Privacy Policy
Last Updated: September 14, 2009
This Privacy Policy discloses the privacy
practices of this website (the “Site”). Specifically, it outlines the types of
information that we gather about you while you are using the Site, and the ways
in which we use and share this information. This Privacy Policy does not apply
to any information you may provide to us, or that we may collect, offline
and/or through other means (for example, at a live event, via telephone, or
through the mail).
Please read this Privacy Policy
carefully. By visiting and using the Site, you agree that your use of our Site,
and any dispute over our online privacy practices, is governed by this Privacy
Policy and our Terms of Service. Because
the Web is an evolving medium, we may need to change our Privacy Policy at some
point in the future, in which case we'll post the revised Privacy Policy on
this website and update the “Last Updated” date to reflect the date of the
changes. By continuing to use the Site after we post any such changes, you
accept the Privacy Policy as modified.
Your
California Civil Code Section 1798.83,
also known as the "Shine The Light" law, permits our customers who
are California residents to request and obtain from us once a year, free of
charge, information about the personal information (if any) we disclosed to
third parties for direct marketing purposes in the preceding calendar year. If
applicable, this information would include a list of the categories of personal
information that was shared and the names and addresses of all third parties
with which we shared information in the immediately preceding calendar year. If
you are a
Kim Jaske
Online Privacy Coordinator
Gannett Law Department
How We Collect and Use Information
We may collect and store information, including
personally-identifiable information (such as your name, postal address or email
address) or other information that you voluntarily supply to us while on our
Site. Some examples of this type of
information include information that you electronically submit when you contact
us with questions, information that you post on product review pages, business
response pages, discussion forums or other community posting and social
networking areas on our Site, and information that you electronically submit
when you complete an online registration form or when you register through an application programming interface such as Facebook Connect™ to access and use certain features of our
Site. We also may ask for information
(including a credit card number and other financial information) from those
users who make purchases or have payment transactions on our Site.
We also collect and store non-personally
identifiable information that is generated automatically as you navigate
through the Site. For example, we may collect information about your computer's
connection to the Internet, which allows us, among other things, to improve the
delivery of our web pages to you and to measure traffic on the Site. We also
may use a standard feature found in browser software called a
"cookie" to enhance your experience with the Site. Cookies are small
files that your web browser places on your hard drive for record-keeping
purposes. By showing how and when visitors use the Site, cookies help us
deliver advertisements, identify how many unique users visit us, and track user
trends and patterns. They also prevent you from having to re-enter your
preferences on certain areas of the Site where you may have entered preference
information before. This Site also may use web beacons (single-pixel graphic
files also known as "transparent GIFs") to access cookies and to
count users who visit the Site or open HTML-formatted email messages.
The information we collect may be
collected directly by us, or it may be collected by a third-party website
hosting provider, or another third-party service provider, on our behalf.
We use the information we collect from
you while you are using the Site in a variety of ways, including, for example,
to process your registration request, provide you with services and
communications that you have requested, send you email updates and other
communications, customize features and advertising that appear on the Site,
deliver our Site content to you, measure Site traffic, measure user interests
and traffic patterns, and improve the Site and the services and features
offered via the Site.
In addition, we may use any information
submitted by or collected from you via the Site for any purpose related to the
Site, including to contact you for customer service purposes, to inform you of
important changes or additions to our Site or the services offered over our
Site, and to send you administrative notices and any other communications that
we believe may be of interest to you.
We also may provide your information to
our affiliates or to third parties, including our third party service providers,
contractors and advertisers, for purposes related to Site administration and
operation. For example, if you use a credit or debit card to complete a
transaction on our Site, we may share your personal information and credit card
number with a credit card processing and/or a fulfillment company in order to
complete your transaction, or such service provider(s) may collect that
information from you directly, on our behalf.
We also reserve the right to use, and to
disclose to third parties, all of the information collected from and about you
while you are using the Site in any way and for any purpose, such as to enable
us or a third party to provide you with information about products and services
that may be of interest to you. In some cases we will use and/or share only
non-personally identifiable information, but in other cases we may use and
share personally identifiable information. If you do not wish your personally
identifiable information to be used for these purposes, you must send a letter
to the Online Privacy Coordinator whose
address is listed at the end of this Privacy Policy requesting to be taken off
any lists of personally identifiable information that may be used for these purposes
or that may be given or sold to third parties.
Our Site also includes links to other
websites and provides access to products and services offered by third parties,
whose privacy policies we do not control. When you access another website or
purchase products or services from a third-party, use of any information you
provide is governed by the privacy policy of the operator of the site you are
visiting or the provider of such products or services.
We also make some content, products and
services available through our Site through cooperative relationships with
third-party providers, where the brands of our provider partner appear on the
Site in connection with such content, products and/or services. We may share
with our provider partner any information you provide, or that is collected, in
the course of visiting any pages that are made available in cooperation with
our provider partner. In some cases, the provider partner may collect
information from you directly, in which cases the privacy policy of our
provider partner may apply to the provider partner's use of your information.
The privacy policy of our provider partners may differ from ours. If you have
any questions regarding the privacy policy of one of our provider partners, you
should contact the provider partner directly for more information.
Please be aware that we may occasionally
release information about our visitors if required to do so by law or if, in
our business judgment, such disclosure is reasonably necessary: (a) to comply
with legal process; (b) to enforce our Terms of Service;
or (c) to protect the rights, property, or personal safety of our Site, us, our
affiliates, our officers, directors, employees, representatives, our licensors,
other users, and/or the public.
Please also note that as our business
grows, we may buy or sell various assets. In the unlikely event that we sell
some or all of our assets, or our Site is acquired by another company,
information about our Site users may be among the transferred assets.
Data Collected in Connection with Ad Serving and
Targeting
We may use cookies, web beacons and
similar technologies, and/or a third-party ad serving software, to collect
non-personally identifiable information about site users and site activity, and
we may use this information to, among other things, serve targeted advertisements
on this site. The information collected allows us to analyze how users use the site and to track user
interests, trends and patterns, thus allowing us to deliver more relevant advertisements
to users.
We also may use
third-party service providers to target and serve some of the advertisements
you see on the pages of our Site, and these providers likewise may use their
own cookies, web beacons and similar technologies to collect non-personally identifiable
information from our Site. These service providers may use that information,
sometimes in conjunction with similar non-personally identifiable information
gathered through other websites, to deliver advertisements on this Site, and on
other websites that participate in our service providers’ advertising networks,
that are tailored to match the perceived interests of consumers. This information also may be used to help
measure and research an advertisement’s effectiveness, or for other
purposes.
The data collected
in connection with the ad serving and ad targeting on our Site does not
identify you personally and does not include your name, address, email address
or telephone number, but it may include the IP address of your computer.
The use and
collection of information by third-party advertising service providers is
governed by the relevant third party’s privacy policy and is not covered by our
privacy policy. If you would like more
information about the information collection practices of a particular service
provider, or if you would like more information on how to opt out of a service
provider’s information collection practices, please click here.
Information You Post to Blogs, Discussion Forums and Other Community Posting or
Social Networking Areas
Please keep in mind that whenever you
voluntarily make your personal information or other private information
available for viewing by third parties online - for example on product review
pages, business response pages, discussion forums, or other community posting
or social networking areas of our Site - that information can be seen, collected
and used by others besides us. We cannot be responsible for any unauthorized
third-party use of such information.
Children's Privacy Statement
This children's privacy statement
explains our practices with respect to the online collection and use of personal
information from children under the age of 13, and provides important
information regarding their rights under federal law with respect to such
information.
·
This
Site is not directed to children under the age of 13 and we do NOT knowingly
collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13
as part of the Site. We screen users who wish to provide personal information
in order to prevent users under the age of 13 from providing such information.
If we become aware that we have inadvertently received personally identifiable
information from a user under the age of 13 as part of the Site, we will delete
such information from our records.
·
Because
we do not collect any personally identifiable information from children under
the age of 13 via the Site, we also do NOT knowingly distribute such
information to third parties.
·
We
do NOT knowingly allow children under the age of 13 to publicly post or
otherwise distribute personally identifiable contact information through the
Site.
·
Because
we do not collect any personally identifiable information from children under
the age of 13 via the Site, we do NOT condition the participation of a child
under 13 in the Site's online activities on providing personally identifiable
information.
How to Make Changes to Your Information
If you are a registered member of our
Site, you can make changes to your account information by logging in to the
Site and using the account tools available via the Site. If you have any questions about modifying
your account or preference information, please visit the “Contact Us” pages of
our Site.
Storage of Information
All information gathered on our Site is
stored within a database to which only we and our hosting services provider are
provided access. However, as effective
as the reasonable security measures implemented by us may be, no physical or
electronic security system is impenetrable.
We cannot guarantee the security of our Site’s servers or databases, nor
can we guarantee that information you supply will not be intercepted while
being transmitted to us over the Internet.
If you have any questions about this
Privacy Policy, our privacy practices, or your dealings with us, you can
contact:
Kim Jaske
Online Privacy Coordinator
Gannett Law Department