Privacy
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Our promise
We are committed to protecting the privacy of any personal information you provide when visiting Burlington’s Local-News.ca. Access to your information is for internal use only, primarily so we can reach you when needed and so we can understand the types of articles and information that our readers are interested in. Access is limited to only those who need access in order to perform their duties.
We will not reveal personally identifiable data to unaffiliated third parties for their independent use, except if required to do so by law.
We will not sell your personal and confidential information to anyone for any reason.
We reserve the right to change material on this website without advance warning.
Writers
If you publish an article, a cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you published. It expires after 1 day.
Readers
When you visit the Burlington Local-News.ca website you do so anonymously and are not required to tell us who you are.
For users that register on our website (if any), we store the personal information provided in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Local-News.ca website administrators can also see and edit that information.
When you leave comments on this site, we collect the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help detect spam. If you leave a comment on this site, you can opt-in to saving your name and email address in cookies. This is for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies last for one year. If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service is integrated into the WordPress.com blogging platform and their privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/.
Articles on Local-News.ca may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Think before you click. Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
Local-news.ca assumes no responsibility for the web sites that are linked to, hosted by or otherwise electronically connected to Local-News.ca. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Podcasts and YouTube Videos
If you upload images to the website, avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Social Network Groups
If you upload images to the website, avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Advertisers
All information voluntarily sent to Burlington Local-News.ca, by email or other means, becomes the property of Local-News.ca.
What rights you have over your data
If you have left comments, you can request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
In case of a privacy breach
We hope it doesn’t happen, but just in case:
- We will contain the breach and notify affected individuals
- We will investigate
- We will reduce the risk of future breaches.