Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy - MOSAIC

MOSAIC News Website Privacy Policy

Last modified: May 31, 2023

Introduction

At MOSAIC News, we are dedicated to delivering curated headlines with links to global news stories. MOSAIC News (“MOSAIC News” or “We”) is operated by Multi Operational Security Agency Intelligence Company LLC, and we take privacy very seriously.

We are concerned about privacy issues and want you to be familiar with how we collect, use, and share information and how you can exercise the privacy rights available to you.  This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) covers the information that we may process:

MOSAIC News respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy.

This policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the Website, https://www.mosaic.news/, (our “Website”) and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.

This policy applies to the information we collect:

-On this Website.
-Email, text, and other electronic messages between you and this Website.
-ANY OTHER SOURCES It does not apply to information collected by:
-Us offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by Company or any third party, or
-Any third party, including through any application or content that may link to or be accessible from or through the Website. Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you disagree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Website. By accessing or using this Website, you agree to this privacy policy. This policy may change from time to time (see Changes to Our Privacy Policy). Your continued use of this Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.

Children Under the Age of 18

Our Website is not intended for children under 18 years of age. No one under the age of 18 may provide any personal information to or on the Website. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 18. If you are under 18, do not use or provide any information on this or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or username you may use. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 18 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 18, please contact us at mosaicsecurity@proton.me.

California residents under 16 years of age may have additional rights regarding collecting and selling their personal information. See your State Privacy Rights for more information.

Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It

We collect several types of information from and about users of our Website, including information:

-By which you may be personally identified, such as name and email address. (“personal information”);
-About your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Website, and usage details. We collect this information:
-Directly from you when you provide it to us.
-Automatically as you navigate through the site. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies. Information you provide to us.

The information we collect on or through our website may include the following:

-Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Website. This includes information provided at the time of submitting information under the “Contacting Us” portion of the Website.

Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses) if you contact us. You also may provide information to be published or displayed (hereinafter, “posted”) on public areas of the Website or transmitted to other users of the Website or third parties (collectively, “User Contributions”). Your User Contributions are posted on and transmitted to others at your own risk. Additionally, we cannot control the actions of other users of the Website with whom you may choose to share your User Contributions. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that your User Contributions will not be viewed by unauthorized persons.

Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies

As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:

-Details of your visits to our Website, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website.
-Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type. The information we collect automatically does include personal information. It helps us to improve our Website and to deliver better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:
-Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
-Speed up your searches.
-Recognize you when you return to our Website.

The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include the following:

-Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on your computer’s hard drive. You may refuse to accept browser Cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting, you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting to refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website.

-Web Beacons. Pages of our Website 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 the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).

-Flash Cookies. Certain features of our Website may use local stored objects (or Flash cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences and navigation to, from, and on our Website. Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as are used for browser cookies. For information about managing your privacy and security settings for Flash cookies, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information. We do not collect personal information automatically, but we may tie this information to personal information about you that we collect from other sources or you provide to us.

Third-Party Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies

Some content or applications on the Website are served by third parties. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use our Website. The information they collect may be associated with your personal information, or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services.

We do not control these third parties tracking technologies or how they may be used. For information about how to opt-out of receiving targeted advertising from many providers, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:

-To present our Website and its contents to you.
-To provide you with information that you request from us.
-To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.
-To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection.
-In any other way, we may describe when you provide the information.
-For any other purpose with your consent.

For more information, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.

Disclosure of Your Information

We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual without restriction.

We may disclose personal information that we collect, or you provide as described in this privacy policy:

-To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.
-To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of MOSAIC’s assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by MOSAIC about our Website users is among the assets transferred.
-For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
-With your consent. We may also disclose your personal information:
-To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including responding to any government or regulatory request.
-To enforce or apply our terms of use.
-If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of MOSAIC, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information

-We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us.

We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:

-Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies or to alert you when cookies are being sent. To learn how to manage your Flash cookie settings, visit the Flash player settings page on Adobe’s Website. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this site may be inaccessible or not properly functioning.

-We do not control third parties’ collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. However, these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way. You can opt-out of receiving targeted ads from members of the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI”) on the NAI’s Website.

Residents of certain states, such as California, Nevada, Colorado, Connecticut, Virginia, and Utah, may have additional personal information rights and choices. See Your State Privacy Rights for more information.

Your State Privacy Rights

State consumer privacy laws may provide their residents with additional rights regarding using their personal information.

Under the CCPA, among other rights, California consumers have the right to:

-Request that a business that collects a consumer’s personal data disclose the categories and specific pieces of personal data that a business has collected about consumers.
-Request that a business deletes any personal data about the consumer a business has collected.
-Request that a business that sells a consumer’s personal data, not sell the consumer’s personal data.
-If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. Please contact us if you would like to exercise any of these rights. California’s “shine the Light” law (Civil Code Section § 1798.83) permits users of our App that are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please send an email to mosaicsecurity@proton.me.

Colorado, Connecticut, Virginia, and Utah each provide their state residents with rights to:

-Confirm whether we process their personal information.
-Access and delete certain personal information.
-Data portability. Colorado, Connecticut, and Virginia also provide their state residents with rights to:
-Correct inaccuracies in their personal information, taking into account the information’s nature processing purpose.
-Opt-out of profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects. To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at mosaicsecurity@proton.me. To appeal a decision regarding a consumer rights request “APPEAL PROCEDURE”.

Nevada provides its residents with a limited right to opt-out of certain personal information sales. Residents who wish to exercise this sale opt-out rights may submit a request to this designated address mosaicsecurity@proton.me. However, please know we do not currently sell data triggering that statute’s opt-out requirements.

GDPR Data Protection Rights

We would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:
-The right to access – You have the right to request copies of your personal data. We may charge you a small fee for this service.
-The right to rectification – You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request that we complete the information you believe is incomplete.
-The right to erasure – You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
-The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that we restrict processing your personal data under certain conditions.
-The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to our processing of your data under certain conditions.
-The right to data portability – You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you under certain conditions.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.

Data Security

We use appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect the personal information that we collect and process about you. The measures we use are designed to provide a level of security appropriate to the risk of processing your personal information. However, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page with a notice that the privacy policy has been updated on the Website home page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ personal information, we will notify you through a notice on the Website home page. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active, and deliverable email address for you and for periodically visiting our Website and this privacy policy to check for any changes.

Contact Information

To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices, contact us at: mosaicsecurity@proton.me
To register a complaint or concern, please The Better Business Bureau (BBB) Online.

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