Privacy Policy
1. Introduction
Welcome to Green Media NY ("we," "our," or "us"). We operate the website https://www.greenmediany.com (the "Site"). We are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring you have a positive experience on our website.
This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our Site. Please read this policy carefully. If you do not agree with the terms, please do not access the Site.
2. Information We Collect
We may collect information about you in a variety of ways.
a) Information You Voluntarily Provide to Us:
- Contact Forms: When you use a contact form to get in touch with us, we may collect your name, email address, phone number, and the contents of your message.
- Newsletter Sign-Up: If you sign up for our newsletter, we collect your email address and potentially your name.
- Comments: If you leave a comment on an article, we collect the data shown in the comments form, your IP address, and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
b) Information Collected Automatically:
When you visit our Site, we may automatically collect certain information about your device and usage through cookies and similar technologies.
- Log Files: Information such as your IP address, browser type, Internet service provider, referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamps, and clickstream data.
- Usage Data: Information about how you use the Site, such as the pages you visit, the links you click, and the time spent on those pages.
- Device Information: Information about the device you use to access our Site, including hardware model, operating system version, and unique device identifiers.
c) Information from Third Parties:
We may receive information about you from third-party services, such as analytics providers (e.g., Google Analytics) and advertising networks.
3. How We Use Your Information
- Operate, maintain, and improve the Site.
- Respond to your comments, questions, and requests.
- Send you administrative communications, such as technical notices and security alerts.
- Send you promotional communications, such as newsletters (you can opt-out at any time).
- Monitor and analyze trends, usage, and activities in connection with our Site.
- Detect, prevent, and address technical issues and fraudulent or illegal activity.
- Deliver targeted advertising, promotions, and content based on your interests (see “Advertising” section below).
4. Legal Basis for Processing (GDPR)
If you are from the European Economic Area (EEA), our legal basis for collecting and using your information is:
- Your consent (e.g., for newsletters).
- The performance of a contract with you (e.g., responding to your inquiries).
- Our legitimate interests, which are not overridden by your rights (e.g., site analytics and security).
6. Advertising
We may use third-party advertising companies, such as Google AdSense, to serve ads when you visit our Site. These companies may use information about your visits to this and other websites (which does not include your name, address, email address, or telephone number) to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.
You can learn more about Google’s advertising policies and how to opt-out of personalized ads from Google by visiting Google’s Ads Settings page.
8. Your Data Protection Rights
Depending on your location, you may have the following rights regarding your personal data:
- Access: The right to request copies of your personal data.
- Rectification: The right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate or complete information you believe is incomplete.
- Erasure: The right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
- Restrict Processing: The right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
- Object to Processing: The right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
- Data Portability: The right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
- Withdraw Consent: Where we rely on consent, you have the right to withdraw it at any time.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the details provided at the end of this policy.
9. Data Retention
We will retain your personal information only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy, to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our policies.
10. Children's Privacy
Our Site is not intended for children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 13. If you are a parent or guardian and believe your child has provided us with information, please contact us, and we will delete it.
11. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the "Last Updated" date. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes.
12. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at:
- Email: andrew@greenmediany.com
- Contact Form: https://www.greenmediany.com/#contact