Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy tells you how we collect, use and share information we collect on the NOW mobile application (“App”). The App is published and operated by Standard Media Group LLC (“we,” “us,” or “our”) and is effective as of the date posted above. By using the App and submitting information you agree that we may use and disclose your information according to the terms of this Policy.

1. Information collected and how it is used.

We automatically collect information when you download and use the App including your device’s IP address, and statistics about how you use the App.

We collect information that you submit when downloading and using the App including registration information when you download the App or otherwise register an account (your name, email or postal address, telephone number and user name and password), contact information if you contact us with an inquiry (email address, telephone number), or payment card information if you make a purchase (name, billing and shipping address, card information, email and telephone number). We collect your general location information (city or town) in order to provide information specific to your location.

We also collect information that you post on your account when you use the App, including video and photos you post to your account, upload to the App or otherwise submit to us, reviews, and other communications you post. When you submit a video or photo to us we will take steps to verify its authenticity by reviewing geolocation tags and date/time stamps.

We use the collected information for our general commercial purposes such as to improve our App, grow our business and to offer our own, our affiliates’ or third-party products or services that we think you may find of interest. We use your contact information to respond to your inquiries or to provide information on products or services to you.

We may use technology including software development kits (SDKs) to collect information about App usage by all of our visitors and to help us remember you and your preferences when you use the App. These technologies may stay on your browser into the future until they expire or you delete them. For general information about cookies and how they work is available at www.allaboutcookies.org.

We may allow selected third parties to place SDKs through the App to provide us with better insights into the use of the App or user demographics or to provide relevant advertising to you. These third parties may collect information about a consumer’s online activities over time and across different websites when he or she uses our App. We may also permit third party service providers such as Google Analytics to collect information through our App to perform analytic or marketing functions. We do not control the use of such third party technology or the resulting information and we are not responsible for any actions or policies of such third parties.

We do not currently use technology that recognizes a “do-not-track” signals from your device.

2. Children’s Privacy

You must be 13 years or older to use the App. This App is not designed nor intended to be attractive to use by children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect information from children under the age of 13. If you are under the age of 13, please do not submit any information to us. By downloading our App or registering an account through the App you represent that you are 18 years or older or, if you are between the ages of 13 and 18, that you have parental consent to register and use the App.

3. Accessing your information and your choices.

You can update, amend or delete your information at any time by visiting your account page. Deleting information on your profile page will not delete or close your account.

You can delete your account from the App using the menu options, or you may email admin@nownews.vip to request that we delete your account.

You can choose not to receive emails from us by “unsubscribing” using the instructions in any email you receive from us. This will not stop us from sending emails about your account or your transactions with us.

4. Sharing your information.

We may reveal information about you to unaffiliated third parties: (1) if you request or authorize it; (2) if the information is provided to help complete a transaction for you; (3) if the information is provided to comply with the law, applicable regulations, governmental and quasi-governmental requests, court orders or subpoenas, to enforce our Terms of Use or other agreements, or to protect our rights, property or safety or the rights, property or safety of our users or others (e.g., to a consumer reporting agency for fraud protection etc.); (4) if the disclosure is done as part of a purchase, transfer or sale of services or assets (e.g., in the event that substantially all of our assets are acquired by another party, customer information may be one of the transferred assets); (5) if the information is provided to our agents, outside vendors or service providers to perform functions on our behalf (e.g., analyzing data, providing marketing assistance, providing customer service, processing orders, etc.); or (6) as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy.

We may share aggregated or de-identified information with any third party for any purpose.

Please be aware that any information that you post to your account, post to the App or otherwise submit to us, including photos, links, communications, reviews, comments or other content is visible to the general public and this information and content can be used for any purposes.

5. Security.

We use reasonable technical, administrative and physical measures to protect information contained in our system against unauthorized access, destruction, misuse, loss or alteration. We may use standard encryption technology to protect information being transferred to us, but no method of electronic transmission or storage is 100% secure. If we receive instructions using your log-in information we will consider that you have authorized the instructions.

6. Data Processing and Cross-Border Data Transfers

The App’s servers are located in the United States, and personal information submitted is stored on our servers in the United States. If you are using the App from outside the United States, please be advised that your information is transferred to our U.S. servers. Disclosing your personal information to us pursuant to this Privacy Policy is at your own risk. We strive to comply with laws of jurisdictions in which we maintain operations but we make no representations that the practices described in this Privacy Policy are compliant with laws outside those jurisdictions that apply to the collection, security, use and disclosure of personal information.

7. Notice to California Residents

Your California Privacy Rights

California residents with an established business relationship with us are permitted by California law once a year to request information about the manner in which we shared certain categories of information with others for their marketing purposes during the prior calendar year. We do not share information about California residents with a third party for their direct marketing use unless you give us your consent.

California Consumer Privacy Act Notice.

8. Notice to Nevada Residents.

We do not transfer personal information about Nevada residents for monetary consideration. If you would like to tell us not to sell your information in the future please email us at admin@nownews.vip with your name, postal address, telephone number and email address with “Nevada do not sell” in the subject line.

9. Links to other sites.

We may permit others to link to the App or to post a link to their site. We do not endorse these sites and are not responsible for other sites or their privacy practices. Please read their privacy policies before submitting information.

10. Changes to the Privacy Policy.

We may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time. The Policy in effect at the time you use the App governs how we may use your information. If we make material changes we will post the revised Policy here with a revised effective date. Please check back here from time to time to review any changes.

11. Contacting us.

The App is published and operated by Standard Media Group LLC and its affiliates. You can contact us at:

    Standard Media Group LLC
    3201 West End Avenue, Suite 400
    Nashville, Tennessee 37203
    (315) 314-2078
    digital@standardmedia.com