Privacy Policy

Protecting your private information is our priority. This Statement of Privacy applies to What’s Up News! and governs data collection and usage. For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, unless otherwise noted, all references to What’s Up News! include www.whatsupnews.online . By submitting any of the forms on the What’s Up News! website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

 

Collection of your Personal Information 

In order to better provide you with products and services offered, What’s Up News! may collect personally identifiable information, such as your:

 

•First and Last Name

•Mailing Address

•E-mail Address

•Phone Number

 

If you subscribe to any What’s Up News! products and services, we collect billing and credit card information. This information is used to complete the purchase transaction. 

 

What’s Up News!  may also collect anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your:

 

•Age

•Gender

 

We do not collect any personal information about you unless you voluntarily provide it to us. However, you may be required to provide certain personal information to us when you elect to use certain products or services. These may include: (a) registering for an account; (b) entering a sweepstakes or contest sponsored by us or one of our partners; ( c) signing up for special offers from selected third parties; ( d) sending us an email message; ( e) submitting your credit card or other payment information when ordering and purchasing products and services. To wit, we will use your information for, but not limited to, communicating with you in relation to services and/or products you have requested from us. We also may gather additional personal or non-personal information in the future. 

 

Use of your Personal Information 

What’s Up News! collects and uses your personal information to operate and deliver the services you have requested. 

 

What’s Up News! may also use your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from What’s Up News! and its affiliates. 

 

Sharing Information with Third Parties 

What’s Up News! does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. 

 

What’s Up News! may share data with trusted partners to help perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to What’s Up News!, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

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What’s Up News! may also use your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from What’s Up News! and its affiliates. 

 

Sharing Information with Third Parties 

What’s Up News! does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties.

 

What’s Up News! may share data with trusted partners to help perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to What’s Up News! , and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

 

What’s Up News! may disclose your personal information, without notice, if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on What’s Up News! or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of What’s Up News! ; and/or ( c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of What’s Up News! , or the public.

 

Right to Deletion 

Subject to certain exceptions set out below, on receipt of a verifiable request from you, we will:

•Delete your personal information from our records; and 

•Direct any service providers to delete your personal information from their records.

 

• Please note that we may not be able to comply with requests to delete your personal information if it is necessary to:

• Complete the transaction for which the personal information was collected, fulfill the terms of a written warranty or product recall conducted in accordance with federal law, provide a good or service requested by you, or reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, or otherwise perform a contract between you and us; 

• Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity; or prosecute those responsible for that activity; 

• Debug to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality; 

• Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise his or her right of free speech, or exercise another right provided for by law; 

• Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act; 

• Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when our deletion of the information is likely to render impossible or seriously impair the achievement of such research, provided we have obtained your informed consent; 

• Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with your expectations based on your relationship with us; 

• Comply with an existing legal obligation; or 

• Otherwise use your personal information, internally, in a lawful manner that is compatible with the context in which you provided the information.

 

Children Under Thirteen 

What’s Up News! collects personally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen.

What’s Up News! collects this information for the following reason(s): 

This information is collected to provide high-quality service and customer satisfaction.

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If you are under the age of thirteen, you must ask your parent or guardian for permission to use this website and/or to subscribe to our services. If you are a parent and you have questions regarding our data collection practices, please contact us using the information provided at the end of this Statement of Privacy.

 

Use of Cookies 

The What’s Up News! website may use “cookies” to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that gussied the cookie to you. 

 

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned a specific page. For example, if you personalize What’s Up News! pages, or register with What’s Up News! site or services, a cookie helps PWhat’s Up News! to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of reordering your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same What’s Up News! website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the What’s Up News! features that you customized.  

 

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive feature of the What’s Up News! services or website you visit.

 

E-mail Communications

From time to time, What’s Up News! may contact you via email for the purpose of providing announcements, promotional offers, alerts, confirmations, surveys, and/or other general communication. 

 

If you would like to stop receiving marketing or promotional communications via email from What’s Up News! , you may opt out of such communications by sending an email to sources@whatsupnews.onlline with a request to unsubscribe to emails.

 

Changes to this Statement 

What’s Up News! reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your account, and/or by updating any privacy information. Your continued use of the application and/or Services available after such modifications will constitute your: (a) acknowledgment of the modified Privacy Policy; and (b) agreement to abide and be bound by that Policy. 

 

Contact Information 

What’s Up News! welcomes your questions or comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that What’s Up News! has not adhered to this Statement, please contact What’s Up News! at: 

Email Address: sources@whatsupnews.online