Note for California Residents: This Policy describes how we collect, use, disclose, sell, share, and retain your personal information on our websites, in our apps, when you participate in one of our events, and your rights and choices over our processing of your personal information. The Your Privacy Choices And Rights; Submitting Requests Under Applicable Local Laws section below contains specific details related to your rights under California law, including your right to opt-out of “sales” and/or “sharing” of personal information and to limit the use and disclosure of your sensitive personal information.
This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) describes how Advance Magazine Publishers, Inc. and its worldwide affiliates, subsidiaries, and related entities operating under the Pacific Times (“Pacific Times” “we,” “us,” or “our”) collect, use, disclose, and retain personal information about individuals that interact with each website, mobile site, application, marketing campaign, event, email, newsletter, and other online or offline activity, offering, or publication that links to or references this Policy (collectively, the “Services”). This Policy also describes the rights that you may have regarding our processing of your personal information under applicable local law.
By accessing or using any of our Services, you acknowledge and agree that your personal information will be handled as described in this Policy. Your use of the Services, and any dispute over privacy, is subject to this Policy and our User Agreement, including its applicable limitations of liability and the resolution of disputes. The Pacific Times User Agreement is incorporated by reference into this Policy.
Personal information is information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly to you. Depending on the Services you use, we may collect the following categories of personal information about you directly from you, automatically through your use of the Services, and from third parties.
Information We Collect Directly From You. We collect personal information directly from you when you use our Services, such as when you provide us with information online or at an in-person event (e.g., enter a contest, submit a survey, upload or otherwise provide content or comments). If you register for an account or set up a profile through our Services, we may collect your name, login credentials and password information, telephone number(s), postal address, email address, and information regarding your age, gender, or preferences (such as whether you want to receive newsletters). If you make a purchase through our Services, we may collect your financial account information, credit card number, debit card number, or other payment card information. If you contact us, we may collect information such as your name, email address, social media handles, the contents of a message or attachments that you may send to us, and other information that you choose to provide. We also may collect information that you provide about other people, for example, when you purchase one of our products as a gift.
Social Network Integration. If you choose to interact with us on social networking services or use features, such as plugins, widgets, or other tools made available by third party social networking services in connection with our Service, we may collect personal information that has been made available to those services, including personal information about your contacts on those services. For example, some social networking services allow you to push content from our Service to your contacts or to pull information about your contacts so you can connect with them on or through our Service. Some social networking services also will facilitate your registration for our Service or enhance or personalize your experience on our Service.
Information We Collect Automatically. We, and our third party business partners, automatically collect personal information when you use our Services using cookies, pixel tags, clear GIFs, or similar technologies. This may include information such as your IP address and the types of personal information described above as “Internet or other electronic network activity.” Please review our section below on “Our Use of Cookies and Related Technologies” for additional information regarding our use of cookies and related technologies.
We use the categories of personal information described above for the following business and commercial purposes:
Where required by applicable local law, our legal bases for processing your information are as follows:
We may disclose each of the categories of personal information described above for our business and commercial purposes as follows:
We may also disclose your personal information in the following circumstances:
You may have certain rights regarding our processing of your personal information under applicable local law, including if you are a consumer in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, or Virginia, or a data subject in the European Economic Area (EEA), United Kingdom (UK), and Switzerland. If our processing of your personal information is governed by such laws, this section provides you with additional information regarding your rights and our processing of your personal information under applicable local law.
Our processing of your personal information
As may be required under applicable local law, below is a chart that describes our business and commercial purposes for processing your personal information, as well as the categories of third parties to whom we may disclose, “sell,” or “share” for cross-contextual behavioral advertising (as those terms are defined under applicable law) the categories of personal information described above for our business and commercial purposes.
Category of personal information
Identifiers
Our business or commercial purposes for processing
Categories of third parties to whom we may disclose personal information for a business purpose
Categories of third parties to whom we may “sell” or “share” personal information
Category of personal information
Protected characteristics
Our business or commercial purposes for processing
Categories of third parties to whom we may disclose personal information for a business purpose
Categories of third parties to whom we may “sell” or “share” personal information
Commercial information
Payment records
Internet or other electronic network activity
Geolocation data
Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information
Professional information
Inferences
Information that may be treated as sensitive under applicable local law
To opt-out of our “sale” or “sharing” of your personal information under applicable local law, please see our section below on Your Privacy Choices and Rights; Submitting Requests for additional details.
Retention
Your personal information will be held for only so long as it is necessary for the purpose for which it was originally collected, and in accordance with applicable local law. We will retain your personal information for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Policy. When assessing retention periods, we first examine whether it is necessary to retain the personal information collected and, if retention is required, work to retain the personal information for the shortest possible period permissible under applicable law.
Your Privacy Choices and Rights; Submitting Requests Under Applicable Local Laws
Depending on the jurisdiction in which you live, including if you are a consumer in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, or Virginia, or a data subject in the EEA, UK, or Switzerland, you may have the following rights under applicable local law:
These rights may be limited or denied in some circumstances. For example, we may retain your personal information where required or permitted by applicable law.
We may “sell” or “share” for cross-contextual behavioral advertising your personal information (as these terms are defined under applicable local law). We do not have actual knowledge of selling or sharing the personal information of consumers that are at least 13 and less than 16 years of age. To the extent we have actual knowledge that a consumer is at least 13 and less than 16 years of age, we will request affirmative authorization from the individual before selling or sharing the personal information, to the extent required under applicable local law.
We use and disclose certain of your sensitive personal information for OBA and cross-contextual behavioral advertising. To learn more about your rights to limit our use and disclosure of sensitive personal information under applicable local law, please see the section below on Submitting Requests.
Submitting Requests
To exercise your rights under applicable local law or if you are an authorized agent or parent or guardian seeking to exercise rights on behalf of a minor in accordance with applicable local law (specifically, including California, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, and Virginia) please follow the instructions provided below.
Verification
We reserve the right to take reasonable steps to verify your identity before fulfilling your requests to know, correct, or delete. For example, we may seek to establish your identity to a reasonable or a reasonably high degree of certainty by matching information that you submit alongside your request with information that we have in our records. We may ask you or your authorized agent for supplemental information as needed to establish your identity. Authorized agents may also be required to provide a copy of the consumer’s signed permission authorizing the agent to submit requests on the consumer’s behalf under applicable local law.
Appeals
You may have a right to appeal a decision we make relating to requests to exercise your rights under applicable local law. To appeal a decision, please contact our Privacy Policy Coordinator by email at contact.pacifictimes@protonmail.com or as described at the end of this document.
California Online Erasure. California’s "Online Erasure" law, Business and Professions Code §§ 22580-22582, requires operators of certain websites and online services to allow registered users who are under the age of 18 and residents of California to request removal of content they post. If you fit that description and posted content on a section of our Service that is directed to California residents at least 13 and younger than 18 years of age, you may request removal of the content by contacting our Privacy Policy Coordinator by email at contact.pacifictimes@protonmail.com or as described at the end of this document. In response to your request, we may elect to make the content invisible to other users and the public (rather than deleting it entirely), in which case the content may remain on servers we control and/or may be publicly available elsewhere if a third party copied and reposted the content.
If you do not wish to receive future marketing or other commercial messages from us, simply follow the unsubscribe instructions contained within the message you receive. Note, however, that you may continue to receive certain communications from us that are necessary for the Service, such as renewal notifications, invoices, technical notices, updates, security alerts, and support and administrative service bulletins.
We implement physical, technical, and organizational security measures designed to safeguard personal information. These measures are aimed to protect the personal information we collect from loss, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure alteration, and destruction. Please be aware that despite our efforts, no data security measures can guarantee security.
Our Services may contain links to third-party websites and applications. Any access to and use of such linked websites and applications is not governed by this Policy, but is instead governed by the privacy policies of those third-party websites and applications. We are not responsible for the information practices of such third party websites and applications. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any third-party websites or applications that you choose to visit.
Please be aware that content and personal information that you disclose in publicly accessible portions of the Service may be available to other users, and may also be made available outside the Service by third parties, so you should be mindful of all personal information, especially sensitive personal information, that you may wish to post. To the extent required by applicable local law, we may require that you obtain the consent of any individual whose personal information you post on our Services.
Your personal information may be processed, transferred to, and maintained on servers and databases located outside of the jurisdiction in which you are based and where the privacy laws may not be as protective as your jurisdiction. Where required by applicable law, we have put in place appropriate safeguards (such as contractual commitments) in accordance with applicable legal requirements to ensure that your data is adequately protected. For more information on the appropriate safeguards in place, please contact us at the details below in the “Contact Us” section of this Policy.
Our Services are not designed for children under the age of 13. If we discover that a child under the age of 13 has provided us with personal information, we will delete such information from our systems.
Pacific Times is the controller of your personal information. If you have any questions about the privacy aspects of our Services or would like to make a complaint, request, or have a question about your rights under this policy please contact our Privacy Policy Coordinator or our Data Protection Officer as follows:
This Policy is current as of the Last Updated date set forth above. We may change this Policy from time to time, so please be sure to check back periodically. We will post any changes to this Policy on our Services. If we make any changes to this Policy that materially affect our practices with regard to the information we have previously collected about you, we will endeavor to provide you with notice in advance of such change by highlighting the change on the Service.
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