Your privacy is critically important to us at Người Việt Tây Bắc (translated as Northwest Vietnamese News in English) (NVTB). We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it. 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 ongoing operation of one of our programs.
Website Visitors
NVTB collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. NVTB’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how NVTB’s visitors use its website. From time to time, NVTB may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
NVTB also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on articles published. NVTB only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that blog commenter IP addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog where the comment was left.
Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to NVTB’s websites choose to interact with NVTB in ways that require NVTB to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that NVTB gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up for our newsletter at nvnorthwest.com to provide a name and email address.
Those who donate to NVTB are sometimes asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, NVTB collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with NVTB. NVTB 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
NVTB may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its website. For instance, NVTB may monitor the most popular pages and articles on the nvnorthwest.com site or use spam screened by the Akismet service to help identify spammers. NVTB may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, NVTB does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, NVTB may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and at NVTB’s sole discretion. NVTB encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy.
Protection of Information
NVTB 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 NVTB’s behalf or to provide professional services
(ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others.
Other than to its employees, contractors, and affiliated organizations, as described above, NVTB discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when NVTB believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of NVTB, third parties or the public at large.
Email Communication
NVTB sends a newsletter and occasional updates that we believe will be useful to individuals that subscribe to our website or social media accounts. Users may remove themselves from this mailing list by following the link provided in every email. We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties.
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. NVTB uses cookies to help NVTB identify and track visitors, their usage of NVTB website, and their website access preferences.
NVTB visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using NVTB’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of NVTB’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
