Privacy Policy

Last Updated: October 26, 2023

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Introduction

Welcome to Space Exploration & NASA News Shorts ("we," "our," or "us"). We are committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website or use our services. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. If you do not agree with the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not access the site.

This policy applies to information we collect:

• On this Website.
• In email, text, and other electronic messages between you and this Website.
• Through mobile and desktop applications you download from this Website, which provide dedicated non-browser-based interaction between you and this Website (if applicable).
• When you interact with our advertising and applications on third-party websites and services, if those applications or advertising include links to this policy.

1. Data Collection

We collect certain information from you when you visit our website. The type of information we collect depends on how you interact with our site.

Information You Provide to Us:

• **Communication Data**: If you contact us directly (e.g., via email or contact forms), we may collect your name, email address, and the content of your message.

Information Collected Automatically:

When you access and use the Website, we may automatically collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:

• **Log Data**: Your IP address, browser type, operating system, referring URLs, pages visited, and the dates/times of your visits.
• **Device Information**: Information about the device you use to access our services, including device type, operating system, unique device identifiers, and mobile network information.
• **Usage Data**: Information about how you use our website, such as clickstream data, access times, and features used.

We do not knowingly collect any "Special Categories of Personal Data" (as defined by GDPR), such as data revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, or trade union membership, and the processing of genetic data, biometric data for uniquely identifying a natural person, data concerning health or data concerning a natural person’s sex life or sexual orientation.

2. Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies (like web beacons and pixels) to track the activity on our Service and hold certain information.

• **Cookies**: A cookie is a small file placed on your device. It may be used to store information about your preferences and activities on the website. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Service.
• **Web Beacons**: Certain sections of our Service and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit us, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (e.g., recording the popularity of a certain section and verifying system and server integrity).

Purposes of Cookies:

• **Essential Cookies**: Necessary for the website to function and cannot be switched off in our systems.
• **Analytical/Performance Cookies**: Allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works.
• **Functionality Cookies**: Used to recognize you when you return to our website, enabling us to personalize our content for you.
• **Advertising/Targeting Cookies**: Used to make advertising messages more relevant to you and your interests. They perform functions like preventing the same ad from continuously reappearing, ensuring that ads are properly displayed for advertisers, and in some cases selecting advertisements that are based on your interests.

You can manage your cookie preferences through your browser settings. Most browsers allow you to block or delete cookies.

3. Third-Party Advertising (Google AdSense)

We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our Website. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.

Specifically, we use **Google AdSense** to display advertisements. Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on our site. Google's use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to our users based on their visit to our site and other sites on the Internet. Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google Ad and Content Network Privacy Policy at https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads.

For more information on how Google uses data, please visit Google's Privacy & Terms site: https://policies.google.com/privacy.

4. How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect for various purposes, including:

• To provide, operate, and maintain our Website.
• To improve, personalize, and expand our Website.
• To understand and analyze how you use our Website.
• To develop new products, services, features, and functionality.
• To communicate with you, either directly or through one of our partners, including for customer service, to provide you with updates and other information relating to the Website, and for marketing and promotional purposes.
• To send you emails (if you opt-in to receive them).
• To find and prevent fraud.
• To display advertisements tailored to your interests.
• For compliance with legal obligations.

5. Disclosure of Your Information

We may share your information in the following situations:

• **With Service Providers**: We may share your information with third-party vendors, service providers, contractors, or agents who perform services for us or on our behalf and require access to such information to do that work (e.g., hosting providers, analytics services).
• **For Legal Reasons**: We may disclose your information if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g., a court or a government agency).
• **Business Transfers**: We may share or transfer your information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
• **With Your Consent**: We may disclose your personal information for any other purpose with your consent.
• **Aggregated/De-identified Data**: We may share aggregated or de-identified information that cannot reasonably be used to identify you.

We do not sell your personal data to third parties.

6. Data Security

We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. However, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Website. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website.