EyesOnNews (“us”, “we”, or “our”) operates the https://eyesonnews.com website and related mobile applications (the “Service”). This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use and disclosure of Personal Information when you use our Service.
We will not use or share your information with anyone except as described in this Privacy Policy. We use reasonable physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect Personal Information from loss, misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration and destruction
Information Collection and Use
While using our Service, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you (“Personal Information”). We collect this information for the purpose of providing the Service, identifying and communicating with you, responding to your requests/inquiries, servicing your purchase orders, and improving our services.
Log Data and Analytics: We may also collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our Service (“Log Data”). This Log Data may include, your computer’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser type, browser version, time zone setting, the pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages and other statistics. Analytics services (like Google Analytics and Adobe Analytics) help us analyze Log Data to understand how visitors use the Service.
Cookies and Tracking Technologies: Technologies such as cookies, beacons, tags and scripts are used by us and our marketing partners (e.g. Google Ads). These technologies are used in analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users’ movements around the site and to gather demographic information about our user base. We may receive reports on this activity on an individual and aggregated basis.
We use Local Storage (LS) such as HTML5 and LocalSharedObjects (LSOs) such as Flash cookies for storing content information and preferences. Third parties with whom we partner to provide certain features on our site also use Flash cookies or HTML5 to collect and store information.
Some pages of our Service include third party social media buttons (like Facebook, Twitter, etc.) to enable sharing content directly on those platforms. Use of these features enables the social media company to receive information such as your IP address and the page you are visiting on our Service.
Use of Personal Information
We may use information about you for various purposes, including to:
1. Provide, improve and maintain our Service
2. Send you technical notices, updates, security alerts and support and administrative messages
3. Respond to your comments, questions and requests and provide customer service
4. Communicate with you about news, products, services, offers, promotions, rewards, and events offered by EyesOnNews
5. Monitor and analyze trends, usage and activities in connection with our Service
6. Link or combine with information we get from others to help understand your needs and provide you with better service
7. Carry out any other purpose for which the information was collected
8. Sharing of Personal Information
9. We may share personal information about you under the following circumstances:
Service Providers: We may share your personal information with outside vendors that we use for the business activities described in the “Use of Personal Information” section above.
Business Transfers: As we continue to develop our business, we might sell or buy businesses or assets. In such transactions, customer information is typically transferred.
Compliance with Laws and Law Enforcement Requests; Protection of Our Rights: We may disclose your personal information (i) if required to do so by law or subpoena / court order, (ii) in response to a request by law enforcement authorities, or (iii) when we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate protect the rights, property or safety of EyesOnNews, our customers or third parties.
With Your Consent : We may share other information with your consent.
Retention of Personal Information
We retain Personal Information for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Statement unless a longer retention period is required by law.
Transfer of Personal Information
The Service is hosted and operated in the United States (“U.S.”) with development, support and maintenance operations in other countries. If you are accessing the Service from outside the U.S., your information may be transferred to, stored and processed in the United States or other countries.
Our servers and data centers are based in the U.S. so your information may be transferred to, stored or processed in the U.S.
Your use of the Service constitutes your consent and approval of such transfer, storage and processing of information.
Links to Other Sites
Our Service contains links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a link to a third party site, you will be directed to that site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Statement of other sites. We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of third party sites.
Children’s Privacy
Our Services are restricted to users who are 18 years of age or older. We do not permit users under 18 years of age on our platform and do not intentionally collect Personal Information from anyone under the age of 18.
Changes to this Statement
We may occasionally update this Privacy Statement. When we do, we will also revise the “Last Updated” date at the bottom of the Privacy Statement. We encourage you to review this Privacy Statement periodically to stay informed about how we are protecting your personal information.
Your Data Protection Rights Under General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), you have rights under GDPR in relation to your personal data collected by us. We respond to requests from EU residents in compliance with GDPR data protection standards, including:
Right to Access: You have the right to request copies of your personal data.
Right to Rectify: You have the right to request that we correct inaccurate or incomplete personal information.
Right to Erasure: You also have the right in certain circumstances to ask us to erase your personal information.
Right to Restrict Processing: You have the right to request that EyesOnNews restrict the processing of your information.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us. Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before responding to such requests.
How to Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Statement, the practices of this Service, or your dealings with this Service, please contact us at:
Last Updated: (23rd Dec 2023)
This covers many of the key components for a basic media site privacy policy oriented towards USA regulations and laws. As with any legal policy document, consultation with an attorney is highly advisable when developing and implementing formal policies for a real entity. Please let me know if you have any other questions!