Notice at Collection
We are providing this notice at the point where information may first be collected, so that you know what to expect before you go further on our website.
- Categories that may be collected: identifiers such as IP address; device and browser details; internet activity such as pages viewed and referring links; approximate location; cookie and analytics data; and anything you choose to send us, including messages, account details, and content for publication.
- Purposes: running and securing our website, handling submissions and inquiries, measuring and improving performance, meeting legal duties, and, where applicable, advertising.
- Sale or sharing: whether any activity on our website counts as a "sale" or "sharing" depends on applicable law and on the technologies present. Where it does, eligible users may opt out.
- Retention: no longer than reasonably necessary for the purposes above.
The remainder of this Privacy Policy expands on each of these points.
Reading This Privacy Policy
Our website may offer only some of the functions discussed here. We have used words like "may" and "where applicable" on purpose. If our website has no sign-up option, no public submission tools, or no advertising, then the text about those things does not describe anything that happens here. This Privacy Policy stops at the edge of our website and does not follow you to any other website.
On the legal side, this Privacy Policy is intended to address applicable privacy and data-protection requirements, including the GDPR in the European Union, the UK GDPR and applicable UK data-protection legislation, the CCPA and CPRA in California, other U.S. state privacy laws, cookie and electronic communications rules, and other national, state, or regional privacy regulations, where those laws apply. We are not claiming that each law reaches every visitor. That depends on where you are, what our website does, what information is involved, and what technology is used.
Details of What May Be Collected
Collected from your browser or device
Each request your browser makes to our website can carry with it an IP address, the browser type, the device type, and the operating system. We may also see the referring URL, a record of the pages visited, and the date and time of each visit. From the IP address we may estimate general geographic information. Cookies and similar technologies, if used, add their own data, and analytics tools, if used, assemble analytics information.
Collected from you
We collect what you type into a contact form. Where registration is available, we collect the registration or account information you provide. Where our website has tools for publishing or listing content, we collect what you submit through them.
Content submissions
The content that users may be able to submit, depending on our website's functionality, includes articles, business listings, directory listings, press releases, URLs, website submissions, bookmarks, comments, profiles, business information, contact information, images, documents, and other content.
Published Content Is Public Content
When you submit something so that it will appear on our website, you are asking for it to be made public. You should assume that published information will be open to anyone who visits. You should also assume that search engines will find it, index it, and keep a cached copy, that third parties will be able to view it, that it may be passed around on external websites, and that it could be copied or redistributed where we have no control.
With that in mind, keep confidential, private, and sensitive personal information out of any content intended for public publication.
Highly sensitive data
Public submission forms are the wrong place for government identification numbers, financial account credentials, medical information, and other highly sensitive personal details. Please avoid submitting them unless they are specifically requested and necessary.
Details of How Information May Be Used
We may use information for any of the following, where applicable:
- Operating our website, maintaining it, and providing its functionality
- Processing submissions, reviewing what is submitted, publishing what is approved, and managing listings
- Responding to people who make inquiries
- Preventing spam, fraud, and abuse, and maintaining security
- Analytics, performance measurement, understanding usage, and improving functionality
- Legal and regulatory compliance and enforcing our website's policies
- Advertising, where applicable
Legal basis
If you are in a jurisdiction that requires a legal basis for processing, such as one where the GDPR or UK GDPR applies, the basis may be consent, performance of a contract, legitimate interests, or compliance with legal obligations. Which basis applies depends on the specific processing activity.
Cookies, Analytics, and Advertising Technologies
Cookies
Our website may set or read essential cookies, functional cookies, analytics cookies, advertising cookies, and third-party cookies. Pixels, tags, and similar tracking technologies may also be used. What is actually used differs from one website to another.
You are able to manage cookies through your browser settings. If our website provides cookie controls, you can use them. If a consent management mechanism applies, you can record your choices there.
Analytics
We may use third-party analytics services to understand how visitors interact with our website and to improve its performance.
Advertising
We may display third-party advertisements on our website, although we do not necessarily do so. If we do, advertising partners and advertising networks may use advertising cookies, device identifiers, and other advertising technologies. The resulting advertising may be contextual, personalized, or interest-based. You may have advertising choices, including opt-out mechanisms that applicable law requires.
Opt-out preference signals
If your browser sends a Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal, we may recognize it where applicable law requires. Do Not Track is a separate signal that has never had a common standard, and our website may not respond to it unless the law requires a response.
Details of Disclosure
Service providers and other third parties
We may rely on external hosting providers, analytics providers, advertising providers, security services, spam-prevention tools, content delivery networks, embedded media providers, social media services, technical service providers, and other vendors. They may process information in accordance with their own privacy policies and legal obligations.
Legal, advisory, and transactional disclosures
Where applicable and legally permitted, we may disclose information to professional advisers, to legal authorities, courts, regulators, and law enforcement, and to successors in connection with a merger, acquisition, restructuring, sale, or transfer of assets.
Sale or sharing
If activities conducted through our website constitute a "sale" or "sharing" of personal information under applicable California law or another applicable law, eligible users may have the right to opt out.
Links to other websites
You may find links to external websites on our website, including in articles, press releases, directory entries, bookmarks, and listings. We do not control the privacy practices of those websites. Each has its own privacy policy, which you should review before providing personal information.
Your Privacy Rights
California
If the CCPA and CPRA apply to you, you may have the right to know, the right to access, the right to correct, and the right to delete. Where applicable, you may have the right to opt out of the sale of personal information, the right to opt out of sharing for cross-context behavioral advertising, and the right to limit certain uses or disclosures of sensitive personal information. You also have the right to non-discrimination for exercising your privacy rights.
Other U.S. states
If you live in another U.S. state that has a privacy law, you may have rights under it. This depends on your place of residence, the law's applicability thresholds, our website's activities, and the law itself.
European Union and EEA
If the GDPR applies to you, you may have the right of access, the right to correction or rectification, the right to deletion or erasure, the right to restrict processing, the right to object, the right to data portability, the right to withdraw consent, and the right to lodge a complaint with an appropriate supervisory authority.
United Kingdom
If the UK GDPR and applicable UK data-protection legislation apply to you, you may have corresponding rights, including the right to complain to the UK supervisory authority.
Limits on rights
Every right described above depends on applicable law, may be subject to exceptions, and may require us to verify your identity.
Submitting a Privacy Request
You can submit a request about access, correction, deletion, data portability, restriction, objection, consent withdrawal, advertising opt-outs, sale or sharing opt-outs, or any other legally available privacy right by using the Contact Us page on our website.
After we receive a request, we may need to verify your identity and may ask you for additional information. A legal exception may apply to some requests. If you appoint an authorized agent, we will handle the agent's request where applicable law requires.
Retention
We keep personal information for a period that is reasonably necessary and not beyond it. The period is set by reference to what the information is needed for: providing functionality, processing submissions, maintaining published content, administering our website, security, fraud prevention, recordkeeping, legal obligations, resolving disputes, and enforcing agreements.
Security
We take reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational steps to safeguard personal information. These steps lower the risk of unauthorized access, but they cannot eliminate it. No internet transmission or storage system can be guaranteed to be 100% secure, and we do not promise that your information will always be completely secure.
Processing in Other Countries
We and our service providers may be located in various countries. Your information may consequently be processed, stored, or transferred somewhere other than your country of residence. Where the law requires safeguards for international transfers, we may use them.
Children
Our website is not designed for children, and we do not intend to knowingly collect personal information from children below the age required by applicable law. If you are a parent or guardian and believe your child has given us personal information, please let us know through the Contact Us page.
Updates and Effective Date
We may revise this Privacy Policy when there are changes in our website's functionality, our data-processing practices, the technologies or cookies we use, our third-party services, our business practices, applicable laws, or regulatory requirements. We will post the revised Privacy Policy on our website. This Privacy Policy takes effect when it is published on our website and stays in effect until we post a revised version.
Contact Us
For questions on privacy, your personal information, your rights, privacy requests, or anything in this Privacy Policy, please contact us using the Contact Us page on our website.