PRIVACY POLICY
Effective January 1, 2022
The Privacy Policy's Objective
W5HNEWS.com’s goal is to empower creators and provide them with the tools they require to thrive and grow. We are dedicated to being truthful and upfront about the information we gather about you, how it is used, and with whom it is shared.
We thus invite you to read our Privacy Policy. It will help you understand your privacy rights and choices. This privacy policy for ("interestfull.com") sets forth how and why we collect, keep, and/or share your data when you use our services, as outlined below.
If you have any unanswered privacy or data usage concerns that we still need to handle satisfactorily, please contact us at Contact
About Us
We serve as a news social network and online platform where you may post news, information, and other content for people to find and read. We connect people to relevant information, interesting content, and potential business opportunities.
Our Privacy Policy applies to all Members and Visitors.
Our registered users ("Members") share their professional identities, produce, and publish news or content, read pertinent content, communicate ideas and professional know-how, develop and enhance skills, receive noteworthy information, and discover information not previously known to someone.
Non-Members ("Visitors") may view some of the data and content on our Services.
Our Services
This Privacy Policy is exclusive to interestfull.com (also referred to as “We” and “Us”). We process your information when you use our services (“Services”), which include visiting, browsing, or any form of interaction or activity on our site.
The collecting, processing, and sharing of your personal details as a Visitor or Member of our Services are governed by this Privacy Policy, any other documents cited within, and any future amendments.
Both our Privacy and Cookie Policies, pertain to your use of our Services.
For California residents, additional disclosures required by California law can be found in our California’s Privacy Act and Rights.
Policy Updates
Any modifications to the Privacy Policy will apply when you use our Services following the "effective date."
interestfull.com ("We") reserve the right to modify this privacy policy. Prior to making any significant changes to our Policy, we will notify you via our Services or another appropriate method. Before deciding whether to continue using our Services, you'll have the option to examine the updated Policy.
You may close your account if you don't agree with any changes. If you choose to delete your account, we would appreciate it if you could inform us of any objections you have.
By using our Services after we publish or notify you of modifications to this privacy policy, you consent that the collection, use, and sharing of your personal data is subject to the revised Privacy Policy as of its effective date.
Table Of Contents
1. WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?
2. HOW DO WE PROCESS YOUR DATA/INFORMATION?
4. Your Choices and Obligations
5. Other Noteworthy Information
We gather personal data that you voluntarily provide to us while registering on the platform. When you access our Services, certain information is automatically obtained, including your Internet Protocol (IP) address and/or browser and device details.
Registration
We obtain personal data from you when you register with the Services. The data we collect depends on the context of your interactions with us and the Services, the choices you make, and the features you use on our site.
The personal information we collect may include name, email, password, or/and phone number. If you want to sign up for a paid plan, you must provide payment and billing information (such as a credit card).
For a better overall experience with our Services, we strongly recommend you create a complete profile.
Profile
The information that appears on your profile is under your control, but some of the information we pull from "Sign in with Linkedin", or "Sign in with Google", including your name, email, photo, city, location, etc. In case you want to make changes to that, you should make them at the appropriate vendor. You are not obligated to fill out your profile with further details, but doing so will allow you to benefit more from our Services. It is up to you whether or not to include private information in your profile and make it available to the whole public.
Please refrain from including any sensitive information in your profile that you wouldn't want to be made public.
You provide us with additional data, i.e., by syncing your contact list or calendar.
Posting and Uploading Content
We get personal data from you when you edit, publish, comment, contribute, or upload it to our Services, such as when you fill out a form or respond to surveys, articles, news, or any content. If you opt to import, we will take information from your address book and calendar events if you sync your contacts or calendars with our Services. This will enable us to link you with people and give you information about events like dates, places, participants, contacts, and news. Data uploaded will help organize and distribute content on who, what, where, how, why, and where. As a result, you may develop and expand your knowledge and information network.
While it is not mandatory for you to post content or upload personal data, doing so may limit your chance to broaden and have your content found or interact with, throughout the community and/or our Services.
Others could post or write about you.
Content and News
On our Services (interestfull.com), everyone is free to publish content that contains information about others, including you (in the form of videos, posts, tiddlers, comments, blogs, and articles). As part of our Services, we may also compile publicly accessible information about you, such as professional news and accomplishments, and make it available to others via alert notifications, as permitted by your privacy preferences.
You can report any content that others have published about you on our Services that you feel is inappropriate or untrue.
Contact and Calendar Data
We collect your contact information and personal data when "Members" import or sync contacts or sync calendars with our Services, link their contacts to their profiles, scan and upload business cards, photos, videos, memos, and any other content, or send messages via our Services.
Information from Associates and Third Parties
We may collect and receive information about you (such as your email address, demographics, cookies, etc.) from our partners and affiliates when you use their services.
Log and usage data are service-related, diagnostic, usage, and performance information our servers automatically collect when you access or use our Services. Depending on how you interact with us, this log data can include your IP address, device information, browser type, settings, and information about your activity in the Services (such as the date/time stamps associated with your usage, pages, and files viewed, searches, and other actions you take such as which features you use).
Specific information about how we use these technologies is set out in our Cookie Policy. We use cookies and similar tracking technologies (like web beacons, ad tags, and pixels) to access or store information (e.g., device IDs) to recognize you and your device(s) on, off, and across multiple services and devices where you have interacted with our Services.
We also obtain (or rely on others to gather) information about your device where you have not interacted with our Services (e.g., ad ID, IP address, operating system, and browser information) so that we can offer relevant advertising to our "Members" and better judge the efficacy of the ads.
We collect location data, such as information about your device's location, which can be either precise or imprecise. Depending on the type, settings, and configuration of the device you use to access the Services, we may collect different amounts of information. We may acquire geolocation data about your location using GPS and other technologies (based on your IP address). You can refuse to allow us to collect this data by either rejecting access to the information by disabling your Location setting on your device.
Additionally, we receive data or information about your network and device, such as your IP address, proxy server, operating system, web browser, add-ons, device identifier and features, cookie IDs, and/or your ISP or mobile carrier.
We get information about every message a member sends, receives, or interacts with when you consent to utilize any of our services that facilitate user communication. We may keep track of your conversations and notifications and give you follow-up reminders. We may track and score what information you consume.
We employ automated scanning technology to secure our website and monitor or remove content that violates our User Agreement or Community Guidelines.
Certain data is required to make our Services operate. Some of the other information is optional, but the quality of your experience may be compromised.
We obtain information when you access websites that include our advertisements, cookies, or some of our plugins, as well as when you sign in to third-party services using your account.
We receive information about your interactions and visits with services provided by others when you visit others’ services that include some of our URLs (such as “/c/companyblog”) or our ads, cookies, or similar technologies.
We always strive to make our Services better, so we may introduce new features that collect new data and provide different methods for processing it. This Privacy Policy may change. You will be informed if we collect considerably different personal data or significantly change how we receive, use, or share your data.
We process your information using automated systems and inferences to provide, personalize, and administer our services; interact with you; for security, and fraud prevention; and adhere to the law. We may also process your information for other reasons and purposes with your consent.
We provide you the opportunity to network, polish up your content and skills, find and exploit news, articles, and business possibilities, stay current, get training, learn, and boost productivity. Depending on how you use our Services, we may process your personal information for a number of different purposes.
Interactions between Users
Our Services allow you to read and keep current with other members. We may process your information if you opt to use any of our offerings that allow for communication with another user.
We use data about you to help others discover your content, recommend things for you, and let you invite people to sign up as Members and connect with you.
Relevant Data
We personalize our Services for you by, for instance, suggesting or prioritizing pertinent material and discussions on our Services based on the data we have about you. We may use your information, including your profile, content, activity, social action, and other data, to notify your network and other Members on the platform. Depending on your preferences, we could let others know when you update your profile, publish something, engage in social action, use a feature, make new connections, or are mentioned in the news. We may employ automated systems to offer information and recommendations to our Members, Visitors, and customers to help make our services more relevant. Keeping your content accurate, and up-to-date may help you effectively connect with others and find opportunities through our services.
Refining your Content
Our Services help people find your content and expertise. We allow Members to post their material on our platform. We may choose to transform, refine, and update user-submitted works and resources. We may use their content to produce an alternative version(s) of it and/or share it or summarize it in compliance with our site license.
We may offer paid plans that allow you to customize our service offering, and improve your chances of people finding your content or making them for a private community. You can review our current Paid Plans on our “http://write.interestfull.com/settings” page.
We may process your information to send you details about our Services and security, updates to our terms and conditions, and other material of a similar nature. We also provide instructions on how to use our Services, network upgrades, reminders, recommendations, and promotional communications from us and our partners. You have the option to change your preferred settings at any time. Please remember that you cannot disable receiving service communications from us, including security and legal notices.
We use your data on and off of our Services to provide customized adverts to you. While we give you choices about tailored ads, you cannot prevent seeing other advertisements. We give advertisers data on the number and kinds of people who view and interact with their advertising. These data disclose the overall demographics and interests of those who interacted with an advertiser's ad. So, advertisers will have a better idea of their target market.
We evaluate the effectiveness (target) and performance of ads to Members, Visitors, and others, either directly or through several partners, using the following data, whether separately or combined:
You may see sponsored content advertisements that mimic non-sponsored content, except that they are labeled as advertising (e.g., as “ad” or “sponsored”). Your social activity ( (such as liking, commenting, or sharing) on such ads, is associated with your name and is visible to other people including the advertiser. Based on your privacy settings, if you take a social action on our Services, relevant ads may refer to that action. For example, if you "like" content, your name and photo may appear when their sponsored content is shown.
Publishers Of Audience Network
Our Audience Network lets ad providers place ads with us that will be published on applications outside of our Services. We share information with publishers that use our Audience Network, as well as with business partners who facilitate it, to help you see advertisements on their applications.
We share information such as the number of users who view and interact with ads on publisher applications and information related to or in response to a publisher's request to display an advertisement on its app.
However, unless you give permission, we don't provide information to these publishers and their business partners that can be used to contact or identify you, such as your name or email address.
Ads Choices
We abide by self-regulatory principles for interest-based advertising and engage in industry opt-outs from such ads. This does not prevent you from getting advertisements; you will still see other ads from advertisers that aren't listed with these self-regulatory tools. You may also choose not to have us use certain kinds of data to provide you with more relevant ads. For Visitors, the setting is here.
Data to Advertisers
We do not provide personal data to any third-party advertisers or ad networks, except hashed IDs or device identifiers (to the extent they are personal data in some countries). data already visible to Visitors and Members (e.g., profile), or any data you permit(e.g., in lead generation or any forms). However, if a user chooses to see or click on an advertisement on or off our Services, the ad provider will be notified that someone visited the page where the ad was shown. Advertisers may link personal data taken directly from the user by the advertiser with hashed IDs or device identifiers obtained from us. We aim to legally obligate such advertising partners to first get consent in such cases.
Stance Regarding Unaffiliated Third Parties
We are not responsible for the safety of any information that you share with unaffiliated third parties through our services' advertisements or links.
The Services may link to third-party websites, online services, or mobile applications and/or contain advertisements from parties that are not affiliated with us and may link to other services, websites, or applications. Therefore, we offer no assurances about any such third parties, and we disclaim all responsibility for any loss or harm resulting from the use of any such third-party websites, services, or apps.
We advertise our Services per the user's settings and applicable laws. We use Members' information and content for invites and marketing messages, encouraging membership, and information network building.
We may use personal information, including public feedback, for our business purposes, such as undertaking internal research for technological development and demonstration. We carry out research to advance our Services and provide Members with a better, more personalized experience to boost membership and involvement. In some instances, we conduct this research in collaboration with reliable third parties. We or the trusted third parties do not disclose your personal information; rather, we present the research as overall statistics.
We generate and disseminate insights from Members’ data without identifying anyone specifically. For instance, to determine impressions and clicks on viral content, to provide statistics on a certain niche, to determine ad impressions served or clicked on, to publish visitor demographics for a service, to offer insights into the demographics of the workforce, or to assemble data on our members' professions or industries.
We may process your data and communications to detect and potentially resolve the service difficulties our Members face.
We may use your data and communications to investigate suspicious activity, illegal conduct, and other breaches of our User Agreement. It is primarily needed to maintain the security and operation of our services.
Depending on your privacy preferences, any data you give us, any content you upload and publish, or any interactions you have using our service (such as sharing, upvoting, commenting, editing, and so forth) will be visible to others.
Account Information
The information you put on your account is visible to others. Based on your privacy settings, it could also be made public on or off of our Services (e.g., Visitors or users of third-party search engines). People may view the information in your profile depending on your privacy choices, settings, memberships, paid services, and search strategies (e.g., by name or keyword).
Social Actions
Our Services allow Members to upload, view, and share information and to perform social actions including likes, comments, bookmarks, and follows.
Enterprise Accounts
Your employer may offer you access to our paid Services such as Company pages, Groups, Private pages, or our advertising Campaign Manager. Your employer can review and manage your use of such paid Services.
When you use paid plan tools and services (e.g., company page) certain of your data may also be made available to your employer or be connected with information we obtain from your employer to enable these services and tools.
Subject to your settings, your personal information will be made available to third-party services when you choose to link your account with them. In such stances, the sharing and use of personal data will be explained in, or linked to, a permission screen. You may connect your social media accounts to share material from our Services onto these platforms. Likewise, any other service provider might let you import your content onto its own platform. Third-party services have their own privacy rules, and by using them, you may be granting them permission to use your data in ways we wouldn't.
Certain parts of your profile may show up on others’ services based on your settings (e.g., search engine results, mail and calendar applications that show user-limited data of the person they are meeting, or messaging social media aggregators, content, and articles). Until these services update their data cache with your profile or content changes, "old" information will still be available on them.
We share your data with affiliated entities and service providers.
We use others to assist us in providing our Services (e.g., maintenance, analysis, payments, audit, fraud detection, marketing, and development). They will have access to your information as it is reasonably required to carry out these tasks on our behalf, but they are restrained from disclosing it or using it for other purposes.
We may combine information internally across the different Services covered by this Privacy Policy to make our Services more relevant and useful to you and others. For instance, based on your activity and history, we could tailor your feed.
We may share your data when we believe it is necessary to do so by law or to safeguard the rights and safety of you, us, or others.
We may be obliged to disclose your when required by law, subpoena, or other legal processes, or if we have a good faith judgment that disclosing is essential to the following:
We make an effort to notify Members of legal requests for their personal data when appropriate in our judgment unless doing so is forbidden by law, a court order, or the request is urgent. We may dispute such demands when we determine, in our discretion, that the requests are unjustified, overbroad, vague, or lack proper authority, but we do not promise to challenge every demand.
We may share your data if we sell our company to another party; however, it must continue to be used in compliance with this Privacy Policy.
We reserve the right to share your personal data as part of a sale, merger, change in ownership, or preparation for any of these events. Any other party that purchases us or part of our business will have the right to continue to use your data, but only in the ways specified in this Privacy Policy unless you consent to anything else.
We retain most of your personal data for as long as your account is active.
We typically keep your personal data as long as your account is active or as long as it's required for us to offer you Services. This includes information you and others have given to us, as well as data generated or deduced as a result of your use of our Services. We will retain your data and keep your profile active unless you delete your account, even if you only use our Services occasionally to read or post news or other content. In some instances, we keep some data in an aggregated or depersonalized form (such as insights about Services use).
Why We may Retain Your Data Longer
In some cases and for specific purposes, we may keep your information for an extended period of time. For example, a legal requirement or obligation, such as our service obligations or compliance with applicable law; an inquiry by the government; an investigation of conceivable breaches of our terms or conditions; reasons of safety, security, and integrity; to safeguard ourselves; or if it is required in connection with a legal claim, complaint, litigation, or administrative proceeding.
In some cases, we could keep your information for the reasons listed above even if you ask us to delete your account or any of your content. We may also preserve data from accounts that have been disabled and content that has been removed for breaches of our terms and policies.
Your private information is accessible and removable. You may choose how your data is collected, used, and shared in a variety of ways.
We offer you a lot of choices about the collection, usage, and sharing of your data, ranging from editing or removing information from your profile to deciding who may see your posts, opting out of receiving advertising, and communicating your controls. We give you settings to control and manage the personal data we hold about you. Visit our FAQ, your settings for our Services, and your device-based settings to exercise your rights.
You can opt into the following actions for the personal data we have about you:
You can make these requests by contacting us at news@interestfull.com.
If you have any questions regarding this policy, you may contact us at Contact, and we'll take your request into account in line with any relevant legal requirements. Depending on your jurisdiction, you can also directly contact your local Data Protection Authority ("DPA").
Delete Specific Information
We offer options that you may use to remove specific data. For instance, you may erase content that you've uploaded to your account using the Delete buttons. When you delete something, other people can no longer see it.
Account Closing
We retain some of your data even after you close your account.
If you choose to close your account, your personal information will typically no longer be accessible to other users of our Services within 24 hours. We typically delete information from closed accounts within 90 days of account closure, with the exception of the cases stated below.
We keep your personal data even after you have closed your account if reasonably required to comply with our legal obligations (including law enforcement requests), adhere to regulatory requirements, settle disputes, maintain security, prevent fraud and abuse (e.g., if we have restricted your account due to a violation of our policies), enforce our User Agreement, or fulfill your request to "unsubscribe" from receiving further messages from us. After your account is closed, we will keep de-personalized information.
Any information you have shared with others (for example, through messages, posts, news, updates, or community posts) will still be accessible after you close your account or delete the information from your own profile or messages. Any data that other Members have taken from our services and copied is not under our control. Any content from closed accounts will have an unknown user listed as the source. Your profile may still be visible in the services of others (e.g., search engine results) until they refresh their cache.
We keep an eye out for and work to stop security lapses. Please make advantage of the security tools offered by our services.
We implement security protocols like HTTPS that are intended to safeguard your data. We keep monitoring our systems for threats and vulnerabilities. We cannot, however, guarantee the security of any information or data you provide us. There is no assurance that data may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by a violation of any of our physical, technical, or administrative safeguards.
We keep and process your data outside your country. We depend on appropriate mechanisms for cross-border data transfers.
We use data both inside and outside of the United States and rely on legally provided mechanisms for international data transfers. The laws in the nations where we process your data may differ from those in your country and potentially not be as protective as the laws in your country.
We have lawful bases to collect, process, and share information about you. You have choices regarding how we use your data. You may always revoke the consent you’ve given by going to your settings.
We will only collect and use your personal information where we have legitimate grounds to do so. Lawful bases include consent (where you have provided consent), contract (where processing is essential for the performance of a contract with you (e.g., to deliver the Services you have asked or requested), and “legitimate interests.”
Where we rely on your consent to use personal data, you may always withdraw or decline your consent, and you have the right to object where we rely on legitimate interests. If you have any questions about the lawful bases on which we collect and process your personal information, please use the Data Protection form to contact us.
Where does information transfer?
Your information will be transmitted or transferred to, or kept and processed in, locations where we have infrastructure or data centers, including the United States, countries where our services are offered, and other countries where our partners, vendors, service providers, and third parties are located outside of the country where you reside, for the purposes outlined in this policy.
We currently do not divulge your personal information to third parties for their direct marketing campaigns without your permission. Learn more about this and about our approach to “do not track” signals.
If you have inquiries about this policy or concerns, complaints, or requests relating to your information, you can contact us at Contact.
You may also send physical mail to us at (address).
interestfull.com Inquiries
119 S Emerson St Suite #132
Mt Prospect, IL 60056
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