Privacy Policy

Last updated: December 6, 2024

This Privacy Policy discloses the privacy practices for the services offered by Times/Review Newspapers Corp. dba Times Review Media Group (“Times Review Media Group,” “Company” “we” or “us”) including:

timesreview.com;

Riverhead News Review newspaper, and its website, riverheadnewsreview.com;

The Suffolk Times newspaper, and its website, suffolktimes.com;

Shelter Island Reporter newspaper, and its website, sireporter.com;

Southforker magazine, and its website, southforker.com;

Northforker magazine, and its websites, northforker.com and si.northforker.com;

Northforker magazine vacation guide, and its website, vacationguide.northforker.com;

The North Shore Sun newspaper and its website, the northshoresun.com;

Long Island Wine Press newspaper, and its website www.liwinepress.com;

Email Newsletters offered by any of these publications or websites;

Podcasts, and any other audio or video recordings;

Our advertisements, online or in print, including on social media;

Our social media webpages;

Anywhere we gather information from you and refer you to this privacy policy, and any other domains or domain names that re-direct to these websites, advertisements or social media pages (together, “Services”). This Policy applies regardless of how the Services are accessed and will cover any technologies or devices by which we make the Services available to you.

Times Review Media Group is committed to disclosing our policies and respecting your privacy rights when visiting our websites (the “Sites”) or its Services. To protect your personal information, Times Review Media Group has created the following guidelines. Any changes to this policy will be promptly posted on this page, with an updated “effective date” posted at the end of this policy.

By using our Sites and/or the Services and providing us with personal information, you agree to the practices described in this Privacy Policy. If you cannot agree to this Privacy Policy, please do not use our Sites. The amount, type, and uses of information gathered may vary by service. Some of the above services may be subject to additional terms or policies and you should consult these policies to become familiar with the data collection and usage practices of the specific service.

Personal Information You Provide To Us:

For purposes of this Privacy Policy, unless otherwise noted, “Personal Information” means data that classifies as personal information, personal data, personally identifiable information, or similar terms under applicable data privacy and security laws and regulations.  .  It does not include data excluded or exempted from those laws and regulations, such as aggregated, anonymized, or deidentified data.  Nothing in this Policy will constitute an admission or evidence that any particular data privacy or information security law or regulation applies to Times Review Media Group generally or in any specific context. . We may collect the following Personal Information from you:

Name;

Phone Number;

Street Address;

Email Address;

Credit Card Information or other payment information;

Message and message subject;

Username;

Password;

License Number;

Business Name;

We collect this information when you subscribe to our Services, purchase an advertisement, make a donation, contact us, register for an event, or take a survey.

Information Automatically Collected From Browsers

The Company gathers website usage information that may be used or shared with third parties as described below. We track and store data using third party vendors about how you visit, view, and use Company Services, particularly through our websites and apps.  This information is collected through traffic data reports and may include the use of “cookies,” “beacons,” “IP addresses,” “tags and scripts”, “software development kits” or other numeric codes and tools used to identify a computer and/or a computer user.

Cookies and beacons are data stored on your system. The use of such data helps to give you a more personalized experience at the Sites. Cookies identify you to our server, allowing you to avoid retyping your e-mail address and password each time you access the Sites, and allow us to analyze traffic on the Sites. If you do not wish to give this information, you can choose to disable cookies. However, certain features of our website will not function without cookies. For example, your browser MUST accept cookies from our site in order for registered, paid subscribers to access subscriber-only content. The following chart lists the different types of cookies that we and our service providers use on the Services, examples of who serves those cookies and links to the privacy notices and opt-out information of those cookie servers.  Because the specific cookies we use may vary over time, as well as differ by the specific page you are browsing, the below chart is illustrative only.

We do not use analytical tools in a manner that discloses to third parties that a specific person viewed specific video materials.

To learn more about cookies and your ability to opt-out of certain third-party advertising cookies, please visit the following websites: http://www.aboutads.info/choices or http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices.

We may automatically collect the following information, including, but not limited to:

Your IP address

Your location

Date and time of the visit

Your operating system

Your browser

Your browser language

Articles and images you view on our sites,

The URLs of any pages you visit on our sites and apps

Device identifiers

Advertising identifiers

Other usage information

We use Google Analytics to generate statistical and other information about the use of our websites by means of cookies. Google Analytics may set cookies on your browser or mobile device or read cookies that are already there to collect information about your online activities over time and across different websites or online services. Google Analytics may also receive information about you from apps you have downloaded that partner with Google. To learn more about Google’s privacy policy, please visit: http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/. You can also learn more about how to opt out of the collection and processing of such information by Google by visiting this website: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. We, or our third-party vendors, may collect information about your online activities over time when you use our sites.

Our Sites do not currently have the capability to recognize the various Do Not Track signals or mechanisms from different web browsers. For more information on Do Not Track please visit https://allaboutdnt.com.

Information Collected From Other Sources:

We may also receive information from marketing, data analytics and social media-owned companies and databases. This information would include public data, survey data and may sometimes include your mailing address, your gender, your age, your household income and other demographic data.

We may also receive information from your interactions with our pages, groups, accounts or posts on social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram and YouTube or on other third party services such as Google. This includes individual users’ public profiles, including individual’s Social Media Platform login information, profile information, list of contacts, friends or followers, and some information about your activities on the Social Media Platform.

Please be aware that when you provide Personal Information to us on a third party website or platform, such as via our social media pages, the Personal Information you provide may also be collected by the third party website or the Social Media Platform. Please review the privacy policies of the applicable third party website or Social Media Platform for more information.

Used By Times Review Media Group:

Times Review Media Group uses your Personal Information in the following ways, including but not limited to:

providing you with our Sites and Services;

to communicate with you;

providing customer service, including responses to inquiries, requests, suggestions or complaints;

completing payments and transactions;

conducting polls, promotions, surveys, and research;

improving our advertising and marketing efforts;

analyzing site usage and improving our Sites and Services;

personalizing the Sites’ content, layout, and services; 

contact you regarding products and/or services that may interest you;

ensuring compliance with legal, regulatory and contractual requirements;

prevent fraud;

enforce this Privacy Policy and any other agreements you have entered into with us;

for any purpose for which you provide consent; and

for any other legitimate business purpose.

Sharing Information With Third Parties: 

In order to provide you with our Sites and Services, Times Review Media Group may share the Personal Information it gathers from you with its affiliates, third party contractors, advertising partners, sponsors and managers of promotions, quizzes, contests, and sweepstakes and agents, such as its website developers, advertising vendors, advertising technology companies, data storage providers, subscription management contractors, payment processors, and business and data analytics companies, service providers or similar third parties.

We comply with Federal and State requirements related to the protection and use of your Personal Information. This means that we may share Personal Information when required by law or legal process, and we will endeavor to ask for and obtain your permission in such situations.

We may share Personal Information if we believe it is necessary in order to detect, investigate, prevent, or take action against illegal activities, fraud, or situations involving potential threats to the rights, property, or personal safety of any person.

If we are involved in a merger, acquisition, financing due diligence, reorganization, bankruptcy, receivership, sale of assets, or transition of service to another provider, your Personal Information may be sold or transferred as part of such a transaction as permitted by law and/or contract. We cannot control how such entities may use or disclose such Personal Information.

We may share your Personal Information as appropriate to carry out any other legitimate business purposes permitted by law.

Advertising and Marketing Choices:

We respect your rights in how your personal information is used and shared. We may communicate with you via email, telephone, postal mail, and/or your mobile device about our products and services. If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future marketing emails, you can email us at [email protected] or follow the instructions at the bottom of each applicable email, and we will promptly remove you from those marketing correspondences that you choose to no longer receive.  Please note, however, that we may still need to contact you regarding other matters.

Protecting Information:

We take commercially reasonable organizational, administrative, technical, and physical precautions to protect Personal Information. Although we believe our security measures adequately protect Personal Information, we cannot promise or guarantee that Personal Information or private communications will always remain private or secure. We do not guarantee that your Personal Information will not be misused by third parties or that third parties will adequately protect your Personal Information. We are not responsible for any circumvention of privacy settings or security features. If you think that your Personal Information has been wrongfully accessed or acquired by an unauthorized person, please contact us at [email protected] as soon as possible.

How Long Your Personal Information Is Kept:

We will retain your personal information until the personal information is no longer necessary to accomplish the purpose for which it was provided.  We may retain your personal information for longer periods for specific purposes to the extent that we are obliged to do so in accordance with applicable laws and regulations, to protect you, other people, and us from fraud, abuse, an unauthorized access, as necessary to protect our legal rights, or for certain business requirements.

We will delete your personal information when it is no longer necessary for the purpose for which it was collected, or upon your request, subject to exceptions as discussed in this Policy or under applicable law, contract, or regulation.

You can access and update certain personal information we hold about you at any time by logging into your account via the Services.

Where Your Personal Information Is Held:

We process personal information on our servers in the United States of America, and may do so in other countries.  If you use our Services or otherwise provide us with information from outside of the United States, you expressly consent to the transfer of your data to the United States, the processing of your data in the United States, and the storage of your data in the United States.

Children Under the Age of 13:

The Sites and Services are not intended for use by children under the age of 13 years. We do not knowingly collect Personal Information from children. If you believe we have wrongfully collected information about a child, contact us at [email protected]. We will take immediate steps to delete any such Personal Information.

Third Party Links:

Please also note that third party sites linked to and from the Sites are not necessarily under the control of Times Review Media Group. Times Review Media Group shall have no responsibilities or liabilities whatsoever for the content or privacy practices of any such linked site. Times Review Media Group does not necessarily endorse other sites by providing a link.  If you decide to access any third party site linked to the Sites, you do so entirely at your own risk.

Policy Changes:

This Policy may change from time to time.  If we need to change this Policy at some point in the future, we will post any changes on this page.  If we make a significant or material change to this Policy we will notify you via email.  You should check these terms when you use the Site.  Your continued use of the Services constitutes acceptance of the most current version of this Policy.

Contacting Us:

If you have any questions or comments about our Privacy Policy, please e-mail us at [email protected].