Privacy Policy
Last modified: August 23, 2016
MediaNews Group, Inc. d/b/a Digital First Media ("Company" or "We") respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy.
This policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the website LeadHax.com (our "Website") and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.
This policy applies to information we collect:
• On this Website.
• In email, text, and other electronic messages between you and this Website.
• Through mobile and desktop applications you download from this Website, which provide dedicated non-browser-based interaction between you and this Website.
• When you interact with our advertising and applications on third-party websites and services, if those applications or advertising include links to this policy.
It does not apply to information collected by:
• us offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by Company or any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries); or
• any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries), including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or on the Website.
Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Website. By accessing or using this Website, you agree to this privacy policy. This policy may change from time to time (see Changes to Our Privacy Policy). Your continued use of this Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.
Children Under the Age of 13
Our Website is not intended for children under 13
years of age. No one under age 13 may provide any information to or on the
Website. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.
If you are under 13, do not use or provide any information on this Website or
on or through any of its features/register on the Website, make any purchases
through the Website, use any of the interactive or public comment features of
this Website or provide any information about yourself to us, including your
name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or user name
you may use. If we learn we have collected or received personal information
from a child under 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete
that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a
child under 13, please contact us at MediaNews Group, Inc., Attn: Legal
Department, 4 North Second Street, Suite 800, San Jose, CA 95113 or
manstandig@bayareanewsgroup.com.
Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It
We may collect several types of information from and
about users of our Website, including information:
•
by which you may
be personally identified, such as name, postal address, e-mail address,
telephone number, or any other identifier by which you may be contacted online
or offline ("personal information");
•
that is about you
but individually does not identify you; and/or
•
about your internet
connection, the equipment you use to access our Website and usage details.
We may collect this information:
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Directly from you
when you provide it to us.
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Automatically as
you navigate through the site. Information collected automatically may include
usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies, web
beacons, and other tracking technologies.
•
From third
parties, for example, our business partners.
Information You
Provide to Us. The
information collected on or through our Website may include:
•
Information that
you provide by filling in forms on our Website. This includes information
provided at the time of registering to use our Website, subscribing to our
service, posting material, or requesting further services. We may also ask you
for information when you report a problem with our Website.
•
Records and
copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us.
•
Your responses to
surveys that we might ask you to complete for research purposes.
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Details of
transactions you carry out through our Website and of the fulfillment of your
orders. You may be required to provide financial information before placing an
order through our Website.
•
Your search
queries on the Website.
You also may provide information to be published or
displayed (hereinafter, "posted")
on public areas of the Website, or transmitted to other users of the Website or
third parties (collectively, "User
Contributions"). Your User Contributions are posted on and transmitted
to others at your own risk. Although we limit access to certain pages, please
be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. Additionally,
we cannot control the actions of other users of the Website with whom you may
choose to share your User Contributions. Therefore, we cannot and do not
guarantee that your User Contributions will not be viewed by unauthorized
persons.
Information We Collect
Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies. As you navigate through and interact with our
Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain
information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:
•
Details of your visits to our Website,
including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and
the resources that you access and use on the Website.
•
Information about
your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating
system, and browser type.
We also may use these technologies to collect
information about your online activities over time and across third-party
websites or other online services (behavioral tracking). Company currently does
not support Do Not Track browser settings and does not currently participate in
any Do Not Track frameworks that would allow us to respond to signals or other
mechanism from you regarding the collection of information, including Personal
Information. As industry standards evolve and develop, we will continue to
evaluate this position.
The information we collect automatically is
statistical data and may include personal information, or we may maintain it or
associate it with personal information we collect in other ways or receive from
third parties. It helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and
more personalized service, including by enabling us to:
•
Estimate our
audience size and usage patterns.
•
Store information
about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Website according to your individual
interests.
•
Speed up your
searches.
•
Recognize you
when you return to our Website.
The technologies we use for this automatic
data collection may include:
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Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small
file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept
browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However,
if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our
Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse
cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our
Website.
•
Flash Cookies. Certain features of
our Website may use local stored objects (or Flash cookies) to collect and
store information about your preferences and navigation to, from, and on our
Website. Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as are used
for browser cookies. For information about managing your privacy and security
settings for Flash cookies, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.
•
Web Beacons. Pages of our the Website and our e-mails
may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as
clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for
example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for
other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of
certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).
Third-Party Use of Cookies and Other Tracking
Technologies.
Some content or applications, including
advertisements, on the Website are served by third-parties, including
advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers, and application
providers. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web
beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when
you use our website. The information they collect may be associated with your
personal information or they may collect information, including personal
information, about your online activities over time and across different
websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide
you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.
We do not control these third parties' tracking
technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an
advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible
provider directly. For information about how you can opt out of receiving
targeted advertising from many providers, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.
How We Use Your Information
We may use information that we collect about you or
that you provide to us, including any personal information:
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To present our
Website and its contents to you.
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To provide you
with information, products, or services that you request from us.
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To fulfill any
other purpose for which you provide it.
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To provide you
with notices about your account, including expiration and renewal notices.
•
To carry out our
obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into
between you and us, including for billing and collection.
•
To notify you
about changes to our Website or any products or services we offer or provide
though it.
•
To allow you to
participate in interactive features on our Website.
•
In any other way
we may describe when you provide the information.
•
For any other
purpose with your consent.
We may also use your information to contact you about
our own and third-parties' goods and services that may be of interest to you.
If you do not want us to use your information in this way, please adjust your
user preferences in your account profile. For more information, see Choices
About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.
We may use the information we have collected from you
to enable us to display advertisements to our advertisers' target audiences.
Even though we do not disclose your personal information for these purposes
without your consent, if you click on or otherwise interact with an
advertisement, the advertiser may assume that you meet its target criteria.
Disclosure of Your Information
We may disclose aggregated information about our users,
and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.
We may disclose personal information that we collect
or you provide as described in this privacy policy:
•
To our
subsidiaries and affiliates.
•
To contractors,
service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business and
who are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal information
confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.
•
To a buyer or
other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring,
reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of MediaNews
Group, Inc.'s assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy,
liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by MediaNews
Group, Inc. about our Website users is among the assets transferred.
•
To fulfill the
purpose for which you provide it. For example, if you give us an email address
to use the "email a friend" feature of our Website, we will transmit
the contents of that email and your email address to the recipients.
•
For any other
purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
•
With your
consent.
We may also disclose your personal information:
•
To comply with
any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government
or regulatory request.
•
To enforce or
apply our terms of use [http://leadhax.com/leadhax-adportal/info/terms.htm] and
other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes.
•
If we believe
disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or
safety of LeadHax™, our
customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies
and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk
reduction.
Choices About How We Use and
Disclose Your Information
We strive to provide you with choices regarding the
personal information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide
you with the following control over your information:
•
Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You can set your
browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are
being sent. To learn how you can manage your Flash cookie settings, visit the
Flash player settings page on Adobe's website. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that
some parts of this site may then be inaccessible or not function properly.
We do not control third parties' collection or use of
your information to serve interest-based advertising. However these third
parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information
collected or used in this way. You can opt out of receiving targeted ads from
members of the Network Advertising Initiative ("NAI") on the NAI's website.
Accessing and Correcting Your Information
You can review and change your personal information by
logging into the Website and visiting your account profile page.
We cannot delete your personal information except by
also deleting your user account. We may not accommodate a request to change
information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement
or cause the information to be incorrect.
If you delete your User Contributions from the
Website, copies of your User Contributions may remain viewable in cached and
archived pages, or might have been copied or stored by other Website users.
Proper access and use of information provided on the Website, including User
Contributions, is governed by our terms of use [http://leadhax.com/leadhax-adportal/info/terms.htm].
Your California Privacy
Rights
California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits users
of our Website that are California residents to request certain information
regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their
direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please send an email to manstandig@bayareanewsgroup.com.
Data Security
We work with industry-leading vendors to implement
measures that secure your information from accidental loss and from
unauthorized access, use, alteration and disclosure.
The safety and security of your information also
depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for
access to certain parts of our Website, you are responsible for keeping this
password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone. We
urge you to be careful about giving out information in public areas of the
Website like message boards. The information you share in public areas may be
viewed by any user of the Website.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the
internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your
personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal
information transmitted to our Website. Any transmission of personal
information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of
any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website.
Changes to Our Privacy Policy
It is our policy to post any changes we make to our
privacy policy on this page. If we make material changes to how we treat our
users' personal information, we will notify you through a notice on the Website
home page. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the
top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active
and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our
Website and this privacy policy to check for any changes.
Contact Information
To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy
and our privacy practices, contact us at:
MediaNews Group, Inc.
Legal Department
4 North Second Street,
Suite 800
San Jose, CA 95113
manstandig@bayareanewsgroup.com