Terms of Use

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Effective Date: March 17, 2024

Last Updated: April 6, 2024

This Privacy Policy applies to information that GRANITE STATE REPORTER (referred to in this Privacy Policy as “GSR”, “we,” “us,” “our,” "they," and other similar pronouns) collect through granitestatereporter.com which make this Privacy Policy available ( a “Service”).

PRIVACY

We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal information. The information we gather is either information that you voluntarily provide when you Subscribe or File A Report, or information gathered on usage patterns and preferences as visitors navigate the website, use our services such as e-mail, or read our e-mail newsletters.

1. USER-PROVIDED INFORMATION

During your use of a Service (whether as a registered or unregistered user), you may provide us with personal information, such as your name and e-mail address, or other information that could be used to identify you as an individual or allow someone to contact you, as well as any information associated with such information (collectively, “Personal Information”). Personal Information includes both things that specifically identify you (like your real name) and things that don’t specifically identify you, but might be connected back to you (like the IP address of your computer or the device identifier of your smartphone).

2. HOW YOUR INFORMATION IS USED

In the event your provide us personal information, we may utilize that information to perform the following functions:

• administer our Services and your account with us;
• enable you to use our Services and their features;
• customize our Services to your interests and history with us;
• localize the content and articles that are displayed to you based on your geographical location;
• conduct market research;
• improve or develop new features and offerings in our Services;
• tailor ads displayed to you in our Services and elsewhere;
• send you marketing and other communications, including information about products, services, or events that we think might be of interest to you;
• assess your level of interest in and use of our Services, e-mails, and other messaging campaigns, both on an individual basis and in aggregate;
• generate analytics reports on the usage of our Services; and
• respond to your requests, questions, and concerns protecting our rights and property.

We may also use Personal Information to meet our internal and external audit requirements and for information security purposes. Where permissible under applicable law, your Personal Information may be used for other purposes, which will be disclosed to you at the time when your information is collected.
There may be instances, however, when we will use your Personal Information for purposes that were not disclosed at the time of the data collection; for example, when doing so is necessary to comply with a legal obligation or requirement. We may use Personal Information to (a) respond to requests from courts, law enforcement agencies, regulatory agencies, and other public and government authorities, which may include such authorities outside your country of residence; (b) enforce our terms and conditions; and (c) protect our rights, privacy, safety, or property, or those of other persons.

Some of the uses specified above are necessary for the performance of a contract between us, or for the provision of a service requested by you. In other cases, the uses are based on our legitimate interests such as marketing our services to people who have expressed an interest in them or similar services.

3. HOW DO WE SHARE THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT

We may share your information:

• with our lawyers, auditors, and other professional advisors, third party advertising companies (including exchanges and brokers) and third party providers of services such as cloud storage, customer relationship management systems, travel and expense management, analytics databases, who need your information to provide services to us (or on our behalf);
• when we believe in good faith that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights or property, protect your safety or the safety of others, investigate fraud, or respond to a government agency, law enforcement, judicial or public authority, or other legal request, or to comply with the law;
• in connection with a proposed corporate change or dissolution, including for example a merger, acquisition, reorganization, consolidation, bankruptcy, liquidation, sale of assets or wind down of business.

We may share non-personally identifiable information about usage of the Services (including aggregate data) with others, for their own use, in a de-identified form.

In addition, what you voluntarily post to public areas of our Service may be available to other Service users.If you would like further information, please see “Contact us” section below.

4. HOW DO WE SECURE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We use reasonable technical, administrative and physical security measures to protect Personal Information collected via our Services. We cannot guarantee that any information, during transmission through the Internet or while stored on our systems or otherwise in our care, will be absolutely safe from unauthorized access or use (e.g., by hackers). You use the Services, and send us information, at your own risk.

If you correspond with us by e-mail, or using a “Contact us” feature on our Service, or by using our Fie A Report Service, a third party could view the information you send in transit by such means. We have no liability relating to disclosure of your information due to errors, omissions due to, but not limited to; unauthorized acts, acts of terrorism, cyberattacks, etc. or failures to act by third parties during or after transmission.
We have procedures in place to deal with any suspected data security breach. If we believe that the security of your Personal Information in our care may have been compromised, we will endeavor to notify you of that development promptly taking into consideration the circumstances. If we have your e-mail address, we may notify you by e-mail. Where legally required to do so, we also will notify any applicable regulator.

6. LINKS AND CONNECTION TO THIRD-PARTY SERVICES

If we maintain a presence on social media and other external platforms, we may occasionally incorporate third party social networking features into our Services. This Privacy Policy applies to our use of information you submit to us there, but it does not apply to what those third-party platforms do with your information.

Our Services may allow you to share information with us that you have already provided to a third party social networking platform. For example, you may be able to create an account on our Service or log in to our Service using your Facebook account or other third-party credentials. If you do so, Personal Information or other data that you have provided to the third party may be made available to us by that third party subject to its own privacy policy, terms, and conditions. Privacy policies of social networks and other external platforms explain how those third parties use, protect, and share your information, including any information you share on those platforms from our Services, and we encourage you to read them. The information we receive from these platforms may depend on your privacy settings. Any such information that we obtain will remain subject to that third party’s privacy policy and we will use any such information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

We may also include tools in our Services that allow you to share or publicly post content from our Services to your profile on a third party social network. You may choose to share information about your activities on the Service with such third party platforms and its users, including publishing your information about what content you may have viewed on our Services. If you visit a Service while logged into certain social media platforms, the social media platform may be able to identify your browser and associate the technical information provided by your web browser with other information that they have already collected about you, which may result in their ability to identify you. In addition, when you choose to share information about your activities on the Service with certain social media platforms, GSR may send technical information about you to that platform as well as information about what content you are viewing.

Our Service may contain links, banners, widgets, or advertisements that lead to third-party web sites. We are not responsible for these other web sites, and so their posted privacy policies (not this Privacy Policy) will govern the collection and use of your information on them. We encourage you to read the privacy statements of web site visited after leaving our Services to learn about how your information is treated by others.
Our Services may contain certain co-sponsored content and you may be requested to provide additional Personal Information to the co-sponsor of such content. We will disclose to you when you are submitting Personal Information to co-sponsors. The information practices of any third party co-sponsors are governed by their own privacy policies and are not covered by this Privacy Policy.

7. THIRD-PARTY AD SERVERS AND NETWORKS

We do not utilize third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our Services.

8. DO NO TRACK DISCLOSURE

Some web browsers may transmit “do-not-track” (“DNT”) signals to mobile applications with which the user communicates. We currently do not change our tracking practices (which are explained in more detail under “Service Usage Information” above) in response to DNT settings in your web browser.Our third party partners, such as web analytics companies and third party ad networks, may collect information about you and your online activities over time and across our Services and other online properties. These third parties may not change their tracking practices in response to DNT settings in your web browser and we do not obligate these parties to honor DNT settings. We utilize Google Analytics for our web analytics and you can opt out of your usage data being included in our Google Analytics reports by visiting https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

9. DATA RETENTION

Your Personal Information will be held for the purposes and uses set out in this Privacy Policy and for as long as there is a legal or record keeping requirement to do so. Different retention periods apply to different types of records and data which are dependent on the nature of your interaction with GRANITE STATE REPORTER.

10. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do, we will let you know by posting the changed Privacy Policy on this page with a new “Last Updated” date. In some cases, we may also tell you about changes by additional means, such as by sending an e-mail to the e-mail address we have on file for you.

11. CHILDREN'S PRIVACY

The Services are not aimed at children. If, however, we collect and use information about children, we will comply with industry guidelines and applicable laws.

Any inquiries about this Privacy Policy GraniteStateReporter.com, or any website, or social media pages owned in-part or in-whole by GRANITE STATE REPORTER, complete the form.