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Thank you for visiting the Grey Point of View. We strive to be your most trusted new style independent blog, political blog, practical ethics blog or American expat lifestyle blog. To accomplish this, we have set up some ground rules to ensure that we can keep this site useful and safe for everyone. Grey Point Media Agency LLC reserves the right to change these guidelines and disclaimers at any time, and you agree that each visit you make to this website shall be subject to the current guidelines.
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Disclaimer of any Responsibility for Links on Website
All websites owned and/or managed by Grey Point Media Agency LLC (hereby the Company) contain links to and frames of sites which are not maintained by the Company. While we try to include only links to or frames of those sites which are in good taste and safe for our visitors, we are not responsible for the content of those sites and cannot guarantee that sites will not change without our knowledge, and inclusion of such links and frames of websites owned and manage by Company does not imply the Company's endorsement of the linked or framed sites or their content. Unless otherwise indicated, the content on this site is unpublished and not for sale. You may link to and briefly quote the content on this site. Links to the content or brief quotes from the content on this site posted on social networks or elsewhere are highly encouraged; however, are not to be construed as publication. All entities must not publish material from this site without explicit and prior written consent; sell or rent material from this website; reproduce, duplicate, download, create derivatives, copy or otherwise exploit material on this site for any purpose; redistribute content from this site - including onto another website.
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Information We Collect and Use
When we refer to “Personal Data,” we mean any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (“data subject”); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly, or indirectly, by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, or an online identifier.
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In addition to Personal Data, we collect general information (“Usage Data”) regarding your use of the Services provided on our Site(s). This Usage Data can include demographic information, information about your preferences, interests, search queries, and online activity. When Usage Data includes Personal Data, we treat the Personal Data as described by this Privacy Policy.
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Grey Point directly, and through third parties, collects information that you provide to us from your use of the Services, and from other sources. The information we collect and how we process it depends on how you use and access the Services and we combine all the data we have about you so that we can analyze it and provide better Services to you.
We collect information, including Personal Data, as follows:
Your Submissions to Us – Grey Point will collect your Personal Data when you sign up for an online newsletter or contact us with a question or request. For example, if you submit a request to advertise with us, you may provide us with your name, email address, telephone number, address, and company. We use this information as necessary to respond to your request or inquiry and to provide and improve the Services and our products. We process this Personal Data if we have a legitimate interest or based on your consent.
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Your Content Submissions – Grey Point allows users to submit content, such as comments and images, on some or all our Site(s) which we post on the Services with your consent. Users who choose to sign up for this service must provide a username and email address. We receive any Personal Data in the comments or images you submit to us. We process this Personal Data if we have a legitimate interest and based on your consent. If, in addition to you, other persons are identifiable in the content you provide, you must obtain consent from those persons prior to publication.
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Your Location – “Location Data” is collected with your consent or inferred as you use the Services. Such information will include the location of the mobile device or computer used to access the Services derived from GPS or WiFi use, your device’s IP Address, or the geographic information you provide to us (e.g. your city). We use this information to analyze the use of the Services, customize and improve the content for you on the Services, send you location-specific content, and show you events or businesses near you. We use and retain the Personal Data for as long as necessary and useful to provide personalized and improved services to you or until you withdraw consent.
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Your Social Media Interactions – We receive Personal Data about you when you interact with us using the social media aspects to our Site(s), on our social media pages and channels, or on other channels and content. The Personal Data includes profile name, profile identifier, and the content of your submissions. We use this information to communicate with you and for internal purposes until you withdraw consent, or we do not use the social media pages anymore. Please review the privacy policies and settings of any websites, mobile applications, or social networks should you have any questions about their privacy practices. Please note that any content (e.g. comments, photographs, information and other materials) that you post directly to our Site(s), including our social media pages, is public and can be read, collected or used by others. Please be cautious when disclosing any Personal Data through public activities or submissions.
Marketing and Other Informational Updates – With your consent and as otherwise permitted by law, we use your email address and other information we receive from and about you to contact you with information about our products and services and others’ products and services, provide special offers and promotions that may be of interest to you. You may withdraw your consent at any time by unsubscribing from such marketing communications. Withdrawing your consent will not affect the lawfulness of the processing before the withdrawal. We may also notify you periodically about important changes to the services. Withdrawing consent from marketing communications does not affect our ability to send you these communications, such as those related to providing services to you or responding to your requests.
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Disclaimer of Personal Opinion in Original Content
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The views and opinions expressed in this blog are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of Grey Point Media Agency LLC. Assumptions made in the analysis are not reflective of the position of any entity other than the author(s) – and, since we are critically-thinking human beings, these views are always subject to change, revision, and rethinking at any time. Please do not hold us to them in perpetuity.
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Comments on this website are the sole responsibility of their writers and the writers will take full responsibility, liability, and blame for any libel or litigation that result from something written in or as a direct result of something written in a comment. The Company reserves the right to delete any comment for any reason whatsoever (abusive, profane, rude, etc).
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The authors and the blog are not to be held responsible for misuse, reuse, recycled and cited and/or uncited copies of content within this blog by others.
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Privacy Policy
LAST UPDATED: 01 March 2021
This privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) details the use and collection of your information by the websites (the “Sites”) operated and owned by Grey Point Media Agency, LLC (“Grey Point”, “GreyPOV”, “us” or “we”) and governs your access to the content and services hosted on our platform (the “Services”).
We value your privacy and recognize our role in protecting your personal data. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully before using or proceeding to access the Site(s). Your use of the Site(s) and Services indicate that you are accepting the policies and practices described in this Privacy Policy.
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Contests, Sweepstakes, and Promotions – From time to time you may be able to participate in contests, giveaways, sweepstakes, or other similar promotions that we or third parties may sponsor. Participation may require sharing your Personal Data with us or third parties sponsoring the contest, giveaway, sweepstakes, or promotion, and you should check the rules to determine how your information will be used and shared with others. As a condition to receiving any awards or prizes, you may be required to provide additional information, to sign a release, or to authorize the use of certain information about you in marketing materials. If a third party administers the contest or if we administer the contest via a third-party platform (like Facebook or Twitter), your participation may be subject to additional terms and conditions and that third-party’s privacy policy. We are not responsible for such third parties. You should carefully review the contest guidelines and these third parties’ terms and conditions before deciding whether to participate in a contest publicized or offered through the Service.
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Automatic Usage Data Collection through Cookies and Similar Technologies– With your consent or as otherwise permitted by law, when you visit the Services (including our social media pages) or open our e-mails, we and other third-party vendors, such as advertising networks, social media widgets, affiliate partners, and analytics providers, collect certain information, including Personal Data, by automated means, such as cookies, web beacons and web server logs. The information collected in this manner includes Usage Data, IP address, browser characteristics, device IDs and characteristics, operating system version, language preferences, date, and time of your access to the Services, referring URLs, and information about the usage of our Services. We use this information, for example, to determine how many users have visited certain website and social media pages, social media channels, or opened messages or newsletters, to evaluate and improve the Services we provide. See below for more information about our use of cookies and the retention of your Personal Data collected via cookies.
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We may link this data with other information we have collected from and about you. Our vendors may also collect and combine information collected on our Services and emails with other information about your online activities over time, on other devices, and on other websites or apps, if those websites and apps also use the same vendors. Our vendors use the information they collect according to their privacy policies. For example, we currently use Google Analytics to collect and process certain website Usage Data for the above purposes and to facilitate our use of other Google tools (e.g. Google Display Network Impression Reporting and Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting). To learn more about Google Analytics and how to opt out, please visit www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/. You may be able to change browser settings to block and delete cookies when you access the Services through a web browser. However, if you do that, the Services may not work properly. Our Site(s) are not set up to respond or process web browser “Do Not Track” (“DNT”) signals but they do respond to browser cookie settings. You can learn to decline or opt-out of cookies by reading the section on Cookies below.
Changes to this privacy policy
Grey Point may make changes to this privacy policy at any time. If and when we do, we will inform you by posting the revised privacy policy here. You are responsible for periodically visiting this page to check for any changes. Any changes that are made will apply to both personal information that we help prior to the effective date of the amended privacy policy and any personal information that we collect on or after such effective date. Your continued use of the Site(s) after this privacy policy has been amended shall be deemed to be your continued acceptance of the terms and conditions of the privacy policy, as amended.
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How to Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us.
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