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Privacy Policy
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many advantages of Internet technology and to provide an interactive and
personalized experience. We may use personally identifiable information such as
your name, e-mail address, street address, telephone number, or other
information subject to the terms of this privacy policy. Please note that this
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other means.
How We Gather Information From Users
How we collect and store information depends on the page you are visiting, the
activities in which you participate and the services provided. You can visit
many pages on our site without providing any information. Other pages may
prompt you to provide information, for example when registering to access
certain portions of our sites, signing up for a newspaper subscription or to
make a purchase. You may also be asked to provide information when you take
part in voting on our polls, leaving comments and other interactive areas of
our site.
Lehigh Acres Gazette | lehighacresgazette.com also collects information
automatically and through the use of electronic tools that may be transparent
to our visitors. For example, we may log the name of your Internet Service
Provider or use “cookie” technology. The cookie may store your user name and
password, sparing you from having to re-enter that information each time you
visit, or may control the number of times you encounter a particular
advertisement while visiting our site. As we include additional technology, we
may also gather information through other means. In certain cases, you can
choose not to provide us with information, for example by setting your browser
to refuse to accept cookies, but doing so may limit your ability to access
certain portions of the site or may require you to re-enter your user name and
password. Additionally we may not be able to customize the site's features
according to your preferences.
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 thirteen, and provides important information on your rights under federal
law with respect to such information.
• We do NOT knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children
under the age of thirteen. We screen users who wish to provide personal
information in order to prevent users under the age of thirteen from providing
such information. If we become aware that we have inadvertently received
personally-identifiable information from a user under the age of thirteen, we
will delete such information from our records. If we change our practices in
the future, we will obtain prior, verifiable parental consent before collecting
any personally identifiable information from children under the age of
thirteen.
• Because we do not collect any personally identifiable information from
children under the age of thirteen, we also do NOT knowingly distribute such
information to third parties.
• We do NOT knowingly allow children under the age of thirteen to publicly post
or otherwise distribute personally identifiable contact information.
• We do NOT condition a child's participation in online activities on providing
more personally identifiable information than is needed to participate in the
activity.
What We Do With The Information We Collect
We will use your information only as permitted by law. Information that does
not personally identify you may be used in many ways. As one example, we may
combine information about your usage patterns with similar information obtained
from other users to learn which pages are visited most or what features are
most attractive. This information may occasionally be shared with our
advertisers and business partners, but cannot be used to contact you
individually.
We also collect information to enhance your visit and deliver more
individualized content and advertising. For example, we may use Personally
Identifiable Information collected on Lehigh Acres Gazette |
lehighacresgazette.com to communicate with you regarding our Terms of Service
and Privacy Policy, products and services offered by Lehigh Acres Gazette |
lehighacresgazette.com and other Lehigh Acres Gazette affiliates and partners,
administration of sweepstakes and contests, processing e-commerce transactions
and other topics we think you might find of interest. We reserve the right to
share this information with other Lehigh Acres Gazette locations and
affiliates, including for example our affiliated newspapers and entities in
which Lehigh Acres Gazette has an ownership interest. This policy does not
apply to any Affiliate's use of such information.
Personally Identifiable Information collected by Lehigh Acres Gazette |
lehighacresgazette.com may also be used for other purposes including but not
limited to site administration and troubleshooting. Certain third parties who
provide technical support for the operation of our site may access such
information.
As we continue to develop our business, we may sell, buy, merge or partner with
other companies or businesses. In such transactions, user information may be
among the transferred assets. We may also disclose your information in response
to a court order, at other times when we believe we are reasonably required to
do so by law, in connection with the collection of amounts you may owe to us,
and/or whenever we deem it appropriate or necessary to give such information to
law enforcement authorities. Please note we may not provide you with notice
prior to disclosure in such cases.
Your Choice To Opt Out
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program of e-mail marketing is an important element of our online publishing
business. Like other Web publishers, we will sometimes send e-mail about
services, features, products, special offers and unique content we believe
might interest you on behalf of our advertising and promotional partners. If
you prefer not to receive e-mail communications sent from us on behalf of our
advertisers and promotional partners, you will be given an opportunity to opt
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behalf of our advertisers.
Affiliated Sites, Linked Sites and Advertisements
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and third-party affiliates to respect the privacy of our users. However, third
parties, including our partners, advertisers, affiliates and other content
providers accessible through our site, may have their own privacy and data
collection policies and practices. For example, during your visit to our site
you may link to, or view as part of a frame on a Lehigh Acres Gazette |
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by a third party. Also, through Lehigh Acres Gazette | lehighacresgazette.com
you may be introduced to, or be able to access, information, Web sites,
advertisements, features, contests or sweepstakes offered by other parties.
Lehigh Acres Gazette | lehighacresgazette.com is not responsible for the
actions or policies of such third parties. You should check the applicable
privacy policies of those third parties when providing information on a feature
or page operated by a third party.
While on our site, our advertisers, promotional partners or other third parties
may use cookies or other technology to attempt to identify some of your preferences
or retrieve information about you. For example, some of our advertising is
served by third parties and may include cookies that enable the advertiser to
determine whether you have seen a particular advertisement before. Through
features available on our site, third parties may use cookies or other
technology to gather information. Lehigh Acres Gazette | lehighacresgazette.com
does not control the use of this technology or the resulting information and is
not responsible for any actions or policies of such third parties.
Please be careful and responsible whenever you are online. Should you choose to
voluntarily disclose Personally Identifiable Information on our site, such as
in message boards, chat areas or in advertising or notices you post, that information
can be viewed publicly and can be collected and used by third parties without
our knowledge and may result in unsolicited messages from other individuals or
third parties. Such activities are beyond the control of Lehigh Acres Gazette |
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Miscellaneous
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of Service, these Terms of Service shall govern. This agreement shall be
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without giving effect to any principles or conflicts of law. If any provision
of this agreement shall be unlawful, void or for any reason unenforceable, then
that provision shall be deemed severable from this agreement and shall not
affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions.
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TRADEMARKS
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NOTICES AND PROCEDURE
FOR MAKING CLAIMS OF COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT
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Making Claims of Copyright Infringement.
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