Privacy Policy

Shriver Media, LLC (“us”, “we”, or “our”) operates the website www.mariashriver.com and any other online and mobile websites, blogs, social networks and applications operated by or on behalf of us and/or our affiliates that post, and are authorized to post, a link to this Privacy Policy, including, without limitation mariashriver.com, mariashriversundaypaper.com, and shrivermedia.com (collectively, the “Service”).

This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use and share information about you, and the choices you can make with respect to such information. This Privacy Policy applies to information we collect from and about you when you access the Service or otherwise contact us or inquire about our products, including, without limitation, by phone, audio/video conference, mail, email, text message or in messages sent to us through social media.

By accessing any part of the Service or otherwise contacting us, you agree to the terms and conditions set forth in this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy is part of the Terms of Use governing your use of the Service. Any dispute over privacy is subject to this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use. Please read the Terms of Use. If you are accessing the Service or contacting us as an employee or representative of a company or organization, this Privacy Policy is binding upon both you individually and the company or organization, and references to “you” or “your” shall apply to both you individually and such company or organization.

If you do not agree with any part of this Privacy Policy, please do not access the Service.

The information collected when you access the Service or otherwise contact us falls into two categories: (1) personal data you voluntarily provide, such as your name, address, and email address; and (2) non-personal data collected automatically through technology.

“Personal Data” is any information that can be used to identify or locate a particular person or entity, including but not limited to: 

• Email address

• First name and last name

• Phone number

• Address

We do not collect Personal Data from you unless you voluntarily provide such information to us, such as by contacting us in any manner.

In addition to any Personal Data you provide directly to us, we and our third party service providers may use a variety of technologies that automatically collect certain non-identifying information about you when you access the Service or interact with emails sent to you. We treat all information of the type referenced in this paragraph as non-personal, unless required by applicable law to do otherwise.

We may collect certain non-identifying information about how you access and use the Service (“Usage Data”). This Usage Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

We may use and store information about your location. We use this data to provide features of our Service and to improve and customize our Service, including to deliver and/or restrict relevant content based on your location. 

We may use cookies, web beacons and similar tracking technologies to collect information about your use of the Service and your response to emails sent to you.

Cookies are files with small amounts of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device and enable the website’s system to recognize your browser and remember certain information. Examples of cookies we may use include:

• Session Cookies. We may use Session Cookies to keep track of your movement from page to page during an active session so we do not ask for the same information multiple times.

• Preference Cookies. We may use Preference Cookies to remember your preferences and various settings.

• Security Cookies. We may use Security Cookies for security purposes, such as identifying users, preventing the unauthorized use of login data and protecting user data against unauthorized access.

You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Service.

We may also use other Internet technologies, such as web beacons, pixel tags, embedded scripts and other similar technologies to collect information about your use of the Service or emails sent to you, including, without limitation, to count the number of users who have visited a particular web page, to deliver or communicate with cookies, and to understand usage patterns and whether messages have been opened, acted on, or forwarded.

The following describes the types of Personal Data that we collected and disclosed in the last 12 months:

We may use any of the information we collect from you in one or more of the following ways:

• To provide and maintain our Service

• To notify you about changes to our Service

• To allow you to participate in interactive features of our Service when you choose to do so

• To provide customer support, including, without limitation, to respond to your requests for goods or services we offer and keep you informed of updates about your inquiry

• To improve our Service

• To monitor the usage of our Service

• To detect, prevent and address technical issues

• To send you periodic emails and newsletters

• To provide you with news, special offers, promotions, advertisements, and general information about other goods, services and events which we offer

• To process transactions upon your request

• To protect your rights, our rights and the rights of others

Affiliated Companies and Service Providers

We may disclose your Personal Data to our affiliated companies, and to vendors, consultants and other service providers that help us operate and maintain our Service, conduct our business, and provide the products and services we offer. For example, we may work with such service providers to: (i) manage a database of customer information; (ii) assist us in distributing emails; (iii) assist us with direct marketing and data collection; (iv) provide us with data storage and analysis; (v) prevent fraud; (vi) process credit card payment; (vii) provide customer service by phone; and (viii) engage in other services designed to assist us in developing, operating and maintaining our Service and maximizing our business potential. We also may share your Personal Data with affiliated businesses that we do not control but with which we engage in joint and co-branded offerings.

If we or any of our affiliated or related entities is involved in a merger, acquisition or asset sale, your Personal Data will likely be among the assets transferred and will be disclosed during the process of negotiating such business transition.

We may also share your Personal Data if we have a good faith belief that: (i) access, use, preservation or disclosure of such information is reasonably necessary to satisfy any applicable law, legal process (such as a court order or subpoena), or request by law enforcement or governmental authorities; (ii) such action is appropriate to enforce our Terms of Use, or other policies of our Website or our product and/or services, including any investigation of potential violations thereof; (iii) such action is necessary to detect, prevent or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues associated with the Service or our product and/or services; or (iv) such action is appropriate to protect our rights, property or safety, or the rights, property or safety of our employees, affiliates, agents, contractors, other users of the Service, other users of our products and/or services, or others.

We will retain your Personal Data for as long as is necessary for the purpose(s) for which the data was collected and any other permissible, related purpose. Where you cancel a paid membership, we retain the records associated with that membership for as long as we are required to do so for tax, accounting, audit and dispute-resolution purposes, and then delete or de-identify them. You may ask us to delete your Personal Data at any time as described under “How to Exercise Your Rights” below.

Your information, including Personal Data, may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from your jurisdiction.

If you are located outside the United States and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the data, including Personal Data, to the United States and process it there. 

By accessing or using the Service, you consent to the processing, transfer and storage of information in and to the U.S. and other countries, where you may not have the same rights as you do under local law.

We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

The security of your data is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is guaranteed to be 100% secure. While we strive to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. Any transmission or other provision of information is done at your own risk.

California law requires us to let you know how we respond to web browser Do Not Track (“DNT”) signals. As there currently is not an industry or legal standard for recognizing or honoring DNT signals, we do not respond to them at this time.

We may work with third party service providers to track and analyze use of our Service, to provide certain services, and to serve advertisements on the Service and/or third party services. These third parties may use their own cookies, web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you and your visits to and activity on the Service and/or other websites.

To the extent we combine information from third party service providers with Personal Data we collect directly from you, we will treat the combined information as Personal Data under this Privacy Policy. Otherwise, the information collected and stored by third parties remains subject to their policies and practices (which we do not control and for which we are not responsible). 

We may use third party service providers, such as Google Analytics, to monitor and analyze the use of our Service. These third parties may use cookies, web beacons and other technologies to collect information, such as your IP address, time of visit, whether you are a return visitor, and any referring website, in order to help us analyze how users interact with and use the Service, compile reports on the Services’ activity, and provide other data and insights related to the Services’ usage. Additional information about Google Analytics is below: 

You can opt-out of having made your activity on the Service available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js, and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity.

For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy Terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en. 

We may also allow third parties, such as Google Ads and Facebook, to use cookies, web beacons and other technologies to better understand your behavior and browsing activities for the purpose of serving you targeted advertising about goods and services that may be of interest to you while you are on our Service (i.e., “interest-based advertising”) and displaying our advertisements to you on third party websites after you have visited our Service (i.e., “retargeting” or “remarketing”). Tools offered by third parties can help you see and manage the types of cookies and trackers that you encounter. More information about cookies and cookie management can be found on www.allaboutcookies.org and www.aboutcookies.org.

Our Service may contain links to other sites that we do not operate. Such sites, and the third parties that operate them, are not under our control and may not follow the same privacy policies as us. If you click on a third party link, you will leave our Service and be directed to that third party’s site, and you will become subject to its terms and conditions of use and privacy policies. We do not examine or evaluate, and have no control over and assume no responsibility for, the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services. By providing links to these sites, we do not approve, warrant or endorse, or otherwise make any representation about them, their owners or operators, or the goods or services that they offer and/or sell. You should exercise your own judgment in evaluating and using these sites. You understand, acknowledge and agree that all access to and use of any such third party site by you shall be at your own risk.

Our Service is not directed to anyone under the age of 13 ( “Children”). We are in compliance with the requirements of COPPA (Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act). We do not and will not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from Children. No personally identifiable information should be submitted to the Service by Children without the prior written consent of their parent or guardian. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your Child has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from Children without verification of consent from their parent or guardian, we will remove such information from our servers as required by COPPA.

If you are located in a jurisdiction that provides data subject rights, such as the EEA, the UK, Switzerland and certain US states, you may have additional rights in relation to your Personal Data. You may exercise these rights by contacting us as described at the end of this Privacy Policy.

• The right to be informed – our obligation to inform you that we process your Personal Data (and that’s what we’re doing in this Privacy Policy)

• The right of access – your right to request a copy of the Personal Data we hold about you (also known as a ‘data subject access request’) or request portability of your Personal Data

• The right to rectification – your right to request that we correct Personal Data about you if it is incomplete or inaccurate

• The right to erasure (also known as the ‘right to be forgotten’) – under certain circumstances, you may ask us to delete the Personal Data we have about you (unless it remains necessary for us to continue processing your Personal Data for a legitimate business need or to comply with a legal obligation as permitted under applicable law, in which case we will inform you)

• The right to restrict processing – your right, under certain circumstances, to ask us to suspend our processing of your Personal Data

• If we have collected and processed your Personal Data with your consent, the right to withdraw your consent. Withdrawing your consent will not affect the lawfulness of any processing we conducted prior to your withdrawal, nor will it affect processing of your Personal Data conducted in reliance on lawful processing grounds other than consent

• The right to object – your right to opt out or object to us processing your Personal Data (for example, if you object to us processing your data for direct marketing).

• Rights in relation to automated decision-making and profiling – our obligation to be transparent about any profiling we do, or any automated decision-making

• The right to complain to a data protection authority about our collection and use of your Personal Data. For more information, please contact your local data protection authority

If you exercise your CCPA consumer rights:

• We will not deny goods or services to you

• We will not charge different prices or rates for goods or services, including through the use of discounts or other benefits or imposing penalties

• We will not provide a different level or quality of goods or services to you

To exercise any of the rights described above, including the right to access, correct or delete your Personal Data, contact us at info@shrivermedia.com with the subject line “Privacy Request.” So that we can respond, please tell us which right you wish to exercise and provide enough information for us to locate your records — typically the email address associated with your account.

Verification. Before we act on a request, we will take reasonable steps to verify that the request is genuinely yours. This normally means confirming that you control the email address on the account. For requests involving sensitive information, we may ask for additional information. We will not use information you give us for verification for any other purpose.

Authorized agents. You may use an authorized agent to submit a request on your behalf. We may ask the agent for written proof of their authority and may still ask you to verify your identity directly.

We use artificial intelligence tools to help us operate the Service — for example, to summarize and route customer support inquiries, to analyze how the Service is used, to help draft and edit editorial and marketing content, and to prepare internal reporting. We do not use these tools to make decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects about you without human review, and we do not permit our AI vendors to use your Personal Data to train their general-purpose models. Where an AI vendor processes Personal Data on our behalf, it does so as a service provider under contract and only for the purposes we specify.

We may change or revise our Privacy Policy at any time, for any reason or no reason, at our sole discretion, without notice, simply by posting such changes or revisions on this page. Any such changes or revisions to this Privacy Policy will be effective immediately upon posting on this page. Your continued use of our Service signifies your acceptance of any such changes or revisions. For this reason, please visit this page on a regular basis to ensure that you are familiar with the most recent version of this Privacy Policy. Our use of information is subject to the Privacy Policy in effect at the time that we use such information.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us by email at info@shrivermedia.com.