Privacy Policy for Ethics Watch NJ (Gotcha Media Holdings LLC)

Ethics Watch NJ (Gotcha Media Holdings LLC) and its advertisers are committed to protecting your privacy. This policy outlines our practices regarding the collection and use of information.

Consumer Information

During the delivery of advertisements, Ethics Watch NJ (Gotcha Media Holdings LLC) and its advertisers do not collect personally identifiable information such as your name, address, phone number, or email address. However, we may collect non-personally identifiable information, including:

• Internet Service Provider (ISP) used to connect to the Internet
• Browser type
• Country
• Computer operating system (e.g., Macintosh or Windows)

This information is used to target ads and measure their effectiveness on behalf of our advertisers.

Voluntary Information

Occasionally, you may voluntarily provide personal information in response to a specific advertisement (e.g., by filling out a survey or providing your zip code). In such cases, Ethics Watch NJ or its advertisers may collect this information on behalf of the advertiser to respond to your request. Additionally, we may aggregate this information with data from other users to understand the demographics of individuals viewing specific ads or visiting particular types of websites.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, as well as the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help with spam detection. 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. 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, please avoid including embedded location data (EXIF GPS) in your images. Visitors to the website can download and extract location data from images on the website.

Cookies

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 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 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, 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 one day.

Embedded Content from Other Websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles). 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.

Data Sharing

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

Data Retention

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.

For users that register on our website, we also store the personal information provided in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except for changing their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

Your Data Rights

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 provided. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you, except for data we are obliged to retain for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Data Transfers

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

If you have further questions about Ethics Watch NJ (Gotcha Media Holdings LLC)‘s commitment to consumer privacy, please contact us.