SOUTH-SOUTH NEWS PRIVACY POLICY
Thank you for visiting Southsouthnews.com, a site presented to you by South South
News. Your privacy is important to us. As such, we provide this privacy statement
explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the
way your information is collected and used at this site and affiliated websites,
which includes any sites or services owned, operated or offered by or on behalf
of South South News or its affiliates.
The Information We May Collect
At some South South News sites, you can order products, enter contests, vote in
polls or otherwise express an opinion, subscribe to one of our services such as
our online newsletters, or participate in one of our online forums or communities.
In the course of these various offerings, we often seek to collect from you various
forms of personal information. Examples of the types of personally identifiable
information that may be collected at these pages include: name, address, e-mail
address, telephone number, fax number, credit card information, and information
about your interests in and use of various products, programs, and services.
At some South South News sites, you may also be able to submit information about
other people. For example, you might submit a person's name and e-mail address to
send an electronic greeting card and, if you order a gift online and want it sent
directly to the recipient, you might submit the recipient's name and address. Examples
of the types of personally identifiable information that may be collected about
other people at these pages include: recipient's name, address, e-mail address,
and telephone number.
At certain parts of some of our sites, only persons who provide us with the requested
personally identifiable information will be able to order products, programs, and
services or otherwise participate in the site's activities and offerings.
South South News, our service providers, advertisers and partners may collect various
types of non-personally identifiable information when you visit any of our sites.
A representative list of the types of non-personally identifiable information we
may collect include: current Internet protocol address and type of browser you are
using (e.g., Firefox, Internet Explorer), the type of operating system you are using,
(e.g., Microsoft Windows or Mac OS), the domain name of your Internet service provider,
the web pages you have visited, sites visited before and after you visit a site,
the type of handheld or mobile device used to view the site (e.g., iPhone, Blackberry),
location information, the content you have accessed and the advertisements you have
been shown and/or clicked on.
You also can engage with our content, such as video, games, applications, and other
offerings, on or through third-party social networking sites, such as Facebook,
and South South News or third-party social media plug-ins and applications. When
you engage with our content on or through third party social networking sites, plug-ins
and applications, you may allow us to have access to certain information from your
social media profile (e.g., name, e-mail address, photo, gender, birthday, location,
your list of friends, people you follow and/or who follow you, the posts or the
'likes' you make) to deliver the content or as part of the operation of the application.
We may also obtain non-personally identifiable information (e.g., content viewed,
game performance, high scores, and information about advertisements within the content
you have been shown or may have clicked on,) from your interaction with our content.
When you provide information from your social media account, it can help enable
us to do things like (1) give you exclusive content, (2) personalize your online
experience with us within and outside our applications or websites, and (3) contact
you through the social networking sites or directly by sending you the latest news,
special offerings, and rewards. By doing so, you consent to the use of this information
in accordance with our privacy policy. When you provide personal information to
us through an application, on our sites, or on social networking sites, it may be
publicly viewed by other members of these sites and we cannot prevent further use
of the information by third parties.
Through some social networking sites' privacy settings, you can control what data
you share. For more information about how social networking sites handle your personal
information, please refer to their privacy policies and terms of use.
Possible Use of the Information
We may use the information you provide about yourself to fulfill your requests for
our products, programs, and services, to respond to your inquiries about our offerings,
to offer you other products, programs or services that we believe may be of interest
to you, to enforce the legal terms that govern your use of our sites, and/or for
the purposes for which you provided the information.
We sometimes use this information to communicate with you, such as to notify you
when you have won one of our contests or when we make changes to our subscriber
agreements, to fulfill a request by you for an online newsletter, or to contact
you about your account with us.
We use the information that you provide about others to enable us to send them your
gifts or cards or emails you may wish to send them from our sites.
The information we collect in connection with our online forums and communities
is used to provide an interactive experience. We use this information to facilitate
participation in these online forums and communities and, from time to time, to
offer you products, programs, or services.
If you choose to submit content for publication (e.g., a letter to our editors,
comments sent to our television personalities, a posting to a blog or a discussion
board, a video), we may publish your screen name and other information you have
provided to us.
We may on occasion combine information we collect through our sites with information
that we collect from other sources.
We use the non-personally identifiable information that we collect to improve the
design and content of our sites, to deliver more relevant marketing messages and
advertisements and to enable us to personalize your Internet experience. We also
may use this information to analyze usage of our sites, as well as to offer you
products, programs, or services.
We may disclose personally identifiable information in response to legal process,
for example, in response to a court order or a subpoena. We also may disclose such
information in response to a law enforcement agency's request, or where we believe
it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities,
suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of
any person, violations of our terms of use, to verify or enforce compliance with
the policies governing our sites and applicable laws or as otherwise required or
permitted by law or consistent with legal requirements.
In addition, we may transfer personally identifiable information about you if we,
or one of our business units, are acquired by, sold to, or merged with another entity.
Our agents and contractors who have access to personally identifiable information
are required to protect this information in a manner that is consistent with this
privacy statement and are not authorized to use the information for any purpose
other than to carry out the services they are performing for us.
Although we take appropriate measures to safeguard against unauthorized disclosures
of information, we cannot assure you that personally identifiable information that
we collect will never be disclosed in a manner that is inconsistent with this privacy
statement.
We may disclose personally identifiable information to third parties whose practices
are not covered by this privacy statement (e.g., other marketers, magazine publishers,
retailers, participatory databases, and non-profit organizations) that want to market
products or services to you. If a South South News site shares personally identifiable
information, it will provide you with an opportunity to opt out or block such uses
either at the point of submission of your personally identifiable information or
prior to any such disclosure.
If you have signed up to receive our e-mails and prefer not to receive marketing
information from this site, follow the "unsubscribe" instructions provided on any
marketing e-mail you receive from this site.
To provide visitors with additional or more relevant product and service opportunities,
we may share non-personally identifiable information with third parties.
Cookies & Web Beacons
To enhance your online experience, we may use "cookies" or similar technologies.
Cookies are text files placed in your computer's browser to store your preferences.
Cookies do not contain personally identifiable information; however, once you choose
to furnish a site with personally identifiable information, this information may
be linked to the data stored in the cookie.
We use cookies to understand site and Internet usage and to improve or customize
the content, offerings or advertisements on our sites. For example, we may use cookies
to personalize your experience at our sites (e.g., to recognize you by name when
you return to a site), save your password in password-protected areas, and enable
you to use shopping carts on our sites. We also may use cookies to help us offer
you products, programs, or services that may be of interest to you and to deliver
relevant advertising.
We, our third party service providers, advertisers or our partners also may use
cookies to manage and measure the performance of advertisements displayed on or
delivered by or through the South South News and/or other networks or sites. This
also helps us, our service providers and partners provide more relevant advertising.
For more information regarding third-party ad servers, see "Collection of Information
by Third-Party Sites, Ad Servers, and Sponsors" below.
The Adobe Flash Player is a powerful application and web tool that allows rapid
development of highly dynamic content. Sites on the South South News employ locally
stored objects (sometimes referred to as "Flash cookies") in certain situations
where we use Flash to provide special content such as video on demand, video clips
or animation. Flash (and similar applications) use this technology to remember settings,
preferences and usage similar to browser cookies but Flash cookies are not managed
through your web browser. You can access your Flash management tools from Adobe's
website directly.
South South News, our third party service providers, advertiser or our partners
may also use "web beacons" or clear .gifs, or similar technologies, which are small
pieces of code placed on a web page, to monitor the behavior and collect data about
the visitors viewing a web page. For example, web beacons may be used to count the
users who visit a web page or to deliver a cookie to the browser of a visitor viewing
that page.
You can change your privacy preferences regarding the use of cookies and similar
technologies through your browser. You may set your browser to accept all cookies,
block certain cookies, require your consent before a cookie is placed in your browser,
or block all cookies. Blocking all cookies will affect your online experience and
may prevent you from enjoying the full features offered at South South News sites.
Please consult the "Help" section of your browser for more information.
Information Collection by Third-Parties
Some of our sites contain links to or integrations with other sites such as Facebook,
Twitter, LinkedIn, etc., whose information practices may be different than ours.
Visitors should consult the other sites' privacy notices as we have no control over
information that is submitted to, or collected by, these third parties.
South South News sites covered by this privacy statement may offer content (e.g.,
contests, sweepstakes, promotions, games, applications, or social network integrations)
that is sponsored by or co-branded with identified third parties. By virtue of these
relationships, the third parties may obtain personally identifiable information
that visitors voluntarily submit to participate in the site activity. We have no
control over these third parties' use of this information. The site will notify
you at the time of requesting personally identifiable information if these third
parties will obtain such information.
We may also use the services of reputable third parties to provide us with data
collection, reporting, ad response measurement, and site analytics, as well as to
assist with delivery of relevant marketing messages and advertisements. These third
parties may view, edit or set their own cookies. South South News, our third party
service providers, advertisers and/or partners may also place web beacons for these
third parties. The use of these technologies by these third parties is subject to
their own privacy policies and is not covered by this privacy statement.
International Transfer
South South News operates globally so it is necessary to transfer your information
internationally. In particular, your information will likely be transferred to and
processed in the United States where many of our central databases operate. The
data protection and other laws of other countries, such as the United States, may
not be as comprehensive as those in your country. Please be assured that we take
reasonable steps to ensure that your privacy is protected. By using this site you
consent to your information being collected, used and transferred as set forth in
this privacy statement.
Contact Us
Access to personally identifiable information that is collected from our sites and
that we maintain may be available to you. For example, if you created a password-protected
account within our site, you can access that account to review the information you
provided.
You may also send an e-mail or letter to the following e-mail or street address
requesting access to or correction of your personally identifiable information.
For verification purposes please include your first name, last name, e-mail address
and the password you use for such service.
South-South News Webmaster
1 Dag Hammarskjold Plaza
885 2nd Avenue
New York, NY 10017
Phone: 212-644-8789
Fax: 212-644-7985
Email: webmaster@southsouthnews.com
If you have any questions or concerns about the online privacy statement for this
site or its implementation you may contact us at webmaster@southsouthnews.com.
Policy Update
From time to time, we may update this privacy statement. We will notify you about
material changes in the way we treat personally identifiable information by sending
an email message to the email address you most recently provided to us or by prominently
posting a notice on our site. We encourage you to periodically check back and review
this statement so that you always will know what information we collect, how we
use it, and with whom we share it.
The Privacy Policy was updated on May 18, 2011.