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Privacy Statement

Last update: 7/10/2025

Maine Public is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Privacy Statement applies to the Maine Public website located at mainepublic.org and any other websites and applications operated by us on which this Privacy Statement appears (collectively, our “Website”) and governs data collection and usage.

By using the Website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement. As used herein, the terms “you,” “your” and “user” refer to individuals accessing the Website for any reason, and the terms “us” or “we” refer to Maine Public.

Collection of Information

Information You Provide to Us

We collect information about you when you choose to provide that information to us. For example, we collect information when you sign up for a newsletter, make a donation, or complete any other forms made available on our Website. The kinds of information we collect may include your email address, name, home and/or work address, and telephone number, as well as any other information you provided to us in connection with your use of the Website.

Information that Is Passively and Automatically Collected

When you visit our Website, we may automatically receive and record information from your computer or mobile device. This information may include: your IP address, browser type, browser language, operating system, state or country from which you accessed the Website, software and hardware attributes (including device IDs), referring and exit pages and URLs, the number of clicks, files you download, pages viewed, the amount of time spent on particular pages, the date and time you used the Website, error logs and other similar information. From your IP address, we may be able to infer your general location (e.g., city and state or postal code). This information is used for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to allow us to understand how people are navigating and using our Website and how we can improve their experience.

We may use technologies, such as cookies, web beacons, tracking pixels, or gifs, to help us collect the data described above. We use the term “cookie” in the broad sense to include all similar techniques and technologies. A cookie is essentially a text file that is placed on your computer or device when you visit a website and stores certain information about your usage of that website. Cookies enable us to recognize your computer, store your preferences and settings, enhance your user experience by delivering content specific to your interests, perform searches and analytics, and assist with security and administrative functions. You can change your browser settings to notify you when a cookie is being set or updated, or to block cookies altogether. If you disable cookies, some functionality of this Website may be impaired.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to notify you when a cookie is being set or updated (so can accept or decline the cookie), or to block cookies altogether. If you choose to decline or block cookies, you may not be able to some features of this Website may be impaired. For more information about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set on your device and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.

Third-Party Analytics Services

We may use third-party web analytics services (such as Google Analytics and Meta Pixel) in connection with the Website to collect and analyze the information described above under “Information that Is Passively and Automatically Collected,” and to engage in auditing, research, or reporting. The information (including your IP address) collected by various analytics technologies will be disclosed to or collected directly by these service providers, who then report the information to us.

Information about how Google uses information collected from sites that use its services is located at https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites. Information about how Meta Pixel uses information collected from sites that use its services is located at https://www.facebook.com/privacy/policy/?subpage=4.subpage.4-PartnersWhoUseOur.

To prevent third-party services from collecting information about your use of the Website for analytics purposes, you can use a browser plug-in such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Privacy Bader: https://www.eff.org/pages/privacy-badger. To prevent Google Analytics from using your information for analytics, you may install the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Use of Your Information

We may use the information we collect for the purposes for which you provided the information, including to send you newsletters or process a donation.

We also may use information we collect to operate, maintain, and improve our Website, to deliver the services you have requested, and to communicate with you for administrative, informational, and marketing purposes (including to send you information about your relationship with us, to contact you with information that we believe may be of interest to you, to inform you of other products or services available from Maine Public and its affiliates, and to send you surveys seeking your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered), for our internal research and reporting, and for any other purposes for which you have provided your consent in accordance with applicable legal requirements.

The information we collect also may be used by us for security, fraud prevention, and legal compliance purposes (including to comply with laws and regulations), and for the protection of our legitimate interests or the legitimate interests of others.

If you provide us with your email address, we may add you to our email distribution list. If you wish to stop receiving emails from us, please click the unsubscribe link in the footer of an email from us. Please note that opting out or unsubscribing will not prevent you from receiving communications that are not marketing in nature, such as important notices about changes to our terms and policies.

If you provide us with your mobile phone number, we may send you text messages at such number with updates, donation asks, action opportunities, and other information. If you wish to stop receiving text messages from us, text the word “STOP” in response to any text message received. For more information about our text messaging programs, see our SMS / Text Messaging Terms of Service. 

 Finally, we may use the information we collect to deliver advertising on our Website or develop and display personalized content, including, for example, to help recognize your devices to serve you ads or content and to display more relevant ads to you based on your interests (i.e., "online behavioral" or "interest-based" advertising or “targeted advertising”). You can visit the Digital Advertising Alliance’s Opt-Out page or the NAI Opt Out of Interest Based Advertising page to limit use of your information for targeted advertising. The Digital Advertising Alliance also provides a download of the AppChoices opt out app that you can use to opt out of targeted advertising on your mobile device.

We may aggregate or de-identify information we collect from you so that it is no longer linked to you or your computer or device, or we may collect information that is already in de-identified form. Our use and disclosure of aggregated or de-identified information is not subject to any restrictions under this Privacy Statement, and we may, in our sole discretion, use and disclose such information for any lawful purpose.

Disclosure of Your Information

We may disclose your information to third parties only under the following circumstances:

  • With your consent;
  • With select third parties that perform services for us to help us run our business. These may include, for example, entities that provide data hosting and storage, help desk software and email services, security, processing of donations, research and analytics, and legal services. All such third parties are prohibited from using any personal information of users except to provide these services to Maine Public, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of such personal information.
  • With like-minded organizations or businesses with whom we may collaborate, including NPR and PBS.
  • If required to do so by law or in a good faith belief that disclosure is permitted by this Privacy Statement or reasonably necessary or appropriate for any of the following reasons:
    • to comply with legal process;
    • to enforce this Privacy Statement, including investigation of potential violations thereof;
    • to respond to your requests for customer service; and/or
    • to protect our rights, property, or personal safety, or that of our agents, affiliates, users, and/or the public. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection, and spam/malware prevention, and similar purposes.
  • If we participate in a merger, acquisition, bankruptcy, or other transfer or reorganization of assets (including in contemplation thereof, e.g., due diligence) and user information collected through this Website is anticipated to be among the transferred assets.
  • In aggregated or de-identified form such that the information is no longer linked to you or your computer or device.

Security of Your Information

We have implemented administrative, technical, and physical security measures to protect against the loss, misuse, and/or alteration of your information. These safeguards vary based on the sensitivity of the information that we collect and store. For example, when credit card information is transmitted to us, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

 However, we cannot and do not guarantee that these measures will prevent every unauthorized attempt to access, use, or disclose your information because, despite our efforts, no electronic transmissions can be completely secure.

Legal Basis for Processing Personal Data

The laws in some jurisdictions require that website operators tell you about the legal grounds they rely on to use or disclose your personal information. To the extent those laws apply, our legal grounds for processing such information are as follows:

  • Where use of your such information is necessary to perform our obligations to you;
  • Where use of such information is necessary for our legitimate interests or the legitimate interests of others (for example, to provide security for our Website; to provide the services we provide through our Website; to defend our legal rights; to analyze the use of our Website; to improve our services);
  • Where we have a reason to process the information in accordance with applicable law;
  • Where we have your consent to engage in a particular type of processing activity.

Non-U.S. Visitors

This Website is not intended for individuals located outside of the U.S. If you are a non-U.S. resident, you acknowledge that our collection and processing of personal information is subject to United States law, and that any personal information you provide to us shall be processed in the United States, where the laws and regulations may not provide the same level of data protection rights as in the jurisdiction in which you are located.

Your Rights and Choices

In addition to the rights and controls described elsewhere in this Privacy Statement (such as your right to opt out of third-party analytics services, opt out of targeted advertising, and disable or decline cookies), you may have legal rights to exercise control and choices regarding our use of your information depending on the laws of your jurisdiction. These rights may include the right to request: (1) access to or a copy of information that we hold about you in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format; (2) general information about our processing activities; (3) confirmation that we are processing your information; (4) correction or rectification of your information; (5) deletion of your information; (6) transfer of your information to a third party; (vii) information portability, where technically feasible; (7) restriction or objection to certain uses of your information, or withdrawal of your consent to our use of your information for certain purposes, where the use was based on your consent.

To exercise these rights, please email us at webmaster@mainepublic.org with the nature of your request. We may ask you to provide us with information necessary to reasonably verify your identity before responding to your request. We will consider all requests in accordance with applicable law and will provide a response within the time-period set by applicable law. Please note, however, that certain information may be exempt from such requests (e.g., where we are required to keep information for legal purposes). Depending on your jurisdiction of residence, if we deny your request in whole or in part, you may have the right to appeal the decision. In such circumstances, we will provide you with information regarding the appeals process.

 Children’s Privacy 

This Website is intended for general audiences and is not directed at children. If we become aware that we have collected information without legally valid parental consent from children under an age where such consent is required under applicable law, we will take reasonable steps to delete it as soon as possible. 

Third-Party Links and Websites

This Website may contain links to third-party websites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. The collection, use and disclosure of your information will be subject to the privacy policies of those third-party websites, not this Privacy Statement. Therefore, we encourage our users to be aware when they leave our Website and to read the privacy policies of every site they visit that collects their information.

Notice Concerning Do-Not-Track Signals

Most web browsers and some mobile operating systems and mobile applications include a Do-Not-Track (“DNT”) feature or setting you can activate to signal your preference not to have data about your online browsing activities monitored and collected. At this stage, no uniform technology standard for recognizing and implementing DNT signals has been finalized. As such, we do not currently recognize or respond to browser-initiated DNT signals or any other mechanism that automatically communicates your choice not to be tracked online. If a standard for online tracking is adopted that we must follow in the future, we will inform you about that practice in a revised version of this Privacy Policy.

Changes to this Privacy Statement

We will continue to review this Privacy Statement and we may make changes to it from time to time. The date at the top of this page indicates the last time changes were made. We encourage you to periodically review this Statement to check for updates and stay informed of how Maine Public is protecting your information. Your continued use of the Website after any such update will signify that you have read, understood, and accepted the terms of the updated Privacy Statement.

Contact Us

Maine Public welcomes your comments regarding this Privacy Statement. If you have any questions or comments, please email webmaster@mainepublic.org.