The Morrisburg News commitment is to put users first. We strive to be transparent about how we collect and use your information, to keep your information secure and provide you meaningful choices. This Privacy Policy is meant to help you understand what information The Morrisburg News and its affiliates ("The Morrisburg News," "us," "our" or "we") collect your information, why we collect it and what we do with it. This policy applies to The Morrisburg News website, apps, advertising services, products, services or technologies (we'll collectively refer to those as "Services"). Additional privacy practices for certain Services can be found in Details for Specific Products and Services.

 

Information Collection and Use

 

We may collect and combine information when you interact with The Morrisburg News including:

 

The information you provide to us

 

We may collect information that you provide to us, such as:

 

• When you create an account with The Morrisburg News (Please note, when you use our Services, we may recognize you or your devices even if you are not signed into our Services.) The Morrisburg News may use device IDs, cookies, and other signals, including information obtained from third parties, to associate accounts and/or devices with you.

• When you use our Services to communicate with others or post, upload or store content (such as comments, photos, voice inputs, videos, emails, messaging services and attachments).

• The Morrisburg News analyzes and stores all communications content, including email content from incoming and outgoing mail. This allows us to deliver, personalize and develop relevant features, content, advertising and Services.

• When you otherwise use our Services, such as search queries, page views and history, view the content we make available and install any The Morrisburg News software such as apps or plugins.

• When you sign up for paid Services, use Services that require your financial information or complete transactions with us or our business partners, we may collect your payment and billing information.

 

 

Device information

 

 

We collect information from your devices (computers, mobile phones, tablets, etc.), including information about how you interact with our Services and those of our third-party partners and information that allows us to recognize and associate your activity across devices and Services. This information includes device specific identifiers and information such as IP address, cookie information, mobile device and advertising identifiers, browser version, operating system type and version, mobile network information, device settings and software data. We may recognize your devices to provide you with personalized experiences and advertising across the devices you use.

 

Location information

 

We collect location information from a variety of sources. You can learn more about and manage your location permissions by researching the location settings tool on your devices.

 

 

Information from cookies and other technologies

 

• We collect information when you access content, advertising, sites, interactive widgets, applications, and other products (both on and off of our Services) where The Morrisburg News' data collection technologies (such as web beacons, development tools, cookies and other technologies, etc.) are present. These data collection technologies allow us to understand your activity on and off our Services and to collect and store information when you interact with Services we offer to partners.

• This information includes the kind of content or ads served, viewed or clicked on; the frequency and duration of your activities; the sites or apps you used before accessing our Services and where you went next; whether you engaged with specific content or ads; and whether you went on to visit an advertiser's website, downloaded an advertiser's app, purchased a product r service advertised, or took other actions.

 

 

Information from others

 

We collect information about you when we receive it from other users, third-parties, and affiliates, such as:

 

• When you connect your account to third-party services or sign in using a third-party provider (like Facebook or Twitter).

• From publicly-available sources.

• From advertisers about your experiences or interactions with their offerings.

• When we obtain information from third-parties or other companies, such as those that use our Services. This may include your activity on other sites and apps as well as information those third-parties provide to you or us. 

• Information we receive from Bell, Eastlink, Telus, Rogers or Cogeco will be used consistently with their respective privacy policy.

 

How we use this information

 

We are able to deliver, personalize, and improve our Services by combining and using the information we have about you (including information we received on or off our Services) to understand how you use and interact with our Services and the people or things you're connected to and interested in. We also may use the information we have about you for the following purposes:

 

• Provide, maintain, improve and develop relevant features, content and Services.

• Analyze your content and other information (including emails, instant messages, posts, photos, attachments, and other communications) in order to keep our Services safe and secure and to assist us in making the content, Services and ads we provide to you more personalized.

• Fulfill your requests when authorized by you.

• Help advertisers and publishers connect to offer relevant advertising in their apps and websites.

• Match and served targeted advertising (across devices both on and off our Services) and provide targeted advertising based on your device activity, inferred interests and location information.

• Contact you with information about your account or with marketing messages.

• Associate your activity across our Services and your different devices as well as associate any accounts you may use across The Morrisburg News Services together. We may associate activity and accounts under a single user ID.

• Carry out or support promotions.

• Conduct research and support innovation using aggregate or pseudonymized information.

• Create analytics and reports for external parties, including partners, publishers, advertisers, apps, third-parties and the public regarding the use of and trends within our Services and ads, including showing trends to partners regarding general preferences, the effectiveness of ads and information on user experiences. These analytics and reports may include aggregate or pseudonymized information.

• Provide location-based Services, advertising, search results, and other content consistent with your location data.

• Combine information we have about you with information we obtain from business partners or other companies, such as your activities on other sites and apps in order to keep our Services safe and secure and to assist us in making the content, Services and ads we provide to you more personalized.

• Detect and defend against fraud, abusive, or unlawful activity.

 

We provide you with the controls to manage your experience on The Morrisburg News. For example, you can review or edit your account information, manage your subscription preferences and opt-out of targeted ads. If you opt out, you will continue to see ads, but they may not be as relevant or useful to you.

 

How we share this information

 

The Morrisburg News shares information within its affiliated brands and companies and with Google. We also share information we have about you for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including to provide Services that you have requested (including when you connect with third-party apps and widgets). We do not sell, license or share information that individually identifies our members with companies, organizations or individuals outside of The Morrisburg News unless one of the following circumstances applies; 

 

• With your consent. We will share information with companies, organizations or individuals outside of The Morrisburg News when we have your consent. 

• Within The Morrisburg News. Information may also be shared within The Morrisburg News, including with other The Morrisburg News Services and affiliates. The Morrisburg News affiliates may use the information in a manner consistent with their privacy policies. 

• With partners. We may share your information with non-affiliated companies who are trusted partners who work on behalf of or with The Morrisburg News based on our directions and in compliance with appropriate confidentiality measures.

• Advertising, Analytics and Business Partners (Limited to Non-Personally Identifiable Information). We may share aggregated or pseudonymous information (including demographic information) with partners, such as publishers, advertisers, measurement analytics, apps, or other companies. For example, we may tell an advertiser how its ads performed or report how many people installed an app after seeing a promotion. We do not share information that personally identifies you (personally identifiable information is information like a name or e-mail address) with these partners, such as publishers, advertisers, measurement analytics, apps or other companies. When you use third-party apps, websites or other products integrated with our Services, they may collect information about your activities subject to their own terms and privacy policies. We allow other companies that show advertisements on our web pages or apps to collect information from your browsers or devices. Other companies' use of cookies and other data collection techniques are subject to their own privacy policies, not this one. Like many companies, we may allow cookie matching with select partners. But, these partners are not authorized to access The Morrisburg News cookies.

• For legal and other purposes. We may access, preserve and disclose information to investigate, prevent, or take action in connection with: (i) legal process and legal requests; (ii) enforcement of the Terms; (iii) claims that any content violates the rights of third-parties; (iv) requests for customer service; (v) technical issues; (vi) protecting the rights, property or personal safety of The Morrisburg News, its users or the public; (vii) establishing or exercising our legal rights or defending against legal claims; or (viii) as otherwise required by law. This may include responding to lawful government requests. 

• New ownership. If the ownership or control of all or part of The Morrisburg News or a specific Services changes as a result of a merger, acquisition or sale of assets, we may transfer your information to the new owner. 

 

Information Security and Data Retention

 

The Morrisburg News has technical, administrative and physical safeguards in place to help protect against unauthorized access, use or disclosure of customer information we collect or store.

 

Protecting Children's Privacy

 

Our Services are designed for a general audience. We do not knowingly collect, use or share information that could reasonably be used to identify a child under the age of 13 without prior parental consent or consistent with applicable law. With parental permission, a child under the age of 13 might have a The Morrisburg News Family Account. 

 

Data Processing and Transfers

 

When you use or interact with any of our Services, you consent to the data processing, sharing, transferring and uses of your information as outlined in this Privacy Policy. Regardless of the country where you reside, you authorize us to transfer, process, store and use your information in countries other than your own in accordance with this Privacy Policy and to provide you with Services. Some of these countries may not have the same data protection safeguards as the country where you reside. 

 

The Morrisburg News may process information related to individuals in the EU/EEA and may transfer that information from the EU/EEA through various compliance mechanisms, including data processing agreements based on the EU/EEA Standard Contractual Clauses. By using our Services, you consent to us transferring information about you to these countries. 

 

This Privacy Policy applies only to The Morrisburg News

 

This Privacy Policy does not apply to the practices of companies that The Morrisburg News does not own or control, or to people that The Morrisburg News does not employ or manage. In addition, some affiliated products (such as Facebook) may have different privacy policies and practices that are not subject to this Privacy Policy.

 

Changes

 

 

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time, so you should check it periodically. If we make changes that are material we will provide you with the appropriate notice before such changes take effect.

 

 

Questions and Suggestions

 

 

If you have questions, suggestions, or wish to make a complaint, please Contact us or write to:

 

Privacy Coordinator

The Morrisburg News

PO BOX 525

Morrisburg, Ontario

Canada

K0C 1X0