We are a media company passionate about embracing the opportunities created by the rapidly evolving world of digital and mobile media. This is the main privacy policy for The Daily Herald and covers all related websites, applications, and services that do not have a separate policy. A reference to “we,” “us,” or “our” is a reference to The Daily Herald. The Daily Herald is Owned and Operated by The Daily Herald Inc.
Our visitors and customers have different privacy concerns. This policy provides a snapshot of our personal information practices so that you may easily understand what information we collect and why, as well as how to access and update or correct your personal information. If you are interested, drop-down menus contain more information.
We may change this policy from time to time. If you continue to use our products and services after we make changes, you are consenting to the updated policy. If the changes are significant, we will provide you with notice and archive prior versions.
In this policy, customized experience means content, recommendations, advertising, and offers (including from selected third-party sponsors or advertisers) that may be personalized or tailored to your interests. Our products and services include anything you purchase, register for, use, or attend, such as contests, newsletters, auctions, advertising, events, commenting functions, and services provided through our websites and applications. We may refer to our websites and applications as our digital properties.
Certain digital properties and services may be subject to additional notices or policies. We may link to websites or applications outside of our control, including our payment processors, which may have their own policies. Our products and services are also subject to any applicable terms of use.
What is not covered by this policy?
Personal Information for Editorial or Journalistic Purposes – Information collected for editorial or journalistic purposes, whether it is considered “personal,” is exempt from the requirements of privacy legislation and is not covered by this policy.
Information that is not personally identifiable, such as anonymous or de-identified information and aggregate data that cannot be associated with a specific person, such as demographic statistics about our customers, or a number of visitors and average time spent on a website, may be collected and used by us and third parties, including advertisers.
Any other information or circumstance that falls outside the scope of or is exempted by applicable privacy legislation, including permitted uses of business contact information (including the name, title, business and email address, and telephone number of an employee of an organization) and publicly available information such as an individual’s name and address when listed in or made available through a directory.
We collect the personal information you provide directly to us when you purchase our products, register for, use, or attend our services, donate to our charities, or fill out our surveys. We collect the information we get from third parties or from you when you visit us, call us, or you use our services. Unless the information collected or compiled is sensitive in nature, we assume your consent for all purposes set out in this policy.
Additional detail about what information we collect and why:
- Customized experience and promotions: We tailor content, recommendations, communications, and advertising to your interests, providing you with more relevant information. We may use your contact and transaction information, usage and device data, and other personal information to provide you with content recommendations and tailored communications, to send promotional communications about our products and services, to track your use of our products and services across the devices that you use to access our digital properties, and to provide you with a customized experience.
- Non-promotional communications: We use your contact and transaction information to provide you with communications about products and services you purchase or use. You may not opt out of these communications; however, you may close your account.
- Internal analytics: We use IP addresses, cookies, pixel tags, web beacons, and other technologies to gather demographic and statistical information about our users, including information about user behavior and interaction with our digital properties and with emails and other communications we send to you, and your location and device type, to administer our digital properties, to understand how you interact with us and our digital properties, to improve our products and services, to develop new products and services, for systems administration, and to diagnose problems with our servers, to detect fraud, and to improve security.
- Enforce our terms of use: We may use your personal information to contact you regarding or otherwise enforce issues with your use of services such as posting on online forums, subject to our applicable terms of use.
- Other administrative reasons: If you make a complaint or send a request to customer service, we will keep the relevant information to investigate your complaint or request and respond to you.
- Corporate reasons: The Daily Herald may disclose your personal information to parties connected with the contemplated or actual financing, insuring, sale, assignment, or other disposal of all or part of our business or assets, including for the purposes of determining whether to proceed or continue with such a transaction or business relationship or fulfilling any records or other reporting requirements to such parties.
- As permitted or required by law: The Daily Herald may disclose your personal information as permitted or required by law, including to third parties if we believe you have violated our terms of service or conditions of purchase if we need to comply with applicable law, including lawful access requests or for certain business transactions.
User-generated content and public activities
We offer you opportunities to engage in public activities, which are any actions you take that are designed to be visible to others, including comments, recommendations, reader reviews, ratings, classified listings, public user profiles, or any other items that you submit. Any information you disclose in your public activities, along with your screen name or ID, or any image or photo, becomes public and may be used by The Daily Herald for online and offline promotional or commercial uses in any and all media.
Our use of cookies
If you use any of our digital properties, we and our third-party service providers may use cookies and other technologies such as JavaScript, Adobe Flash, web beacons, and pixels to better understand your behavior and interaction with our digital properties and with communications sent to you (such as open and click activity) and to improve your user experience and recognize you and/or your device, to make sure our ads and dynamic content are served correctly, and to improve the performance of our digital properties.
If you wish, you may disable cookies in your browser or delete them. While we do not require the use of cookies, some functionality may be disabled, and your web surfing experience will be degraded.
Consent and your personal information
The form of consent required for the collection and use of your personal information depends on what is reasonable in the circumstances. We may assume consent from your actions. For example, if you provide us with your personal information for a subscription, we assume that we may also send you notices related to your subscription and bill you.
In general, we assume your consent for all purposes set out in this policy. If it is reasonable to do so, we will provide further notice at the point of collection. If personal information collected or compiled is sensitive in nature, or it is otherwise reasonable in the circumstances, we will provide you with an opportunity to expressly agree, such as a checkbox.
Safeguards
The Daily Herald uses technical, contractual, administrative, and physical security measures to protect your personal information in a manner that is reasonable for the nature of the personal information you provide to us.
Once we no longer require your personal information for purposes you have consented to, we securely dispose of it.
Data retention
We retain the personal information you provide while your account is in existence or as needed to provide you with requested products or services.
You may access, update, and delete your personal information and use of products and services provided by The Daily Herald by contacting our Privacy Officer at: [email protected].
This Privacy Policy is effective as of January 8, 2025.