Privacy Policy
Privacy Policy
memphisnewspress.com/
Privacy
Policy
Effective June 1, 2019
1. Welcome to Memphis News
Thanks for using our services
(“Services”). When you use our Services, you’re trusting us with your
information. We understand this is a big responsibility and work hard to
protect your information and put you in control.
This Privacy Policy is meant to help
you understand what information we collect, why we collect it, and how you can
update, manage, and delete your information.
2. Definitions
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Services mean services provided by Memphis News, an independent privately-held company in the state of Memphis
News.
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Personal Data means data about a living
individual who can be identified from those data (or from those and other
information either in our possession or likely to come into our possession).
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Usage Data is data collected automatically
either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure
itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).
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Cookies are small pieces of data stored
on your device (computer or mobile device).
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Data Controller means the natural or legal person
who (either alone or jointly or in common with other persons) determines the
purposes for which and the manner in which any personal information are, or are
to be, processed. For the purpose of this Privacy Policy, we are a Data
Controller of your Personal Data.
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Data Processor (or Service Provider) means any
natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the Data
Controller. We may use the services of various Service Providers in order to
process your data more effectively.
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Data Subject (or User) is any living
individual who is using our Service and is the subject of Personal Data.
3. Data Collection and Use
Personal Data
While using our Services, we may ask
you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be
used to contact or identify you ("Personal Data"). Such personally
identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:
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Email
address
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First
name and last name
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Phone
number
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Address,
State, Province, ZIP/Postal code, City
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Cookies
and Usage Data
We may use your Personal Data to
contact you with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials and other
information that may be of interest to you. You may opt-out of receiving any,
or all, of these communications from us by following the unsubscribe link or
instructions provided in any email we send.
Usage Data
We may also collect information on how
the Service is accessed and used ("Usage Data"). This Usage Data may
include information such as your computer's Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP
address), browser type, browser version, the pages that you visit, the time and
date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers
and other diagnostic data.
Tracking & Cookies Data
We use cookies and similar tracking
technologies to track the activity on when using our Services and hold certain
information.
Cookies are files with a small amount
of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to
your browser from a website and stored on your device. Tracking technologies
also used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and
to improve and analyze our Services.
You can instruct your browser to refuse
all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not
accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Service.
Examples of Cookies we use:
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Session
Cookies. We use Session Cookies to operate our Services.
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Preference
Cookies. We use Preference Cookies to remember your preferences and various
settings.
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Security
Cookies. We use Security Cookies for security purposes.
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Advertising
Cookies. Advertising Cookies are used to serve you with advertisements that may
be relevant to you and your interests.
4. Use of Data
We use data to build better services
for all our users. These include but are not limited to:
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To
provide and maintain our Services.
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To
notify you about changes to our Services.
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To
allow you to participate in interactive features of our Services when you
choose to do so.
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To
provide customer support.
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To
gather analysis or valuable information so that we can improve our Services.
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To
monitor the usage of our Services.
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To
detect, prevent and address technical issues.
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To
provide you with news, special offers and general information about other
services which we offer that are similar to those that you have already
purchased or enquired about unless you have opted not to receive such
information.
If you are from the European Economic
Area (EEA), the legal basis for collecting and using the personal information
described in this Privacy Policy depends on the Personal Data we collect and
the specific context in which we collect it. We may process your Personal Data
because:
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We
need to perform a contract with you.
·
You
have given us permission to do so.
·
The
processing is in our legitimate interests and it's not overridden by your
rights.
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For
payment processing purposes.
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To
comply with the law.
5. Retention of Data
We will retain your Personal Data only
for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We
will retain and use your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with
our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to
comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal
agreements and policies.
We will also retain Usage Data for
internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter
period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to
improve the functionality of our Services, or we are legally obligated to
retain this data for longer time periods.
6. Transfer of Data
Your information, including Personal
Data, may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of
your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data
protection laws may differ than those from your jurisdiction.
If you are located outside the United
States and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer
the data, including Personal Data, to the United States and Canada and process
it there.
Your consent to this Privacy Policy
followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to
that transfer.
We will take all steps reasonably
necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with
this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your Personal Data will take place to an
organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including
the security of your data and other personal information.
7. Disclosure of Data for Law
Enforcement
Under certain circumstances, we may be
required to disclose your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in
response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government
agency). We may disclose your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such
action is necessary to:
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To
comply with a legal obligation.
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To
protect and defend our rights.
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To
prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service.
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To
protect the personal safety of users of the Service or the public.
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To
protect against legal liability.
8. Security of Data
We build security into our Services to
protect your information. All our services are built with strong security
features that continuously protect your information.
The security of your data is important
to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method
of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially
acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its
absolute security.
9. Your Data Protection Rights
Under General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
If you are a resident of the European
Economic Area (EEA), you have certain data protection rights. We aim to take
reasonable steps to allow you to correct, amend, delete, or limit the use of
your Personal Data.
If you wish to be informed of what
Personal Data we hold about you and if you want it to be removed from our
systems, please contact
us.
In certain circumstances, you have the
following data protection rights:
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The
right to access, update or delete the information we have on you. Whenever made
possible, you can access, update or request deletion of your Personal Data
directly within your account settings section. If you are unable to perform
these actions yourself, please contact us to assist
you.
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The
right of rectification. You have the right to have your information rectified
if that information is inaccurate or incomplete.
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The
right to object. You have the right to object to our processing of your
Personal Data.
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The
right of restriction. You have the right to request that we restrict the
processing of your personal information.
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The
right to data portability. You have the right to be provided with a copy of the
information we have on you in a structured, machine-readable and commonly used
format.
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The
right to withdraw consent. You also have the right to withdraw your consent at
any time where we relied on your consent to process your personal information.
Please note that we may ask you to
verify your identity before responding to such requests.
You have the right to complain to a
Data Protection Authority about our collection and use of your Personal Data.
For more information, please contact your local data protection authority in
the European Economic Area (EEA).
10. Service Providers
Analytics
We may use third-party Service
Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Services.
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Google Analytics. Google Analytics is
a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website
traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our
Services. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the
collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising
network.
You can opt-out of having made your
activity on the Service available to Google Analytics by installing the Google
Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics
JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js, and dc.js) from sharing information with
Google Analytics about visits activity.
For more information on the privacy
practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web
page: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en
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AddThis. AddThis connects people to content and
enables marketers to develop more personal and effective relationships
with their current and future customers. AddThis collects non-personally
identifiable information from many of the websites in which AddThis is enabled,
and use that information to deliver targeted advertising and personalized
content on those websites as well as other websites you may visit.
If you prefer that AddThis does not
collect non-personally identifiable information about your website visits for
the purpose of delivering targeted advertising, you may opt-out by visiting
the https://www.addthis.com/privacy/opt-out URL and
clicking on the “opt-out” button there.
For more information on the privacy
practices of AddThis, please visit the AddThis Privacy web page: https://www.addthis.com/privacy
Advertising
We may use third-party Service
Providers to show advertisements to you to help support and maintain our
Services.
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Google AdSense & DoubleClick Cookie. Google, as a
third-party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on our Services. Google's use of
the DoubleClick cookie enables it and its partners to serve ads to our users
based on their visit to our Services or other websites on the Internet.
You may opt-out of the use of the
DoubleClick Cookie for interest-based advertising by visiting the Google Ads
Settings web page: http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/
Behavioral Remarketing
We use remarketing services to
advertise on third-party websites to you after you use our Services. We and our
third-party vendors use cookies to inform, optimize and serve ads based on your
past usage of our Services.
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Google AdWords Google. AdWords remarketing
service is provided by Google Inc. You can opt-out of Google Analytics for
Display Advertising and customize the Google Display Network ads by visiting
the Google Ads Settings page: https://www.google.com/settings/ads
Google also recommends installing the
Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on - https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout - for your
web browser. Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on provides visitors with the
ability to prevent their data from being collected and used by Google
Analytics.
For more information on the privacy
practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web
page: https://policies.google.com/privacy
Social Networking Services
You may register to join the Service
directly via the Service or by logging into your account with a third party
social networking service (“SNS”) via our Services (e.g. Facebook or Google).
If you choose to register via an SNS, or to later link your account with the
Service to your account with an SNS, we will use the Personal Information you
have provided to the SNS (such as your name, email address, gender and other
information you make publicly available via the SNS) to create your account.
Note that the information we collect from and through an SNS may depend on the
privacy settings you have set with the SNS and the permissions you grant to us
in connection with linking your account with the Service to your account with
an SNS. Other than what we may share with the SNS as described below, the
Personal Information an SNS has about you is obtained by the SNS independent of
our Services, and we are not responsible for it.
The Service also may permit additional
interactions between it and a third party website, service, or other content
providers, such as enabling you to like or share content to a third party SNS.
If you choose to like or share content, or to otherwise share information from
or via our Services with a third-party site or service, that information may be
publicly displayed, and the third party may have access to information about
you and your use of our Services (and we may have access to information about
you from that third party). These features may collect your IP address, which
page you are visiting on our site, and may set a cookie to enable the feature
to function properly. Your interactions with third parties through an SNS or
similar features are governed by the respective privacy policies of those third
parties.
You represent that you are entitled to
use your SNS account for the purposes described herein without breach by you of
any of the terms and conditions that govern the SNS, and without obligating us
to pay any fees or making us subject to any usage limitations imposed by such SNS.
Please note that your relationship with any SNS is governed solely by your
agreement(s) with such SNS. If your SNS account terminates, then functions
enabled through the link between your account and your SNS account will
terminate as well.
11. Links to Other Sites
Our Services may contain links to other
sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will
be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise you to review the
Privacy Policy of every site you visit.
We have no control over and assume no
responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third
party sites or services.
12. Children's Privacy
Our Services do not address anyone
under the age of 18 ("Children"). We do not knowingly collect
personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 18. If you are
a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with
Personal Data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have
collected Personal Data from children without verification of parental consent,
we take steps to remove that information from our servers.
13. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from
time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy
Policy on this page. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically
for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are
posted on this page.
14. Contact Information
If you have any questions about this
Privacy Policy, please contact us using the contact form at https://www.memphisnewspress.com/or by calling
+919212306116
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