Privacy Policy
Protecting your private information is our priority. This Statement of Privacy applies to www.semiconductordigest.com, the Semi Dig App and Gold Flag Media LLC and governs data collection and usage. For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, unless otherwise noted, all references to Gold Flag Media LLC include www.semiconductordigest.com, Semiconductor Digest, the Semi Dig App and www.goldflagmedia.com. The Gold Flag Media LLC website and app are a news and trends site and app. By using the Gold Flag Media LLC website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.
Collection of Your Personal Information
In order to better provide you with products and services offered on our Site and App, Gold Flag Media LLC may collect personally identifiable information, such as your:
- First and Last Name
- Mailing Address
- Email Address
- Phone Number
- Employer
- Job Title
If you purchase Gold Flag Media LLC’s products and services, we collect billing and credit card information. This information is used to complete the purchase transaction.
We do not collect any personal information about you unless you voluntarily provide it to us. However, you may be required to provide certain personal information to us when you elect to use certain products or services available on the Site. These may include: (a) registering for an account on our Site; (b) entering a sweepstakes or contest sponsored by us or one of our partners; (c) signing up for special offers from selected third parties; (d) sending us an email message; (e) submitting your credit card or other payment information when ordering and purchasing products and services on our Site. To wit, we will use your information for, but not limited to, communicating with you in relation to services and/or products you have requested from us. We also may gather additional personal or non-personal information in the future.
Use of Your Personal Information
Gold Flag Media LLC collects and uses your personal information to operate its website(s) and app and deliver the services you have requested.
Gold Flag Media LLC may also use your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Gold Flag Media LLC and its affiliates.
Sharing Information with Third Parties
Gold Flag Media LLC may sell, rent, or lease customer information to third parties for the following reasons:
- to notify them of offers, new products, events and services
Gold Flag Media LLC may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (email, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. Gold Flag Media LLC may share data with trusted partners to help perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Gold Flag Media LLC, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.
Gold Flag Media LLC may disclose your personal information, without notice, if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Gold Flag Media LLC or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Gold Flag Media LLC; and/or (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Gold Flag Media LLC, or the public.
Tracking User Behavior
Gold Flag Media LLC may keep track of the websites and pages our users visit within Gold Flag Media LLC, in order to determine what Gold Flag Media LLC services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Gold Flag Media LLC to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.
Automatically Collected Information
Information about your computer hardware and software may be automatically collected by Gold Flag Media LLC. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Gold Flag Media LLC website and app.
Cookie Policy
This Cookie Policy section explains what cookies are and how we use them, the types of cookies we use, i.e. the information we collect using cookies and how that information is used, and how to control the cookie preferences.
If you are located in the EU, you can at any time change or withdraw your consent from the Cookie Declaration on our website.
Learn more about who we are, how you can contact us, and how we process personal data in our Privacy Policy. Your consent applies to the following domains: www.semiconductordigest.com.
What are cookies?
How We Use Cookies
What Type of Cookies We Use
Essential: Some cookies are essential for you to be able to experience the full functionality of our site. They allow us to maintain user sessions and prevent any security threats. They do not collect or store any personal information. For example, these cookies allow you to log-in to your account.
Statistics: These cookies store information like the number of visitors to the website, the number of unique visitors, which pages of the website have been visited, the source of the visit, etc. These data help us understand and analyze how well the website performs and where it needs improvement.
Marketing: Our website displays advertisements. These cookies are used to personalize the advertisements that we show to you so that they are meaningful to you. These cookies also help us keep track of the efficiency of these ad campaigns.
Functional: These are the cookies that help certain non-essential functionalities on our website. These functionalities include embedding content like videos or sharing content of the website on social media platforms.
Preferences: These cookies help us store your settings and browsing preferences like language preferences so that you have a better and efficient experience on future visits to the website.
The below list details the cookies used in our website.
| Cookie | Description | Necessity | Duration | Category |
| viewed_cookie_policy | The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. It does not store any personal data. | necessary | 11 months | necessary |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-necessary | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category “Necessary”. | necessary | 11 months | necessary |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-functional | The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category “Functional”. | necessary | 11 months | necessary |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-performance | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category “Performance”. | necessary | 11 months | necessary |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-analytics | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category “Analytics”. | necessary | 11 months | necessary |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-others | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category “Other. | necessary | 11 months | necessary |
| _pk_id.56353.85f6 | This cookie is set by Google Analytics and is used to store a unique user ID for statistical purposes. | non-necessary | 1 year 27 days | analytics |
| _pk_ses.56353.85f6 | <p style=”text-align: left;”>This cookie is created by Piwik PRO to store a unique session ID.</p> | non-necessary | 30 minutes | analytics |
| optin | This cookie tracks users who take an affirmative action, such as checking a tick-box or another similar action. The consent is used for a variety of purposes, such as agreeing to terms and conditions, signing up for online content like newsletters and resources, consenting to the use of cookies, and more. | non-necessary | 1 hour | others |
| yt-remote-device-id | Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. | non-necessary | never | others |
| yt-remote-connected-devices | Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. | non-necessary | never | others |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-advertisement | The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category “Advertisement”. | non-necessary | 1 year | necessary |
| YSC | This cookies is set by Youtube and is used to track the views of embedded videos. | non-necessary | session | advertisement |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | This cookie is set by Youtube. Used to track the information of the embedded YouTube videos on a website. | non-necessary | 5 months 27 days | advertisement |
| test_cookie | This cookie is set by doubleclick.net. The purpose of the cookie is to determine if the user’s browser supports cookies. | non-necessary | 15 minutes | advertisement |
| IDE | Used by Google DoubleClick (which we don’t use) and stores information about how the user uses the website and any other advertisement before visiting the website. This is used to present users with ads that are relevant to them according to the user profile. | non-necessary | 1 year 24 days | advertisement |
| _ga | This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, campaign data and keep track of site usage for the site’s analytics report. The cookies store information anonymously and assign a randomly generated number to identify unique visitors. | non-necessary | 2 years | analytics |
| _gid | This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to store information of how visitors use a website and helps in creating an analytics report of how the website is doing. The data collected including the number visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages visted in an anonymous form. | non-necessary | 1 day | analytics |
| _gat_gtag_UA_142332005_1 | This cookie is set by Google and is used to distinguish users. | non-necessary | 1 minute | analytics |
| CONSENT | These cookies are set via embedded youtube-videos. They register anonymous statistical data on for example how many times the video is displayed and what settings are used for playback.No sensitive data is collected unless you log in to your google account, in that case your choices are linked with your account, for example if you click “like” on a video. | non-necessary | 16 years 5 months 18 days 3 hours | analytics |
Controlling Cookie Preferences
If you are located in the EU, should you decide to change your preferences later through your browsing session, you can come back here and see your current state and change your consent preference below. This will display the consent notice again enabling you to change your preferences or withdraw your consent entirely. If you are outside the EU, you will not see this option. Please see below for instructions on controlling cookies if you are outside the EU.
In addition to this, different browsers provide different methods to block and delete cookies used by websites. You can change the settings of your browser to block/delete the cookies. To find out more about how to manage and delete cookies, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.
Links
This website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.
Security of Your Personal Information
Gold Flag Media LLC secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. Gold Flag Media LLC uses the following methods for this purpose:
- SSL Protocol
When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other websites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol.
We strive to take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or alteration of your personal information. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, you acknowledge that: (a) there are security and privacy limitations inherent to the Internet which are beyond our control; and (b) security, integrity, and privacy of any and all information and data exchanged between you and us through this Site and App cannot be guaranteed.
Children Under Thirteen
Gold Flag Media LLC does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen. If you are under the age of thirteen, you must ask your parent or guardian for permission to use this website.
E-mail Communications
From time to time, Gold Flag Media LLC may contact you via email for the purpose of providing announcements, promotional offers, alerts, confirmations, surveys, and/or other general communication. In order to improve our Services, we may receive a notification when you open an email from Gold Flag Media LLC or click on a link therein.
If you would like to stop receiving marketing or promotional communications via email from Gold Flag Media LLC, you may opt out of such communications by clicking on the UNSUBSCRIBE button.
External Data Storage Sites
We may store your data on servers provided by third party hosting vendors with whom we have contracted.
Changes to this Statement
Gold Flag Media LLC reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your account, by placing a prominent notice on our site or app, and/or by updating any privacy information on this page. Your continued use of the Site, App, and/or Services available through this Site and App after such modifications will constitute your: (a) acknowledgment of the modified Privacy Policy; and (b) agreement to abide and be bound by that Policy.
Contact Information
Gold Flag Media LLC welcomes your questions or comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Gold Flag Media LLC has not adhered to this Statement, please contact Gold Flag Media LLC at:
Gold Flag Media LLC
58 Summer St
Andover, Massachusetts 01810
Email Address: psinger@semiconductordigest.com
Telephone number: 978-470-1806
Effective as of April 29, 2019