Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

Effective Date: July 1, 2022.

 

Echo Chamber, including any affiliates and subsidiaries (“we,” “us,” or “our”) values the trust you place in us when you use our website and its services. This Privacy Policy describes our collection, use, disclosure, and retention of information we collect from or about you. This Privacy Policy applies to our website that post or link to it, regardless of how you access or use it, including through mobile devices.

 

BY USING OUR WEBSITE, YOU ARE ACCEPTING THE TERMS OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY AND OUR TERMS OF USE, AND YOU ARE CONSENTING TO OUR COLLECTION, USE, DISCLOSURE, AND RETENTION OF INFORMATION AS DESCRIBED IN THIS PRIVACY POLICY.

 

If you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not use our website. 

 

We may make changes to this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will post any changes to our website. Your continued use of our website following the posting of any changes will mean you accept those changes.

 

This Privacy Policy does not apply to information that you may submit to third-party websites or mobile applications that may link to our website or be linked to on the website. We are not responsible for the actions or privacy practices of third-party websites and applications; please consult those websites and applications directly to understand their privacy practices.

 

We collect, process, and retain information from you and any devices you may use when you use or interact with our website, and in other ways described below.

 

We may obtain your personal data from the following sources:

1) from you directly (through the website or online forms); and/or

2) from third parties, service providers that are assisting us in providing you with a service, or from your social networks accounts you used to sign in to our online services.

By voluntarily providing us with personal information, including, without limitation, by using the website, you expressly and irrevocably agree to our use of your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. If you provide personal information to us, you acknowledge and agree that such personal information may be transferred from your current location to the servers of the website and to the servers of authorized third parties unless it is permitted by the applicable law.

We receive and store certain types of information whenever you use our website. Our website may use “cookies,” tagging and other tracking technologies to help enable us to enhance or personalize your online experience. This information includes computer and connection information such as statistics on your page views, traffic to and from our website, referral URL, ad data, your IP address, device identifiers.

When you visit our website or interact with our online services, we may receive information about your location and your device, including a unique identifier for your device. Location information allows us to provide location-based services, such as advertising and other personalized content.

When you interact with us or our website on a social media platform, we may collect the personal information that you make available to us, including your account ID, username, and other information included in your posts. If you choose to log into your account with or through a social networking service, we and that service may share certain information about you and your activities. When you give us permission, we may also collect information from your social media account on your behalf.

We use non-personal information for the following purposes:

  • to prevent you from seeing unnecessary advertisements or requiring you to re-enter the website more than is necessary;
  • to calculate the aggregate number of people visiting our website and which parts of the website are most popular;
  • to improve the content of our web pages and to customize the content and layout of our pages;
  • to deliver the information you request from the website, such as an article, news, review, analysis etc.

 

Areas in which we may use your personal information include, but are not limited to, providing you with email newsletters, feedback and especially the ability to comment on articles, interactive forms. If you provide us with your email address, you may receive periodic promotional emails from us and carefully selected partners with information regarding special offers or services in case you provide a concent for such actions from our side. You may also receive informational emails from us related to administrative notices regarding the operation of the website. You may at any time withdraw your consent to receive electronic advertising emails by sending a withdrawal notice to Echo Chamber or by pressing the dedicated button (“an unsubscribe button”) in any email from Echo Chamber.

We may share your information with the following types of third parties:

  • technical support providers who assist with our website and infrastructure,
  • third party software providers, where the provider hosts the relevant personal data on our behalf;
  • professional advisers such as solicitors, accountants, tax advisors, auditors and insurance brokers;
  • providers that help us generate and collate reviews in relation to our goods and services;
  • our advertising and promotional agencies carrying out our marketing campaigns on our behalf and to advertise their own products or services that may be of interest to you; and/or
  • service providers that assist us in providing our services.

 

We may share your information with Law enforcement or government bodies. We may disclose your personal data as permitted by law in order to investigate, prevent or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, violation of our intellectual property rights, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violation of our agreements, or as required by law.

 

Like many websites, we use tracking technologies such as cookies, web beacons, and similar technologies to record your preferences, track the use of our website, your interactions with our emails, and measure exposure to our online advertisements. We may also use these technologies to monitor traffic, improve the website, and make it easier to use and more relevant. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies but, if you prefer, you can usually modify your browser setting to disable or reject cookies. In addition, you may also render some web beacons unusable by rejecting or removing their associated cookies. If you delete your cookies or if you set your browser to decline cookies, some features of the Websites may not work or may not work as designed.

We use third-party analytics services on the website, including Google Analytics. These analytics service providers use cookies or other tracking technologies to help us analyze how users interact with and use our website, compile reports about activity on website, and provide us other services. The technologies may collect information such as your IP address, time of visit, whether you are a return visitor, any referring website, general location, and other information. We do not use these analytics service providers to gather information that personally identifies you. The information generated by Google Analytics will be transmitted to and stored by Google and will be subject to Google’s privacy policies. To learn more about Google’s partner services and to learn how to opt out of tracking of analytics by Google click here.

 

We work with third-party companies who also use these technologies to provide advertisements on our website and other third-party websites. These third parties may use these technologies to collect information about you when you use the website. They may collect information about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may also use persistent identifiers to track your Internet usage across other websites in their networks beyond our Websites. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based advertising or other targeted content. While we do not knowingly provide these entities with information that personally identifies you, such third parties may, with sufficient data from other sources, be able to personally identify you, unknown to us.

 

Some content, applications, and advertisements on the website may be served by unaffiliated third parties. We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. We are not responsible for the content or privacy practices on any website not operated by us to which our Websites links or that links to our Websites.

Your browser or device may include “Do Not Track” functionality. Our information collection, disclosure practices, and the choices that we provide, will continue to operate as described in this Privacy Policy, whether or not a Do Not Track signal is received.

We will retain your information for as long as is needed to provide you services, or as required to fulfill our legal obligations. We will retain and use your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.

We do not intend to solicit or collect Personal Information from anyone under the age of 15 or under the legal age of your country, if it is higher. If you are under 15 or are not of a legal age of your country, you shall not provide Personal Information on this site.

 

You are entitled to obtain information from us on how we handle your personal data, to see copies of all personal data held by us and to request that your personal data is amended, corrected or deleted from our systems. You can also limit, restrict or object to the processing of your data. We do not carry out any decision-making based solely on automated processing, including profiling.

If you gave us your consent to use your data, you can withdraw your consent at any time. Please note that even if you withdraw your consent, we can still rely on the consent you gave as the lawful basis for processing your personal data before you withdrew your consent.

You can object to our use of your personal data where we stated we rely on our legitimate business interests to do so.

If you want to request that we no longer use and process your information to provide you services as well as withdraw your personal data please write us at info@echotelegraph.com. We will respond to your request within 30 (thirty) days.

In accessing and using the website you agree that you may only download the content, including text, pictures, graphics, video, audio material, software or any other form, of the website or any portion of it (“Content”), for your own personal non-commercial use.

Except as set out above, you are not permitted to copy, reproduce, duplicate, broadcast, download, store (in any medium), transmit, resell, show or play in public, adapt or modify in any way the Content for any other purpose whatsoever without the prior written permission of Echo Chamber.

All intellectual property rights, including copyright in the Content accessible (or available for download) belong to Echo Chamber. All rights are hereby reserved.

All the things you do and all the information you submit or post to Echo Chamber remain your responsibility. You will not hold us legally liable for any of your user content or actions that infringe the law or the rights of a third party or person in any way.

Our goal is to serve both your and community interests, so if you have an issue or dispute, you agree to raise it and try to resolve it with us informally. You can contact us with feedback and concerns here or by emailing us at info@echotelegraph.com.

We take privacy concerns seriously. If you believe that we have not complied with this Privacy Policy with respect to your information, you may contact our Data Protection Office at info@echotelegraph.com. In your message please describe in as much detail as possible the ways in which you believe that the website’s Privacy Policy has not been complied with. We will investigate your complaint promptly and will reply to you within 30 days.

 

This Privacy Policy may be updated periodically and without prior notice to you to reflect changes in our personal information policies. For significant changes, we will notify you by posting a prominent privacy policy on our website indicating at the top of the Policy when it was most recently updated.

 

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