Privacy Policy

This policy was last updated on June 20, 2024.

Blade Media LTD owns and operates the website of starznews.com, (hereinafter referred to as the "Service")

This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of personal data when you use our Service and the choices you have associated with that data. Our Privacy Policy is managed by the business operational team of starznews.com at Blade Media LTD.

This Privacy Policy applies only to our online activities and is valid for visitors to our Service with regards to the information that they share and/or are.

Consent

By using our Service, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its terms.

What information do we collect?

We collect several different types of information for various purposes to provide and improve our Service to you.

Personal Data

In this Service, we collect the information transmitted in the standard HTTP header, such as your IP address, device type, and browser type.

If you contact us directly via the contact email for customer support or for other types of inquiries, we may receive additional information about you, such as your name, email address, the contents of the message and/or attachments you may send us, and any other information you may choose to provide.

Search Queries

When you search with our Service, we will receive the search query you type into the Service to return you with the search results.

How do we collect your information?

Log Files

Starznews follows a standard procedure of using log files. These files log visitors when they visit websites. All hosting companies do this and are a part of hosting services' analytics. The information collected by log files includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. These are not linked to any personally identifiable information. The purpose of the information is to analyze trends, administer the site, track users' movement on the website, and gather demographic information.

Cookies and Web Beacons

Like any other website, Starznews uses 'cookies'. These cookies are used to store information including visitors' preferences, and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. The information is used to optimize the users' experience by customizing our web page content based on visitors' browser type and/or other information.

For more general information on cookies, please read "What Are Cookies" from Cookie Consent.

How do we use your information?

We use the information we collect about you in various ways, including:

Provide, operate, and maintain our product/website/service
Improve and expand our product/website/service
Understand and analyze how users interact with our product/website/service
Develop new products, services, features, and functionality
Communicate with you, either directly or through one of our partners, including for customer service, to provide you with updates and other information relating to the website, and for marketing and promotional purposes
Find and prevent fraud

With whom do we share your information?

Our Advertising Partners

While using our Service, we may share your anonymized personal information, such as search queries, with our monetization partner Yahoo.

Our Analytics Partners

We use analytical tools such as Google Analytics to collect analytical data of the Service.

Our Service Providers

Google Cloud Platform is where your user data is stored.

Third Party Privacy Policies

Starznews's Privacy Policy does not apply to other advertisers or websites. Thus, we are advising you to consult the respective Privacy Policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information. It may include their practices and instructions about how to opt out of certain options.

You can choose to disable cookies through your browser options. More detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers can be found on the browsers' respective websites.

How do we protect your information?

We maintain tight controls over all the data we collect, retaining it in secured databases with limited and controlled access rights. Please remember that unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure, so although we will do our best to protect your data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted via the product; any transmission is at your own risk.

How long do we keep your information?

We keep your personal information for as long as it is necessary. Once you decide to uninstall/remove our product and stop using our website, we will keep your information for an additional six months before deleting it from our database.

Notice to EU Residents under the “GDPR”

This section applies to you if you are a national of a European Economic Area (“EEA”) member state. This section describes our good-faith effort to meet our obligations under the GDPR.

Personal Data

The GDPR defines “personal data” as “…any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’); an identifiable natural person can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person”

For our Privacy Policy, the “data subject” is “you” (“your”, “user”). The personal data we collect may include the unique User ID we assign you.

The personal data we collect will only be used and disclosed for the purposes detailed in this Privacy Policy.

Our basis for processing personal data: GDPR Article 6.1(a): “the data subject has given consent to the processing of his or her personal data for one or more specific purposes”; GDPR Article 6.1(b): “processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is party or in order to take steps at the request of the data subject prior to entering into a contract”; GDPR Article 6(1)(f): “processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the controller or by a third party…”

Your Rights

Your rights as a GDPR data subject include the following:

Request a copy of the information, if any, stored about you.
Correct information, if any, is stored about you.
Erase information, if any, stored about you.
Restrict how information, if any, about you is used.
Transfer the information, if any, about you.
Object to how your information, if any, is used in certain cases.
Request why we are unable to fulfill your request, if applicable.

You can contact us to submit any GDPR-related inquiry or request by submitting an inquiry to [email protected].

Notice to California Residents under the “CCPA”

This Section applies to you if you are a natural person who is a California resident, as defined in the California Code of Regulations. This section describes our good faith effort to meet our obligations under the CCPA.

Personal Information

The CCPA defines “personal information” as including “…information that identifies relates to, describes, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or household.”

For our Privacy Policy, the “person” is “you” (“your”, “user”). The personal information we may collect includes the IP Address; the unique User ID we assign you; the User Agent and version of your web browser; and the Operating System and version used by your hardware.

The personal information we collect will only be used and disclosed for the business purposes detailed in this Privacy Policy, which are necessary for us to provide you with the Service.

Your Rights / Opt-Out for “Sale of Personal Information”

You can contact us to submit any CCPA-related inquiry or request via the following 2 methods:

Submitting an inquiry to [email protected].

Sending a physical inquiry to 5 Yehonatan Netanyahu, Or Yehuda, Israel.

We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your CCPA rights.

Children's Information

This product is not designed for or targeting children under the age of 13. We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate in, and/or monitor and guide their online activity.

Starznews does not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information from children under the age of 13. If you think that your child provided this kind of information on our product/website, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately and we will do our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.

Updates to Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy will be updated from time to time. We strongly recommend you check back here periodically to see if the Privacy Policy has been updated. We will always show the date of the latest modification of the Privacy Policy at the top of the page so you can tell when it was last revised.

We regularly review our compliance with this Privacy Policy. Questions, comments, and requests regarding this Privacy Policy are welcomed and should be addressed to [email protected].