Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy discloses the general privacy practices for the Indiana Gazette Web site, a property of the Indiana Printing and Publishing Company.
The Indiana Printing and Publishing Co. is committed to respecting your privacy rights when visiting IndianaGazette.com. To protect your Personal Information, the Indiana Printing and Publishing Co. has created the guidelines outlined below. Understanding that Internet technologies are rapidly evolving, any changes to this policy will be promptly posted on this page, with an updated "effective date" posted at the end of this policy.
Information Collected:
While visiting IndianaGazette.com, we may ask you to register and/or provide information that personally identifies you ("Personal Information") for purposes of interacting with the Site. Such Personal Information may include, but is not limited to, your name, phone number, street address, and e-mail address. On any page that collects Personal Information, we will specifically describe what information is required in order to provide you with the product or service, enter you in the promotion you have requested, or respond to your inquiry or comment.
What are Cookies? A cookie is a small data text file that a web site sends to your browser, which is stored on your system. IndianaGazette.com can only access the information from a cookie sent by IndianaGazette.com. We cannot access cookies sent by other web sites or the information contained therein. Additionally, we cannot learn your e-mail address or any other information about you through the use of a cookie. The only way we would learn such information is if you specifically and voluntarily submit that information to us, for example, through a registration system, or by entering a sweepstakes or promotion.
We use an advertising server developed by a third party to display ads on IndianaGazette.com. Some of these ads may contain cookies that are sent by third parties (e.g. advertising agencies or advertising clients). We do not have access to these cookies or any information that they contain. We encourage you to contact the advertiser or its privacy policy for more information on these cookies. Links from other Web sites that appear on IndianaGazette.com may also send cookies; but we do not control such activities.
Why does IndianaGazette.com use cookies? IndianaGazette.com uses cookies to track usage of IndianaGazette.com and further personalize your experience when you are visiting IndianaGazette.com. By tracking usage, we can best determine what features of the Site best serve the users.
What benefits do I receive from cookies? Overall, the use of cookies helps to give you a more personalized experience at IndianaGazette.com. The information is used to keep IndianaGazette.com fresh and relevant to you the user.
May I decline to accept a cookie? You may decline to accept cookies sent by IndianaGazette.com by selecting an option on your browser to reject cookies. However, portions of IndianaGazette.com which require registration will not be accessible to you. In such cases, we ask that you register and provide us with basic information on our registration page, or sign in if previously registered. Cookies enable our server to know that you are a registered user, and will eliminate the need for you to log in each time you access our Site.
Use of Personal Information
We believe in protecting your privacy, and will not share Personal Information with third parties outside of Indiana Printing and Publishing Co. except as described in this Privacy Policy. We believe we can enhance your experience on IndianaGazette.com with the information you share with us. We use Personal Information about you to statistically analyze Site usage, to improve our content and product offerings and to personalize IndianaGazette.com's content, layout, and services. We may also use your Personal Information, such as your e-mail address or mailing address, to contact you regarding products and/or services that may be of interest to you, to respond to an inquiry from you regarding the information that we have collected, or respond to your comments and suggestions.We reserve the right to disclose Personal Information when needed to comply with the law or a legal process, cooperate with investigations of purported unlawful activities, to identify persons violating the law, or in connection with the sale of part or all of Indiana Printing and Publishing Co.'s or its affiliate's stock or assets.
This Privacy Policy only addresses the use and dissemination of information that we collect from you. To the extent that you disclose any information to other parties, whether through, for example, on-line auctions, chat rooms, personal ads, or the like, through third party services or promotions offered on or through the Site or through other web sites throughout the Internet, different policies may apply and IndianaGazette.com shall not be responsible for the use or dissemination of such information.
Third party sites linked to and from IndianaGazette.com are not necessarily under the control of Indiana Printing and Publishing Co. Indiana Printing and Publishing Co. shall have no responsibilities or liabilities whatsoever for the content or privacy practices of any such linked site or any link or linking program at any time. Indiana Printing and Publishing Co. does not necessarily endorse companies (or related products or services) to or from which IndianaGazette.com is linked. If you decide to access any of the third party sites linked to IndianaGazette.com, you do so entirely at your own risk.
IndianaGazette.com cares about the safety of children and their use of the Internet. Therefore, in accordance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998, we will never knowingly request or solicit personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13 without verifiable parental consent. In the event that we receive actual knowledge that we have collected such personal information without the requisite and verifiable parental consent, we will delete that information from our database as quickly as is practicable.
IndianaGazette.com maintains industry standard safeguards to ensure the security, integrity, and privacy of the Personal Information that you provide to IndianaGazette.com.
If you have any questions or comments about our Privacy Policy, please e-mail us at webmaster@digitecs.com.
This Privacy Policy was updated Nov. 12, 2002. IndianaGazette.com reserves the right to modify the terms of this policy at any time and in our sole discretion, by posting a change notice to this page. Your continued use of IndianaGazette.com following our posting of a change notice will constitute binding acceptance of those changes.