Last updated: Jan. 31, 2022
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Personal and Noncommercial Use
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Links/Advertisements
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Termination
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General Provisions
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Notice
Coachella Valley Independent LLC may deliver notice to you under these Terms and Conditions by means of electronic mail, a general notice on the Reno News & Review, or by written communication delivered by first class U.S. mail to your address on record in the Coachella Valley Independent/Reno News & Review’s account information. You may give notice to Jimmy Boegle of Coachella Valley Independent LLC at any time via electronic mail to jboegle@cvindependent.com or by letter delivered by first class postage prepaid U.S. mail to the following address:
Coachella Valley Independent LLC
31855 Date Palm Drive, Suite 3-263
Cathedral City, CA 92234
Reno News & Review Privacy Policy
This policy explains how Coachella Valley Independent LLC may collect, use and aggregate personal information about you on renonr.com. Coachella Valley Independent LLC respects your personal privacy and is committed to protecting it.
If you have questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy, you should first contact Coachella Valley Independent LLC in one of the following ways:
Mailing Address:
Coachella Valley Independent LLC
31855 Date Palm Drive, Suite 3-263
Cathedral City, CA 92234
Email: jboegle@cvindependent.com
Phone: 760-904-4208
For each visitor to the renonr.com site, the Coachella Valley Independent/Reno News & Review’s servers automatically collect information about which pages are visited and the IP address or domain name of visitors. We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, and to administer our website. Your IP address is not linked to personally identifiable information but is used to gather broad demographic information. This information helps us tailor and improve your experience on the website.
Information we collect
General: Portions of the Reno News & Review require visitors to provide personally identifiable information that may include your name, age, address, e-mail address, credit-card number and facts about your consumer-buying habits. We do not, however, knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13.
Surveys: We may conduct periodic online surveys. For example, visitors to renonr.com may see a pop-up window asking them to voluntarily participate in a user survey.
Website usage: We automatically collect IP addresses and website usage information from you when you visit our site. This information helps us evaluate how our visitors use and navigate our websites on an aggregate basis, including the number and frequency of visitors to each web page, the length of their visits, their browser type and their operating systems.
How we use information that is collected
Coachella Valley Independent LLC may use information collected from visitors in the following ways:
* To improve existing features or develop new features, products and services by analyzing how site features are being used.
* To award prizes in contests or promotions. Participation in some contests or promotions may require visitors to agree to be contacted by Coachella Valley Independent LLC.
* To provide advertisers or other third parties with aggregate information about our user base and usage patterns. Personally identifiable information is kept private and not distributed to third parties.
* To send e-mail notifications about new or existing products and services, special offers, or to otherwise contact you. These contacts are on an opt-in basis only, based on the preferences you have specified with the Coachella Valley Independent/Reno News & Review.
Children/direct notice to parents
Coachella Valley Independent LLC will not knowingly collect any personal information from individuals under 13 years of age without parental consent. Where appropriate, Coachella Valley Independent LLC will specifically instruct children not to submit such information on our site and/or will take reasonable steps to ensure parental consent to such submission.
Parental consent will be required in the event the Coachella Valley Independent/Reno News & Review provides a feature or event such as a contest or promotion that requires submission of information by children. Notice may be provided in a number of ways, including sending an e-mail message or notice by postal mail. At any time, you may write to us at jboegle@cvindependent.com to request a summary of any information we have retained as part of such activities or to ask that it be deleted.
Parents should be aware that Coachella Valley Independent LLC’s Privacy Policy will govern our use of personal data, but that information which is voluntarily given by children (or others) in chat sessions, e-mail exchanges, bulletin boards or the like may be used by other parties to generate unsolicited mail. Coachella Valley Independent LLC encourages all parents to instruct their children in the safe and responsible use of their personal data while using the Internet.
Cookies
Coachella Valley Independent LLC may place a “cookie” on the browser of your computer. Cookies are pieces of information that a website transfers to your computer’s hard disk for record-keeping purposes. The use of cookies is common in the Internet industry, and many major websites use them to provide useful features to their customers. The cookie itself does not contain any personally identifying information, but may be used to tell when your computer has contacted the Reno News & Review site. Coachella Valley Independent LLC uses the information for editorial purposes and for other purposes such as delivery of features and advertisements, so that Coachella Valley Independent LLC can customize delivery of information specific to your interests without compromising privacy. For example, cookies may be used to ensure that you will not see the same ads too often in a single session. We also may use cookies to save your passwords so you don’t have to re-enter it each time you visit portions of our site.
Registration
Coachella Valley Independent LLC requests voluntary registration. These forms require you to give us personally identifiable information, which may include contact information (like your name and e-mail address) and unique identifiers. If you so signify beforehand, we may use your contact information from the registration form to send you information about our company and promotional material from some of our partners. Unique identifiers are collected only for use as account numbers in our record system. We do not disclose any unique identifiers to any third parties.
The information collected from these registration forms is used to improve existing features or develop new features, products and services by analyzing how site features are being used. Such information may be shared with third parties on an aggregate basis.
Demographic and profile data
We also may collect demographic and profile data from you as part of the registration process (i.e., your ZIP code, sex, income level, interest in certain topics). We may use this data to tailor your experience at our site, showing you content we think you might be interested in, displaying the content according to your preferences and informing you of upcoming events on our site. We also share certain demographic and profile data with advertisers and business partners on an aggregated basis.
Coachella Valley Independent LLC will disclose account information only in special cases, such as (i) to comply with valid legal requirements, such as a law, regulation, search warrant, subpoena or court order; or (ii) when Coachella Valley Independent LLC has reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who, intentionally or unintentionally, may be causing injury or harm to Coachella Valley Independent/Reno News & Review users or other persons or violating the Terms of Service of this site.
Links
This site contains links to other sites. Coachella Valley Independent LLC is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites, including any sites that may indicate a special relationship or partnership with Coachella Valley Independent LLC (such as co-branded pages and “powered by” relationships) or the sites of Coachella Valley Independent LLC advertisers that you go to by clicking on a banner ad on the renonr.com site. Coachella Valley Independent LLC does not disclose unique identifiers to those responsible for the linked sites. The linked sites, however, may collect personal information from you when you link to their site. This collecting of information is not subject to Coachella Valley Independent LLC’s control. To ensure protection of your privacy, always review the privacy policy of the sites you visit by linking from our website.
Advertisements
We display advertisements on our website. These ads may contain cookies. We do not have access to this information, nor do we control its use. Coachella Valley Independent LLC does not provide any personally identifiable data regarding users to our advertisers.
Security
This site has security measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control.
E-mail Notices
Coachella Valley Independent LLC may send a variety of e-mails to registered users who post items. These e-mails include but are not limited to confirmations and notices that information has been received, rejected, etc.. These e-mails are a necessary feature for the Reno News & Review. If you do not want to receive such e-mail notices, please do not post items at renonr.com.
Notification of changes
This Privacy Statement may be revised over time as new features are added to the Reno News & Review or as Internet security and privacy standards evolve. We will post those changes prominently so that you will always know what information we gather, how we might use that information and whether we will disclose it to anyone. We do, however, recommend that you read this Privacy Statement each time you use the Reno News & Review, in case you missed our notice of changes to the Privacy Policy.
Correcting and updating information
Coachella Valley Independent LLC permits you to correct or update personally identifiable information that you have previously provided to us. To do so, submit the changes directly through the site feature in question or send e-mail to jboegle@cvindependent.com indicating the information that you wish to be corrected or updated.
Your acceptance of these terms
By using this site, you signify your acceptance of the terms of the Coachella Valley Independent LLC Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not use the Reno News & Review site and exit the site immediately. Your continued use of the renonr.com site following the posting of changes to these terms will mean that you accept those changes.
Contacting us
If you have any questions about this privacy policy, the practices of the Reno News & Review site, or your dealings with the Reno News & Review/Coachella Valley Independent LLC, you can contact us at any time by sending electronic mail to jboegle@cvindependent.com, or by sending a letter delivered by first class postage prepaid U.S. mail to the following address:
Coachella Valley Independent
31855 Date Palm Drive, Suite 3-263
Cathedral City, CA 92234
Comments Policy
Comments and debate are welcome at renonr.com, but the following will be removed by our administrator:
• Potentially libelous comments.
• Obscene, racist or bigoted comments.
• Personal attacks, insults, or threatening language. Name-calling will not be tolerated.
• Plagiarized material.
• Private, personal information published without consent.
• Comments totally unrelated to the topic of the post.
• Commercial promotions or spam.
• Hyperlinks to material that is not directly related to the discussion.
• Comments that are duplicated on multiple stories or articles.
• Comments that are typed in all caps. That’s shouting.
• Comments using fake names or fake email addresses.
By posting a comment you agree to indemnify Coachella Valley Independent LLC and its officers and employees from and against all liabilities, judgments, damages, and costs (including attorney’s fees) incurred by any of them which arise out of or are related to the comments that you post. Comments are intended only for the personal use of our readers, and may not be used for commercial purposes or for organized political activity.
Coachella Valley Independent LLC reserves the right to monitor comments, and remove any that it deems, in its sole discretion, to be abusive, defamatory, in violation of the copyright, trademark right, or other intellectual property right of any third party, or otherwise inappropriate. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Coachella Valley Independent LLC is not obligated to take any such actions, and will not be responsible or liable for comments posted on the website.
If you do not agree to these terms, do not use the comments, as violation of the terms can lead to legal liability.
Corrections Policy
We strive for truth and accuracy in all of our reporting. Our reporters carefully check facts with primary sources and, when necessary, documents and other sources, before reporting them.
We promptly correct any errors. If the error is factual in nature—that is, more than a simple typo or misspelling—we add a note to the end of the article noting that a correction has been made and detailing what was corrected.
If you find an error in our reporting, please describe the error in an email to jimmyb@renonr.com.