacting us at privacy@firebrickgroup dot com
If you want to request information regarding the disclosure of your information and would like a copy of this notice, please send us a request stating this is a “Shine the Light Request” by filling out our Contact Us form or by sending a request to either
privacy@firebrickgroup dot com or
CF Alerts Corp dba Fire Brick Group
5944 Coral Ridge Drive, Suite 158
Coral Springs, FL 33076
Notification of Changes
If we decide to change our Privacy Policy, we will post those changes here so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.
If at any point you have questions or concerns about our Privacy Policy, please feel free to contact us.
Revised August 1, 2020