Last updated: September 30,
2020
BN Media, LLC, (“BN Media,”
"Beliefnet," “we,” “us”) has adopted this privacy policy (the
“Privacy Policy”), which describes how we collect, use and share personally
identifiable information (such as your full name, email address or mobile
number) (“PII”) we obtain online and offline from and about individuals located
in the United States.
The Beliefnet.com web site (https://www.Beliefnet.com) (the “Site”) is a general audience web site,
and we do not knowingly collect PII from children under 16 years of age.
Our Privacy Policy applies to "Visitors,”
which means that you simply browse or use the Site, “Subscribers,” which means
that you have subscribed to receive one or more BN Media newsletter, email
alerts or partner emails, and "Members," which means that you have
registered with BN Media. The term "User" refers to a Visitor,
Subscriber or a Member. By using the Site, you signify your agreement with all the
terms of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy
Policy, please do not use the Site. Our Privacy Policy does not apply to those
web sites that do not display or link to this Privacy Policy or that have their
own privacy statements.
BN Media may modify this Privacy Policy at any
time. Each such modification will be effective upon posting on the Site and the
effective date will be noted at the beginning of such revised Privacy Policy.
Your continued use of the Site after BN Media posts a revised Privacy Policy on
the Site signifies your acceptance of the revised Privacy Policy. Therefore,
you should review the Privacy Policy periodically so that you are up to date on
our most current policies and practices. If BN Media materially changes its
practices regarding collection or use of your PII, your PII will continue to be
governed by the Privacy Policy under which it was collected unless you have
been provided notice of, and have not objected to, such change. In the event
the last e-mail address you provided to us is not valid or is not capable of
delivering the notice to you, BN Media’s dispatch of an e-mail containing the
notice to that e-mail address shall nonetheless constitute effective notice.
Because the BN Media services are hosted in the
United States, if you are a User located outside the United States, you
understand and consent to having any PII and non-PII you provide transferred to
and processed in the United States. The data protection and other laws of other
countries, such as the United States, may not be the same as those in your
jurisdiction. As a result, please read this Privacy Policy with care.
A. COLLECTION:
COLLECTION OF PII AND NON-PII BY BN MEDIA (“What Data Do We Collect, Where We
Collect It From, and Why”)
1. General. When BN Media collects
PII from you it is because you are voluntarily submitting PII to us in order to
register as a Member or a Subscriber. BN
Media may also collect PII from you so that you can participate in
activities like creating a personal profile (“Your Profile”), sweepstakes,
contests, surveys, forums, in connection with questions you submit to us, or
because you want us or a third party to furnish you with products, services or
information. You are responsible for ensuring that the PII you provide is
accurate and up-to-date. We may also obtain PII from reputable third parties or
supplement PII that we have collected directly from our Users with additional
PII or non-PII from reputable third parties.
In addition, BN
Media collects non-PII including, without limitation, IP address,
aggregate User data, and browser type. This non-PII data is used to manage and
improve the BN Media services,
enhance your experience on the Site, track usage, and for security purposes.
Our primary service provider for collecting and processing site data and
behavior is Google. You can find more information on Google’s processing
activities, by clicking on the following link (https://www.google.com/policies/technologies/partner-sites/). We have also entered into Data
Processing Amendments with third-party data and advertising partners, where
necessary, to ensure compliance with all relevant local, national, and
international regulations.
You may also choose to voluntarily provide or
store non-PII in Your Profile (as described in Section A (1) (a) below) or on
message boards or other public forums, including but not limited to, text,
files, images, photos, video, musical works, works of authorship, personal
statements, comments or any other materials (collectively “Content”) that you
choose to post to the Site (Content posted by any User is "User
Content"). If you choose to store your Profile Information (as defined
below in Section A (1) (a)), User Content or any PII on Your Profile, or
provide any Profile Information, PII or User Content on message boards or other
public forums provided on the Site, this information and content will be made
public and you do so at your sole discretion and risk.
As noted above with regards to Google’s Data
Activities on our site(s) as well as others across the web, the following
resources may be helpful for you in understanding, changing, updating, and
maintaining your profile data with Google. These pages provide you with
detailed information and give you control over your data with Google:
Myaccount.google.com
Myactivity.google.com
Privacy.google.com
Important Information
about Changing and Updating your Registration Data and Your Profile Information. Members can change, correct, edit or remove
their Registration Data (as defined below in Section A (1) (a)) and Your
Profile information at any time and can control how Users and BN Media communicate with them by
controlling their profile settings and privacy settings, available within the
“Edit Profile” portion of the Profile section located in the Community section
of the Site.
BN Media collects information from you at several
different points on the Site in the manner set forth below:
(a). Member Registration and Your
Profile: In order to access certain information and services on the Site,
you must first register to become a Member by completing the BN Media registration credentials. During
the Member registration process you will be required to provide registration
data, which may include PII such as your full name and e-mail address (such PII
is the “Registration PII”) and non-PII such as a password (“Registration
Non-PII,” collectively with Registration PII, the “Registration Data”). You may
also choose to voluntarily provide or store PII (such as your first and last
name), non-PII and User Content in Your Profile (such information is your
“Profile Information”). During the registration process you will also be
required to create a “User Name.” The User Name you provide will automatically
be incorporated into Your Profile and will be made public. Please choose your
User Name carefully; if you do not want your full name to be public, do not use
it as your User Name. The Profile Information you include in Your Profile will
automatically be made public and you provide it at your own discretion and
risk.
(b). Newsletters; Email Alerts:
During the subscription process you will be required to provide subscriber
data, which may include PII such as your full name and e-mail address (such
information is the “Subscriber PII”) and zip code (such information is the
“Subscriber Non-PII,” collectively with Subscriber PII the “Subscriber Data”).
If you would like to unsubscribe from any BN
Media newsletter or email alert, please use the unsubscribe link on
the bottom of such newsletter or email.
(c) Sweepstakes, Contests and Promotions:
On the Site, you may have the opportunity to participate in sweepstakes,
contests and other promotions that may require you to provide PII or other
information about yourself. If and when we sponsor sweepstakes, contests or
other promotions, or third parties sponsor such sweepstakes, contests or
promotions with us, either we or the third party will post relevant privacy information
in the official rules and/or registration area for the sweepstakes, contest or
promotion. That privacy information, to the extent it conflicts with this
Privacy Policy, will govern that particular sweepstakes, contest or
promotion—please remember to read it carefully.
2. Cookies. Cookies are small bits
of information that the Site places on the hard drive of your computer. BN Media uses cookies to identify your
Internet browser, store your BN Media username
for easy logon, store Users’ preferences, keep you logged in, and identify
parts of the Site you have visited, applications you are using, advertisements
you have seen and/or products you have purchased. Information about your
activities on the Site and other non-PII about you may also be used to
customize the online ads you encounter to those we believe are consistent with
your interests.
BN Media, or data providers we have engaged, use cookies
to enable you to receive customized ads (either on our site(s) or in our
outbound marketing efforts on other sites and platforms), content or services,
and to provide BN Media with
certain information that enhances and enriches the user experience and our
ability to understand our audience and inform our content strategy.. No PII is
placed into these cookies. The cookies may reflect demographic or other data
linked to data you voluntarily have submitted to us, e.g., your e-mail address
in hashed, non-human readable form. To opt-out of these cookies, please go
to http://www.privacychoice.org/companies and http://www.aboutads.info/choices.
You can opt out of our in-app behavioral
targeted advertising by changing the settings on your mobile device. On Apple
devices, the setting may be under Settings-Privacy-Advertising-Limit Ad
Tracking. On Android devices, the setting may be under Settings-Account &
Sync-Google-Ads-Opt Out of Interest-Based Ads. For further information,
please go to the following links with device-specific opt-out instructions.
iOS - https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202074
Android - https://support.google.com/ads/answer/2662922?hl=en
Third party advertisements displayed on the Site
may also contain cookies set by Internet advertising companies or
advertisers. BN Media does not
control these cookies and Users of the Site should check the privacy policy of
the Internet advertising company or advertiser to see whether and how it uses
cookies. (See Section C (Notice)
below for more information on third party
advertisements).
For personal, browser-specific information on
how you can adjust your cookie and privacy settings and configurations on your
devices, we’ve compiled the following list of resources:
Internet Explorer
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies
Firefox
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/delete-cookies-remove-info-websites-stored
Chrome
https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?co=GENIE.Platform=Desktop&hl=en
Safari
https://support.apple.com/kb/ph21411?locale=en_US
BN Media may use cookies and similar technology to
relate your use of the Site to PII obtained from you or a reputable third
party. For example, if you have asked us to provide you information about our
upcoming products or promotions, cookie and/or click stream data about your
activities on the Site may allow us to limit the materials we provide you to
items we think you will find interesting, based on your prior online activities
and preferences.
You can program your computer to warn you each
time a cookie is being set or to refuse cookies completely. However, without
cookies you may not have access to certain features on the Site.
A pixel tag or web beacon is a tiny image
inserted in a webpage and used to record the number and types of views for that
page. BN Media may allow third
party pixel tags or similar technology to be present on the Site for purposes
of advertising, providing services or data and statistics collection. We also
may use this type of technology in order to recognize Users and assess traffic
patterns, and we may include pixel tags/web beacons in our e-mail messages,
including newsletters, in order to understand the time and date of when a User
has opened an e-email and when he/she has utilized a link within the e-mail to
visit a website. These pixel tags/web beacons do not contain PII. Users wishing
to disable our pixel tags/web beacons should do so by turning images “off” in
their email client (e.g., Outlook, Outlook Express). Please see your e-mail
client for more information.
Notwithstanding anything else in this policy, we
or a data provider we have engaged may place or recognize a unique cookie on
your browser to enable customized ads or content. No personally identifiable
information is placed into these cookies. The cookies may reflect de-identified
demographic or other data linked to data you have submitted to us, e.g., your
email address, in hashed, non-human readable form. To opt-out of these cookies,
please go tohttp://www.aboutads.info/choices.
Uses of cookies, web beacons, and similar
technologies:
Our uses of such technologies fall into the
following general categories:
1.
Operationally Necessary.
We may use cookies, web beacons, or other similar technologies that are
necessary to the operation of our sites, services, applications, and tools.
This includes technologies that allow you access to our sites, services,
applications, and tools; that are required to identify irregular site behavior,
prevent fraudulent activity and improve security; or that allow you to make use
of our functions such as shopping-carts, saved search, or similar functions;
2.
Performance Related. We
may use cookies, web beacons, or other similar technologies to assess the
performance of our websites, applications, services, and tools, including as
part of our analytic practices to help us understand how our visitors use our
websites, determine if you have interacted with our messaging, determine
whether you have viewed an item or link, or to improve our website content,
applications, services, or tools;
3.
Functionality
Related. We may use cookies, web beacons, or other similar technologies
that allow us to offer you enhanced functionality when accessing or using our
sites, services, applications, or tools. This may include identifying you when
you sign into our sites or keeping track of your specified preferences,
interests, or past items viewed so that we may enhance the presentation of
content on our sites;
4.
Advertising or Targeting
Related. We may use first-party or third-party cookies and web beacons to
deliver content, including ads relevant to your interests, on our sites or on
third party sites. This includes using technologies to understand the
usefulness to you of the advertisements and content that have been delivered to
you, such as whether you have clicked on an advertisement. This information
enables us to tailor our advertisements on third-party platforms like Facebook,
Google, and other buying platforms and ensures that we can serve and target
relevant ads to users on behalf of us and our advertising partners.
3. Message Boards and Public Forums:
The message boards and public forums and similar features offered on the Site
are for public and not private communications, and you have no expectation of
privacy with regard to any PII, User Content or other information posted,
submitted or distributed on or through a message board or public forum. BN Media cannot guarantee the security of any
information you disclose through any of the message boards or public forums
available on the Site, and you make such disclosures at your own discretion and
risk.
4. Third Party Ad and Service Provider
Disclosures and Resources
Certain of our Third-party Advertisement and
Data Service Providers have provided resources and disclosures to help you
understand their positions in our site, data, and privacy framework.
Below are those disclosures and resources:
Exponential
Subject to your consent, Exponential
Interactive, Inc collect and profile personal data in the form of IP address
and cookie ID from users on our website in order to provide targeted online
advertising and ad measurement. You may change your consent decision at any
time via <insert details of your consent mechanism or Consent Management
Platform here>. For more details including access requests and complaints,
review their privacy policy or contact their data protection officer via privacy@exponential.com.
Criteo
The purpose of Criteo Email is to find
visitors of Criteo advertising clients’ properties (websites, apps and
newsletters) and send them personalized emails. Criteo uses cookies to single
out users and then personalize ads based on their browsing experience. To learn
more or opt out of Criteo Email click here
(link to Criteo privacy policy at http://privacy.criteoemail.com/us/privacy-policy.html)
Nativo
Subject to your consent, Nativo,
Inc. collects and processes personal data in the form of IP address and cookie
ID from users on our website to measure user engagement and personalize ads and
content based on your interests. You may visit Nativo’s Privacy Policy and Interest Based Ads Privacy
Policy for more information and to object to such processing.
B. Collection of Personal Financial Information
on the Site by an independent Third Party company
BN Media may use an independent third party company
to process purchases and financial transactions on the Site. When an
independent third party company selected by BN
Media collects, transmits and/or processes your PII and your
personal financial information, such as your credit card information or other
payment information (collectively, “Personal Financial Information”), on the
Site it is because you are submitting such Personal Financial Information in
order to purchase any products or services offered from time to time on the
Site. At the time of your purchase, BN
Media will notify you of the identity of any third party that is
collecting, transmitting and/or processing your Personal Financial Information.
You must be 18 years of age or older to submit Personal Financial Information
on the Site, including to place an order on the Site.
You acknowledge and
agree that this Privacy Policy will not apply to any Personal Financial
Information that you provide to any independent third party company on the Site
and that all payment obligations related to such purchase shall be governed
solely by the applicable independent third party company’s privacy policy. You
further acknowledge and agree that BN Media will have no liability for or
control over such independent third party company’s use or protection of your
Personal Financial Information. You should check the privacy policy of the
independent third party company‘s website to determine how it will handle any
Personal Financial Information it collects from you and/or processes.
You acknowledge and agree that in the event that
such independent third party company experiences a data breach that compromises
or otherwise affects your Personal Financial Information, BN Media shall in no way be responsible or
liable to you for such breach. You should contact the applicable independent
third party company regarding any such data breach.
C. NOTICE: BN MEDIA WILL
PROVIDE YOU WITH NOTICE ABOUT ITS PII AND NON-PII COLLECTION PRACTICES
When you voluntarily provide PII to BN Media, we will make sure you are informed
about who is collecting the information, how and why the information is being
collected and the types of uses BN Media will
make of the information.
At the time you provide your PII, BN Media will notify you of your options
regarding our use of your PII, including whether we will share it with outside
companies (See Section D (Choice) below). This Privacy Policy describes
the types of other companies that may want to send you information about their
products and services and therefore may want to share your PII, provided you
have given BN Media permission
to do so (See Section E (Use) below).
Sometimes we collect PII from consumers in an
off-line or manual format, such as by mobile phone. Providing detailed notice
in those situations often proves impractical, so consumers will instead be
provided with a short notice that describes how to obtain the full text of this
Privacy Policy and other relevant information from us.
The Site may be linked to Internet web sites
operated by other companies. Some of these third party web sites may be
co-branded with a BN Media logo,
even though they are not operated or maintained by BN Media (for example, the co-sponsored chat pages,
advertising sponsor pages or product purchase pages). The Site also carries
advertisements from other companies. BN
Media is not responsible for the privacy practices of web sites
operated by third parties that are linked to the Site, for the privacy
practices of third party or national Internet advertising companies or for
third party payment processing companies selected by BN Media. Once you leave a BN Media Site via such a link or by
clicking on an advertisement, BN Media's Privacy
Policy no longer applies and you should check the applicable privacy policy of
the third party or advertiser web site to determine how they will handle any
PII they collect from you.
The Site may also be linked to web sites
operated by companies affiliated with BN
Media. Visitors to those affiliated web sites should still refer to
their separate privacy policies and practices, which may differ in some
respects from this Privacy Policy.
Some of the advertisements that appear on BN Media’s Site are delivered to you by
national Internet advertising companies. These companies utilize certain
technologies to deliver advertisements and marketing messages and to collect
non-PII information about your visit to the Site, including information about
the advertisements they display, any cookie they place on your computer and your
IP address. To opt out of information collection by these companies, or to
obtain information about the technologies they use or their own privacy
policies, please visit:
http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp.
D. CHOICE: BN MEDIA WILL
PROVIDE YOU WITH CHOICES ABOUT THE USE OF YOUR PII
BN Media will not use the PII you provide to us for
purposes different from the purpose for which it was submitted unless otherwise
provided in this Privacy Policy (See Section E (Use) below). BN Media will not share your PII with
third parties that are not affiliated with BN
Media, unless we obtain your permission or as otherwise provided in this
Privacy Policy (See Section E (Use) below).
E. USE: BN MEDIA’S USE
OF PII
BN Media will use your PII provided under this
Privacy Policy in a manner that is consistent with this Privacy Policy.
If BN Media obtains PII from a
third party, such as a business partner, our use of that PII is governed by
this Privacy Policy.
BN Media may occasionally send Users information
about special offers, Site updates, contests and other offerings via e-mail. We
may also send information about products and offerings of our partners or other
affiliated companies that we think may be of interest to our Users. To opt out
of receiving these messages, click on the opt-out link at the bottom of our
e-mails.
BN Media may also share your PII with affiliated
companies. In addition, BN Media may
share your PII with advertisers and business partners that are not affiliated
with BN Media, but would like to
send you information about their products and services. For example, BN Media may share your PII with the
companies who supply prizes for BN Media’s
contests and may have special offers or promotions that might be of interest
to BN Media users.
BN Media employees, agents and contractors must
have a legitimate business or legal reason to access your PII. BN Media may share your PII with outside
contractors or agents who help us provide you with services or products or who
help us manage our information activities, but they may only use your PII to
provide BN Media with a
specific service and not for any other purpose. For example, if you enter a
sweepstakes on the Site, your PII may be shared with our sweepstakes
administrators.
BN Media may also enter into agreements with
outside companies that possess the technology that allows BN Media to customize the advertising and
marketing messages you receive on the Site. Your Non-PII and click stream data
about your activities on the Site may be shared with these companies so this
customization may be accomplished. Anonymous click stream and demographic
information may also be shared with BN
Media's advertisers and business partners.
There may be instances when BN Media may disclose PII without
providing you with a choice in order to protect the legal rights of BN Media, other affiliated companies or any of their
employees, agents and contractors; to protect the safety and security of any
person, including, without limitation, Users of the Site, or the public; to
protect against fraud or for risk management purposes; or to comply with the
law or legal process. In addition, if BN Media sells all or part of its
business or makes a sale or transfer of assets or is otherwise involved in a
merger or business transfer, BN Media may
transfer your PII to a third party as part of that transaction.
F. SECURITY: BN MEDIA
PROTECTS THE SECURITY OF PII
BN Media uses reasonable administrative, technical,
personnel and physical measures to safeguard PII in its possession against
loss, theft and unauthorized use, disclosure or modification. However, no
security system is impenetrable. BN Media cannot
warrant or guarantee the security of its servers, nor can it guarantee that any
information, including, without limitation any PII, that you supply will not be
intercepted while being transmitted to BN
Media over the Internet. Additionally, as outlined in our DPAs with
third-party processors, BN Media will
also be notified promptly by our third-party data processors of any breach of
their systems so we can notify users immediately.
G. California Privacy Rights
Under California law,
California residents have certain rights. The following describes how
California residents may exercise those rights:
Right to Know
You may request that we
disclose to you, for the 12 months preceding your request, the following: (i) the
categories of personal information we have collected about you, (ii) the
categories of sources from which the personal information is collected, (iii) the
business purpose for collecting or selling personal information, (iv) the
categories of third parties with whom we shared your personal information, and (v)
the personal information we collected, used, disclosed, and sold about you.
To receive such information, please
submit a request by email at copyrightagent@bnmediallc.com or
call us at 1-833-796-0136 (enter PIN: 141439). We will use the information you
provide to us solely for the purpose of verifying your request and locating
your data, if any, within our records. In some instances, we may ask for (and
require) additional information to verify your identity before we can release
the information requested. Please note, under California law, such requests can
be made a maximum of twice per twelve-month period.
We’ll respond to your request
in a manner consistent with the laws of your state.
Disclosure or Sale of Personal Information
We share PII with third
parties in exchange for something of value. The laws of some states consider
this a “sale” of PII. For example, sharing an advertising or device identifier
to a third party may be considered a “sale” under the laws of certain states.
Some states allow you to opt out of the “sale” of your PII.
Categories of PII Collected, Categories
of Sources, Purpose of Collection, and Categories of Third Parties to Whom We
Disclose or Sell PII
We collected the following
categories of PII over the past 12 months. For each category, we have indicated
the categories of sources from which the PII was collected, the business
purpose for which we collected the PII, and categories of third parties to whom
we disclose or sell the PII.
|
Category of Information |
Sources |
Examples of
Information and Purpose of Collection |
Third Parties to Whom
We May Disclose Information |
|
Identifiers |
User Provided Data
through forms, opt-ins, and subscriptions to our sites. Browsing activity
across our websites on desktop, mobile, and tablet devices Interaction or Engagement
with emails and newsletters |
Name, Address, Email
address, IP Address, Cookie ID, Zip Code, and other information collected
through signup forms across our sites.
Uses of this data include helping improve and customize experience on
our sites and in our emails |
Affiliates, Service
Providers, third-party advertisers and analytics providers |
|
Internet or other
electronic network activity information: |
Browsing activity
across our websites on desktop, mobile, and tablet devices. Interaction or
Engagement with emails and newsletters |
Browsing activity on
our sites and apps, browser type and browser language. This also encompasses
other information that gets collected automatically when you use our sites
and apps or interact with us through social media. Used in analytics and
personalization on our site to allow us to understand activity and improve
experience for our readers and users.
We also use their search behavior to personalize content and
advertising |
Affiliates, Service
Providers, Third parties, such as third-party advertisers and analytics
providers |
|
Geolocation data |
Browsing activity
across our websites on desktop, mobile, and tablet devices. Interaction or
Engagement with emails and newsletters |
IP addresses and
inferences made from IP address. Used in analytics and
personalization on our site to allow us to understand activity and improve
experience for our readers and users.
We also use their search behavior to personalize content and
advertising |
Affiliates, Service
Providers, Third parties, such as third-party advertisers, and advertising
and list brokering networks and analytics providers |
|
Inferences |
Browsing activity
across our websites on desktop, mobile, and tablet devices. Interaction or
Engagement with emails and newsletters |
preferences,
predispositions and behavior as they relate to our sites and apps. Used in analytics and
personalization on our site to allow us to understand activity and improve
experience for our readers and users.
We also use their search behavior to personalize content and
advertising |
Affiliates, Service
Providers, Third parties, such as third-party advertisers, and advertising
and list brokering networks and analytics providers |
In addition, we may disclose
PII and Non-PII as follows:
To service providers or
parties that we have engaged to perform business-related functions on our
behalf. This may include service providers that conduct research and analytics,
create content, provide customer, technical or operational support, conduct or
support marketing, fulfill orders and user requests, administer contests,
maintain databases, send or support online or mobile advertising and otherwise
support our Products and Services.
In response to legal processes
such as court orders or subpoenas, law enforcement or government agency
requests or similar requests.
With our affiliates so they
can provide, improve and communicate with you about their own, or their
marketing partners’, products and services.
In the event that we consider
the transfer our assets or sale of our business, either in whole or in part, Data,
including PII, may be one of the assets transferred or sold, and may therefore
be used by a third-party acquirer in accordance with this Policy. Such use by a
third party may include review of PII, using such PII to contact you either
before or after such a transfer or sale, use or transfer of non-PII before or
after such a transfer or sale, or for other purposes.
In addition, we may share your
information as described below:
Information You Elect to Share:
You may choose to share information with Third Parties by clicking on links to
those Third Parties from within the Products. In addition, you may elect to
share information, including PII, through the Services offered on the Products
by, for instance, posting comments on comment boards or listing classified
advertisements. Some of your activity on the Products, including content you
have posted, is public by default. Some of this content may include PII.
Third-Party Advertisers and
Web Sites: We may share your PII and non-PII with Third Parties as described in
the section above titled Third-Party
Advertising and Third-Party
Web Sites.
Information Disclosed to Vendors, Partners, Service Providers, and Others for
Business Purposes: We contract with vendors to provide services related to the
Products and may share information with such vendors in order to provide
products or services to you or to help maintain the Products. We also may share
PII and non-PII with our partners, service providers and other persons with
whom we conduct business.
Information Disclosed for the
Protection of the Products and for Others. We may disclose PII and Non-PII when
(1) required by law or to respond to legal process or lawful requests,
including from law enforcement; (2) when we believe it is necessary to prevent,
investigate, or address (a) possible illegal activities, including fraud, (b)
violation of our Terms of Use, (c) violation of this Policy, or (d) threats to
the physical safety of any person; or (3) to protect our rights or property.
Right to Delete
You may request that we delete
any personal information about you which we have collected during the preceding
twelve months. To have such information, if any, deleted, please click this
link
or call us at 1-833-796-0136 (enter PIN: 141439). We will use the information
you provide to us solely for the purpose of verifying your request and locating
your data, if any, within our records. In some instances, we may ask for (and
require) additional information to verify your identity before we can comply
with your request. Please note, under California law, such requests can be made
a maximum of twice per twelve-month period.
Once we have determined a
verifiable request has been submitted, the information will be deleted. Please
note, we may retain any and all information if it is necessary for us to:
complete the transaction for which the personal information was collected,
provide a good or services requested by you, perform a contract between you and
us, detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive,
fraudulent, or illegal activity, or prosecute those responsible for that
activity, debug to identify and repair errors that impair existing
functionality, exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to
exercise his or her right of free speech or another right provided for by the
law, comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act, or
comply with our legal obligations.
We’ll respond to your request
in a manner consistent with the laws of your state.
Right to Opt-Out
At any time, you may direct us
not to sell your personal information to third parties. To opt-out, please click
this link: Do Not
Sell My Info or call us at 1-833-796-0136 (enter PIN:
141439).
Non-discrimination
You have the right not to
receive discriminatory treatment for exercising your privacy rights under the
CCPA.
Authorized Agent
You may be entitled, in
accordance with applicable law, to submit a request via an authorized agent
acting on your behalf. To do so, we must receive written authorization or a
power of attorney, signed by you, for the agent to act on your behalf. You will
still need to verify your identity directly with us.
H. California
NOTICE
Categories of PI Collected and
Business Purpose for Collection
|
Category of
Information |
Examples of PI
Collected |
Business Purpose for
Collection |
|
Identifiers |
User Provided Data
through forms, opt-ins, and subscriptions to our sites. Browsing activity
across our websites on desktop, mobile, and tablet devices. |
Interaction or
Engagement with emails and newsletters. |
|
Internet or other
electronic network activity information: |
Browsing activity
across our websites on desktop, mobile, and tablet devices. |
Interaction or
Engagement with emails and newsletters. |
|
Geolocation data |
Browsing activity
across our websites on desktop, mobile, and tablet devices. |
Interaction or
Engagement with emails and newsletters. |
|
Inferences |
Browsing activity
across our websites on desktop, mobile, and tablet devices. |
Interaction or
Engagement with emails and newsletters. |
To opt-out of the sale of your
PII, please click this link: Do Not
Sell My Info
California
Do Not Track Disclosure
Certain web browsers may allow
you to enable a “do not track” option that sends signals to the websites you
visit indicating that you do not want your online activities tracked. This is
different than blocking cookies as browsers with the “do not track” option selected
may still accept cookies. Right now, there is no industry standard for how
companies should respond to “do not track” signals, although one may be adopted
in the future. We do not respond to “do not track” signals at this time. If we
do so in the future, we will modify this Policy accordingly. More information
about “do not track” is available at www.allaboutdnt.org.
I. REMEDIES AND COMPLIANCE: HOW TO CONTACT BN MEDIA ABOUT PRIVACY
CONCERNS
If you have questions or concerns regarding our privacy policy or practices,
your use of the BN Media Site,
or the collection and use of PII, you may contact BN Media, LLC, 2037 Laskin Rd, Virginia Beach, VA, 23454
Attn: Jeremy McGee, BN Media Internet
Privacy Officer. Telephone: (757) 200-9944. E-mail: copyrightagent@bnmediallc.com.
