Privacy Policy
This privacy policy describes how Metro Beacon Press collects, uses, and protects your information when you use our online platform and services. Your privacy is important to us, and we are committed to protecting your personal data.
Information We Collect
We collect information in several ways when you interact with our site:
Information you provide directly: This includes information you give us when you subscribe to digital services, create an account, post comments, participate in surveys, enter contests, or contact us. This information may include your name, email address, postal address, and payment information.
Information collected automatically: When you visit our site, we automatically collect certain information about your device and your usage patterns. This may include your IP address, browser type, operating system, referring URLs, pages viewed, links clicked, and the dates and times of visits. We may also collect information about your location if you permit your device to share it. We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to collect this information.
Information from other sources: We may receive information about you from third parties, such as social media platforms, analytics providers, advertising partners, and publicly available sources.
How We Use Your Information
We use the information we collect for various purposes, including:
To provide and maintain our services: This includes delivering news content, managing your subscriptions, providing access to archives, and enabling interactive features.
To personalize your experience: We may use your information to tailor the content and advertisements you see on our site and understand your interests.
To improve our services: We analyze usage data to understand how our site is used, identify areas for improvement, and develop new features.
To communicate with you: We may send you service-related communications, newsletters, promotional offers, or respond to your inquiries.
To process transactions: We use payment information to process subscriptions, advertising placements, or other purchases.
To conduct analytics and research: We analyze data to understand our audience, measure the effectiveness of our content, and inform our business strategy.
For advertising purposes: We may use your information to deliver targeted advertising, measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns, and report on ad performance to our advertising partners.
To ensure security and prevent fraud: We use information to protect our site and users from unauthorized access, fraud, and other illegal activities.
To comply with legal obligations: We may use or disclose your information where required by law, such as in response to a subpoena or court order, or to protect our rights and the rights of others.
Legal Basis for Processing (for users covered by GDPR)
If you are located in the European Economic Area (EEA), we process your personal data based on specific legal grounds, including:
Your consent: Where you have given clear consent for us to process your personal data for a specific purpose.
Performance of a contract: Where processing is necessary to fulfill a contract with you, such as providing a subscription service.
Legitimate interests: Where processing is necessary for our legitimate interests or those of a third party, provided these interests do not override your fundamental rights and freedoms (e.g., improving our services, preventing fraud, direct marketing where allowed).
Legal obligation: Where processing is necessary to comply with a legal obligation.
Data Sharing and Disclosure
We may share your information with third parties in the following circumstances:
Service Providers: We share information with vendors and service providers who perform services on our behalf, such as website hosting, data analysis, payment processing, customer service, and marketing assistance. These providers are obligated to protect your information and use it only for the purposes for which they were engaged.
Advertising Partners: We may share information with third-party advertising networks and exchanges to display advertisements on our site or manage our advertising on other platforms.
Analytics Providers: We share information with analytics providers who help us understand how users engage with our site.
Legal Requirements: We may disclose your information if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with legal processes, respond to governmental requests, enforce our terms and conditions, or protect the rights, property, or safety of Metro Beacon Press, our users, or the public.
Business Transfers: In the event of a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or a portion of our assets, your information may be transferred as part of that transaction.
With Your Consent: We may share your information with third parties when we have your explicit consent to do so.
Data Security
We implement reasonable technical, administrative, and physical security measures to protect your information from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. However, no method of transmission over the internet or electronic storage is 100% secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.
Your Rights
Depending on your location and applicable laws, you may have certain rights regarding your personal data, including:
The right to access: You have the right to request copies of your personal data.
The right to rectification: You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate or complete information you believe is incomplete.
The right to erasure: You have the right to request that we erase your personal data under certain conditions.
The right to restrict processing: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data under certain conditions.
The right to object to processing: You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data under certain conditions.
The right to data portability: You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
The right to withdraw consent: If we rely on your consent to process your personal data, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time. This will not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.
If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the details below. We may need to verify your identity before fulfilling your request.
Children's Privacy
Our online platform is not intended for individuals under the age of 16. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16. If we become aware that we have collected personal information from a child under 16, we will take steps to delete such information.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this privacy policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new policy on this page. You are advised to review this privacy policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this privacy policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this privacy policy, please contact us by postal mail at:
Metro Beacon Press
301 Market Street, Suite 800
Indianapolis, Indiana 46204
USA