Dallas Express Media Privacy Policy
Dallas Express Media, a 501(c)3 non-profit corporation (“we” or “us”), operates the Dallas Express newsite (the “Site”) and is committed to protecting the privacy of users of the Site however accessed. We have established this Privacy Policy to explain what information we collect through the Site and how it is used.
By using our Site you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy and consent to the processing of information according to this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with any aspect of our Privacy Policy, you must not use the Site. Except where prohibited by applicable law, we may sell or rent user information in aggregate or on an individual basis to Dallas Express Media partners. If you do not agree, you must not use the Site.
Contact Information:
Dallas Express Media
469-210-8807
Email – [email protected]
We may collect information about you in a variety of ways. The types of personal information we collect depend on the nature of your interaction with us. Generally, information is provided voluntarily and you may visit our Site without providing information about yourself; however, registering interacting with our content may require disclosure of certain personal information.
Information that we collect from you may include the following categories, but some of these categories or examples may not apply to you depending on your use of the Site:
• Identifiers (including name, real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, account name, or other similar identifiers);
• Internet or other similar network activity (information regarding a user’s interaction with a website, application, or advertisement);
• Inferences drawn from other personal information (profile reflecting a person’s preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes).
We collect information through various categories of sources. For example, we collect and obtain information:
• You provide, such as when you interact with the Site, contact us, respond to a survey, or sign up for e-mails or marketing information;
• From affiliated companies; and
• Using cookies and automatic collection methods.
The Site produces news articles and poses questions and allows users to post answers, share the aggregate results (outcomes) via social media or submit and email address. We collect non-personal information about your use of the Site and some personal data from users. When you use the Site, we may use a variety of technologies to collect certain non-personal information. We and our service providers may use “cookies” to customize your experience on the Site. “Cookies” are small computer files that are transferred to your computer’s hard drive that contain information such as user preferences and the pages you have visited and the activities you have performed while using the Site. You may block cookies or delete cookies from your hard drive; however, by disabling cookies, you may not be able to access to all of the features of the Site. You should be aware that getting a new computer, installing a new browser, upgrading an existing browser, or erasing or otherwise altering your browser’s cookies files may also clear certain opt-out cookies, plug-ins, or settings.
Some of our advertisers, ad servers and third-party providers also use cookies to provide us with anonymous data and information regarding your use of the Site. We do not have access or control over such parties’ cookies. Our Privacy Policy does not cover the use of cookies by third parties.
Having accurate information about you permits us to provide you with a smooth, efficient, and customized experience and allows us to conduct our business. Specifically, we may use information collected about you to:
• Present the Site and its contents to you and allow you to participate in interactive features on the Site.
• Compile anonymous statistical data and analysis for use internally or with third parties.
• Deliver newsletters, and other information regarding promotions and the Site to you.
• Allow our partner organizations to contact you regarding products or services that may interest you.
• Increase the efficiency and operation of the Site.
• Monitor and analyze usage and trends to improve your experience with the Site.
• Offer new products, services, and/or recommendations to you.
• Perform other business activities as needed.
• Request feedback and contact you about your use of the Site.
• Respond to inquiries and product and customer service requests.
• Fulfill your requests.
• Carry out our obligations and enforce our rights that arise from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection.
• Comply with any legal or regulatory obligations.
• Other purposes, with your consent.
Subject to applicable law, we may retain your information for as long as needed to provide you products or services that you have requested, comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes and enforce our agreements. We may not remove your personal information when there is a legal storage requirement, such as accounting rules or when there are other legal grounds to keep the data, such as an ongoing contractual relationship.
We may keep you logged into our Site and track your session history. We may analyze users’ usage patterns to improve the effectiveness of our Site. Users’ answers are stored anonymously. We do not share your answers, and your stored answers are not associated your identity, unless you submit personal information such as an email address. We store anonymous information on shared machines and aggregate answers and provide information to other users anonymously. We may offer you interfaces that enable you to connect to certain social networking sites such as Facebook and/or Twitter, among others. We integrate with Facebook for account creation and sharing, and we integrate with Twitter for sharing. You acknowledge that by posting on the Site, you are granting us a non-exclusive, transferable, fully–paid, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense) to use, distribute, reproduce, modify, adapt, publicly perform and publicly display such posts.
We have implemented security procedures to help protect the personal information on the Site. However, no method of transmitting or storing electronic data is ever completely secure, and we cannot guarantee that such information will never be accessed, used, or released in a manner that is inconsistent with this Privacy Policy.
Disclosure of Your Information
Advertisers and ad servers may place ads on the Site to sponsor third-party products and services. Those advertisers and ad servers may use cookies to follow user activities related to their advertisements placed on the Site. We have no control over, do not review and are not responsible for such third-party websites. This Privacy Policy does not apply to third-party websites. We recommend that you learn about the privacy policy and security practices of such third-party websites before providing them with any personal information. We may sell, divest, transfer, assign or otherwise engage in a transaction that involves some of all of our assets in the course of a corporate divestiture, merger, acquisition, joint venture, bankruptcy, dissolution, reorganization or any similar transaction or proceeding. The information you submit on the Site may be transferred in the context of such a transaction. We may disclose your personal information to a third party for a business purpose. When we disclose personal information for a business purpose, we enter a contract that describes the purpose and requires the recipient to both keep that personal information confidential and not use it for any purpose except performing the contract. If we believe the release of information about you is necessary to respond to legal process, to investigate or remedy potential violations of our policies, to respond to requests from public and government authorities, including authorities outside your country of residence and to meet national security or law enforcement requirements, or to protect the rights, property, and safety of others, we may share your information as permitted or required by any applicable law, rule, or regulation. This includes exchanging information with other entities for fraud protection and credit risk reduction. When you post comments, contributions or other content to the Site your posts may be viewed by all users and may be publicly distributed outside the Site in perpetuity, subject to applicable laws. We may share your information with our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy. Affiliates include any subsidiaries, joint venture partners or other companies that we control or that are under common control with us.
We do not knowingly solicit information from or market to children under the age of 13. If you become aware of any data we have collected from children under age 13, please contact us using the contact information provided below.
Emails and Communications
We offer Site visitors a means to choose how we use the information provided. If you receive a marketing communication or promotion from us, you may opt-out of these communications at any time (i) by following the unsubscribe instructions included in the promotion (if sent by e-mail), or (ii) sending us an e-mail at the address noted in the Contact Information section above.
Access and Correction
You have the right to access and correct your personal information. If you want to review or correct your personal information, you can send us an e-mail at the address noted in the Contact Information section above.
Indemnification
You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Dallas Express Media, its members, managers, officers, employees, affiliates and representatives from all liabilities, claims, damages, losses, and expenses, including attorneys’ fees that arise from your use of the Site. We reserve the right, at our own expense, to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter otherwise subject to indemnification by you, in which event you will cooperate with us in asserting any available defenses.
Third Parties
We allow third-party companies to collect certain information when you visit our web site. These companies may utilize cookies, pixels or other technologies to collect and use information (e.g., hashed data, click stream information, browser type, time and date, subject of advertisements clicked or scrolled over) during your visits to this and other web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services likely to be of greater interest to you. To learn more about this behavioral advertising practice or to opt-out of this type of advertising, you can visit the websites of the Digital Advertising Alliance and the Networking Advertising Initiative.
Changes to our Privacy Policy
We may amend this Privacy Policy at any time in our sole discretion. We encourage you to review this Policy whenever you visit the Site to see if it has been updated since your last visit.
We do not support Do Not Track (“DNT”). Do Not Track is a preference you can set in your web browser to inform websites that you do not want to be tracked. You can enable or disable Do Not Track by visiting the Preferences or Settings page of your web browser.
As set forth above, we may engage in the collection of personal information over time across third-party websites, and we may permit third parties to gather information passively on our website for behavioral advertising purposes.
THE SITE IS OPERATED BY DALLAS EXPRESS MEDIA ORE IN THE STATE OF TEXAS, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AND PERSONAL INFORMATION WILL BE PRIMARILY STORED IN THE UNITED STATES. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOUR INFORMATION MAY THUS BE SUBJECT TO U.S. FEDERAL AND TEXAS STATE LAW AND OTHER FOREIGN LAWS AND ACCESSIBLE TO U.S. AND FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS, COURTS, LAW ENFORCEMENT AND REGULATORY AGENCIES. BECAUSE DALLAS EXPRESS MEDIA IS LOCATED IN THE UNITED STATES, THESE DATA TRANSFERS TO THE UNITED STATES ARE NECESSARY TO PROVIDE THE SITE AND PRODUCTS AND SERVICES TO YOU AND TO OPERATE OUR SITE.
This Privacy Policy was last updated on March 11 , 2021.