Introduction
Â鶹´«Ã½ is owned and operated by Harvard Media. This policy governs the collection, use, and disclosure of Personal Information by Â鶹´«Ã½, whether oral, electronic, or written. The application of this policy is subject to the requirements or provisions of any applicable legislation, regulations or agreements (such as collective agreements), or the order of any court or other lawful authority.
Â鶹´«Ã½ reserves the right to amend this policy from time to time.
What is Personal Information?
Personal information is information that can be linked to an individual. For example, your email address is considered personal information, even if it does not include your name. This policy does not cover business contact information such as your name, title, business address and phone number. Nor does it include information that is collected, used, or disclosed solely for journalistic purposes.
How Â鶹´«Ã½ Collects Personal Information
Most of the Personal Information collected by Â鶹´«Ã½ is provided directly by users of the service. For example, if you make a free account, you will be asked to provide your name and email address, and if you sign up for a membership, Â鶹´«Ã½ will collect your credit card and billing information in order to process your payment.
Â鶹´«Ã½ also uses third party services which collect usage and browsing information and provide aggregate non-personal information about visitors to the site.
What Personal Information Does Â鶹´«Ã½ Collect?
Purposes for Collection of Personal Information
Â鶹´«Ã½ collects Personal Information for the following purposes:
The Personal Information collected is the minimum required for the stated purposes and will only be stored as long as is necessary to achieve the stated purposes.
Access to your Personal Information
You may request access and/or corrections to your personal information. We will make good faith efforts to provide you with access to your personal information and either to correct this data if it is inaccurate or to delete such data at your request if it is not otherwise required to be retained by law or for legitimate business purposes.
If we reject your request for a correction, we will make a notation of such request and rejection on your file or personal information. We may decline to process requests that are unreasonably repetitive or systematic, require disproportionate technical effort, or would jeopardize the privacy of others.
Email [email protected] to make a request.
Third Party Services
Â鶹´«Ã½ uses third party services to personalize users’ interaction with our website and to collect aggregate non-personal information. The privacy policy for Â鶹´«Ã½’s analytics providers can be found on their websites: , , .
Disclosure
Â鶹´«Ã½ does not sell your Personal Information, but may disclose limited information to third party platforms for advertising and promotional purposes.
Â鶹´«Ã½ does not otherwise disclose your information, unless it is legally required to do so or if disclosure is necessary to protect the rights, property or safety of Â鶹´«Ã½, its staff, users, or members of the public.
Advertising and Promotions
When Â鶹´«Ã½ discloses information to third party advertising platforms, they may link that information to other data that they already have about you in order to tailor advertisements or to identify other people who might be interested in Â鶹´«Ã½ content.
Cookies
Cookies are small text files that are stored on a user’s computer when they visit a website. They collect and store information about users in order to do things like remember user preferences and tailor advertising. Â鶹´«Ã½ uses cookies to personalize user experience and to compile aggregate, non-personal information about how many people are visiting our site and which pages they viewed. Users can choose to disable cookies at any time, though it may affect some site functionality.
Comments Section
Users of Â鶹´«Ã½ should be aware that comments posted on the site are visible to the public, and that any Personal Information shared in the comment forums or in publicly accessible classifieds postings is not secure.
Security
Â鶹´«Ã½ uses password-protected, restricted access services to keep its users’ data secure. Employees who have access to Personal Information are trained on how to keep this information secure. Â鶹´«Ã½ uses industry-standard SSL encryption on the site so that users who visit and interact with the website will have their traffic encrypted, protecting it from third party surveillance
Accuracy and Access
Â鶹´«Ã½ users can access personal information stored about them and request corrections to this information by sending a written request to the privacy officer at [email protected]. Users may also direct any questions or concerns they have about Â鶹´«Ã½’s privacy policy or practices to the same email.
