Alachua Post Editorial, Privacy, Correction PolicySun, Oct 1st 2000 Policies LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Alachua Post welcomes letters to the editor. Submissions are best submitted
via e-mail to editor@alachuapost.com.
Letters not submitted in digital format may or may not be considered for
publication on-line.
We reserve the right to publish any, all, some, or none of the Letters to the
Editor which we receive. We also reserve the right to choose when we publish a
letter. You may submit your letter via e-mail. You must include your name,
address, phone number and a valid e-mail address to be considered for
publication under the Letters to the Editor section of the Alachua Post.
If you have any questions you may call 386 418-0075.
CORRECTION POLICY
If you have a correction please e-mail the information to
corrections@alachuapost.com.
Included your name, address, phone number and a valid e-mail address.
Corrections may be noted or directly changed within the content of the article,
feature, or ad.
PRIVACY
POLICY
Our policy
is to respect and protect the privacy of our users. This policy statement
tells you how we collect information from you and how we use it. Using the
Internet should be a fun experience and we want to help you make it so.
To facilitate global registration, the information you provide for your
personal AlachuaPost.com account is shared among AlachuaPost.com sites as
it is our goal to make your visits to our sites easy and enjoyable.
However, be assured that AlachuaPost.com will not disclose your personal
information to third parties without your consent. AlachuaPost.com may
disclose user information in special cases when we have reason to believe
that disclosing this information is necessary to identify, contact or
bring legal action against someone who may be causing injury to or
interference with (either intentionally or unintentionally) Alachua
Post rights or property, other AlachuaPost.com users, or anyone else
who could be harmed by such activities. AlachuaPost.com may disclose user
information when we believe in good faith that the law requires it.
AlachuaPost.com shares aggregate information about our users with
advertisers, business partners, sponsors and other third parties. For
example, we will say AlachuaPost.com audience is x percent females
and y percent males. This data is used to customize AlachuaPost.com
content and advertising to deliver a better experience for our users.
There are cases where AlachuaPost.com may ask you for personal information
such as your name, e-mail address and birth date. For example, we request
personal information when you register for a AlachuaPost.com account, for
online shopping or transactions, or for services that require registration
or subscription (for example, fantasy sports). AlachuaPost.com need to
collect this information for fulfilling prizes, for tracking and verifying
compliance with AlachuaPost.com policies, for meeting federal, state and
local laws and/or for fulfilling editorial and feedback solicitation
purposes.
OPTING OUT
Information provided at the time of registration or
submission from a guest who is 13 years of age or over may be used for
marketing and promotional purposes by AlachuaPost.com and our affiliates
or companies that have been screened by Alachua Post To keep you in
control of your personal information and the communications directed to
you, we allow you to opt out of the following services: sharing your
information in our member directory, receiving communications from AlachuaPost.com
about new features or services, and receiving communications about offers
from third-party companies that offer a product or a service that we think
would be of value to you. If a guest objects to such use for any reason,
he or she may stop that use -- either by e-mail request to
editor@alachuapost.com
or by modifying his or her member information online.
Information provided when purchasing products from any of our online
stores may be used for marketing and promotional purposes and is subject
to the opt-out processes described on, or linked to, each order form.
Policies for KIDS (Individuals Under 13
YEARS OF AGE
AlachuaPost.com encourages parents and guardians to spend time online with
their children and to participate in the activities offered on the sites.
No information should be submitted to or posted at AlachuaPost.com by
guests under 13 years of age without the consent of their parents or
guardians.
Unless otherwise disclosed during collection, AlachuaPost.com does not
provide any personally identifying information, regardless of its source,
to any third party for any purpose whatsoever from our guests under 13
years of age. All registrants receive an e-mail confirming their
registration. In addition, when a guest under 13 registers, he or she is
required to provide the e-mail address of his or her parent or guardian
and his or her parent or guardian receives an e-mail alerting them to that
registration. The parent or guardian must validate the account, as
described in the e-mail, in order for the potential member to use most AlachuaPost.com
interactive services. No information collected from guests under 13 years
of age is used for any marketing or promotional purposes whatsoever,
either inside or outside AlachuaPost.com except as explicitly stated
during registration for contests or promotions (and in that case, the
information collected is used only for the specific contest or promotion).
Although guests under 13 years of age may be allowed to participate in
some contests and promotions, if such a guest wins, notification and
prizes are sent to the parents or guardians identified in the initial
registration process. Publication of contest winners’ names, ages or
images for individuals under 13 require parental or guardian consent.
We do not allow guests under 13 years of age to be listed in our member
directory or to receive direct marketing communications from AlachuaPost.com
or to be sent our third-party offers.
POLICIES FOR TEENS (INDIVIDUALS 13 TO 17
YEARS OF AGE
Teens are required to provide the e-mail address of a parent or guardian,
and a notification message is sent to the parent or guardian of all guests
who are 13 to 17 years of age that identifies the information supplied at
registration and allows the parent or guardian to be aware of and
participate in the guest member’s online experience.
USE OF IP ADDRESSES
An IP address is a number automatically assigned to your computer whenever
you’re surfing the Web. Web servers — the big computers that “serve
up” Web pages — automatically identify your computer by its IP
address.
AlachuaPost.com collect IP addresses to facilitate system administration,
to report aggregate information to our advertisers, and to audit the use
of our site. When guests request pages from AlachuaPost.com sites, our
servers log the guests’ IP addresses. We do not normally link IP
addresses to anything personally identifiable, which means that a user’s
session will be logged, but the user remains anonymous to us. We can and
will use IP addresses to identify a user when we feel it is necessary to
enforce compliance with our house rules or terms of service or to protect
our service, site, customers or others.
Some services within Alachua Post such as certain message boards,
may display IP addresses along with the message poster’s name and
message. Please review each service before use and only use those that
disclose information you are comfortable sharing.
USE OF COOKIES
What are cookies? Cookies are pieces of information that a Web site
transfers to an individual’s hard drive for record-keeping. Cookies make
Web-surfing easier for you by saving your preferences while you’re at
our site. We never save passwords or credit card information in cookies.
The use of cookies is an industry standard — you’ll find them at most
major Web sites.
By showing how and when guests use a site, cookies help us see which areas
are popular and which are not. Many improvements and updates to the site
are based on such data as total number of visitors and pages viewed. This
information is most easily tracked with cookies. We use the information
from cookies to provide services better tailored to our users’ needs.
Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies. You can reset your
browser to refuse all cookies or indicate when a cookie is being sent.
However, note that some parts of Alachua Post service will not function
properly or may be considerably slower if you refuse cookies. For example,
without cookies, you will not be able to set personalized news preferences
or you may have difficulty completing shopping transactions, entering
contests or playing games.
You may occasionally get cookies from our advertisers. Alachua Post does
not control these cookies. The use of advertising cookies sent by
third-party servers is standard in the Internet industry.
LINKS TO OTHER SITES
Users should be aware that when you are on AlachuaPost.com you
could be directed to other sites that are beyond our control. There are
links to other sites from Alachua Post pages that take you outside our
service. For example, if you click on a banner advertisement or an Alachua
Post search result, the click takes you off Alachua Post site. This
includes links from advertisers, center sponsors and partners that may use
Alachua Post logo as part of a co-branding agreement. These other sites
may send their own cookies to users, collect data or solicit personal
information.
Please keep in mind that whenever you give out personal information online
— for example, via message boards or chat — that information can be
collected and used by people you don’t know. While Alachua Post strives
to protect its users’ personal information and privacy, we cannot
guarantee the security of any information you disclose online, and you do
so at your own risk.
Our policy does not extend to anything that is inherent in the operation
of the Internet, and therefore beyond Alachua Post control, and is not to
be applied in any manner contrary to applicable law or governmental
regulation.
SECURITY
The importance of security for all personally identifiable information
associated with our guests is of utmost concern to us. We exercise great
care in providing secure transmission of your information from your PC to
our servers. Unfortunately, no data transmission via the Internet can be
guaranteed to be 100 percent secure. As a result, while we strive to
protect your personal information, AlachuaPost.com can’t ensure or
warrant the security of any information you transmit to us or from our
online products or services, and you do so at your own risk. Once we
receive your transmission, we make our best effort to ensure its security
on our systems. When credit card information is transmitted we use
industry standard, SSL (secure socket layer) encryption.
Your AlachuaPost.com account (where applicable) is password protected so that only you can
access it and view the member information relevant to the account. We
recommend that you do not divulge your password to anyone. AlachuaPost.com
will never ask you for your password in an unsolicited phone call or
e-mail. Ultimately, you are responsible for maintaining the secrecy of
your passwords and any account information.
YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THESE TERMS
By using this site, you signify your assent to AlachuaPost.com Privacy
Policy. If you do not agree to this policy, please do not use our sites.
Your continued use of AlachuaPost.com sites after the posting of changes
to these terms will mean you accept those changes.
If you have questions or concerns regarding this Web site’s privacy
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