Privacy Policy

Effective Date: August 29, 2024

Privacy

This Privacy Policy explains how information about you is collected, used, and disclosed by Courier Newsroom, Inc. and its affiliated organizations (“Courier Newsroom,” “we,” or “us”). This Privacy Policy applies to information we collect when you use the websites that link to this Privacy Policy (collectively, the “Site”).

We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make changes, we will notify you by revising the date at the top of the policy and, in some cases, we may provide you with additional notice (such as adding a statement to our homepage or sending you an email notification). We encourage you to review the Privacy Policy whenever you access the Site to stay informed about our information practices and the ways you can help protect your privacy.

Collection of Information

Information You Provide to Us
We collect information you provide directly to us. For example, we collect information when you sign up for our newsletter, fill out a form, send us an email, request information, submit a story or tip, communicate with us via third-party social media sites, or otherwise. The types of information we collect include your name, contact information (such as email address, postal address, and phone number), and other information you choose to provide.

Information We Collect Automatically When You Use the Site
When you access or use our Site, we automatically collect information about you, including:

• Log Information: We log information about your use of the Site, including the type of browser you use, access times, pages viewed, your IP address, and the page you visited before navigating to our Site.
• Device Information: We may collect information about the computer or mobile device you use to access our Site, including the hardware model, operating system and version, device identifiers, and mobile network information.
• Information Collected by Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies: We use various technologies to collect information, such as cookies that are sent to your computer or mobile device. Cookies are small data files stored on your hard drive or in device memory that help us improve our Site and your experience, see which areas and features of our Site are popular and count visits. We may also collect information using web beacons (also known as “tracking pixels” or “clear GIFs”). Web beacons are electronic images that may be used on our Site or in our emails to help deliver cookies, count visits, understand usage and campaign effectiveness, and determine whether an email has been opened and acted upon. For more information about cookies, and how to disable them, please see “Your Choices” below.

Information We Collect From Other Sources
We also obtain information from other sources, such as government databases, our consultants, and third-party data vendors, and combine that with information we collect through our Site.

Use of Information

We may use information about you for various purposes, including to:

• Provide Support and Services: Including to provide and deliver the information and services you request, such as our newsletters; to respond to your emails, comments, and questions; to manage content; and to request feedback and otherwise contact you about your use of the Site. Our legal bases for processing information for this purpose include consent, performance of a contract, and legitimate interest.
• Analyze, Improve, and Personalize Our Site and Related Services: Including to personalize the Site and its content and features to match your profile or interests, based on information you have provided or your activity on the Site; to identify users with particular public policy and political interests; and to monitor and analyze trends, usage, and activities in connection with our Site. Our legal bases for processing information for this purpose include consent and legitimate interest.
• Support our Marketing: Including to send you information that we think will be of interest to you, such as information to keep you informed about various campaigns, candidates, and issues; and to market our products and services based on information you have provided or your activity on the Site. Our legal bases for processing information for this purpose include consent and legitimate interest.
• Secure our Site and Operations: Including to protect and secure our Site, assets, services, network, information, and technology resources, and business operations. Our legal bases for processing information for this purpose include consent, legitimate interest, and compliance with legal obligations.
• Attend to Internal Operations and Legal Matters: Including conducting internal financial audits, audits and assessments of our operations and controls, general business, accounting, record-keeping, and legal functions; in connection with any actual or contemplated restructuring of the business or change in corporate control; to establish, maintain, or defend against claims and to otherwise establish, defend, or protect our rights and interests; and to comply with legal process, such as warrants, subpoenas, court orders, and lawful regulatory or law enforcement requests. Our legal bases for processing information for this purpose include consent, legitimate interest, and compliance with legal obligations.

Sharing of Information

We may share information about you as follows or as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy:

• Service Providers: With vendors, consultants, and other service providers who need access to such information to carry out work on our behalf;
• Third Parties: With data analytics companies, our consultants, and advertising partners;
• In Response to Legal Process: When we believe in good faith that we are lawfully authorized or required to do so or that doing so is reasonably necessary or appropriate to comply with the law or respond to lawful subpoenas, warrants, or court orders;
• To Protect Courier Newsroom and Others: If we believe your actions are inconsistent with the spirit or language of our user agreements or policies, or to protect the rights, property, and safety of Courier Newsroom, its employees, volunteers, constituents, or others;
• Business Transfers: In connection with, or during negotiations of, any reorganization, asset sale or transfer, financing, or lending transaction; and
• With Your Consent: With your consent or at your direction, including if we notify you through our Site that the information you provide will be shared in a particular manner and you provide such information.

We may also share aggregated or anonymized information that does not directly identify you.

Links to Other Websites

Our Site may contain links to other websites. Any personal information you provide to third parties through such linked pages is provided directly to that third party and is subject to that third party’s privacy policy. This Privacy Policy does not apply to information you provide to third parties through such linked sites, and we are not responsible for the content or privacy and security practices and policies of these websites or any other sites that are linked to from the Site. We encourage you to learn about third parties’ privacy and security practices and policies before providing them with personal information.

Social Sharing Features

The Site may offer social sharing features and other integrated tools (such as the Facebook “Like” button), which let you share actions you take on our Site with other media, and vice versa. The use of such features enables the sharing of information with your friends or the public, depending on the settings you establish with the entity that provides the social sharing feature. For more information about the purpose and scope of data collection and processing in connection with social sharing features, please visit the privacy policies of the entities that provide these features.

Advertising and Analytics Services Provided by Others

We may allow others to provide analytics services and serve advertisements on our behalf across the web and in mobile applications. These entities may use cookies, web beacons, and other technologies to collect information about your use of the Site and other websites and applications, including your IP address, web browser, mobile network information, pages viewed, time spent on pages or in apps, links clicked, and conversion information. This information may be used by Courier Newsroom and others to, among other things, analyze and track data, determine the popularity of certain content, deliver advertising and content targeted to your interests, and better understand your online activity. For example, we may use Facebook Custom Audience or other remarketing tools to advertise online. This enables other websites and online services, including Facebook, to inform, optimize, and serve ads for our products and services based on your past visits to our Site. For more information about Internet-based ads, or to opt out of having your web browsing information used for behavioral advertising purposes, please visit www.aboutads.info/choices.

Security

Courier Newsroom takes reasonable measures to help protect information about you from loss, theft, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction.

Cross-border data transfer

We may collect, process, and store your information in the United States and other countries. The laws in the United States regarding information may be different from the laws of your country. Any such transfers will comply with safeguards as required by relevant law.

Your Choices

Cookies
Most web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. If you prefer, you can use our cookie management tool to remove or reject cookies on our website. Please note that if you choose to remove or reject cookies, this could affect the availability and functionality of our Site.

Residents of the European Economic Area, United Kingdom, and Switzerland

We process “personal data,” as that term is defined in the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”).

Your rights under the GDPR:
Users who are located in the European Economic Area (“EEA”), U.K., or Switzerland have the right to lodge a complaint about our data collection and processing actions with the supervisory authority concerned. Contact details for data protection authorities are available here: http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/bodies/authorities/index_en.htm.

If you are located in the EEA, U.K., or Switzerland, you have the following rights.

• Access and Portability: Request access to personal data we hold about you or request transmission of your data to a third party.
• Correction: Request that we rectify inaccurate or incomplete personal data we store about you.
• Erasure: Request that we erase personal data when such data is no longer necessary for the purpose for which it was collected, when you withdraw consent and no other legal basis for processing exists, or when you believe that your fundamental rights to data privacy and protection outweigh our legitimate interest in continuing the processing.
• Restriction of processing: Request that we restrict our processing of personal data if there is a dispute about the accuracy of the data; if the processing is unlawful; if the processing is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected but is needed by you for the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims; or if your request to object to processing is pending evaluation.
• Objection to processing: Object to the processing of your personal data based on our legitimate interests or for direct marketing (including profiling). We will no longer process the data unless there are compelling legitimate grounds for our processing that override your interests, rights, and freedoms, or for the purpose of asserting, exercising, or defending legal claims.
• International Transfers: Obtain information about and a copy of the safeguards we use to transfer personal data across borders.

Please contact us to exercise these rights.

Your California Privacy Rights

If you are a California resident, please review these additional privacy disclosures, which summarize how we collect, use, and disclose information about you and explain your rights under California law.

California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)
Under the CCPA, “personal information” is any information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular California resident or household. It does not include publicly available information, as defined by the CCPA.

Categories of Information We Collect, Disclose, and Sell
You have the right to receive notice of certain information about our data collection, use, and disclosure. The following table summarizes the categories of personal information we collect; the categories of sources of that information; whether we disclose, sell, or share that information to service providers or third parties, respectively; and the criteria we use to determine the retention period for such information. The table below sets out generally the categories of personal information that we collect, sell, and disclose for a business purpose. We collect personal information from the sources identified in the Collection of Information section above. We collect this information for the business purposes described in the Use of Information section above. During the preceding 12 months, we have disclosed the following categories of personal information for business purposes to the following categories of recipients:

Category of Personal Information
Category of Recipients
Identifiers: Name, address, unique identifiers, IP address, email address, and similar identifiers.
Data analytics providers, operating systems, and platforms.

Internet or Electronic Network Activity Information: Internet or other electronic activity information, including browsing history, clickstream data, search history, and information regarding your interaction with the Site.
Data analytics providers, operating systems, and platforms.

Professional or Employment-Related Information: Employment history, qualification, and other information you may submit in connection with a job application.
Human resources vendor.

Education Information: Information about education history that you may submit in connection with a job application.
Human resources vendor.

California law requires that we provide information about personal information that we “sell” or “share.” Under the CCPA, a business “sells” personal information when it discloses personal information to a company for monetary or other benefit. A business “shares” personal information when it discloses personal information to a company for purposes of cross-context behavioral advertising. We “sell” or “share” personal information to third parties in order to market and improve our Sites. During the preceding 12 months, we have “sold” or “shared” the following categories of personal information to the following categories of third parties:

Category of Personal Information
Category of Recipients
Identifiers: Name, address, unique identifiers, IP address, email address, and similar identifiers.
Advertising partners and analytics providers.

Demographic Information: Gender, state of residence, and age.
Consultants.

Commercial Information: Products or services to which you have subscribed.
Consultants.

Internet or Electronic Network Activity Information: Internet or other electronic activity information, including browsing history, clickstream data, search history, and information regarding your interaction with the Site.
Advertising partners and analytics providers.

Inferences Drawn About You: Inferences drawn from any of the information identified above to create a profile reflecting your preferences, characteristics, behavior, and so forth.
Consultants.

We determine the retention period for each of the categories of personal information listed above based on (1) the length of time we need to retain the information to achieve the business or commercial purpose for which it was obtained, (2) any legal or regulatory requirements applicable to such information, (3) internal operational needs, and (4) any need for the information based on any actual or anticipated investigation or litigation.

We do not knowingly sell or share personal information about consumers under the age of 16.

California Residents’ Rights

Subject to certain limitations, California residents have the following rights:

• Opt Out of Sale or Sharing of Personal Information: California residents have the right to opt out of the sale of their personal information any time by visiting our “Contact Us” page.
• Notice at Collection: At or before the collection of their personal information, California residents have the right to notice of the categories of personal information collected and the purposes for which such information is used.
• Request to Know: California residents have the right to request and, subject to certain exceptions, receive a copy of the specific pieces of personal information that we have collected about them during the prior 12 months and to have this delivered, free of charge, either by mail or electronically in a portable and, to the extent technically feasible, readily usable format. California residents also have the right to request that we provide certain additional information related to personal information that we have collected during the prior 12 months, including categories of personal information collected; categories of sources of such personal information; business and/or commercial purposes for collecting, using, and selling such personal information; categories of third parties to whom we have disclosed such personal information; and the specific categories of personal information disclosed or sold to each category of third party.
• Request to Delete or Correct: California residents have the right to request in certain circumstances that we correct personal information that we have collected about you and to delete personal information that we have collected directly from you.
• Non-Discrimination: The CCPA prohibits discrimination against California residents for exercising these rights by, for instance, charging a different price or providing a different level or quality of services, unless doing so is reasonably related to the value of the California resident’s personal information to us.

Submitting Requests: You may make requests to know or delete by emailing us at [email protected] or by completing our web form. We may seek to verify your request by requesting additional information about you. If we receive your request from an authorized agent, we may ask for evidence that you have provided such agent with power of attorney or that the agent has valid written authority to submit requests to exercise rights on your behalf. If you are an authorized agent seeking to make a request, please contact us at [email protected].

Shine the Light

We do not share your personal information with third parties for those third parties’ direct marketing purposes.

Rights of Residents of Other US States

A number of states other than California have enacted laws regulating how businesses can collect, use, and disclose personal information. Residents of those states have certain rights regarding their personal information, which we have chosen to extend to all residents of the U.S, except where noted.

We provide residents of U.S. states other than California the following rights (regardless of whether the state in which they reside has enacted a consumer data privacy law):

• Opt out of “sales” of personal information and use of their personal information for “targeted advertising,” as those terms are defined under applicable law.
• Opt out of “profiling” under certain circumstances, as defined under applicable law. Note that we do not engage in “profiling.”
• Confirm processing of and access to personal information under certain circumstances.
• Correct personal information under certain circumstances.
• Request the specific third parties (other than natural persons) to which personal data has been disclosed. (Oregon only)
• Delete personal information under certain circumstances.

Residents can exercise their rights by contacting us by using one of the methods listed below.

Residents have the right to appeal a denial of their request by contacting us as described in the notice of denial.

Additional Notice for Nevada Residents

Residents of the State of Nevada have the right to opt out of the sale of certain pieces of their information to third parties. Currently, we do not engage in such sales. If you are a Nevada resident and would like more information about our data sharing practices, please contact us.

Do Not Track

Courier Newsroom responds to the Global Privacy Control signal for U.S. residents. However, we do not currently take actions to respond to Do Not Track signals because a uniform technological standard has not yet been developed. Please click on the link below to learn more about enabling the Global Privacy Control: https://globalprivacycontrol.org/#download.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us by emailing us at [email protected].