Privacy Policy

Last updated: August 31, 2026

Brands Owned By respects the privacy of its visitors. This Privacy Policy explains what information may be collected when you visit BrandsOwnedBy.com, how that information may be used, and the choices available to you.

In this policy, “Brands Owned By,” “we,” “our,” and “us” refer to BrandsOwnedBy.com. “Website” refers to BrandsOwnedBy.com and its pages.

Information We Collect

You can read and browse BrandsOwnedBy.com without creating an account or subscribing to an email list.

We do not currently offer an email newsletter or email signup service. Therefore, we do not collect email addresses for newsletter subscriptions or promotional email campaigns.

Some information may still be collected automatically when you access the Website. This can include:

• Your Internet Protocol address.
• Browser type and version.
• Device type and operating system.
• Language and general location information.
• Pages visited and time spent on those pages.
• Referring and exit pages.
• The date and time of your visit.
• Interactions with advertisements and Website features.
• Cookie identifiers and similar technical information.

This information helps operate the Website, understand how readers use it, detect technical problems, prevent abuse, measure content performance, and support advertising.

Information You Provide Voluntarily

We may receive personal information when you contact us directly through our contact page or by email.

Depending on what you choose to provide, this information may include your name, email address, organization, the contents of your message, and any documents or other information you send.

We use this information only to review and respond to your inquiry, investigate correction requests, address complaints, manage business communications, protect our legal interests, or comply with applicable obligations.

Please do not send sensitive personal information through the Website.

Comments

If commenting is available and you leave a comment, we may collect the information entered in the comment form, along with your IP address and browser user agent. This information may be used for spam detection, moderation, security, and publication of the comment.

An anonymized value created from your email address may be provided to the Gravatar service to determine whether you use that service. If your comment is approved, a profile image associated with your Gravatar account may appear publicly with your comment.

You should not include private, confidential, or sensitive personal information in a public comment.

Cookies and Similar Technologies

Brands Owned By and its service providers may use cookies, pixels, tags, local storage, web beacons, and similar technologies.

Cookies are small files stored on a device. They can help websites remember settings, understand visitor activity, maintain security, measure performance, and deliver advertising.

Cookies used on the Website may include:

• Essential cookies needed for security and core Website functions.
• Preference cookies that remember certain visitor choices.
• Analytics cookies that help us understand traffic and Website usage.
• Advertising cookies used to display, measure, limit, and personalize advertisements.

You can manage cookies through your browser settings and through any consent or privacy controls displayed on the Website. Blocking certain cookies may affect how some Website features operate.

Declining personalized advertising does not necessarily prevent advertisements from appearing. You may instead receive advertisements that are not personalized using your activity.

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.

Consent Management and Advertising Choices

Mediavine provides consent and privacy controls for visitors in certain jurisdictions.

Visitors in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, and other applicable regions may be presented with a consent-management interface. This interface allows visitors to make choices about personalized advertising and related technologies.

Visitors in US states with applicable privacy laws may see a “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information” or similar link. That link can be used to opt out of certain processing associated with targeted or cross-context behavioral advertising.

You may also manage interest-based advertising through the following services:

• Digital Advertising Alliance: https://optout.aboutads.info/
• Network Advertising Initiative: https://optout.networkadvertising.org/
• AppChoices: https://youradchoices.com/appchoices

These services are operated by third parties. Their availability and effectiveness may depend on your device, browser, location, and cookie settings.

Analytics and Website Performance

We may use analytics and performance services to understand how visitors find and use Brands Owned By.

These services may process technical and usage information such as IP addresses, device details, approximate geographic location, referring pages, pages visited, session duration, and interactions with Website content.

We use this information to identify technical problems, measure audience activity, improve navigation, evaluate content performance, and make editorial and operational decisions.

Where required, analytics technologies may be restricted until you provide consent through the Website’s consent-management controls.

Server Logs and Security

Our hosting, security, content-delivery, and technical service providers may automatically create server logs when you access the Website.

These records may contain IP addresses, request times, requested pages, browser information, device information, referring pages, and error data.

Server logs may be used to maintain Website availability, diagnose errors, detect automated traffic, prevent fraud or abuse, investigate security incidents, and protect the Website and its visitors.

Embedded Content and External Links

Articles may contain embedded videos, images, charts, social-media content, or other material supplied by third-party websites. Embedded content may behave as though you visited the third-party website directly.

Those providers may collect information, use cookies, monitor your interaction with the embedded material, or associate that interaction with an account you maintain with them.

BrandsOwnedBy.com also contains links to external websites. We do not control the privacy, security, content, or data-handling practices of third-party websites. You should review the privacy policy of any external service you use.

How We Use Information

Information collected through the Website may be used to:

• Operate, maintain, and secure Brands Owned By.
• Provide and improve Website content and features.
• Understand Website traffic and reader behavior.
• Detect errors, malicious activity, spam, and abuse.
• Display, personalize, and measure advertising.
• Respond to questions, correction requests, and other communications.
• Maintain business and administrative records.
• Enforce our terms and protect our legal rights.
• Meet applicable legal, regulatory, or security obligations.

We do not use contact information submitted through our contact page to enroll visitors in promotional email campaigns without their permission.

How Information May Be Shared

Information may be disclosed to service providers that help us operate the Website. These can include hosting providers, security services, analytics providers, content-delivery services, spam-prevention services, advertising providers, and professional advisers.

Advertising-related information may be processed by Mediavine and its advertising partners as described in the required Mediavine disclosure.

We may also disclose information when reasonably necessary to:

• Comply with a law, regulation, court order, or valid legal request.
• Investigate fraud, security incidents, abuse, or unlawful activity.
• Protect the rights, property, or safety of Brands Owned By, our readers, or others.
• Establish, exercise, or defend legal claims.
• Complete a merger, sale, restructuring, financing, or transfer involving the Website or its assets.

We do not sell lists of names or email addresses to data brokers. However, some privacy laws define “sale” or “sharing” broadly enough to include certain advertising technologies. Where applicable, visitors can use the Website’s privacy controls to opt out of advertising-related sale or sharing.

Legal Bases for Processing

Where the laws of the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom apply, personal information may be processed under one or more of the following legal bases:

• Consent, when you have made a choice through a consent interface.
• Legitimate interests, such as operating, protecting, and improving the Website.
• Compliance with a legal obligation.
• Performance of a contract or action requested by you.
• Establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims.

You may withdraw consent through the available privacy controls. Withdrawal does not affect processing that occurred before consent was withdrawn.

Data Retention

We retain information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected.

Retention periods may vary according to the nature of the information, security requirements, contractual commitments, legal obligations, dispute-resolution needs, and the operation of backup systems.

Messages sent through our contact page or by email may be retained while we address the inquiry and for a reasonable period afterward. Technical and security logs may be retained for periods appropriate to system administration, fraud prevention, and security investigations.

If comments are enabled, approved comments and related moderation information may remain available unless the comment is removed or applicable law requires deletion.

Data Security

We use reasonable administrative and technical measures intended to protect information processed through the Website.

No website, storage system, or internet transmission can be guaranteed to be completely secure. We therefore cannot promise absolute security.

International Data Transfers

Brands Owned By is available internationally. Information may be processed in countries other than the country where you live.

Those countries may have privacy laws that differ from the laws in your jurisdiction. When required, service providers may use contractual safeguards or other approved mechanisms for international transfers.

Your Privacy Rights

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to:

• Request access to personal information held about you.
• Request correction of inaccurate information.
• Request deletion of certain information.
• Restrict or object to certain processing.
• Withdraw consent.
• Request a portable copy of certain information.
• Opt out of targeted advertising or certain forms of sale or sharing.
• Appeal a decision concerning a privacy request.
• Lodge a complaint with an appropriate data-protection authority.

These rights are subject to applicable exceptions and verification requirements. We may request information reasonably necessary to verify your identity and understand your request.

You will not be discriminated against for exercising a privacy right provided by applicable law.

California and Other US State Privacy Rights

Residents of California and certain other US states may have rights concerning access, correction, deletion, portability, targeted advertising, and the sale or sharing of personal information.

Brands Owned By does not sell conventional customer lists. However, certain advertising cookies and identifiers may be considered a sale or sharing under some state laws.

Where required, eligible visitors can use the “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information” or similar privacy link displayed on the Website. You may also contact us to submit an applicable privacy request.

Authorized agents may submit requests where permitted by law. We may require proof of authorization and verification of the relevant consumer’s identity.

European and United Kingdom Privacy Rights

Visitors in the European Economic Area and the United Kingdom may have rights under applicable data-protection laws. These may include access, correction, deletion, restriction, objection, portability, and withdrawal of consent.

You may also complain to the data-protection authority responsible for your location.

Advertising and certain analytics choices can be managed through the consent interface presented to eligible visitors.

Children’s Privacy

Brands Owned By is intended for a general audience. It is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information directly from children under 13.

If you believe a child has provided personal information through the Website, please contact us so the matter can be reviewed and appropriate action taken.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy when our services, Website features, advertising arrangements, or legal obligations change.

The “Last updated” date at the beginning of the policy will identify the latest revision. Material changes may also be communicated through an appropriate notice on the Website.

Contact Us

Questions, privacy requests, and concerns about this Privacy Policy can be submitted through our contact page: https://brandsownedby.com/contact/

Please include enough information for us to understand and respond to your request. Do not include passwords, financial information, government identification numbers, or other unnecessary sensitive information.