Last Updated: April 29, 2024
Gold Rush Weekly in conjunction with its affiliates (collectively as “the Company,” “we,” “us” and “our”) are committed to protecting your personal information. We have created this Privacy Policy to inform you of our policies regarding the collection, use and disclosure of personal information as well as the rights and choices you have associated with that information.
This Privacy Policy applies to all personal information collected during any written, electronic, and oral communications or collected online or offline to provide you newsletters, publications, seminars, webinars, applications, digital products or any other features made available on the goldrushweekly.com/ website (“Site”), or on the websites and mobile applications owned and operated by us or our affiliates that link to this Privacy Policy (the Site and these services, content and applications collectively constitute the “Services”). Such personal information also may be collected when you interact with our advertising and applications on third party websites and services, if the advertising and applications include links to this Privacy Policy; and via email or phone calls with us.
By using our Services, and to the extent permitted under the applicable law, you consent to the collection and use of the personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. If you do not feel comfortable with any part of this Privacy Policy, you should not use or access our Services.
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time and make changes to information previously collected, as permitted or required by law. If we make changes, we will post the updated Privacy Policy on this page with the date of the revisions will be listed after “Updated Date.” We encourage you to look for updates and changes to this Privacy Policy by checking this date when you access our Site. If we make material changes to the Privacy Policy, we will provide you with notice of such changes. Your continued use of the Services following the notice of or posting of any amendment to the Privacy Policy shall constitute your acceptance of such amendments.
We may collect your personal information when you interact with our Site, mobile applications, or with us over email or the telephone. Throughout this Policy we use the term “personal information” to describe data that identifies you or makes you identifiable. The definition of personal information varies depending on the applicable law. Only the definition under the law applicable to you, which is typically based on your location will apply to you under this Privacy Policy.
The types of personal information that we may collect about you include but are not limited to: information you provide to us, information collected automatically about your use of our Services, information from other sources to help us supplement our records, improve the personalization of our services to you and/or detect fraud.
a. The types of personal information that we may collect about you include but are not limited to: information you provide to us, information collected automatically about your use of our Services, information from other sources to help us supplement our records, improve the personalization of our services to you and/or detect fraud.
b. Information from Third Parties. We may receive information about you from other sources and combine that information with the personal information we collect directly from you. For example, we may receive payment information from the organization you use to pay us in order to correct our records.
c. Information Collected from Other Sources. We may receive information about you from other sources to help us correct or supplement our records, improve the quality or personalization of our service to you, and prevent or detect fraud.
d. Information Collected Automatically. As you navigate through and interact with our Services, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns, including:
We may use cookies, embedded scripts, software development kits, and other similar tracking technologies (collectively, “Tracking Technologies”) to collect additional personal information automatically as you interact with the Services and to personalize your experience with our Services. We also may use these technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and across third party websites or other online services (“behavioral tracking”).
Cookies are small web files that a site or its provider transfers to your device’s hard drive through your web browser that enables the site’s or provider’s system to recognize your browser and remember certain information. We use first-party and third-party cookies for the following purposes: to make our Services function properly, to improve our Services, to make login to our Site or Services easier (such as by remembering your User ID), to recognize you when you return to our Site, to track your interaction with the Site, to enhance your experience with the Site, to remember information you have already provided, to collect information about your activities over time and across third party websites or other online Services in order to deliver content and advertising tailored to your interests; and to provide a secure browsing experience during your use of our Site. The length of time a cookie will stay on your browsing device depends on whether it is a “persistent” or “session” cookie. Session cookies will only stay on your device until you stop browsing. Persistent cookies stay on your browsing device until they expire or are deleted (i.e. after you have finished browsing).
We may place cookies from third-party service providers who may use information about your visits to other websites to target advertisements for products and Services available from us. We do not control the types of information collected and stored by these third-party cookies. You should check the third-party’s website for more information on how they use cookies.
Types of Cookies
The following types of cookies are used on our Site:
Google Analytics and Google Adwords
We use Google Analytics and Google Adwords. Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google LLC (“Google”) that tracks and reports Site traffic. For more information on the privacy practices of Google, visit the Google Privacy web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en. Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on provides visitors with the ability to prevent their data from being collected and used by Google Analytics, available at: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Your Choices
Your browser may provide you with the option to refuse some or all browser cookies. You may also be able to remove cookies from your browser. You can exercise your preferences in relation to cookies served on our Site by taking the steps outlined below.
We do not control third parties’ collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. However, these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way. In addition, most web browsers provide help pages relating to setting cookie preferences. More information may be found for the following browsers here:
Do Not Track
Some Internet browsers, such as Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Safari, include the ability to transmit “Do Not Track” or “DNT” signals. Since uniform standards for “DNT” signals have not been adopted, our Site does not currently process or respond to “DNT” signals.
We will only use your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy or as disclosed to you prior to such processing taking place. Our primary purpose in collecting personal information is to provide you with a secure, smooth, efficient, and customized experience. We generally use personal information to create, develop, operate, deliver, and improve our Services, content and advertising; and for loss prevention.
The purposes for which we may use your personal information include:
a. To Provide Our Services. We process your personal information to provide the Services to For example, when you want to purchase one of our publications, we require certain information such as your identification, contact information, and payment information. We cannot provide you with Services without such information.
b. To Ensure Network and Information Security. We process your personal information in order to enhance security, monitor and verify identity or service access, combat spam or other malware or security risks and to comply with applicable security laws and Without processing your personal information, we may not be able to ensure the security of our Services.
c. To Provide Customer Service. We process your personal information when you contact us to resolve any questions, disputes, or to troubleshoot Without processing your personal information for such purposes, we cannot respond to your requests and ensure your uninterrupted use of the Services.
d. To Provide Service Communications. We send administrative or account-related information to you to keep you updated about our Services, inform you of relevant security issues or updates, or provide other service-related information. Without such communications, you may not be aware of important developments that may affect how you can use our Services. You may not opt-out of receiving critical service communications, such as emails or mobile notifications sent for legal or security purposes.
e. To Enforce Our Terms and Other Agreement. It is important for us and our customers that we actively monitor, investigate, prevent, and mitigate any potentially prohibited or illegal activities, enforce our agreements with third parties, and/or prevent and detect violations of our posted Terms of Service or agreements for other Services. In addition, we may need to collect fees based on your use of our Services. We collect information about your account usage and closely monitor your interactions with our Services. We may use any of your personal information collected for these purposes.
f. To Ensure Quality Control. We process your personal information for quality control and staff training to make sure we continue to provide you with accurate information. If we do not process personal information for quality control purposes, you may experience issues on the Services.
g. For Research and Developement. We process your personal information to better understand the way you use and interact with our Services. In addition, we may use such information to customize, measure, and improve our Services and the content and layout of our website and applications, and to develop new services.
h. To Engage in Marketing Activities. To the extent permitted under the applicable law, we may send you marketing communications (e.g. emails or mobile notifications) to inform you about our events or our partner events; to deliver targeted marketing; and to provide you with promotional offers. We may also use your information to contact you about our own and third parties’ goods and services that may be of interest to you.
i. To Facilitate Corporate Acquisitions, Mergers, or Transactions. To the extent permissible under the applicable law, we may process any information regarding your account and use of our Services as is necessary in the context of corporate acquisitions, mergers, or other corporate transactions.
j. With Your Permission. We may disclose your personal information for any purpose you consent to.
We may share or disclose your personal information in the following circumstances:
a. Service Providers. We may employ other companies and individuals to facilitate ourServices (“Service Providers”), provide the Services on our behalf, perform service-related activities or assist us in analyzing how our Services are used. The Service Providers may have access to your personal information only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.
b. Within Our Organization. We may share your personal information with our publishersand other affiliates to provide you with the Services and take actions based on your request, as well as for the purpose of management and analysis. For example, we may share your information with our affiliated publishers to expand and promote our Site users is among the assets transferred.
c. Corporate Transactions. We may share your information with a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution or sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by us about our Site users is among the assets transferred.
d. As Required by Law. We may disclose your information if we believe that the disclosure is required by law, if we believe that the disclosure is necessary to enforce our agreements or policies, or if we believe that the disclosure will help us protect the rights, property, our safety or the safety of our customers.
e. Professional Advisors. We may disclose your information with our professional advisorswho provide banking, legal, compliance, insurance, accounting, or other consulting services in order to complete third party financial, technical, compliance and legal audits of our operations or otherwise comply with our legal obligations.
f. Consent. We may disclose your personal information for any purpose with your consent.
We are committed to protecting your personal information from unauthorized access and use. To help protect your personal information, we implement and maintain appropriate technical, physical, and administrative safeguards. Access to your personal information is restricted solely to those employees and vendors who need to know that information to provide our Services to you. Our employees receive training to maintain the confidentiality, privacy, and security of your personal information.
The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Site, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. You should not share your password with anyone. We urge you to be careful about giving out information in public areas of the Site like message boards. The information you share in public areas may be viewed by any user of the Site.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Site. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Site.
Our Service offers publicly accessible community forums. If you elect to post something in a public area of our Service, any personal information or content that you voluntarily disclose for posting to the Services, becomes available to the public, as controlled by any applicable privacy settings. If you remove information that you posted to the Services, copies may remain viewable in cached and archived pages of the Services, or if other users have copied or saved that information.
Our Site may contain links to third-party websites and services other than the Services, such as social media pages. These links are intended for your convenience only. These third-party websites and services are not related to the Company and may have separate privacy policies and data collection practices. We have no responsibility for these websites or their privacy practices and encourage you to read the privacy policies of all websites you visit. This Privacy Policy applies only to the personal information collected by the Company.
To provide Services to you, we may send you communications related to your transactions, security, or the administration of this Site. From time to time, we may also send you other messages or updates about the Company, and promotions or other activities. If you do not wish to receive non-transaction/security-related communications from us, you may opt-out by clicking the “unsubscribe” link if available in the communication or contact us where specified in the “Contact Us” section, below. Similarly, you may opt in to receive text messages, telephone calls and mailings from us.
Please note that “opt-out” and “unsubscribe” requests may not take effect immediately and may take a reasonable amount of time to receive, process and apply, during which time your Information shall remain subject to the prior privacy settings. Additionally, you should be aware that any Information provided to third parties prior to your election to opt-out or unsubscribe will not be retrieved or rescinded, unless required by applicable law.
You have the right to access and correct your personal information that you shared with us on our Services. We are committed to ensuring that your personal information is kept accurate and up to date. However, it is up to you to update it with any changes. You can review and change your personal information by logging into the Site and visiting your account profile page. You may also notify us via the information in the “Contact Us” section below to request access to, or to correct any personal information that you have provided to us. We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.
We will retain your personal information only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your personal information to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws and regulations), resolve disputes and enforce our legal agreements and policies. We will also retain Site and Services usage data for internal analysis purposes.
While retention requirements vary by jurisdiction, information about our typical retention periods for different aspects of your personal information are described below.
Your personal information may be transferred to, and maintained on, computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those of your jurisdiction. If you are located outside United States and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer data, including personal information, to United States and process it there. By communicating electronically with us, you acknowledge and agree to your personal information being processed in this way. If you do not want your information transferred to or processed or maintained outside of the country or jurisdiction where you are located, you should not use our Services.
We do not offer Services to minors and do not intend to collect personal information from children under the age of 18, and we do not knowingly collect any personal information from children under the age of 18. If an individual under the age of 18 has provided us with personal information, we ask that a parent or guardian contact us as described below so that we may promptly delete the child’s information from our record.
This section applies only to California residents. Pursuant to the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”), below is a summary of the “Personal Information” categories, as identified and defined by the CCPA (see California Civil Code section 1798.140 (o)), that we collect, the reason we collect your Personal Information, where we obtain the Personal Information, and the third parties with whom we may share your Personal Information.
We generally collect the following categories of Personal Information about your when you use our Services:
We generally do not collect biometric information, audio recordings of your voice, education-related information. For more information about the Personal Information we collect and how we collect it, please refer to Sections 1 and 2, above.
We collect your Personal Information for the business purposes described in Section 3, above. The CCPA defines a “business purpose” as the use of Personal Information for the business’s operational purposes, or other notified purposes, provided the use of Personal Information is reasonably necessary and proportionate to achieve the operational purpose for which the Personal Information was collected or another operational purpose that is compatible with the context in which the Personal Information was collected.
The categories of third parties with whom we may share your Personal Information are listed in Section 4, above.
Privacy Rights
If you are a California resident, you have rights in relation to your Personal Information; however, your rights are subject to certain exceptions. For instance, we cannot disclose specific pieces of Personal Information if the disclosure would create a substantial, articulable, and unreasonable risk to the security of the Personal Information, your account with us or the security of our network systems.
To assert your right to know or your right to delete your Personal Information, please contact us by email at hello@goldrushweekly.com. To verify your identity, we may ask you to verify Personal Information we already have on file for you. If we cannot verify your identity from the information we have on file, we may request additional information from you, which we will only use to verify your identity, and for security or fraud-prevention purposes.
If you are a California resident, you may designate an authorized agent to make a request to access or a request to delete on your behalf. We will respond to your authorized agent’s request if they submit proof that they are registered with the California Secretary of State to be able to act on your behalf or submit evidence you have provided them with power of attorney pursuant to California Probate Code section 4000 to 4465. We may deny requests from authorized agents who do not submit proof that they have been authorized by you to act on their behalf or are unable to verify their identity.
In addition, 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. In your request, please specify that you want a “Gold Rush Weekly California Shine the Light Notice.” To make a written request, please email us at support@goldrushweekly.com
We welcome your questions, comments, and concerns about privacy. If you have any questions or comments regarding this Privacy Policy please email us at support@goldrushweekly.com.