Privacy Policy

NRG MEDIA, LLC PRIVACY POLICY

This website is owned or managed by NRG Media, LLC (hereinafter “NRG Media,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) which also owns broadcast and mobile radio stations.  NRG Media’s terrestrial stations operate in the United States and its Sites are directed at users in the United States.  Your use of these Sites constitutes acceptance of these terms. 

This Privacy Policy has been adopted by each NRG Media website, application, social media page or mobile platform now known or developed in the future (the “Sites”), to the extent applicable. This privacy policy is provided to explain the way in which we collect information from users (also referred to as “you”) of the Sites, and how we store, use and disclose that information. If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy, or if you do not want information about you to be collected, you should choose to not participate in sections of the Sites that require the submission of personally identifiable information.   

CHILDREN’S PRIVACY: NRG Media sites are not directed at children under the age of thirteen (13). We will not knowingly allow anyone under the age of 13 to register on the Sites or provide personally identifiable information.  If you are under the age of 13, please do not provide any information about yourself. If we become aware that we have collected such information, we will remove it from our records as soon as possible. 

COLLECTED INFORMATION: The information we collect from you when you visit our Sites is generally either personal information or non-personal information.   

PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION: 

This is information you provide to us voluntarily on the Sites.  This information may include your name, address, zip code, email address, telephone number, date/year of birth, age, gender, user name and/or password.  You may be asked to voluntarily provide subsets of this information when you register for a listener club; sign up to receive email or newsletter; enter a contest; participate in voting or polling activities; sign up to receive SMS notifications (text messages); use a mobile application; or make a purchase, where your payment and shipping information will also be collected (credit card number and expiration, security code, expiration date and shipping address).  If you log in to or register on the Sites using a social networking platform, including Facebook, we may collect personally identifiable information from that platform which you have authorized the platform to share, or which you have made public. An IP address or mobile device identifier may be considered personally identifiable by law in certain circumstances.  

NON-PERSONAL INFORMATION:

Usage Data: This is information that is automatically collected when you access Sites associated with NRG Media.  This information includes your IP address or other unique identifier for the device you are using, as well as browser, device, operating system, application version, page, preceding pages, friend lists, time, current or recent location, use of the sites features, your interactions with others or group activities as related to the sites. This information may be combined with information we obtain about you from third parties, or derived in other ways, such as a paper contest entry. 

This information may be collected through various tracking technologies, including persistent and session cookies to identify you, your computer and your preferences in future sessions; and web beacons (electronic images, or single-pixel Graphic Interface Format images) to track and count visitors to the sites,  links followed, email messages, and other information to help tailor promotional content. Other analytical tools may be utilized to collect and aggregate statistical information about usage of the website. This information would not include any data that would identify you personally. This information may be collected by NRG Media or by a third-party with which we contract to analyze this data. 

ABOUT COOKIES

Cookies are small text files that reside on your computer’s hard drive or mobile device which allow us to identify you, your computer and your preferences in future sessions. You have the ability to block cookies on your devices. There are different types of cookies, and some parts of the Sites will not function if you do not allow cookies. 

Some cookies relate to performance of the Sites, and allow us to be able to count the total number of visits and sources of traffic so we can measure and improve the performance of our Sites. These cookies also enable us to see how users, on an anonymized basis, use our sites.  A third party provider reports on how our sites are used.  These cookies do not collect personally identifiable information about you. 

Some cookies are functional.  For example, the Sites use a number of social media tools (like Twitter and Facebook) to make the Sites better and enable more visitor interaction.  If you use these platforms then their cookies may be set through the Sites. Those services set cookies to collect data to serve ads on other sites they think are relevant to your interests.  If you don’t use social media tools, those cookies won’t be served on your devices. 

Some cookies relate to personalization.  These cookies may be used to serve ads targeted to the personas that match a particular brand.  These are provided by third party advertisers and advertising networks.  They may use cookies to ensure that particular advertisements are not shown to you too many times and to collect information which is used to identify non-personal attributes of the user, such as collecting IP addresses to identify geographical location. This information is collected by a third party and will not be stored longer than 14 months. It may be obfuscated after collection of information. 

NRG Media’s vendors who may set cookies may include such Google services as AdSense and Analytics (please see below for more information, or visit https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites for information on how Google uses the data it collects), Triton YieldOp, TargetSpot, interactive services like Tag Station’s NextRadio®, Soundcloud e-commerce partners like Brown Paper Ticket, Eventbrite, and Neofill. To see a list of cookies associated with each website, you can click on the information symbol in next to the URL address. You will have the ability to block cookies at that location.

GOOGLE ANALYTICS PRIVACY NOTICE:  

This website uses Google Analytics to collect information about the use of our website. Google Analytics collects information from users such as age, gender, interests, demographics, how often they visit our website, what pages they visit, and what other websites they have used before coming to our website. We use the information we get from Google Analytics to analyze traffic, remarket our products and services to users, improve our marketing, advertising, and to improve our website. We have enabled Google Analytics advertising features such as remarketing with Google Analytics, Google Display Network Impression Reporting, and Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting, Google Signals. Google Analytics collects only the IP address assigned to you on the date you visit our website, not your name or other identifying information. We do not combine the information collected using Google Analytics with Personally Identifiable Information. Although Google Analytics plants a permanent cookie on your web browser to identify you as a unique user the next time you visit our website, the cookie cannot be used by anyone but Google. Google also uses specific identifiers to help collect information about the use of our website. For more information on how Google collects and processes your data, visit https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/

You can prevent Google Analytics from using your information by opting out at this link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Google Remarketing. NRG Media website uses a remarketing advertising service. Our remarketing service is provided by Google and other companies that show our ads on websites across the Internet. For this to happen, Google will read a cookie that is already in your browser, or they place a cookie in your browser when you visit our site or other sites using remarketing.

You can opt out of Google’s use of cookies and remarketing at this link: https://support.google.com/ads/answer/2662922?hl=en or you can opt out using the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page at: http://optout.networkadvertising.org/#!/

HOW WE GET YOUR CONSENT

The first time you visit this Site after this policy becomes effective, or when have deleted or cleared cookies from your device, you will be presented with a notice that our Sites use cookies. That notice will include a link to this policy.  If you decide to continue to through to the Sites after being presented with that notice, we will assume you have consented to set cookies as presented in this policy.  

DISABLING OR BLOCKING COOKIES, ANONYMITY

You can delete cookies at any time using your internet browser settings, and you can set your browser so that cookies are automatically blocked and prevented from being set. If you disable or block cookies, some websites or features on websites may not function properly.
You may also visit the Sites via your browser’s privacy or incognito mode. Viewing in privacy mode permits cookies to be served to your device but only until you close the last private window.  A browser in incognito mode may not share existing cookies with sites that you visit. 

USE OF THE INFORMATION:  

We may use your information in the following manner:
• to administer and conduct contests, surveys or other promotions,
• to administer listener clubs,
• to deliver services to which you have subscribed, including mobile or electronic publications and/or text alerts, 
• to communicate with you in response to an inquiry or contest entry,
• to notify you about products, services, promotions, or special offers,
• to generate reports and data about users and usage patterns,
• to analyze, personalize and improve the content advertising on the sites,
• to administer and enforce the terms of use of the sites. 

In addition, our services now or in the future, may have the ability to use your geographic location to deliver content, services and advertising tailored to your location. If you choose to enable our sites to use your location information, then that information will be stored and used to deliver content, services and advertising tailored to your location.  When you use a mobile device or browser to access an NRG Media site then your device and/or browser may automatically collect and/or transmit your device’s unique identifier, IP address, location information, device make/model, wireless provider and retained information. We may use this information to deliver content, services and advertising tailored to your location. 

DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION: 

We may share the collected information with third parties that perform services like hosting the Sites, analyzing data, administering contests, promotions surveys, or listener clubs. 

We may use third-party service providers, including ad networks, to provide advertising to you when you use our Sites.  These service providers may use usage information about your activities when you navigate through and use Sites to provide you with advertisements about products and services that they think may be of interest to you. 

When you enter a contest or promotion, we may share your entry information with contest sponsors, however we try to limit the disclosure of your personally identifiable information to third parties. 

We may share your information with other NRG Media affiliates.

Your information may be shared with non-affiliated linked sites.  By following a link in any Site, you will be taken to a different site with different policies not controlled by NRG Media.

There may be times when you have the opportunity to consent to share personally identifiable information you provide on our Sites with third parties in order to receive marketing or other communication from that third-party.  We will share that information as per your consent.  Your communications that are the result of that consent are not the responsibility of NRG Media. 

We may disclose your information as required by law, or by other legal action, subpoena, court order or as needed to defend against any legal claim or as necessary to protect the rights, property, safety or users of the sites, our employees, agents and members.  Your information would be transferred in the case of a merger, acquisition or disposition of station assets. 

We reserve the right to transfer personal information we have about you in the event we sell or transfer all or a portion of our business assets.  Should such a sale or transfer occur, we will use reasonable efforts to direct the transferee to use personal information you have provided to us in a manner consistent with our Privacy Policy. Following such a sale or transfer you may contact the entity to which we transferred your personal information with any inquiries concerning the processing of that information.

UPDATING YOUR INFORMATION AND OPTING IN OR OPTING OUT

If you provide personally identifiable information to register for a listener club or other account, you may access and update that information at any time.  If you provide information for another reason, you may review and update that information by contacting the privacy administrator at privacy@nrgmedia.com. We reserve the right to deny access to a user account or not make a requested update if there is a question about your identity.  We reserve the right to retain personally identifiable information to verify your identity or take other necessary actions.

If you have signed up to receive email or other notifications, you may opt out as instructed or by contacting the privacy administrator at privacy@nrgmedia.com.  If you have signed up to receive SMS alerts and do not wish to receive them any longer, you may unsubscribe from the SMS alerts by replying “STOP” to any message you may receive. 

If you wish to have your personally identifiable information removed from our records, you should make a request of the privacy administrator at privacy@nrgmedia.com. We will remove your information to the extent that we are able, however some information must be retained for legal, tax or regulatory purposes and some may be retained on back-up systems or files a business precaution.  All data that is not able to be deleted completely will be removed from active use. 
  
We reserve the right to deny access to your account or make requested changes if burden of protecting your privacy exceeds reasonable business judgment or expense.  We will provide you an explanation of the denial of your request. 

SECURITY

All of the information gathered through the Sites is stored in database(s) operated by us or by a third-party service provider. Servers are stored in a controlled, secure environment.  We cannot guarantee the security of the database, as no security measure is impenetrable.  We cannot guarantee that information you transmit over the Internet will not be intercepted or received error-free.

SERVICES ARE PROVIDED IN THE UNITED STATES
  
The Sites are hosted in the United State and are governed by United States law.  If you are accessing the Sites from outside the United States, please be aware that your information may be transferred to, stored or processed in the United States where our servers are located and our databases are operated.  The data protection and other laws of the United States and other countries might not be as comprehensive as those in other countries or regions.  By using the Sites you consent to your information being transferred to our facilities and to the facilities of those third parties with whom we share it. 

CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS

California law permits users who are California residents to request and obtain from us, once a year, free of charge a list of the third parties to whom we have disclosed their personal information (if any) for their direct marketing purposes in the prior calendar year, as well as the type of information disclosed to those parties.  If you are a California resident and would like to request this information, please submit your request in an email with the subject line “California Privacy Request” to privacy@nrgmedia.com. 

CHANGES TO THIS POLICY

NRG Media reserves the right to change this policy at any time.  Please check this Site periodically for any changes. Your continued use of the Sites following the posting of changes to this policy will mean that you accept those changes.  If we make any material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will post the updated privacy policy here and notify you by email or notice on our website. 

Updated 5.26.23