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WQZY - Y96 ("STATION") AND www.wqzy.com ("SITE") PRIVACY POLICY
(Last updated: June
9, 2008)
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact our Privacy Administrator
at the following address:
WQZY - Y96/www.wqzy.com
807 Bellevue Ave.
Dublin, GA 31021
Attn:
Privacy Administrator
rhumphrey@wqzy.com
This Privacy Policy does not cover any website
functions other than those described below.
Your privacy is very important to us.
Because we may gather certain types of personally identifiable information (“Personal
Information”) from users of our website and for various Station activities, operational
and business purposes, we feel you should know how we may collect, use, disclose,
manage, and store the Personal Information that you may voluntarily provide us and
the Personal Information that may be collected passively through the use of cookies
or image tags on our website. This Policy applies only to the Personal Information
collected by this Site and does not govern any such information collected by its
corporate parent(s), affiliates, or any other company, unless specifically stated.
This Policy provides information regarding your choices to either Opt-out or Opt-in
when your Personal Information is used for various promotional and marketing purposes
by the Station, Site, its corporate affiliates, and/or our advertisers, sponsors,
or promotional partners (collectively, “Advertisers”).
If you do not agree with this
Privacy Policy, please do not participate in the Station’s online activities and
services that may require you to provide your Personal Information. (The type of
Personal Information that may be collected is listed below.)
GENERAL PRIVACY GUIDELINES
Unless specified otherwise on the Site, all users must be at least 18 years of age
and a resident of the United States to participate in any activity that requires
the submission of Personal Information This Site is designed and targeted to United
States (U.S.) audiences and is governed by and operated in accordance with the laws
of the U.S. We make no representation that this Site is operated in accordance with
the laws or governed by other nations. By your participation in our Site activities,
you certify that you are at least 18 years of age and a resident in the U.S. If you
are located in the European Union or elsewhere outside of the U.S. and you participate
in activities on this Site contrary to our policy that only U.S. residents are eligible
for certain activities, you do so at your own risk and initiative, and are responsible
for compliance with any of your applicable local or national laws. Please be aware
that any Personal Information you transfer to us will be transferred to and processed
in the U.S and be subject to U.S. law. By using this Site, participating in any Site
activities, and/or providing us with your Personal Information, you consent to this
transfer of Personal Information to the U.S., and waive any claims that may arise
under your own local or national laws. All users of the Site are required to provide
true, current, complete and accurate Personal Information when prompted and we will
reject and delete any entry that we believe in good faith to be false, fraudulent,
or inconsistent with this Privacy Policy.
Your continued participation on this Site
indicates your acceptance of this Privacy Policy and of the collection, use, disclosure,
management and storage of your Personal Information as described below. We may from
time to time, transfer or merge any Personal Information collected off-line to our
online databases or store off-line information in an electronic format. We may also
combine Personal Information we collect online with information available from other
sources, including information received from our corporate affiliates, Advertisers,
or marketing companies. This Privacy Policy will remain in full force and effect
as long as you are a user of the Site or a participant in Station activities. We
reserve the right to revise this Privacy Policy at any time by updating this document
without advance notice to you. Such revisions shall be effective to you immediately
upon posting. Notice of material changes to this Privacy Policy may be posted on
the Site’s homepage. However, we encourage you to check this Privacy Policy often
for updates.
We may use your Personal Information to provide you with the features,
services, or goods you request, to respond to billing and/or other such questions
related to the Station or Site, and to notify you about updates, new features, programming
and activities on behalf of the Station, Site, or our Advertisers that may be of
interest to you. (The next section describes our policy regarding the collection,
use and disclosure of Personal Information to Advertisers.) We may also use your
information for hiring, operational and business purposes, to find out how we can
improve our Station and Site via surveys or online tracking mechanisms and to develop
new services and features that may be of interest to you. We may use aggregate Personal
Information to help us to evaluate and modify existing services and features.
For
specific purposes (such as the purchase of goods and services) we may request a type
of confidential personally identifiable information which shall be called “Sensitive
Personal Information” and traditionally includes an individual’s: (1) social security
number; (2) driver’s license number or state identification card number; (3) employee
identification number; (4) account number, credit or debit card number, with or without
any required security code, access code or password that would permit access to an
individual’s financial account; (5) mother’s maiden name; (6) passport number; or
(7) electronic or digitized signature.
We will not sell, exchange, rent, lease or
otherwise disclose your Personal Information or Sensitive Personal Information to
other third-party marketers or any such persons that are not associated with the
Station as Advertisers unless it is necessary to: 1) conform to regulatory and legal
requirements or to comply with legal process; 2) to protect the safety and security
of our users, employees, or property; 3) to defend the rights of the Site or the
Station; or 4) to enforce the Terms of Use Agreement.
We may share your Personal
Information with our corporate parents and affiliated entities primarily for business
and operational purposes.
It is also necessary that we share your Personal Information
and Sensitive Personal Information with our operational service providers, the third
party specialists that provide internal support to Station operations and activities
and/or for Site design, development, hosting and operations including maintenance,
management, storage and/or fulfillment of our membership and e-mail clubs, various
contests, sweepstakes, services, events and online stores. We use operational service
providers to efficiently provide the full range of content, activities and membership
services we bring to you.
WEBSITE COLLECTION, USE, AND DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
Generally, you may browse this Site without providing any Personal Information. For
certain activities (including but not limited to contest and sweepstakes registrations,
membership, music sampling and surveys, news/sports/weather alerts, or registration
for chat rooms and message boards) the Personal Information you may voluntarily provide
may include your first/middle and last name, home address, business address, email
address, telephone number, mobile phone/text messaging device number, birth date,
gender, employer or personal preferences, depending on the activity. If Sensitive
Personal Information is collected, it will only be used to implement the specific
activity or event it was submitted for. We will not share your Sensitive Personal
Information with Advertisers.
DISCLOSURE TO ADVERTISERS
Advertising support allows
us to offer, free of charge, many great activities and services to our users such
as contests, sweepstakes and special events. Therefore, we may also use your Personal
Information for the marketing of events, products or services of our Advertisers.
There are two ways users may receive such information from Advertisers, either indirectly
via newsletters, email or direct mail from the Site, or directly from the Advertiser.
We may use one or both methods depending on the activity and the Advertiser.
OPT-IN
clause for current practice of disclosing information to advertisers, sponsors and
promotional partners:
When we plan to share your Personal Information with Advertisers,
you will receive such notice on the Site, in the rules of participation (“Rules of
Participation”) for the activity or event, or via an email notice. However, please
be informed that our Advertisers may not have the same privacy policies that we do.
Therefore, we will ask you for your consent first to receive marketing information
directly from our Advertisers. You will need to check the “Opt-in” click boxes that
may be located on the registration area for the particular activity or event, in
an email, or notify the Site’s Privacy Administrator. However, if you do not wish
to receive marketing or promotional materials from the Site and/or Station, you will
need to tell us so by clicking the “Opt-Out” click boxes that may be included on
the registration area for the particular event, or alternatively, notify the Site’s
Privacy Administrator. Please note that this notification process for marketing materials
from the Site and/or Station is different than the one for Advertisers.
“OPT-OUT”
clause for current practice of disclosing information to advertisers, sponsors and
promotional partners:
When we plan to share your Personal Information with Advertisers,
you will receive such notice on the Site, in the rules of participation (“Rules of
Participation”) for the activity or event, or via an email notice. However, please
be informed that our Advertisers may not have the same privacy policies that we do.
Therefore, you will need to tell us if you do not want to receive marketing information
directly from our Advertisers. You will need to check the “Opt-out” click boxes that
may be located on the registration area for the particular event, in an email, or
alternatively, notify the Site’s Privacy Administrator. You will also need to tell
us if you do not wish to receive marketing or promotional materials from the Site
and/or Station in the same manner.
COOKIES AND IMAGE TAGS
The use of cookies is an
industry standard and they are currently used on most websites, including this Site.
Cookies are a small text file containing a unique identification number that is transferred
from a website server to either your browser or temporary storage of a user’s computer
so that the website administrator or a third-party operational service provider may
identify the computer and passively track the user’s activities on the website. Image
tags work in conjunction with cookies and are small image files that may be located
on select pages of our Site, or with-in web-based email newsletters that we may send.
(Image tags are also called web beacons, web bugs, clear GIFs or single-pixel GIFs.)
Tracking is important because we can better understand what parts of our website
are used the most, when to launch new services and how to enhance current offerings.
We may share the information we receive from cookies and image tags with third-parties
and our Advertisers in aggregate form, which means that such information does not
contain specific Personal Information or Sensitive Personal Information about any
one visitor.
In short, cookies and image tags collect a user’s Internet protocols
and server information. Such data files allow our Site to remember your web browser
when you visit our Site and are necessary tools for quick and efficient access to
membership clubs, awards programs and contests. A cookie will not allow the Site
to learn any Personal Information (such as your real name and email address) or Sensitive
Personal Information that you have not otherwise disclosed. Cookies and image tags
allow the Site to remember important information that will make the Site easier for
you to use and help us in our administration of various activities. We do not use
cookies or image tags to collect other Personal Information or Sensitive Personal
Information unless you give us permission to do so.
This Site may contain advertisements,
references and links to other services, websites and organizations. Third party Advertisers
may also display or serve advertising on the Site and communicate with you. Often
these Advertisers employ cookie, image tags and other technologies to measure advertising
effectiveness. You should be aware that different rules might apply to the collection,
maintenance, use and disclosure of your information by third parties in connection
with their advertisements, promotions and other websites you encounter on the Internet.
The use of such technology by these third parties is within their control and not
ours. Even if we have a relationship with a third party, we do not control their
websites, their technology or their policies and practices regarding your Personal
Information. This Privacy Policy does not cover any use of Personal Information or
Sensitive Personal Information that a third party, an Advertiser or non-affiliated
ad server may collect from you. We encourage you to investigate and ask questions
directly of them in this regard.
We use third-party advertising companies to serve
ads when you visit our Site. These companies may use information (not including your
name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other
websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest
to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices
about not having this information used by these companies, click here: (http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp).
You may also choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie or image tag
is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all such devices. This is done through
your browser on your computer by turning off the setting that allows it to accept
third party cookies. If you turn cookies off in this manner, you may not have access
to many features at our Site that make your Internet experience more efficient and
personal, and some of our features or Advertiser features or services may not function
properly.
CHILDREN’S PRIVACY POLICY
Although persons of all ages may visit our Site
and participate in activities that do not require the collection of Personal Information
or Sensitive Personal Information, we do not knowingly or intentionally collect Personal
Information or Sensitive Personal Information from persons under the age of 18 (also
called a minor). Except for the limited circumstances listed below, we will automatically
reject and delete the registration or entry of any person we believe in good faith
to be underage. Any false or fraudulent registration or entry from minors (under
the age of 18 or the age of adulthood in your State) will be deemed to be ineligible
and will disqualify the minor from the receipt of a prize, benefit, or other participation.
Consistent with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (“COPPA”), which
governs the online collection of Personal Information from children under the age
of 13, we will not knowingly collect, use, store, or disclose any child’s Personal
Information to a third party without prior verifiable parental consent except to
meet Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”), or other regulatory and legal purposes.
REVIEW, UPDATE, CORRECT, OR DELETE PERSONAL INFORMATION OR SENSITIVE PERSONAL INFORMATION
Generally, you may review, update or delete your Personal Information or Sensitive
Personal Information, if any, collected by the Site. You may also correct factual
inaccuracies. Certain types of Personal Information that is necessary to check eligibility,
such as birth date or age, cannot be deleted, but may be modified with sufficient
verification of the new information. Note that we reserve the right to terminate
or delete any membership or entry if we believe the Personal Information submitted
was knowingly false or fraudulent.
To review, update or delete your Personal Information
or Sensitive Personal Information collected by the Site, please email the Site’s
Privacy Administrator the address provided above. To have access to your Personal
Information or Sensitive Personal Information, you must provide proof of identification
such as full name, street address, city/state and zip code, user ID and password,
and/or information about your recent activity on the website. We reserve the right
to deny access to any user if we believe there is a question about your identity.
And if the burden or expense of providing access to your Personal Information is
disproportionate to the risks to your privacy, or if the legitimate rights of others
would be violated, we may decide not to provide access to such information. In such
cases, we will provide to you an explanation of why access cannot be provided and
a contact person for further inquiries.
SECURITY MEASURES
We maintain reasonable
standards of security and confidentiality for the collection, use, and storage of
of non-sensitive Personal Information. However, this Site, as do most Internet websites,
collects such information over an unsecured transmission. Please note that when users
transmit Personal Information over an unsecured Internet connection, the Site is
not responsible for the security of that information during the transmission stage
as your email or registration could be copied or intercepted by unknown third parties.
Therefore, you understand, acknowledge, and agree that you transmit certain Personal
Information over this Site at your own risk.
