Alcester Union & Hudsonite eNews Privacy Policy and Children's Privacy Policy
Alcester-Hudson eNews
is committed to protecting consumer privacy
online. We believe that greater protection of
personal privacy on the Web will not only
protect consumers, but also increase consumer
confidence and ultimately their participation in
online activities. At Alcester-Hudson eNews , we
intend to give you as much control as possible
over your personal information.
The purpose of our
policy is to inform you about the types of
information we gather about you when you visit
our sites, how we may use that information,
whether we disclose it to anyone, and the
choices you have regarding our use of, and your
ability to correct, the information.
Our sites may contain
links to other Web sites, including Web sites
directed to children. We have no control over
the privacy practices or the content of any of
our business partners, advertisers, sponsors or
other sites to which we provide links from our
sites. You should check the applicable privacy
policy of the Web site sponsor when linking to
other Web sites.
I. Information
That We Collect
We may request that
you voluntarily supply us with personal
information, including your e-mail address,
postal address, home or work telephone number,
for purposes such as correspondence, making a
purchase, or participating in online contests,
surveys or games. If you choose to give us
personal information via the Internet that we or
our business partners may need – to correspond
with you, process an order or provide you with a
subscription, for example – it is our intent to
let you know how we will use such information
Like many other
commercial sites, our sites may utilize a
standard technology called a "cookie" to collect
information about how our site is used. Cookies
were designed to help a Web site recognize a
user's browser as a previous visitor and thus
save and remember any preferences that may have
been set while the user was browsing the site. A
cookie cannot retrieve any other data from your
hard drive, pass on a computer virus, or capture
your e-mail address. Our Web sites may use
cookies to enhance your visit. Cookies can
securely store a user's password, personalize
home pages, identify which parts of a site have
been visited or keep track of selections, such
as those selected in a "shopping cart." Our
cookies may collect your domain name and track
your selections through our Web pages. We only
use "cookies" to gather the information
indicated in this policy and do not use cookies
to gather personal identifying information about
you without your consent.
We also use cookies
in connection with our chat rooms/forums in
order to record your preferences. These cookies
store automatically information pertaining to
the last chat room/forum you visited, as well as
certain comments that can be issues in the chat
room/forum, in order to facilitate your
experience with the chat rooms/forums. No
additional identifying information is stored on
these cookies. You also have the option of
choosing to allow us to use a cookie to store
your username, or "handle" and password on your
computer for use in that chat room, forum and
other sites as indicated on the particular site.
We may require you to
supply us with personal information (demographic
information such as average age, income,
education, population data, zip codes) during a
"registration" process online prior to using
certain features of our site. For example, you
may be required to register to use chat rooms,
forums, to access archival stories, to subscribe
to newspapers, and to access other features. We
use this general information to aggregate
information according to demographics, such as
gender, geographic location, age, income or a
combination of these or other demographics.
II. Use of User
Information
We may perform
statistical analyses of aggregate user behavior.
This allows us to measure relative consumer
interest in the various areas of our Web sites
for product development purposes. Any
information we collect is used for its own
internal purposes to improve the content of the
Web sites, to enhance users' experiences when
visiting our sites, to customize the content
and/or layout of our pages, and to provide the
services required by an individual user. We do
not use personal identifying information for any
reason that is not disclosed either in this
Policy or at the time the information is
requested. We never send e-mail to you unless
you request a particular service, or consent to
being contacted by e-mail. There are instances
where you will have the opportunity to subscribe
to an e-mail list that will send information
about the site or our advertisers to your e-mail
address, but this will be done only with your
permission and consent.
III. Disclosure to
Third Parties
We do not share
personal identifying information with any third
party without your permission. We disclose only
in aggregate form our statistical analyses or
demographics of users to third parties, such as
advertisers or other business partners. In some
instances, we operate shared Web sites with
businesses affiliated with us. Our privacy
policy will apply to these Web sites, and our
affiliates adhere to our privacy policy and will
not share personal information with any third
party without your permission. PLEASE BE AWARE
that when you voluntarily disclose personal
information (such as your name, e-mail address)
in chat areas or bulletin boards to third
parties, that information may be collected by
others outside the control of us and may result
in unsolicited messages from others.
IV. Accuracy of
User Information
In order to ensure
the accuracy of personal information provided
for registration, you may return to the
registration form online in order to change
information you have provided at any time.
Questions regarding our privacy policy, the
accuracy of your personal information or the use
of the information collected should be directed
via e-mail to Paul Buum, Publisher, at
publisher@ahenews.com, or you can reach us
by telephone at (605) 934-2640. You can also
write us at:
Alcester Union &
Hudsonite
110 East 1st Street
Alcester, SD
57001-0227
These privacy
policies are effective as of December 1, 2006.
We reserve the right to change this policy at
any time, and will post any changes to this
policy as soon as they go into effect.
V. Security of
Information
We use our best
efforts to ensure the security of personal
information submitted by users. When collecting
credit card information for online purchases, we
offer secured-server transactions that encrypt
your information in transit to thwart someone
from intercepting it and misusing it. When we
collect other information from our users, it is
stored in an area where the general public does
not have access to it.
VI. Opting-out
At any time while
assessing our sites, any user while online may
"opt-out" of further e-mail contact from us
(while still allowing access to our sites). For
further information about opting-out, contact us
at the e-mail address, postal address or
telephone number stated above.
VII. Use of
Materials
The right to download
and store or output the materials in our sites
is granted for the user's personal use only, and
materials may not be reproduced in any edited
form. Any other reproduction, transmission,
performance, display or editing of these
materials by any means mechanical or electronic
without the express written permission of us is
strictly prohibited. Users wishing to obtain
permission to reprint or reproduce any materials
appearing on these sites may contact us at
publisher@ahenews.com.
Alcester-Hudson
eNews Children's Privacy Policy
Alcester-Hudson eNews
is committed to complying with the Children’s
Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998. Because
many visitors to this site are children, we
employ special measures to help children protect
their privacy while online. Alcester-Hudson
eNews does not ask children to disclose more
personal information than is necessary for them
to participate in a particular activity. We urge
children to check with their parents before
entering information on any website and we urge
parents to discuss with their children
restrictions regarding the online release of
personal information to anyone they don’t know.
To help ensure a
rewarding online experience for parents and
children, we provide this summary of our
information practices. As we continue to offer
our visitors new and different types of content
and services, we may modify our practices from
time to time. However, we will treat all
personal information we collect in accordance
with the privacy notice in effect at the time
the information is collected.
Information
Collected
Alcester-Hudson eNews
does not collect personal information online
from children under 13 without their parent’s
consent, except in special limited
circumstances. Generally, Alcester-Hudson eNews
limits its collection of information from
children to what is known as nonpersonally
identifiable information (e.g. screen names,
birthday, gender, city, state, zip code and
country of residence). This information is
collected so children can participate in
activities (e.g. completing polls or online
surveys, posting jokes, book reviews, movie
reviews, toy reviews, video reviews, concert
reviews, game reviews, artwork or
questions/comments online, or playing online
games) without giving unnecessary personal
information. From time to time, however, we may
request limited personally identifiable
information (e.g. child’s e-mail address and/or
parent’s or guardian’s e-mail address), as
explained below, in order to conduct online
contests or sweepstakes or offer other online
activities. Alcester-Hudson eNews does not
condition a child’s participation in any of our
online activities on the disclosure of more
information than is reasonably necessary to
participate in the activity.
Contest and
Sweepstakes
Alcester-Hudson eNews
occasionally offers contest and sweepstakes,
which may be entered online. When a child under
thirteen enters a contest or sweepstakes, or
participates in another activity that requires
the use of personal information, we will ask for
a parent’s e-mail address so that we can notify
the parent of the child’s entry and give the
parent the option to have the child’s entry
deleted. All personally identifiable information
collected by Alcester-Hudson eNews is securely
maintained and used only for the purpose of
conducting the contest or sweepstakes. Once the
contest or sweepstakes is finished,
Alcester-Hudson eNews will delete any personal
information collected.
Use of Information
Alcester-Hudson eNews
uses personally identifiable information
provided by children for conducting contests or
sweepstakes. Alcester-Hudson eNews uses parents’
e-mail addresses to notify them when we have
received information from their children and to
give parents the option to remove their child’s
information. Alcester-Hudson eNews does not keep
any personal information obtained through a
contest or sweepstakes after the particular
event is completed. Sometimes, we use agents or
contractors to provide services, such as helping
us conduct a sweepstakes or sending prizes to
winners. In these cases, we require the agent or
contractor to keep the information confidential
and to use it only for the specific services
they are performing.
Alcester-Hudson eNews
may disclose information maintained as required
by law, for example, in response to a court
order or a subpoena. Alcester-Hudson eNews may
also disclose such information in response to a
specific law enforcement agency’s request.
Cookies
Alcester-Hudson eNews
uses a software technology called “cookies.”
Cookies are small files that we place in
visitors’ computer browsers to store their
preferences. Cookies themselves do not contain
any personally identifiable information.
Although cookies could enable Alcester-Hudson
eNews to relate a visitor’s use of this website
to personal information that the visitor has
provided, such as an e-mail address, we do not
use cookies for this purpose. We do use cookies
to determine how many visitors we have and how
often they visit various sections of our site.
You can, of course, disable cookies on your
computer by indicating this in the preferences
or options menus in your browser.
Parental Access
Parents, please send
a letter or postcard to our Privacy Coordinator
at the mailing address provided below if you
would like to do any of the following:
Access personally
identifiable information that Alcester-Hudson
eNews has collected online from your child,
Correct factual
errors in such information,
Request to have this
information deleted, or
Request that we no
longer collect or maintain such information.
Please include your
e-mail address and telephone number where we can
reach you. Alcester-Hudson eNews takes steps to
verify the identity of anyone requesting
information about a child and to ensure that the
person is in fact the child’s parent or legal
guardian.
Feedback
Comments? Questions?
Suggestions? Send e-mail to
publisher@ahenews.com, or
send a card or letter to:
Paul Buum, Publisher
Alcester Union &
Hudsonite
110 East 1st Street
Alcester, SD
57001-0227