This Privacy Policy explains how Bounce Feed (“Bounce Feed,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) collects, uses, stores, discloses, and protects information when you visit or interact with bouncefeed.com and any related pages, features, services, newsletters, forms, or digital properties operated by us (collectively, the “Services”).
Bounce Feed is a New York-based digital publication covering news, entertainment, celebrity culture, sports, gaming, digital culture, viral stories, lifestyle, and trending topics.
Bounce Feed is part of Mega Bounce Nation, a Kenya-founded media and creative organization established in 2017.
We respect your privacy and are committed to being transparent about how information is handled.
- INFORMATION WE COLLECT
Depending on how you interact with Bounce Feed, we may collect different categories of information.
Information You Provide Directly
You may voluntarily provide information when you:
- Contact us by email
- Submit a news tip
- Submit a correction request
- Contact our editorial team
- Contact us about advertising or partnerships
- Apply for a job, internship, or contributor opportunity
- Subscribe to a newsletter or mailing list
- Submit information through a website form
- Participate in a survey, promotion, or other feature
- Communicate with Bounce Feed through social media or other platforms
This information may include your name, email address, organization, professional information, message content, attachments, and any other information you choose to provide.
Please do not send passwords, financial account credentials, government identification numbers, or other highly sensitive information through ordinary email or website forms unless we specifically request it through an appropriate secure process.
- INFORMATION COLLECTED AUTOMATICALLY
When you visit Bounce Feed, certain information may be collected automatically by our website, hosting provider, analytics services, advertising partners, security tools, or similar technologies.
This information may include:
- IP address
- Browser type and version
- Device type
- Operating system
- General geographic location derived from IP address
- Referring website or URL
- Pages and articles viewed
- Date and time of visits
- Approximate session duration
- Interactions with website features
- Technical information about your device
- Information about how you navigate and use our website
We use this information primarily to operate, secure, maintain, analyze, and improve Bounce Feed.
- COOKIES AND SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES
Bounce Feed may use cookies, pixels, local storage, tags, scripts, and similar technologies.
Cookies are small files or pieces of information stored on your device that can help websites remember information about your visit.
We may use these technologies for purposes including:
- Essential website functionality
- Security
- Remembering preferences
- Measuring website traffic
- Understanding how visitors use Bounce Feed
- Improving website performance
- Personalizing certain experiences
- Delivering or measuring advertising
- Understanding the effectiveness of marketing campaigns
Some cookies may be placed by third-party service providers that operate on our behalf or provide services used by Bounce Feed.
Where required by applicable law, we will request consent before using non-essential cookies or similar technologies.
You may also be able to control cookies through your browser settings and, where available, our cookie-consent controls.
- ANALYTICS
Bounce Feed may use third-party analytics services to understand how visitors use the website.
These services may collect information such as pages visited, traffic sources, device information, approximate location, and interaction data.
We use analytics information to understand audience interests, improve our journalism and website experience, identify technical problems, and evaluate the performance of our content.
Current analytics provider(s):
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- ADVERTISING AND THIRD-PARTY SERVICES
Bounce Feed may display advertising from third-party advertising networks, direct advertisers, sponsorship partners, or other commercial partners.
Advertising partners may use cookies, pixels, device information, or similar technologies to measure advertising performance, prevent fraud, provide relevant advertisements, or understand advertising audiences.
Current advertising provider(s):
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Third-party advertising providers may have their own privacy policies governing their handling of information.
- NEWS TIPS AND USER SUBMISSIONS
Bounce Feed accepts news tips, story leads, documents, photographs, videos, screenshots, and other information submitted by readers and members of the public.
If you submit information to Bounce Feed, we may use the information you provide to:
- Evaluate potential stories
- Contact you regarding your submission
- Verify information
- Conduct editorial research
- Investigate newsworthy claims
- Communicate with sources
- Publish information when editorially appropriate
Submitting a tip does not guarantee publication.
If you request anonymity, we will take your request into consideration. However, we cannot guarantee absolute anonymity in every circumstance, particularly where disclosure may be required by law or where information has already been made public.
Please do not submit information you are not legally authorized to disclose.
- HOW WE USE PERSONAL INFORMATION
We may use information we collect for purposes including:
- Providing and operating Bounce Feed
- Responding to messages and inquiries
- Processing news tips and story submissions
- Investigating and verifying information
- Publishing and managing editorial content
- Sending newsletters or communications you request
- Managing employment or contributor applications
- Providing customer or technical support
- Understanding audience behavior
- Measuring website performance
- Improving our content and Services
- Detecting fraud, abuse, spam, or malicious activity
- Protecting the security of our website and users
- Managing advertising and commercial partnerships
- Complying with legal obligations
- Establishing, exercising, or defending legal rights
- Enforcing our policies and agreements
- LEGAL BASES FOR PROCESSING
Where applicable privacy laws require us to identify a legal basis for processing personal information, we may rely on:
- Consent
- Legitimate interests
- Contractual necessity
- Legal obligations
- Other lawful bases recognized by applicable privacy legislation
The appropriate legal basis depends on the nature and circumstances of the processing.
- HOW WE SHARE INFORMATION
We do not sell your personal information simply because you visit Bounce Feed.
We may share information with categories of recipients when reasonably necessary to operate our business and website, including:
- Website hosting providers
- Technology and infrastructure providers
- Analytics providers
- Advertising partners
- Email and newsletter providers
- Security and fraud-prevention providers
- Customer-support providers
- Professional advisers
- Payment or transaction providers, where applicable
- Business partners where appropriate
- Government authorities or law-enforcement agencies when legally required
- Successors or relevant parties in connection with a merger, acquisition, restructuring, sale, or other business transaction
We may also disclose information when reasonably necessary to protect Bounce Feed, our users, our employees, our partners, or the rights and safety of others.
- PUBLICLY AVAILABLE INFORMATION
Bounce Feed is a publication.
Information that you voluntarily provide for publication, including information submitted as part of a story, interview, comment, public statement, social-media post, or other editorial material, may become publicly available when published.
Once information is published on the internet, it may be copied, indexed, archived, quoted, shared, or reproduced by third parties beyond our control.
Please consider this before providing information intended for publication.
- SOCIAL MEDIA AND THIRD-PARTY CONTENT
Bounce Feed may include links, embeds, widgets, videos, social-media content, advertisements, or other features provided by third parties.
When you interact with third-party services, those services may collect information according to their own privacy policies.
Bounce Feed does not control the privacy practices of third-party websites or platforms.
We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any third-party services you use.
- EMAIL AND NEWSLETTERS
If you subscribe to a Bounce Feed newsletter or other email communication, we may collect your email address and information necessary to manage your subscription.
We may use your email address to send:
- Newsletters
- Breaking-news alerts
- Editorial updates
- Requested communications
- Other communications for which you have provided appropriate permission
You can unsubscribe from marketing or newsletter communications at any time by using the unsubscribe mechanism included in the relevant email.
- DATA RETENTION
We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law.
Retention periods may depend on:
- The type of information
- Why we collected it
- Whether there is an ongoing relationship
- Legal or regulatory requirements
- Security and fraud-prevention requirements
- Editorial or archival considerations
- The need to establish, exercise, or defend legal claims
When information is no longer required, we may delete, anonymize, or securely dispose of it.
- DATA SECURITY
We take reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures designed to protect personal information against unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, or disclosure.
However, no internet transmission, website, database, or electronic storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
For this reason, we cannot guarantee absolute security of information transmitted to or stored by Bounce Feed.
- INTERNATIONAL DATA TRANSFERS
Bounce Feed operates from New York and may use service providers located in the United States, Kenya, or other countries.
As a result, personal information may be processed or stored outside the country where you live.
Where applicable law requires safeguards for international transfers, we will take reasonable steps to use appropriate safeguards.
- YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS
Depending on where you live and which privacy laws apply to you, you may have rights concerning your personal information.
These rights may include:
- The right to know what personal information we collect and how it is used
- The right to request access to personal information
- The right to request correction of inaccurate information
- The right to request deletion of certain information
- The right to withdraw consent where processing is based on consent
- The right to object to certain processing
- The right to restrict certain processing
- The right to data portability in applicable circumstances
- The right to opt out of certain forms of targeted advertising or sale/sharing where applicable
- The right not to receive discriminatory treatment for exercising applicable privacy rights
These rights vary depending on applicable law.
We may need to verify your identity before completing certain requests.
- UNITED STATES PRIVACY RIGHTS
If you live in a U.S. state with applicable comprehensive privacy legislation, you may have additional rights concerning your personal information.
Depending on the law applicable to you, these may include rights to access, correct, delete, obtain a copy of, or opt out of certain processing of personal information.
Some laws provide additional rights relating to targeted advertising, profiling, sale or sharing of personal information, or sensitive personal information.
Bounce Feed will handle verified privacy requests in accordance with applicable law.
To submit a privacy request:
privacy@bouncefeed.com
- CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS
If you are a California resident, the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act and other applicable California law, may provide you with additional rights.
Depending on our activities and the information we process, these rights may include:
- Right to know
- Right to access
- Right to correct
- Right to delete
- Right to opt out of sale or sharing of personal information where applicable
- Right to limit certain uses or disclosures of sensitive personal information where applicable
- Right to non-discrimination for exercising applicable privacy rights
To submit a California privacy request:
privacy@bouncefeed.com
- EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AREA AND UNITED KINGDOM
If you are located in the European Economic Area, United Kingdom, or another jurisdiction where comparable data-protection rights apply, you may have additional rights concerning your personal information.
These may include the right to access, correct, delete, restrict, object to, or obtain a portable copy of your personal information, subject to applicable legal limitations.
Where processing is based on consent, you may withdraw consent at any time.
You may also have the right to complain to the relevant data-protection authority.
- CHILDREN’S PRIVACY
Bounce Feed is intended for a general audience and is not directed specifically toward children under 13.
We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 in violation of applicable law.
If you believe that a child has provided personal information to us, please contact:
privacy@bouncefeed.com
- DO NOT TRACK
Some web browsers offer “Do Not Track” signals or similar privacy preferences.
Because there is currently no universally consistent technical standard for responding to all such signals, Bounce Feed may not respond to every browser-based Do Not Track signal.
Where applicable law requires recognition of a particular privacy preference signal, we will take steps required by that law.
- THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES
Bounce Feed may link to websites that we do not own or control.
This Privacy Policy applies only to information collected through Bounce Feed and services we control.
We are not responsible for the privacy practices, content, security, or policies of third-party websites.
We recommend reviewing the privacy policy of any external website before providing personal information.
- CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time.
When we update this policy, we will change the “Last Updated” date at the top of this page.
If we make material changes, we may provide additional notice where required by applicable law.
We encourage you to review this page periodically.
- CONTACT US
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, want to exercise an applicable privacy right, or have concerns about how Bounce Feed handles personal information, contact us:
Bounce Feed
New York, New York, United States
Privacy Email:
privacy@bouncefeed.com
General Email:
hello@bouncefeed.com
Website:
bouncefeed.com
Bounce Feed is part of Mega Bounce Nation.
- PRIVACY AT A GLANCE
We collect information when you provide it to us or when you use our website.
We use information to operate Bounce Feed, communicate with you, understand our audience, improve our services, maintain security, and support our editorial and business activities.
We may share information with service providers and partners that help us operate the website, provide analytics, deliver advertising, communicate with users, maintain security, or perform other legitimate business functions.
You may have privacy rights. Depending on where you live, you may be able to access, correct, delete, restrict, or object to certain uses of your personal information.
For privacy questions and requests, contact:
privacy@bouncefeed.com