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Privacy Policy

The privacy of our visitors is of extreme importance to us. This Privacy Policy governs the manner in which this website collects, uses, maintains and discloses information collected from users of this website. This privacy policy applies to this website and all products and services offered by this website.

Who we are

Our Community News (OCN) is published by Colorado cooperative association Our Community News, Inc. John Heiser, President.

Our website address is: https://wp.ocn.me. Our archive website with information associated with issues of the paper prior to August 2024 is at https://ocn.me/home.old.

OCN and this website is produced entirely by volunteers who contribute their time and talents to help keep residents and business owners in the Tri-Lakes region informed.

What data do we collect

Our web server may automatically collect standard information, including IP address, browser type, and access times. This information is used for internal research and analysis purposes only. It is not sold, rented, or shared with any other party.

If you sign up for our newsletter or ad info lists, we collect the information we need to periodically send you the information you requested.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on this site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name and email address in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you respond to our popups asking about adding your contact information to our newsletter and ad info lists, we store that response in cookies. Those cookie last for one year. If you close our popups without responding, we store that information in a cookie that lasts one month.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

The on-line viewing functions on our E-Edition page is a service of Issuu.com. The Issuu.com pages may contain advertisements and may store cookies on your computer. OCN does not endorse or receive any funding from Issuu.com or those advertisers. Click here to read Issuu.com’s privacy policy.

The audio files and players for the articles and podcasts are produced by BeyondWords. Click here to read BeyondWords’ privacy policy.

Who we share your data with

The data collected when visitors sign up for our newsletter and ad info lists is collected by IContact. You can use the links at the ends of every message we send to revise or delete that data. Click here to read IContact’s privacy policy

We do not sell any information we have from or about you.

How long we retain your data

If you sign up for our newsletter or ad info list or leave a comment, we may retain that data and its metadata indefinitely.

What rights you have over your data

You can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where your data is sent

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Questions?

If you have questions or comments about this policy, please contact John Heiser, OCN publisher, 719.488.3455 or P.O. Box 1742, Monument, CO 80132-1742 or use our contact form.