Last Updated: May 12, 2020
HBCU Buzz (“HBCU Buzz”) takes the private nature of your personal information very seriously. This privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) details the use and collection of your information by the websites (the “Sites”) operated and owned by L & Company. (“LNCO”, “us” or “we”) and governs your access to the content and services hosted on our platform (the “Services”). Please read this notice very carefully.
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, HBCU Buzz collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. HBCU Buzz’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how HBCU Buzz’s visitors use its website. From time to time, HBCU Buzz may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g. by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website. HBCU Buzz also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. HBCU Buzz does not use such information to identify its visitors, and does not disclose such information, other than under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information, as described below.
Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to HBCU Buzz’s websites choose to interact with HBCU Buzz in ways that require HBCU Buzz to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that HBCU Buzz gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up for HBCU Buzz.com to provide a username and email address.
In each case, HBCU Buzz collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with HBCU Buzz. HBCU Buzz does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.
Aggregated Statistics
HBCU Buzz may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, HBCU Buzz may monitor the most popular articles on HBCU Buzz.com. HBCU Buzz may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, HBCU Buzz does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
HBCU Buzz discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on HBCU Buzz’s behalf or to provide services available at HBCU Buzz’s websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using HBCU Buzz’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. In addition, in some cases we may choose to buy or sell assets. In these types of transactions, user information is typically one of the business assets that is transferred. Moreover, if HBCU Buzz or substantially all of its assets were acquired, or in the unlikely event that HBCU Buzz goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of HBCU Buzz may continue to use your personal and non-personal information only as set forth in this policy. Otherwise, HBCU Buzz will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone.
Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, HBCU Buzz discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only when required to do so by law, or when HBCU Buzz believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of HBCU Buzz, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of a HBCU Buzz website and have supplied your email address, HBCU Buzz may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with HBCU Buzz and its products. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. HBCU Buzz takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
You should also be aware that if you submit information to “chat rooms,” “forums” or “message boards” such information becomes public information, meaning that you lose any privacy rights you might have with regards to that information. Such disclosures may also increase your chances of receiving unwanted communications.
Cookies
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. HBCU Buzz uses cookies to help HBCU Buzz identify and track visitors, their usage of HBCU Buzz websites, and their website access preferences. HBCU Buzz visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using HBCU Buzz’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of HBCU Buzz’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
Ads
Ads appearing on any HBCU Buzz websites may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This privacy policy covers the use of cookies by HBCU Buzz and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
Links to Third Party Sites
This privacy policy only applies to information collected by HBCU Buzz. This privacy policy does not apply to the practices of companies that HBCU Buzz does not own or control, or employees that HBCU Buzz does not manage. A HBCU Buzz website may contain links to third party websites. Any information you provide to, or that is collected by, third-party sites may be subject to the privacy policies of those sites, if any. We encourage you to read such privacy policies of any third-party sites you visit. It is the sole responsibility of such third parties to adhere to any applicable restrictions on the disclosure of your personally-identifying information, and HBCU Buzz and its affiliates shall not be liable for wrongful use or disclosure of your personally-identifying information by any third party.
Security
All non-personally-identifying information, potentially personally-identifying and personally identifying-information described above is stored on restricted database servers.
Choice/Opt-out
If we ever send you information by email concerning new products, services or information that you did not expressly request, we will provide you with an email address by which you may request no further notices.
HBCU Buzz may share personal information, such as email address, with a third party if the consumer submitted such information to us.
Third parties will use such information to identify specific individuals on unaffiliated websites, apps, or online services for advertising, analytics, attribution, and reporting purposes, including to send marketing emails based on the fact that a a user visited a particular website.
To opt out of ad choices click here: http://www.aboutads.info/choices.
Address Book Data
Any external address book data (email contacts, etc.) that a user voluntarily gives HBCU Buzz access to will only be used for the described feature (looking up friends, etc.), and will not be stored or repurposed.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, HBCU Buzz may change its privacy policy from time to time, and in HBCU Buzz’s sole discretion. HBCU Buzz encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its privacy policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this privacy policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this privacy policy, terms of use and or just want to chat: please contact us via info@hbcubuzz.com