Privacy Policy

ONLINE PRIVACY POLICY AGREEMENT

Last update: September 30, 2026

Welcome to Our Iowa.

This Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) describes how Reiman Iowa, LLC and our affiliates, subsidiaries, and related entities operating under the Our Iowa Magazine brand (“Our Iowa”, “us”, or “our”) collect, use, disclose, and retain personal information about individuals that interact with our businesses, websites, and other digital services, marketing campaigns, events, email newsletters, and other online or offline activity, offering, or publication that links to or references this Privacy Policy (collectively, “Our Iowa Services”).  

This Privacy Policy is designed to be reasonably accessible to people with disabilities. If you experience any difficulties accessing the information in this Privacy Policy, please email us at privacy@ouriowamagazine.com.

I. TYPES OF INFORMATION COLLECTED

The information we gather about you depends on the context and the Our Iowa Services you use. By and large, it’s information about you that can personally identify you — either on its own or when combined with other information. The following describes the information we collect and how we obtain it.

A. INFORMATION YOU VOLUNTARILY GIVE US

When you sign up for or inquire about Our Iowa Services, we collect personal identifiers such as your contact information, including some or all of the following: your name, company name, mailing address, telephone number, email address and account credentials. For magazine subscriptions, at a minimum, you give us your name and mailing address. We may also ask you to create an account to use some Our Iowa Services. You may voluntarily choose to provide additional personal information.

To process payments, we collect and use your payment information. This can include your name, your address, your telephone number, your email address, your credit or debit card information and any other relevant information.

From time to time, we offer certain opportunities through contests, sweepstakes, gift cards, or other special promotions and offers. When you sign up for these, you give us your name, email and any other required information.

With your consent, we comply with your requests to collect data about your friends, family or acquaintances (e.g., Gift Subscriptions). By using it, you acknowledge and agree that you have everyone’s consent for us to use their contact information.

By voluntarily submitting material to Our Iowa for consideration of publication in Our Iowa magazine, you give us your contact information including your name, mailing address, phone number and email address. Submissions may include, but are not limited to photos, original stories, ideas and suggestions, and reader feedback. Visit www.OurIowaMagazine.com/GetPublished for information about submitting material for possible publication.

B. INFORMATION COLLECTED AUTOMATICALLY

When you use Our Iowa Services, we collect some information automatically. The technologies we use to assist with this data collection may include cookies, web beacons, tags and scripts and software development kits (or SDKs). We use these technologies on our websites as well as in our email communications and newsletters.

The categories of personal information we collect automatically include:

When you access our Our Iowa Services websites our servers use a variety of technologies in order to automatically receive, record and/or log information about the device you are using, including unique identifiers. If your browser doesn’t accept our cookies or similar technologies, you may not be able to access certain parts of our websites. The items we collect may include:

• Your IP address
• Cookie identifiers
• Your operating system and browser (e.g., type, version, and configuration)
• Your browser language
• Device identifiers (such as MAC address)
• Advertising identifiers
• The unique ID that we assign to you when you register, as described above

We combine this data with other information we collect about you.

Our Iowa Services use automatic data collection technology and services such as “cookies”, “web beacons”, “tags” and other similar technologies. A cookie is a small data file that is placed on the hard drive of your computer so that your computer will “remember” information when you visit a website. Web beacons and tags are small strings of code that are used in conjunction with a cookie and that allow us to record activity on our Sites/Services. A web beacon allows us to capture certain additional types of information about a visitor’s actions on a website, such as a visitor’s cookie number, device and browser information, the time, date, duration and number of page views, a description of the page where the web beacon is placed, and details about any items that were purchased.

When you use Our Iowa Services, these technologies may record and collect personal information, such as information that identifies your computer, tracks your use of our website and collects certain information about you and your surfing habits. This information may include information that identifies your device, IP address, browser type and language preferences, and information about referring and exit pages and URLs, keywords, date and time, what sections of a website you visit, and other similar information concerning your use. This information is used for the purposes mentioned above and to help us serve you better by improving our website design, as well as our products, services, and promotions. We also use the technologies mentioned above to improve functionality of the Services and user experience.

We collect information about certain internet and network activity on Our Iowa Services, including your interactions with our websites and apps, such as the URLs of any pages you visit on our websites, the URL of the website from which you came to our sites, how long you spent on a page, access times, search queries, and other details about your use of and actions on our Services. This also includes your interactions with marketing and advertisements on Our Iowa Services.

As described elsewhere in this Policy, we may use this usage data to personalize or customize content for you that we think you might like based on your usage patterns or for other similar purposes. We may also use it to improve Our Iowa Services — for example, this data can tell us how often users use a particular feature of Our Iowa Services, and we can use that knowledge to make Our Iowa Services interesting to as many users as possible. We combine this data with other information we collect about you.

II. HOW WE USE PERSONAL INFORMATION

We use each of the categories of personal information described above to operate, improve, understand and personalize Our Iowa Services, and for the following business and commercial purposes. The activities below can involve outside companies, agents or contractors (“service providers”) to whom we disclose your personal information for these purposes.

A. PROVIDE OUR IOWA SERVICES AND FULFILL YOUR REQUESTS

We use your information to help you use and navigate Our Iowa Services, such as:

• Making an Our Iowa Service available to you or otherwise meeting or fulfilling the purposes for which you provided the information to us, including charging you for Our Iowa Services
• Arranging access to your account
• Providing customer service
• Responding to your inquiries, requests, suggestions or complaints
• Completing your payments and transactions
• Sending service-related transactional messages (e.g., a change in our Terms of Service, Terms of Sale, or other terms and conditions) and otherwise communicating with you about Our Iowa Services
• Creating and managing user profiles and content.

B. PERSONALIZATION

We use your information to personalize or tailor the content and information that we may send or display to you, to provide personalized offers or content customized to your interests, personalized help and instructions, analyze your actual or likely preferences, and to otherwise personalize your experiences while using the Services.

C. ANALYSIS

We analyze data on our users’ subscriptions, purchases, registered account activity and other usage behaviors. This helps us make business and marketing decisions. This allows us to understand how users interact with Our Iowa Services and to improve and develop Our Iowa Services, including new features, research, surveys, analysis, and product development.

D. ADMINISTRATIVE AND LEGAL TASKS

For auditing, legal or regulatory purposes: We verify that our internal processes work as intended and comply with legal, regulatory and contractual requirements. More broadly, we process information to comply with legal, regulatory and contractual obligations and to respond to law enforcement requests (our sharing for these purposes is described in Section 3 below).

For fraud and security monitoring: We detect and prevent cyberattacks or unauthorized robot activities, protect against or deter fraudulent, illegal, or harmful actions, and maintain the safety, security, and integrity of Our Iowa Services.

For customer satisfaction: We assess users’ satisfaction with Our Iowa Services and our customer care team.

E. SWEEPSTAKES, CONTESTS, SUBMISSIONS AND OTHER PROMOTIONS

As discussed above, you can take part in our sweepstakes, contests and other promotions and submit material we may consider for publication in the magazine. Some might have additional rules about how we use and disclose your personal information.

F. EXTERNAL MARKETING AND PROMOTIONAL PURPOSES

We may gather data and work with service providers and third parties to show you and measure the performance of personalized ads on behalf of advertisers. This data comes from ad tracking technologies set by us or the third party (e.g., cookies), the information you provide (e.g., your email address), your use of Our Iowa Services, information from advertisers or advertising vendors and anything inferred from any of this information.

We try to limit how our third-party advertising technology vendors use the information they gather from you. Many of these providers require us to enter into contracts that allow them to optimize their own services and products, or that help them create their own. Essentially, these providers combine any information they gather about you through Our Iowa Services with information they receive from their other clients. This helps them target ads to you on behalf of their other clients, not just us.

These third parties sometimes use other services in order to serve ads; check their privacy policies for more details. As described in more detail below, residents of certain states have the right to instruct us not to “sell” or “share” their personal information and/or to opt out of “targeted advertising” and "sales" (as defined under applicable law). For more information, please see the Your Rights and Choices section below.

G. ADVERTISING AND MARKETING OUR IOWA SERVICES TO YOU

We market Our Iowa Services to you. Sometimes we use marketing vendors to do this. We serve ads through websites, locations, platforms and services operated and owned by third parties. The ads are also targeted at people with similar traits or behaviors to our subscribers or customers. We use the information described in Section 1 above, including inferences, to build audiences that may be used for purposes of these marketing initiatives.

We will take steps designed to opt you out of such matched ads if you are a resident of certain states where you have the right to opt out of such processing, as discussed further below. That being said, in order to opt out of receiving these matched ads, you should also contact the applicable third parties.

We may periodically send you targeted email newsletters or promotional emails. For information on opting out of these emails, see Your Rights and Choices below.

H. AGGREGATE (OR DE-IDENTIFY) PERSONAL INFORMATION

Sometimes we aggregate or de-identify information so that it can no longer identify you, as defined under applicable laws. This helps us better understand and represent our users, such as when we measure ad performance, create audiences for advertising or marketing interest-based segments or compile survey results. We can use and disclose this aggregated or de-identified information for any purpose, unless an applicable law says otherwise. We will maintain and use such information in deidentified form and not attempt to reidentify the information, except where reidentification is allowed by law for particular purposes.

III. HOW WE DISCLOSE INFORMATION

A. WITHIN OUR IOWA

Our affiliates may access your information for the purposes listed above.

B. WITH SERVICE PROVIDERS

We work with service providers, as defined above, to carry out certain tasks, including the following business purposes:

• Processing your payments
• Fulfilling your orders
• Maintaining technology and related infrastructure
• Shipping you products and mailings
• Distributing emails
• List processing and analytics
• Managing promotions
• Detecting security incidents, protecting against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, and debugging to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality.

When performing these tasks, service providers often have access to your personal information. We sometimes allow them to use aggregated or de-identified information for other purposes, in accordance with applicable laws.

C. PUBLIC DISCLOSURE

If you choose to interact with us on social media, your screen name and other information you have provided will be public. If you attend one of our events, we may publish a photograph or video that includes your image. We may also publish information concerning winners of contests that we sponsor, as permitted by the contest rules. If we choose to publish your voluntary submission it may include your name and location.

D. BUSINESS TRANSFERS

If (i) some or all of Our Iowa or our affiliates are acquired by, merged with, or invested in by another company, or (ii) if any of our assets are or may be transferred to another company, whether as part of a bankruptcy, assignment for the benefit of creditors, insolvency proceeding or similar financial circumstances, we may transfer the information we have collected about you to the other company. As part of the business transfer process, we may disclose certain of your information to lenders, auditors, and third party advisors, including attorneys and consultants.

E. THIRD PARTIES

There are situations when we disclose your information to third parties beyond our service providers. For example, as discussed above in Section II(F) and (G), we share your email address and other personal information with third parties both for marketing of Our Iowa Services across third party sites and services, and to support matching for third party advertising on Our Iowa Services. Those emails may or may not be hashed when they are shared with third parties.

It is worth noting how practices of certain vendors and changes in law outside of our control have changed what we can say about this. First, as noted elsewhere in this Policy, to the extent regulators take the position that the disclosure of information for matched ads is a “sale,” we will take steps designed to opt you out of such matched ads if you are a resident of an applicable jurisdiction and you exercise your right not to have your personal information “sold.” As noted above, you may also have to contact certain third parties to opt out of such matched ads.

We may also share the personal information we collect about you to data partners, such as (i) list buyers who market their goods and services (commonly known as “list rental”); (ii) our advertising, marketing and sponsorship clients to market their goods and services; (iii) “data coops,” which are pooled databases containing the customer information of multiple publishers to enable the marketing use of such customer information by participating publishers; (iv) consumer data suppliers/resellers, data enrichment providers and aggregators, and other entities in the online behavioral advertising (“OBA”) ecosystem for purposes of OBA (as described below in this Privacy Policy); (v) social media and social networking services.

In the event of a reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer or other disposition of all or any portion of our business, assets or stock (including in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceedings), we would have a legitimate interest in disclosing or transferring your information to a third party — such as an acquiring entity and its advisers.

We can preserve or disclose personal information if the law requires us to do so. We can also preserve or disclose personal information if we believe it would be necessary to:

• Comply with the law or with legal process
• Protect and defend our rights and property
• Protect against misuse or unauthorized use of Our Iowa Services
• Protect the safety or property of our personnel, users or the general public (e.g., if you provide false information or attempt to pose as someone else, we could share your information to help investigations into your actions)
• Cooperate with government authorities, which could be outside your country of residence.

As described above in Section II(H), we may disclose aggregated or de-identified information for any purpose, unless an applicable law says otherwise.

IV. YOUR RIGHTS AND CHOICES

We provide a variety of ways for you to control the personal information we hold about you, including choices about how we use that information. In some jurisdictions, these controls and choices are enforceable as rights under applicable law. The choices described below are limited to the specific email address, phone or device used. They won’t affect different email addresses, phones or devices used, or subsequent subscriptions.

A. IN GENERAL

In some jurisdictions, you may exercise the following choices:

• Access, modify or delete the personal information we have about you
• Be informed of or receive an electronic copy of the personal information we have about you, for data portability.
• Restrict, or object to, how we process personal information about you

For example, in the European Union and the United Kingdom, you have the right to object to, or obtain a restriction of, the processing of your personal information under certain circumstances; and where the processing is based on your consent, you have a right to withdraw that consent at any time for future processing.

You can update and review your account information by logging into your account with your username, password or other available credentials. If you do not have a username, password, or if there are pieces of information that you cannot alter yourself, please email us at privacy@ouriowamagazine.com or send mail to 1510 Buckeye Avenue, Ames IA 50010 for assistance. In your request, please be specific. State the information you want changed, whether you’d like your information suppressed from our database or whether there are limitations you’d like us to put on how we use your personal information. Please use the name and mailing address and/or the email address linked to that personal information — we only complete requests on the information linked to name and address and/or your email address. To verify your identity, we may email the email address you provide us and wait for your response. In some instances, we may also ask for additional information. This is how we verify your identity before complying. If you use Our Iowa Services without creating an account and signing in, there may be no reasonable means by which we can verify your identity or the personal information related to you.

In some jurisdictions, you can designate an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf. In order to do that, please provide the agent with written permission, signed by you, authorizing the agent to submit the request on your behalf. The agent must submit that written permission along with the request. We may contact you to verify your identity — and the authorized agent’s permission — before a response to the request is sent.

We’ll respond to your request in a manner consistent with applicable law, including any exceptions that may result in a request being denied in whole or in part.

We might need to keep certain information for recordkeeping purposes, or to complete a transaction you began prior to requesting a change or deletion (e.g., if you make a purchase or enter a promotion, you might not be able to change or delete the personal information provided until after the completion of the purchase or promotion).

In some cases, your request doesn’t ensure complete removal of the content or information.

2. COOKIE CONTROLS
Most web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. If you prefer, you can go to your browser settings to learn how to delete or reject cookies. If you choose to delete or reject cookies, this could affect certain features or services of our websites. If you choose to delete cookies, settings and preferences controlled by those cookies, including advertising preferences, may be deleted and may need to be recreated.

3. OPT OUT OF TARGETED ADVERTISING AND "SALES OR SHARING" OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
If you reside in the U.S. or in Canada, you can opt out of targeted advertising and "sales or sharing" (as those terms are defined under applicable law) of your personal information by emailing privacy@ouriowamagazine.com. California residents can review relevant information relating to California privacy laws below.

4. DELETE MY ACCOUNT
You are not able to delete your registered user account online. Please contact privacy@ouriowamagazine.com to request removal as a registered user from our database.

5. OTHER RIGHTS AND CHOICES
You will not receive discriminatory treatment by us for the exercise of your privacy rights.

This Policy has been designed to be accessible to people with disabilities. If you experience difficulties accessing this Policy, please contact us at privacy@ouriowamagazine.com. 

In some jurisdictions, you may appeal to us if we refuse to take action on your exercise of certain choices described above. In order to appeal such a refusal, please contact us at privacy@ouriowamagazine.com using the subject line “Appeal of Refusal to Take Action on Privacy Request” and provide the relevant information in the email.

In the European Union, you can lodge a complaint with an E.U. data protection authority. If you are in the UK, you can reach the Information Commissioner's Office here. In Australia or New Zealand, if you are not satisfied with our resolution of your complaint, you can contact the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner through their website at www.oaic.gov.au or the Office of the New Zealand Privacy Commissioner through their website at www.privacy.org.nz. We encourage you to first contact us with any questions or concerns. 

B. CALIFORNIA PRIVACY NOTICES AND RIGHTS

1. NOTICE AT COLLECTION AND NOTICE OF FINANCIAL INCENTIVES
At or before the time of collection, you have a right to receive notice of our practices, including the categories of personal information and sensitive personal information to be collected, the purposes for which such information is collected or used, whether such information is "sold or shared" as defined under California law and how long such information is retained. 

2. RIGHTS TO KNOW, CORRECTION AND DELETION
You have a right to request that we disclose to you the personal information we have collected about you. You also have a right to request additional information about our collection, use, disclosure, or sale of such personal information. Note that we have provided much of this information in this Privacy Policy. You also have rights to request that we correct inaccurate personal information and that we delete personal information under certain circumstances, subject to a number of exceptions. Under the CCPA, these rights are subject to certain exceptions: for example, we may need to retain your personal information to provide you with Our Iowa Services or to complete a transaction or other action you have requested. If your request is subject to one of these exceptions, we may deny your request.

3. "DO NOT SELL OR SHARE MY PERSONAL INFORMATION"
To the extent Our Iowa Magazine “sells” your personal information (as the term “sell” is defined under the CCPA), you have the right to opt-out of that “sale” on a going-forward basis at any time. 

If you’re a California resident, you have a right to opt-out from the “sale” or “sharing” of your personal information with third parties who are not our service providers (as those terms are defined under the California Consumer Privacy Act and the California Privacy Rights Act, or “CCPA” for short in this Policy). You can also submit a request to opt-out by emailing us at privacy@ouriowamagazine.com with the subject line “California Resident - Do Not Sell or Share.” 

We do not knowingly “sell” or “share” (as those terms are defined by the CCPA) the personal information of minors under 16 years old.

4. RIGHT TO LIMIT USE AND DISCLOSURE OF SENSITIVE PERSONAL INFORMATION
If you are a California resident, you have a right to limit our use of sensitive personal information for any purposes other than to provide the services or goods you request or as otherwise permitted by law. To opt-out from such additional purposes, contact us via privacy@ouriowamagazine.com. 

5. AUTHORIZED AGENTS
You can designate an authorized agent to make a request to exercise your rights under the CCPA on your behalf. In order to do that, please provide the agent with written permission, signed by you, authorizing the agent to submit the request on your behalf. The agent must submit that written permission along with the request. We may contact you to verify your identity — and the authorized agent’s permission — before a response to the request is sent.

6. NON-DISCRIMINATION RIGHTS
You may exercise any of your rights listed in this section without fear of unlawful discrimination.

7, CALIFORNIA "SHINE THE LIGHT" PRIVACY RIGHTS
Under the California “Shine the Light” law, California residents can opt out of our sharing of their information to third parties (and sometimes affiliates) for their direct marketing purposes. We do not generally disclose your personal information as specifically defined in the Shine the Light law. To the extent we share your email address with a third party in connection with online marketing in a way that might be covered by Shine the Light, you may opt out of such sharing by contacting us via privacy@ouriowamagazine.com. 

V. RETAINING DATA

We store your personal information for as long as needed, or permitted, based on the reason why we obtained it (consistent with applicable law). This means we might retain your personal information even after you close your account with us.

When deciding how long to keep your information, we consider:

• How long we have had a relationship with you or provided Our Iowa Services to you
• Whether we are subject to any legal obligations (e.g., any laws that require us to keep transaction records for a certain period of time before we can delete them)
• Whether we have taken any legal positions (e.g., in connection with any statutes of limitation)

Rather than delete your data, we might de-identify or mask it by removing certain identifying details.

VI. OUR COMMITMENT TO SECURITY

We have put in place physical, electronic, and managerial procedures that we believe are appropriate to safeguard and help prevent unauthorized access, maintain data security, and correctly use the information we collect online. Please note that we cannot guarantee the security of our databases or sites, nor can we guarantee that information will not be intercepted while being transmitted over the Internet. In order to use some of the features of our websites, you may be required to create an account with us. For your protection, your account will only be accessible by means of personal credentials. If you believe that your account has been compromised, you should change your account credentials with us where possible and immediately notify Our Iowa. If you forget your login information, follow the instructions on the login page.

VII. CHILDREN UNDER 13

Our Iowa Services are intended for a general audience and are not directed at children under (13) years of age. We do not knowingly gather personal information (as defined by the U.S. Children’s Privacy Protection Act, or COPPA) in a manner not permitted by COPPA. If you are a parent or guardian and you believe we have collected information from your child in a manner not permitted by law, contact us at privacy@ouriowamagazine.com. We will remove the data to the extent required by applicable laws.

VIII. NON-U.S. VISITORS

The Our Iowa websites are operated in the United States and intended for users located in the United States. However, if you are located in the European Union, you may have certain rights under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). These include your right to access personal information that has been processed, right to erasure (“right to be forgotten”), right to rectification of any information that is incorrect, right to restrict processing your personal information, right to data portability, and right to object (opt-out) to processing (unless we otherwise have compelling legitimate grounds). EU residents can exercise these rights by raising a request directly to privacy@ouriowamagazine.com.

IX. LEGAL BASIS

In some jurisdictions, like the UK and the European Economic Area, we only collect, use or share information about you when we have a valid reason. This is called a “lawful basis.” Specifically, this is one of the following:

• The consent you provide to us at the point of collection of your information
• The performance of the contract we have with you
• The compliance of a legal obligation to which we are subject, or
• The legitimate interests of Our Iowa or a third party. “Legitimate interest” is a technical term under international laws, including the UK and European Union General Data Protection Regulation. It means that there are good reasons for the processing of your personal information, and that we take measures to minimize the impact on your privacy rights and interests. “Legitimate interest” also refers to our use of your data in ways you would reasonably expect and that have a minimal privacy impact.

We have a legitimate interest in gathering and processing personal information, for example: (1) to ensure that our networks and information are secure; (2) to administer and generally conduct business within Our Iowa; (3) to prevent fraud; (4) to conduct our marketing activities; and (5) to develop and improve Our Iowa Services.

X. THIRD PARTY SERVICES

Some Our Iowa Services contain links to third-party websites, resources, vendors and advertisers, and other third parties. These third parties are not Our Iowa Services. We do not control (and are not responsible for) third party content or privacy practices. These third parties may independently collect and solicit information about you. Any personal information you provide to them is not covered by this Privacy Policy. These third parties have their own policies and practices about data, which may include what information they share with us, your rights and choices on their services and devices, and whether they store information in the U.S. or elsewhere. We encourage you to familiarize yourself with third-party privacy policies and terms of use.

XI. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

We are always improving our products and services. These updates sometimes require us to collect new information or use what we already have differently. Further, the laws regarding personal information and privacy frequently change. As a result, we must periodically update this Privacy Policy.

This Privacy Policy may be changed from time to time, and we will post any changes on this page by updating this policy, noting the date of the last update. We encourage you to check back with every visit to our websites. If you do not agree to one or more of the changes, you may choose to “opt out,” using the procedures set forth above.

After we post any changes on this page, your continued use of Our Iowa Services is subject to the updated Privacy Policy.

XII. CONTACT US

If you have questions regarding this privacy policy, you may contact us as follows:

Email: privacy@ouriowamagazine.com
Mail: Our Iowa Magazine
1510 Buckeye Avenue
Ames IA 50010