Privacy Policy

NRTC Website Privacy & Cookies Policy

Luxilla Media (the owner of newsroundtheclock.com) is committed to ensuring that your privacy is respected and protected.

This Privacy Policy explains how we use the information we collect about you and how we safeguard your privacy.

1. What personal data we collect and why we collect it

The information we collect via newsroundtheclock.com may include:

1.1 Personal details you give us through completion of forms on the Website, including name, address, telephone number, email address etc.

1.2 Debit or credit card information which we need to pass to a bank or card processing agency for verification.

1.3 Your IP address, when visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

1.4 Data recorded by the Site which allows us to recognise you and your preferred settings. Such data is recorded locally on your computer through the use of cookies. Your browser can be programmed to reject cookies or warn you before downloading them. However some features of the Site may not function properly if you programme your browser to reject cookies.

1.5 When you use the Site our servers automatically record certain information that your web browser sends whenever you visit any website. This may include your web request, internet protocol address, browser type, browser language, URL’s, URL’s domain names, pages viewed and other matters together with cookies which may identify your browser.

1.6 An anonymised string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

2. What we do with your Information

Any personal information we collect from our site is used for some or all of the following purposes:

2.1 To process your registration and provide you the features and functionality of the Site.

2.2 Personal information or text, photo or video content that you post as part of your User Content becomes publicly available and can be viewed and used by others. Your account name (but not your email address) is displayed to other users when you use the Site or send messages through the Site and other users can contact you by sending messages through the Site. Any text, photos or videos that you submit to the Site may be redistributed through the internet and other media and may be viewed by the public. If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

2.3 In some cases we may use your email address to send you information on other products and services. You will be offered the option to opt out of such service.

2.4 We may need to pass the information we collect to other companies for administrative purposes. We may use third parties to carry out certain activities such as processing and sorting data, monitoring use of the Site etc. Such third parties will not be allowed to use your personal information for their own purposes.

2.5 We may use aggregated information for the purpose of monitoring use of the Site. Such aggregated information may be provided to third parties. These statistics will not include information which can be used to identify any individual.

2.6 We may provide personal data to carefully selected third parties for commercial or marketing use where we believe such third parties provide goods or services which may be of interest to you. You may opt out of such service. We can supply a complete list of third parties to whom personal data is supplied upon request.

3. Embedded content from other websites

3.1 Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

3.2 These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

4. How long we retain your data

4.1 If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

4.2 For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

5. Links

5.1 As a User you may have access to a specific part of the Site where your User Content may be posted. We will agree with you which personnel may access certain areas of the Site.

5.2 The Site may contain links to other sites. Please note that we are not responsible for the Privacy Policies or practices of other sites. We encourage users to be aware when they leave the Site and to read the Privacy Policies of other sites. This Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected on the Site.

6. Protection of Information

6.1 The internet is not a secure medium. However, we have put in place recommended up to date security measures and will review these and keep them updated regularly.

6.2 Subject to the terms of this Privacy Policy, we keep your information confidential. To ensure that we are able to maintain confidentiality you must comply with the Terms and Conditions of Use of the Site.

6.3 You agree not to collect any personal information on other living individuals by your access to User Content posted by others upon the Site.

7. What rights you have over your data

7.1 If any of the details you have provided the Site changes, please give us correct details by email to: admin@newsroundtheclock.com

7.2 We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy without notice. The new Privacy Policy will be posted upon the Site and your continued use of the Site will be considered acceptance of it. You are advised to check this Privacy Policy regularly.

7.3 If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

8. Your Consent

8.1 By submitting your information on the Site, you consent to the use of that information as set out in this Privacy Policy.

8.2 If we change the Policy we will post the changes on this page and we may place notices on other pages of the Site so that you may be aware of such change. Your continued use of the Site will then signify that you agree to such changes.

9. Data Subject Requests

9.2 If you wish to update the personal information or make a subject access request please email: admin@newsroundtheclock.com.

9.3 This Privacy Policy is subject newsroundtheclock.com website terms and conditions.

10. Cookies

10.1 If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

10.2 If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

10.3 When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

10.4 If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.