Privacy Policy

Last updated: July 24, 2024

INTRODUCTION

This Privacy Policy sets out how Local-First News, operated by Journey Mobile, Inc, collects, discloses, and uses personal information about you and how you can exercise your privacy rights. This Privacy Policy applies to personal information that we collect when you visit our website at https://www.localfirstnews.com ("Site"), access or interact with our newsletters or other content ("Content"), or communicate or otherwise interact with us (collectively, the "Service"). If you do not agree with this policy, please do not access or use our Service.

We recommend that you read this Privacy Policy in full to ensure you are fully informed. However, if you only want to access a particular section of this Privacy Policy, then you can click on the relevant link below to jump to that section.

1. What personal information does Local-First News collect?
2. What does Local-First News use my personal information for?
3. Who does Local-First News disclose my personal information to?
4. Cookies and similar tracking technology
5. How does Local-First News keep my personal information secure?
6. International Data Transfers
7. Data retention
8. Your data protection rights
9. Children's privacy
10. User generated content
11. Third-party websites
12. Updates to this Privacy Policy
13. How to contact us

California Resident privacy rights
Supplemental notice for EU or UK individuals

1. What personal information does local-first news collect?

The personal information that we may collect about you broadly falls into the following categories:

Information that you provide

We collect information about you when you input it into our Service or otherwise provide it directly to us.

Subscription to the Service

We collect information about you when you subscribe to our Service, or modify your subscription preferences for the Service. For example, you may provide your email address when you subscribe for the Service. We keep track of your preferences when you select settings within the Service, including settings for displaying Content.

REquests and inquiries

You may choose to provide us with information when you contact us about our Service or otherwise interact with us. For example, you may choose to submit feedback on our Content. You may submit your contact information to receive newsletters from us or to make an inquiry through our Service. You may also provide content to us when you participate in a survey, contest, promotion, sweepstake, activity, or event, including via social media and other content platforms.

Information that we collect from your device and usage

We collect certain information about your device and how you and your device interact with us and our Service. In some countries, including countries in the European Economic Area and the United Kingdom, this information may be considered personal data under applicable data protection laws.

Specifically, the information we collect will include information such as your IP address, device type, unique device identification numbers, browser-type, general location information (such as inferred from an IP address), and referring URL. We also collect information about how you and your device have interacted with our Service or with us via email, including the pages and Content you accessed, products you viewed and purchased, links you clicked, and when you accessed and for how long.

2. What does Local-First News use my personal information for?

We use your information for business and commercial purposes, such as to:

Provide, maintain, and improve our Service;
Manage your account and send you related information, including notifications and confirmations related to your account;
Respond to your comments, questions, and requests, and provide support services;
Monitor and analyze trends, usage, and activities in connection with the Service and our communications to you;
Administer surveys, contests, promotions, sweepstakes, and other activities; and
Carry out any other purpose for which the information was collected.

We may aggregate or de-identify information collected through the Service. We may use aggregated or de-identified data for any purpose.

3. Who does Local-First News disclose my personal information to?

We disclose your personal information to the following categories of recipients:

Affiliate companies who help operate and improve our Service (including to support the delivery of, provide functionality on, or help to enhance the security of our Service), offer other Local-First News affiliated services to you, or who otherwise process personal information for the purposes described in this policy. The protections of this policy apply to the information we disclose in these circumstances.
Third-party service providers who provide hosting, support, communication, analytics, analysis, and other services to us, which may require them to access or use information about you. If a service provider needs to access or use information about you to perform services on our behalf, they do so under appropriate security and confidentiality procedures designed to protect your information.
Any competent law enforcement body, regulatory, government agency, court, or other third party where we believe disclosure is necessary (i) as a matter of applicable law or regulation, (ii) to exercise, establish, or defend our legal rights, or (iii) to protect your vital interests or those of any other person.
An actual or potential buyer (and its agents and advisers) in connection with any actual or proposed purchase, merger, or acquisition of any part of our business, provided that we inform the buyer it must use your personal information only for the purposes disclosed in this policy.
Any other person with your consent to the disclosure.

4. Cookies and similar tracking technology

We do not use cookies.

5. How does Local-First News keep my personal information secure?

We use appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect the personal information that we collect and process about you. The measures we use are designed to provide a level of security appropriate to the risk of processing your personal information. However, no security system is impenetrable and due to the inherent nature of the Internet, we cannot guarantee that information, during transmission through the Internet or while stored on our systems or otherwise in our care, is absolutely safe from intrusion by others. In particular, email sent to or from Local-First News may not be secure, and you should therefore take special care in deciding what information you send to us via email.

6. International data transfers

In some cases, your personal information is transferred to, and processed in, countries other than the country in which you are a resident. These countries may have data protection laws that are different from the laws of your country (and, in some cases, may not be as protective).

Specifically, our Service is hosted in the United States, and our affiliate companies and third-party service providers operate around the world, including in the United States, Canada, and the EU. This means that when we collect your personal information, we may process it in any of these countries.

Where we transfer your personal information to countries and territories outside of the EU or UK, which have been formally recognised as providing an adequate level of protection for personal information, we rely on the relevant "adequacy decisions"from the European Commission and "adequacy regulations"from the Secretary of State in the United Kingdom.

Where the transfer is not subject to an adequacy decision or regulations, we have taken appropriate safeguards to require that your personal information will remain protected in accordance with this policy. The safeguards we use are the European Commission-approved standard contractual clauses, the UK International Data Transfer Agreement, and other appropriate legal mechanisms. This is how transfers of personal information between our group companies and with our third-party service providers will be safeguarded.

7. Data retention

We retain the personal information we collect from you where we have an ongoing legitimate business need to do so (e.g., to provide you with a service you have requested). In certain circumstances, we will need to keep your information for legal reasons after our relationship has ended. For example, we may retain your data for longer than the usual retention period when we have a legal obligation to do such, to deal with and resolve requests and complaints, to protect an individual's rights and property, and for litigation and regulatory matters. The specific retention periods depend on the nature of the information and why it is collected and processed and the nature of any legal requirement. The criteria we use to determine the retention period include:

How long is the personal information needed to provide the Service or operate our business? This includes such things as maintaining and improving the performance of the Service, keeping our systems secure, and maintaining appropriate business and financial records. This is the general rule that establishes the baseline for most data retention periods.
Is the personal information of a sensitive type? If so, a shortened retention time would generally be appropriate.
Has consent been provided for a longer retention period? If so, we will retain the data in accordance with your consent.
Is Local-First News subject to a legal, contractual, or similar obligation to retain the data? Examples can include mandatory data retention laws in the applicable jurisdiction, government orders to preserve data relevant to an investigation, or data that must be retained for the purposes of litigation.

When we have no ongoing legitimate business need or legal reason to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymize it.

8. Your data protection rights

Depending on your location, you may have the following data protection rights. To exercise any of them contact us at hello@localfirstnews.com. You will be required to verify your identity before we fulfill your request. To do so, you will need to provide information to match with our existing records to verify your identity depending on the nature of the request and the sensitivity of the information sought (e.g., provide your email address).

You may access, correct, update, or request deletion of your personal information.
You can object to processing of your personal information, ask us to restrict processing of your personal information or request portability of your personal information.
You have the right to opt-out of receiving the newsletter we send you at any time. You can exercise this right by clicking on the "unsubscribe" link in the newsletter emails we send you or otherwise following the directions in the emails.
If we have collected and processed your personal information with your consent, then you can withdraw your consent at any time. Withdrawing your consent will not affect the lawfulness of any processing we conducted prior to your withdrawal, nor will it affect processing of your personal information conducted in reliance on lawful processing grounds other than consent.
You have the right to complain to a supervisory authority about our collection and use of your personal information. For more information, please contact your local supervisory authority. (Contact details for supervisory authorities in Europe are available here.) Certain supervisory authorities may require that you exhaust our own internal complaints process before looking into your complaint.

We respond to all requests we receive from individuals wishing to exercise their data protection rights in accordance with applicable data protection laws.

9. Children's privacy

Local-First News’s Service is not directed to children under 16. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16. If you become aware that a child has provided us with personal information without parental consent, please contact us at hello@powersync.com. If we become aware that a child under 16 has provided us with personal information without parental consent, we will take steps to remove such information.

If you are 16 or older, but have not reached your jurisdiction's age of majority (such that you are able to enter a contract), you should only use the Service with permission from your parent or guardian.

10. User generated content

The Service may enable you to contribute to our newsletter and other user generated content. If you choose to submit user generated content to any public area of the Service, this content will be public and accessible by anyone.

We do not control who will have access to the information that you choose to make available to others, and cannot ensure that parties who have access to such information will respect your privacy or keep it secure. We are not responsible for the privacy or security of any information that you make publicly available, or for the accuracy, use or misuse of any information that you disclose or receive from third parties.

11. Third-party websites

The Service may link to third-party websites or platforms from companies other than Local-First News, such as to relevant online resources, social media platforms, our partners' websites, and other third-party websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of such other websites. If you have any questions about how these other websites use your information, you should review their policies and contact them directly. We are not responsible for the actions of third parties.

12. Updates to this Privacy Policy

We may update this policy from time to time in response to changing legal, regulatory, technical, or business developments. When we update this policy, we will take appropriate measures to inform you, consistent with the significance of the changes we make. We will obtain your consent to any material changes to this policy if, and where, required by applicable data protection laws.You can see when this policy was last updated by checking the date displayed at the top of this policy.

13. How to contact us

If you have any questions or concerns about our use of your personal information, please contact us by sending us an email at hello@localfirstnews.com.

The data controller of your personal information is Journey Mobile, Inc. Our address is 3700 Quebec St, Ste 100 PMB 132, Denver, CO 80207.

California Resident privacy rights

California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits our customers who are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please email us at hello@localfirstnews.com.

Supplemental notice for EU or UK individual

1. Who this notice applies to. This supplemental notice supplements the information above in our Privacy Policy and, except as provided herein, applies solely if you are based in the European Union (EU) or United Kingdom (UK). Any capitalized terms used but not defined in this supplemental notice have the meanings set forth in our Privacy Policy.

2. What is our legal basis of processing. We collect and process information about you only where we have a legal basis for doing so under applicable data protection laws. This means we collect and process your information only where:

We need it to perform our contract with you, including to provide the Service, register you as a subscriber, and provide support;
It satisfies our legitimate interests, such as to send the newsletter emails of the Service, to protect the safety and security of the Service, and to protect our legal rights and interests, which are not overridden by your own interests, rights and freedoms;
It is necessary to comply with a legal obligation or in connection with a legal claim, such as to respond to judicial orders or subpoenas; or
You provide consent for a specific purpose, such as for marketing communications (where consent is required under applicable marketing laws).

The legal bases depend on the type of information and the purpose for our processing. In some contexts, more than one legal basis applies.