By using newenglandandbeyond.com (“Website”), owned and operated by New England and Beyond, LLC (“NE&B”), you are consenting to the policies listed on this page. Our Privacy Policy, along with our Terms of Use, describe the factors that may affect our editorial content, the personal information we collect through our Website, how we collect that information, and which parties, if any, will have access to it.
By using the Website, you explicitly accept, without limitation or qualification, our practices surrounding the collection, use, and sharing of personal information provided by you in the manner described on this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with the terms on this Privacy Policy, please do not access, browse, or use this Website.
We encourage you to review this Policy Page whenever you use or access the Site to stay informed about our personal information practices and the ways you can help protect your privacy.
Privacy Policy
At New England and Beyond, LLC (“NE&B”) we respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website newenglandandbeyond.com (“Site”, “Website”).
Our Privacy Policy is designed to help you understand how we collect, use and safeguard the information you provide to us and to assist you in making informed decisions when using our site.
NE&B practices the following fundamental principles regarding the collection and use of your personal information:
- We don’t ask you for personal information unless we actually need it.
- We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, operate the website, or protect our rights.
- We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of our site.
What Information Do We Collect?
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, NE&B automatically collects non-personally-identifying information about you and the device with which you access the Website. For example, when you use the Website, we will log your IP address, operating system type, browser type, referring website, pages you viewed, and the dates/times when you accessed the Website. We may also collect information about actions you take when using the Website, such as links clicked.
NE&B’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how NE&B’s visitors use its Website. From time to time, NE&B may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its Website.
Personally-Identifying Information
We may collect personal information from you such as your name or email address. For example, you may voluntarily submit information to the Website by leaving a comment, subscribing to a newsletter, or submitting a contact form. In each case, NE&B collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with NE&B’s Website.
NE&B does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. Visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities. If you create a user profile on the Website or leave a comment, certain information may be publicly visible.
Aggregated Statistics
NE&B may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, NE&B may monitor the most popular pages on the Website or use spam screened by the Akismet service to help identify spam. NE&B may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, NE&B does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
NE&B takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
NE&B will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone.
NE&B only discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on NE&B’s behalf or to provide services available at NE&B’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 NE&B’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them.
Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, NE&B discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when NE&B believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of NE&B, third parties or the public at large.
If you are a registered user of an NE&B website and have supplied your email address, NE&B 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 NE&B. We expect to keep this type of email to a minimum.
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Cookies
We may log information using cookies, which are small data files stored on your browser by the Website. NE&B uses cookies to help identify and track visitors, their usage of the Website, and their website access preferences. NE&B visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using the Website, with the drawback that certain features of the Website may not function properly without the aid of cookies. Cookies may also be used by third-party services, such as Google Analytics, as described herein.
Newsletters
On the Website, you may Opt-in to subscribe to our newsletter, which may be used for advertising purposes. Newsletters may contain tracking pixels which are embedded in emails to allow an analysis of the success of online marketing campaigns. With these tracking pixels, we may see if and when you open an email and which links within the email you click. Also, this allows the Website to customize the content of future newsletters to the interests of the user. This behavior will not be passed on to third parties.
How Your Information May Be Used?
We may use the information collected in the following ways:
- To operate and maintain the Website;
- To send you promotional information, such as newsletters. Each email promotion will provide information on how to opt-out of future mailings;
- To send you administrative communications, such as administrative emails, confirmation emails, technical notices, updates on policies, or security alerts;
- To respond to your comments or inquiries;
- To provide you with user support;
- To track and measure advertising on the Website;
- To protect, investigate, and deter against unauthorized or illegal activity.
Third-Party Use of Personal Information
We may share your information with third parties when you explicitly authorize us to share your information.
Additionally, the Website may use third-party service providers to service various aspects of the Website. Each third-party service provider’s use of your personal information is dictated by their respective privacy policies.
The Website currently uses the following third-party service providers:
Google Analytics – this service tracks Website usage and provides information such as referring websites and user actions on the Website. Google Analytics may capture your IP address, but no other personal information is captured by Google Analytics. Google’s privacy policy is available at: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/
SendinBlue – this service is used for delivery of email updates and newsletters. We store your name and email address for purposes of delivering such communications.
This list may be amended from time to time in the Website’s sole discretion.
Except when required by law, we will not sell, distribute, or reveal your email addresses or other personal information without your consent; however, we may disclose or transfer personal information collected through the Website to third parties who acquire all or a portion of our business, which may be the result of a merger, consolidation, or purchase of all or a portion of our assets, or in connection with any bankruptcy or reorganization proceeding brought by or against us.
Comments
Comments and other content submitted to Akismet anti-spam service are not saved on our servers unless they were marked as false positives, in which case we store them long enough to use them to improve the service to avoid future false positives.
GDPR Rights
If you are within the European Union, you are entitled to certain information and have certain rights under the General Data Protection Regulation. Those rights include:
- Opt-out – You may opt-out of future email communications by following the unsubscribe links in our emails. You may also notify us at info@newenglandandbeyond.com to be removed from our mailing list.
- Access – You may access the personal information we have about you by submitting a request to info@newenglandandbeyond.com.
- Amend – You may contact us at info@newenglandandbeyond.com to amend or update your personal information.
- Forget – You may request that we erase or forget your personal data. To do so, please submit a request to info@newenglandandbeyond.com.
We will retain any information you choose to provide to us until the earlier of: (a) you asking us to delete the information, (b) our decision to cease using our existing data providers, or (c) we decide that the value in retaining the data is outweighed by the costs of retaining it.
You have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority that has jurisdiction over issues related to the General Data Protection Regulation.
We require only the information that is reasonably required to enter into a contract with you. We will not require you to provide consent for any unnecessary processing as a condition of entering into a contract with us.
Sensitive Personal Information
At no time should you submit sensitive personal information to the Website. This includes your social security number, information regarding race or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious beliefs, health information, criminal background, or trade union memberships. If you elect to submit such information to us, it will be subject to this Privacy Policy.
Children’s Information
NE&B does not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of 16. If a parent or guardian believes that the Website has personally identifiable information of a child under the age of 16 in its database, please contact us immediately at info@newenglandandbeyond.com and we will use our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.
Privacy Policies of Other Websites
The NE&B Website contains links to other Third Party websites. Our Privacy Policy applies only to our Website, so if you click on a link to another website, you should read the privacy policy on the site you visited.
Privacy Policy Changes
NE&B regularly reviews its Privacy Policy and has sole discretion to makes changes from time to time. NE&B encourages visitors to frequently review this page for any changes. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change. This Privacy Policy was last updated on October 15, 2023.
