Who we are
Our website address is: https://newscollective.org.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Who we share your data with
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where your data is sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
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Cookie and IBA Statement
This Cookie & IBA Statement supplements our Privacy Statement and specifically explains how we and our third-party business partners deploy cookies and other tracking technologies (which we call “Tracking Technologies”), including for interest-based advertising (IBA), as well as the options you have to control them.
What are cookies and other tracking technologies?
“Cookies” are small pieces of data, stored in text files, that are stored on your browser, computer, or other device. The cookies we use may include “flash cookies” (or “local shared objects”) and “HTML5 cookies” that store information on your device (outside of your browser) and are specific to content supported by Adobe® Flash or HTML5. We and our third-party business partners may also use other tracking technologies such as “web beacons” (also known as “tags” and “pixels”) which are small images embedded in our Services, content, or emails, as well as “embedded scripts” which are pieces of code that are temporarily downloaded onto your device. These other tracking technologies are often used in conjunction with cookies, but may be stored on your device in a different manner from cookies so disabling cookies may not also disable these tracking technologies.
These Tracking Technologies may be operated and set by us (known as “first party trackers”) or by our third party business partners, such as social media networks, advertising networks, and content providers, (known as “third party trackers”); and can be set either for a single visit (through a “session tracker”) so they are deleted after that visit or remain on your device to persist for multiple repeat visits (through a “persistent tracker”).
Why do we use cookies and other tracking technologies?
We use Tracking Technologies for several different purposes: these technologies are widely used to remember you and your preferences and understand how you interact with us so that we may perform essential functions (such as to provide our Services or deliver content and allow users to register and remain logged in), personalize our Services and content and ensure a quality, consistent, and efficient experience for our users, analyze your usage of our Services and interactions with content (including emails), and to deliver and measure advertising (including IBA).
How can you control the use of Tracking Technologies?
You may wish to restrict the use of cookies or completely prevent them from being set. Most modern browsers allow you to change your cookie and other tracker settings, and you can usually find these settings in the options or preferences menu of your browser. Flash cookies can only be deleted within Adobe Flash rather than via your browser, and please refer to this Adobe help page for information on how to manage Flash cookies. Additionally, you can opt-out of Google Analytics by installing Google’s opt-out browser add-on.
You may also see a “cookie banner” on some of our Services, which allows you to manage our use of cookies and other Tracking Technologies – click on the banner for more information regarding which cookies are used on that particular Service and what you may disable, but please note that you cannot disable any Tracking Technologies that are categorized as strictly necessary.
Please be aware that some of the features of our Services may not function correctly if you disable all cookies or other technologies.
Do you honor Do Not Track Signals?
Generally, we do not currently respond to, or take any action with respect to web browser “do not track” signals; however, in some instances, our third party business partners who integrate within our Services will honor do not track signals.
What is Interest-Based Advertising?
“Interest-based advertising” (IBA) is also commonly referred to as “targeted advertising”, “online behavioral advertising”, and “personalized advertising”, and it generally means the delivery of personalized or targeted advertising to you that are tailored to your specific interests and demographics. IBA may also include analytics and reporting related to those advertisements (such as ad measurement and attribution, segmentation, and market research).
We may send you IBA based on the use of Tracking Technologies and other information you make available to us when you interact with our Services, our content, and our advertisements. We engage various third party business partners to serve you IBA and we may share with those third party business partners certain information about you and our Tracking Technologies to do so. Some of these third parties will deploy their own Tracking Technologies on our Services and content when doing so, in which they automatically receive your IP address, browser or device information, and other information from these Tracking Technologies. Some of our third party business partners (and their business partners) may also use or provide us with additional information about you that they have independently collected, from offline and online sources, to better target and provide you with more relevant and useful advertising. Some of these third parties may collect personal information about your online activities over time and across different websites. Please note that we do not control the privacy practices of these third parties, and their privacy practices are not covered by this Privacy Statement.
How can you opt-out of IBA?
In addition to the above, you may also be able to choose not to receive IBA from participating companies that participate in either:
- The Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA), in which you may opt-out of IBA using this DAA tool; and/or
- The Network Advertising Initiative (NAI), in which you may opt-out of IBA using this NAI Opt Out Tool and, for those in the EU/EEA, this tool; and/or
- The AppChoices App for opting out on mobile devices.
Certain mobile devices may have an advertising identifier that allows companies to serve IBA to a specific mobile device using that identifier. Depending on your specific device, you may be able to limit advertising, sharing of that advertising identifier, or reset the advertising identifier, as well as choose to turn off the device’s location tracking – including precise geolocation tracking – on your mobile device or for certain applications. See your device manufacturer to understand what options are available to you. For more details on your choices regarding use of your web browsing activity for IBA you may also visit the following sites: networkadvertising.org, optout.aboutads.info, youradchoices.com, and youronlinechoices.eu.
Next, some of our Services may also display Do Not Sell My Personal Information or Do Not Share My Personal Information links (or similarly named links), in which clicking those links may allow you to opt-out of the “sharing” or “selling” of your personal information as required by certain local privacy laws. Doing so may limit the manner in which we and our third party business partners may use your personal information in connection with IBA.
Please note that some of the options described above are browser-specific or device-specific, so you may need to opt-out again if you use a different device or change browsers. Please also note that, even if you opt-out of receiving IBA, you may still receive advertisements and marketing materials, but they may not be personalized to you specifically.
This Cookie & IBA Statement was last updated on January 1, 2024.
Informational Content Privacy Statement
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Introduction
As a global business information services company, we proudly distribute informational content within our Services. This Informational Content Privacy Statement supplements the above Privacy Statement and further explains how we distribute and curate this informational content as part of our Services.
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Why does NewsCollective.org publish informational content?
NewsCollective.org publishes various types of content, such as statutes, laws, regulations, rules, court cases, opinions, expert analysis, articles, forms, public records, treatise, dictionaries, and many other types of information, that we believe have professional and jurisprudential value for our customers or the general public.
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How does NewsCollective.org obtain informational content?
NewsCollective.org obtains informational content in a number of ways – sometimes we purchase or license the content from others, sometimes we receive the content pursuant to a contract where we are required to curate and distribute the content, sometimes we commission the content ourselves, and sometimes the content is collected from a number of public sources, like public records, journalistic sources, and information in the public domain. Any personal information contained in informational content that is subsequently distributed by NewsCollective.org originates from the original text of the informational content.
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How does NewsCollective.org curate informational content?
In addition to distributing the informational content, NewsCollective.org curates the content – in other words, NewsCollective.org prepares and provides summaries, metadata, or other related information concerning the original content. For example, reported cases in our legal products might include a headnote, key cite, and other metadata, as well as the original full-text court case. In many cases, NewsCollective.org prepares the curation of the content. Any personal information contained in the curation is derived from personal information included in the original information content supplied by the source of that content.
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Does NewsCollective.org edit or change the substances of the original information content?
Except for clerical/typographical errors and format changes in compliance with editorial house styles and except as directed by source of the original information content, NewsCollective.org does not edit or change the substance of the original information content in most cases.
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What if I want to change or delete my personal information contained in the information content or just want the informational content removed?
In many cases, we are not the source of the information content and NewsCollective.org is not obliged to change or delete the substance of the original content including any personal information unless we receive a verified request from the source of the information content, such as, for example, a court order from the court that issued the court case in the first place.
If you have any questions or concerns regarding the substance of any informational content or your personal information as contained in that information content, please contact the source of the informational content and work with them directly to resolve your questions or concerns.
This Informational Content Privacy Statement was last updated on January 1, 2024.