Privacy Policy

The Bay Area Reporter ("Bay Area Reporter") Privacy Policy may be found below. Your use of any Bay Area Reporter product or service constitutes your acceptance of the terms and conditions of the Bay Area Reporter Privacy Policy. You are responsible for reviewing and becoming familiar with all of these terms.

Bay Area Reporter Privacy Policy

Updated: October 12, 2022

Bay Area Reporter has created this privacy policy because we value our members and recognize their right to keep personal information private. This statement discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for Bay Area Reporter websites, mobile applications and other products ("Network").

Information Collection Methodologies

Cookies

When accessed over the World Wide Web, the Bay Area Reporter Website uses cookies to gather broad demographic information about you, to deliver user-specific content specific to your interest, and to auto-fill forms with your demographic information so that you don't have to manually type that information each time you visit. A cookie is a small line of data that is stored on your hard drive. Some cookies are only stored for the duration of a single browser session; others persist across sessions. Information you provide to us voluntarily is NOT stored in the cookie; that information is kept encrypted and secure in our database. All cookies assigned by our Network are anonymous, random number strings; neither us nor our advertisers will know who you are unless you specifically provide that information to us.

Mobile Device Unique Identifier

When utilizing an Bay Area Reporter mobile application from your mobile device, Bay Area Reporter may receive a unique identifier for your device and use it to offer extended services and/or functionality. You will always be asked permission before Bay Area Reporter is provided this information about your device. All mobile identifiers received by our Network are anonymous, random strings; neither us nor our advertisers will know who you are unless you specifically provide that information to us.

Tracking Technologies

Bay Area Reporter uses third party technologies to track activity on our network and mobile applications via Cookies or Mobile Unique Identifiers. Bay Area Reporter controls the use of this activity; while we use this anonymous information to better understand our readers and how they utilize our solutions, we do not sell this information or make it available to advertisers outside aggregated reporting without your authorization.

Third-party Information Collection

Organizations that place advertising on our Network occasionally will utilize Cookies or Mobile Unique Identifiers in order to deliver advertising that is targeted to you. Bay Area Reporter does not control third-party use of such data.

Information Collected

Polls

At times Bay Area Reporter may conduct polls about our Network. These polls are always optional, and they do not request personally identifiable information from you.

Member Feedback

Bay Area Reporter stores feedback you send to us via digital forms. This feedback is used to administer and refine the Bay Area Reporter Website and associated services and at times may be shared with Bay Area Reporter partners either in aggregate form or individually with specific identifying characteristics about the Member (e.g., e-mail address or name) removed.

Sharing Content with Other Users

If you choose to use our invitation service to tell a friend about our Network or specific content on our Network, we will ask you for information needed to send the invitation, such as your friend's email address. We will automatically send your friend a one-time email or message inviting them to visit the site. Bay Area Reporter stores this information to send this one-time invitation and to track the success of such programs. Your friend may contact us at [email protected] to request that we remove this information from our database.

Contests

From time to time we may provide you the opportunity to participate in contests on our site. If you participate, we will request certain personally identifiable information from you. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and you therefore have a choice whether or not to disclose this information. The requested information typically includes contact information (such as name and shipping address), and demographic information (such as gender).

We use this information to notify you when you win or do not win said contests, and in order to ship any prizes you might win to you directly. When notified, your personal information may also be shared with the sponsors of said contests. Your entry to any contests is linked to your Registration (see below) and so the information you provide is subject to the terms described in the following section.

Registration and Your Account

When you register for an account with Bay Area Reporter, you may provide us with personal information such as your name, your email address, your telephone number, your address, your gender and additional personal or preference information. We collect this information so that we can provide you customized service, so that you may post content such as comments, classifieds, events and photos, and so that we may offer you additional personalized features.

You post content on the Network at your own risk. Although we may allow you to limit access to your private information, such as through the use of a handle or alias, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. We cannot control the actions of other users with whom you may choose to share your identity and information. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that content you post on Bay Area Reporter will not be viewed by unauthorized persons. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on Bay Area Reporter. You understand and acknowledge that, even after removal, copies of your content may remain viewable in cached and archived pages or if other users have copied or stored your content.

Data Deletion Instructions

If you wish for your account to be deactivated and/or your user information to be deleted, please send a request to [email protected].

How We Use Your Data

The Bay Area Reporter Website uses the data we collect to provide, personalize, maintain and improve our products and services. We may also use this data to market our services. We do not sell or otherwise provide your personal information to third parties unless you provide your specific authorization to do so, for example in the course of entering a promotion on our network.

CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS:

The Bay Area Reporter Website does not fall under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) due to the fact that we do not meet the revenue threshold for compliance at this time.

NEVADA RESIDENTS:

Nevada's Privacy Law (SB-220) permits residents from that state to request that we do not sell their data. To make such a request, please email [email protected].

Communications from Bay Area Reporter

Newsletters, Special Offers and Updates

Bay Area Reporter may occasionally send you information on products, services, news, special deals, or promotions via e-mail. All e-mail communications from Bay Area Reporter are "opt in," which means you must request them in some way via our Network. Every e-mail communication you receive from Bay Area Reporter includes instructions for "opting out" of any future communications from our company.

Mobile Notifications

Bay Area Reporter may occasionally send you information on products, services, news, special deals, or promotions via mobile notifications. All mobile notifications from Bay Area Reporter are "opt in," which means you must request them in some way via your device. All devices provide specific functionality to "opt out" of any future mobile notifications from our company; consult the instruction manual for your device's operating system for specific instructions.

Additional Disclosures

Notwithstanding anything else in this policy, Bay Area Reporter may also disclose personal and aggregate information when required by a valid legal mechanism such as a search warrant, subpoena, or court order, or when we deem it necessary, in our sole discretion, to protect our rights and the safety of others, or our users, employees, or properties.

Bay Area Reporter reserves the right to share some or all of your personal information with its parent company, subsidiaries, joint ventures or other companies under common control with Bay Area Reporter, in which case Bay Area Reporter will require such entities to honor this privacy policy. If Bay Area Reporter is acquired by another company, that company will obtain the member information collected by Bay Area Reporter and will assume the rights and obligations set forth in this privacy policy regarding that information.

Off-site Links

Bay Area Reporter provides links to other sites. Bay Area Reporter is not responsible for the privacy practices or contents of these other sites.

Syndicated Content

Bay Area Reporter may syndicate its content to and distribute its content through third-party properties. Although you may see the Bay Area Reporter logo associated with such content, your activity on third-party properties is governed by the privacy statement on the property you're visiting.

Contacting Us

If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this site, you can contact us via email at [email protected].

Change Policy

From time to time we may revise this privacy notice. If we make a material change, we will post an update on the Bay Area Reporter Website or notify you by email, at which time you'll be able to "opt out" of these new practices by contacting us (using the contact information above).