PRIVACY POLICY
Updated: February 4, 2025
We respect your privacy and your privacy is important to us. This policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or the personal information that you may provide on The Dillon County News, LLC, website and any of its related products and services. This is also known as Personally Identifiable Information.
If you do not agree to the terms of this policy or if you do not have the authority on behalf of a business or legal entity that you represent to agree to or bind the entity to this policy, you must not accept this policy and may not access or use the website, www.dillonnews.org, or any of its services. By accessing and using www.dillonnews.org, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound to the terms of this policy. This 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.
NEWS AND EDITORIAL CONTENT
This policy does not apply to any information about you that is included in news/editorial content, which is not subject to the requirements of data privacy laws.
PERSONAL INFORMATION
When and what personal information do we collect from the people that visit our website, and who can see it? We collect information from you when you register for The Dillon County News, LLC website, subscribe to a newsletter/news update, fill out a form or enter information on our site.
Registration is not required to use and access the information on our website; however, some people may choose to register on the website or register for the newsletter. When registering on our website, you may be asked to enter your name, email address, mailing address, phone number, social media profile URLs, biographical information, photo, language, employer information, or other details to help you with your experience. When registering for the news bulletin/newsletter, you are asked for your first name, last name, and email. This information is only visible to administrators of the website.
USE OF YOUR INFORMATION
We may use the information we collect from you when you register for our website, sign up for our newsletter/news update, respond to a newsletter, survey, or marketing communication, surf the website, or use certain other site features in the following ways:
— To get user counts on who visit our website and to track the user count results on our advertisements.
— To improve our website in order to better serve you and to respond to your customer service requests.
— To administer a contest, promotion, survey or other site feature.
— To send periodic emails regarding products and services or news updates/newsletters only when you register.
PROTECTING YOUR INFORMATION
Our hosting plan for The Dillon County News, LLC, website includes SSL, Secure Sockets Layer, which is technology that encrypts data sent between a visitor’s browser and the website, and helps keep the visitor’s information private and secure. The Dillon County News website hosting plan also includes malware scanning and removal for our website, a web application firewall, DDoS protection, and domain privacy. A third-party firewall protection plug-in has also been added to provide additional protection of information on this website.
The Dillon County News, LLC, website is regularly scanned for security vulnerabilities and malware to help keep your visit safe.
COOKIES
We use cookies on our website. Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computer’s hard drive through your Web browser (if you allow) that enables the site’s or service provider’s systems to recognize your browser, and to capture and remember certain information. We use cookies to help us compile data about site traffic and site interactions, etc.
We use cookies to:
-Understand and save user’s preferences for future visits.
-Track our advertisements and their success.
-Compile data about site traffic and site interactions.
We use trusted third-party services that track this information on our behalf.
-You can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies. You do this through your browser settings. Look at your browser’s Help Menu to learn how to modify your cookies.
-If users disable cookies in their browser, it may/will turn off some of the features of the site.
We also have a plug-in powered by CookieAdmin where you accept all cookies, reject all cookies, or customize your cookie settings.
THIRD PARTY DISCLOSURE
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise knowingly transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information. We use trusted third-party services that track information about site traffic and site interactions on our behalf.
THIRD PARTY LINKS
Occasionally, we may include or offer third-party products or services on our website. These third party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We therefore have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites.
CALIFORNIA ONLINE PRIVACY PROTECTION ACT (CalOPPA)
CalOPPA is the first state law in the nation to require commercial websites and online services to post a privacy policy. Learn more at: http://consumercal.org/
According to CalOPPA, we agree to the following:
Users can visit our site anonymously. Our privacy policy can be found in the footer of our website and contains the word “Privacy.” You will be notified of any Privacy Policy changes on our Privacy Policy Page and can change your personal information by logging in to your account if you have created one, which is not necessary to access this page.
GOOGLE
We, along with third-party vendors such as Google, use first-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookies) and third-party cookies or other third-party identifiers together to compile data regarding user interactions with the content on our website.
OPTING OUT: Users can set preferences for how Google advertises to you using the Google Ad Settings page. Alternatively, you can opt out by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative Opt Out page or by using the Google Analytics Opt Out Browser add on.
DO NOT TRACK SIGNALS
We do not honor Do Not Track signals and Do Not Track, plant cookies, or use advertising when a Do Not Track (DNT) browser mechanism is in place.
THIRD PARTY TRACKING
We allow third-party behavioral tracking.
COPPA (Children Online Privacy Protection Act)
We do not specifically market to children under the age of 13 years old in compliance with The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) is enforced by The Federal Trade Commission, United States consumer protection agency. If you are under the age of 13, you must ask your parent/guardian for permission to use this website.
FAIR INFORMATION PRACTICES
In order to comply with the Fair Information Practices we will take the following action, should a data breach occur:
-We will notify you via email within 25 days.
-We will notify the users via in-site notification within 25 days
-We also agree to the Individual Redress Principle.
CAN SPAM ACT
We collect your email address in order to send out the newsletter/news bulletin if you have registered. In accordance with the CAN-SPAM Act, if at any time you no longer wish to receive these newsletters/news bulletins, you may use the unsubscribe button at the bottom of our news update/newsletter or email us at bf@dillonnews.org and you will be promptly removed.
The Dillon County News, LLC, reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by placing a prominent notice on our website in the privacy policy section and/or by updating any privacy information. If you continue to use of the website and/or services available after modifications, it will be considered your acknowledgment of the modified privacy policy and agreement to abide and be bound by that policy.
CONTACT US
If you have any questions regarding this privacy policy, you may contact us at:
The Dillon County News, LLC
P.O. Box 1712
Dillon, S.C. 29536
jd@dillonnews.org or alternate email dilloncountynews@yahoo.com