Privacy Notice & Terms of Use - Las Cruces Digest

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~Dossier Black Corporation

Who we are

Our website address is: https://lascrucesdigest.com (“website”), and the website is published, managed and monetized by Dossier Black Corporation (“publisher”). This website contains affiliate links which are a way to monetize the content provided on the website. Affiliate links require the use of “cookies” and other data collection protocols common to “business as usual” on the World Wide Web (“Internet”). Visitors to this website have rights, so please be aware of the Privacy Notice and Terms of Use information provided. The website and content are for general information, discussion and entertainment purposes only. The term “content” includes, without limitation, information, data, text, photographs, videos, audio clips, written posts, articles, comments, software, scripts, graphics and interactive features generated, provided, or otherwise made available through or in connection with the website. We make no representations or guarantees about any aspect of the website and content and do not endorse any opinions expressed by any users (“User Content”). “User Content” means any and all information and content that a user submits to, or uses with, the website (e.g., photos, audio, video, messages, text, files, or other content you provide us). THE WEBSITE AND ALL CONTENT (“USER” OR OTHERWISE) ARE PUBLISHED “AS IS” AND YOUR USE OR RELIANCE ON THE WEBSITE OR ANY CONTENT IS AT YOUR OWN RISK. WE HAVE NO LIABILITY TO YOU FOR THE CONSEQUENCES OF USING OR RELYING ON THE WEBSITE OR ANY CONTENT.

Privacy Notice

Last revised on: September 20, 2023

When you use or interact with a U.S. website, mobile app or other digital service or when you subscribe to a print or online publication or service operated or owned by the publisher or its affiliates, we and third parties may obtain certain information about you. Provided here, please find an overview of our privacy practices related to our services.

What Information We Obtain

Information you provide when you use our services, including when you sign up for newsletters, order subscriptions, create an account or register for a membership. This may include your contact, payment or demographic information.
Information you submit when you choose to participate in a survey, sweepstakes, contest, promotion, event or similar initiative.
Information you give us about others, such as a friend’s contact information when you order a product or subscription as a gift.
Information collected by automated means such as cookies or pixels. This may include information about your device and browser, including IP address or mobile device advertising identifiers, as well as information about how you and others use, interact with or respond to the website. This collection may take place while you are using a website or while the website is running in the background of your device.
Data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection when visitors leave comments on the site.
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.

How We Use Information We Obtain

To process your requests and provide you with information and services we believe you are requesting, including delivering customized content or recommendations. Note that we use your payment card information (such as your card number and expiration date) for limited purposes such as to process your transaction (including recurring payments, if applicable), to provide you with the requested products or services and to protect our rights or the rights of others.
To learn about users of our services and to analyze how you and others interact with and respond to the products and services we offer.
To communicate with you, including to send you marketing and promotional communications.

What About Cookies?

Cookies are unique identifiers that we transfer to your device to enable our systems to recognize your device and to provide features such as 1-Click purchasing, Recommended for You, personalized advertisements on other Web sites (e.g., Amazon Associates with content served by Amazon.com and Web sites using Checkout by Amazon payment service), and storage of items in your Shopping Cart between visits.

Some Notes About Cookies

The Help feature on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies altogether. Additionally, you can disable or delete similar data used by browser add-ons, such as Flash cookies, by changing the add-on’s settings or visiting the web address of the manufacturer. Because cookies allow you to take advantage of some of this website’s essential features, we recommend that you leave them turned on. For instance, if you block or otherwise reject our cookies, you will not be able to add items to your Shopping Cart, proceed to Checkout or use any website features requiring you to Sign-In.
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website 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 visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Links to Third-Party Websites, Mobile Apps or Other Services

This website contains links to other websites, mobile apps or other services operated by companies not affiliated with the publisher. In addition, the website may be made available to you through third-party platforms (such as app stores or Social Media Platforms) or other channels. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of any third-party websites, mobile apps or other services and channels, and we encourage you to review the privacy policies or notices published by relevant third parties.

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.

How We Provide Information to Others

Among publisher imprints and holdings.
To service providers who perform services or handle transactions on our behalf.
To advertisers, advertising- and marketing-related services providers and partners as well as companies that help us learn how you and others interact with our content.
To social media platforms and similar services, including when you interact with our websites that integrate tools and services provided by social media platforms.
To business partners and others, such as when we partner with a third party to offer products or services on a co-branded basis, or for their own advertising, marketing, and other commercial purposes.
To other parties when required by law or as necessary to protect our rights, and in the context of corporate transactions.
With your consent or otherwise at your direction.

A Note About Shared Information

Should a website or other publication be sold to another party, the information gathered for the purposes listed above and/or stored in the course of regular business activities will be transferred along with all other rights and license to use said information as defined and transacted in the terms of sale of the website, imprint, holding or other defined property.

Your Privacy Rights, Including Marketing and Targeted Ads Opt-Outs

Depending on where you live, and subject to applicable laws, you may make requests to access, delete, correct, or convey your opt-out preferences with respect to your personal information.
You may take steps to limit the use of your information for interest-based advertising on your browser or mobile device.
You may unsubscribe from our marketing or promotional emails by clicking the “Unsubscribe” link in our emails, or for certain websites and/or digital publications, by logging into your account and adjusting your preferences.

Additional Notes on Your Privacy Rights

We use a variety of security technologies and procedures to help protect information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. We maximize information protections by utilizing the least information possible to conduct business. We are not in the data collection business; Dossier Black Corporation is broadly construed as a publishing venture for public consumption; we make no attempt to directly profit from any data gathered in the normal course of conducting business over the internet.
The websites are operated from the United States. Information may be processed and stored in the United States or other countries.
The websites are not intended for use by children under the age of 13, and our commitment to the privacy protection of visitors to our websites includes the privacy rights of minors. Our publications, including websites, are not intended for use by children, especially those under the age of 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13.

Changes to this Privacy Notice

We may update this Privacy Notice from time to time to reflect changes in our privacy practices or applicable laws. In accordance with applicable law, we may make such changes without prior notice. We will publish the updated version on the relevant websites and indicate at the top of the Privacy Notice when it was most recently updated. Your use of the website(s) will be governed by the then-current version of each respective Privacy Notice.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Notice, please contact us by email at service@dossierblack.com.

Terms of Use

Last revised on: September 20, 2023

BY ACCESSING OR USING THE WEBSITE, YOU ACCEPT AND AGREE TO BE LEGALLY BOUND BY AND COMPLY WITH THIS AGREEMENT. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THE TERMS OF THIS AGREEMENT, DO NOT ACCESS OR USE THE WEBSITE. SPECIFICALLY, PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT WITH LIMITED EXCEPTIONS, ALL DISPUTES BETWEEN YOU AND US REGARDING THIS AGREEMENT ARE SUBJECT TO BINDING ARBITRATION ON AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS RATHER THAN JURY TRIALS, INCLUDING CLASS ACTION LAWSUITS, IN COURTS AND ONLY SPECIFIC REMEDIES ARE AVAILABLE TO YOU.

The website and content are for general information, discussion and entertainment purposes only. The term “content” includes, without limitation, information, data, text, photographs, videos, audio clips, written posts, articles, comments, software, scripts, graphics and interactive features generated, provided, or otherwise made available through or in connection with the website. We make no representations or guarantees about any aspect of the website and content and do not endorse any opinions expressed by any users. THE WEBSITE AND ALL CONTENT ARE PUBLISHED “AS IS” AND YOUR USE OR RELIANCE ON THE WEBSITE OR ANY CONTENT IS AT YOUR OWN RISK. WE HAVE NO LIABILITY TO YOU FOR THE CONSEQUENCES OF USING OR RELYING ON THE WEBSITE OR ANY CONTENT.

Application and Acceptance of the Terms of Use

Each time you access or use the website, you agree to be bound by the Terms of Use along with our Privacy Notice and any additional guidelines, terms, procedures or rules that may apply to a specific feature of the websites that are owned or operated by Dossier Black Corporation. or its affiliates (“we”, “us”, “our” or “publisher”).
You acknowledge that we will use information we obtain about you in connection with your access to and use of the website in accordance with our Privacy Notice.

Your Responsibilities

You are responsible for maintaining the accuracy of any information you submit to us in relation to your access to and use of the website.
You are solely responsible for any user content you provide to us.
You are responsible for your conduct in relation to the website, and your access to or use of the website.

Intellectual and Other Proprietary Rights

Your access and use of the website and content is for personal and noncommercial purposes only. No commercial use of any intellectual or other proprietary rights is ceded nor license to use commercially is implied by publishing it for your use of the website.
As between the publisher and you, the publisher owns all right, title and interest in and to the copyrights, trademarks, service marks, trade names, patents and all other intellectual and proprietary rights throughout the world associated with the website and content except, if applicable, with respect to your User Content and content provided by license from third parties.
You may not build a business, in whole or in part, resell, redistribute, recirculate or make any other commercial use of, or create derivative works or materials utilizing any portion of the website (including any code used in any software) or content, whether or not for profit WITH EXCEPTION TO ANY INTELLECTUAL AND/OR OTHER PROPRIETARY RIGHTS USED HEREIN UNDER COMMERCIAL COMMONS LICENSURE; all such rights and attributions are listed on the Credits page.
If we become aware that any of user has repeatedly infringed the proprietary rights of any third party, we may take steps to terminate that user’s access to the website. We reserve the right (but have no obligation) to review any User Content, investigate, and/or take appropriate action against you in our sole discretion.

Release, Indemnity, Disclaimers and Limitation of Liability

You agree to indemnify and hold the publisher (and its affiliates, officers, directors, employees, contractors, and agents) harmless, including costs and reasonable attorneys’ fees, from any claim or demand made by any third party due to or arising out of (a) your use of the website or content, (b) your User Content, (c) your violation of the Terms of Use; or (d) your violation of applicable laws or regulations.
The publisher disclaims any warranties and provides the website “as is”.
If you have a dispute with one or more users of the website (including merchants), you release the publisher (and its affiliates, officers, directors, employees, contractors and agents) from claims, demands, liabilities, costs, or expenses and damages (actual and consequential of every kind and nature, known and unknown, arising out of or in any way connected with such disputes). In entering into this release, you expressly waive any protections (whether statutory or otherwise) to the extent permitted by applicable law that would otherwise limit the coverage of this release to include only those claims which you may know or suspect to exist in your favor at the time of agreeing to this release. IF YOU ARE A CALIFORNIA RESIDENT, YOU HEREBY WAIVE CALIFORNIA CIVIL CODE SECTION 1542 IN CONNECTION WITH THE FOREGOING, WHICH STATES: “A GENERAL RELEASE DOES NOT EXTEND TO CLAIMS WHICH THE CREDITOR DOES NOT KNOW OR SUSPECT TO EXIST IN HIS OR HER FAVOR AT THE TIME OF EXECUTING THE RELEASE, WHICH IF KNOWN BY HIM OR HER MUST HAVE MATERIALLY AFFECTED HIS OR HER SETTLEMENT WITH THE DEBTOR.”
IN NO EVENT SHALL WE (AND OUR affiliates and OUR and their officers, directors, employees, contractors and agents ) OR OUR SERVICE PROVIDERS BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY THIRD PARTY UNDER CONTRACT, IN TORT, STRICT LIABILITY, NEGLIGENCE OR ANY OTHER LEGAL OR EQUITABLE THEORY, FOR ANY LOSS OR DAMAGES (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, DIRECT, INDIRECT, PUNITIVE, ACTUAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR OTHERWISE) LOST PROFIT, DATA LOSS, COST OF PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS ARISING FROM OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR YOUR USE OF, OR INABILITY TO USE, THE WEBSITE INCLUDING FOR ANY BUGS, VIRUSES, TROJAN HORSES, OR THE LIKE (REGARDLESS OF THE SOURCE OF ORIGINATION), EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
NOTWITHSTANDING ANYTHING TO THE CONTRARY CONTAINED HEREIN, OUR LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ANY DAMAGES ARISING FROM OR RELATED TO THIS AGREEMENT (FOR ANY CAUSE WHATSOEVER AND REGARDLESS OF THE FORM OF THE ACTION), WILL AT ALL TIMES BE LIMITED TO THE GREATER OF (A) FIFTY US DOLLARS ($50) OR (B) AMOUNTS YOU’VE DIRECTLY PAID THE PUBLISHER IN THE PRIOR 12 MONTHS (IF ANY). THE EXISTENCE OF MORE THAN ONE CLAIM WILL NOT ENLARGE THIS LIMIT. YOU AGREE THAT OUR SERVICE PROVIDERS WILL HAVE NO LIABILITY OF ANY KIND ARISING FROM OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT.
SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY FOR INCIDENTAL OF CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, SO IN THOSE STATES OUR LIABILITY IS LIMITED TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.

Third Parties

The publisher is not responsible for any links to third-party websites, apps or other services, including social media platforms.
We participate in affiliate marketing and may allow third-party affiliate links to be encoded on some of our website services. This means that we intend to earn a commission when you click on or make purchases via third-party affiliate links.

Termination

The publisher may, in its sole discretion, terminate your password, account (or any part thereof), access to or use of the website, or remove and discard any User Content or information stored, sent, or received via the website without prior notice and for any reason or no reason.

Changes to the Terms of Use

We may revise the Terms of Use prospectively by posting an updated version on the website.
Your continued use of the website will be deemed as irrevocable acceptance of any revisions.

Governing Law and Severability

The Terms of Use shall be governed by and construed solely and exclusively in accordance with the laws of the State of Delaware, USA without giving effect to any law that would result in the application of the law of another jurisdiction.
The Terms of Use (including the Privacy Notice) constitutes the entire agreement between you and us regarding the use of the website.
If any provision of the Terms of Use is, for any reason, held to be invalid or unenforceable, the other provisions of the Terms of Use will be unimpaired and the invalid or unenforceable provision will be deemed modified so that it is valid and enforceable to the maximum extent permitted by law.

Copyright Policy

If you believe your copyright has been infringed, you may provide us with notice in accordance with the process described, below.

DMCA Notice

In accordance with the provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 17 USC sec. 512, our publisher designated an agent to receive notices of claims of copyright infringement:

Dossier Black Corporation
DMCA lascrucesdigest.com
PO Box 13747
Las Cruces, NM 88013

service@dossierblack.com

If you believe your copyright has been infringed, you may provide us with notice. To be effective, the notification must be a written communication that includes the following:

A physical or electronic signature of person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed;
Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or, if multiple copyrighted works at a single online site are covered by a single notification, a representative list of such works at that site;
Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled, and information reasonably sufficient to permit us to locate the material;
Information reasonably sufficient to permit us to contact you, including an address, telephone number, and, if available, an electronic mail address at which the complaining party may be contacted;
A statement that the complaining party has a good-faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and
A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

We may give notice to our users that we have received a notice of infringement by means of a general notice on our site, electronic mail to a user’s e-mail address in our records, or by written communication sent by first-class mail to a user’s physical address in our records. If you receive such a notice, you may provide counter-notification in writing to the designated agent that includes the information below. To be effective, the counter-notification must be a written communication that includes the following:

Your physical or electronic signature;
Identification of the material that has been removed or to which access has been disabled, and the location at which the material appeared before it was removed or access to it was disabled;
A statement from you under the penalty of perjury, that you have a good faith belief that the material was removed or disabled as a result of a mistake or misidentification of the material to be removed or disabled; and
Your name, physical address and telephone number, and a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of a Federal District Court for the judicial district in which your physical address is located, or if your physical address is outside of the United States, for the judicial district in which our offices are located, and that you will accept service of process from the person who provided notification of allegedly infringing material or an agent of such person.

We have a policy of terminating access to our website of any user who repeatedly infringes the proprietary rights of any third party

Entire Agreement

This Agreement (including the Privacy Notice) constitutes the entire agreement between you and us regarding the use of the website. Our failure to exercise or enforce any right or provision of this Agreement shall not operate as a waiver of such right or provision. The word including means including without limitation. If any provision of this Agreement is, for any reason, held to be invalid or unenforceable, the other provisions of this Agreement will be unimpaired and the invalid or unenforceable provision will be deemed modified so that it is valid and enforceable to the maximum extent permitted by law.

Changes to this Agreement

We may revise, prospectively, this Agreement by posting an updated version on the website. You consent and agree to receive notices of updates to this Agreement through our posting of an updated Agreement on the website. You should visit this page or section regularly to review the current version of the Agreement. Your continued use of the website will be deemed as irrevocable acceptance of any revisions.

No Waiver

No failure or delay by the publisher in exercising any right, power or privilege under this Agreement will operate as a waiver thereof, nor will any single or partial exercise of any right, power or privilege preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right, power, or privilege under this Agreement.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Notice, please contact us by email at service@dossierblack.com.