Personal Information
Iran Visual News Corps (hereinafter “IranVNC”) recognizes that your privacy and personal data (“Personally Identifiable Information” or “PII”) are of considerable importance to you. This “Privacy Policy” is to inform you of how, and the extent to which, IRANVNC collects, maintains and uses such information. The information IranVNC obtains and uses is determined based upon your use of the services offered by IranVNC. Therefore, some of the information provided below may not apply to you.
NATURE OF INFORMATION COLLECTED: IP ADDRESSES
IranVNC receives and maintains certain information from visitors to its website for the purpose of improving and enhancing your experiences when using the website. Certain information is automatically received by us whenever you visit our website. In fact, this is true whenever you visit virtually any website. Anytime a computer connects to the Internet, it transmits its own uniquely identifiable Internet Protocol, or “IP” address, which may be stored in our system. IP addresses may be utilized by IranVNC to track the number of visitors to our website, ascertain the number of visitors from a particular country or region, determine the nature and time of data accessed, the volume of visitors to the website, protect the website and other visitors, and to monitor, assess and diagnose technical problems experienced by visitors to the website.
COOKIES
We may transmit a certain piece of software, or text file, commonly known as “cookies,” to the browser files of your computer. Cookies facilitate web-surfing by saving certain preferences with respect to individually visited websites. Cookies permit our collection of information concerning the use of the IranVNC website, its services and content. Cookies are used to audit visitors’ use of the site which then enables us to determine which areas of the website are most attractive to visitors and which may require improvement. Cookies do not provide us with your PII. You have the ability to disable cookies by adjusting certain settings in your computer’s browser. However, you do so at your own risk, as doing so may disrupt the information you receive while browsing the Internet. We do not use cookies to access your stored data such as passwords, or credit card information. IranVNC does not control the cookies generated by other companies or entities.
WEB BEACONS
Certain Web pages may contain encoded electronic images known as “Web beacons,” or single pixel GIFs. They are often embedded in Web pages or e-mail. They are usually used by third parties to monitor the activity of visitors at a website, such as who is visiting a particular webpage, at what time, and from what computer. Usually, they are invisible to visitors to any particular Website. Among other things, they may be used to determine if a web page was copied to another website.
PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION (“PII”)
IranVNC does not collect “Personally Identifiable Information,” or “PII,” such as your full name, mailing address, telephone number, password(s), credit card or other financial data. IranVNC does, however, collect and keep a record of visitors’ e-mail and IP addresses.
USE AND SHARING OF INFORMATION
IranVNC may use your PII to contact you for purposes of: providing you with certain material you may request, either on an individual, or ongoing basis; contacting you to solicit your opinion on certain matters or issues; responding to inquiries received from you; and to enhance and improve the website. IranVNC may maintain information about users of its website in its database. This is done primarily to provide us with information which will enable us to improve service and resolve problems. IranVNC does not sell or otherwise make available your PII to anyone outside the company. There is an exception to this policy, however, when and where IranVNC must provide information under legal processes, or to protect IranVNC’s legal rights. More specifically, IranVNC will comply as required by United States of America Federal or State law, with court orders, subpoenas, or other legal processes. In addition, it will provide information as necessary to prevent, investigate, assist in the investigation or prevention of, incidents of suspected fraud, illegal activities, threats to the life, property, or safety of others, as well as the protection of its own property, personnel and the integrity of the IranVNC website and other users of the website.
SECURITY
IranVNC recognizes the importance of your security and employs technology and has security measures in place in conjunction with its website to safeguard both visitors’ PII and the integrity of the website itself. These measures are designed and intended to protect against invasion of privacy, or other misuse, or misappropriation of information. Because it is not possible to guarantee absolute security on the Internet, IranVNC cannot warrant or guarantee the security of any information transmitted to or from its systems.
ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS
Your use of IranVNC’s website constitutes your concurrence with IranVNC’s Privacy Policy and your agreement to abide by its terms.
OPT-IN OR OPT-OUT
While using the IranVNC website, you may be given the opportunity to subscribe to one or more newsletters, news alerts, or other information which IranVNC may make available to you via e-mail, simply by your requesting to receive it. In any such case, you will always have the opportunity to either “opt-in,” that is, elect to receive the information, or to “opt-out,” or decline to receive it. Should you elect to have your e-mail address placed on our list to receive regular communications such as our newsletter, you will always have the opportunity to discontinue receiving such material at a later date, by following the instructions included with such e-mail communications.
LINKS TO OTHER SITES
IranVNC may provide links to other Internet websites operated by third-parties. IranVNC specifically disclaims any and all responsibility or liability for any consequences which may result from your interaction with other websites. Anytime you exit the IranVNC website to go to another website, or interact with an advertisement on IranVNC’s website, you may be transported via a URL (Uniform Resource Locator), to an advertiser’s or third-party’s website. In such event, if you have privacy concerns, then you should check the specific “privacy policy” of the site operator, or advertiser’s site that you have accessed.
WEBSITE ADVERTISING
As you navigate the IranVNC website, you will encounter or be served advertisements placed by third-parties. In such cases, cookies may be used by those third-parties to deliver information to you and to collect information and data with respect to your use of the website. However, our systems will not permit such third-parties to personally identify this information with you as an individual, unless you provide your consent for them to do so. IranVNC specifically disclaims any and all responsibility or liability for any consequences which may come about as a result of your interaction with said advertisers.
Should you wish to become an advertiser on the IranVNC website, please contact our advertising department at:
USE OF CHAT ROOMS AND PLACEMENT OF “BLOGS”
IranVNC makes available to visitors to its website, “chat rooms” or other interactive forums for the posting or exchange of “Your Stories,” “Perspectives,” data, material and ideas between such visitors. IranVNC specifically disclaims any responsibility or liability with respect to any information posted by visitors utilizing such features. This disclaimer applies to all aspects of such features, including, but not limited to, defamation of character, libel and slander. IranVNC has also established and posted on its website certain conditions and parameters for the use of said features under the topic of “Conditions and Terms of Use.” Your use of said feature(s) constitutes your strict and unqualified agreement to abide by the IranVNC “Conditions and Terms of Use” while using those features. The IranVNC “Conditions and Terms of Use”
MODIFICATION OR AMENDMENT OF “PRIVACY POLICY”
Periodically, IranVNC may determine, in its sole discretion, that it is either necessary, advisable or appropriate to update its “Privacy Policy.” In such event, you may be notified by e-mail. However, it is advisable that visitors check the IranVNC “Privacy Policy” periodically to ascertain whether it has been updated, modified, or amended. In the event of an update, modification, or amendment to the “Privacy Policy,” changes shall become effective immediately upon posting. In such event, your continued use of IranVNC’s website would constitute your assent to such changes.
