Welcome to the American Media Council, Inc. Privacy Policy!
This is the privacy policy for the American Media Council, Inc. (“AMC”), located at 1301 Central Avenue, Cheyenne, WY, 82001, United States. 1-800-USA-7570, IRS TIN: 82-3235497. This policy describes how AMC handles your personal information (“information”). It applies across all AMC’s webpages including AmericanMediaCouncil.org and webpages of TruthSpeak.com, and our other affiliated websites (“webpages”).
What Information Do We Collect?
We value your privacy very much indeed! AMC collects certain information about visitors and users of our webpages. The most common types of information we collect include things like (when provided): first and last name, email addresses, physical address, IP addresses, survey responses, blogs, payment information, transactional details, and web analytics data.
How Does AMC Collect Personal Information?
AMC collects personal information directly when you provide it to us online, or automatically as you navigate through our webpages. This includes when you provide it to us by submitted a donation, subscribing to a newsletter, submitting feedback, filling out a survey, or sending us a communication.
What Information May We Get From Others?
Although we generally collect information directly from you, we may also get certain information about you from other sources. That information can include:
- Financial and/or transaction details to process a transaction
- Third party service providers (like Google, Facebook) may provide information about you when you link, connect, or login to your account with the third party provider. The information varies and is controlled by that service provider as authorized by you via your privacy settings at that service provider
- Other third party sources and/or partners, where, as allowed by law, we receive additional information about you such as demographic data.
How Do We Use Your Information?
We will use your information:
- To fulfill a contractual obligation, or take necessary steps related to our contractual agreement. Most notably, when facilitating and processing transactions, such as when you submit a donation.
- Where it is necessary for purposes which are in our, or third parties, legitimate interests. These interests can include:
- operating our webpages
- providing you with services described on the webpages
- verifying your identity when you sign in to any of our webpages
- responding to support tickets and helping facilitate the resolution of any disputes
- updating you with operational news and information about our webpages and services (e.g. to notify you about changes to our webpages, website disruptions or security updates)
- carrying out technical analysis to determine how to improve our webpages and services we provide
- managing our relationship with you
- managing our legal and operational affairs
- training AMC staff about how to best serve our user community
- improving our products and services
- providing general administrative and performance functions and activities
- reporting on our activities
- complying with financial and operations audits
- When you give us consent, we will occasionally:
- provide you with information about our programs and events, organizational updates, partner organization opportunities, sponsorship and donation opportunities, and other products and services which we feel may interest you.
- customize our services and websites – where this involves the use of cookies or similar technologies – to provide a more personalized experience.
- For purposes which are required by law.
When Do We Share Your Information?
AMC will disclose information to the following recipients:
- AMC employees and contractors who are located around the world.
- subcontractors and service providers who we contract with (e.g. website hosting providers, recruitment agencies, marketing and analytics services; security and fraud prevention services, subscription management services, payment processing services, and identification verification services.
- with select allied partner organizations, on a case by case basis. This allows your name to be under consideration for various opportunities including internships, employment, awards, grants, mailings and events.
- our professional advisers (lawyers, accountants, financial advisers, etc.)
- regulators and government authorities in connection with our compliance procedures and obligations.
- a third party, to enforce or defend our rights.
Where Do We Transfer and/or Store Your Information?
AMC is based in the United States and data is processed in the United States. Some of the recipients we have described above, and to whom we disclose your personal information, included staff and contractors, may be based both inside and outside the United States. To protect your information, we take care where possible to work with contractors and service providers who we believe maintain an acceptable standard of data security compliance.
How Do We Keep Your Information Secure?
AMC stores personal information on secure servers operated by third parties, or, in some cases, by ourselves. Personal information that is transmitted is protected by security and access controls, including username and password authentication, two-factor authentication, and data encryption where appropriate.
How Can You Access Your Information?
You have the right to:
- make a request to access the personal information we hold about you and to request corrections of any errors in that data
- close the account you have with us at any time
- ask us to port your personal information (i.e. to transfer in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format, to you), to erase it, or restrict its processing.
- object to some processing that is based on our legitimate interests, such as profiling that we perform for the purposes of direct marketing, and, where we have asked for your consent to process your data, to withdraw this consent.
These rights are limited in some situations – for example, we can demonstrate that we have a legal requirement to process your personal information. In some instances, this means that we may retain some data even if you withdraw your consent.
Where we require your personal information to comply with legal or contractual obligations, then provision of such data is mandatory: if such data is not provided, then we will not be able to manage our contractual relationship with you, or to meet obligations placed on us.To make an access or correction request, contact us at [email protected].
How Do You Control How We Communicate With You?
When we have your consent, we may occasionally send you marketing communications by email about products and services that we feel may be of interest to you. You can ‘opt-out’ of such communications if you would prefer not to receive them in the future by using the “unsubscribe” link provided in the communication itself.
We never knowingly send our marketing material to anyone who has not personally signed up to receive them. If you do receive marketing emails from us without having signed up, please contact us.You also have choices about cookies, as described below. By modifying your browser preferences, you have the choice to accept all cookies, to be notified when a cookie is set, or to reject all cookies. If you choose to reject cookies some parts of our webpages may not work properly in your case.
More Information About Cookies and Web Analytics
When you visit our webpages, there is certain standard industry information that is recorded which is generally anonymous information that does not reveal your identity. If you are logged into your account
(e.g. on TruthSpeak.com), some of this information could be associated with your account. The following kinds of details are what tend to be collected:
- your IP address or proxy server IP address
- the domain name you requested
- the name of your internet service provider is sometimes captured depending on the configuration of your ISP connection
- the date and time of your visit to the website
- the length of your session
- the pages which you have accessed
- the number of times you access our site within any month
- the file URL you look at and information relating to it
- the website which referred you to our website
- the operating system which your computer uses
Occasionally, we may use third party advertising companies to serve carefully curated ads based on prior visits to our various webpages (e.g. from X.com, Google.com, etc.). For example, if you visit our webpages, you may later see an advertisement for AMC when you visit a different site or use the Google Search Engine. You can revoke your cookies consent at any time.
The AMC Privacy Policy for California and the EU
AMC complies with all privacy requirements of both the State of California and the European Union concerning the collection and retention of any personal information from residents of these jurisdictions. These additional requirements, if any, are available by contacting us at [email protected].
How Long Do We Keep Your Personal Information?
AMC retains your personal information for as long as is necessary to provide services to you and others, and to comply with our legal and contractual obligations. If you no longer want us to use your personal information, you can request that we erase your personal information. Please note that if you request we erase your personal information, we will retain information from deleted accounts as necessary for our legitimate interests, to comply with the law, prevent fraud, collect fees, resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems, assist with investigations, enforce the terms of service and take other actions permitted by law. The information we retain will be handled in accordance with this AMC Privacy Policy.
Updating the AMC Privacy Policy
AMC may need to change this policy from time to time to make sure it stays up to date with the latest legal requirements and to update any changes to our privacy management practices. When we do change the policy, we will make sure to notify you about such changes, where required. A copy of the latest version of the AMC Privacy Policy policy will always be available on this page.
How Can You Contact AMC?
If you have any questions about our privacy policy or practices, please contact us in writing at [email protected].