Boca Post is a news organization owned by Pledged Media, LLC. This privacy policy applies to the Boca Post website, located at https://bocapost.com. This privacy policy will explain how Pledged Media, LLC uses personal data we collect from you when you visit Bocapost.com.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on bocapost.com, we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to bocapost.com, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Bocapost.com visitors may download and be able to extract any location data from images on Bocapost.com. Take necessary precautions before uploading images to Bocapost.com, if applicable.
Google Analytics
Boca Post uses Google Analytics to help us understand how readers use our website, which articles and sections are being read, how visitors find our site, and how we can improve our coverage, site performance, and reader experience.
Google Analytics may collect information such as the pages visited, time spent on pages, referring websites or search engines, general traffic source information, approximate geographic location, browser type, device type, operating system, screen information, and other usage data. Google states that the default Google Analytics implementation collects information including number of users, session statistics, approximate geolocation, and browser and device information.
Google Analytics uses cookies and similar technologies to distinguish users and sessions. For websites, Google Analytics stores a client ID in a first-party cookie called _ga to help distinguish unique users and sessions. Google states that the main _ga cookie can last for two years and is used to report site usage statistics without personally identifying individual visitors.
Boca Post uses Google Analytics data for purposes such as measuring audience engagement, reviewing article performance, understanding which topics and locations readers are interested in, identifying traffic trends, improving website functionality, and making editorial and business decisions about the site.
Boca Post does not use Google Analytics to intentionally collect personally identifying information such as a reader’s name, email address, phone number, or mailing address. Google prohibits customers from sending personally identifiable information to Google Analytics.
Google may process information collected through Google Analytics to provide measurement services to Boca Post. Google states that identifiers such as cookies are used to measure user interactions with websites and that IP addresses may be used to provide and protect the security of the service and provide general location information. Google also states that, for Google Analytics properties, IP addresses are not logged or stored.
Readers can control cookies through their browser settings. Readers may also opt out of having their website activity made available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. Google states that this add-on prevents Google Analytics JavaScript from sharing visit activity with Google Analytics.
Boca Post may update its use of analytics, measurement, cookies, and related tools over time. Any material changes will be reflected in this Privacy Policy.
For more, see https://policies.google.com/privacy
Cookies
What is a cookie? Cookies are text files placed on your computer used to log and track information, including visitor behavior on websites. Bocapost.com uses both, functionality and advertising cookies, in the following ways:
Functionality Cookies
If you leave a comment on bocapost.com you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day
Advertising
CMI Marketing, Inc., d/b/a Raptive (“Raptive”) is a service provider of this Site for the purposes of placing advertising on the Site, and Raptive will collect and use certain data for advertising purposes. To learn more about Raptive's data usage, click here: https://raptive.com/creator-advertising-privacy-statement/
Advertising Cookies
Bocapost.com uses these cookies to collect information about your visit to our website, the content you viewed, the links you followed and information about your browser, device, and your IP address. Bocapost.com sometimes shares some limited aspects of this data with third parties for advertising purposes. We may also share online data collected through cookies with our advertising partners, such as Google Adsense. This means that when you visit another website, you may be shown advertising based on your browsing patterns on our website.
How you can manage cookies
You can set your browser not to accept cookies. However, in a few cases, some of our website features may not function as a result. Additionally, in the case of advertising cookies, disabling cookies may stop advertisers from being able to provide personalized advertisements, not generic ads.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on bocapost.com may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Who we share your data with
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata may be retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on bocapost.com, we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All registered users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Bocapost.com administrators can also see and edit that information.
How do we store your data?
Bocapost.com stores data owned by registered users, excluding billing data, on our website, protected by high-level TLS encryption. Personal data is not shared with anyone other than Pledged Media, LLC authorized personnel who may use certain data to perform required functions, such as unsubscribing users from mailing lists, approving, or disapproving comments, blocking spammers or abusive users, etc.
Marketing
Boca Post would like to send you information about products and services of ours that we think you might like. Note, this only applies to registered users or those who have subscribed to one our mailings lists. If you have agreed to receive marketing, you may always opt out at a later date.
Note, we will never sell your information or provide it to any 3rd party.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on Bocapost.com, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Requests can take up to one month to process. To start a request, please contact us in writing. You can contact us via our contact us form, or e-mail us: legal (at) pledgedmedia (dot) com.
Anti-Spam & Where Your Data May Be Sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. In order to defend against spammers, Bocapost.com uses Akismet, a anti-spam software. By using Akismet, we may collect information about visitors who comment on Bocapost..com.. The information we collect may include the commenter’s IP address, user agent, referrer, and URL (along with other information directly provided by the commenter such as their name, username, email address, and the comment itself).
What data do we collect & how do we collect it?
Pledged Media, LLC may collect personally identifiable information, including your name, e-mail address, and any other information described below in the following circumstances:
Obituaries
The content found in a paid obituary and its metadata are retained indefinitely. An obituary purchaser can request changes to the paid obituary or request removal at any time. This request must be made in writing via a request using this form.
Payment Information
If you pay for an obituary listing or direct advertising by entering your credit card and billing information directly on https://bocapost.com, the credit card information won’t be stored but it will be shared through a secure connection with the following payment gateways to process the payment:
Stripe — https://stripe.com/us/privacy/
Changes to our Privacy Policy and Terms Of Use Policy
Pledged Media, LLC d/b/a BocaPost.com keeps its privacy policy under regular review and places any updates on this web page. This privacy policy was last updated on September 8th, 2023.
How to contact us
If you have any questions about Boca Post’s privacy policy, the data we hold on you, or you would like to exercise one of your data protection rights, please do not hesitate to contact us. Please use this form to contact us.