General Privacy Policy
The following statement discloses Connecticut Post information gathering and dissemination practices for the Web site. By using this site, you signify your agreement to the terms of this privacy policy. If you do not agree to the terms of this privacy policy, please do not use this site.
What personally identifiable information does the website collect from me?
We automatically collect the name of the domain and host from which you access the Internet, the Internet Protocol or IP address of your computer, the browser software and operating system you are using, your geographic location, the time and date you accessed our site and the Internet address you visited just prior to visiting our Web site. It is gathered through server log files.
Personal information is also gathered when you enter a contest or promotion, request vacation delivery stop, or when you post an online ad. During these instances, our paper asks for information such as your name, e-mail address, street address, zip code, phone number, subscriber status, and credit card number. We may also ask you for other information at other times.
How is my information used?
Our paper uses information collected from server log files, such as IP addresses, to help diagnose problems with our services, to administer our Web site, and to report and gather aggregate information about site usage and user demographics. The aggregated data may be shared with advertisers or business partners. Cookies are used to store and sometimes track information about you. A cookie is a small amount of data that is sent to your browser from a Web service and stored on your computer's hard drive. Cookies are used to deliver targeted advertising based on your behavior or demographics and to track your number of entries in some of our promotions and contests. You can set your browser to refuse to accept cookies, but if you do we will not be able to customize the Web site's features according to your preferences. Advertising networks that serve ads into our site, such as Real Media or DoubleClick, may also use their own cookies. For more information about Real Media's use of cookies, visit http://www.realmedia.com/privacy.html. For more information about DoubleClick's use of cookies, visit http://www.privacychoices.org.
With whom is my information shared?
When you are on an area of the Web site and are asked for personal information, you are sharing that information with the newspaper and its related companiesIf you do not want your data to be shared, you can choose not to allow the transfer by not using that particular service.
Promotions and contests that run on the newspaper Web site may be sponsored by companies other than the newspaper Web site or may be co-sponsored by the newspaper Web site and another company. Some or all data collected during a promotion or contest may be shared with the sponsor. You can decide not to participate in the promotion or contest if you don't want your data to be shared.
The newspaper may make chat rooms, forums, message boards, and/or news groups available to our Web site users. Some of these forums require registration. Please remember that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information. Aggregate information compiled by the newspaper Web site may be shared with advertisers and business partners as well as used by the newspaper and its related companies. Aggregate information will not be linked to personally identifiable information.
Security of Information
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.
Linked Sites
Please be aware that the newspaper Web site's promotional partners, advertisers, sponsors, third-party Internet sites, and content providers accessible through our paper may have their own privacy and data collection policies and practices. The newspaper and Web site are not responsible for any actions or policies of such third party parties. Users should check the applicable privacy policies of those third parties when providing personally identifiable information through co-sponsored, affiliated or linked sites.
Children's Guidelines
The Newspaper in Education program is a free service the newspaper may offer for teachers which promotes the use of newspapers in the classroom. The information requested on these pages is used solely for participation in the particular activity, and is not stored or sold to third parties. If a question, comment, story, joke, idea or opinion is published, only the student's first name, grade and state/country appear on the site. Students are advised to consult with their parents before giving personal information online. See the Children's Privacy Policy.
PRIVACY COORDINATOR:
Carol Dauber
Online Content Manager
Connecticut Post
410 State Street
Bridgeport, CT 06604
(203) 330-6440
Email: cdauber@ctpost.com
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. The newspaper 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 web site and we urge parents to discuss with their children restrictions regarding the online release of personal information to anyone they don't know.
Information Collected
The newspaper limits its collection of information from children to what is known as nonpersonally identifiable information (e.g., first name, screen names, age, 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 email address and/or parent's or guardian's email address), as explained below, in order to conduct online contests or sweepstakes or offer other online activities. The newspaper does not and cannot 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. Information is collected actively, such as through registration forms, and passively, such as through cookies.
Contest and Sweepstakes
The newspaper occasionally offers contest and sweepstakes, which may be entered online. When a child under thirteen 13 enters a contest or sweepstakes, or participates in another activity that requires the use of personal information, we will ask for a parent's email 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 the newspaper is securely maintained and used only for the purpose of conducting the contest or sweepstakes and awarding prizes. Once the contest or sweepstakes is finished, the newspaper will delete any personal information collected.
Use of Information
The newspaper uses personally identifiable information provided by children for conducting contests or sweepstakes. The newspaper uses parents' email addresses to notify them when we have received information from their children and to give parents the option to remove their child's information. The newspaper 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 that support the internal operations of the site, such as helping us conduct a sweepstakes or sending prizes to winners. In these cases, we require the agent or contractor to maintain the confidentiality, security and integrity of the information and to use it only for the specific services they are performing on our behalf.
The newspaper may disclose information maintained as required by law, for example, in response to a court order or a subpoena. The newspaper may also disclose such information in response to a specific law enforcement agency's request. Personal information is not disclosed to third parties except those who provide support for the internal operations of the site. Parents can consent to the collection and use of their child's personal information without consenting to the disclosure of the information to third parties.
Cookies
The newspaper 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 the newspaper to relate a visitor's use of this web site to personal information that the visitor has provided, such as an email 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 the newspaper 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 email address and telephone number where we can reach you.
The newspaper 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.
Contact Us
If you have any questions, comments or concerns regarding our privacy policy and/or practices, please visit our contact us page or feedback form and contact the webmaster.
PRIVACY COORDINATOR:
Carol Dauber
Electronic Media Manager
Connecticut Post
410 State Street
Bridgeport, CT 06604
(203) 330-6440
Email: cdauber@ctpost.com
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