BajanThings.com is a hobby site started in December 2014 by cousins William Burton and Peter Burton who have owned the domain since 2005.

We added display ads to the site in March 2015 to help contribute to the annual costs of maintaining the BajanThings.com website.

The display ads that appear on BajanThings.com are provided by our Ad Partner/s, who aim to place relevant and targeted ads known as personalised ads. If our Ad Partners have no ads to serve we either serve no ad or we may serve a default BajanThings ad.

BajanThings Ad Partners is:

• Google AdSense

Google AdSense in delivering personalised ads serves a pop-up (consent banner) which is mandatory and required by law to comply with data privacy regulations, specifically in the European Union – the EU User Consent Policy; in the UK – the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR); and in the USA – the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA).

The Google pop-up (consent banner) on BajanThings looks like this:

This pop-up (consent banner) on BajanThings is served by Google to:

• Informs the user that their data is being used for personalised ads.
• Requests consent for data collection.
• Provides an option for users to accept or refuse personalised ads.

Visitors to BajanThings can Consent to personalised ads or by clicking on Manage Options can choose what if any data they are prepared to share with Google and its ad-partners.

The Google pop-up (consent banner) on BajanThings is generally only shown the first time you visit BajanThings.

To force the Google pop-up (consent banner) on BajanThings to re-appear, so you can change the data you choose to share with Google you need to:

• Clear you browser cache.
• Then close your browser.
• Then re-open your browser and navigate to BajanThings.com.

The BajanThings Google pop-up (consent banner) should now re-appear. Click on Manage options to make any changes. Once finished Confirm choices to save them.

Ads within the copy of BajanThings are manually placed using the WordPress plugin: AdInserter, which allows us to add a label above each ad to clearly indicate its placement. The wording of the label is dictated by our Ad Partner and is: Advertisements.

Vignette ads which are auto delivered page transition ads do not include the label Advertisements.

Below is an example of a typical 728×90 BajanThings House Ad, labelled with the word “Advertisements” above it to clearly indicate that it is an ad:

Advertisements

   

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Below is an example of a typical 300×250 BajanThings House Ad, that appears in the sidebar labelled with the word “Advertisements” above it to clearly indicate that it is an ad:

Advertisements

   

Our Ad Partners personalise the ads that you see based on your internet surfing activity outside of BajanThings.com.  This is out of the control of BajanThings.com.

Ads on BajanThings are split into two categories:

1. Display Ads – these are banner ads within the content of BajanThings. They are inserted using the WordPress Plugin: AdInserter from Google AdSense.
2. Vignette Ads – these are full-screen ads that are inserted by Google AdSense randomly between page transitions, specifically when a user navigates away from or returns to a page.

The ads on BajanThings appear in these positions:

Display Ads – account for 75% of ad revenue (ordered by contribution to ad revenue)

• Header ad (responsive sized) – contributes 30% of ad revenue
• Ads within the content of posts (responsive sized – within posts we place an ad after the 8^th paragraph and then another ad every 15^th paragraph) – contributes 24% of ad revenue
• Footer ad (responsive sized) – contributes 7% of ad revenue
• Sidebar ad- top (responsive sized – typically 300×250)- contributes 6% of ad revenue
• Sidebar ad – middle (responsive sized – typically 300×250) – contributes 5% of ad revenue
• Sidebar ad – bottom (responsive sized – typically 300×250) – contributes 3% of ad revenue.

Vignette Ads – account for 25% of ad revenue

If you see inappropriate ads on BajanThings please click on Contact Burts, and choose as your Subject: Ad placement feedback. Please tell us about the ad, the advertiser name and if possible the click through URL. Using this we can track the ad down and block it from within our Ad Partners.

Ad revenue plus Donations contribute to off-setting some of the running costs of BajanThings.

Contrary to popular belief for a website our size, advertising revenue does not cover the cost of domain registration, hosting, WordPress theme, cache management, dynamic image delivery or specialist plugins needed to maintain BajanThings.com.

If you enjoy the BajanThings posts please consider making a small donation which will go towards the maintenance and upkeep of the BajanThings website and support our mission to document Barbados’ recent history.

Click here to make a donation to BajanThings or jump straight to the donation gateways provided by Stripe (which will take you to the secure Stripe webpage: buy.stripe.com) or PayPay (which will take you to the secure PayPal webpage: paypal.com/donate/).

Thank you for your support and any donations.

The BajanThings crew: William Burton & Peter Burton
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