NOA provides this
Privacy Policy to help you make an informed decision about whether to use or
continue using the NOA Service. If you do not agree to our practices, please do
not use the NOA Service.
This Privacy Policy
is incorporated into and is subject to the NOA Terms and Conditions of Use.
Your use of the NOA Service and any personal information you provide on the NOA
Service remains subject to the terms of this Privacy Policy and our Terms and
Conditions of Use.
1.
Definitions
Before you continue
we would like you to familiarise yourself with the following definitions in
order to help you understand each of the terms detailed on this document. For
all items not listed in this section, we will define their definition in the
body of the text in a clear and concise manner.
·
“Content”
: Refers to any material(s)
distributed as part of the NOA Service, including those which are text,
graphic, video, or audio based.
·
“Customer” or “user” or “you”
: Refers to any
anyone registering or subscribing to, or making use of, the NOA Service.
·
“NOA” or “we” or “our”
: Refers to NOA
News Limited, a company registered in Ireland under company registration number
564767 and all subsidiaries and affiliates acting on behalf of NOA News
Limited. A list of subsidiaries and affiliates are available upon request by
using the contact form on our website.
·
“NOA Service” or “Service”
: Refers to the
provisioning of Content to Customers across NOA’s smartphone and tablet
applications, audio players, and websites.
·
“Publisher”
: Refers to a publisher whose Content
is distributed by NOA.
·
“Personal Information”
: Refers to any
information that you share with NOA that can be used to identify you (e.g.
email addresses, name, place of residence, etc.) and any billing information
that you provide to NOA. This does not include any information that you provide
to any third-party Publishers.
·
“Post”
:
Any Content that users post, share, upload, and/or contribute to the Service.
·
“Subscriber”
: Refers
to a user who has purchased a Subscription from NOA.
·
“Subscription”
: Refers to a subscription tier
offered by NOA that provides access to the NOA Service.
·
“Subscription Period”
: Refers to the
length of a Subscription.
·
“User Content”
: Refers to comments, URLs or other
links, messages, information, playlist compilations, and/or other types of
content that you or other NOA users may Post.
2.
Your consent
By the continued
use of our Services or by becoming a Subscriber you consent to the use of your
personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Please note that
any User Content that users Post to the NOA Service becomes published content
and is not considered personally identifiable information subject to this
Privacy Policy.
3.
What Does This Privacy Policy Cover?
This Privacy Policy is part of NOA
Terms and Conditions of Use and covers the treatment of user information,
including Personal Information, obtained by NOA, including information obtained
when you access the NOA Service or any other
application
,
website, or software provided by NOA.
This Privacy Policy does not apply to
the practices of companies that NOA does not own or control, or to individuals
whom NOA does not employ or manage, including any of the third parties to which
NOA may disclose user information as set forth in this Privacy Policy.
4.
The Information NOA Collects
NOA may obtain the
following types of information from or concerning you or your mobile phone
device, PC, or tablet computer which may include Personal Information that can
be used to identify you as specified below:
4.1 User Provided Information:
You provide certain Personal
Information, such as your billing details and mobile device information to NOA
when choosing to participate in various uses of the NOA Service (whether as a
non-paying or Subscriber user).
4.2 Log File Information & Cookies:
When you use
the NOA Site, our servers automatically record certain information that your
web browser sends whenever you visit any website. These server logs may include
information such as your web request, Internet Protocol ("IP")
address, browser type, browser language, referring / exit pages and URLs,
platform type, number of clicks, domain names, landing pages, pages viewed and
the order of those pages, the amount of time spent on particular pages, the date
and time of your request. When you use the NOA Service, our servers may log
certain information that our software application sends whenever (a) an article
is listened to in part or in full and (b) an audio or display advertisement is
served, including your devices country code, date and time stamps, and the
duration of time that certain information is playing or displayed (collectively
“Usage Data”).
5.
The Information NOA Does Not Collect
NOA does not collect or have access
to any payment details that you may enter when purchasing a Subscription on our
website. Instead this information is processed and stored by Stripe, Inc., a
San Francisco, USA based online payments company.
6.
The Way NOA Uses Information
We use any information that you
provide to us to operate, maintain, and provide to you the features and
functionality of the NOA Service. In particular, your email address may be used
to access additional features of the NOA Service. Any personally identifiable
information or User Content that you voluntarily disclose on the NOA Service
becomes publicly available and may be collected and used by other users of the
NOA Service – for this reason we advise caution when sharing Posts. We do not
share your Personal Information (e.g. your email address or name) to any
third-parties. We may send you NOA-related emails, but only ever as part of a
specific program or feature for which you will have the ability to opt-in or
opt-out. Such emails may include a daily or weekly newsletter or emails that
detail new or existing in-app features or offers which we believe you may be
interested in. We will also use your email address for non-marketing or
administrative purposes (such as notifying you of major NOA Service changes or
for customer service purposes). We may use certain non-personally-identifiable
information (such as anonymous Usage Data, IP addresses, etc.) to improve the
quality and design of the NOA Service and to create new features, promotions,
functionality, and services by storing, tracking, and analysing user
preferences and trends. We may use log file information to monitor individual
and aggregate metrics such as total number of visitors, pages viewed, articles listened, for example.
7.
When NOA Discloses Information
Other users of the NOA Service will
not see any of your Personal Information.
We do not share your Personal
Information (such as your email address, name, or date of birth) with any other
third-party companies, organisations, or individuals. We will not sell your
Personal Information with to third-party companies, organisations, or
individuals. We may share non-personally-identifiable information (such as
anonymous Usage Data, referring/exit pages and URLs, platform types, number of
clicks, etc.) with interested third-parties to assist them in understanding the
usage patterns for certain content, services, advertisements, promotions,
and/or functionality on the NOA Service. We may collect and release Personal
Information and/or non-personally-identifiable information if required to do so
by law, or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply
with national or international law or respond to a court order, subpoena, or
search warrant or equivalent, or where in our reasonable belief, an
individual’s physical safety may be at risk or threatened. NOA ALSO RESERVES
THE RIGHT TO DISCLOSE PERSONAL INFORMATION AND/OR NON-PERSONALLY-IDENTIFIABLE
INFORMATION THAT NOA BELIEVES, IN GOOD FAITH, IS APPROPRIATE OR NECESSARY TO ENFORCE
OUR TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE, TAKE PRECAUTIONS AGAINST LIABILITY, TO
INVESTIGATE AND DEFEND ITSELF AGAINST ANY THIRD-PARTY CLAIMS OR ALLEGATIONS, TO
ASSIST GOVERNMENT ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES, TO PROTECT THE SECURITY OR INTEGRITY OF
THE NOA SERVICE OR OUR SERVERS, AND TO PROTECT THE RIGHTS, PROPERTY, OR
PERSONAL SAFETY OF NOA, OUR USERS OR OTHERS.
8.
Your Choices
You may, of course, decline to submit
Personal Information through the NOA Service, in which case NOA may not be able
to provide certain of our Services to you. If you do not agree with our Privacy
Policy or Terms of and Conditions of Use please discontinue use of the NOA
Service, delete your account (if applicable), and uninstall the NOA mobile or
tablet application. Your continued usage of the NOA Service will signify your
assent to and acceptance of our Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions of Use.
9.
Third-party Advertisers
We hear you; online
ads can be a real pain. At NOA we wanted to find a way to offer ads that were
both user-friendly and enjoyable to engage with. And for those who
would rather not engage, we wanted to ensure that any ads present on the NOA
service did not take from your overall user experience. The simple fact of the
matter is that producing high-quality journalism is a very expensive business.
On the other hand, we don’t believe that you want to pay a colossal premium in
order to consume such quality news, insight, and analysis. That’s why we have
done our very best to provide ads that we ourselves are happy to consume. The
benefit for all Subscribers is that the price of a NOA Subscription is greatly
reduced as a result. Companies that advertise do help to keep the wheels of our
economy in motion, so do think of them over similar sized rivals when making
purchasing decisions.
There are two types of advertising
offered on the NOA Service. These are background display ads (as offered on the
article play screen) and concise audio ads (as offered between articles from
time-to-time) (the “Adverts”). In both instances NOA records and shares in
aggregated form the Usage Data related to the Adverts with third-party
advertising clients. NOA does not share any Personal Information with
third-party advertisers. Any information shared with third-party advertisers is
in an aggregated format and is strictly non-personally-identifiable.
We accept no responsibility for the
content of advertising material, including any error, omission or inaccuracy
contained within it.
10.
Our Commitment To Data Security
NOA uses commercially reasonable
physical, managerial, and technical safeguards to preserve the integrity and
security of your Personal Information. We cannot, however, ensure or warrant
the security of any information you transmit to NOA and you do so at your own
risk. Using unsecured Wi-Fi or other unprotected networks to supply Personal
Information to NOA is never recommended. Once we receive your transmission of
information, NOA makes commercially reasonable efforts to ensure the security
of our systems. However, please note that this is not a guarantee that such
information may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by breach of
any of our physical, technical, or managerial safeguards. If NOA learns of a
security systems breach, then we may attempt to notify you electronically so
that you can take appropriate protective steps. NOA may post a notice on the
NOA Site or through the NOA Service if a security breach occurs.
11.
Special Note to International Users
The NOA Service is hosted in Ireland.
If you are a user accessing the NOA Service from outside of the European Union,
or any other region with laws or regulations governing personal data
collection, use, and disclosure, that differ from European Union laws, please
be advised that through your continued use of the NOA Services, which are
governed by Irish law, this Privacy Policy, and our Terms and Conditions of
Use, you are transferring your personal information to the European Union and
you expressly consent to that transfer and consent to be governed by Irish law
for these purposes.
12.
In the Event of Merger, Sale, or Bankruptcy
In the event that NOA is acquired by
or merged with a third party entity, we reserve the right to transfer or assign
the information we have collected from our users as part of such merger,
acquisition, sale, or other change of control. In the (hopefully) unlikely
event of our bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, receivership, or
assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the application of laws or
equitable principles affecting creditors' rights generally, we may not be able
to control how your Personal Information is treated, transferred, or used.
13.
Changes and updates to this
Privacy Notice
This Privacy Policy may be revised periodically
and this will be reflected by the "effective date" above. Please
revisit this document on the NOA website to stay aware of any changes. Your
continued use of the NOA Service constitutes your agreement to this Privacy
Policy and any amendments.