Posted Feb. 25, 2025
Your privacy is important to us. This policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide to us when visiting, logging into, registering, or opening an account with www.dailysignal.com or any other Website owned or operated by The Daily Signal Media Group (our “Websites”) and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information. This policy applies to information we collect on our Websites. It does not apply to information that we collect offline or through any other means, including from any third party (including through any application or content that may link to or be accessible from our Websites), except as described below. Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information. By accessing or using our Websites, you agree to this privacy policy.
Information We Collect and How We Collect It
We collect several types of information from and about users of our Websites. We collect IP addresses and how visitors use, access and/or navigate throughout our Websites, including how you accessed our Websites. We collect information by which you may be personally identified, such as name, contact information, and general demographic and financial information (“identifying information”) from you when you provide it to us by filling out forms on our Websites, which includes information provided at the time of registering to use our Websites, subscribing to our service, making a donation, posting material including comments, or requesting further services.
User contributions, including comments, are posted and may be accessed by others at your own risk. We may also use one or more of the following cookies, pixels, web beacons, other data collection technologies, and/or third-party servicers to collect identifying information and information about how you use and/or navigate throughout our Websites:
Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on your browser or computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting(s) on your browser or computer. Unless you adjusted your browser or computer setting(s) so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Websites.
Web Beacons or Pixels. Pages of our Websites 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 the number of users who have visited those pages or collect other Website-related statistics.
We use the information that we collect to help us to improve our Websites, including its performance, and to deliver a better and more personalized service to you. We may use your identifying information to contact you about our services that may be of interest to you. Certain pages on our Websites may also ask you to provide information for other specific purpose(s). Those purpose(s) are in addition to, and not to the exclusion of, any listed in this privacy policy, unless expressly stated otherwise.
We may also collect information about you from third parties, including from any of our third-party affiliates, and we may combine that information with other information we receive about you from your use of our Websites.
Disclosure of Your Information
In addition to any use of personal information described herein, we may disclose aggregated information about how you use and/or navigate through our Websites and information that does not identify any individual without restriction. We may disclose non-aggregated identifying information that we collect or that you provide to us as described in this privacy policy to contractors, service providers, and/or other partners, vendors, and/or third parties we use to support our organization and who are bound by contractual obligations to use it only for the purposes for which we disclose to them; to third parties to market their products or services to you if you have not opted-out of these disclosures; to fulfill any purpose(s) for which you provided it; and, for any other purpose disclosed by us in this privacy policy or elsewhere when you provided the information to us.
We may also disclose your information to the extent necessary to comply with a court order, law or legal process, including to respond to a government or regulatory request.
We have implemented measures designed to secure your information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, authorization, and disclosure. All of the information we collect or that you provide to us is stored by us or by our contractors, service providers, and/or other partners, vendors, and/or third parties on secure servers. We take reasonable steps to ensure that such servers are secure; however, we disclaim any claim that may arise from any security failure by any of our employees, contractors, service providers, and/or other partners, vendors, and/or third parties.
Children Under the Age of 13
Our Websites are not intended for children under the age of 13 and no one under the age of 13 should use our Websites or provide any personal information to us. In compliance with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), we do not knowingly collect personal or identifying information from children under the age of 13. If you are under 13, do not use our Websites or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, screen or user name, or anything else. If we learn that we inadvertently collected personal or identifying information from a child under the age of 13, we will delete that information. Residents of certain states under the ages of 13, 16, or 18 may have additional rights regarding the collection and sale of their personal or identifying information. If you believe we might have collected information from or about a child implicating any of those rights without parental or guardian supervision, please let us know by contacting us at [email protected].
Mailing List and Opt-out Information
From time to time, we make our contributor list of both offline and online donors available to other organizations to mail. This process is carefully controlled, and it is our hope that you may find information from these groups interesting and helpful. This also saves us a considerable amount of money, which can be used to preserve and protect our shared values. If you would like to be excluded from this, please email us at [email protected], and we’ll make sure your information is not included in our mailing list sharing activities. The above excludes text messaging originator opt-in data and consent; this information will not be shared with any third parties. This limitation does not prevent use of personal information as described above that is obtained other than exclusively from our offline or online donor list(s).
If you do not want to receive any email from us in the future, click the “unsubscribe” reference in any email we send you. You may also email [email protected] to complete the opt-out process or send a letter to our mailing address requesting that we unsubscribe you from our contact lists. Note that absent a specific request, your records will remain in our database, but your log-in and email address will be deactivated.
Links to Other Websites
Our Websites may contain links to other websites. Any information you provide on the linked pages or to third parties may be provided directly to that third party and can be subject to that third party’s privacy policy whether or not related to or covered by this privacy policy. This privacy policy does not apply to such linked sites, unless expressly noted, and we are not responsible for the content or privacy and security practices and policies of those websites or any other sites that are linked to or from our Websites.
Advertising
DailySignal.com is affiliated with Freestar for the purposes of placing advertising on the Websites, and Freestar will collect and use certain data for advertising purposes. Learn more about Freestar’s data usage here. By using our Websites, you also agree to Freestar’s privacy policy.
Changes to the Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to make changes to this policy at any time. Your continued use of our Websites signifies your acceptance of any revised privacy policy. You may direct any privacy policy questions or concerns to [email protected].
California Privacy Law
We may collect and in the past 12 months may have collected the following categories of personal information:
| Categories of Personal Information Collected and Processed | Categories of Sources from Which Personal Information was Collected | Purpose of Collection and Processing | Categories of Third Parties to Whom the Personal Information May be Disclosed for a Business Purpose |
| Identifiers or personal information, such as name, home or work address, telephone number, account name, and email address | You, your devices, email and social media accounts, third-party affiliates, business partners or vendors | Delivering products and services to you, marketing, communicating with you, security and fraud prevention, maintaining your account, quality assurance | Third-party affiliates, business partners, or vendors |
| Electronic identifiers, such as IP address, device identifier, others, and electronic information | You, your devices, email and social media accounts, third-party affiliates, business partners or vendors | Improve our Websites and deliver a better and more personalized service. Contact you about our products and services that may be of interest to you. | Third-party affiliates, business partners, or vendors |
| Internet activity, such as browsing and search history, interactions with the Websites or advertisements | You, your devices, email and social media accounts, third-party affiliates, business partners, or vendors | Improve our Websites and deliver a better and more personalized service. Contact you about our products and services that may be of interest to you | Third-party affiliates, business partners, or vendors |
| Financial information, including account or credit card numbers | You | Donation processing and acknowledgement and customer service | Vendors |
| Protected characteristics, such as age and sex | You, your devices, third-party affiliates, business partners or vendors | Delivering products and services to you, marketing, communicating with you | Third-party affiliates, business partners or vendors |
| Commercial information | You, your devices, email and social media accounts, third-party affiliates, business partners or vendors | Delivering products and services to you, marketing, communicating with you | Third-party affiliates, business partners or vendors |
| Geolocation data | You, your devices | Improve our Websites and deliver a better and more personalized service. Contact you about our services that may be of interest | Third-party affiliates, business partners, or vendors |
| Professionalism data, such as employment data | You, your devices, email and social media accounts, third-party affiliates, business partners or vendors | Delivering products and services to you, marketing and communicating with you | Third-party affiliates, business partners, or vendors |
| Educational information | You, your devices, email and social media accounts, third-party affiliates, business partners or vendors | Delivering products and services to you, marketing and communicating with you | Third-party affiliates, business partners, or vendors |
| Comments | You | Posting comments | Comments are public |
| Account Registration | You | Delivering products and services to you, marketing, communicating with you, security and fraud prevention, maintaining your account, quality assurance | Third-party affiliates or vendors |
| Sensitive personal information, specifically account login and financial account | You | Processing payments, security and fraud prevention, maintaining your account | Third-party affiliates or vendors |
| Inferences about you | Your devices, email and social media accounts, third-party affiliates, business partners or vendors | Delivering products and services to you, marketing and communicating with you | Third-party affiliates, business partners or vendors |
As a California resident, you have the following rights regarding your personal information:
- Right to Know: You have the right to know the personal data we collect, use, disclose, and sell about you, including the categories of personal information, the categories of sources from which it is collected, the businesses purposes of collecting, selling, or sharing that information, the categories of third parties to whom that information is disclosed, and the specific pieces of personal information about you.
- Right to Delete: You have the right to request that we delete the personal information we have collected about you.
- Right to Correct: You have the right to correct inaccurate personal information that we have about you.
- Right to Opt-Out: You have the right to opt out of the sale or sharing of your personal information, including for cross-context behavioral advertising.
- Right to Limit: You have the right to limit the use and disclosure of your sensitive personal information where legally permitted.
- Right to Data Portability: You have a right to request your personal information in a readily usable format.
- Right to Non-Discrimination: You have the right to be free from discriminatory treatment from exercising any privacy rights.
- Right to Access: You have the right to request access to the specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you.
- Right to Appeal: You have the right to appeal any decision with regard to your privacy request.
To exercise these rights or learn more about how we handle your personal information, please contact us at [email protected]. A request may be submitted through an authorized agent where allowed by applicable law.
We are permitted to verify your identity for you to exercise your privacy rights directly or through an authorized agent. You may be required to provide us with your personal information for us to verify your identity.
We may retain personal information we collect about you for as long as needed to fulfill any legitimate business purposes, including those described above/below, or for any time period specifically required or allowed by applicable law.
Under California’s Shine-the-Light Law, California residents have the right to request certain information about Personal Information and Sensitive Personal Information we may have shared with third parties for their direct marketing purposes, or we may provide a cost-free means for you to opt out of such sharing. We have provided you with a cost-free means of opting out by submitting a request to [email protected].
