Privacy Policy
This privacy statement ("Privacy Policy") covers all the websites owned, affiliated or operated by Pacific Coast News. ("Pacific Coast News", "we", "us", "our"). Pacific Coast News knows that you care about how your personal information is used and shared, and we take your privacy seriously. Please read the following to learn more about our privacy policy. By visiting the Pacific Coast News websites, submitting information or using any of our products or services, you are accepting the practices outlined in this Privacy Policy.What Does This Privacy Policy Cover?
This Privacy Policy covers Pacific Coast News's treatment of personal information that Pacific Coast News gathers when you are on the Pacific Coast News websites and when you use Pacific Coast News services. Also, this Privacy Policy covers Pacific Coast News's treatment of any personal information that Pacific Coast News's business partners share with Pacific Coast News. This policy does not apply to the practices of third parties that Pacific Coast News does not own or control, or to individuals that Pacific Coast News does not employ or manage.
Conditions of Use Photos
ALL IMAGES ARE Pacific Coast News'S EXCLUSIVE PROPERTY. YOU CAN NO LONGER COPY OR DRAG OFF WATERMARKED IMAGES FOR USE ON A BLOG WITH OUT PAYMENT. Pacific Coast News IS THE SOLE OWNER OF ALL THE IMAGES ON THIS SITE. Pacific Coast News IS PROTECTED BY COPYRIGHT AS A COLLECTIVE WORK AND/OR COMPILATION, PURSUANT TO U.S. COPYRIGHT LAWS, INTERNATIONAL CONVENTIONS, AND OTHER COPYRIGHT LAWS. USERS MAY NOT MODIFY, PUBLISH, TRANSMIT, PARTICIPATE IN THE TRANSFER OR SALE OF, REPRODUCE, CREATE DERIVATIVE WORKS BASED ON, DISTRIBUTE, PERFORM, DISPLAY, OR IN ANY WAY EXPLOIT, ANY OF THE CONTENT, MATERIALS, OR SERVICES IN WHOLE OR IN PART. USER SHALL ABIDE BY ALL COPYRIGHT NOTICES, INFORMATION, AND RESTRICTIONS CONTAINED IN ANY CONTENT ACCESSED THROUGH THE SERVICES
If you are interested in purchasing images for your publication please contact info@pacificcoastnews.com. YOU CAN NO LONGER COPY OR DRAG OFF WATERMARKED IMAGES FOR USE ON A BLOG WITH OUT PAYMENT.
What Personal Information About Users Does Pacific Coast News Collect?
Our primary goal in collecting personal information is to personalize and improve our service. We collect the following types of information from our users:
A) Information You Provide to Us:
We may receive and store any information you enter on our websites or provide to us in any other way. You can choose not to provide us with certain information, but then you may not be able to take advantage of many of our special features, such as posting comments to our websites, creating a user profile or receiving email alerts.
- Registration: In order for you to use select parts of our websites or take advantage of some of Pacific Coast News's services, you must complete a registration form. As part of this registration form, we require your email address and date of birth.
- Email Alerts: In order to receive an email alert every time a new story is posted on one of our websites, you are required to submit your email address.
- We may receive and store certain types of information whenever you interact with us. Pacific Coast News may automatically receive and record certain "traffic data" on our server logs from your browser including your IP address, Pacific Coast News cookie information, and the page you requested. Pacific Coast News uses this traffic data to help diagnose problems with its server, analyze trends and administer our websites.
- Generally, our service may automatically collect usage information, such as the numbers and frequency of visitors to our websites and its components. This data is only used in the aggregate, that is, as a statistical measure, and not in a manner that would identify you personally. This type of collective data enables us to figure out how often users use parts of our websites, so we can make our websites appealing to as many users as possible. In addition, we may provide statistical information, not information about you personally, to our partners about how our users, collectively, use our websites. We share this type of statistical data so that our partners also understand how often people use their areas and our websites, so that they, too, may provide you with an optimal Web experience.
- Many companies offer programs that help you to visit websites anonymously. While Pacific Coast News will not be able to provide you with a personalized experience if we cannot recognize you, we want you to be aware that these programs are available.
We may receive a confirmation when you open an e-mail from Pacific Coast News if your computer supports this type of program, in order to help us make e-mails more interesting and helpful. We may also send out e-mails with news or promotions. If you do not want to receive e-mail or other mail from us, please notify us by e-mail at info@pacificcoastnews.com and include sufficient information for us to identify your account.
D) Information from Other Sources:
For purposes such as improving personalization of our service, we may receive information about you from other sources and add it to our account information.
What about Cookies?
- Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that we may transfer to your computer's hard drive through your Web browser to enable our systems to recognize your browser and tell us how and when pages in our website are visited and by how many people. Pacific Coast News cookies do not collect personal information, and we do not combine information collected through cookies with other personal information to tell us who you are or what your screen name or email address is.
- The "help" portion of the toolbar on the majority of browsers will direct you on how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to command the browser to tell you when you receive a new cookie, or how to fully disable cookies. We strongly recommend that you leave the cookies activated, however, because cookies enable you to take advantage of some of Pacific Coast News's most attractive features.
- Some of our business partners may use cookies on our websites (for example, advertisers). However, we have no access to or control over these cookies.
We neither rent nor sell your personal information to anyone. We share your personal information only with your consent or to the entities described below:
- Affiliated Business We Do Not Control:
We are affiliated with a variety of businesses and work closely with them. You can easily recognize when an affiliated business is associated with your transaction. We will only share personal information that is necessary for the affiliate to complete the transaction. We require our affiliates to provide the same level of privacy protection that we do and they do not have the right to share or use personal information for any purpose other than for an authorized transaction. - Agents:
We employ other companies and people to perform tasks on our behalf and need to share your information with them to provide products or services to you. Examples include sending postal mail and e-mail, removing repetitive information from customer lists, analyzing data, providing marketing assistance, and providing customer service. You hereby consent to our sharing of your personal information for the above purposes. - Promotional Offers:
We may send offers to certain users on behalf of other businesses. However, when we do so, we do not give the other business your name and address. If you do not wish to receive these offers, please notify us by e-mail at info@pacificcoastnews.com. - Business Transfers:
In some cases, we may choose to buy or sell assets. In these types of transactions, customer information is typically one of the business assets that is transferred. Moreover, if Pacific Coast News, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, customer information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. - Protection of Pacific Coast News and Others:
We may release personal information when we believe in good faith that release is necessary to comply with that law; enforce or apply our Terms of Use and other agreements; or protect the rights, property, or safety of Pacific Coast News, our employees, our users, or others.
- If you choose to create one, your Pacific Coast News account information is protected by a password for your privacy and security. You need to work to protect against unauthorized access to your password and to your computer by logging off once you have finished using a shared computer.
- We use industry-standard Secure Socket Layer (SSL) software to protect the security of your personal information during transmission, which encrypts all of the information you input.
- Only Pacific Coast News employees who need personal information to perform a specific job (for example, a customer service representative) are granted access to it. All of our employees are kept up to date on our privacy and security practices.
You can access your personal information on our websites and correct, amend, or delete information that is inaccurate. To do this, login to your account and click "edit account" to view and edit your profile.
What Choices Do I Have?
- As stated previously, you can always opt not to disclose information, but then you may be unable to use certain features on our websites.
- You are able to add or update certain information on pages, such as those listed in the "What Personal Information About Users Does Pacific Coast News Collect?" section above. When you update information, however, we often maintain a copy of the unrevised information in our records.
- You may request deletion of your Pacific Coast News account by sending a message to info@pacificcoastnews.com. Please note that some information may remain in our records after deletion of your account.
- If you do not wish to receive e-mail or other mail from us, please notify us by e-mail at info@pacificcoastnews.com. Please note that if you do not want to receive legal notices from us, such as this Privacy Policy, those legal notices will still govern your use of the Pacific Coast News websites, and you are responsible for reviewing such legal notices for changes.
- As explained earlier, the "help" portion of the toolbar on the majority of browsers will direct you on how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to command the browser to tell you when you receive a new cookie, or how to fully disable cookies. Please note, however, that if your browser does not accept cookies, you will not be able to take advantage of some of our attractive features and services.
We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 13. In the event that we learn that we have collected any personal information from a child under the age of 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information from our database as quickly as possible.
Conditions of Use Photos
All images are Pacific Coast News's exclusive property. Pacific Coast News is engaged in negotiations for their distribution and syndication globally, and your publication of the images on your blog/website without permission adversely affects Pacific Coast News’s position in the negotiations and the value of the images, for which Pacific Coast News will seek compensation from you and reserves the right to seek legal remedy. If you are interested in purchasing images for your publication please contact info@pacificcoastnews.com. YOU CAN NO LONGER COPY OR DRAG OFF WATERMARKED IMAGES FOR USE ON A BLOG WITH OUT PAYMENT. If you decide to visit the Pacific Coast News websites, your visit and any possible dispute over privacy is subject to this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use, including limitations on damages, arbitration of disputes, and application of California state law.
Third Party Websites
Pacific Coast News services may permit you to link to other websites on the Internet, and other websites may contain links to the Pacific Coast News websites. These other websites are not under Pacific Coast News control. The privacy and security practices of websites linked to or from the Pacific Coast News websites are not covered by this Privacy Policy, and Pacific Coast News is not responsible for the privacy or security practices or the content of such websites.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
Pacific Coast News may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time, at its sole discretion. Use of information we collect now is subject to the Privacy Policy in effect at the time such information is used. If we make changes to the Privacy Policy, we will notify you by posting an announcement on the Pacific Coast News websites so you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances if any, it is disclosed.
Questions or Concerns
If you have any questions or concerns regarding privacy at the Pacific Coast News websites, please send a detailed message to info@pacificcoastnews.com. Your privacy is important to us and we will make every effort to resolve your concerns.
Effective Date of This Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy is effective as of December 6, 2007.
