Privacy Statement

Primary Source: https://mediacause.org/privacy-policy/

Your privacy is critically important to us, so at Kern for Brisbane’s website we have a few fundamental principles. If you find content on the Kern for Brisbane website you believe violates our Privacy Policy, please contact us immediately.

We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it.

We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products, or protect our rights.

We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of one of our services.

Kern for Brisbane

Kern for Brisbane operates a website at Kern for Brisbane. It is Kern for Brisbane’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website. If you have questions about deleting or correcting your personal data (PD) please contact us.

WEBSITE VISITORS

Like most website operators, Kern for Brisbane collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Kern for Brisbane’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Kern for Brisbane’s visitors use its website. From time to time, Kern for Brisbane may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

Kern for Brisbane also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on articles published. Kern for Brisbane only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that blog commenter IP addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog where the comment was left.

PERSONALLY-IDENTIFYING INFORMATION

Certain visitors to Kern for Brisbane’s websites choose to interact with Kern for Brisbane in ways that require Kern for Brisbane to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Kern for Brisbane gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up for a newsletter at KernforBrisbane.com to provide a name and email address.

Those who engage in transactions with Kern for Brisbane — by registering for events, for example — are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, Kern for Brisbane collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Kern for Brisbane. Kern for Brisbane does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

AGGREGATED STATISTICS

Kern for Brisbane may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its website. For instance, Kern for Brisbane may monitor the most popular pages and articles on the KernforBrisbane.com site or use spam screened by the Akismet service to help identify spammers. Kern for Brisbane may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Kern for Brisbane does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

BUSINESS TRANSFERS

If Kern for Brisbane, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Kern for Brisbane goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of Kern for Brisbane may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.

ADS

Any Ads appearing on our website may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Kern for Brisbane and does not cover the use of cookies by any such advertisers.

COMMENTS

Comments and other content submitted via the Akismet anti-spam service are saved on our servers unless they were marked as spam positive, in which case we store them long enough to use them to improve the service to avoid future false positives.

PROTECTION OF INFORMATION

Kern for Brisbane discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that

(i) need to know that information in order to process it on Kern for Brisbane’s behalf or to provide services available at Kern for Brisbane’s websites, and

(ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others.

Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Kern for Brisbane’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Kern for Brisbane will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone.

Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Kern for Brisbane discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Kern for Brisbane believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Kern for Brisbane, third parties or the public at large.

If you are a registered user of Kern for Brisbane website and have supplied your email address, Kern for Brisbane may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new information, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Kern for Brisbane and our services. We primarily use our website to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum.

If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Kern for Brisbane takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

EMAIL COMMUNICATION

Kern for Brisbane sends a newsletter and occasional nonprofit marketing updates that we believe will be useful to individuals that subscribe to our website or blog, or request updates. Users may remove themselves from this mailing list by following the link provided in every email. We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law.

COOKIES

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Kern for Brisbane uses cookies to help Kern for Brisbane identify and track visitors, their usage of Kern for Brisbane website, and their website access preferences.

Kern for Brisbane visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Kern for Brisbane’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of Kern for Brisbane’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES

Our website may contain links to other websites. These websites are not under our control and are not subject to our privacy notice. These websites will likely have their own privacy notices. We have no responsibility for these websites and we provide links to these websites solely for your convenience. You acknowledge that your use of and access to these websites are solely at your risk. It is your responsibility to check the privacy notices of these websites to see how they treat your PD.

PROTECTING CHILDREN’S PRIVACY

Even though our website is not designed for use by anyone under the age of 16, we realize that a child under the age of 16 may attempt to access our website. We do not knowingly collect PD from children under the age of 16. If you are a parent or guardian and believe that your child is using our website, please contact us. Before we remove any information we may ask for proof of identification to prevent malicious removal of account information. If we discover that a child is accessing our website, we will delete his/her information within a reasonable period of time. You acknowledge that we do not verify the age of our users nor have any liability to do so.

USE OF YOUR CREDIT CARD

You may have to provide a credit card to buy products and services from our website. We use third-party billing services and have no control over them. We use commercially reasonable efforts to ensure that your credit card number is kept strictly confidential by using only third-party billing services that use industry-standard encryption technology to protect your credit card number from unauthorized use. However, you understand and agree that we are in no way responsible for any misuse of your credit card number.

PRIVACY POLICY CHANGES

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Kern for Brisbane may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and at Kern for Brisbane’s sole discretion. Kern for Brisbane encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. If you have a Kern for Brisbane account, you should also check your membership dashboard for alerts to these changes. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.