A cookie is a small piece of text that allows a website to recognize your device and maintain a consistent, cohesive experience throughout multiple sessions. If you use the Heatbud, both Heatbud and third parties will use cookies to track and monitor some of your activities on and off Heatbud website, and store and access some data about you, your browsing history, and your usage of Heatbud.
General Browsing: We use cookies that are important for certain technical features of our website, like logging into user accounts and implementing fixes and improvements to our platform.
These cookies:
- Enable behavior in our Products and/or Services that is tailored to the activity or preferences of a person visiting our properties. - Allow users to opt out of certain types of personalization in our products. - Collect information on our users' preferences in order to create more useful products. - Maintain the regular business operations of our Advertising and Marketing departments (such as one-time pop-ups). - Help to diagnose and correct downtime, bugs, and errors in our code to ensure that our products are operating efficiently.
Advertising: We use cookies to enable advertising with our third-party Partners, which in turn allows us to provide some of our services free of charge.
These cookies:
- Customize ad experience for our users based on the blog post content on the page. - Allow us to track when a Heatbud user sees or clicks on an ad or later visits a third-party website or purchases a product on a third-party website. - Collect impressions and click data for internal reporting and product optimization.
Analytics: We use cookies to compile usage activity in order to better cater our Products and Services offerings to you, and to third parties.
These cookies:
- Monitor site traffic and behavior flows of users. - Measure the effectiveness of on-site products. - Measure the effectiveness of off-site marketing campaigns and tactics.
Third Party Cookies:
We use automated devices and applications, such as Google Analytics, to evaluate usage of Heatbud. We use these tools to help us improve our website's performance and user experiences. These entities may use cookies and other tracking technologies, such as web beacons or local storage objects (LSOs), to perform their services. To learn more about Google's privacy practices, please review the Google Privacy Policy at https://www.google.com/policies/privacy. You can also download the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on to prevent your data from being used by Google Analytics at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
The use of cookies, the names of cookies, and cookies related technology may change over time and Heatbud will make all reasonable efforts to notify you by updating this page and by email from time-to-time. Please also note that companies and other organization that sponsor pages on Heatbud may use cookies or other technologies to learn more about your interest in their products and services and in some cases to tailor such products and services to you.
HOW DO I RESTRICT COOKIES?
If you don't want Heatbud to use cookies, you can opt-out of certain cookie related processing activities in your account settings page. If you opt-out of cookies, we (ironically) have to set a cookie to tell us that. Please note that Heatbud may not work properly and you may have diminished functionality if you opt-out of certain cookies.
If you decide that you do not want cookies to be set on your device by our third-party Partners, you can adjust the settings on your internet browser and choose from the available Cookies setting to best meet your preferences. While setting options may vary from browser to browser, you can generally choose to reject some or all cookies, or instead to receive a notification when a cookie is being placed on your device. For more information, please refer to the user help information for your browser of choice. Please keep in mind that cookies may be required for certain functionalities, and by blocking these cookies, you may limit your access to certain parts or features of our Heatbud.

Heatbud is a podium to express your ideas, thoughts and opinions to the entire world. Please note that your blog posts can be seen by anyone, with or without a Heatbud account.
As such, please use discretion when sharing personal information in your blog posts.
Never share sensitive and private information such as social security number, driver's license, credit card numbers etc.

During the course of your interaction with us, we collect your email address, password, profile information, content and images for your blog posts.
We use your email address for account-related communications, while giving you the ability to restrict such notifications.
We also use your email address to enable other Heatbud users send you messages, if you enable that feature on your profile page. Even though the users are able to send you the messages, they won't be able to see your email address.
All of your profile information is optional. However, please note that any information you submit on your profile becomes public instantly.
Any of your data, including your profile information and blog posts, can be updated and/or deleted by you any time.
To delete your data completely from Heatbud, simply login to www.heatbud.com, hover over your name on top right of the page, and click "Drop Account". We will delete all of your personal information and activity, including your posts and comments.

You are the sole owner of the content that you submit. You're responsible to make sure that copyright of the content is duly honored.
We request that you avoid using objectionable content in your posts. We're not the authority to decide which content is objectionable, and hence we don't edit, modify or censor your posts. But we reserve the right to delete your blog(s) or delete your account completely, if we choose to.
We don't accept blog posts on adult or illegal topics such as casino, tobacco, escorts, guns, alcohol, drugs etc.
Brands and Trademarks: Heatbud prohibits use of content that impersonates any brand and/or uses any trademark in an attempt to steal personal information or perform similar unlawful activities. Furthermore, unauthorized display and/or misappropriation of copyrighted material and trademarks with an intent to profit is a violation of their intellectual property rights and as such those activities are strictly prohibited on Heatbud.
Under no circumstances do we take the ownership of your content. We may, however, use your content (giving due credit to you) for promotional purposes.
Heatbud protects the intellectual property of the bloggers to the extent allowed by the law. Readers may share Heatbud posts in their "original" form giving due credit to the blogger. However, the blog content should NOT be extracted, copied or used elsewhere without obtaining permission from the blogger.
Your data is encrypted using a High-grade 256 bit encryption before being transmitted over the internet.
Your password is encrypted before storing, using a one-way key algorithm that provides no means of decrypting. As such, our employees and our customer service can never see your password as a plain text.
This software comes with no warranties.
While we do our best to keep your information safe and secure, we can't rule out the possibility of your information being hacked or lost, due to the things beyond our control. Examples are bugs in the software, and issues with the infrastructure. In the unlikely event that it happens, we will do our best to recover and protect your information.