GAGE News Privacy Policy

Date of Last Revision: October 1, 2023

Thank you for using GAGE ("Company," "we," "us," or "our"). We are committed to protecting your personal information and your right to privacy. This privacy notice describes how we might use your information if you:

Visit our website at gage.news (the "GN Website")
Engage with us in other related ways - including any sales, marketing, or events

In this privacy notice, if we refer to:

"Website," we are referring to any website of ours that references or links to this policy
"Services," we are referring to our Website, and other related services, including any sales, marketing, or events

The purpose of this privacy notice is to explain to you in the clearest way possible what information we collect, how we use it, and what rights you have in relation to it. If there are any terms in this privacy notice that you do not agree with, please discontinue use of our Services immediately.

Privacy and data protection are important to the project GAGE news (the “GN”). Transparency is, too. We’ve done our best to cut through the legal jargon and explain in simple terms what information we collect about you, what we use it for, and the situations in which we share it with others. Please read this privacy policy carefully. It applies to all interactions you have with GN’s products and services where this privacy policy appears or is referenced, including offline. This privacy policy does not apply to personal information GN collects from its employees and contractors. By accessing or using GN’s website, from which this privacy policy is referenced, you confirm that you have read, understand, and acknowledge the terms of this privacy policy.

1. Overview of How we Use Your Personal Information on GN

Below is a summary of the categories of personal information collect and how we use that information. Information we collect, and how we use it:

1.1. Online Identifiers, Contact Information: We share your online identifiers (IP address, cookie IDs and device ID) with third parties for targeted advertising on and off GN. We also use this information to:

To provide GN to you
To send you email and other marketing communications, as well as to contact you about your GN subscription or your application for a job with GN
To comply with our legal obligations
For internal operations (e.g. to improve and update our products)
For security, safety, and due diligence purposes
To respond to your requests or questions
As otherwise required or permitted by law, or as we may notify you at the time of collection

1.2. Information You Submit to us (like emails for your contacts): We may use this to:

To help you send articles and other content to your contacts
To respond to your requests or questions
As otherwise required or permitted by law, or as we may notify you at the time of collection

1.3. Device, Internet and Network Activity Information: We sell or share information about your device and your internet and network activity information with third parties for targeted advertisements on and off of GN. We also use this information to:

To provide GN to you
For internal operations (e.g. to improve and update our products)
For security, safety, and due diligence purposes
As otherwise required or permitted by law, or as we may notify you at the time of collection

1.4. General location information (e.g. zip code and IP address): We sell or share your location information with third parties for targeted advertisements on and off GN. We also use this information to:

To personalize your experience on GN
For internal operations (e.g. to improve and update our products)
For security, safety, and due diligence purposes
As otherwise required or permitted by law, or as we may notify you at the time of collection

1.5. Inferences: We may make inferences about your interests and personal preferences (such as the content you like to consume), as well as your demographics (like age and gender). We sell or share this information with third parties for targeted advertisements on and off GN. We also use this information to:

To personalize your experience on GN.
For internal operations (e.g. to improve and update our products)
As otherwise required or permitted by law, or as we may notify you at the time of collection

1.6. Employment-Related Information: We may use this information to:

To process your application for a job with GN
To conduct a background check (prior to confirming your employment with GN)
For our internal research and analytics purposes.
To comply with our legal obligations

2. The Information We Collect

When you use one of GN’s products or services, we (or our service providers or other vendors we engage to perform services on our behalf) collect, receive, or develop the following categories of information from or about you:

We collect information when you submit a question or comment or apply for a job, or if you provide information when entering a contest or promotion.

We collect Device, Internet and Network Activity Information. So that we can make your GN experience better, we collect information about how you interact with our websites and apps, and third-party sites with GN widgets. This includes what areas of the websites you visit, for how long, and what content you view, flip and interact with. If you use our website(s) or applications, we may collect information about the browser or device you are using, operating system, device identifiers, and your IP address. We also receive some other information automatically when you use GN. We might track the pages you visit. We might look at what site you came from, or what site you visit when you leave us. When you use our websites or apps we may also collect operating system-provided device IDs or user-specific advertising IDs for advertisement tracking. We collect this information using the tracking tools described below.

We may collect information that identifies your device’s precise location (for example, GPS latitude and longitude level). We also collect information about your general location, using your zip code or postcode and IP address.

We collect Employment-Related Information. When you apply for a job, we collect information you submit as part of your application and resume. This might include your work experience and previous employment, your education, the URL to your personal or professional websites, your workplace skill sets and certifications, whether you need a visa or require sponsorship, and/or salary expectations. We may also conduct a credit check, background check, and employment verification to the extent permitted by applicable law. If you apply for a job, you may choose to also voluntarily provide any of the following information: ethnicity, gender, disability status, and/or veteran status.

We collect and develop Inferences. Using the other pieces of personal information collected about you, we may draw inferences about you, reflecting what we believe to be your preferences, characteristics, predispositions, attitudes, and demographics (like age and gender).

3. How We Collect Information

We collect personal information about you from various sources, directly and indirectly, including from the following sources:

We collect information directly from you. We may request and collect Identifiers, Contact Information directly from you, such as when you contact us. We also collect Information You Submit if you post a comment, make a request, or complete a survey. We collect Employment-Related Information if you apply for a job.

We collect information passively from your devices. We use various tracking technologies such as web beacons, cookies and embedded scripts to automatically collect information about you when you interact with our websites, apps, ads, and emails. We collect information about you over time and across devices this way.

We receive information from our vendors. For instance, we may engage with vendors and service providers to collect or provide us with information about you, such as access to location services via wireless networks or cell towers near your mobile device, or your IP address. Our employment and recruiting vendors also give us information. Our marketing agencies, advertising technology vendors, and analytics providers may also provide us with information.

We combine information. We may combine information we have collected offline with information we collect online. We may combine information we get from a third party with information we already have. We may also aggregate your information with other consumers’ information to understand preferences and trends over time.

4. How We Use Your Information

A big part of GN is sharing content you find interesting. That’s why the magazines you create, the comments you post and the content you flip are all public. Aside from that, we use the categories of information described above as follows:

We use information to provide you with services and administer our websites and apps. We might also use your information to send notify you about content you might be interested in. We use information to analyze and improve our products and services. For example, we may use your information to make our websites, apps, services, and products better. We might use your information to better understand how you use our service and to conduct research and analysis. We also use your information for troubleshooting, data analysis, and testing.

We use information for marketing purposes. For example, we might use personal information to provide you with information about our services.

We use information for security, safety, and due diligence purposes. For example, we may use personal information to protect our company, customers, and business partners and their respective personnel. We may also use personal information to protect our websites or our services, prevent abuse, as well as to detect and investigate activities that may be illegal or prohibited (such as cyberattacks). We may also use information to conduct background, employment, and credit checks and to assess financial, reputational, credit, and other risks arising from any relationship or prospective relationship with you.

We use information for hiring purposes. For example, we use Contact Information and Employment-Related Information to review your job applications and contact you about employment opportunities. If you choose to voluntarily submit your ethnicity, gender, disability status, and/or veteran status in connection with a job application, we may use that information for statistical tracking purposes (not for hiring decisions), in accordance with applicable law.

We use information for verification purposes. For example, we will use certain pieces of personal information to verify your identity if you make requests pursuant to this privacy policy. The verification steps and the pieces of personal information that we request may vary depending on the sensitivity and nature of your request.

We use information to respond to your requests or questions. We use information to contact you in response to your feedback or other matters related to our relationship with you (such as about this privacy policy or our Terms of Use).

We use information as otherwise required or permitted by law, or as we may notify you at the time of collection.

We may use personal information to create deidentified or aggregated data which does not identify you or any other individual, or from which your identity cannot reasonably be ascertained. We may use and disclose deidentified, anonymous or aggregated data as we choose.

5. How We Disclose Your Personal Information

We share your personal information under these circumstances:

We share Online Identifiers, Contact and Account Information, Inferences, and Device, Internet and Network Activity Information with our marketing partners. GN may work with advertising partners to serve you third-party advertisements. Personal information received by our marketing partners and other parties may also be subject to their privacy policies.

We may share all categories of personal information listed above when needed to comply with the law, to protect ourselves, our customers and others, and for safety and security purposes. We may share your information if we believe it’s reasonably necessary to comply with a law, regulation or legal process, including to respond to a court order or subpoena. We may also share this personal information if a government agency or investigatory body requests it. Nothing in this privacy policy is intended to limit any legal objections or defenses you might have to prevent efforts by third parties to compel disclosure of your information, including legal orders from the government. We might share your personal information in order to enforce our agreements and to protect our rights and/or the rights of others. We might share your personal information when we are investigating potential fraud, including any promotions fraud.

We share all categories of personal information listed above with vendors and service providers that work on our behalf to help us offer and improve our service. We may share information with vendors that provide GN with certain technical tools and services (such as email and analytics services) that help us understand how people use GN so we can make it better.

We may share all categories of personal information listed above if we sell, transfer or otherwise share some or all of our assets in connection with a merger, acquisition, reorganization or sale of assets in the event of a bankruptcy. For example, if GN sells any of its businesses or assets, applies for loans, or opens bank accounts, we may disclose your personal information to the prospective buyer, lender or bank, as the case may be, as part of certain due diligence processes. We also share information for the purpose of management and administration of our business. If part of our business (including any of our affiliates, divisions, and business units) is acquired by a third party, we may include personal information as part of that transaction, which may include some or all categories of your personal information. We may also share your personal information if there is a change to our corporate structure. We may also share your information with others as they conduct diligence of our corporate changes.

With your consent, we may share your personal information if we have let you know what information will be shared, and with whom.

We may disclose anonymous, aggregate information about how our users use GN in a manner that doesn’t identify you individually. We may share non-personally identifiable, non- aggregate information with companies that help us improve our products and services, including advertising (such as research companies and analytics providers).

We may share personal information for other reasons we may describe to you from time to time or as permitted or required by law.

6. Rights and Choices for U.S. Users

Our U.S. users have the rights and choices outlined below. If you are in the EU, please review the section below for our For European Users of GN.

Access – You can request, up to two times every 12 months, that we disclose to you the categories of personal information we collected about you, the categories of sources from which we collected the personal information, the categories of personal information we sold or disclosed, our business or commercial purpose for collecting, selling, or sharing the personal information, the categories of third parties with whom we shared the personal information, and the specific pieces of personal information we collected about you. You also have the right to request a portable copy of your personal information.
Correction – You have the right to request that GN correct inaccurate personal information collected from you, subject to certain exceptions allowed under applicable law. If, we determine, based on the totality of the circumstances, that the information is not accurate, we will respond to the request by correcting the information, deleting the information (if deletion of the information does not negatively impact you), or providing you with the name of the source from which we have received the alleged inaccurate information (if we are not the source).
Deletion – You can request that we delete your personal information that we maintain about you, subject to certain exceptions.
Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information – You can request that we not sell or share your personal information. Under California law, “sell” is defined very broadly to cover the sale of your personal information to an outside party for monetary or other valuable consideration, subject to certain exceptions. The same is true with respect to the definition of “share,” except that sharing under California law relates to the targeting of advertising based on personal information from an individual’s interaction with other websites and services. We may sell or share the following categories of personal information to companies that provide marketing and advertising services to us, as well as advertisers that place advertisements on GN: Identifiers, Contact Information, Demographic Information, Device, Internet, and Network Activity Information, Location Information, and Inferences. This information is shared to help us understand who our users are, so that we can sell ads on GN and advertise and market GN to new users.

We may collect race and ethnicity information if you provide it in connection your application for employment. We only use this information to understand the demographics of our applicant pool. We do not use it to create profiles or make other inferences about you.

How We Verify Your Identity. We will take reasonable steps to verify your identity prior to responding to your requests. For example, we may utilize a third party verification provider to assist with verifying your identity. The verification steps may vary depending on the sensitivity of the personal information.

Authorized Agent. You can designate an authorized agent to submit requests on your behalf. However, we will require written proof of the agent’s permission to do so and we will need to verify your identity directly.

Appeals. You have a right to appeal decisions concerning your ability to exercise your consumer rights. Please contact us at control.gage.news@gmail.com to request an appeal concerning decisions on your consumer request.

Other Rights and Choices

You can opt out of receiving our marketing emails. To stop receiving our promotional emails, you can follow the instructions in any promotional message you get from us. Even if you opt out of getting marketing messages, we will still send you responses to your questions.

You have choices with respect to the use of your location information. If you allow for location sharing, your device may communicate with us in ways that allow for us to customize the content you receive and to customize advertising you see.

You can control certain cookies and tracking tools. Cookies and HTML5 local storage are ways to keep information about your use of Internet services on your own mobile device or computer. We use cookies and HTML5 local storage to help us create your session, know when you’re logged in and help us remember certain information about how you interact with GN. If you’d rather not use cookies or HTML5 local storage, most browsers give you the option to turn them off, or require your approval before using them to keep information. Your browser may also give you the ability to control cookies or other tracking tools. How you do so depends on the type of tool. Certain browsers can be set to reject browser cookies. Please note that this privacy policy explains GN’s policies only, and doesn’t cover the practices of other services.

We use Google Analytics to better understand how our users interact with our websites. You can learn about Google Analytics’ currently available opt-outs at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/.

7. For European Users of GN

If you reside in the UK or a country in the European Economic Area (EEA), under European data protection law, data controllers are required to have a lawful basis for each use or disclosure of personal information. We rely on the following legal bases when we process your personal information:

When necessary for our legitimate interest in providing services to our users. These legitimate interests include to respond to your inquiries and requests for information, maintain, improve, and analyze our websites, mobile applications, ads, and the content and services we offer, detect, prevent, or investigate security breaches or fraud, and facilitate the functionality of our websites. In specific situations, we require your personal information to pursue our legitimate interests in a way which might reasonably be expected as part of running our business and which does not materially impact your rights, freedom or interests. We will use legitimate interest after we have properly evaluated the data processing and conducted a necessary balancing test.
When necessary for the performance of a contract. This includes processing your personal information in order to fulfill your request or provide the services that you have requested.
When you provide your consent for us to use your information. In some cases, we may rely on your consent. If we process any information where your consent is our lawful basis, you will have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.
To comply with our legal obligations. This is our legal basis for certain uses and disclosures of information required by applicable UK and EEA laws. For example, we can pass on details of people involved in fraud or other criminal activity affecting us to law enforcement.

You have the right to:

Information – You may request that we confirm whether we have personal information about you.
Access – You may request access or request a copy of your personal information. We may verify your identity before providing you any information.
Correction – You can request that we correct personal information we have about you, in certain circumstances, and subject to some specific legal reasons where we may need to retain personal information as is.
Deletion – You can request that we delete your personal information, subject to specific legal reasons where we may need to retain personal information. We may also deidentify or anonymize personal information in response to your request.
Restrict or Object Processing – Restrict or object to certain processing of your personal information where we do not have a legal basis to process your information. These rights may be limited in some circumstances under applicable law.

Please know that in order for us to respond to your request we may require that you verify your identity. For security, privacy, or operational reasons, GN may only respond to valid requests when required by law or regulation. If you need further assistance regarding your rights, please contact our Data Protection Officer at control.gage.news@gmail.com and we will consider your request in accordance with applicable laws.

8. Data Retention and Security

The Internet is not 100% secure. We use standard security measures. We cannot promise that your use of our websites, apps, or services will be completely safe. Any transmission of your data to our websites is at your own risk. We encourage you to use caution when using the Internet. We keep personal information as long as it is necessary or relevant for the practices described in this Privacy Policy, including, for example, for legal compliance, dispute resolution, contract enforcement, backup, archival, and other internal operations purposes. This includes data you or others provide to us and data generated from your use of our services. We also keep information as otherwise required by law.

9. Data Storage Outside and International Transfer

The GN services are offered globally so it is necessary to transfer your information internationally. In particular, your information will be transferred to and processed in the United States where our servers are located. The data protection and other laws of other countries, such as the United States, may not be as comprehensive as those in your country. By using our websites or mobile apps, or submitting your personal information, you consent to such transfer, storing and processing. We rely on multiple legal bass to lawfully transfer personal data internationally. These include EU Commission approved model contractual clauses, which require certain privacy and security protections. To ensure adequate protection of personal data in cross-border transfer and/or processing, we use appropriate safeguards as allowed under applicable law or regulation.

10. Links to Third Party Sites

We may link to third-party sites that we do not control. This Privacy Policy does not apply to the information practices of those websites. You should read the privacy policy of other websites carefully before disclosing any of your information. You access such linked websites at your own risk. We are not responsible for such third-party sites.

11. Changes to This Privacy Policy

As GN continues to develop, we may decide to revise this privacy policy from time to time. The most current version will govern our use of your information and will always be posted on the websites and apps to which this policy applies, and older versions are available upon request. If we make changes that we think will substantially alter your rights, we will notify you by posting a notice on our website. Your continued use of our websites, apps, or services means that you consent to any changes or revisions to the updated privacy policy.

12. Contact

We’d love to hear your questions, concerns and feedback about this privacy policy. If you have suggestions for us, let us know at control.gage.news@gmail.com.

For EEA and UK users, if you feel you haven’t received a timely or satisfactory response from us with respect to a question or complaint related to this policy, you may raise the issue with data protection authority in your country, without prejudice to any other rights you may have. A list of data protection authorities is available at ec.europa.eu/newsroom/article29/items/612080.