Privacy Policy

Who We Are

Our website address is: https://outerrimnews.com. OuterRimNews.com is run by Austin Gordy, Butler Raines, and Ashley Wilbanks. You may contact them through the Contact Us form here.

The privacy of our visitors to OuterRimNews.com is important to us.

At OuterRimNews.com, we recognize that privacy of your personal information is important.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Comments

When visitors leave comments on OuterRimNews.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 in your comments, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Contact forms

OuterRimNews.com has a contact form located here, for use by industry insiders, fans with questions, or for anyone that just wants to reach out and say Hi. We keep contact form submissions one year for customer service purposes, but we do not use the information submitted through them for marketing purposes. We will never hand out or sell your information for any reason.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site 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 have an account and you log in to this site, 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.

We also use third party advertisements on OuterRimNews.com to support our site. Some of these advertisers may use technology such as cookies and web beacons when they advertise on our site, which will also send these advertisers information including your IP address, your ISP , the browser you used to visit our site, and in some cases, whether you have Flash installed. This is generally used for geo-targeting purposes (showing New York real estate ads to someone in New York, for example) or showing certain ads based on specific sites visited (such as showing cooking ads to someone who frequents cooking sites).

You can choose to disable or selectively turn off our cookies or third-party cookies in your browser settings, or by managing preferences in programs such as Norton Internet Security. However, this can affect how you are able to interact with our site as well as other websites. This could include the inability to login to services or programs, such as logging into forums or accounts.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site 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 tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Analytics

OuterRimNews.com uses Google Analytics to analyze traffic. You can find out more information about Google Analytics cookies here: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage. To opt-out of Google Analytics relating to your use of our site, you can download and install the Browser Plugin available via this link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.

We do not currently take actions to respond to Do Not Track signals because a uniform technological standard has not yet been developed. We continue to review new technologies and may adopt a standard once one is created.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are 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 our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, 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.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Additional information

Industry regulatory disclosure requirements

Review Items

In order to comply with the FTC’s endorsement guidelines, we hereby inform this site’s viewers that we occasionally receive compensation in the form of money, product and/or discounts for promoting certain advertisers, affiliates and store fronts via this website and/or through social media, in order for us to provide content of interest.

In order to provide full disclosure and transparency to our visitors, and comply with required Federal Trade Commission (FTC) guidelines, all links presented on OuterRimNews.com to partnered advertisers, affiliates and store fronts will be clearly tagged with a short “Note” at the end of the article. 

Social media posts (FacebookTwitterInstagram etc.) will also include hashtags including but not limited to #ad, #sponsored and/or #affiliate.

OuterRimNews receives compensation via payments, products or discounts from the following advertisers/affiliates ONLY: Entertainment Earth, Adsense, Amazon and Sideshow Collectibles.

OuterRimNews.com is an unofficial Star Wars fansite. It is not associated with nor endorsed by Lucasfilm or Disney. Licensed character names and images are copyright © Lucasfilm. All text and commentary are the opinions of the authors solely, and not to be attributed to any other parties.