PRIVACY POLICY
Last updated: March 4, 2020
Who we are
America’s Civil War operates the americascivilwarrising.org website. This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of Personal Information when you visit, access, and use our Website and/or Services into which you opt through our site. These policies may be periodically updated and revised in accordance with legal and regulatory changes, as well as additional services that we may provide and offer in the future. Please visit and review this Privacy Policy on a regular basis. Your use of this Website, in any and all forms, constitutes an acceptance of this Privacy Policy.
We will not use or share your information with anyone, except as described in this Privacy Policy.
We use your Personal Information to enable your use of our Website and to improve it and your experience interacting with it. This includes third-party applications that improve its features and functionality and that personalize your sessions on it in order to better fit your interests and to offer you relevant, individually tailored content and subscriptions to our daily posts.
By using our Website, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy. Unless otherwise defined in this Privacy Policy, terms used in this Privacy Policy have the same meanings as in our Terms and Conditions, accessible at https://americascivilwarrising.org/acwr-terms-and-conditions/.
Information Collection And Use
America’s Civil War Rising collects various Information from you both directly and automatically. We process information when necessary to provide you with the Service(s) you have requested when accepting particular Terms of Service relevant to that Service (for example, our newsletter subscription service), when we have obtained your prior consent, and/or when we have a legitimate interest to do so. For example, we might have a legitimate purpose to process your information for the purposes of security, testing, maintenance, enhancement of the Service(s) that we provide to you, analytics, research, and for reporting purposes when legally bound to do so.
Information You Provide To Us
While using our Website, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you. Personally identifiable information (“Personal Information”) may include, but is not limited to:
- Name
- Email address
- Telephone Number
- Address
- Social Media Account Profile Information
America’s Civil War Rising collects various Information from you when you elect to share it with us through:
- Contact, request and inquiry forms on our Website
- Emails and/or information that you submit to us, such as through our Tipline contact form or directly by email
- Comments made by you on our Website
- Subscriptions to our email and/or newsletter service(s)
- Any and all other communications and methods by which you choose to engage with us and our Website
In these cases, the types of information that we collect will depend on the nature of your interaction(s) with us and our Website and on the Service(s) that you choose to use (such as our third-party subscription service, Mailchimp) and what you choose to share with us. In the above instances, the types of Data that we collect from you may include but are not limited to your:
- Name
- Address
- Telephone number
- Email address
- A photograph of you and the profile information that you have associated with an account, such as the profile picture and information you have associated with a social media account with which you choose to log into our Website and make comments
Information We Obtain & Collect Automatically
America’s Civil War Rising collects and obtains various Information automatically, which includes but is not necessarily limited to log data, cookies, and third-party service providers.
1. Log Data
We collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our Website (“Log Data”). This Log Data may include information such as your:
- Internet Protocol addresses (IP)
- Browser type and version (i.e., Explorer, Chrome, FireFox, etc.)
- Internet Service Provider (ISP)
- Pages visited and the method used
- Time and Date of your visit
- Time spent on those pages
- Number of clicks
- Other statistics
All of this information is not linked to anything that is personally identifiable.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
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 privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), the personal information they provide is stored in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
2. Cookies
“Cookies” are files with small amount of data, which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your computer’s hard drive.
Cookies are used to collect information. If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, a temporary cookie is established to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, several cookies are automatically established to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me,” your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
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 Website and/or Services.
For more information on cookies and how to protect your privacy, see “How to Control Web Cookies and Boost Online Privacy.”
3. Service Providers
We may employ third-party companies, applications, and individuals to facilitate our Website and Service(s), to provide access to our Website, its features and functions, various Service(s) on our behalf, to perform Website and Service-related services, or to assist us in analyzing how our Website and Service(s) is/are used.
These third parties have access to your Personal Information only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.
Security
The security of your Personal Information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Embedded Content
Articles and/or Services on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.) and links to other sites that are not operated by us. Embedded content from other websites behave in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
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.
Links To Other Websites
If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit.
We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third-party sites or services.
Children’s Privacy
Our Website and Service(s) do not address anyone under the age of 18 (“Children”).
We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 18. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with Personal Information, please contact us. If we discover that a child under 18 has provided us with Personal Information, we will delete, to the best of our ability, such information from our servers immediately.
Compliance With Laws
We will disclose your Personal Information where required to do so by law or subpoena.
Changes To This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.
You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us.
