Who we are
Our website address is: https://vgood.news. VGood News is owned and operated by a positive news media group (“we”, “us”, and “our”).
We also intend to be GDPR compliant. This page is intended to keep you informed about what we do with the personal data we process. ‘Personal data’, for the purposes of the Act, means any information which can be used to identify an individual person; it includes things like your name, e-mail address, delivery address, billing address, telephone number and IP address.
We are committed to protecting your privacy. We will endeavor to ensure that the information you provide us with is kept private and confidential and is only used to provide the services you request. By using this website (the “Site”) and/or our services, you confirm that you accept this privacy policy and consent to our using your personal data as set out in this Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions page.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
If you wish to post a comment, you may need to be signed into a Facebook account and the account name will be displayed above your comment. Your data needed for posting comments on VGood.News is stored by Facebook and subject to their privacy policy.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Contact forms
If you submit material to us as a contributor, we will store your name, email address and any other personal information that you supply, for administrative and contact purposes. However, we do not require you to submit any personal information other than your name and email address. If we reject your contribution, we will only store our email correspondence in our mailbox.
We aggregate personal, anonymized data we collect, using tools like Google Analytics, such as the number and frequency of your visits, location, demographics, type of device used, to our sites, to produce metrics and statistical information. We may share this data with third parties to improve our services.
Cookies
This site uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of the Site. This helps us to provide you with an enhanced user experience when you browse the Site and improve the Sites functionality. For detailed information on the cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them see our Cookie Policy. If you do not consent to our using cookies, you can set your browser preferences to block them, but this will affect your use of the Site.
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Analytics
Who we share your data with
We do not share your personal information with any third parties outside of our organization and our appointed representatives, except with your permission. For the avoidance of doubt, we will not sell, trade or rent any of your personal information to third parties (4.3 Terms and Conditions)
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
We will hold your personal information for as long as we need to in order to comply with our legal obligations. You may request for your personal information to be deleted at any time by emailing [email protected].
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Your contact information
Any contact information that you provide remains safe with us and is only used for purposes explicitly stated.
Additional information
If we reasonably believe that we are required by law to disclose your personal information to a third party, whether in compliance with any applicable law or regulation or by court order or in connection with legal proceedings, we may do so.
Apart from this, we will not disclose or sell your personal information to any third party without your permission. We will not transfer your data.
We may use aggregate anonymized data and share it with third parties.
We will not share your personal information with advertisers. However, some of the adverts you may see will be served from locations other than our own server, for example Google Adsense ads.
Security
We will do our best to protect your personal data using appropriate technical and organizational steps, and will store it on our database within a secure network. However, we cannot absolutely guarantee the security of your personal data.
For Contributors, we use your personal information
- to send and respond to emails from you;
- to manage our interaction with you;
- to maintain our records and databases;
- to carry out statistical analysis; and
- for administration, accounting, marketing and archival purposes.
For those that sign up to our newsletter
- We will collect your email address, your name and your IP address and your location (city and country) for the purpose of sending you our email updates
- The content we will be emailing to you can vary, this can include things like updates about new content published or produced by VGood News. The occasional product offers from us or our partners. Updates about VGood News activities or our partner’s activities. The emails you will be receiving from us might contain links to external websites and social media profiles.
- We will send emails to you when we feel there is anything important that we want to share,
- You can unsubscribe at any time by opening one of the emails from us and clicking on the unsubscribe option and we will delete the data we hold about you.
- We use services like MailChimp where we store your data, we might hold a copy of your data in our own database as well. MailChimp can track email open rate, click rate and other similar data.
- Our contractors occasionally might access the data we collect solely, for the purpose of performing tasks related to improving our services.