PRIVACY POLICY
Effective Date - March 25, 2008 .
IndependentNews.com is brought to you by Inland Valley Publishing
Co. (“IVPC”).
At IVPC, we take your privacy interests seriously. This statement
reflects our company policy and commitment to protecting information
we learn from visitors to http://www.independentnews.com/
(the “Site”).
Please read this Privacy Policy before using the Site and/or
providing any personal information. The use of the Site and your
disclosure of personal information are completely voluntary.
By accessing and using the Site, you represent that you have
read, understood and agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy .
Please do not use the Site if you do not agree with this Privacy
Policy.
IVPC reserves the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time
without prior notice. Please refer to the “Effective Date” above.
You agree that you are responsible for checking back for changes
before each use of the Site. Your continued use of the Site will
denote that you agree to the Privacy Policy as posted at the time of
use.
INFORMATION WE COLLECT
Non-personal Information. This Site may use
“cookies,” and may record certain non-personal information from
users to help the Site be more useful, including but not limited to,
the type of software the user is using to browse the Internet, the
Uniform Resource Locator (“URL” or “web address”) that the user
visited before and after the Site, the user's IP address and the
user's Internet service provider.
Personal Information. The Site is intended to allow
for the collection of personal information from adult users (18
years of age or older) or teenagers (between 13 and 18 years of age)
who have the consent of a parent or legal guardian. IVPC does not
knowingly collect personal information of children under the age of
13. Personal information may include the following: user's name,
e-mail address, home or mailing address, telephone number, age or
date of birth and names and relationships regarding other persons
(“Personal Information”). The submission of Personal Information
is voluntary. By providing Personal Information, the user
consents to the collection and use of such information by IVPC and
its affiliates for the purposes for which the information was given
and as stated in this Policy.
HOW WE USE INFORMATION WE COLLECT
Use of Personal Information. IVPC and its affiliates
use Personal Information for internal business purposes, to
communicate to the user and to communicate to those persons
authorized by the user. For example, we may send you notifications
about your classified ad or other postings (i.e., obituaries,
bulletins and/or mailbox postings) and/or any questions, comments,
suggestions, ideas, feedback or other information you may provide to
IVPC related to the Site or the offerings of services provided by
IVPC.
Personal Information will not be traded, licensed, sold or used
for external purposes, except as authorized by the user.
Notwithstanding this policy, electronic communications have
inherent risks to privacy and security. We recommend that you NOT
post or transmit any information to or through a Site that you want
to keep absolutely private!
If your Personal Information is to be disclosed to a third party
or used for a purpose other than its original purpose or the purpose
authorized subsequently by you, we will provide you an affirmative
or explicit (“opt in”) choice for the disclosure. We will require
that any such third party enter into a written agreement with IVPC
that requires the third party to provide at least the same level of
privacy protection as is required by the relevant principles in this
Privacy Policy.
We may disclose your Personal Information (in confidence) to a
prospect new owner of the Site or transfer your Personal Information
to a new owner of the Site without additional prior notice to you or
your consent, so long as the continued use of the Personal
Information is not incompatible with the purpose for which it was
originally collected or subsequently authorized by you. Under such
circumstances, the current Privacy Policy will continue in effect
unless you are notified otherwise before any such transfer.
We may aggregate Personal Information from our users and use that
aggregated non-personal information with third parties for marketing
purposes. If we do so, we would not provide information that would
allow such third parties to specifically identify you.
Notwithstanding any other provision herein, we may disclose, at
our sole discretion and without notice to you, non-personal
information and/or Personal Information as is necessary and
appropriate to comply with appropriate laws, orders of competent
legal or government authorities and law enforcement persons and
agencies in order to protect our interests and property.
MANAGE YOUR INFORMATION
Review/Correction/Removal of Personal Information – Opt
Out. A user may review, correct and/or delete Personal
Information through online account settings (as made available) or
by e-mailing a request to Contact@IndependentNews.com.
As Site settings and account settings permit, users may also
control the viewing of user account profiles, Personal Information
and transmission of public or private messages to persons as
authorized by the user on the Site.
Users may also “opt out” of receiving communications from IVPC or
other users, for example, new offers, contests or products, by
advising us by using Site settings (as made available) or by e-mail
request to Contact@IndependentNews.com.
HOW WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION SECURE
Security
All Personal Information collected resides on
a secure server. We use standard industry security measures to
protect the information we store on our servers from loss, misuse
and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration and destruction.
With respect to user accounts (as made available), such accounts
are protected by a password of your choosing. We rely on the
username and password you supply to confirm access to your account.
You understand that you are solely responsible for any access and
use of the Site using your username and password.
We believe that these measures are reasonable and adequate.
Despite these measures, it is, however, impossible for us to
guarantee absolute security.
Third Party Linked Sites
Our Site may include links to
third-party websites and may display advertisements shown by third
parties, often referred to as third-party ad servers. Ad servers may
use tools such as cookies to track the response to certain
advertisements. We do not have any control over the privacy policies
of these third-party websites and third-party ad servers and are not
responsible for their privacy practices. We recommend that you read
their privacy policy documents to understand their particular
policies and practices.
CONTACT US
Please address any questions or comments regarding this privacy
statement or the privacy practices of IVPC to Contact@IndependentNews.com.
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