Privacy Policy

The following Privacy Policy, governs the data practices of PillarQ Communications LLC (“PillarQ”). It outlines the types of information we collect from you, how we collect it, and the ways in which we use that information. It also details your data rights. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. By visiting and using our website pillarqnews.com you agree that your use of the website is governed by this Privacy Policy.

Your privacy is important to us. It is PillarQ’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect from you across our website, and other sites we or our affiliates own and operate. The information you provide us may include data that identifies you personally. We will never sell your data to third parties. Any information we collect is based on your consent. To review, update, or delete your collected personal data, or to withdraw your consent to use, please contact us at: editor@pillarqnews.com.

We will never discriminate against our visitors who exercise their data rights.

INFORMATION WE COLLECT

Log data

When you visit our website, our servers may automatically log the standard data provided by your web browser. This data is considered non-identifying information, as it does not personally identify you on its own. It may include your browser type and version, the pages you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on each page, and other non-identifying details.

We may also collect data about the device you are using to access our website. This data may include the device type, operating system, unique device identifiers, and device settings. What we collect can depend on the individual settings of your device and software. We recommend checking the policies of your device manufacturer or software provider to learn what information they make available to us.

While most of the log data we collect is non-identifying information, your computer’s Internet Protocol (IP) address and geo-location data are identifying information, as they can personally identify you. We store this information to remember your device. We do not use this information to identify individuals.

We use cookies on our website. For information on our use of cookies, please see our Cookie Policy.

Personal information

We may ask for personal information, such as your name, contact information, company name, website, and social media handles.

This data is considered identifying information, as it can personally identify you. We only request personal information relevant to providing you with a service, and only use it to help provide or improve the service.

HOW WE COLLECT INFORMATION

All information we collect is either provided by you or cookies (further described in our Cookie Policy). Insofar as we request the collection of your personal data, we do so by fair and lawful means, with your knowledge and consent. This is our basis for processing all personal information as defined above. We also let you know why we’re collecting it and how it will be used. You are free to refuse our request for this information, with the understanding that we may be unable to provide you with some of your desired services without it. Insofar as our collection is necessary for the fulfillment of a contract we have entered into with you, that is the lawful basis for our processing.

USE OF INFORMATION

We may share the names, company names, website addresses, and social media handles submitted by you on our website or social pages to help drive traffic to these platforms. We do not sell this information.

We may use a combination of identifying and non-identifying information to understand who our visitors are, how they use our services, and how we may improve their experience of our website in future. We do not disclose the specifics of this information publicly but may share aggregated and anonymized versions of this information, for example, in website and customer usage trend reports. This data is anonymized to where it can no longer identify you. We do not sell personal data of our visitors.

We may use your personal details to contact you with updates about our website and services, along with promotional content that we believe may be of interest to you. If you wish to opt out of receiving promotional content, you can follow the unsubscribe instructions provided alongside any promotional correspondence from us.

DATA PROCESSING AND STORAGE

The personal information we collect is stored and processed in the United States, or where we or our partners, affiliates and third-party providers maintain facilities. We only transfer data within jurisdictions subject to data protection laws that reflect our commitment to protecting the privacy of our users. Any transfers of personal data will comply with local, state, federal, and international data privacy laws.

We only retain personal information for as long as necessary to provide a service, or to improve our services in future. While we retain this data, we will protect it within commercially acceptable means to prevent loss and theft, as well as unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use or modification. That said, we advise that no method of electronic transmission or storage is 100% secure and cannot guarantee absolute data security.

If you request your personal information be deleted, or where your personal information becomes no longer relevant to our operations, we will erase it from our system without undue delay.

PillarQ does not use automated decision-making, including profiling, that produces legal effects or otherwise significantly affects you.

 

ADDITIONAL NOTICE FOR CALIFORNIA CONSUMERS

This portion of our Privacy Policy applies to California consumers only.

Personal Information Collected on California Consumers

We collect information from users, as described in our Privacy Policy. The “Personal Information,” as defined in California Civil Code § 1798.140(o), we may collect on California residents includes the following:

  1. Personal identifiers such as your real name, alias, preferred name, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, or other similar identifiers.
  2. Commercial information, including records of products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies.
  3. Internet or other similar network activity information, including, but not limited to, browsing history, search history, and information regarding a consumer’s interaction with an Internet Web site, application, or advertisement.
  4. Geolocation data (excluding real time GPS information), such as IP addresses from which we can determined your general location .
  5. Sensory data, such as audio, electronic, visual, or similar information.
  6. Education information, defined as information that is not publicly available personally identifiable information as defined in the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (20 U.S.C. section 1232g, 34 C.F.R. Part 99), and that may include any record (handwritten, printed, computer, microfilm, microfiche, email, audiotape, videotape, filmed or preserved in any other medium) that contains information directly related to the student in the context of an educational setting.
  7. Inferences drawn from any of the information identified in this subdivision to create a profile about a consumer reflecting the consumer’s preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes.

Our Use of Personal Information for Business Purposes

We use the Personal Information we collect, identified in each of the above categories, for the business purposes disclosed within the Privacy Policy. These business purposes include the following:

  1. Auditing related to a current interaction with the consumer and concurrent transactions, including, but not limited to, counting ad impressions to unique visitors, verifying positioning and quality of ad impressions, and auditing compliance with this specification and other standards.
  2. Detecting security incidents, protecting against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, and prosecuting those responsible for that activity.
  3. Debugging to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality.
  4. Short-term, transient use, provided the personal information that is not disclosed to another third party and is not used to build a profile about a consumer or otherwise alter an individual consumer’s experience outside the current interaction, including, but not limited to, the contextual customization of ads shown as part of the same interaction.
  5. Performing services on behalf of the business or service provider, including maintaining or servicing accounts, providing customer service, processing or fulfilling orders and transactions, verifying customer information, processing payments, providing financing, providing advertising or marketing services, providing analytic services, or providing similar services on behalf of the business or service provider.
  6. Undertaking internal research for technological development and demonstration.
  7. Undertaking activities to verify or maintain the quality or safety of a service or device that is owned, manufactured, manufactured for, or controlled by the business, and to improve, upgrade, or enhance the service or device that is owned, manufactured, manufactured for, or controlled by the business.

Disclosures of Personal Information on California Consumers for Business Purposes: We may disclose Personal Information identified in the above categories only (i) for exempt activities, as part of a business-to-business transaction, (ii) at your express request, or (iii) for our business purposes. For more information on the service providers with whom we share information, please see Our Disclosure of Your Personal Data and Other Information.

California Rights and Choices

If you are a California resident, you have certain legal rights related to your Personal Information. Except as otherwise provided by applicable law, you may exercise the following rights for purposes of the Personal Information covered by our Privacy Policy.

  1. Right to Know/Portability

    You have the right to request that we disclose to you certain information about Personal Information we collected about you within the past twelve months. Once we confirm your verifiable request, we will disclose to you: 

    • the categories of Personal Information we have collected about you;
    • the categories of sources from which the Personal Information is collected;
    • our business or commercial purpose for collecting Personal Information;
    • the categories of third parties with whom we share Personal Information;
    • and the specific pieces of information we have collected about you.
  2. Right to Opt Out

    We do not offer a right to opt out because we have not sold any Personal Information described in this Privacy Policy to third parties within the previous twelve months and will not sell Personal Information within the meaning of the CCPA.
  3. Right to Deletion

    You have the right to request deletion of your Personal Information that we collected from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions. Once we confirm your verifiable request, we will delete (and direct our service providers to delete) your Personal Information from our records, unless an exception applies.

    We may deny your deletion request if retaining the information is necessary for us or our service provider(s) to:

    • complete the transaction for which we collected the Personal Information, provide a good or service that you requested, take actions reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, or otherwise perform our contract with you;
    • detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, or prosecute those responsible for such activities;
    • debug products to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality;
    • exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise their free speech rights, or exercise another right provided for by law;
    • comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act;
    • enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with consumer expectations based on your relationship with us;
    • comply with a legal obligation;
    • or make other internal and lawful uses of that information that are compatible with the context in which you provided it.
  4. Right to Non-Discrimination for Exercise of a California Privacy Rights
    We will not discriminate against you because you exercise any of the above rights, or any other rights under the CCPA. Specifically, if you exercise your Rights, we will not deny you Services, charge you different prices or rates for Services or provide you a different level or quality of Services.
  5. How to Submit A Request
    You may submit a request to exercise the rights listed above by:
    emailing us at editor@pillarqnews.com.
    In your request, please include (1) full name used to create your account; (2) email with which you created your account; (3) phone number in case we need to contact you to securely verify your request; (4) whether you are requesting how your information is used and/or to delete your personal information.
  6. Verifiable Request
    As required under applicable law, we take steps to verify your identity before responding to your request. We may require you to provide information sufficient enough to allow us to reasonably verify you are the person about whom we collected Personal Information or an authorized representative. We may limit our response to your exercise of the above rights as permitted under applicable law.
  7. Agent Authorization and Disability Access
    You may designate an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf. As permitted by law, we may require additional verification in response to a request even if you choose to use an agent.
    You may also make a verifiable consumer request on behalf of your minor child.
    To access this Privacy Policy by an alternative method, please contact us at editor@pillarqnews.com.
  8. Right to Opt Out and Right to Opt In
    Please note we do not sell Personal Information of California Consumers regardless of your age. If you are 16 years of age or older, you have the right to direct us to not sell your Personal Information at any time (the “right to opt out”). We do not sell the Personal Information of consumers we know are less than 16 years of age, unless we receive affirmative authorization (the “right to opt in”) from either the consumer who is between 13 and 16 years of age, or the parent or guardian of a consumer less than 13 years of age. Consumers who opt in to Personal Information sales may opt out of future sales at any time.
  9. Responding to Requests
    We will confirm receipt of your request within 10 days from receipt, and provide information about how we will process the request, our verification process, and when you can anticipate a response to the request.
We will use commercially reasonable efforts to honor your request within 45 days from receipt. If additional time is needed, we will notify you of the same, along with an explanation and anticipated timeline for the extension which shall not exceed 90 days from the date of receipt.

Other California Privacy Rights

Under California Civil Code Sections 1798.83-1798.84, California residents are entitled to ask us for a notice identifying the categories of Personal Data which we share with our affiliates and/or third parties for marketing purposes, and providing contact information for such affiliates and/or third parties. If you are a California resident and would like a copy of this notice, please submit a written request to: editor@pillarqnews.com.

MODIFICATION

PillarQ may revise the privacy policy for its website at any time without notice. By using this website you are agreeing to be bound by the then current version of this Privacy Policy.

LEGAL NOTICE

If any part or parts of this privacy policy are found under the law to be invalid or unenforceable by a court of competent jurisdiction, then such specific part or parts shall be of no force and effect and shall be severed and the remainder shall continue in full force and effect.

GOVERNING LAW

This Privacy Policy and use of our website, or other websites owned by PillarQ, is governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of Tennessee, and you irrevocably submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Tennessee.

CONTACT INFORMATION

editor@pillarqnews.com

This policy is effective as of August 2022.