Last Updated: January 1, 2024

WakeUp! Westchester is a news website (see “Who We Are”). We are concerned about privacy issues and want you to be familiar with how we collect, use, and share information and how you can exercise the privacy rights available to you. 

SECTION 1 – WHO WE ARE

A reference to “WakeUp! Westchester” “we” or “our” means WakeUp! Westchester (wakeupwestchester.com).

WakeUp! Westchester provides curated headlines and video clips with a Point of View written by WakeUp! Westchester editors with links to news articles covering current events worldwide.

WakeUp! Westchester only collects information from individuals when they opt in to receive the WakeUp! Westchester newsletter via www.wakeupwestchester.com.

SECTION 2 – THINGS WE PROMISE NOT TO DO

• We do not collect your email address, name, or telephone number(s) in order to use our website.
• We do not send marketing or sales emails to you.
• We do not send you emails unless you opt-in to receive our daily newsletter.

SECTION 3 – PRIVACY FOR WAKE UP! WESTCHESTER

This Section describes how we collect and use information when visitors interact with WakeUp! Westchester

3.1 WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?

Information that individuals provide voluntarily

The personal information we collect may include contact information (such as first name, email address, zip code).

Information we or our third-party partners collect automatically

When using WakeUp! Westchester, we or our third-party partners may automatically collect certain information from an individual’s device. In some countries, including countries in the EU, this information may be considered personal data under applicable data protection laws.

Specifically, the information we collect automatically may include IP address, operating system type and version, browser type and version, cookie ID, an individual’s activities on WakeUp! Westchester, and other information about the individual’s system and connection and how the individual interacts with WakeUp! Westchester. We and our third-party partners may collect this information as a part of log files and through the use of cookies or other tracking technologies.

3.2 HOW DO WE USE YOUR INFORMATION?

We may use information collected from WakeUp! Westchester for the following purposes:

To send administrative information. For example, to send information regarding our services and changes to our terms, conditions, and policies.

To manage accounts and provide customer support or other services. For example, we may use information to create or administer WakeUp! Westchester accounts and to provide customer support or other requested services or information.

To select content and improve quality. We may use information to help improve WakeUp! Westchester and to ensure that content on WakeUp! Westchester is presented in the most effective manner for your device.

For legal purposes. We may use information as we believe to be necessary or appropriate: (a) under applicable law, including laws outside your country of residence; (b) to comply with subpoenas, warrants, or other legal process; (c) to respond to requests from public and government authorities including public and government authorities outside your country of residence; (d) to enforce our terms and conditions; (e) to protect our operations or those of any of our affiliates; (f) to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of our affiliates, you or others; and (g) to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.

For our business purposes. We may use information for our business purposes, such as data analysis, audits, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns, and to evaluate and improve our products, services, marketing, and client relationships.

3.3 COOKIES AND SIMILAR TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES

We and our third-party partners may use cookies and similar tracking technologies on WakeUp! Westchester to collect and use information about you.

3.4 USE OF WAKE UP! WESTCHESTER BY MINORS

WakeUp! Westchester is not intended for nor directed to individuals that are deemed to be children under applicable data protection or privacy laws, and we request that such individuals do not provide information through WakeUp! Westchester.

SECTION 4 – GENERAL INFORMATION

4.1 HOW DO WE SHARE YOUR INFORMATION?

Information we collect may be disclosed:

• With our vendors, consultants, and other service providers: We may share your information with our third-party service providers, vendors, contractors, or agents who perform functions required for the operation of the business. Examples include, to provide data storage and processing services, lead management, campaign management, technical support for our Platform and fraud prevention.
• Business transfers: We may share your information with a third party in the event of any reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer, or other disposition of all or any portion of our business, assets or sock (including in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceedings).
• For legal purposes: We may share your information as we believe to be necessary or appropriate: (a) under applicable law, including laws outside your country of residence; (b) to comply with subpoenas, warrants, or other legal process; (c) to respond to requests from public and government authorities including public and government authorities outside your country of residence; (d) to enforce our terms and conditions; (e) to protect our operations or those of any of our affiliates; (f) to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of our affiliates, you or others; and (g) to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.
• With consent: We may disclose an individual’s information to any other person with the individual’s consent to such disclosure.

4.2 YOUR OPT-OUT CHOICES

Opting-out of receiving electronic communications from us

We do not send marketing-related emails to anyone. Therefore it is not necessary to opt out of receiving any marketing-related emails from us, because that will not happen. If you receive marketing related emails claiming to be from WakeUp! Westchester, they are fraudulent.

The only emails that WakeUp! Westchester generates is a daily newsletter that our site visitors must opt-in to receive.

At this time, we do not honor “Do Not Track” headers and similar mechanisms.

4.3 YOUR DATA PROTECTION RIGHTS

You have the following data protection rights:

• You have the right to request access to or that we change, update, or delete your personal information at any time.
• If we have collected and process your personal information with your consent, then you can withdraw your consent at any time. Withdrawing your consent will not affect the lawfulness of any processing we conducted prior to your withdrawal, nor will it affect processing of your personal information conducted in reliance on lawful processing grounds other than consent.

Please note that because most of the information we store can only identify a particular browser or device, and cannot directly identify you personally, you may need to provide us with some additional information to enable us to identify the personal information we hold about you and ensure that we accurately fulfill your request and do not infringe on the privacy rights of other individuals.

4.4 LEGAL BASIS FOR PROCESSING PERSONAL INFORMATION (EEA END USERS AND VISITORS ONLY)

If you are a resident of the EEA, our legal basis for collecting and using personal information described above will depend on the personal information concerned and the specific context in which we collect it. However, we normally rely on our (or our Clients) legitimate interests to collect personal information from you, except where such interests are overridden by your data protection interests or fundamental rights and freedoms.

In some cases, we may rely on your consent or have a legal obligation to collect personal information from you or may otherwise need the personal information to protect your vital interests or those of another person. If we rely on consent to collect and/or process your personal information, we will obtain such consent in compliance with applicable laws.

4.5 THIRD PARTIES

This Policy does not address, and except as otherwise described in this Policy, we are not responsible for, the privacy, information, or other practices of any third parties, including our vendors or any other third party operating any site or service to which WakeUp! Westchester links.

Please note that we are not responsible for the collection, usage and disclosure policies and practices (including the data security practices) of other organizations, such as Facebook, Apple, Google, Microsoft, RIM or any other app developer, app provider, social media platform provider, operating system provider, wireless service provider or device manufacturer, including any personal information you disclose to other organizations through or in connection with WakeUp! Westchester.

You should always read the privacy policy of any website you access or social network page through which you share information carefully in order to understand their specific privacy and information usage practices.

4.6 HOW DO WE KEEP YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION SECURE?

We use reasonable organizational, technical, administrative, and physical safeguards to protect the personal information we collect and process. The measures we use are designed to provide a level of security appropriate to the risk of processing your personal information and to help ensure that your data is safe and secure. However, no electronic transmission over the Internet or information storage technology can be guaranteed to be 100% secure.

4.7 RETENTION OF YOUR INFORMATION

We will retain personal information for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Policy and where we have ongoing legitimate business needs to do so unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law.

4.8 INTERNATIONAL DATA TRANSFERS

WakeUp! Westchester is supported and hosted in the United States. If you are accessing the site from outside the United States, be aware that your information may be transferred to, stored, and processed by us in our facilities and by those third parties with whom we may share your personal information in the United States.

4.9 UPDATES TO THIS POLICY

We will review and update this Policy periodically and will note the date of its most recent revision at the top of this Policy. If we make material changes to this Policy, we will post the revised Policy on our website and may take additional measures to inform you about such changes if required by applicable data protection laws. We encourage you to review this Policy frequently to be informed of how WakeUp! Westchester is protecting your information.

4.10 CONTACTING US

If you have any questions about this Policy or WakeUp! Westchester privacy practices, please contact us by email at amiesh@me.com.

Please note that email communications are not always secure, so please do not include sensitive information in your emails to us.