Personal Information:
TheCostaRicaNews.com (TCRN) collects personally identifiable information in accordance to Public Law Number 8968 of 2011. The law was implemented to protect all web users against potentially unscrupulous and/or unlawful use of personal information.
Please note that you may be submitting personally identifiable information when you:
– Sign up for an electronic newsletter or contest
– Completing surveys
– Send TCRN e-mails
– Place an advertisement
– Engage in online social media interactions
Collection and Use of Your Information:
We will never ever sell, distribute or lease your email address or the data we collect to third parties.
Our site needs to collect some information about you (your email address and login credentials), which will remain private and confidential.
We may provide functionality allowing you to integrate your TCRN account with third party services including social networks or email sending systems. We will never do this without your explicit permission. In cases where you need to authenticate with these third parties, we may store an access token allowing continued integration. We will never store your password unencrypted.
TCRN Data Security:
We take security seriously. All site communication occurs over an SSL encrypted channel, so your login credentials and data you provide can’t be intercepted by third parties.
Information Tracking
Certain information is automatically collected in server logs analytic programs. This can include your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring URLs, duration on pages and click behavior. TCRN uses this information, help diagnose server and issues as well improve user experience, and to help identify you as a unique visitor to our site and to gather broad information about your site usage. Tracking usage patterns do not match this information with a specific user’s personally identifiable information that may be on file.
Cookies
A “cookie” is a small text file that is placed in your browser and allows us to recognize a user each time they are on TCRN web site(s) but only as a identified user not your identity. We use cookies to track usage on the site.
Your information is never given to third parties. This is the foundation of our privacy policy. We can provide our advertisers with aggregate information, for example: “300 users saw your advertisement this week”.
We may use an ad network provider to display advertisements on the TCRN site(s). These providers like all advertising service providers, use cookies, or similar technologies for their own tracking purposes. In doing so, the provider collects non-personal data such as your browser type, your operating system, Web pages visited, time of visits, content viewed, ads viewed, and other click stream data. The use of cookies or similar technologies by third party providers is subject to their own privacy policies, not TCRN’s.