Privacy Policy

THE DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION PRIVACY POLICY

Effective Date: November 29, 2012.

 

The Daily Caller News Foundation (DCNF or we) is the owner and operator of DailyCallerNewsFoundation.org (the Website), a comprehensive news website providing original reporting, updated links to the latest news, analysis of current events, satire, research on current policy issues, columns from thought leaders, and Congressional Member reviews.

In this Privacy Policy (Policy), we describe the information that we collect about you as you use our Website and our products and services contained in our Website (collectively, our Services). This Policy applies to information that we collect online and offline.

We are operated entirely within the United States. If you are located outside of the United States, please note that any information – including personal data – that we collect about you will be transferred to and processed in the United States. You hereby consent to these transfers.

This Policy is incorporated by reference into our Terms of Use Agreement.

 

WHAT TYPES OF INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT

PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION WE COLLECT FROM AND ABOUT YOU

INFORMATION COLLECTED AUTOMATICALLY WHEN USING OUR SERVICES 

HOW DO WE USE YOUR INFORMATION?

WITH WHOM DO WE SHARE THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT?

HOW CAN YOU MAKE CHOICES ABOUT THE INFORMATION THAT WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU?

LINKS TO OTHER (THIRD PARTY) WEBSITES

HOW DO WE SECURE YOUR PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION?

CHILDREN

CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

HOW TO CONTACT US

 

 

I. WHAT TYPES OF INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?

A. Personally Identifiable Information We Collect From and About You

Information We Collect Directly From You:  DCNF may collect certain types of personally identifiable information — that is, information that can identify an individual — directly from you, including but not limited to:

• name;
• e-mail address;
• And any other information that you choose to provide to us.

We may collect some or all of this information if you:

• visit the Website,
• use our Website and our Services;
• post comments on the Website;
• participate in any surveys, contests, or sweepstakes sponsored by DCNF;
• provide tips, comments or questions to our news department;
• contact us for customer service or other purposes; or
• provide it to us when contacting us about this Policy.

 

B. Information Collected Automatically When Using Our Services

DCNF and our third party service providers collect information automatically through the use of electronic tools such as web beacons, “cookies,” clickstream data, and other automated devices that are deployed on the Website. We and our third party service providers may collect the following information about your use of our Website via these technologies:  your IP address; your browser type and operating system; web pages you view; links you click; your interaction with our Website; length of time you are logged into our Website; and websites visited before our Website.

Web Beacons – A web beacon is a type of picture file used on the Internet. Web beacons are used in combination with cookies to help monitor traffic at DailyCallerNewsFoundation.org and understand the ways in which users interact with content on the Website. Among other uses, we may use web beacons to count visitors to our Website or to monitor how our users navigate our Website. We may include web beacons in email messages to count how many of the messages that we sent were opened, acted upon, and forwarded.  We use web beacons to compile aggregate statistics about our Services and our marketing and fundraising campaigns.

Cookies – Cookies help provide a customized user experience. We and our third party service providers may use cookies to evaluate interaction with our Website and to track Website usage.

Disabling Cookies. You may choose not to provide such information by adjusting your Internet browser security settings to refuse cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but if you prefer you can edit your browser options to block them in future. The Help portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your computer from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies altogether.

ClickStream Data – DCNF uses third-party software to analyze the Web pages that your computer visits while using our Services. This information, called “clickstream data,” is associated with your computer’s Internet protocol (IP) address and/or device ID, and includes other information such as the type of browser your computer/device uses to access the Internet. We collect clickstream data to optimize search engine results and may also use clickstream data to analyze which portions of our Website draw the most traffic so we can improve performance of our Services.

 

II. HOW DO WE USE YOUR INFORMATION?

We use your information, including the personally identifiable information that we collect about you (collectively, “information”), for various reasons, including:

• to send e-mails that you have requested to receive from DCNF;
• for customer service purposes, such as in response to inquiries that you initiate with us about any aspect of our Website, to provide information about our Services, or any other customer service purpose; and
• to understand how people use our Services, for research purposes, and to improve our Services.

III. WITH WHOM DO WE SHARE THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT?

DCNF does not share your personally identifiable information with third parties for marketing purposes.  We may provide your personally identifiable information to the following persons:

• Third Party Service Providers that provide services on our behalf. Examples of these services include, but are not limited to:  technical support for the operation of our Services; Website evaluation and statistics;
• Law enforcement authorities, government agencies, courts, or other entities, when:

1. we believe in good faith that the law requires it;
2. we deem it necessary or appropriate to provide such information; or
3. to otherwise protect our rights, other persons, or other users of our Services.

• Another entity, in the course of a sale to or merger of all or a part of our business with another entity.
• A court, another business, or other interested party in the event of a bankruptcy proceeding, in which case the information about you would be among the many assets shared or transferred.
• We also may disclose aggregate user statistics to third parties for a variety of purposes, including research, analytics, and marketing.

 

IV. HOW CAN YOU MAKE CHOICES ABOUT THE INFORMATION THAT WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU?

You can always choose not to submit any personally identifiable information to DCNF.

If you have any questions about what we do with your personally identifiable information, please send an e-mail to [email protected].

VI. LINKS TO OTHER (THIRD PARTY) WEBSITES

DCNF may provide links to content or advertisements created, offered, sponsored, or available at third party websites. Your interactions with these third party websites are not governed by this Privacy Policy, but rather the privacy policies posted on those linked websites. DCNF is not responsible for your access to and use of these websites or any information you may share with them.

VII. HOW DO WE SECURE YOUR PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION?

To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the appropriate use of the personally identifiable information we collect, we have implemented physical, electronic, and administrative procedures. These measures are based on commercially reasonable standards that similar entities use.

NO DATA TRANSMITTED OVER THE INTERNET, HOWEVER, CAN BE GUARANTEED TO BE 100% SECURE AT ALL TIMES. Although we have implemented security measures to protect your personally identifiable information, we cannot and do not guarantee the security of such information.

 

VIII. CHILDREN

This Website is not directed to children. DCNF does not knowingly collect or solicit personally identifiable information from or about children under 13, except as permitted by law. If we discover that we have received any personally identifiable information from a child under 13, we will delete such information from our servers and records promptly.

 

IX. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

DCNF reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time. Please check this page periodically for changes. We will post a notice on this Website if and when this policy changes to alert visitors that a new policy is in place.

Material – that is, really important – changes to the way we use or disclose personally identifiable information will apply on a going-forward basis, unless we have your express consent to change the way we use or disclose the personally identifiable information we collected when the earlier version of this Privacy Policy was in effect.

XI. HOW TO CONTACT US

Questions and comments regarding this Privacy Policy should be directed to [email protected].