Who we are
Our website address is: https://garretsongazette.com. We use an up-to-date SSL certificate to ensure all payments made through our site are secure.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Media
If you upload images to the website via a form, 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.
Contact forms
All data on contact forms may be retained but will not be shared or sold unless requested by the author. Any user who signs up for a subscription is added to the mailing list. Users may receive emails from this website, though all will be clearly labeled from The Garretson Gazette and will have the option to unsubscribe.
Cookies
If you submit a form 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 return to our site. 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 weeks, 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.
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.
Analytics
We utilize an analytics program to determine visitor counts. This may include generalized location data and where you accessed our site from (Facebook, Google, etc). This information may be anonymized, collated and shared with potential advertisers.
Who we share your data with
If you request a password reset, your IP address may be included in the reset email.
How long we retain your data
For users that register on our website (if any), 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.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where we send your data
Submitted forms may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Your contact information
Your contact information provided through forms on our website may be retained on a mailing list. We do not share this information with others. Mailed subscribers will have their mailing address sent weekly to our publishing company for postal purposes only. We do not store payment information on this site and will never ask for payment information to be placed into emails.
Additional information
How we protect your data
Your data is placed behind protected firewalls and we do everything we can to keep it from being exposed to others, including (but not limited to) only using trusted sources for our payment systems and mailing lists.
We do not store your payment information on this site. Please do not place payment information in our contact forms as that data may be transmitted in an unencrypted form.
If you are ever contacted by email and requested to send payment information without prior contact or agreement, please let us know immediately and do not submit your payment information.
What data breach procedures we have in place
All efforts will be made to contact you should a data breach be detected. This may include asking you to re-set your password if you have a user account on our site.
What third parties we receive data from
We receive data from our on-line payment service providers. We do not store payment information on our site.
What automated decision making and/or profiling we do with user data
Our member-only services are provided by S2Member, a trusted membership site. Through this, our site can determine your access level to restricted/paywall areas. If you feel your account is restricted in error, please feel free to contact us.
Industry regulatory disclosure requirements
We are a locally-owned and operated newspaper and are governed by the laws and rules of the state of South Dakota, United States of America. We are members in good standing of the South Dakota Newspaper Association and follow their rules and regulations to maintain our legal status.
We take fair and unbiased news reporting stipulations very seriously and aim to provide the highest-quality news and information we can, with the knowledge that we have at that time. Efforts will be made to correct errors as they are found.
