Privacy Policy

PRIVACY POLICY

Last Revised: March 1, 2025

6AM City, Inc (“6AM City”, “us”, “our” or “us”) is the owner and operator of the www.6amcity.com website, and any associated subdomains (collectively, the “Site”), social media platforms, and email notifications (all of the foregoing, along with any related applications provided by us, collectively referred to as the “Services”), and all content and features contained in the foregoing. 6AM City respects your privacy, and we created this privacy policy (the “Policy”) to explain how we collect, use and disclose your information when you access the Site and use the Services. The Policy is only applicable to our Site and our Services and not to any other website, service or online platform. Terms that are not defined in this Policy have the meaning given them in our Terms of Service.

BY ACCESSING THE SITE, UTILIZING ANY SERVICES AND/OR REGISTERING WITH US, YOU SIGNIFY THAT YOU HAVE READ, UNDERSTOOD AND AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THIS POLICY, INCLUDING OUR TERMS OF SERVICE, WHICH ARE INCORPORATED HEREIN BY REFERENCE.

Types of Information Collected

Personal Information

6AM City may ask you for some or all of the following types of information which may be identifiable to you when you register for our Services, access various content or features, or directly contact the Site: (i) contact information, such as your email address and name; (ii) your age; and (iii) information for the purpose of authenticating yourself or your account (collectively “Personal Information”). You are responsible for ensuring the accuracy of all Personal Information you submit to 6AM City.

We also collect and store the Personal Information you voluntarily submit to us through registering with us or uploading or posting User Content through the Site or Services. If you are signed into your social media (e.g., Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat, or similar) account and you “like” or “comment” on 6AM City content or other User Content, your social media username will be displayed and so available to the public. You agree that your username, likes, feedback, and any associated comments may become public information; we therefore urge you to exercise caution when deciding to disclose any Personal Information on the Site or through the Services.

In addition, if you choose to purchase or subscribe to a feature or Services of 6AM City that requires a Fee, you will be required to provide us with your billing information, including, without limitation, bank account numbers, credit card or debit card numbers, account details, ACH information, and similar data (collectively, “Billing Information”).

Non-Personal Information

Cookies and Other Technologies. We may utilize cookies and other technologies, such as web beacons or geolocation information, to recognize you, customize your experience, and serve advertisements. Cookies are very small files placed on your computer, and they allow us to count the number of visitors to 6AM City and distinguish repeat visitors from new visitors. They also allow us to save User preferences and track User trends. This Policy covers the use of cookies by 6AM City and does not cover the use of cookies by any third party websites or advertisers. If you do not want us to deploy cookies in your browser, you can opt out by setting your browser to reject cookies or to notify you when a website tries to put a cookie in your browser software. If you choose to disable cookies in your browser, you can still use the Site and the Services, although your ability to use some of the features may be affected.

Information Collected Automatically. We automatically receive and collect information such as your IP address, the URLs of websites you arrive at 6AM City Sites from or leave 6AM City Sites to go to, your type of browser and language, access times, the content of any undeleted cookies that your browser previously accepted from us, your operating system, your mobile provider, your mobile device, and your ISP. We may use such information to better understand how 6AM City visitors use the Site to analyze trends, administer the website, prevent fraud, and gather broad demographic information.

Our Use of Your Information

Our primary purpose in collecting information, both Personal Information and other, is to provide you with a safe, smooth, efficient, and customized experience. You agree that we may use your information to: provide the Services and customer support you request; troubleshoot problems and prevent potentially prohibited or illegal activities; customize, measure and improve our Site and Services, content and advertising; tell you about and administer our Site and Services, targeted marketing, service updates, contests, sweepstakes, rewards, and promotional offers based on your communication preferences; monitor and enforce our Terms of Service; communicate with Users (as defined in our Terms of Service) about products and/or services you may be interested in; and verify your eligibility to use the Site.

Our Disclosure of Your Information

6AM City is committed to maintaining your trust and we want you to understand when and with whom we may share information collected about you. We may disclose Personal Information, Billing Information and Non-Personal Information to respond to legal requirements, enforce our policies, respond to claims that a listing or other content violates the rights of others, or protect anyone’s rights, property, or safety. Such information will be disclosed in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.

We may also use and/or share your Personal Information, Billing Information and Non-Personal Information with, and you authorize us to use and/or share this information with:

Service providers under contract who help with our business operations. We employ these companies and people to perform tasks on our behalf and need to share your information with them to provide products and services to you.
We will share your Billing Information with a third party service provider as necessary to process your payments. The third party service provider stores your Billing Information; we do not store this information. Storage by the third party service provider of your Billing Information is subject to the privacy policies and practices of the third party service provider and is not subject to the terms of this privacy policy. By providing your Billing Information, you acknowledge and agree to use of such information by the third party service provider for purposes of processing your payment to us, and you agree to release us and hold us harmless of and from any claims that may arise from the third party service provider’s storage or use of your Billing Information.
Our affiliates and promotional partners, so they can offer you special products, services, discounts, tickets, and other items or services. Likewise, we may receive information from such affiliates and promotional partners to offer our Users special items or services.
We may combine your information with information we collect from other companies and use it to improve and personalize our services, content and advertising.
We may sell or rent your information (other than Billing Information) to third parties for marketing purposes without your explicit consent.
In an ongoing effort to better understand our Users, we may analyze certain Non-Personal Information in anonymized and aggregate form in order to operate, maintain, manage, and improve the Site and Services. This aggregate information does not identify you personally. We may share and/or license this aggregate data to our affiliates, agents, business and promotional partners and other third parties. We may also disclose aggregated user statistics in order to describe the Services and these products and services to current and prospective business partners and to other third parties for other lawful purposes.
We may share some or all of your Information with any of our parent companies, subsidiaries, joint ventures, or other companies under common control with us.
As we develop our businesses, we might sell or buy businesses or assets. In the event of a corporate sale, merger, reorganization, sale of assets, dissolution, or similar event, the Information may be part of the transferred assets.

If you do not wish to receive marketing communications from us or participate in our ad-customization programs, simply indicate your preference by following the directions provided with the communication or advertisement.

Advertising Relationships Privacy Policy

This Site is affiliated with CMI Marketing, Inc., d/b/a CafeMedia (“CafeMedia”) for the purposes of placing advertising on the Site, and CafeMedia will collect and use certain data for advertising purposes. To learn more about CafeMedia’s data usage, click here: https://www.cafemedia.com/publisher-advertising-privacy-policy

Google Analytics Privacy Policy

We use Google Analytics to analyze the use of our website. Google Analytics gathers information about website use by means of cookies. The information gathered relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of our website. Google’s privacy policy is available at: https://policies.google.com/privacy

No Spam or Spyware

We do not tolerate spam. Spamming is explicitly prohibited by our Terms of Service. If you would like to report an incident of spamming or other unauthorized communications from other Users, please contact us via Contact Us page on the Site. We maintain the right to investigate such incidents and take such action as we deem appropriate in our sole discretion.

Account Protection

We take commercially reasonable steps to protect your information from loss, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. Nevertheless, no transmission over the Internet and no data storage method can be guaranteed to be safe 100% of the time. 6AM City cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to 6AM City or guarantee that your end user data stored on the Site or the Services may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by breach of any of our industry standard physical, technical, or managerial safeguards. In particular, e-mail sent to us may not be secure, and you should therefore take special care in deciding what information you send to us via e-mail.

The Site is hosted on servers in the United States. Accordingly, if you are located outside of the United States, any information you provide to us will be transferred to the United States. By providing us with any information, you consent to its transfer and storage in the United States.

Email Communication

We may use your email to deliver 6AM City’s daily newsletter, as well as for other promotional (e.g., new product offerings, special offers by us or other third parties) purposes. Email messages we send you may contain code that enables our database to track your usage of the emails we send you, such usage includes whether the email was opened and what links (if any) were clicked. If you send an email to us, or fill out our “Feedback” form, we will collect your email address and the full content of your email, including attached files, and other information you provide.

You may indicate your preference to opt out of receiving promotional communications by following the unsubscribe instructions provided in the promotional email you receive or by contacting us directly via the Site. You acknowledge that it may take up to 10 days for us to process an opt-out request. Please note, however, that you cannot opt out of receiving transactional e-mails related to your account with us.

Third Parties

Except as otherwise expressly included in this Policy, this document addresses only the use and disclosure of information we collect from you. If you disclose your information to other Users on our Site or on other sites throughout the internet, different rules may apply to their use or disclosure of the information you disclose to them. We do not control the privacy policies of third parties, and you are subject to the privacy policies of those third parties where applicable. We encourage you to ask questions before you disclose your Personal Information to others.

Children

Protecting the privacy of young children is especially important to us. For that reason, 6AM City does not knowingly collect or solicit Personal Information from anyone under the age of 13. If you are under 13, please do not give us any Personal Information. We encourage parents and legal guardians to monitor their children’s Internet usage and to help enforce our Privacy Policy by instructing their children never to provide Personal Information through the Site or Services without their permission. If you have reason to believe that a child under the age of 13 has provided Personal Information to us, please contact us, and we will endeavor to delete that information from our databases.

How to Request Personal Information be Deleted

You have the right to request that we delete your personal information by making a formal request in writing via the Contact Information provided herein.

We may not discriminate against you for exercising any of your rights to have personal information deleted. This means that we may not deny you services, however we may provide a different level or quality of services, where that difference is reasonably related to the value provided to us by your personal information.

Please note that we may take steps to verify your identity before granting you access to information or acting on your request to exercise your rights. In connection with such verification, we may ask you to provide a copy of your drivers license along with verification of ownership of the email address associated with the personal information that you wish to be deleted.

You may designate an authorized agent to make a request to know or request to delete on your behalf. To designate an authorized agent, you must provide the agent with written permission to submit the request. We may still require you to verify your identity directly. As permitted by law, we may refuse a request if the agent does not provide adequate proof of their authorization.

Changes to This Policy

We reserve the right, at any time, to add to, change, update, or modify this Policy. Any such changes to this Policy will be posted here on our Site so we urge you to please visit this page frequently. In all cases, use of information we collect is subject to the Policy in effect at the time such information is collected. Please refer back to this Privacy Policy on a regular basis.

Contact Information

If you have any questions about this Policy, please contact us via email at hello@6amcity.com, using our online Contact Us form at https://6amcity.com/contact or by regular mail at the following address:

6AM City, Inc.

Attn: Legal

PO Box 2505

Greenville, SC 29602

864-735-8590

TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR CONTENT SUPPLIED VIA SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS

Last Revised: March 1, 2025

These terms and conditions constitute a valid and binding agreement between 6AM City, Inc. (hereinafter referred to as “6AM City”) and yourself (hereinafter referred to as “Supplier”) with respect to the information, text, artwork, photography, digital content, and/or any comments in regards to the materials requested (the “Materials”). 6AM City is the owner and operator of several media products and social media platforms including but not limited to 6AM City, AVLtoday, ATXtoday, BOStoday, CHStoday, CLTtoday, NOOGAtoday, COLAtoday, CBUStoday, DALtoday, FTWtoday, GVLtoday, INDYtoday, KCtoday, LALtoday, LEXtoday, LOUtoday, 608today, NASHtoday, NOVAtoday, ORLtoday, PDXtoday, RALtoday, RICtoday, SACtoday, SATXtoday, SDtoday, SEAtoday, sixandmain, SJtoday, TBAYtoday, WStoday and all associated products, publications, and events owned and or operated by 6AM City. Social media platforms utilized by 6AM City include but are not limited to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, Snapchat, TikTok, Pinterest, and YouTube.

License

Supplier gives and grants 6AM City an unlimited, perpetual and irrevocable License to use the Materials in all forms of media (i.e. advertising, brochures, proposals, e-marketing, direct mail, web, displays, artwork, in editorial, video, on social channels, etc.) now known or hereinafter developed for the purpose of advertising, marketing and promoting 6AM City throughout the United States, its territories and possessions and with respect to the Internet, throughout the world.

Supplier’s Warranty

Unless otherwise provided in this agreement, Supplier hereby represents and warrants that: (a) the Materials are the original creation of Supplier, (b) Supplier owns all right, title and interest in the Materials, (c) no third party has any rights in, to, or arising out of, the Materials; and (d) the Materials do not infringe or otherwise violate the rights any third party.

Indemnity

Supplier agrees to indemnify and hold 6AM City and its directors, officers, employees, managers, owners, agents, licensors and assigns (the “indemnified parties”) harmless from and against any claim, loss, damage, suit, judgment, liabilities or expense, including court costs and reasonable attorneys’ fees, or any other losses of any kind arising out of or in connection with the use of the Materials, including but not limited to claims asserting violation of the rights of privacy or publicity, and infringement of copyright, trademark, and other proprietary rights, that the indemnified parties may suffer as a result of a breach or alleged breach of the foregoing warranties or as a result of claims or actions of any kind or nature resulting from the use in any manner of the Materials.

Supplier’s Approved Rights

Supplier agrees that no mock-up, draft, or other material need be submitted to him/her for any further approval, and that 6AM City will have no liability to Supplier for any distortion or illusionary effect resulting from use of the Materials. 6AM City shall have the unlimited right to exploit the Materials as it sees fit, including the right to alter or rearrange the Materials. Supplier also understands and agrees that 6AM City is a media outlet and is permitted to share the images as deemed appropriate for editorial purposes. Additionally, 6AM City is permitted to share the images as desired to support meetings, conferences, and events for promotional purposes.

Supplier Acknowledgement

Supplier acknowledges and agrees that by his/her reply to the link with a hashtag: #yeahGVLtoday, or any other link or hashtag which may be used or instructed by 6AM City or its subsidiaries in its sole discretion, (i) it shall be deemed that he/she is automatically bound by these Terms and Agreements with full enforcement, and in such a way, 6AM City can use the Supplier’s Materials for any of their purposes according to these Terms and Conditions; (ii) Supplier certifies that he/she is at least 18 years of age, has fully read and understands these Terms and Conditions, and has had any questions regarding their effect or meaning answered to his/her satisfaction.

Entire Agreement and Amendments

The terms and conditions set forth herein constitute the entire agreement between the parties and shall supersede all prior agreements. No waiver, modification or addition to this agreement shall be valid unless in writing and signed by the parties thereto.

Use of Materials

6AM City shall not be required to utilize Supplier’s services or the Materials.

Governing Law

The provisions hereof shall be interpreted in accordance with the laws of the State of South Carolina, without regard to its conflict of law provisions. Supplier agrees and confirms that the consideration that the Supplier has received from 6AM City for the opportunity to have materials and/or comments used by 6AM City constitutes full, adequate and fair remuneration for all rights of every kind and nature in the rights granted to 6AM City.

Contact Information

If you have any questions about this Agreement, please contact us via email at hello@6amcity.com or regular mail at the following address:

6AM City, Inc.

Attn: Legal

PO Box 2505

Greenville, SC 29602

864-735-8590