Privacy Policy

This Policy is for the web site of MexConnect https://www.mexconnect.com, a monthly electronic magazine (ISSN #1028-9089) and web site devoted to Mexico. This Policy was last updated on December 13, 2020

Your privacy is extremely important to us.

To that end, here is our Policy and Practice regarding your personal information.

We can be reached via e-mail for general communications, or to resolve a particular problem or information request

Uses of Information Collected

What information do we collect?

For each visitor to our URL, where possible, our Web server automatically recognizes only your ISP’s domain name, but not your e-mail address.

We do collect the e-mail addresses of those who:

  • post messages or comments on the site;
  • communicate with us via e-mail;

We do aggregate information on what pages consumers in general access or visit, and information volunteered by the consumer, such as survey information and/or site registrations.

We may use third-party advertising companies, including Mediavine, Google, or others, to serve ads when you visit our web site. These companies may use information (not including your name, address email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. Users may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Ads Settings. Alternatively, you can opt out of a third-party vendor’s use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info.

What we do with the email addresses we do collect:

  • The information we collect is used by us, and only us, to contact consumers for communication purposes and is not shared with or sold to other organizations.
  • If you supply us with your postal address on-line, you will only receive the information for which you provided us your address.
  • MexConnect does not use agents or service providers on the site.
  • MexConnect does not share, sell, rent or trade Personal Information with third parties for their promotional purposes.

We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our Web site.

Mediavine Programmatic Advertising (Ver 1.1)

The Website works with Mediavine to manage third-party interest-based advertising appearing on the Website. Mediavine serves content and advertisements when you visit the Website, which may use first and third-party cookies. A cookie is a small text file which is sent to your computer or mobile device (referred to in this policy as a “device”) by the web server so that a website can remember some information about your browsing activity on the Website.

First party cookies are created by the website that you are visiting. A third-party cookie is frequently used in behavioral advertising and analytics and is created by a domain other than the website you are visiting. Third-party cookies, tags, pixels, beacons and other similar technologies (collectively, “Tags”) may be placed on the Website to monitor interaction with advertising content and to target and optimize advertising. Each internet browser has functionality so that you can block both first and third-party cookies and clear your browser’s cache. The “help" feature of the menu bar on most browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new cookies, how to receive notification of new cookies, how to disable existing cookies and how to clear your browser’s cache. For more information about cookies and how to disable them, you can consult the information at All About Cookies.

Without cookies you may not be able to take full advantage of the Website content and features. Please note that rejecting cookies does not mean that you will no longer see ads when you visit our Site. In the event you opt-out, you will still see non-personalized advertisements on the Website.

The Website collects the following data using a cookie when serving personalized ads:

  • IP Address
  • Operating System type
  • Operating System version
  • Device Type
  • Language of the website
  • Web browser type
  • Email (in hashed form)

Mediavine Partners (companies listed below with whom Mediavine shares data) may also use this data to link to other end user information the partner has independently collected to deliver targeted advertisements. Mediavine Partners may also separately collect data about end users from other sources, such as advertising IDs or pixels, and link that data to data collected from Mediavine publishers in order to provide interest-based advertising across your online experience, including devices, browsers and apps. This data includes usage data, cookie information, device information, information about interactions between users and advertisements and websites, geolocation data, traffic data, and information about a visitor’s referral source to a particular website. Mediavine Partners may also create unique IDs to create audience segments, which are used to provide targeted advertising.

If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices to opt-in or opt-out of this data collection, please visit National Advertising Initiative opt out page. You may also visit Digital Advertising Alliance website and Network Advertising Initiative website to learn more information about interest-based advertising. You may download the AppChoices app at Digital Advertising Alliance’s AppChoices app to opt out in connection with mobile apps, or use the platform controls on your mobile device to opt out.

For specific information about Mediavine Partners, the data each collects and their data collection and privacy policies, please visit Mediavine Partners.

Use of cookies

A cookie is a small amount of data that is sent to your browser from a Web server and stored on your computer’s hard drive. We use cookies in a limited way to help deliver advertisements, to identify unique browsers that visit us and to track usage throughout our site. We also use cookies on our site to make the log-in and sign-up processes more convenient for users.

We do not link the information we store in cookies to any personally identifiable information you submit while on our site.

We use Google Analytics for aggregated, anonymized website traffic analysis. In order to track your session usage, Google drops a cookie (_ga) with a randomly-generated ClientID in your browser. This ID is anonymized and contains no identifiable information like email, phone number, name, etc. We also send Google your IP Address. We use GA to track aggregated website behavior, such as what pages you looked at, for how long, and so on. This information is important to us for improving the user experience and determining site effectiveness. If you would like to access what browsing information we have – or ask us to delete any GA data – please delete your _ga cookies, reach out to us via this form, and/or install the Google Analytics Opt-Out Browser Add-On.

We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, click here.

Amazon Affiliate Disclosure

As an Amazon Associate MexConnect earns from qualifying purchases.

Share This and RSS Feeds

MexConnect also provides the function where from within individual articles, readers can email the link to that article to themselves or to friends. This Share This function will use the reader’s own email program. MexConnect neither knows of nor collects any personal information regarding the sender or recipient of the activated function.

MexConnect also provides the function wherein readers can use various social networking and bookmarking services from within individual pages (RSS functions). MexConnect neither knows of nor collects any personal information regarding the sender or recipient of the activated function.

MexConnect Comments Account

In order to create a Sign-in Account, applicants will provide MexConnect with personal information including name, and e-mail address. We use this information to set up your account. MexConnect keeps all such information strictly confidential and does not reuse, resell or redistribute it in any way.

MexConnect will not send you e-mail at the address you provide, except for infrequent announcements relating to the Site or as needed to resolve issues that may arise with your account. When you request termination or deactivation of your account (by email), you will receive no further e-mails from us.

The e-mail address you register with MexConnect will not be publicly available nor will it be available in the forums if and when you post comments there, but you are free at any time to substitute an alternate e-mail address if you wish to by changing your profile information.

If you comment on articles, use a forum, bulletin board, blog, or chat room on this Web site, you should be aware that any personally identifiable information you submit there can be read, collected, or used by other users of these forums, and could be used to send you unsolicited messages. We are not responsible for the personally identifiable information you choose to submit.

Participants making Comments are expected to comply with the rules governing that area, but we cannot control third parties’ use of information you may choose to provide in such public forums. For more information see the Comments: Terms of Service and Guidelines

Updating, Accessing, Amending or Correcting Personally identifiable information.

If your personally identifiable information changes, or if you no longer desire our service, you may correct, update, amend, delete/remove or deactivate it by emailing Customer Support.

Change Cookie Consent

To update your Cookie Consent preferences please use the link to your region below and change the settings under the Consent section. 

  • Additional Cookie Policy details for Canada available here.
  • Additional Cookie Policy details for Europe available here.
  • Additional Cookie Policy details for UK available here.
  • Additional Cookie Policy details for USA available here.

Choice/Opt-out

If you do not want to receive e-mail from us in the future, please let us know by e-mail, telling us that you do not want to receive e-mail from our company.

Site Security Measures

We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personally identifiable information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

If you have any questions about security on our Web site, you can send an email.

Region Specific Privacy Statements

We may have additional Privacy Statement details available for your region:

  • Additional Privacy Statement details for Canada available here.
  • Additional Privacy Statement details for Europe available here.
  • Additional Privacy Statement details for UK available here.
  • Additional Privacy Statement details for USA available here.
    • Residents of California may find additional information pertaining to CCPA here.

Third party websites

This privacy statement does not apply to third party websites connected by links on our website. We cannot guarantee that these third parties handle your personal data in a reliable or secure manner. We recommend you read the privacy statements of these websites prior to making use of these websites.

Changes to this Privacy Statement

We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.