Privacy Policy

Introduction: Our Promise to Protect Your Privacy

At White Collar Crime News, we know your privacy is important to you. As the trusted, impartial news source for the latest in white collar crime, we take great care with our responsibilities to our readers, subscribers, and visitors. These responsibilities are set forth in our Privacy Policy, which explains what information we may collect, how we may use it, how we protect it, and your rights concerning your data. Whether you are a lawyer, compliance officer, researcher, or just a good citizen with an insatiable curiosity, we know you will appreciate honesty and responsibility in everything we do™ – including what we do with your information.

Who We Are

White Collar Crime News is an independent media source that provides coverage of white collar crime-related topics in the United States. White Collar Crime News, which also operates a website at https://whitecollarcrimenews.com/, was created to inform, educate, and empower people and businesses with regard to white collar crime issues and criminal justice matters. Founded by a group of lawyers, reporters, and research analysts, White Collar Crime News publishes articles, analysis, expert commentary, and investigative reports for free on our website and via our newsletter. The newspaper’s offices are located at: 6789 Hollywood Blvd Ste 89, Los Angeles, CA 90028. All requests regarding privacy policies should be directed to [email protected]. You may contact our office via phone at (424) 296-6531.

This Privacy Policy Applies To

This Privacy Policy governs all personal information for users collected through our website, newsletter sign-up forms, email correspondence, and any other online functionality, owned or registered by White Collar Crime News. It encompasses how we collect, use, store, share, and safeguard your personal data. This privacy policy further explains your choices and rights pertaining to personal information. Your use of our website and services constitutes your acceptance of the practices detailed herein.

Personal Information We Collect

We collect information in order to deliver quality content and a personalized web experience. We divide that information into two broad categories:

• Personal Information: Information gathered that identifies you as an individual, such as your name, email address, professional position, and company name. This information is collected when you request to subscribe to our newsletter, respond via e-mail or telephone, or voluntarily provide information through our web forms.
• Non-Personal Information: Information collected through cookies, log files, and other similar technologies that does not identify you by itself, such as your IP address, browser type, browser language, access times, and pages you visited on the site. In limited circumstances, we may combine personal information and non-personal information to help us improve our site and deliver customized content to users.

How We Gather Information

We use a variety of methods to collect data from our users:

• Direct Input: Whenever you subscribe to our newsletter, contact us, or otherwise submit forms, we gather personal information that you input directly.
• Automated Technologies: Our pages use cookies, pixel tags, and analytic services (like Google Analytics) to automatically collect non-personal information about your use of the site.
• Third Party Partners: We may supplement the information we collect with other data from trusted third parties (e.g. aggregate statistics, marketing analytics) as permitted by applicable law and in compliance with all regulatory requirements.

Cookies and Tracking Technologies

Cookies and other tracking technologies are files which are placed on your device to enhance the browsing experience on our site. White Collar Crime News may use:

• Strictly Necessary Cookies: Those which are required for the operation of our website, like keeping your session or configuration settings in place;
• Performance Cookies: These gather anonymous information about how visitors interact with our website to improve content and user experience;
• Functionality Cookies: These provide enhanced functionality, like remembering your preferences or serving up unique content;
• Marketing Cookies: These are used to assist us to serve more relevant advertising messages and provide analytics information about the effectiveness of those messages-particularly if we are adding partners or advertising entities as sponsors of any page on this site.

You can control your cookie settings through your internet browser. However, please be aware that disabling certain cookies may limit functionality when you are using our site. For more details, please see our Cookie Policy.

Why We Collect and Use Your Personal Information

• Content: To provide you with news stories, analyses, publications, and other information received or prepared regarding developments in white collar crime and other legal matters.
• Personalization: To personalize content, recommendations, and newsletters we deliver, including through the use of technology such as cookies.
• Communication: To respond to your inquiries, send you newsletters, alert you to updates or changes on our website(s), and assist you with customer service or support.
• Analytics and Improvement: To analyze website activity, measure traffic, gauge user activity across content and pages, track usage and trends, and improve the performance, usability, and efficiency of our platforms, mobile and other applications, products, and services.
• Security: To monitor for potential fraudulent activities, such as phishing attempts and other security contacts, including efforts to protect the website and users against cyber threats.

Disclosure of Information We Collect and Share

White Collar Crime News does not sell, rent, or lease your personal information to any third parties for marketing purposes. We may share your information in the following situations:

• Service Providers: We contract with third-party service providers to help us deliver our products and services to you, including website hosting, analytics, email delivery, customer service, and coupon management. We require our service providers to use appropriate measures to secure and protect personal information.
• Legal: We may access, use, process, or share your personal information where necessary to comply with applicable law, regulation, subpoena, or other governmental request; or as otherwise authorized by law.
• Business Transfers: If our business assets are transferred in connection with a reorganization, restructuring, merger, sale, or other transaction, your personal information may be transferred in that transaction but will continue to be protected in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
• Aggregated Information: We may share aggregated and/or non-personal information with our partners for research purposes if we no longer need to use the information for the purposes for which it was originally collected. Aggregated and/or non-personal information cannot be used to identify you individually.

Storing and Securing Your Personal Information

We take information security very seriously. All personally identifiable and company identifiable information is stored on secured servers in the United States protected by industry-standard encryption, firewalls, and access controls. Our employees are instructed to follow industry-standard data privacy best practices. We regularly review our security measures for physical and electronic systems to guard against unauthorized use, disclosure, destruction, or other modification of your personally identifiable or company identifiable information.

Although we have taken measures to protect your personally identifiable information, we cannot guarantee the security of any electronically transmitted data. Internet transmissions and electronic storage of data are not 100% secure, and we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us. To protect your information, please be sure to sign off after you have finished using our websites. You may also wish to use common sense measures such as a strong password to protect your communications.

How Long We Keep Your Personal Information

We will hold personal information, except as expressly provided herein, for as long as is required to fulfill the purpose(s) for which it is collected, as well as to comply with any applicable legal or regulatory requirements, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements. For newsletter subscribers, we will hold your contact information until you unsubscribe or request that we delete it. Analytics data and usage information may be held longer in aggregated and anonymized form for research and reporting purposes. We will securely destroy or anonymize your individual personal information upon request, subject to any legal or regulatory requirements that require the data to be kept for a specified period.

Your Rights and Choices

We will give you control of your information. Subject to the restrictions of applicable law, depending on your location, you may have rights with respect to the personal data we process about you, as follows:

• Access: The right to ask us for a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
• Correction: The right to ask us to correct or update inaccurate or incomplete personal data we hold about you.
• Deletion: The right to ask us to delete some or all of your personal data in certain circumstances.
• Restriction: The right to ask us to suspend the processing of your personal data in certain circumstances.
• Objection: The right to object to certain processing, including direct marketing.
• Data Portability: The right to ask us for a copy of your data in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format.

You can exercise your rights by contacting us at [email protected]. We will respond to your request within a reasonable period of time, and as required by applicable law.

Newsletters and Other Communications

When you subscribe to the White Collar Crime News newsletter, we gather your name, email address, and optionally, your professional role or other areas of interest to enable us to provide tailored breaking news and other content directly to you. You may change your subscription preferences or unsubscribe at any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link in any of the email newsletters or contacting us at [email protected]. We do not send you email marketing communications that we believe do not contain additional value for you. We don’t want to clutter your inbox, just keep you informed.

Children’s Personal Information

White Collar Crime News does not want or knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 16. Our services and website are not directed to children under the age of 16, but are intended for a business and academic audience, e.g., practitioners, compliance professionals, and adult students. If you have reason to believe that we have collected personal information from someone under 16 years of age, please contact us immediately at [email protected] and we will delete such information upon receiving reasonable notice.

International Customers and Other Transfers

While White Collar Crime News is targeted to users based in the United States, our Website is available over the Internet to users worldwide. If you are outside of the United States and you access our Website, please note that your information will be transferred, stored, and processed in the United States where data protection and privacy laws may not be as broad as those of your jurisdiction. Your use of our system constitutes consent to the transfer, storage, and processing of your information in the United States as described in this Privacy Policy. Our Website is equipped with technology and security features designed to ensure that your information is treated securely and in accordance with the local data protection and privacy laws, where applicable.

Links to Third Parties and Services

Our site has links to websites, resources, or services operated by other parties (“Third Party Sites.”) Examples include Westlaw and PACER, but also could include other Third-Party Sites that contain substantive information, such as government agencies sites, partner organization sites, etc. This Privacy Policy applies only to information collected by White Collar Crime News. We are not responsible for, and this Privacy Policy does not apply to, the content of any Third Party Site. We encourage you to consider the privacy policies of any such sites you visit.

Online Social Media and Third Party Ads and Analytics

In order to support the work of White Collar Crime News and keep our articles and software free, in time, White Collar Crime News may include banners, advertising, paid content, or affiliate links. Such relationships will be disclosed. Advertisers and sponsors may collect cookies or other tracking technologies to serve relevant advertisements and measure effectiveness. Advertisers do not have access to personal information that we may collect without your consent. Visitors can manage their own ad preferences or opt out from targeted ads in their browsers.

Third-Party User Generated Content and Online Public and Interactive Forums

Various White Collar Crime News features, such as comment areas, discussion boards, or the ability to submit articles or case studies for publication may be publicly-accessible areas of White Collar Crime News. Please note that any information you submit to a public-accessible area is publicly available and may be distributed, collected, or used by other users. You should use caution in using any public-accessible area to disclose personally-identifying information. While we review articles and other submissions to ensure the respectfulness of discourse on our site, White Collar Crime News cannot ensure the privacy or security of any information you agree to post.

Principles and Practices for Data Protection and Compliance with Applicable Law

Our practices include adherence to industry-recognized data protection principles and compliance with applicable privacy laws and regulations (including the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and, as applicable, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)) for:

• Lawfulness, fairness and transparency
• Purpose limitation and data minimization
• Accuracy and current validity of information
• Storage limitation and security

We regularly review and update our privacy practices consistent with changes in regulation, technologies, and industry best practice. We ensure that our team members receive regular training on current data protection standards.

Contact Us

For privacy-related questions, concerns, or requests – including those pertaining to this Privacy Policy – please contact us at the following:

• by mail: 6789 Hollywood Blvd Ste 89, Los Angeles, CA 90028
• by phone: (424) 296-6531
• by email: [email protected]

We make every effort to respond as promptly and as thoroughly as possible to privacy inquiries. For more ways to reach us, please see our Contact White Collar Crime News page.

Changes to This Policy

We will post updates to this policy from time to time to reflect changes in practice, law, or technology. Notifications of changes will be indicated on this page with an updated “Last Updated” date. We recommend that you check the policy periodically so that you are familiar with our then-current practices to protect your information. In the event that we make any material changes, we will notify subscribers either through email or through a banner notice on our home page.

No information sufficient for a discoverable state was intentionally included in the above text.

Use of publicly available official sources of statutes and regulations does not constitute unlawful delegation or unlawful punishment of trade other than that authorized by statute.

Your Consent

By using the White Collar Crime News and Services website and services, you consent to having read and reviewed this Privacy Policy and to the collection and use of your information as set forth herein, including use of your email address. If you do not agree with these practices, please do not use our web site or subscribe to our newsletter.

California Privacy Notice

If you are a California resident, you have certain additional rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act (the “California Consumer Privacy Act” or the “CCPA”), including the right to:

• The right to know what personal information is being collected, used, disclosed, and sold,
• The right of access to your personal information,
• The right to request deletion of your personal information, and
• The right to request that we and our vendors do not sell your personal information.

To exercise your rights, please email [email protected]. We will not discriminate against you in any way for exercising your privacy rights.

GDPR Notice for European Economic Area and United Kingdom Customers

If you are in the European Economic Area (“EEA”), the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) provides you certain rights in relation to your personal data, such as access, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, objection to processing, and data portability. We will process your information on the basis of your consent, our legitimate interests (to provide the services mentioned), or for the establishment, exercise, or defence of legal claims. You can exercise your rights under the GDPR by emailing [email protected].

Data Breach Notification

In the very unlikely event that your personal information is compromised in a data breach, White Collar Crime News will promptly respond in compliance with applicable law. We will notify our users and relevant authorities as appropriate about the nature of the breach, what information was involved, and any mitigating measures that were taken. Our incident response procedure includes additional incident containment, investigation of the incident, and implementation of any necessary expedient remedial action to help minimize the impact of the potential breach on our customers.

Automated Processing / Decision-Making including Profiling

White Collar Crime News will not use automated individual decision making or profiling with legal or similarly significant effect concerning our users. While we use analytics to analyze areas such as user interests and how to better deliver content, all editorial and engagement decisions are overseen by a human. We will revise this Privacy Policy and provide clear choices and notices if we ever add automated features.

Research and Analytics Purposes

We examine data that is aggregated and anonymized in order to understand slices of what audiences care about, what content works, and trends in white-collar crime coverage. This helps us refine editorial direction, improve user experience, and further contribute to the marketplace of ideas around legal compliance and proper deterrents to criminal behavior. We do not conduct research using personally identifiable information without affirmative consent.

Social Media and Third Party Platforms

White Collar Crime News has a presence on social media including LinkedIn and Twitter to better connect with our readers and allow you to receive breaking updates. All social interactions occur subject to the service’s privacy policies and protocols, and we do not see or harvest information from your social media account unless you choose to engage via private message or by publicly commenting on a White Collar Crime post.

Accessibility and Language

We are pleased to make our privacy practices easy to find, read, and understand. This Privacy Policy is written simply and clearly using plain English language. If you require a copy of this policy translated into another language, or if you require alternative versions of this policy for accessibility purposes, please contact us at [email protected] and we will do everything we reasonably can in the circumstances to assist you.

Opt In, Opt Out and Do Not Track

You may be able to restrict our use and collection of data you have provided to our websites, including using non-essential cookies or analytics. Most web browsers accept cookies by default; however, you can configure them to block cookies. Currently, our websites do not respond to “Do Not Track” signals, but we are continually monitoring developments in this area and will comply with any laws that eventually are enacted. You can unsubscribe from our newsletter or marketing materials at any time.

Openness, Accountability, and Data Protection Authorities

Transparency and accountability are at the heart of our business at White Collar Crime News. We strive to disclose our information practices, respond quickly to questions from users, and evolve our privacy policies. Please let us know if you have concerns about what we do with your information because we rely on that trust as we strive to help educate and empower the public on white collar crime.

Privacy Complaint Process

Where you believe your privacy rights have not been adequately addressed or where you are unsatisfied with our response to such matters, you may bring a complaint directly to us at [email protected] or via mail at 6789 Hollywood Blvd Ste 89, Los Angeles, CA 90028. We will investigate and respond to any complaint in accordance with applicable policies and law. Where you are unsatisfied with our handling of any matter, you may in some cases have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection authority or other relevant regulatory body in your jurisdiction.

Encouragement to be Informed

At White Collar Crime News, we know that an informed community is a safe and productive community. We encourage all users to review this Privacy Policy often and to contact us with questions or comments. Subscribe to our newsletter for updates on white collar crime, regulatory reform, and guidelines for legal compliance-delivered right into your inbox. Your privacy, security, and trust are of the utmost importance.

Last Update

This Privacy Policy was last updated June 1, 2024. We will continue to make sure you’re informed of our updates, and are committed to keeping all data private and protected.