Privacy Policy

Westside News/Featured Media is committed to protecting the privacy of the users of this www.westsidenewsny.com web site (this “Site”). The following policy discloses Westside News/Featured Media’s information gathering and dissemination practices for this Site. The purpose of Westside News/Featured Media’s policy is to inform you about the types of information Westside News/Featured Media gathers about you when you visit this Site, information Westside News/Featured Media may receive from or share with its affiliates and related entities (collectively, “Affiliates”), how Westside News/Featured Media may use that information, whether Westside News/Featured Media discloses it to anyone, and the choices you have regarding Westside News/Featured Media’s use of, and your ability to correct, the information.

Please be aware that Westside News/Featured Media’s affiliates, promotional partners, advertisers, sponsors, and other third-party Internet sites accessible through this Site may have their own privacy and data collection policies and practices. Westside News/Featured Media is not responsible for any actions or policies of such third parties. You should check the applicable privacy policies of those third parties when providing personally identifiable information through linked web sites.

I. Information Which Westside News/Featured Media Collects, or Obtains

Westside News/Featured Media collects information in several ways by your use of this Site. Westside News/Featured Media may ask you to voluntarily provide Westside News/Featured Media or its Affiliates with personal information on this Site, or Westside News/Featured Media’s Affiliates may ask you to voluntarily provide personal information on their web sites and may share such personal information with us. For example, Westside News/Featured Media may collect personal information from you when you register to use this Site, when you participate in certain forums, postings or other interactive areas of this Site or if you otherwise communicate with Westside News/Featured Media or its Affiliates through this Site, whether by email or otherwise. During these instances, you may be asked to provide certain personal information, such as your name, postal address, email address, telephone number, credit card information, user name and password, certain demographic information, such as age. Whenever Westside News/Featured Media collects information about you, Westside News/Featured Media will make an effort to link to this Privacy Policy, and will treat information Westside News/Featured Media receives from Westside News/Featured Media’s Affiliates in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Anyone under the age of 14 may not use this Site or the services available on or through this Site and should not provide personally identifiable information through this Site. Westside News/Featured Media will not knowingly request personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 14 without first obtaining verifiable parental consent.

Like many other commercial web sites, Westside News/Featured Media utilizes a standard technology called a “cookie” to automatically collect information about how this Site is used and to enhance your visit upon your return to this Site. Cookies were designed to help a web site recognize a user’s browser as a previous visitor and thus save and remember any preferences that may have been set while the user was browsing the web site. You can set your browser to refuse to accept cookies, but you will be unable to register with My Hometown and save your preference settings.

II. Use of User Information

Westside News/Featured Media’s primary goal in collecting information is to provide you with a customized experience. Westside News/Featured Media and its Affiliates use the information automatically collected from you to improve the content of this Site, to enhance users’ experiences when visiting this Site and to customize the content and layout of this Site for each individual user. Westside News/Featured Media and its Affiliates use information collected from server log files, such as Internet Protocol addresses and domain names, to help diagnose problems with the services offered through this Site, to administer and manage this Site, and to report and gather aggregate information about Site usage and user demographics.

Westside News/Featured Media and its Affiliates use information that you voluntarily provide to Westside News/Featured Media, or you provide to Westside News/Featured Media’s Affiliates, which such Affiliates then share with Westside News/Featured Media, to respond to any request, contest, promotion, online survey or registration to use this Site, to notify you of updates to this Site, and to advise you of news related to Westside News/Featured Media and its Affiliates and Westside News/Featured Media’s and its Affiliates’ productions and services or upcoming events.

In addition, Westside News/Featured Media uses a third party to assist in the management of Westside News/Featured Media’s database used in connection with this Site. Such third party may have access to the information you voluntarily provide to Westside News/Featured Media, or you provide to Westside News/Featured Media’s Affiliates, which such Affiliates then share with Westside News/Featured Media, in order to assist with the management of Westside News/Featured Media’s database.

III. Disclosure to Additional Third Parties

When you use this Site, or, in some cases, the web sites of Westside News/Featured Media’s Affiliates, and are asked to provide personal information, you are sharing that information with Westside News/Featured Media, its Affiliates and the database management company mentioned above. If information from this Site is being collected or maintained by any other company, you will be notified prior to the time of the data collection or transfer. If you do not want your information to be shared, you can choose not to allow the transfer by not using that particular service.

You will be given an opportunity to “opt-in” to hear from Westside News/Featured Media’s promotional partners. If you “opt-in,” Westside News/Featured Media may share your personal information with its promotional partners in order for them to contact you to send you special offers and for other marketing purposes. You can decide not to participate in an advertising program if you do not want your information to be shared.

Promotions and contests that run on this Site, or on Westside News/Featured Media’s Affiliates’ web sites, may be sponsored by Westside News/Featured Media, its Affiliates, or third parties or may be co-sponsored by Westside News/Featured Media and its Affiliates. Some or all of the information collected during a promotion or contest may be shared with the sponsors of the promotion or contest. If information will be shared by Westside News/Featured Media with third party sponsors, you will be notified prior to the time of data collection or transfer. You can decide not to participate in the promotion or contest if you do not want your information to be shared.

Westside News/Featured Media makes the Brighter/Vent forum, event postings, classified advertisements or story submissions, and other interactive areas available to users through this Site. Some of these forums require registration. Please remember that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information, and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information.

Westside News/Featured Media may share aggregate information regarding the users of this Site and Westside News/Featured Media’s statistical analysis of this Site’s usage with third parties, such as advertisers and business partners as well as Westside News/Featured Media’s Affiliates.

Westside News/Featured Media will disclose information Westside News/Featured Media maintains when required to do so by law or pursuant to a legal proceeding, including without limitation, in response to a court order or a subpoena. Westside News/Featured Media may also disclose such information in response to a law enforcement agency’s request.

IV. Accuracy of User Information, Policy Changes and Questions

In order to ensure the accuracy of your personal information, you may contact Westside News/Featured Media in order to access or to change any personal information Westside News/Featured Media maintains (for example, your name, postal address, email address, telephone number, financial information, user name or password) or other communications you have provided to Westside News/Featured Media or its Affiliates through this Site.

Questions regarding Westside News/Featured Media’s Privacy Policy, the accuracy of your personal information or the use of the information collected should be directed via email to sales@featuredmedia.com or you can write Westside News/Featured Media at:

Westside News/Featured Media
1471 Route 15
Avon, NY 14414

This Privacy Policy is effective as of the date it is posted on this Site. Westside News/Featured Media reserves the right to change this policy at any time, and will post any changes to this policy on this Site. Please check this page periodically for changes. All revised Privacy Policies are effective as soon as they are posted. If you desire to prevent your personal information from being used for any new purposes disclosed in Westside News/Featured Media’s revised Privacy Policy, please send an email or write to Westside News/Featured Media at the address provided above to notify Westside News/Featured Media of your objection to Westside News/Featured Media’s use of your personal information.

V. Security of Information

When Westside News/Featured Media collects information from Westside News/Featured Media’s users, Westside News/Featured Media uses a secure server to gather all sensitive user information and employs reasonable security procedures to protect the security and integrity of such information. Due to the nature of electronic communications, however, Westside News/Featured Media cannot assure you that the safeguards that Westside News/Featured Media has put in place will prevent unauthorized access, maintain data security, or correctly use the information collected.

VI. Opting-out/Data Deletion

If at any time you wish to stop receiving email from us, please follow the removal instructions located at the bottom of each email and or send an email or write to Westside News/Featured Media at the address provided above. If at any time you wish to stop receiving mailings from us, please send an email or write to Westside News/Featured Media at the address provided above. You may request data deletion for your information on our systems by contacting sales@featuredmedia.com with the request of data deletion.

VII. Use of Materials

Your use of this Site and any materials available on or through this Site is governed by the Terms of Use Agreement for this Site, which you may view at: https://westsidenewsny.com/serviceterms/