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February 24, 2012

1,500-year-old gospel kept in Ankara excites Vatican, report claims

The photo shows a Bible found in Hagia Sophia, a former Greek Orthodox patriarchal basilica which is now a museum, soon after the conquest of İstanbul by the Ottoman Empire. (Photo: AA) The Vatican has requested that Turkey allow it to examine a 1500-year-old copy of an apocryphal gospel that was discovered by Turkish police during an anti-smuggling operation in 2000 and handed over to the Ankara Ethnography Museum, the Turkish Bugün daily reported on Thursday. (READ MORE from Today's Zaman)

Wave of militant attacks in 12 Iraqi cities kill dozens 

Iraqi firefighters try to extinguish a burning bus at the scene of a car bomb explosion in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Feb. 23, 2012. (AP / Hadi Mizban)A rapid series of attacks spread over a wide swath of Iraqi territory killed at least 50 people on Thursday, targeting mostly security forces in what appeared to be a vicious strike by al-Qaida militants bent on destabilizing the country. (READ MORE from CTV) 

Leaders gather in London for Somalia talks 

Conference to focus on international response to poverty, famine, piracy and Horn of Africa nation's ongoing civil war. World leaders are meeting with members of the Somali government to co-ordinate efforts against piracy, poverty and famine, and to discuss the country's civil war. Forty countries are represented at Thursday's conference in London, and attendees include Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, and Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general.

U.S. pushing for humanitarian aid, not arms, to Syria opposition

 

U.S. officials steered away Thursday from any commitment to help arm Syrian opposition forces, insisting that the current focus should be on funding humanitarian aid, unifying the political opposition to President Bashar al-Assad and increasing the world’s diplomatic and economic stranglehold on his government. (READ MORE from The Washington Post) 

Journalists Marie Colvin and Remi Ochlik die in Homs

On Tuesday, Marie Colvin said the bombardment of Baba Amr had been "unrelenting" (BBC)Two prominent Western journalists have been killed in the Syrian city of Homs in the latest violence in the besieged city which left 20 people dead. (READ MORE from the BBC)

Our very own @MikeyBBQ today on BBC World Service, World Have Your Say program on the extremely tragic passing of The Sunday Times journalist Marie Colvin & photographer Remi Olchik while reporting fr/ Homs in Syria. For those who missed it here's the link. Michael is @ 42:40. Christiane Amanpour also gives a fierce defense of war reporting. WHYS 60: Should journalists risk their lives for a story? Wed, 22 Feb 12. Do you expect journalists to risk their lives for a story?  http://bbc.in/yhs2m2

Key town recaptured from Somalia's militant group, al-Shabab

Ethiopian and Somali troops seize control of Baidoa from radical Islamist group in joint operation, reports say. Somalia's government has retaken control of the town of Baidoa from the radical Islamist group al-Shabab. The group controlled the town for two years, and it was the second largest one under al-Shabab's control. Ethiopian and Somali troops captured the town in a joint operation on Wednesday. Government forces have increased their pressure on the group after it gave up control of the country's capital, Mogadishu, in August. (Agencies) 

Fitch downgrades Greece 

Greek Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos speaks during a press conference in Athens on Tuesday. (EPA)Fitch Ratings has downgraded Greece's credit rating to C from triple-C Wednesday after confirmation of the second bailout package that includes a debt exchange which will force bondholders to take a loss on their holdings of Greek debt. (READ MORE from the Wall Street Journal) 

Risking It All - Bolivia: The flying men of Yungas Valley

Bolivia's coca farmers make a living criss-crossing deep valleys on a web of makeshift cables high above forest canopy. (CONTINUE  WATCHING PROGRAMME from AlJazeera) 

ECOWAS Officials to Meet Senegal Party Representatives

(PHOTO: Ivory Coast President Alassane Quattara, Chair of ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State & Government/Presidence ivoirienne)An official of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has said the sub-regional bloc’s poll observer mission to Senegal is scheduled to meet with leaders of the ruling party & the opposition Wednesday ahead of Sunday’s presidential vote in which 14 candidates will also run alongside incumbent President Abdoulaye Wade who has faced violent opposition protests in his bid for a court-approved 3rd term, despite a 2-term constitutional limit. On January 27 the Constitutional Court of Senegal approved a 3rd term run ruling his first term did not count under the new constitution.  Also, singer Youssou N'Dour was disqualified from the election.

(PHOTO: Singer Youssou N'Dour/muslimvoicesfestival.org)The poll observer team, which will be led by Togo’s former PM Koffi Sama, comprises members of the ECOWAS Community Court of Justice, the ECOWAS parliament, legal & civil society & electoral experts & representatives of the National Electoral Commissions of member states, ambassadors & experts from the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre in Accra, Ghana.  Estimates project more than 5 million Senegalese have registered to vote in Sunday’s presidential poll in the country’s 14 regions. At least 6 people have been killed in recent demonstrations.

Nigeria market bombing kills 30(PHOTO: Baga Market, Maiduguri, Nigeria/Canada.com)Security forces patrolled a huge market in Nigeria's northeastern city of Maiduguri on Tuesday where an assault by suspected Islamists killed some 30 people on Monday. Gunmen believed to be members of the Islamist sect Boko Haram stormed the fish section of Baga market Monday afternoon & sprayed stallholders & vendors with bullets & set off bombs in what appeared to be a retaliatory attack for the arrest of a suspected Islamist inside the market last week.  The market opened on Tuesday but security forces shut all entry gates except one directly overlooking a police station. 

(PHOTO: Baga market, Nigeria/Naharnet)Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state & the home base of Boko Haram, has seen some of the worst violence blamed on the extremist sect, which has focused its attacks on the mainly Muslim north; killing more than 200 people already this year, including at least 185 in coordinated gun & bomb attacks in Nigeria's second city of Kano on January 20, its deadliest ever strike. BH has said it wants to create a Islamic state across Nigeria's deeply-impoverished mainly Muslim north & some analysts believe the Islamists are tied to like-minded extremist groups such as Al-Qaeda.  (READ MORE HERE)

Afghans protest over handling of Korans

(PHOTO: An Afghan man aims a sling shot toward soldiers during a protest outside Bagram Air Base on Tuesday/Shah Marai, AFP)The NATO commander in Afghanistan issued an apology on Tuesday after troops were said to have “improperly disposed” of religious materials. (READ MORE from the NYTIMES) 

Senegal opposition calls for new anti-Wade protest

(via EuroNews)

Related -  Election anger mounts in Senegal 

The president's decision to run for a third term was met by anger in one of Africa's most mature democracies. ( 30-Jan-2012 )New round of protests called against Abdoulaye Wade's controversial move to seek third term of office in Sunday's vote. Senegalese are continuing their protests against incumbent president Abdoulaye Wade's decision to seek a third term in office, erecting barricades and pelting police with rocks just days before a presidential election. The state-owned news service confirmed the death on Monday of a young man in a suburb of the capital Dakar as demonstrations intensified, and the opposition said they would organise more protests. (READ MORE from AlJazeera)

Boats sink in Belgrade as thaw causes Danube ice chaos

Piles of ice could be seen on the Danube at Belgrade on MondayA rapid thaw has brought chaos to the River Danube in the Serbian capital Belgrade, where ice damaged boats, pontoons and floating restaurants. (READ MORE from the BBC) 

Carnival begins in Rio and goes worldwide  

(PHOTO: Rio Carnival goers celebrate during the Banda de Ipanema street parade on Ipanema beach in Rio de Janeiro/AFP)Brazil's Carnival season came alive on Saturday with more than 2 million people attending the seasonal celebration, wearing festive outfits & staging a huge dance driven street festival in Rio.  On Friday the legendary King Momo declared the Carnival officially open.  Some 171 street parties were scheduled across the "Marvellous City" this weekend & 400 during the 5 day Carnival. Other Brazilian cities, including Sao Paulo, the country's economic capital & Salvador de Bahia, the heart of Afro-Brazilian culture, also celebrated the annual pre-Lent festival in style.  The Carnival of Rio is the biggest Carnival celebration in the world. (READ MORE from the Sydney Morning Herald)

(PHOTO: Carla del Ponte as witch at the Rijeka Carnival/Wikipedia)Carnival is a festive season which occurs immediately before Lent; the main events are usually during February & typically involves a public celebration or parade combining some elements of a circus, mask & public street party. People often dress up or masquerade during the celebrations, which mark an overturning of daily life. (via WIKIPEDIA)

(PHOTO: Masquerade ball at the Carnival of Venice/Wikipedia)The festival of Carnival is celebrated worldwide in nations including:  Andalusia, Angola, Antigua, Argentina, Aruba, Austria, Azores, Barbados, Belgium, Bolivia, Bonaire, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Brazil, Canada, Canary Islands, Cape Verde, Catalonia, Cayman Islands, Colombia, Croatia, Cuba, Curacao, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, England, France, French Guiana, Germany, Greece, Grenada, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Italy, Jamaica,  Macedonia, Madeira, Malta, Mexico, Netherlands-Antilles, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Saba, Seychelles, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, St. Eustatius, St. Kitts, St. Lucia,  St. Vincent & the Grenadines, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Trinidad & Tobago, Turkey, United States, Uruguay, the USVI, & Venezuela.

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(PHOTO: Revellers at the modern Goan Carnival/FILE)Carnival parade in Panaji cancelled as Goa mourns tragedy - PANAJI, GOA: The Calvim bus tragedy in which 7 passengers, including 4 school children, drowned, cast a pall of gloom over the state & the government immediately cancelled Carnival celebrations in the capital city, Panaji, minutes before the floats' parade was to commence. (Read More at The Times of India)

(PHOTO: Antara/Akbar Nugroho Gumay/Jakarta Post)Rice party: Hundreds of residents queue for a portion of `tumpeng' (cone-shaped yellow rice dish) during a `tumpeng party' in Solo on Sunday. The party was held to celebrate the 267th anniversary of Surakarta, Central Java, Indonesia.

Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran vow to stand ‘united’

(PHOTO: The Pakistan Daily Times) Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari, Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad put their heads together at the third trilateral summit to forge regional cooperation in multifaceted areas. The 3 neighbours declared they would not allow any threat emanating from their respective territories against each other.  Addressing a press conference together Zardari vowed to fight external pressure on the Pakistan-Iran gas pipeline, saying that the “external forces can’t undermine bilateral relations”. The 3 sides also agreed to broaden cooperation in political, security, economic, cultural, social & educational fields & enhance people-to-people contacts. They also favour visits of parliamentarians, academicians & journalists from the 3 countries & to enhance connectivity by launching projects to improve infrastructure, road and rail links, transport and communications.  (READ MORE at The Pakistan Daily Times)

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Broadsides sink South China Sea peace As Southeast Asian countries lined up against China in the South China Sea sign pacts with extra-territorial powers like Russia and India to redress the strategic balance, Beijing can only respond with more aggression. A better solution lies in the way in which the scourge of piracy was tackled. By Chietigj Bajpaee

Hidden war in the South Caucasus As Iran and Azerbaijan trade barbs over allegations of assassination plots, many worry that these and other incidents mean the countries in the South Caucasus region - American-backed Georgia and Armenia too - have become an espionage no-man's-land in the conflict between the Iranian and Israeli intelligence services. By Nicholas Clayton

Delhi dances, Tehran wants to talk  India is resisting pressure from the United States and Israel to stop buying oil from Iran, despite Delhi signing on to various United Nations sanctions on Tehran over its nuclear program. Iran says all it wants to do is talk, even if nuclear inspectors say it is being less than cooperative. By Kaveh L Afrasiabi

US torn over arming Syrian rebels As the "Friends of Syria" coalition lays an international path for ending a conflict that has claimed more than 6,000 lives, debate is raging over whether the United States should arm Syria's untested opposition. Meanwhile, military and logistical assistance is likely to come from other state and non-state actors. By Samer Araabi and Jim Lobe

Dreaming of a Syria beyond Assad The Syrian National Council, initially wary of the Free Syrian Army, came to the realization that the rebels "are a reality on the ground inside Syria", says Khaled Khoja, a key member of the council who lives in exile in Turkey. As a result, the groups decided it was in their mutual interest to unify their disparate agendas. By Derek Henry Flood

Thailand's Thaksin prepares for war As Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra attempts to gain control over senior military appointments and neutralize the army's ability to stage another coup after it toppled her brother in 2006, loyalists to the fugitive former premier plan to reprise Thailand's 2010 "red-shirt" secret command. The "war room" plan signals how seriously Thaksin Shinawatra views the potential for renewed open conflict.  By John Cole and Steve Sciacchitano

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To customize your experience on the Site and to simplify the Site's registration process, we provide you with the opportunity to access or interact with third-party services, such as Facebook and Twitter. When you connect to the Site through these third-party services, we may share information about you with these third-party service providers and they may share data about you with us. When you allow us to access your data through a third-party service to create a Site profile, we may use this data for several purposes, including: 

  • Creating relationships automatically within our system. For example, if you connect to us via a service with a public friend list, like Twitter, we may check to see if any people you follow on Twitter are also Site members. If we find a match, we will replicate your Twitter relationship with those members, setting them to be fans, followers, or friends on our Site.
  • Suggesting relationships. For example, if you connect via a service that has a private contact list (like Google and Yahoo!), we check for people in your contacts who are Site members and suggest that you become a fan of these users. This process is not automatic; you must affirmatively choose to become a fan of these suggested users.
  • Populating a list of potential friends to whom you can send emails. When users share content with their friends using, for example, the forward-to-a-friend feature on the Site, we may use friend lists from third-party services to create a list of contacts to whom you may choose to send the email message.
  • Populating a list of potential friends to whom you can send service-specific messages. For example, we may use friend lists from a third-party service to create a list of contacts to whom you may choose to send an invitation to view an interactive slideshow.
  • To enhance and personalize your experience on the Site. When you are connected via a third-party service, we may access certain account information, such as your profile picture, what stories are popular in your network, and what your friends are saying about certain articles or blog posts, in order to enhance and personalize your experience on the Site.

In addition, if you connect to a Facebook account, your experience on the Site may be personalized. For example, you may automatically see what stories are popular in your network, and what your friends are saying about particular stories. You may be able to modify your privacy settings directly with the third-party service. To modify your Facebook privacy settings, click here. To modify your Twitter privacy settings, click here. Please remember that we do not control the privacy practices of these third-party services. We encourage you to read the privacy policies of all third-party service providers. 

YOUR CHOICES 

Deactivating your account HUMNEWS does not currently require nor does the Site currently enable users to create an account to login onto the Site. 

Cookies and other technologies As mentioned in the above section "WHAT INFOMATION THE SITE COLLECTS"  some information is collected about you automatically through cookies and other technologies.

Cookies: Cookies are small amounts of information stored in files within your computer's browser. Web sites can access only the cookies that they have stored on your computer. For example, if Acme computer company stores a cookie on your browser, Acme may access its own cookie but not that of another company.

HUMNEWS uses cookies for the following purposes:

  • To help us recognize your browser as a previous visitor and save and remember any preferences that may have been set while your browser was visiting the Site.
  • To help us customize the content and advertisements you see when you visit the Site;
  • To help measure and research the effectiveness of our interactive online content, features, advertisements, and other communications; and
  • To track Site analytics and use, and to improve Site services.

Cookies and your settings: You can change your browser settings to reject all cookies, accept only certain cookies, or notify you when a cookie is set. Please note that you may need to renew these settings if you delete your cookies after these preferences are made. These settings also may not apply if you are using a different computer or Internet browser. In addition, many third-party advertising networks are members of the Network Advertising Initiative ("NAI"). To opt out of having information collected by NAI member companies used for behavioral advertising, to obtain information about the technologies these ad networks might use, and to view information regarding their privacy policies, please visit http://www.networkadvertising.org/optout_nonppii.asp.

Web Beacons: We may use web beacons (also called transparent GIFs, web bugs, pixels, or action tags). These technologies are strings of code that deliver a tiny graphic image on a web page or in an email. Web beacons can recognize certain types of information on your computer such as cookies, the time and date a page is viewed, and a description of the page on which the web beacon is placed. In general, any file served as part of a web page can act as a web beacon.

We use web beacons for various tracking purposes, like determining whether or not you are connected to a third-party service.

Third parties also may use web beacons on the Site to receive auditing, research, and reporting information, or to understand your interests and select and deliver to you advertisements that are tailored to your interests.

Flash cookies: Some of the Site's third-party partners may use Flash cookies, otherwise known as locally shared objects (LSOs), to track user behaviors in various ways. LSOs keep collections of cookie-like data stored in a directory on a user's computer, and are installed through Adobe's Flash video player. 

Flash cookies and your settings:  You can control how Flash cookies are used by visiting the Adobe Macromedia site, located here. Adobe enables you to allow some Flash cookies from certain websites, limit Flash cookies' storage capacity, and disallow Flash cookies altogether. In addition, if you use Mozilla Firefox for your Internet browser, you can download the BetterPrivacy add-on to automatically delete your Flash cookies every time you close your browser.

If you opt out of these technologies, you will continue to see advertising displayed on the Site, but the advertising may not be targeted to your interests. 

Please remember that we do not have access to, or control over, advertisers' or service providers' cookies, and the information practices of third parties are not covered by this privacy policy. For more information on the use of cookies in online advertising, please visit the NAI's website and Adobe Macromedia's site located here. 

 ACCESS 

If you choose to share contact information with us, you may update or amend this information by contacting us at feedback@humnews.com

CONFIDENTIALITY AND SECURITY

We limit access to contact information about you to employees or service providers who we believe reasonably need to come into contact with that information to provide products or services to you or in order to do their jobs. We also have adopted commercially reasonable technical, physical, and administrative procedures to help protect information about you from loss, misuse, and alteration. 

Please note that no data transmission or storage can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. We want you to feel confident using the Site, but we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us. 

CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF 13

We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If we learn that we have collected any personal information from a child under the age of 13 without verifiable parental consent, we will delete that information from our database as quickly as possible. If you believe that we may have collected information from a child under 13, please contact us at feedback@humnews.com

VISITORS FROM OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES

The Site's offices are located in the United States. If you visit the site from another country, please be aware that information you provide to us or that we obtain as a result of your use of the Site may be processed in and transferred to the United States and will be subject to U.S. law. U.S. privacy and data protection laws may not be equivalent to the laws in your country of residence. By using the Site or providing us with your information, you consent to the collection, transfer, storage, and processing of information to and in the United States. 

CHANGES TO THE PRIVACY POLICY

We may update this privacy policy at any time to reflect changes in our practices and service offerings. If we modify this privacy policy, we will update the "Effective Date." We will notify you of any material changes in the way we treat your information by placing a prominent notice on our site.

HOW TO CONTACT US 

If you have any questions or concerns about the online privacy statement for this site or its implementation you may contact us at feedback@humnews.com

 

HUMAN MEDIA LLC, which owns and operates the website www.humnews.com (the “Site”) takes privacy very seriously. This privacy policy is intended to inform you about the information that is collected from you when you visit the Site; how this information may be used and disclosed; how you can control the use and disclosure of your information; and how your information is protected. If you have any questions about the privacy policy, please contact us at feedback@humnews.com 

 SCOPE 

This privacy policy applies only to the Site. This policy does not apply to information collected through any other website or to the practices of companies that HUMNEWS does not control. Please note that the Site may contain links to other websites. For example, if you click on an advertisement on the Site and link to another website, then this privacy policy will not apply to any information collected on that website. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of other websites, and we recommend that you read the privacy policies of each website that you visit. 

WHAT INFORMATION THE SITE COLLECTS 

Information you provide directly to us:  You are not required to provide information directly to us in order to view the Site. However, when you use certain Site functions, such as when you register for certain services, access certain content or features, or directly contact the Site, we may ask you to provide information, including:

  • contact information, such as name, email address, postal address, phone number, and mobile number;
  • username and password;
  • information posted in community discussions and other interactive online features;
  • search queries conducted on the Site; and
  • correspondence you send us

Information automatically collected when you visit and interact with the Site: When you visit and interact with the Site, certain information may be collected automatically, including: 

  • your computer's Internet Protocol (IP) address;
  • your browser type and operating system;
  • the web pages you were visiting immediately before and after you came to the Site;
  • activities within community discussions;
  • web pages and advertisements that you view, and links that you click on, within the Site;
  • your bandwidth speed and information about the software programs that are installed on your computer;
  • aggregated data about email click-through rates and user video viewing;
  • standard server log information; and
  • information collected through HTML cookies, Flash cookies, web beacons, and similar technologies. 

Please see the section entitled "YOUR CHOICES" for more infomation about cookies and other technologies.   

Information we collect from other sources: We may access information about you from third-party sources and platforms (such as social networking sites, databases, online marketing firms, and ad targeting firms), including: 

  • if you access third-party social networking services (such as Facebook Connect or Twitter) through the Site, your username and connection lists for those services;
  • demographic data, such as age range, gender, and interests;
  • advertisement interaction and viewing data, such as ad click-through rates and information about how many times you viewed a particular ad; and
  • unique identifiers, including mobile device identification numbers, that can only identify the physical location of such devices in accordance with applicable law.      

Please note that the Site may combine the information that we collect with information we obtain from third-party sources. 

HOW WE USE THE INFORMATION THAT WE COLLECT

Email Communications: We may use the information that we collect to send you e-mail communications, such as editorial updates, information about your account or changes to the Site, and promotional messages about our own or our marketing partners' products and services. If you signed up for one of our email newsletters, we also will send you the newsletter that you requested. 

Mobile Communications: With your consent, we may use your mobile number to send you promotions, notifications, or other services. 

Advertising: In order to provide our readers with free access to our content, we display advertisements on the Site, many of which are targeted based on information about you. For example, using information collected through cookies, web beacons, and other sources, we may use demographic data or information about your online activities or interests to display targeted advertising that may be relevant to your preferences. Through this process, advertisers reach Site visitors who are most interested in their products, and you see advertising for products or services in which you may be interested. Third-party advertisers, ad servers, sites, and sponsors also may serve targeted ads on the Site. Please remember that the information practices of third-party advertisers or platforms collecting data on our site are not covered by this privacy policy.

Third-Party Sites, Ad Servers, and Sponsors: Some of the advertisements you see on the Site are selected and delivered by third parties, such as ad networks, advertising agencies, advertisers, and audience segment providers. These third parties may collect information about you and your online activities, either on the Site or on other websites, through cookies, web beacons, and other technologies in an effort to understand your interests and deliver to you advertisements that are tailored to your interests. 

Please note that HUMNEWS does not have access to, or control over, the information these third parties may collect. The information practices of these third parties are not covered by this privacy policy.

These third parties may offer you a way to choose not to have your information used for advertising purposes. For example, some of these companies are members of the Network Advertising Initiative ("NAI"), which provides a single location where you can opt out of receiving targeted ads from member companies. To opt out, please visit the NAI's website athttp://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp. For more information about disabling cookies completely, please visit the "Your choices" section of the privacy policy below. 

Please note that if you choose to opt out of having your information used to deliver advertisements tailored to your interests, you will continue to see advertisements on the Site, but these advertisements may not be as relevant to you. 

Request Fulfillment: We may use the information that we collect to fulfill your requests for products, services, and information. For example, we may use your contact information to respond to your customer service requests or to enable you to participate in features on the Site such as surveys, polls, sweepstakes, and message boards. 

Statistical Analysis: In order to learn more about how our Site is used, we aggregate and analyze the data that we collect. We may use this information, for example, to monitor and analyze use of the Site, to increase our Site's functionality, and to better tailor our content and design to suit our visitors' needs. 

Enforcement: We may use the information that we collect to prevent illegal activities, to enforce the Site'sTerms and Conditions and to otherwise protect our rights and the rights of our users. In addition to the uses identified above, we may use the information that we collect for any other purposes disclosed to you at the time we collect your information or pursuant to your consent. 

 INFORMATION SHARING

HUMNEWS values your privacy, and shares information about our users only under certain circumstances. We will make information about you available to other companies, applications, or people in the circumstances listed below: 

  • We may share aggregated information or information that does not directly identify you with third parties to help us develop content, services, and advertising that we hope you will find of interest. Please note that we do not share contact information with third parties that advertise on the Site.
  • We may employ third parties to perform Site-related services, including database management, maintenance services, analytics, marketing, data processing, and email and text message distribution. These third parties have access to your information only to perform these tasks on our behalf.
  • If you choose to engage in public activities on the site, such as posting comments on community message boards, any information you submit can be read, collected, or used by others. Please exercise caution when deciding to disclose any personal information in public activities or submissions.
  • We may share information about you in the event that the Site is acquired by or merged with another company or a similar corporate transaction takes place. However, the Site will notify you by placing a prominent notice on our site or sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your account before your information is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
  • We may share information about you to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety or other rights and interests of any person, violations of the Site's Terms and Conditions, or as otherwise required by law.
  • We may share information about you to respond to subpoenas, search warrants, judicial proceedings, court orders, legal process, or other law enforcement measures, to establish or exercise our legal rights, or to defend against legal claims.
  • In addition to the scenarios identified above, we may share information about you for any other purposes disclosed to you at the time we collect your information or pursuant to your consent.

THIRD-PARTY SERVICES

To customize your experience on the Site and to simplify the Site's registration process, we provide you with the opportunity to access or interact with third-party services, such as Facebook and Twitter. When you connect to the Site through these third-party services, we may share information about you with these third-party service providers and they may share data about you with us. When you allow us to access your data through a third-party service to create a Site profile, we may use this data for several purposes, including: 

  • Creating relationships automatically within our system. For example, if you connect to us via a service with a public friend list, like Twitter, we may check to see if any people you follow on Twitter are also Site members. If we find a match, we will replicate your Twitter relationship with those members, setting them to be fans, followers, or friends on our Site.
  • Suggesting relationships. For example, if you connect via a service that has a private contact list (like Google and Yahoo!), we check for people in your contacts who are Site members and suggest that you become a fan of these users. This process is not automatic; you must affirmatively choose to become a fan of these suggested users.
  • Populating a list of potential friends to whom you can send emails. When users share content with their friends using, for example, the forward-to-a-friend feature on the Site, we may use friend lists from third-party services to create a list of contacts to whom you may choose to send the email message.
  • Populating a list of potential friends to whom you can send service-specific messages. For example, we may use friend lists from a third-party service to create a list of contacts to whom you may choose to send an invitation to view an interactive slideshow.
  • To enhance and personalize your experience on the Site. When you are connected via a third-party service, we may access certain account information, such as your profile picture, what stories are popular in your network, and what your friends are saying about certain articles or blog posts, in order to enhance and personalize your experience on the Site.

In addition, if you connect to a Facebook account, your experience on the Site may be personalized. For example, you may automatically see what stories are popular in your network, and what your friends are saying about particular stories. You may be able to modify your privacy settings directly with the third-party service. To modify your Facebook privacy settings, click here. To modify your Twitter privacy settings, click here. Please remember that we do not control the privacy practices of these third-party services. We encourage you to read the privacy policies of all third-party service providers. 

YOUR CHOICES 

Deactivating your account HUMNEWS does not currently require nor does the Site currently enable users to create an account to login onto the Site. 

Cookies and other technologies As mentioned in the above section "WHAT INFOMATION THE SITE COLLECTS"  some information is collected about you automatically through cookies and other technologies.

Cookies: Cookies are small amounts of information stored in files within your computer's browser. Web sites can access only the cookies that they have stored on your computer. For example, if Acme computer company stores a cookie on your browser, Acme may access its own cookie but not that of another company.

HUMNEWS uses cookies for the following purposes:

  • To help us recognize your browser as a previous visitor and save and remember any preferences that may have been set while your browser was visiting the Site.
  • To help us customize the content and advertisements you see when you visit the Site;
  • To help measure and research the effectiveness of our interactive online content, features, advertisements, and other communications; and
  • To track Site analytics and use, and to improve Site services.

Cookies and your settings: You can change your browser settings to reject all cookies, accept only certain cookies, or notify you when a cookie is set. Please note that you may need to renew these settings if you delete your cookies after these preferences are made. These settings also may not apply if you are using a different computer or Internet browser. In addition, many third-party advertising networks are members of the Network Advertising Initiative ("NAI"). To opt out of having information collected by NAI member companies used for behavioral advertising, to obtain information about the technologies these ad networks might use, and to view information regarding their privacy policies, please visit http://www.networkadvertising.org/optout_nonppii.asp.

Web Beacons: We may use web beacons (also called transparent GIFs, web bugs, pixels, or action tags). These technologies are strings of code that deliver a tiny graphic image on a web page or in an email. Web beacons can recognize certain types of information on your computer such as cookies, the time and date a page is viewed, and a description of the page on which the web beacon is placed. In general, any file served as part of a web page can act as a web beacon.

We use web beacons for various tracking purposes, like determining whether or not you are connected to a third-party service.

Third parties also may use web beacons on the Site to receive auditing, research, and reporting information, or to understand your interests and select and deliver to you advertisements that are tailored to your interests.

Flash cookies: Some of the Site's third-party partners may use Flash cookies, otherwise known as locally shared objects (LSOs), to track user behaviors in various ways. LSOs keep collections of cookie-like data stored in a directory on a user's computer, and are installed through Adobe's Flash video player. 

Flash cookies and your settings:  You can control how Flash cookies are used by visiting the Adobe Macromedia site, located here. Adobe enables you to allow some Flash cookies from certain websites, limit Flash cookies' storage capacity, and disallow Flash cookies altogether. In addition, if you use Mozilla Firefox for your Internet browser, you can download the BetterPrivacy add-on to automatically delete your Flash cookies every time you close your browser.

If you opt out of these technologies, you will continue to see advertising displayed on the Site, but the advertising may not be targeted to your interests. 

Please remember that we do not have access to, or control over, advertisers' or service providers' cookies, and the information practices of third parties are not covered by this privacy policy. For more information on the use of cookies in online advertising, please visit the NAI's website and Adobe Macromedia's site located here. 

 ACCESS 

 If you choose to share contact information with us, you may update or amend this information by contacting us at feedback@humnews.com

CONFIDENTIALITY AND SECURITY

We limit access to contact information about you to employees or service providers who we believe reasonably need to come into contact with that information to provide products or services to you or in order to do their jobs. We also have adopted commercially reasonable technical, physical, and administrative procedures to help protect information about you from loss, misuse, and alteration. 

Please note that no data transmission or storage can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. We want you to feel confident using the Site, but we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us. 

CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF 13

We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If we learn that we have collected any personal information from a child under the age of 13 without verifiable parental consent, we will delete that information from our database as quickly as possible. If you believe that we may have collected information from a child under 13, please contact us at feedback@humnews.com

VISITORS FROM OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES

The Site's offices are located in the United States. If you visit the site from another country, please be aware that information you provide to us or that we obtain as a result of your use of the Site may be processed in and transferred to the United States and will be subject to U.S. law. U.S. privacy and data protection laws may not be equivalent to the laws in your country of residence. By using the Site or providing us with your information, you consent to the collection, transfer, storage, and processing of information to and in the United States. 

CHANGES TO THE PRIVACY POLICY

We may update this privacy policy at any time to reflect changes in our practices and service offerings. If we modify this privacy policy, we will update the "Effective Date." We will notify you of any material changes in the way we treat your information by placing a prominent notice on our site.

HOW TO CONTACT US 

If you have any questions or concerns about the online privacy statement for this site or its implementation you may contact us at feedback@humnews.com