Privacy Policy

Who we are

Your privacy is very important to us. At Franchise Newz we have a few fundamental principles that we follow:

  • We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it. (We can’t stand services that ask you for things like your gender or income level for no apparent reason.)
  • We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products, or protect our rights.
  • We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of our site.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to Franchise Newz’s website choose to interact with Franchise Newz in ways that require Franchise Newz to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Franchise Newz gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who comment on our blog to provide a username and email address. Those who wish to receive Franchise Newz updates via email, we collect their emails. In each case, Franchise Newz collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Franchise Newz. Franchise Newz does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

Aggregated Statistics

Franchise Newz may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its website. For instance, Franchise Newz may monitor the most popular pages on the Franchise Newz’s site or use spam screened by the Akismet service to help identify spam. Franchise Newz may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Franchise Newz does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

Franchise Newz discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Franchise Newz behalf or to provide services available at Franchise Newz’s website, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Franchise Newz’s website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Franchise Newz will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Franchise Newz discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Franchise Newz believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Franchise Newz, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an Franchise Newz website and have supplied your email address, Franchise Newz may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Franchise Newz and our products. We primarily use our various blogs to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Franchise Newz takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Franchise Newz uses cookies to help Franchise Newz identify and track visitors, their usage of Franchise Newz website, and their website access preferences. Franchise Newz visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Franchise Newz website, with the drawback that certain features of Franchise Newz websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Business Transfers

If Franchise Newz, or substantially all of its assets were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Franchise Newz goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of Franchise Newz may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.

Ads

Ads appearing on any of our websites may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Franchise Newz and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Comments

Comments and other content submitted to Akismet anti-spam service are not saved on our servers unless they were marked as false positives, in which case we store them long enough to use them to improve the service to avoid future false positives.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Franchise Newz may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Franchise Newz’s sole discretion. Franchise Newz encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.