At Wide Open News, one of our main priorities is the privacy of our visitors. This Privacy Policy outlines how WideOpenNews.com (“the Website”) collects, uses, discloses, and protects your personal information.
This privacy policy solely relates to the information shared and/or collected by our website’s visitors about WideOpenNews.com. Any information gathered offline or through channels other than this website is not covered by this policy.
Consent
By using our website, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its terms.
Information we collect
When we ask for your personal information, we will make clear the personal information we are requesting from you as well as the reasons behind it.
We might get more information about you if you get in touch with us directly, like your name, phone number, email address, message content, and any attachments you send us, in addition to whatever else you choose to share.
Information we use
We use the information we collect in various ways, including to:
• Provide, operate, and maintain our website
• Improve, personalize, and expand our website
• Understand and analyze how you use our website
• Develop new products, services, features, and functionality
• Communicate with you, either directly or through one of our partners
• Send you emails
• Find and prevent fraud
Information we share
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer your personal information to third parties without your consent. We may share information with trusted third-party service providers who assist in the operation of the Website, if they agree to keep this information confidential.
Log Files
Wide Open News follows a standard procedure of using log files. These files log visitors when they visit websites. All hosting companies do this and are a part of hosting services’ analytics. The information collected by log files include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. These are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable. The purpose of the information is for analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users’ movement on the website, and gathering demographic information.
Cookies
Like any other website, Wide Open News uses ‘cookies’. These cookies are used to store information including visitors’ preferences, and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. The information is used to optimize the users’ experience by customizing our web page content based on visitors’ browser type and/or other information.
Security
We take all precautions to ensure the protection of your personal data. Nevertheless, we are unable to guarantee security due to fact that there is no totally secure way to transmit data over the internet or electronic storage.
Children’s Privacy
Adding security for kids to use the internet is also one of our priorities. We encourage parents and guardians to watch over, engage with, and/or supervise their children’s online activities.
No Personal Identifiable Information is intentionally gathered by Wide Open News from children under 13. We highly recommend that you get in touch with us right away if you believe your youngster submitted this kind of information on our website. We’ll try our best to delete the information from our records as soon as possible.
Contact Us
If you have any questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact us at admin@wideopennews.com