1. Introduction
Wild Nexus (“Wild Nexus,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) respects your privacy and is committed to being transparent about how information is collected and used when you visit the Wild Nexus website, subscribe to our communications, contact us, interact with our content, or otherwise use our website and related services.
This Privacy Policy explains the types of information we may collect, how we use that information, when information may be shared with third parties, and the choices available to you.
This Privacy Policy applies to the Wild Nexus website and the online features and services that link to this policy.
2. Information You Provide to Us
You may browse much of Wild Nexus without directly providing personal information.
We may collect information that you voluntarily provide when you:
- subscribe to our newsletter or email updates;
- contact us through a website form;
- communicate with Wild Nexus;
- submit information, content, questions, or feedback;
- participate in future promotions, surveys, giveaways, or similar features, if offered; or
- otherwise voluntarily provide information through the website.
Depending on how you interact with us, this information may include your name, email address, telephone number, message content, and other information you choose to provide.
3. Information Collected Automatically
When you visit Wild Nexus, certain technical information may be collected automatically by our website or service providers.
This may include information such as:
- IP address;
- browser and device type;
- operating system;
- pages viewed;
- referring and exit pages;
- approximate geographic information derived from an IP address;
- dates and times of visits;
- interactions with website features; and
- other diagnostic, analytics, or performance information.
We may use this information to operate, secure, maintain, analyze, and improve Wild Nexus.
4. Cookies and Similar Technologies
Wild Nexus and service providers used by the website may use cookies and similar technologies to remember preferences, understand website usage, measure performance, provide functionality, support advertising, and improve the visitor experience.
Some cookies may be necessary for the website to function properly. Others may be provided by analytics, advertising, social-media, embedded-media, or other third-party services.
Your browser may allow you to block, limit, or delete cookies. Disabling certain cookies may affect some website functionality.
Where required by applicable law, additional choices or consent mechanisms may be provided.
5. Analytics
Wild Nexus may use analytics and measurement services to understand how visitors use the website, which content is useful or popular, how visitors reach Wild Nexus, and how the website performs.
These services may collect technical information through cookies or similar technologies according to their own privacy practices.
6. Newsletter and Email Communications
If you subscribe to Wild Nexus emails, we may collect and use your email address and related subscription information to send articles, editorial updates, newsletters, announcements, and other Wild Nexus communications.
Wild Nexus may automatically send communications associated with newly published content.
You may unsubscribe from marketing or editorial emails using the unsubscribe mechanism provided in those communications, when available, or by contacting us through the website.
We may retain limited information necessary to honor an unsubscribe request.
7. Contact Forms and Communications
When you contact Wild Nexus through a website form, we may collect your name, email address, telephone number if voluntarily provided, message, and any other information you include.
We use this information to respond to inquiries, provide assistance, maintain appropriate records, protect the website, and communicate with you about your request.
Please do not submit sensitive personal information through general contact forms unless it is necessary for your request.
8. Advertising and Sponsored Content
Wild Nexus may display advertisements, sponsored content, direct-sponsor advertising, and advertising supplied through third-party advertising services.
Advertising partners may use cookies, device identifiers, or similar technologies to deliver, measure, or evaluate advertisements, subject to their own privacy policies and applicable law.
The appearance of an advertisement or sponsored content on Wild Nexus does not necessarily constitute an endorsement of the advertiser or its products or services unless expressly stated.
Wild Nexus may use services such as Google AdSense or other advertising providers in the future. This Privacy Policy may be updated as our advertising technologies change.
9. Third-Party and Embedded Services
Wild Nexus may contain or embed content and services provided by third parties, including services associated with platforms such as YouTube, Vimeo, SoundCloud, Facebook, and Instagram.
When you interact with third-party content or services, those providers may receive information about your interaction according to their own privacy policies and technologies.
Wild Nexus does not control the privacy practices of independent third parties. We encourage you to review their privacy policies when interacting with their services.
10. Social Media
Wild Nexus maintains or links to social-media accounts and may integrate social-media functionality into the website.
If you interact with Wild Nexus through a social-media platform, the platform may collect or process information independently under its own terms and privacy policy.
Information you make publicly available through a social-media service may be visible to Wild Nexus and other users of that service.
11. Instagram and Meta Integration
Wild Nexus integrates with Meta and Instagram to support certain social-media functionality, including our “From the Field” feature.
Through Meta-authorized services, Wild Nexus may retrieve eligible Instagram media associated with posts that tag the Wild Nexus Instagram account, @wild.nexus.
This integration may provide Wild Nexus with information associated with eligible tagged content, such as media, media identifiers, media type, post links, and other information made available through Meta's authorized interfaces.
Wild Nexus uses this information to operate and maintain the From the Field feature and related website functionality.
Use of Facebook and Instagram remains subject to Meta's applicable terms, privacy policies, settings, and controls.
12. From the Field Tagged Content
The From the Field section may display publicly available or otherwise eligible Instagram content that tags @wild.nexus.
Displaying this content on Wild Nexus does not transfer ownership of the underlying photograph, video, caption, trademark, or other intellectual property to Wild Nexus.
Instagram users remain responsible for the content they publish and for complying with Instagram's terms and applicable law.
Wild Nexus may remove displayed social-media content at its discretion or in response to an appropriate request.
If content belonging to you appears in From the Field and you would like Wild Nexus to stop displaying it, please contact Wild Nexus using the form available on this website and provide enough information for us to identify the content.
13. How We Use Information
We may use information collected through Wild Nexus to:
- operate and maintain the website;
- publish and deliver editorial content;
- provide requested features and services;
- send subscribed email communications;
- respond to questions and requests;
- operate social-media integrations;
- display eligible tagged Instagram content;
- understand website usage and performance;
- improve our content, design, functionality, and visitor experience;
- administer advertising and sponsorships;
- prevent fraud, abuse, security incidents, and technical problems;
- enforce our Terms of Use;
- comply with legal obligations; and
- protect the rights, property, and safety of Wild Nexus, our visitors, contributors, and others.
14. How Information May Be Shared
Wild Nexus may share information with service providers and other parties when reasonably necessary to operate the website or provide its services.
These may include website hosting providers, email and newsletter providers, analytics providers, advertising providers, social-media platforms, technical service providers, and other vendors performing services on our behalf.
We may also disclose information when reasonably necessary to comply with law, legal process, or valid governmental requests; enforce our agreements; investigate fraud, abuse, or security incidents; or protect rights, property, or safety.
If Wild Nexus or substantially all of its relevant assets are involved in a merger, acquisition, financing, restructuring, or sale, information may be transferred as part of that transaction subject to applicable law.
Wild Nexus does not represent that information will never be disclosed to third parties when disclosure is necessary to operate the website or provide requested services.
15. Data Retention
We retain information for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes for which it was collected, to operate Wild Nexus, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, maintain appropriate business records, prevent abuse, and enforce agreements.
Retention periods may vary depending on the type of information and why it was collected.
16. Data Security
Wild Nexus takes reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures intended to protect information under our control.
However, no website, Internet transmission, electronic storage system, or security measure can be guaranteed to be completely secure. You provide information electronically at your own risk.
17. Your Privacy Choices and Rights
Depending on where you live and applicable law, you may have rights concerning your personal information, which may include rights to request access, correction, deletion, or information about certain processing or disclosures.
You may also have the right to object to or opt out of certain processing.
Not all rights apply in every circumstance or jurisdiction. Wild Nexus may need to verify your identity before fulfilling certain requests and may retain information where permitted or required by law.
To make a privacy request, use the form available on this website.
18. Email Choices
You may unsubscribe from Wild Nexus marketing or editorial emails by following the unsubscribe instructions contained in the email, when available.
Please note that certain non-promotional communications may still be sent when reasonably necessary to respond to a request, administer a service, or satisfy legal obligations.
19. Meta / Instagram Data Deletion and Removal Requests
If you would like to request deletion of information associated with your interaction with the Wild Nexus Meta/Instagram integration, or request removal of your Instagram content from the Wild Nexus From the Field section, please contact Wild Nexus using the form available on this website.
Please include sufficient information to identify the relevant content or interaction, such as your Instagram username or a link to the applicable Instagram post.
Wild Nexus will review appropriate requests and take reasonable action consistent with applicable law and the functionality available through Meta and Instagram.
Removing content from Wild Nexus does not necessarily delete the original content from Instagram or Meta. Requests concerning information maintained directly by Meta should be submitted through Meta's applicable privacy and account controls.
20. Children's Privacy
Wild Nexus is intended for a general audience and is not designed to collect personal information from children under 13.
We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 through the website. If we learn that such information has been collected in circumstances requiring deletion, we will take reasonable steps to remove it.
Parents or guardians who believe a child has provided personal information to Wild Nexus may contact us through the website's form.
21. External Websites
Wild Nexus contains links to websites, products, services, social-media platforms, retailers, advertisers, and other resources operated by third parties.
Wild Nexus is not responsible for the privacy, security, content, or practices of third-party websites or services. Visiting a third-party website is subject to that third party's policies.
22. Future E-Commerce Services
Wild Nexus plans to introduce shopping or e-commerce functionality in the future.
The Wild Nexus store is not currently an active purchasing service. Before direct e-commerce functionality is launched, this Privacy Policy will be updated as appropriate to explain information collected in connection with purchases, payment processing, shipping, order fulfillment, customer accounts if offered, and relevant commerce providers.
Payment-card information will be handled according to the practices of the payment processor or commerce platform used at that time.
23. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy as Wild Nexus, our technology, our services, or applicable legal requirements change.
When we update this policy, we will revise the “Last Updated” date above. Material changes may be communicated through additional notice when appropriate.
We encourage visitors to review this Privacy Policy periodically.
24. Contact Us
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, wish to exercise an applicable privacy right, or need to submit a request concerning the Wild Nexus Meta/Instagram integration, please use the form available on this website.