NEWSGRAPE PRIVACY POLICY
1. Introduction
Thank you for visiting NEWSGRAPE.COM. We really value your privacy, and we wrote this Privacy Policy to explain how we collect and use your personal information. This Privacy Policy (or “Agreement”) is a binding agreement and you must agree to the terms within it and adhere to them at all times.
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You have to read this Privacy Policy and agree to it, in order to use our services.
2. Personal Information We Collect
The type of information we collect is similar for each of our users and includes the following ingredients. But first, please know that our Site and Service is only meant for those who are eligible to use it based on our Terms of Service that is incorporated into this Agreement.
To become a registered user at our Site you will be providing your name, email, address and date of birth. Furthermore, additional information may be shared if you connect to our Site using a third party application such as Facebook or Twitter. When a connection is made to our Site using a third party application we may collect data such as the articles your friends read or the articles your followers discuss. We use this information to better customize the Newsgrape platform for your use.
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We collect some information about you and may use information from third parties to display your personal site as good as possible.
3. Non-Personal Information We Collect
We may collect information about you that is not personal information. When you access our website, we may collect such things as your IP address, browser, operating system, and other general information about our visitors. This information, on its own, cannot usually be used to identify you.
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We collect some non-personal information about you, which cannot be used to identify you, to display your personal site as good as possible.
4. Use of Information
We may use your information:
- To customize the Newsgrape platform for our users’ interests.
- To enhance or improve user experience, our website, or our service.
- To send emails about our site or respond to inquiries.
- To send emails about our website and other products, news, or updates. These e-mails will only be about us, Newsgrape.
- Analytics.
Other than as described in this Agreement, we use your information to provide maintenance and enhancements, as well as auto updates to our Service. We may also collect information to determine compatibility with new technology. Any other use of your information will be described in this Privacy Policy. We may also hire third parties to help us in the development of our Site or enhancement of our Platform. These third parties will be bound by these practices and will understand that they may only use the information for internal purposes and only for the specific purpose that they are providing to us.
If you contact us via email we may also save any correspondence that you send to us. We may then use that information to contact you to answer questions or respond to customer support inquiries. We may also use is to respond to press and media inquiries as well.
Finally, we may use the information we collect for internal reporting services. This helps us to develop new products, services, and to enhance existing ones.
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We use your information solely to display your personal site as good as possible and improve it steadily.
5. Cookies
We use cookies for a number of purposes. These purposes include saving your preferences and tracking advertisements.
Because cookies are necessary to distinguish you from other users, we recommend leaving your cookies enabled in your browser.
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Cookies help to distinguish you from other users, that is why we recommend to enable them.
6. Third Party Websites
We may link to third party websites from our own website. We have no control over, and are not responsible for, these third party websites or their use of your personal information. We recommend that you review their privacy policies and other agreements governing your use of their website.
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Please inform yourself about the data privacy of linked third parties, since we are not responsible for their use of your personal information.
7.1 Third Party Analytics
You can probably understand that our Service requires you to give information. Please know that you should only provide information if you are ok with the consequences of your information being available in an online environment. We understand privacy is a sensitive matter. As such, we invite you to also review our privacy policy that is published at our Site.
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We use third party services.
7.2 APIs
We may have APIs to allow you to interface with other services. Please know that other websites may have different privacy standards. We recommend that you acquaint yourself with their standards accordingly if you are concerned about API integration.
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We may connect you to thrid party services via APIs, please inform yourself about their data privacy.
8. Third Party Access to Your Information
We may allow third parties to access, maintain, or otherwise use your information for purposes that we deem conducive to improving our Site and Service. For example, we use a third party hosting provider to host our Site’s data. We strive to always contract with reputable providers, but it is impossible to be one hundred percent sure of the reliability of a third party over whom we do not have complete control. As such, you hereby agree that we are not liable for any privacy breaches that may occur as a result of the actions of third parties.
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Only if we can improve the site, we pass your information on to reliable third parties. However we are not liable for any privacy violation through third parties.
9. Law Enforcement
We may disclose your information to a third party where we believe, in good faith, that it is desirable to do so for the purposes of a civil action, criminal investigation, or other legal matter. In the event that we receive a subpoena affecting your privacy, we may elect to notify you to give you an opportunity to file a motion to quash the subpoena, or we may attempt to quash it ourselves, but we are not obligated to do either.
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If your data is needed for any legal matter, we may pass it on to third parties.
10. Security of Your Information
We take reasonable measure by hosting our Site with reliable hosting services and doing business with trustworthy service providers. However, no information is every one hundred percent secure. As such, we recommend that you take every precaution necessary to enhance your privacy, including anti-virus software.
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We take optimal measure for your data protection.
11. California Online Privacy Protection Act
Users from California may purchase access our website. We fully comply with California’s privacy legislation as it relates to dealing with California’s residents. If you have any questions about your rights under this Privacy Policy, please contact us for more information.
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We fully comply with California’s privacy legislation.
12. Amendments
We may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time, and the amended version will be posted on our website in place of the old version. We recommend that you periodically refer back to this Privacy Policy to make yourself aware of the newest amendments.
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Keep yourself up to date with this privacy policy.
13. COPPA
We do not allow people to use our Site, Service, or be a referral if they are under the age of contractual capacity, which is usually eighteen years old, and therefore the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act’s provisions, or its equivalent in your jurisdiction, is not relevant. If we discover that someone under the legal age is using our Site or Program then we may terminate their access, delete any information they have provided except we may store some information for a reasonable time in order to protect ourselves or others.
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The use of the site is forbidden to people below the age of contractual capacity.