This policy describes how we handle your data when you use Muscogee Muckraker content, products, or services including but not limited to this website, our social media platforms, and any products, services, and content that we create, publish, and distribute. Throughout this policy, we will refer to these collectively as “Services”.
By using MuscogeeMuckraker.com and Muscogee Muckraker products, you are agreeing to our Terms of Service, Terms of Sale, and our Privacy Policy.
1. General Rules
1.1 This Privacy Policy may change from time to time, and it’s on you to check if it does. It’s impossible for us to notify anyone who has ever used our website.
1.2 If any part of this Privacy Policy is ever unacceptable to you, you’re free to cancel your subscription and/or stop using our Services. Your continued use means you still agree with the current Privacy Policy.
2. Information You Voluntarily Give To Us
2.1 Generally speaking, Muscogee Muckraker itself does not collect or store any of your personal information whatsoever. Any information you do voluntarily disclose to us is collected and stored by a professional third-party vendor that specializes in their respective field.
2.2 The information you disclose to us voluntarily when you subscribe, to include, but not limited to, your name, email address, billing information, phone number, user name, and password, is not collected nor stored by Muscogee Muckraker. We do not collect nor store your login information. We use a specialized third-party vendor called “Admiral” to make sure your experience is secure and correct. You agree that you consent to our use of a professional service provider to make sure your experience is handled by the right kind of technical professionals. You also agree that we are not liable whatsoever for anything that this (or any third-party vendor) does or fails to do. You also agree that this third-party vendor may change at any time without any notice to you at all.
2.3 Since we do not control your login information, please contact Admiral through their website at support.Admiral.com with any known or suspected unauthorized use(s) of your account, or any known or suspected breach of security, including loss, theft, or unauthorized disclosure of your password or credit card information. You understand and agree that only Admiral can help you with this, and that Muscogee Muckraker cannot.
2.4 Since we utilize Admiral to help provide a safe and secure experience for you and your information, your use of our Services represents that you agree with our decision to use Admiral as a service provider. Your use of our Services further represents that you accept Admiral’s Privacy Policy (See: https://www.iubenda.com/privacy-policy/347981/full-legal)
3. Information We Collect Automatically
3.1 Generally speaking, Muscogee Muckraker does not collect or store any of your personal information automatically. We’re not in the business of collecting or storing your information. We’re in the business of rewarding merit and exposing corruption to you as our subscriber.
3.2 As mentioned in Section 1, we do utilize specialized third-party vendors to help make sure your experience and information are as secure and correct as we can. Some of those third-party vendors may collect and store information relating to your usage of our Services, such as Google Analytics. However, Muscogee Muckraker does not automatically collect or store any personally-identifiable information from you.
3.3 We believe this goes without saying, but we are going to say it anyway: Muscogee Muckraker is not and cannot be held liable for anything these third-party vendors do or fail to do.
4. Information We Share About You
4.1 Generally speaking, Muscogee Muckraker does not share, sell, or otherwise disclose any of your personal information. This is mainly because we don’t collect or store it, as described above.
4.2 The only time we might seek or disclose your personal information from a third-party vendor is if it were required by law in response to a subpoena, court order, or other governmental request — and even then we would refer the court to the third-party since we do not collect or store your information ourselves.
5. Information You Submit through Tips or Story Leads
5.1 Muscogee Muckraker serves as a platform to help give a voice to the voiceless and to help expose and tell the stories that need to be told. To accomplish this, we rely on the voluntary submission of information from members of the general public. We encourage anyone with credible information to use our Services and submit to us the information they believe should be public knowledge.
5.2 Muscogee Muckraker reserves the right to publicly disclose any information submitted from any tip or story lead we receive. However, we will not disclose your personal contact information without your express permission.
5.3 Muscogee Muckraker strives to follow the Society of Professional Journalists Code of Ethics (See: https://www.spj.org/ethicscode.asp). If you have concerns regarding the investigative journalism process, we encourage you to familiarize yourself with this document. It may help to ease your concerns about coming forward and submitting an anonymous tip.
5.4 When you submit a tip or story lead, we do not need to know your “real name”. However, we do require a real email address that we can use to correspond with you. Again, Muscogee Muckraker will not disclose your personal contact information without your express permission.
Paragraph 5.4 concludes this Privacy Policy.