Who we are
National Animal News is more than just a media outlet; we are a devoted team focused on relaying up-to-date news regarding animals and their remarkable rescues. Our primary objective is to mitigate the distress animals experience under harsh conditions by advocating their rescues. We are dedicated to educating and motivating other animal lovers to broaden our message, thus offering increased support for these animals in need.
Our website address is https://nationalanimalnews.com.
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What rights do you have over your data?
If you have an account on this site or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also 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.
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As a result of this website’s technology, and to accomplish our goal, we will receive information about our visitors and users, and how we use this information about you is outlined in our privacy policy below.
National Animal News respects your privacy and we request that you please read this Privacy Policy and agree before you use our website.
This privacy policy (“Policy”) describes how National Animal News, (“Company”) and any related companies, collect, use and share the personal information of users of the service and website including any mobile or web-based app (collectively, the “Service”). Any capitalized terms not otherwise defined in this Policy have the meaning assigned to them in our Terms of Service. We use common industry standards to safeguard the data we collect. This Policy also applies to any of our other websites that post this Policy. This Policy does not apply to websites that post different statements.
What We Collect
We get information about you in a range of ways. Information You Give Us. We may collect your name, email address, phone number, as well as other information you directly give us on our Service. [If you register or log in to your Account using any 3rd party authenticator login, ex. Facebook, and Google, you authorize us to access certain account information, such as your public profile (consistent with their privacy settings), email address, interests, likes, gender, birthday, education history, work history, relationship interests, current city, photos, videos, personal description, friend list, and information about and photos of your Facebook friends who might be common Facebook friends with other users of the Service. [Location Information. When you use the Service, you will be asked to automatically provide us with your location information from your device. This location information will include your longitudinal and latitudinal coordinates. We may also collect cell site or GPS data. If you do not agree to this collection, you can change your privacy preferences on your device, but some functionality of the app may be disabled.]
Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through National Animal News’s public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others.
Information We Get From Others
We may get information about you from other sources. We may add this to the information we get from this Service.
Information Automatically Collected
We may automatically log information about you and your device. For example, when using our Service, we may log your device’s operating system type, language, browser type (where applicable), the website you visited before browsing our Service (where applicable), items you viewed, how long you spent on a particular item, mobile device IDs or Advertising IDs, access times, [Other] and information about your use of and actions on our Service.
Cookies. On our website, may log information using “cookies.” Cookies are small data files stored on your hard drive by a website. We may use both session Cookies (which expire once you close your web browser) and persistent Cookies (which stay on your computer until you delete them) to provide you with an accelerated personal and interactive experience on our Service.
We may also use other tools like pixel trackers, for conversion tracking. This type of information is collected to make the Service more useful to you and to tailor the experience with us to meet your special interests and needs.
We do not knowingly collect personal information from children without parental consent. Users under 18 must have parental consent. If we learn that we have inadvertently obtained information from a child, or done so without parental consent, we will promptly delete the information.
Use Of Personal Information
We use your personal information to:
- Operate, maintain, and improve our sites, products, and services.
- Respond to comments and questions and provide customer service.
- Send information including confirmations, technical notices, updates, security alerts, and support and administrative messages.
- Communicate about upcoming events and other news about products and services offered by us and our selected partners.
- Link or combine user information with other personal information.
- Protect, investigate, and deter fraudulent, unauthorized, or illegal activity.
- To enforce our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.
- Provide and deliver products and services at customers’ request.
Sharing of Personal Information
- With your consent. For example, you may let us share personal information with others for their own marketing uses. Those uses will be subject to their privacy policies.
- When we do a business deal or negotiate a business deal, involving the sale or transfer of all or a part of our business or assets. These deals can include any merger, financing, acquisition, bankruptcy transaction, or proceeding.
- For legal, protection, and safety purposes, including, but not limited to (i) complying with laws, (ii) responding to lawful requests and legal processes, (iii) protecting the rights and property of National Animal News, our agents, customers, and others (including enforcing our agreements, policies, and terms of use), and (iv) in an emergency (this includes protecting the safety of our employees and agents, our customers, or any person).
- We may share information with those who need it to do work for us.
- We may use your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from AnimalVictory.or affiliates.
- We may disclose your personal information, without notice, if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with the legal process served on National Animal News or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of National Animal News; and/or (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of National Animal News, or the public.
Third-Party Sites And Services
This website contains links to third-party websites, products, or services. This website may also offer content from third parties. Information collected by third parties is governed by those third parties’ privacy policies.
Location Of Servers
Our servers are located in the United States of America. If you are accessing the site and service from outside the United States, please be advised that through your continued use of the site or service, which is governed by U.S. law and this Privacy Policy, you are transferring your personal information to the United States and you consent to that transfer and the maintenance and processing of such information in the United States.
Security of your Personal Information
National Animal News secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. National Animal News uses the following methods for this purpose:
SSL Protocol
When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other websites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol.
We strive to take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or alteration of your personal information. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, you acknowledge that: (a) there are security and privacy limitations inherent to the Internet which are beyond our control; and (b) the security, integrity, and privacy of any and all information and data exchanged between you and us through this Site cannot be guaranteed.
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You may send requests about the personal information to our Contact Information below. You can request to change contact choices, opt out of our sharing with others, and update your personal information.
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Right to Deletion
Subject to certain exceptions set out below, on receipt of a verifiable request from you, we will:
- Delete your personal information from our records; and
- Direct any service providers to delete your personal information from their records.
Please note that we may not be able to comply with requests to delete your personal information if it is necessary to:
Complete the transaction for which the personal information was collected, fulfill the terms of a written warranty or product recall conducted in accordance with federal law, and provide a good or service requested by you, or reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, or otherwise perform a contract between you and us;
- Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity; or prosecute those responsible for that activity;
- Debug to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality;
- Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise his or her right of free speech, or exercise another right provided for by law;
- Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act;
- Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when our deletion of the information is likely to render impossible or seriously impair the achievement of such research, provided we have obtained your informed consent;
- Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with your expectations based on your relationship with us;
- Comply with an existing legal obligation; or
- Otherwise use your personal information, internally, in a lawful manner that is compatible with the context in which you provided the information.
California Residents
If you are a California resident, California law may provide you with additional rights regarding our use of your Personal Information. To learn more about your California privacy rights, please read California Consumer Privacy Act
Your right to know about the personal information collected or disclosed.
- You have the right to request a personal information report which details all of the information we hold about you from the last 12 months.
- We will confirm that we have received your request within 10 days.
- You can contact us to request a personal information report by emailing us contact@nationalanimalnews.com.
- Where possible, we will provide your personal information report to you within 45 days. If we need more time to process your request we will contact you to let you know why and ensure that you receive your report no later than a further 45 days from the first deadline.
- Your personal information report will contain the following data:
- Sources of information
- The purpose for which it was collected
- Third parties it was disclosed to
- Purpose for disclosure
To protect your personal information we have security measures in place to ensure that no one other than you can access your personal information report.
You have the right to delegate your request for a personal information report to an agent.
If you do choose this method, we will ask you to confirm your identity and that your agent has permission to act on your behalf.
Your right to request deletion of your personal information
- You have the right to request the deletion of all of the personal information we hold about you.
- You can contact us to request the deletion of your personal information by emailing us at contact@nationalanimalnews.com or by calling us at 1-800-634-3439.
- Within 45 days of your request, we will delete all of the personal information we hold about you and send you a report detailing how we have completed your request. In some circumstances, we may need to keep data because of legal obligations. We will not use this data for any business purpose.
- You have the right to delegate your request for the deletion of your personal information to an agent. If you do choose to use this method we will ask you to confirm your identity and that your agent has permission to act on your behalf.
CONTACT INFORMATION
We welcome your comments or questions about this privacy policy. You may contact us at our email address: contact@nationalanimalnews.com
Or by calling us at 1-800-634-3439
Changes To This Privacy Policy
National Animal News reserves the right to change this privacy policy from time to time. If we make any changes, we will indicate this at the top of this page in the “Last Updated” column. Your continued use of the website and/or Services available after such modifications will constitute your: (a) acknowledgment of the modified Privacy Policy; and (b) agreement to abide and be bound by that Policy.
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