Effective Date: May 24, 2018
1 Purpose:
We recognize that privacy of your personal information is important. The following is a rundown of what personal information is collected here and what lengths we go to in protecting it. This privacy policy discloses the privacy practices for disneynews.us. This privacy policy applies solely to information collected by this website. It will notify you of the following:
- What personally identifiable information is collected from you through the web site, how it is used and with whom it may be shared.
- What choices are available to you regarding the use of your data.
- The security procedures in place to protect the misuse of your information.
- How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information.
2 Information Collection, Use, and Sharing:
We are the sole owners of the information collected on this site. We only have access to/collect information that you voluntarily give us directly via email or other direct contact from you. We will not sell or rent this information to anyone.
Information collected from you may be used to:
- Create a personalized experience when you visit disneynews.us
- Improve customer service and customer experience
- To send periodic notifications (Note: emails from disneynews.us contain unsubscribe options in case you chose to no longer be contacted by us).
2.1 Cookies:
We use “cookies” on this site. A cookie is a piece of data stored on a site visitor’s hard drive to help us improve your access to our site and identify repeat visitors to our site. For instance, when we use a cookie to identify you, you would not have to log in a password more than once, thereby saving time while on our site. Cookies can also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our site. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information on our site.
We use cookies and other technologies to ensure visitors to disneynews.us have the best possible experience. By continuing to visit or use our services, you agree to use of cookies and similar technologies for these purposes.
We use different types of cookies to run this website. Many of the cookies placed through our Website are session cookies, while others are persistent cookies, and some are “first-party” cookies, while others are “third-party” cookies.
- First-party cookies are those set by a website that is being visited by the user at the time (e.g., cookies placed by disneynews.us).
- Third-party cookies are cookies that are set by a domain other than that of the website being visited by the user. If a user visits a website and another entity sets a cookie through that website, this would be a third-party cookie. We strive to limit third-party cookie usage as much as possible.
- Persistent cookies are cookies that remain on a user’s device for the period of time specified in the cookie. They are activated each time that the user visits the website that created that particular cookie.
- Session cookies are cookies that allow website operators to link the actions of a user during a browser session. A browser session starts when a user opens the browser window and finishes when they close the browser window. Session cookies are created temporarily. Once you close the browser, all session cookies are deleted.
2.2 Third Party Cookies:
Some of our business partners may use cookies on our site (for example, advertisers). Here are the specific third parties that collect data on our site and their purpose:
- Google: This site allows Google analytics to collect data about our site traffic via Google advertising cookies and anonymous identifiers as well as Google AdSense to serve advertisements. Information about how Google manages data in its ads products can be found here. We will not facilitate the merging of personally identifiable information with non-personally identifiable information collected through any Google advertising product without your prior consent to that merger. You may opt-out of the Google Analytics Advertiser Features by going here.
- Cookie Notice: Cookie Notice uses a cookie to confirm that the website visitor has accepted the cookie policy and the cookie notice popup does not need to be shown.
- DoubleClick: DoubleClick’s cookies are used by Google for re-targeting , optimizing, reporting and attribution of Google advertisements. For more information about what DoubleClick collects, please visit here.
- Fontawesome.com: Font Awesome uses cookies to gather information such as usage and how many times the cdn has been used. More information about Font Awesome’s cookie policy can be found here.
- Skimlinks: Skimlinks is a commercial affiliation service provided by Skimbit Ltd. They use session cookies to make it easier for you to navigate our website. A session ID cookie expires when you close your browser. A persistent cookie remains on your hard drive for an extended period of time. You can remove persistent cookies via your browser’s ‘clear cookie’ function. Please see section 2.3 below for instructions on how to do this. More information about how Skimlinks uses cookies on partner sites like DisneyNews.us, can be found here. You can view your cookie status and opt out of their tracking here.
2.3 How to manage cookies:
All internet browsers allow you to manage your cookie preferences that are stored on your computer, including being able to decline cookies completely. However, if you decline them you will find a reduced functionality on this website. You can delete cookies at any time or opt to have your browser prevent them in the future, and the way this is managed depends on the browser you have.
2.3 Links:
This web site contains numerous links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.
2.4 Child Privacy:
The content of this site is designed for a general audience and does not contain content specifically directed at children. Child privacy and protection is of utmost concern to us and if we suspect any user is under the age of 13, we will swiftly remove any and all personal information from our site databases.
3 Your Access to and Control Over Information:
You may opt out of any future contacts from us at any time. You can do the following at any time to:
- Request a copy of any data associated with you that has been recorded by this website
- Have us delete any data we have about you from our site database.
- Express any concern you have about our use of your data.
To do so, please visit our Data Access Request Form.
3.1 Sale of Website:
If this website is sold in the future, site assets will likely be included in the sale, potentially including information collected on this website. In such case, this information, including customer information, would become the property of the company purchasing the website.
4 Mediavine Programmatic Advertising (Ver 1.1)
The Website works with Mediavine to manage third-party interest-based advertising appearing on the Website. Mediavine serves content and advertisements when you visit the Website, which may use first and third-party cookies. A cookie is a small text file which is sent to your computer or mobile device (referred to in this policy as a “device”) by the web server so that a website can remember some information about your browsing activity on the Website.
First party cookies are created by the website that you are visiting. A third-party cookie is frequently used in behavioral advertising and analytics and is created by a domain other than the website you are visiting. Third-party cookies, tags, pixels, beacons and other similar technologies (collectively, “Tags”) may be placed on the Website to monitor interaction with advertising content and to target and optimize advertising. Each internet browser has functionality so that you can block both first and third-party cookies and clear your browser’s cache. The “help” feature of the menu bar on most browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new cookies, how to receive notification of new cookies, how to disable existing cookies and how to clear your browser’s cache. For more information about cookies and how to disable them, you can consult the information at All About Cookies.
Without cookies you may not be able to take full advantage of the Website content and features. Please note that rejecting cookies does not mean that you will no longer see ads when you visit our Site. In the event you opt-out, you will still see non-personalized advertisements on the Website.
The Website collects the following data using a cookie when serving personalized ads:
- IP Address
- Operating System type
- Operating System version
- Device Type
- Language of the website
- Web browser type
- Email (in hashed form)
Mediavine Partners (companies listed below with whom Mediavine shares data) may also use this data to link to other end user information the partner has independently collected to deliver targeted advertisements. Mediavine Partners may also separately collect data about end users from other sources, such as advertising IDs or pixels, and link that data to data collected from Mediavine publishers in order to provide interest-based advertising across your online experience, including devices, browsers and apps. This data includes usage data, cookie information, device information, information about interactions between users and advertisements and websites, geolocation data, traffic data, and information about a visitor’s referral source to a particular website. Mediavine Partners may also create unique IDs to create audience segments, which are used to provide targeted advertising.
If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices to opt-in or opt-out of this data collection, please visit National Advertising Initiative opt out page. You may also visit Digital Advertising Alliance website and Network Advertising Initiative website to learn more information about interest-based advertising. You may download the AppChoices app at Digital Advertising Alliance’s AppChoices app to opt out in connection with mobile apps, or use the platform controls on your mobile device to opt out.
For specific information about Mediavine Partners, the data each collects and their data collection and privacy policies, please visit Mediavine Partners.
5 Security:
We take precautions to protect your information but we make no assurances about our ability to prevent any loss, misuse, to you or to any third-party arising out of any such loss, misuse, or alteration.
6 Consent:
By using disneynews.us, you consent to this privacy policy.
7 Updates to this Policy:
Our Privacy Policy may change from time to time and all updates will be posted on this page.
8 Contacting Us:
If you feel that we are not abiding by this privacy policy, you should contact us immediately via email: contact (at) disneynews.us.
