Overview

This Privacy Policy (the “Privacy Policy“) explains how LCT Publising and Media, LLC and Rappahannock Digital and their Affiliates (“we“, “our” or “us“) collect, use, process, and share information about you when you use our Services or otherwise interact with us or receive a communication from us related to the Services. For certain Services, we may provide you with additional privacy policies and information that supplement this Privacy Policy.

Please read this privacy policy carefully to understand how we collect and handle information about you. By accessing or using our services, you acknowledge and agree that you consent to the practices and policies outlined in this privacy policy and that you have read and understand this privacy policy.

If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy, please do not access or use our Services or interact with any other aspect of our business. (Nothing personal!) This Privacy Policy does not apply to the practices of companies that we do not own or control, or to individuals that we do not employ or manage.

This Privacy Policy applies when you use or access any of our Services. This Privacy Policy also applies regardless of how you use or access the Services. For example, this Privacy Policy would apply when:

·       You use any of our Websites or social media properties, to view or receive content that we publish or otherwise make available via the Services

·       You subscribe to any of our Services;

·       You subscribe to a digital, electronic, or online subscription for any of our newletters or other publications;

·       You subscribe to any of our newsletters or otherwise agree to receive emails from us about our Services

We collect Personal Information about you when you provide it to us voluntarily, in order for you to use the Services and during your use of the Services. The types of Personal Information that you may provide to us voluntarily depends on context and how you use the Services. However, examples of the types of Personal Information that you may provide to use voluntarily include, but are not necessarily limited to, your: name, mailing address, home phone number, mobile phone number, email address, username, password, payment information, gender, and date of birth.

We collect non-personal and personal information for the following purposes:

·      To provide and operate our Service

·      To provide users with customer assistance

·      To keep in touch with our Visitors and Users and deliver either generalized or personalized service-related notices and promotional messages

·      To create aggregated statistical data and other aggregated and/or inferred non-personal information, which we or our business partners use to provide and improve our respective services

·      To comply with any applicable laws and regulations

When you register to receive any of our newsletters, we will also collect Personal Information about you that you voluntarily provide us. This Personal information can include, but is not necessarily limited to, your name, email address, date of birth, and telephone number. 

Additionally, we will collect your Personal Information if you enter a contest or sweepstakes that we offer as part of the Services, or register for a promotional offer relating to our Services.

As part of the Services, you may be able to post or otherwise publish User-Generated Content that other people can read or interact with. In this Privacy Policy, the term “User-Generated Content” means your comments or posts on articles or message boards, photos, videos, audio, opinion and editorial content, reviews, feedback, testimonials, and any other content that you submit to us for publication on any of our Websites, Applications, Platform, or otherwise via our Services.

We will collect your Personal Information when you voluntarily provide it to us in connection with any User-Generated Content that you submit to us. For example, you may submit information or content to us for editorial purposes, which you may request that we publish in our newspaper publications. Similarly, you may have the ability to post a comment on the Platform in response to a story that we offer as part of the Services. We may use your name and any stories or other User-Generated Content you provide us in articles that we publish online and in print as part of the Services. Your User-Generated Content, such as editorial content or your posts and comments on an article, that you provide us may be attributed to you, and we may include your username and any Personal Information that you provide in an open forum on our Websites and Applications to facilitate such attribution. Anyone can collect, use, share, and read any Personal Information that you provide us in connection with the User-Generated Content that you submit to us via the Services

Cookies and other tracking technology

“Cookies” are small data files that are sent to, and stored by, your web browser software on your computer hard drive, tablet, mobile device, or other device. When you use or access the Services via the Internet, we and our third-party partners may use cookies and similar internet tracking technologies to do things, such as: (a) store your username and password to your accounts for the Services; (b) monitor and analyze the usage of our Applications, Websites, Platform, and/or Services by collecting the information discussed in Section 3.2 of this Privacy Policy; (c) customize the Services to your explicit and inferred preferences; and (d) deliver interest-based advertising displayed by the Applications, Websites, Platform, and Services, as well as advertisements that may be displayed on other websites or mobile applications.

Virginia resident rights

Rights of Virginia residents, effective January 1, 2023, under the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (“VCDPA”).

Effective January 1, 2023, the VCDPA provides Virginia residents with the right to receive certain disclosures regarding the Personal Information we collect and use about them.

If you are a Virginia resident, the VCDPA also grants you the right to: (1) confirm whether or not we are processing your Personal Information and to access such Personal Information; (2) correct inaccuracies in your Personal Information, taking into account the nature of the Personal Information and the purposes of the processing of your Personal Information; (3) delete Personal Information you have provided or we have obtained about you; (4) obtain a copy of your Personal Information that you previously provided to us in a portable and, to the extent technically feasible, readily usable format that allows you to transmit the data to another controller without hindrance, where the processing is carried out by automated means; and (5) opt-out of the processing of your Personal Information for purposes of (i) targeted advertising, (ii) the sale of Personal Information, or (iii) profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects concerning you. Although we do not “sell” your Personal Information in the traditional sense (i.e., for money), our use of interest-based advertising cookies and tracking technologies could be considered a sale of your Personal Information under Virginia law. In some instances, it also may qualify as targeted advertising.

If you are a Virginia resident, to exercise your rights under the VCDPA, please email us at SM@madrapp.org.

Questions/comments

If you have any questions or comments concerning this Privacy Policy, or about exercising privacy-related rights and choices that may apply to you, please do not hesitate to contact us via email at  SM@madrapp.org .