Effective Date: January 1, 2024

Welcome to 2B News®. Your privacy is important to us. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, and protect your information when you use our website, sign up for our newsletter, submit news tips, media materials, user-generated content, business information, and use other services offered by 2B News.

1. Information Collection

– Personal Information: We collect personal information when you sign up for our newsletter or submit content to us. This may include your name, email address, and other contact details.

– Submissions: When you submit news tips, media materials, or user-generated content, we may collect relevant information necessary to verify or utilize the content.

– Business Information: If you submit business information for coverage, reviews, or job postings, we collect details necessary for these purposes.

• Cookies and Usage Data: We may use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track activity on our website and store certain information.
• An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

2. Use of Information

– To provide, maintain, and improve our website and services.

– To communicate with you, including sending you our newsletter and responding to your inquiries.

– To verify and publish submissions, where applicable.

– For other purposes such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns.

3. Sharing and Disclosure of Information

– We do not sell or rent your personal information to third parties.

• We may disclose information to comply with legal processes or governmental requests and to protect the rights, property, or safety of 2B News, our users, or the public as required or permitted by law.
• Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service to ensure they are safe to publish on our site.

4. Data Security

– We take reasonable measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure.

5. Submissions and Ownership of Materials

– Material Submission: Any materials, information, tips, or other data submitted to 2B News become the property of 2B News.

• Usage Rights: By submitting any material, you agree that 2B News has the right to use, publish, edit, modify, and distribute these materials in any manner related to our business and media outlets without any further consent, notice, or compensation to you or others.
• If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
• If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
• If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
• When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
• If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

6. User Rights

– Users have the right to access, correct, or request deletion of their personal information. Please contact us for assistance with these requests.

7. International Data Transfer

– Information we collect may be stored and processed in any country where we operate. By using our services, you consent to the transfer of information to countries outside of your country of residence.

8. Children’s Privacy

– Our services are not intended for children under the age of [Insert Appropriate Age]. We do not knowingly collect personal identifiable information from children under this age.

9. Third-Party Links

– Our website may contain links to other sites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of other sites and encourage you to read their privacy statements.

10. Data Retention

• We retain personal information only for as long as necessary to provide our services, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our policies.
• If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
• If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
• For users who register on our website, we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

11. Changes to This Privacy Policy

– We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.

12. Contact Us

• If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at [email protected].

13. Embedded Content From Other Websites

– Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

– These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Copyright and Trademark Statement

– “2B News” is a registered trademark. “What Happens Next” is a service-mark of 2B News, with a trademark application pending. All content on the 2B News website and other outlets, including social media, is protected under copyright law. No part of this content may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form without the prior written permission of 2B News.