Last updated: June 31, 2022

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We know that you care how information about you is used and shared, and we appreciate your trust that we will do so carefully and sensibly. This Privacy Notice describes how Themodedial.com and its affiliates (collectively "The Mode Dial") collect and process your personal information through The Mode Dial websites, devices, products, services, online and physical stores, and applications that reference this Privacy Notice (together "The Mode Dial Services"). By using The Mode Dial Services, you are consenting to the practices described in this Privacy Notice.

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What Personal Information About Readers Does The Mode Dial Collect?

This site is built on top of the wix.com platform, and The Mode Dial blog is subject to the capabilities of the platform which collets information for site analytics.  What wix.com collects would be subject to the wix.com privacy policy; this site does not enable any features that are not on the platform nor does The Mode Dial have any say in the operation of the wix.com platform which offers a site building capability to which no personal data collection features have been added by this site.  This site is not built to collect data by the operator of The Mode Dial blog.

Here are the types of personal information that are likely to be collected by the analytics features which cannot be disabled on The Mode Dial Blog:

• Information You Give Us: We receive and store any information you provide in relation to The Mode Dial Services.  This site does not intentionally contain any communication channels whatsoever.

• Automatic Information: We automatically collect and store certain types of information about your use of The Mode Dial Services, including information about your interaction with products, content and services available through The Mode Dial Services. Like many websites, we use "cookies" and other unique identifiers, and we obtain certain types of information when your web browser or device accesses The Mode Dial Services and other content served by or on behalf of The Mode Dial on other websites.

• Information from Other Sources: We might receive information about you from other sources, such as wix.com if they provide features about your use of the site.

 

For What Purposes Does The Mode Dial Use Your Personal Information?

We use your personal information to operate, provide, develop, and improve the products and services that we offer. These purposes include:

• Provide, troubleshoot, and improve The Mode Dial Services. We use your personal information to provide functionality, analyze performance, fix errors, and improve the usability and effectiveness of the The Mode Dial Services.

• Comply with legal obligations. In certain cases, we collect and use your personal information to comply with laws. For instance, we collect from sellers information regarding place of establishment and bank account information for identity verification and other purposes.

• Communicate with you. We use your personal information to communicate with you in relation to The Mode Dial Services via different channels (e.g., by phone, email, chat).

• Fraud Prevention and Credit Risks. We use personal information to prevent and detect fraud and abuse in order to protect the security of our readers, The Mode Dial, and others.

What About Cookies and Other Identifiers?

To enable our systems to recognize your browser or device and to provide and improve The Mode Dial Services, we use cookies and other identifiers.

Does The Mode Dial Share Your Personal Information?

Information about our readers is not an important part of our mission, and we are not in the business of selling our readers’ personal information to others. We share readers' personal information only as described below and with subsidiaries Themodedial.com, Inc. controls that either are subject to this Privacy Notice or follow practices at least as protective as those described in this Privacy Notice.

• Third-Party Service Providers: We employ other companies and individuals to perform functions on our behalf. Examples include the platform on which this blog is developed. These third-party service providers have access to personal information needed to perform their functions and may only use it in accordance with a legally compliant privacy policy.

 

• Protection of The Mode Dial and Others: We would, if it existed, release account and other personal information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law; enforce or apply good behavior and other agreements; or protect the rights, property, or safety of The Mode Dial, our users, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

 

How Secure Is Information About Me?

We design our systems with your security and privacy in mind.

• The security of this site is managed by the platform provider.

 

What About Advertising?

• Third-Party Advertisers and Links to Other Websites: The Mode Dial Services may include third-party advertising and links to other websites and apps. Third-party advertising partners may collect information about you when you interact with their content, advertising, and services.

 

• Use of Third-Party Advertising Services: We do not utilize advertisement to support this site.

 

What Information Can I Access?

There should not be any information for you unless you have sent us an email. This site does not have user features; it is a read only portal … a.k.a. a traditional website.

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Are Children Allowed to Use The Mode Dial Services?

The Mode Dial does not write articles designed for consumption by children. If you are under 18, you may use The Mode Dial Services only with the involvement of a parent or guardian. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13 without the consent of the child's parent or guardian.

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What type of information does The Mode Dial collect?

The Mode Dial does not directly collect any information about you; collection would be done by the platform where necessary to perform the display of our articles, photographs, navigation tools and audio/video media.  Please refer to the wix.com privacy policy.

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California Consumer Privacy Act

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Read below to read additional disclosures required under the California Consumer Privacy Act.

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Conditions of Use, Notices, and Revisions

If you choose to use The Mode Dial Services, your use and any dispute over privacy is subject to this Notice and that you are legally utilizing this content which is provided for the purpose of comedy and education, including limitations on damages, resolution of disputes, and application of the law of the state of Washington. If you have any concern about privacy at The Mode Dial, please contact us with a thorough description, and we will try to resolve it. Our site changes constantly, and our Privacy Notice will change also. You should check our websites frequently to see recent changes. Unless stated otherwise, our current Privacy Notice applies to all information that we have about you and your account.

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California Consumer Privacy Act Disclosures

This California Consumer Privacy Act disclosure page ("Disclosure") supplements the above privacy notice and is effective as of July 1, 2022. The Mode Dial Privacy notice describes the personal information that we collect, the sources from which we collect it, the purposes for which we use it, the limited circumstances under which we share personal information, and with whom we share it. These additional disclosures are required by the California Consumer Privacy Act:

1. Categories of personal information collected. The personal information that The Mode Dial collects, or has collected from consumers in the twelve months prior to the effective date of this Disclosure, fall into the following categories established by the California Consumer Privacy Act, depending on which The Mode Dial Service is used:

   • identifiers such as your name, alias, address, phone numbers, or IP address;

   • commercial information, such as purchase and content streaming activity;

   • Internet or other electronic network activity information, including content interaction information, such as content downloads, streams, and playback details;

   • geolocation data, such as the location of your device or computer;

   • professional information, for example data you may provide about your business if you are a contributor.

 

1. Categories of personal information disclosed for a business purpose. The personal information that The Mode Dial disclosed to the third parties identified in the “Does The Mode Dial Share Your Personal Information?” section of the The Mode Dial Privacy Notice about consumers for a business purpose in the twelve months prior to the effective date of this Disclosure fall into the following categories established by the California Consumer Privacy Act, depending on which The Mode Dial Service is used:

 

• identifiers such as your name, address, phone numbers, or IP address, for example if we use a third party carrier to deliver your order;

• personal information, such as a credit card number, for example if we use a third party payment processor;

• your age, gender, or other protected classifications, for example if you choose to participate in a survey distributed by a survey provider;

• commercial information, such as the details of a product or service you purchased if a third party service provider is assisting to provide that product or service to you;

• internet or other electronic network activity information, such as if we use a service provider to help us gather crash reports for analyzing the health of our devices and services;

• geolocation data

• audio or visual information, for example if a service provider reviews recordings of reader service phone calls for quality assurance purposes, or if we use a service provider to provide the blog platform

• education information, for example coursework you may direct us to share with the operator or partner

• professional information, for example if we provide your account details to a service provider for verification as part of enrollment for an The Mode Dial contributor account.

1. Right to Request Access to or Deletion of Personal Information: You may have the right under the California Consumer Privacy Act to request information about the collection of your personal information by The Mode Dial, or access to or deletion of your personal information. If you wish to do any of these things, please directly send an email to matt@themodedial.com. Depending on your data choices, certain services may be limited or unavailable.

 

1. No sale of personal information. In the twelve months prior to the effective date of this Disclosure, The Mode Dial has not sold any personal information of consumers, as those terms are defined under the California Consumer Privacy Act.

 

1. No Discrimination. The Mode Dial will not discriminate against any consumer for exercising their rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act.

 

1. Annual Reporting for 2021.

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Access Requests. In 2021, The Mode Dial received 0 requests from Themodedial.com readers to initiate the data access process. For 0 of these readers, their request was not fulfilled because the reader did not complete the verification process or canceled the request. The remaining 0 requests were processed with a median return time of NA days.

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Deletion Requests. In 2021, The Mode Dial received 0 requests from Themodedial.com readers to initiate the account closure and data deletion process. For 0 of these readers, their request was not fulfilled because the reader did not complete the verification process or canceled the request. The remaining 0 requests were processed with a median processing time of NA days.