Blackburn Media takes your privacy seriously. Please read the following to learn more about our privacy policy.
What this Privacy Policy Covers
This Privacy Policy covers Blackburn Media Inc.’s treatment of personally identifiable information, including contact information, that Blackburn Media collects when you are on a Blackburn Media owned or operated website (a “Site”). This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that Blackburn Media does not own or control, including, without limitation, any Blackburn Media affiliates or business partners or to the privacy practices of any website to which any Site contains links. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of those websites, and we recommend that you review the privacy policies of each website that you visit.
Information Collection and Use
Blackburn Media collects personally identifiable information when you use certain Blackburn Media products or services, and when you enter promotions or sweepstakes. Blackburn Media may also receive personally identifiable information from our business partners.
When you enter promotions or sweepstakes with Blackburn Media, we may ask for the following information:
- Contact information, such as name, email address, postal address, phone number, and mobile number;
- User name, password, and password reminder questions and answers;
- Age, date of birth, and anniversary date;
- Other demographic information, such as gender, job information, and postal code;
- Information for a public profile, such as your interests and the address of your website;
- Communications preferences, such as which newsletters you would like to receive.
Once you enter personally identifiable information with Blackburn Media, you are not anonymous to us.
Blackburn Media also automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser including your IP address, browser and operating system, web pages and advertisements you view (including links you click within Blackburn Media Sites), your interactions with audio/video content, Blackburn Media cookie information, and standard server log information.
Blackburn Media uses information for the following general purposes: to customize the advertising and content you see on our pages, to fulfill your requests for certain products and services, improve our services, conduct research, and to contact you about specials and new products or for service announcements or administrative messages relating to the Blackburn Media service.
Information Sharing and Disclosure
Blackburn Media will not sell or rent your personally identifiable information to anyone.
Blackburn Media will not share personally identifiable information about you with other companies or people unless:
- We have your consent to share this information;
- We need to share your information to provide the product or service you have requested;
- We need to share the information with companies who work on behalf of Blackburn Media to provide a product or service to you (including, but not limited to, customer support, email and text message deployment, business analytics, marketing, and data processing);
- We reasonably believe it is necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, or as otherwise required or permitted by law;
- We respond to warrants, subpoenas, court orders or legal process or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims; or
- We find that your actions on our Sites violate the Blackburn Media Terms of Use or any of our usage guidelines for specific products or services.
When you share personally identifiable information with Blackburn Media, your information and other data may be transmitted to the United States and/or other countries for processing and storage by Blackburn Media and its affiliates and may be subject to the legal jurisdiction of these countries.
Cookies and Web Beacons
Blackburn Media may set and access Blackburn Media cookies on your computer.
Blackburn Media allows other companies that are presenting advertisements on some of our pages to set and access their cookies on your computer. Other companies’ use of their cookies is subject to their own privacy policies, not this one. Advertisers or other companies do not have access to Blackburn Media’s cookies.
Blackburn Media uses web beacons to access our cookies inside and outside our network of web sites and in connection with Blackburn Media products and services.
Your Ability to Edit and Delete Your Information and Preferences
You have the right to access, verify and update your Blackburn Media information and preferences at any time, including whether you want Blackburn Media to contact you about specials and new products.
You may request deletion of your Blackburn Media account by contacting us at blackburnmedia.ca/contact
Confidentiality and Security
We limit access to personal information about you to employees who, as part of their job, we believe need to come into contact with that information to provide products or services to you.
We have physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect personal information about you.
In the event that you believe that your personal safety is at risk or if you believe that you may be the victim of identity theft or other illegal conduct, please contact the appropriate federal, provincial or local law enforcement agencies directly.
Your Choices
You can choose to enjoy content and features on Blackburn Media Sites without directly providing us with any information about you; however, as described above, some information may automatically be collected or may be requested so you can take advantage of certain features and services offered on Blackburn Media Sites.
You can opt out of receiving commercial email or text messages from a particular Blackburn Media Site or service by following the instructions contained in any such message. Please note that even if you unsubscribe to commercial messages, we still may need to send you communications relating to your use of the Blackburn Media Sites, such as service announcements.
User-Generated Content
Some Blackburn Media Sites enable users to submit their own content for use in contests, blogs, over-the-air radio broadcasts, online audio and video streams and other functions. Please remember that any information you disclose becomes public information and exercise caution when deciding to disclose your contact, financial, and other information in a submission. We cannot prevent such information from being used in a manner that may violate this Privacy Policy, the law, or your personal privacy and safety.
Questions or Suggestions
If you have questions or suggestions or wish to contact us, please do so via one of the methods available at blackburnmedia.ca/contact