December 06, 2024

Privacy and Policy

Privacy and policy

Your privacy is important to us.

Acceptance of Terms

By accessing balita.net.ph, visitors agree to be bound by these terms. If you do not agree to be bound by all of these terms, please do not access balita.net.ph.

Lawful Use

Visitors agree to use balita.net.ph for lawful purposes only, and in a way that does not infringe the rights of, restrict or inhibit anyone else's use and enjoyment of balita.net.ph.

Scope of This Policy

This policy does not apply to any information you may provide to us or that we may collect offline and/or through other means (for example, via telephone, or through the mail).

Restrictions on Use of Materials

Visitors are not allowed to republish or use any information and photographs from balita.net.ph for commercial purposes except for personal use.

Legal Disclaimer

The Company reserves the right to disclose personal data:

  • as required by law
  • when the Company believes that disclosure is necessary to protect its rights and interests
  • when the Company is directed to comply with a court order, legal process, or judicial proceeding

Use of Cookies

We use cookies to gather information about users' browsing activities to improve our services, including the date/time of your last visit, articles you have commented on, and what content or comments you have posted on balita.net.ph.

Information collected by cookies includes which articles you have viewed and the number of these articles, but such information will stay on the computer or device you use to browse balita.net.ph. We will not have records of the same.

We do not use cookies to capture your email address or other personal data about you. You can choose not to accept cookies.

Log Files

The Company gathers certain information automatically and stores it in log files. This information includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data.

This information is used to analyze trends, to administer the site, to track movements around the website, and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole.

The Company uses a third-party tracking service that uses cookies to track non-personally identifiable information about visitors to our site in the aggregate, such as page views, number of unique visitors, most visited pages, etc.

Links to Other Sites

This website contains links to other sites that are not owned or controlled by the Company. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites.

We encourage visitors to be aware when they leave our website and to read the privacy statements of each website that collects personally identifiable information.

This privacy statement applies only to information collected by this website.

Security

The security of your personal information is important to us, and we follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and upon receipt. However, no method of transmission over the internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Changes to This Privacy Statement

If the Company decides to change its privacy policy, we will post those changes in this Privacy Statement and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.

The Company reserves the right to modify this Privacy Statement at any time, so please review it frequently.