The Broadcast Network understands the need for the protection of the private data of our readers and has created this Privacy Policy to affirm our responsibility on how the data collected from our user’s privacy are managed and handled. The following statement details how TBN News collects uses and discloses private data to our readers. Furthermore, our writers and editors are subject to these policies and must adhere judiciously to them or risk disciplinary measures including termination.
Rights To Update Policy
TBN News has the right and discretion to amend and update this Privacy policy when due and necessary. However, we care about our readers and how they interact with our website and so have deemed it necessary to inform users of our services of the changes as updated on our Privacy policies.
Information Collection
TBN collects personal information of site readers or any information connected to improving the user experience of our site, rendering of our services and the general management of our Website. The information we collect is name, IP address, email address and website URL which are collected upon entering the site, commenting and details for advertisements. The collected information will used if you want to register for any event, sign up for our monthly newsletter, respond to a survey, marketing demography and surf the website. The Broadcast Network will not voluntarily disclose or sell any personal information gathered about our users to third parties for any reason without consent or non-compliance with the privacy policy as stated below.
Third-party disclosure
TBN News does not sell, trade, or disclose personal information without prior notice and consent of users except our hosting partners and other parties assisting us on our website like the tech support team. However, we will ensure that personal information shared with these third parties remains confidential. Furthermore, information considered sensitive to the laws governing this privacy policy should be disclosed to the appropriate authority. Other non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.
Third-party links
Our content may include internal links to other websites with their unique and independent privacy policies. TBN is not responsible and will not be held accountable for the content and activities of these linked sites. But, we care for our readers, therefore we encourage the reporting of these sites in cases of privacy policy infringement.
How do we protect your information?
TBN News utilises a combination of different security approaches to protect and guarantee the safety of the personal information of users. One is that collected personal information is contained behind secured networks and is only accessible by a limited number of persons who have special access rights to such systems, and are required to keep the information confidential. We also use data encryption systems to ensure information is between us and the users and simply do not store other extremely sensitive data on the website. The information stored is done so on servers that are protected by firewall, system-level, and database-level security. All financial transaction data are processed through a payment gateway provider and are not stored or processed on our servers. Our employees are mandated to sign our standard Nondisclosure and Developments Agreement that requires them to keep User data confidential. Finally, our internal Web security policies are reviewed and revised regularly.
Cookies
TBN News uses cookies to ensure in different capacities and users may see them on some pages. What are Cookies? They refer to small pieces of information that users’ Web browsers place on computers’ hard drives for different purposes such as personalizing our Website and providing information tailored to serve the interests of individual Users. It further helps TBN deliver specific articles based on your interest and even saves your login details. If you are not comfortable with cookies, you can always change this setting on your browser or decline our cookies though this may affect service.
Outside Ad Company
For advertisement, TBN News may Google or any other outside advertising or marketing company to display ads on our site. In some cases, these ads whether banner or text may contain cookies. Apart from the cookies we use on other parts of our Website, cookies served by ads are the sole responsibility of the marketing company, and we do not have access to or have rights to this information. The outside advertising company may use collected personal information of users such as their name, address, email address, phone number and number of visits to our website and others to deliver advertisements about goods and services of interest to them.
Usage Tracking
TBN New’s Website is designed to automatically keep track of specific data from users such as the URL that the user came from, the browser the user is using, as well as a user’s IP address. This information is crucial to the general management of the website and assists TBN in diagnosing problems with our server. Noted, TBN will not disclose or sell any private information information to third parties for solicitation or other reasons without consent unless it is sensitive and required by the governing body of our privacy policy.
Correspondence
TBN expects to receive, e-mails from users. In that case, we may collect information such as email address into a file specific to that User. But we recommend that users should not send us sensitive information without permission or direction.
Regulatory Issues
The Broadcast Network uses industry standard practices to protect our User’s privacy but we do not guarantee that their personally identifiable information particularly when directed to a third-party website from our website. Furthermore, the versatility of the existing regulatory environment, TBN cannot guarantee private information of users can be disclosed in other ways that this privacy policy did not cover. Sensitive data can be disclosed to the government or in the event of a breach.
International Information
By using TBN, you consent that your collected personal information can be transferred to the servers located in the United States and other transfer policies outlined in this policy statement. But our readers in the email list will be via mail in case of any important changes made to the uses of information.
Data Quality and Access
In light of Fair Information Practices defined by the government and to increase the credibility of our data, we urge users to correct any mistakes on prior personal information uploaded to the site. Likewise, if there are any editorial errors, misrepresentation of information, or publishing of copyrighted content. and use of the content of others in disregard to their policy, notify us through our email at thebroadcastnetworkblog@gmail.com for us to take it down. We obey every takedown request we get on the site.
Feedback
TBN Users may provide feedback such as what to improve upon, give us a scoop and even comment on what we are doing great. To do this, TBN expects our readers to state their name, website and e-mail address. For questions and directions, please make use of our Contact Us page to send us a message.
