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Good News Gazette Privacy Policy

(Last Updated: April 8, 2009)

 

Good News Gazette, LLC., the operator of www.GoodNewsGazette.net (the "Good News Gazette Website," referred to as "Good News Gazette," "us," "we" or "our") respects the privacy of our users, and we want you to be aware of how we use information that we have collected from and about you. By coming to and continuing to use the Good News Gazette Website, you are agreeing to and accepting this Privacy Policy as well as the User Agreement governing our services. Because the Internet is a rapidly evolving medium, and enhancements to the services we provide may affect the information that we collect and the manner that we use it, the Privacy Policy may change from time to time. If it does, we will post the revised Privacy Policy on the Good News Gazette Website, with an indication of the date of the most recent revision.

 

You should be aware that this Privacy Policy applies only to the Good News Gazette Website. Any web sites linked to from the Good News Gazette Website, for example via an advertisement or an article displayed on the site, are governed by their own respective privacy policies.

 

What is Personal Information?

Personal information is information that specifically identifies an individual, such as a user's name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, credit card or other account number, and information about that individual's activities when directly linked to that person such as information about his or her purchases or use of services. Personal information also includes demographic information such as date of birth, gender, geographic area and preferences when such information is linked to other personal information that identifies you.

 

Personal information does not include "aggregate" information. Aggregate information is data we collect about a group or category of products, services or users from which individual user identities have been removed. In other words, information about how you use a service may be collected and combined with information about how others use the same service, but no personal information will be included in the resulting data. Likewise, information about the products you purchase may be collected and combined with information about the products purchased by others. Aggregate data helps us understand trends and user needs so that we can better consider new products and services, and tailor existing products and services to user desires.

 

Personal Information We Collect

We collect the following types of information from our users:

 

Information You Provide to Us:

We receive and store any information you enter on our website or provide to us in any other way. You can choose not to provide us with certain information, but then you may not be able to take advantage of many of our special features. For example, in order for you to use Good News Gazette services, such as submitting an article or comments to the Site, you must complete a registration form.

 

You provide personal information to us in a number of ways when you visit our Site or use the various services and activities available on our Site. For example, you provide us with personal information when you: (1) register on the Site; (2) participate in a survey, contest or sweepstakes on the Site; (3) participate or make postings in any forums, chat rooms or other interactive areas of the Site; (4) submit an article or comment to the Site and voluntarily include your name or other personal information (including, without limitation, any personally identifying photographs or images you submit/post); or (5) contact us by email for any reason (such as to request customer service or provide us with your comments/feedback).

 

Automatic Information:

We receive and store certain types of information whenever you interact with us. Good News Gazette and its authorized agents automatically receive and record certain "traffic data" on their server logs from your browser including your computer’s Internet Protocol (IP) address, operating system and browser type, the date and time of your visit, the page you requested, and cookie information. Good News Gazette uses this traffic data to help diagnose problems with its servers, analyze trends and administer the website.

 

Cookies are small files that are stored on your computer by a Web site to give you a unique identification. We use cookies on our Site to keep track of services you have used, to record registration information regarding your login name and password, to record your user preferences and to keep you logged into the Site. We treat automatically collected information as personal information if we combine it with or link it to any of the personally identifying information mentioned above. Otherwise, it is used in the aggregate only.

 

Additionally, we use, and allow third parties to use, Web beacons on the Site to monitor the effectiveness of advertising or for other legitimate purposes. Web beacons are small, graphic images on Web pages or Web-based documents or in email messages that allow us or third parties to monitor who is visiting the Site or if the email has been read. Web beacons collect the IP address of the computer that the Web beacon is sent to, the URL of the page the Web beacon comes from and the time it was viewed. Web beacons may be linked to your personal information. Cookies and web beacons allow Good News Gazette and its third-party service providers to collect and analyze aggregate information about how its website is used.

 

We sell advertising on our site so that we can provide our service for free. We use third parties, called third-party ad servers or network advertisers, to deliver ads to you on our behalf. In the course of serving advertisements to this site, our third-party advertisers may place a unique cookie on your browser. We have no access to, or control over, these cookies. These third-party ad servers may use cookies, Web beacons or other technology to collect non-personally identifiable information about your visits to our Site in order to use it to present advertisements that may be of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice or whether you can opt out of having this information used by third-party ad servers to provide targeted ads, please visit http://www.networkadvertising.org/optout_nonppii.asp.

 

The ads appearing on GoodNewsGazette.net are delivered to you by Google, our Web advertising serving partner. Google uses the DoubleClick DART cookie in the ads served on Good News Gazette, which enables it to serve ads based on your visit to Good News Gazette and other sites on the Internet. Users may obtain additional information and/or opt out of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.

 

Third parties and web sites that have links on our site may also collect or use information about you. The information practices of other companies or people that Good News Gazette does not employ or manage are not covered by this privacy policy.

 

How We Use the Information We Collect

In general, we use personal information to process your requests or transactions, provide you with products and services, and inform you about other products or services we think will be of interest. For example, we use the information we collect to:

  • contact you for administrative purposes or provide you with customer service;

  • complete transactions requested by you or to verify that you have submitted an article or comment;

  • respond to any questions, problems or complaints, or request feedback;

  • organize the Site and its various services and activities to better serve you, and develop or customize our products and services to tailor your user experience at the Good News Gazette Website; and

  • send you emails or other communications containing information about products and services that you might find of interest.

Personal information provided on our Site may be linked together or merged with other personal information we obtain about you so that we may better understand your needs and inform you about our products or services and those of our business partners. In addition, if we receive personal information from third parties with whom we have business relationships, we may combine this information with the other personal information we maintain about you. In either case, this Policy governs this information.

 

We do not sell, rent or share personal information with third parties without your prior consent except in the limited circumstances described in this Policy. Good News Gazette personnel and authorized consultants and/or contractors may have access to user information, if necessary, in the normal course of Good News Gazette business. We share personal information with third-party vendors who assist us in performing internal functions necessary to operate our business. These functions may include, for example, e-mail distribution, ad serving, and site usage and data analysis. In all cases we limit the information shared with our third-party vendors to that which is necessary to carry out those functions. We are not responsible for any information you provide to these parties directly, and we encourage you to become familiar with their practices before disclosing information directly to them. In addition, we may share information with other affiliated companies and joint ventures.

 

We may use and/or distribute information about you and your use of the Good News Gazette Website in ways that do not identify you individually or reveal your identity.

 

Disclosure of Information

Good News Gazette may share your personally identifiable information with others under the types of circumstances described in this Privacy Policy. We also reserve the right to assign, sell, license, or otherwise transfer to a third party your personally identifiable information in connection with an assignment, sale, joint venture, or other transfer of all or substantially all of our assets.

 

We may make personally identifiable information available without your prior written or electronic consent, as required by law, court order, or as requested by other government or law enforcement authority.

 

We may also disclose personal information when we believe it is appropriate to enforce or apply this Policy or our other policies or agreements; to initiate, render, bill and collect for amounts owed to us; to protect our or our users' rights, property or safety; to protect our users from fraudulent, abusive, or unlawful use of, our Site; or if we reasonably believe that an emergency involving immediate danger of death or serious physical injury to any person requires disclosure of communications or justifies disclosure of records without delay.

 

To maintain a site that is free of charge and does not require registration, we display advertisements on our web site. We also use the information you give us to help our advertisers target the audience they want to reach. Non-personally identifiable information (such as stated above) may be shared in aggregate form with our advertisers or marketing partners but your personally identifiable information will never be disclosed to them.

 

Advertisements, promotional offers, promotional e-mails, newsletters, "free gifts," and links, for example, on the Good News Gazette Website or sent via e-mail or other means from Good News Gazette may ask for personally identifiable information from you. If you choose to provide this information, your personally identifiable information may be provided (either directly from you or by Good News Gazette) to the advertiser or website or company making the offer or providing the gift. This Privacy Policy does not cover the privacy and information practices of those advertisers or web sites linked to the Good News Gazette Website.

 

In some cases, we may choose to buy or sell assets. In these types of transactions, user information is typically one of the business assets that is transferred. Moreover, if Good News Gazette, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred. In addition, information about our users, including personally identifiable information, may be disclosed as part of any merger, acquisition, debt financing or sale of company assets, as well as in the event of an insolvency, bankruptcy or receivership in which personally identifiable information could be transferred to third parties as one of our business assets.

 

If, in the future, we decide to share personal information with any third parties for their own direct marketing purposes (or that of another third party), we will update this privacy policy to reflect such change and provide you with the opportunity to opt-out of such disclosure of your personal information.

 

Please note that opting out of receiving communications from us will not prevent you from receiving administrative communications, such as those concerning the operation of the Site or about an article or comment you have submitted.

 

Links to Other Web Sites

Our Site contains links to other Web sites. Links from our Site to other sites or content are provided for your convenience only, and we do not have control over the content or privacy and security practices and policies of such third parties or other sites. Any personal information you provide on linked pages is provided directly to that third party and is subject to that third party's privacy policy. We encourage you to learn about their privacy and security practices and policies before providing them with personal information.

 

Choice and Access

To opt-out of receiving communications from us, or to request access to or that we correct or delete your personal information, we provide you with the following options: (1) follow the "Unsubscribe" instructions contained in the communication from us; or (2) submit your request to us via this form.

 

Children

We do not intend, and the Site is not designed, to collect personal information from children under the age of 13. If you are under 13 years old, you should not register with or otherwise provide personal information to our Site. If we learn that Good News Gazette has collected information from a child under the age of 13, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. We recommend that minors between the ages of 13 and 18 ask and receive their parents' permission before using Good News Gazette or sending information about themselves or anyone else over the Internet.

 

Security

We use reasonable security measures in an effort to prevent loss, misuse and alteration of information under our control. We cannot, however, guarantee protection of all information against interception, misappropriation, misuse, or alteration, or that your information may be not be disclosed or accessed by accidental circumstances or by the unauthorized acts of others. Furthermore, we have no control over the security of other sites you might visit, interact with or do business with.

 

Information you provide through the Site is protected by an encryption technology called Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), to ensure privacy and security during transmission. Your registration information is accessible online only through the use of a password. To protect the confidentiality of personal information, you must keep your password confidential and not disclose it to any other person. You are responsible for all uses of the Site by any person using your password. Please advise us immediately if you believe your password has been misused or otherwise misappropriated.

 

Policy Changes

Good News Gazette may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time, at its sole discretion. We will notify you of such changes only by posting the new policy on our Site and indicate at the top of the Policy the date it was last updated. Use of information we collect now is subject to the Privacy Policy in effect at the time such information is used. We encourage you to review the Policy each time you visit our Site to see if it has been updated since your last visit to make sure you understand how personal information you provide will be used.

 

Questions / Additional Information

If you have any questions about this Policy, or the practices of or your dealings with the Site, please submit your request to us via this form.

 

Conditions of Use

If you decide to visit the Good News Gazette website, your visit and any possible dispute over privacy is subject to this Privacy Policy and our User Agreement, including limitations on damages, arbitration of disputes, and application of California state law.