NewsCred Privacy Policy

At NewsCred, your privacy is taken seriously and we recognize how important privacy is to you and your family members who may use our Site. This Policy applies to all of the products, services and websites offered by NewsCred Ltd. or its subsidiaries or affiliated companies (collectively, NewsCred's "services").

If you have any questions about this Policy, please feel free to contact us through our website or e-mail us at privacy@newscred.com

Information we collect and how we use it:

We offer a number of services that do not require you to register for an account or provide any personal information to us. However, to better make use of all our services, we encourage you to register an account which may entail provision of personal information on a strictly voluntary basis. In order to provide our full range of services, we may collect the following types of information:

Information you provide - When you sign up for a NewsCred Account or other NewsCred service or promotion that requires registration, we ask you for personal information (such as your name, email address and an account password). For certain services, we may request credit card or other payment account information which we maintain in encrypted form on secure servers. We may combine the information you submit under your account with information from other NewsCred services or third parties in order to provide you with a better experience and to improve the quality of our services. Wherever possible, we will always strive to give you the opportunity to opt out of combining such information.

NewsCred cookies - When you visit NewsCred, we send one or more cookies - a small file containing a string of characters - to your computer that uniquely identifies your browser. We use cookies to improve the quality of our service by storing user preferences, such as your preferred news sources, and tracking user trends. Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies, but you can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, some NewsCred features and services may not function properly if your cookies are disabled.

Log information - When you use NewsCred services, our servers automatically record information that your browser sends whenever you visit a website. These server logs may include information such as your web request, Internet Protocol address, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your request and one or more cookies that may uniquely identify your browser.

User communications - When you send email or other communication to NewsCred, we may retain those communications in order to process your inquiries, respond to your requests and improve our services.

Affiliated sites - We offer some of our services in connection with other web sites. Personal information that you provide to those sites may be sent to NewsCred in order to deliver the service. We process such information in accordance with this Policy. The affiliated sites may have different privacy practices and we encourage you to read their privacy policies.

Links - NewsCred may present links in a format that enables us to keep track of whether these links have been followed. We use this information to improve the quality of our search technology, customized content and advertising. For more information about links and redirected URLs, please see our FAQs.

Other sites - This Privacy Policy applies to web sites and services that are owned and operated by NewsCred. We do not exercise control over the sites displayed as search results or links from within our various services. These other sites may place their own cookies or other files on your computer, collect data or solicit personal information from you. Please read the respective Privacy Policies of those external websites carefully.

What we do with the Information we collect:

NewsCred only processes personal information for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.

In general, we use personal information to process your requests or transactions, provide you with products and services, and inform you about other products or services we think will be of interest. In addition to the above, such purposes include:

- Contact you for administrative purposes or provide you with customer service;

- Complete transactions requested by you or to verify that you have submitted an article or comment;

- Respond to any questions, problems or complaints, or request feedback;

- Organize the Site and its various services and activities to better serve you and customize or develop our products and services;

- Send you emails or other communications containing information about products and services that you might find of interest; and

- Developing new services.

NewsCred processes personal information on our servers in the United States of America and in other countries. In some cases, we process personal information on a server outside your own country. We may process personal information to provide our own services. In some cases, we may process personal information on behalf of and according to the instructions of a third party, such as our advertising partners.

Choices for personal information

When you sign up for a particular service that requires registration, we ask you to provide personal information. If we use this information in a manner different than the purpose for which it was collected, then we will always ask for your consent prior to such use.

If we propose to use personal information for any purposes other than those described in this Policy and/or in the specific service notices, we will offer you an effective way to opt out of the use of personal information for those other purposes. We will not collect or use sensitive information for purposes other than those described in this Policy and/or in the specific service notices, unless we have obtained your prior consent.

You can decline to submit personal information to any of our services, in which case NewsCred may not be able to provide those services to you.

Information sharing

NewsCred only shares personal information with other companies or individuals outside of NewsCred in the following limited circumstances:

We have your consent. We require opt-in consent for the sharing of any sensitive personal information.

We provide such information to our subsidiaries, affiliated companies or other trusted businesses or persons for the purpose of processing personal information on our behalf. We require that these parties agree to process such information based on our instructions and in compliance with this Policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.

We have a good faith belief that access, use, preservation or disclosure of such information is reasonably necessary to (a) satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable governmental request, (b) enforce applicable Terms of Service, including investigation of potential violations thereof, (c) detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues, or (d) protect against imminent harm to the rights, property or safety of NewsCred, its users or the public as required or permitted by law.

If NewsCred becomes involved in a merger, acquisition, or any form of sale of some or all of its assets, we will provide notice before personal information is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.

We may share with third parties certain pieces of aggregated, non-personal information, such as the number of users who prefer a certain news source, for example, or how many users clicked on a particular advertisement. Such information does not identify you individually.

Please contact us at the address below for any additional questions about the management or use of personal data.

Information security

We take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of data. These include internal reviews of our data collection, storage and processing practices and security measures, as well as physical security measures to guard against unauthorized access to systems where we store personal data.

We restrict access to personal information to NewsCred employees, contractors and agents who need to know that information in order to operate, develop or improve our services. These individuals are bound by confidentiality obligations and may be subject to discipline, including termination and criminal prosecution, if they fail to meet these obligations.

Data integrity

NewsCred processes personal information only for the purposes for which it was collected and in accordance with this Policy or any applicable service-specific privacy notice. We review our data collection, storage and processing practices to ensure that we only collect, store and process the personal information needed to provide or improve our services. We take reasonable steps to ensure that the personal information we process is accurate, complete, and current, but we depend on our users to update or correct their personal information whenever necessary.

Accessing and updating personal information

When you use NewsCred services, we 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. We ask individual users to identify themselves and the information requested to be accessed, corrected or removed before processing such requests, and we may decline to process requests that are unreasonably repetitive or systematic, require disproportionate technical effort, jeopardize the privacy of others, or would be extremely impractical (for instance, requests concerning information residing on backup tapes), or for which access is not otherwise required. In any case where we provide information access and correction, we perform this service free of charge, except if doing so would require a disproportionate effort. Some of our services have different procedures to access, correct or delete users' personal information. We provide the details for these procedures in the specific privacy notices or FAQs for these services.

Enforcement

NewsCred regularly reviews its compliance with this Policy. Please feel free to direct any questions or concerns regarding this Policy or NewsCred's treatment of personal information by contacting us through this web site or by writing to us at privacy@newscred.com. We will individually respond to each query and will always strive to resolve any disputes or answer any questions with speed and integrity.

Changes to this policy

Please note that this Privacy Policy may change from time to time. We will not reduce your rights under this Policy without your explicit consent, and we expect most such changes will be minor. Regardless, we will post any Policy changes on this page and, if the changes are significant, we will provide a more prominent notice (including, for certain services, email notification of Policy changes). Each version of this Policy will be identified at the top of the page by its effective date, and we will also keep prior versions of this Privacy Policy in an archive for your review.

If you have any additional questions or concerns about this Policy, please feel free to contact us any time through this web site or at privacy@newscred.com.