DO NOT SELL OR SHARE MY PERSONAL INFORMATION
For California and Virginia residents in the United States only:
In certain circumstances, residents of California or Virginia (“you”, “your”) may request that Ground News (“we”, “us”, “our”) not disclose their personal information to third parties. It is not the practice of Ground News to share user information with third-party advertisers, and you can learn more about the limited digital cookies and trackers that we use on our website and application in order to maintain and improve those and our services by reviewing our Privacy Policy.
The California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”) and Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (“VCDPA”) give you the right to opt out of
1. the use of your personal information to deliver targeted or affinity-based advertisements (collectively, “sharing”), and
2. the “sale” of your personal information where “sale” is defined broadly to includes disclosing your personal information in exchange for money or disclosing it in exchange for anything of value. We never “sell” your personal information to third parties in exchange for money. We may disclose data points such as usage of our website or application to our service providers, such as Google Adwords, so that we can document how our site is used and to what extent. You can learn more about your personal information, and the limited manner by which we collect, use, or share it, by reviewing our Privacy Policy.
You can opt-out of all “sharing” of your personal information for interest-based advertising with any online service, and to inquire further about what we collect and, in a limited manner, share, please submit your inquiry to this form.
Note that we are legally permitted to continue to share your personal information with non-advertising-based service providers as described in our Privacy Policy, but you won’t be subject to third-party advertisements as you use our website or application.
YOU HAVE PRIVACY CHOICES.
Any user, regardless of location, may use certain actions to opt out of having your online activity and device data collected by third parties, some of which we noted below as a helpful reference. Using tools to opt out of tracking and targeting will exclude you from interest-based advertising conducted through third-party networks and platforms after you click on media/content links in some cases, and as provided by their policies and choice mechanisms.
Blocking Cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but also usually allow you to modify your settings to disable or reject cookies, including cookies for interest-based advertising. If you delete your cookies or if you set your web browser to decline cookies, however, some features of the Services may not work or may not work as designed. You can usually find these settings in the Options or Preferences menu of your browser; links to instructions provided by several of the most common browsers are below. You can also learn more at www.allaboutcookies.org.
Advertising Industry Opt-Out Tools. We don’t share your information with hird-party advertisers.
Mobile App Tracking Opt-Out Tools. Learn about your opt-out rights for mobile application tracking by advertising networks in the device settings. You can change these device settings for Apple, Android or Windows as follows:
Using Privacy Plug-ins or Browsers. Block our websites from activating cookies by using a browser with privacy features. These can include Brave, or DuckDuckGo, or you can install plugins for your browser, such as Privacy Badger, Ghostery or uBlock Origin, and configuring them to block third party cookies/trackers.