Introduction
America Press, Inc. dba America Media (“America”, “we”, “us” or “our”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting the personal data of yours that we may hold. This privacy notice applies to any website, application, social media platform, or other service provided by America, including without limitation the website www.americamagazine.org (collectively, the “Service”) and describes the types of personal identifying information we may collect from you when you use the Service and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, disclosing and transferring that information. It also informs you of your privacy rights and how the law protects you in certain jurisdictions.
1. Important information and contact details
2. The data we collect about you
3. Use of Cookies
4. How we use your personal data
5. Disclosures of your personal data
6. Links to third party sites
7. Social networking
8. Data security
9. Data retention
10. Your legal rights
11. Your California privacy rights
1. Important Information and contact details
This version of the Privacy Notice was last updated in July 2022. By accessing the Service, you agree to this Privacy Notice. America reserves the right to modify this Privacy Notice at any time and to use user information for new, unanticipated uses not previously disclosed in this Privacy Notice. However, if our information practices change at some time in the future, we will post the policy changes to our Service to notify you of these changes and provide you with the ability to opt out of these new uses. Your continued use of the Service after such changes are made is considered to be your acceptance of those changes. If you are concerned about how your information is used, you should check back at our Service and review this Privacy Notice periodically.
The Service is not directed at children 16 years of age or younger. America, therefore, will not intentionally collect information about any user under the age of 16, and our Service or communications are not extended to such persons. If America learns that it has collected personal information from a child under the age of 16 years without verification of parental consent, America will promptly take steps to remove that information. If you believe that we have or may have information from or about a child under 16 years of age, please contact us at +1 (212) 515-0150 or support@americamedia.com.
Contact:
If you are a consumer or data subject protected by the EU General Data Protection Regulation ((EU) 2016/679) (“GDPR”) or the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”) or any other applicable privacy law regarding your personal information, please address your queries to support@americamedia.org or at our postal address, which is:
America Media
ATTN: Privacy
1212 Sixth Avenue, 11th Floor
New York, NY 1036
2. The data we collect about you
Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It does not include data where the personal identifiers have been removed (anonymous data).
Automatic collection of information upon using the Service
When you access our Service, America will collect and store certain information, such as: the domain name and host from which you access the Internet, the browser software and operating system of your computer, the Internet protocol (IP) address of your computer, the pages accessed or visited on the site, the Internet address of the site from which you directly linked to the Service, as well as your browser’s country setting. If you leave the Service via an external link to another site/domain name, we will not collect any information that you share on the external site/external domain name.
Collection of voluntary information by America
If you are a subscriber to the print addition of America magazine, you are volunteering to provide your full name, postal address, email address, and credit card information. If you are a subscriber to the digital edition of America magazine, you are volunteering to provide your full name, email address, and credit card information. By writing (including by way of email) to America or by filling out certain forms or data requests from America, or otherwise voluntarily requesting or supplying information to America, you are volunteering to provide such information, including but not limited to, your contact information and/or site registrations, name and address, telephone number, or fax number, to us. If you email us, we will collect your email address and IP addresses.
If you do not want to receive non-business-related e-mail communications from us in the future, please let us know by sending us an email at support@americamedia.org. If you supply us with your mailing address online you will receive only the information for which you provided us your address. Persons who supply us with their telephone numbers online will receive only telephone contact from us with information relating to their particular request.
We also collect, use, and store Aggregated Data such as statistical or demographic data for our use for any purpose. Aggregated Data may be derived from your personal data but is not considered personal data as this data does not directly or indirectly reveal your identity. We use such data to evaluate the performance of both our content and product offerings. However, if we combine or connect Aggregated Data with your personal data so that it can directly or indirectly identify you, we treat the combined data as personal data which will be used in accordance with this Privacy Notice or any other privacy notice we may have sent or provided you access to at the time or soon after its collection.
We do not collect any Special Categories of Personal Data about you (this includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, criminal convictions, criminal offenses, information about your health and genetic and biometric data, etc.).
3. Use of Cookies
When you use the Service, we may send one or more cookies to your computer to uniquely identify your browser and let us help you log in faster and enhance site navigation. Persistent cookies may be removed per your web browser’s instructions. You can also set your web browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. Some Service features may not function properly if the ability to accept cookies is disabled.
4. How we use your personal data
America will use your personal data only when the laws of the jurisdiction of a specific America entity allow. We will use your personal data where America has a legitimate interest in, or other legal basis for, processing your information. Primarily we will do so to process your request for goods or services, including without limitation, subscriptions to America magazine, whether in digital or print format. In addition, we will do so where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation or in relation to legal claims. Where we have your consent to process your personal information, you may withdraw such consent at any time. Another lawful basis for us processing your data may be that such processing is necessary for the performance of a contract we have entered or at your request are entering with you. However, please note that where we have relied on more than one legal basis for processing, we may continue the processing without your consent.
The information we collect from you may be used to improve the content of our Service, to fulfill your requests for information, provide services and marketing information to you, otherwise communicate with you, and to serve the appropriate region data to you. We may also keep your personal data and use it to contact you in the future.
Data submitted on the Service will be used for the purposes specified in the relevant part of the Service and, where relevant, for other purposes for which you give your consent.
You have the right to withdraw your consent where this has been provided, or to unsubscribe to mailings lists or registrations at any time by either using the unsubscribe link within our email communications or by writing to us at support@americamedia.org.
5. Disclosures of your personal data
Subscribers to the print version of America magazine will be required to provide certain information, specifically a mailing address and email address, to Darwin CX, a third-party vendor. That information will be handled in accordance with the vendor’s own privacy policy. We also rent names and mailing addresses provided by subscribers to the print edition of America magazine to third-party marketers. Subscribers may call +1 (212) 515-0150 or email support@americamedia.org to be removed from the rental list. We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with applicable law. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.
With regard to ad server companies, we use two third party organizations: Catholic Ad Net aka Clean Media and Spotify/Megaphone. To the best of our knowledge, neither Catholic Ad Net nor Spotify collects data from us directly.
America reserves the right to disclose your information where required by law or to comply with valid legal or regulatory processes to protect America’s rights.
In addition, we may also disclose your personal data to third parties to whom we may choose to sell, transfer, or merge parts of our business or our assets, or alternatively, if we may seek to acquire other businesses or merge with them. If a change happens to our business, then the new owners, or combined group, may use your personal data in the same way as set out in this Privacy Notice; otherwise you will be notified of any change by an updated privacy notice on this Service.
Please contact us if you want further information on transferring your personal data.
6. Links to third-party sites
The Service may include links to third-party Services, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party Services and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our Service, we encourage you to read the privacy notice of every website you visit.
7. Social networking
The Service may allow you to sign into and associate your social network accounts, with America. This includes, but is not limited to Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. The Service may also allow you to log in to an America account using your social network credentials. By doing this, you consent to us accessing the personal data that you have made publicly available on the social media platform, which could include, but is not limited to, your email address, your profile name and picture and location. We do not otherwise collect any data about user activity on those platforms. We will process this information in accordance with this Privacy Notice, but we are not responsible in any way for the terms of use of the social network, their privacy notice or how they process your data. To manage the information that is shared through your account with America and other third-party applications, or to disconnect a social media account from us, please refer to the privacy notice of your social network account.
8. Data security
America has put in place reasonable and appropriate security, technical and administrative measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. For the processing of data subject to GDPR, CCPA, or any other applicable law, these third parties will only process your personal data on our instructions and where they are subject to a duty of confidentiality, and we will also deal with personal data breaches and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.
Despite these precautions, America cannot guarantee the security of the information collected from third parties or transmitted through our Service or guarantee the security of emails. Therefore, we assume no liability for any disclosure of information collected arising from the acts of third parties or other events, acts or omissions outside of our control, including, but not limited to, interruption of service or any issues related to the use of the internet. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Service.
9. Data retention
America will retain your personal data as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including, where applicable, for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting or reporting requirements.
10. Your legal rights
Under local data protection laws, you may have rights in relation to your personal data. In the processing of your personal data, certain of your rights are protected by applicable local laws, such as the GDPR and CCPA. Where applicable, these rights will include the right to:
- Request access to your personal data (commonly known as a "data subject access request" or “data portability request”). This enables you to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it.
- Request correction of the personal data that we hold about you. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate data we hold about you corrected, though we may need to verify the accuracy of the new data you provide to us.
- Request erasure or deletion of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal data where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. You also have the right to ask us to delete or remove your personal data where you have successfully exercised your right to object to processing (see below), where we may have processed your information unlawfully or where we are required to erase your personal data to comply with local law. Note, however, that we may not always be able to comply with your request of erasure for specific legal reasons which will be notified to you, if applicable, at the time of your request.
- Object to processing of your personal data where we are relying on a legitimate interest (or those of a third party) and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground as you feel it impacts on your fundamental rights and freedoms. You also have the right to object where we are processing your personal data for direct marketing purposes. In some cases, we may demonstrate that we have compelling legitimate grounds to process your information which override your rights and freedoms.
- Request restriction of processing of processing of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of your personal data in the following scenarios: (a) if you want us to establish the data's accuracy; (b) where our use of the data is unlawful but you do not want us to erase it; (c) where you need us to hold the data even if we no longer require it as you need it to establish, exercise or defend legal claims; or (d) you have objected to our use of your data but we need to verify whether we have overriding legitimate grounds to use it.
- Request the transfer of your personal data to you or to a third party. We will provide to you, or a third party you have chosen, your personal data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format. Note that this right only applies to automated information which you initially provided consent for us to use or where we used the information to perform a contract with you.
- Withdraw consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process your personal data. However, this will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before you withdraw your consent. If you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide certain products or services to you. We will advise you if this is the case at the time you withdraw your consent.
If you are protected by an applicable law such as GDPR or CCPA and wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact us. However, there are circumstances in which those rights may not be available to you and we may not satisfy your request.
You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data or to exercise any of the other rights, where these rights apply in our processing of your personal data. However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive. Alternatively, we may refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.
We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.
We will respond to a legitimate request in the timeframe allotted under applicable law.
In addition, where granted by local law, you may also have the right to make a complaint at any time to the relevant data protection authority. We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach any authority, so please contact us in the first instance.
13. Your California privacy rights
California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits users of the Service that are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please send an e-mail to mailto:support@americamedia.com or write us at:
America Media
ATTN: Privacy
1212 Sixth Avenue, 11th Floor
New York, NY 10036
CONSUMER PRIVACY NOTICE UNDER CALIFORNIA CONSUMER PRIVACY ACT OF 2018
This PRIVACY NOTICE FOR CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS supplements our Privacy Notice and applies solely to visitors, users, and others who reside in the State of California (“consumers” or “you”). We adopt this notice to comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”) and other California privacy laws. Any terms defined in the CCPA have the same meaning when used in this notice.
INFORMATION WE COLLECT
We collect information that identifies, relates to, describes, references, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or device (“personal information”). The personal information we collect is described in Section 2 of the Privacy Notice.
HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
We may use or disclose the personal information we collect from you for one or more of the business purposes described in Section 4 of the Privacy Notice
ACCESS & DATA PORTABILITY RIGHTS
You have the right to request that we disclose certain information to you about our collection and use of your personal information over the past twelve (12) months. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request, we will disclose to you:
- the categories of personal information we collected about you;
- the categories of sources for the personal information we collected about you;
- our business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling that personal information;
- the categories of third parties with whom we share that personal information;
- the specific pieces of personal information we collected about you (also called a data portability request).
You can make this request by calling us at +1 (212) 515-0150, emailing us at support@americamedia.com, or writing us at
America Media
ATTN: Privacy
1212 Sixth Avenue, 11th Floor
New York, NY 10036
In order to verify your request, you will be required to provide the following information: legal name; contact information (including, as applicable, mailing address, telephone number and email address); proof of identity (including, as applicable, photo identification).
DELETION RIGHTS
You have the right to request that we delete any of your own personal information that we collected from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request, we will delete (and direct our service providers to delete) your personal information from our records, unless an exception applies.
- An exception to your request may apply if retaining the information is necessary for us or our service provider(s) to: Complete the transaction for which we collected the personal information, provide a good or service that you requested, take actions reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, or otherwise perform our contract with you;
- Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, or prosecute those responsible for such activities;
- Debug products to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended uses;
- Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise their free speech rights, or exercise another right provided for by law;
- Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (Cal. Penal Code § 1546 et al.);
- Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when the information’s deletion may likely render impossible or seriously impair the research’s achievement, if you previously provided informed consent;
- Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with consumer expectations based on your relationship with America;
- Comply with a legal requirement; or
- Make other internal and lawful uses of that information that are compatible with the context in which you provided such information.
You can make this request by calling us at +1 (212) 515-0150, or emailing us at support@americamedia.com or writing us at
America Media
ATTN: Privacy
1212 Sixth Avenue, 11th Floor
New York, NY 10036
In order to verify your request, you will be required to provide the following information: legal name; contact information (including, as applicable, mailing address, telephone number and email address); proof of identity (including, as applicable, photo identification).
NON-DISCRIMINATION
You have a right not to receive discriminatory treatment by America for exercising privacy rights under the CCPA.
AUTHORIZED AGENT
You have a right to designate an authorized agent to make a request under the CCPA on your behalf. In order to do so, your authorized agent can make a request on your behalf by calling us at +1 (212) 515-0150, emailing us at support@americamedia.org or writing us at
America Media
ATTN: Privacy
1212 Sixth Avenue, 11th Floor
New York, NY 10036
In order to verify your request, your authorized agent will be required to provide the following information about you: legal name; contact information (including, as applicable, mailing address, telephone number and email address); proof of identity (including, as applicable photo identification). In addition, your authorized agent will be required to provide the following information: legal name of authorized agent; contact information of authorized agent (including, as applicable, mailing address, telephone number and email address); proof of identity of authorized agent (including, as applicable, photo identification), and proof of authorization to act as authorized agent (including, as applicable, written consent signed by you, or a certified copy of a Power of Attorney).
CONTACT AMERICA
You can contact us for questions or concerns about our privacy policies and practices by e-mail to support@americamedia.org or write us at
America Media
ATTN: Privacy
1212 Sixth Avenue, 11th Floor
New York, NY 10036
