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WHAT INFORMATION DO WE GATHER ABOUT YOU?
The information Community Journals Publishing Group gathers falls into two categories: 1) Personal information, which includes personal information you supply when you provide your email address, use a submission form, register through our Disqus commenting system, or enter a contest and 2) Non-personal information collected through technology, which includes tracking information collected as you use Community Journals Publishing Group websites/digital services.
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Personal Information That You Give Us
Registration Information
Registration for services may require that you supply certain personal information, including a unique e-mail address and some demographic information.
You may choose to log in, create an account or enhance your profile on upstatebusinessjournal.com through the Facebook, Twitter or Google Connect features offered through Disqus on our site. By doing this, you are asking these accounts to send us certain information from your profiles, and you authorize us to collect, store, and use in accordance with this Privacy Policy any and all information available to us through the Facebook, Twitter and Google interfaces. After you have connected, Facebook, Twitter and Google also send us additional information from your profile that allows us to display these platform modules on the pages you view.
User Generated Content and Public Activities
We offer you opportunities to engage in public activities on our sites. “Public activities” are any actions you take on our sites that are designed to be visible to other users, including comments, recommendations, reader reviews, ratings or any other items that you submit. Any information you disclose in your public activities, along with your screen name or ID, or any image or photo, becomes public and may be used by Community Journals Publishing Group for online and offline promotional or commercial uses in any and all media. If you choose to engage in public activities, you should be aware that any personal information you submit there can be read, collected, or used by other users of these areas, and could be used to send you unsolicited messages. We are not responsible for the personally identifiable information you choose to submit in these forums and Community Journals Publishing Group has no responsibility to publish, take down, remove or edit any of your public activities or any of your submissions that are a result of your public activities.
When you share or recommend (with or without adding your own comments) any Community Journals Publishing Group articles or content to your social media networks, that action is entirely governed by those social media networks’ Privacy Policies. We do not track or store a record of those comments or actions.
Form Submission
Form submission requires that you supply certain personal information, including a unique e-mail address, other contact information and some demographic information.
This information is not visible to other users. It is also not used for any other purpose than for the purpose for which you submit the form. We never, under any circumstances, sell your personal information.
Contests and Special Offers
Community Journals Publishing Group collects personal information from you in connection with optional contests or special offers. If this information is also being collected by a third party other than Community Journals Publishing Group, we will notify you at the same time. If you do not want any personal information shared, you may always decline to participate in the contest or special offer.
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Non-Personal Information Collected Using Technology
Information Collected by Us Using Technology
We use various Internet technologies to manage our web services and track use of the services. Non-personal information that we collect using these technologies may be combined with other information about you.
Device Information. We may collect non-personal information about the computer, mobile device or other device you use to access our sites, such as IP address, geolocation information, unique device identifiers, browser type, browser language and other transactional information.
Cookies, Beacons, Local Storage and Other Similar Technologies. In providing the our web services, we use “cookies,” Web beacons, HTML5 local storage and other similar technologies to manage access to and use of the services, recognize you and provide personalization, as well as to help us understand where our visitors are going and how much time they spend there.
Analytics Technologies. We have hired third parties to provide us information, reports and analysis about the usage, browsing patterns of users of our digital services. This information is anonymous and non-personally identifiable, and the data is solely used by Community Journals Publishing Group.
IP Addresses. Community Journals Publishing Group logs Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, or the location of your computer on the Internet, for systems administration and troubleshooting purposes. We use this information in an aggregate fashion to track access to our Web sites and mobile applications.
Information Collected by Third Parties Using Technology
Some of the services and advertisements on Community Journals Publishing Group sites are delivered or served by third-party companies that may place or recognize cookies, Web beacons or other technology to track certain non-personal information about our Web site users. For example, in the course of serving certain advertisements, some advertisers may place or recognize a unique cookie on your browser in order to collect certain information about your use of our sites.
We do not have access to, nor control over, advertisers’ or service providers’ use of cookies or other tracking technologies or how they may be used.
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WHAT DO WE DO WITH THE INFORMATION WE GATHER ABOUT YOU?
Providing the Services You Request
We use the information we gather about you to enable your use of the our digital services, and fulfill your requests for certain products and services, such as sending out electronic newsletters and enabling you to participate in form submission, polls, contests, and message boards.
Statistical Analysis
We perform statistical, demographic and marketing analyses of users of our digital services for product development purposes and to generally inform advertisers about the nature of our subscriber base. We use this information for analysis purposes, including analysis to improve customer relationships.
Relevant Advertising
We may use demographic and preference information to allow advertising on Community Journals Publishing Group sites to be targeted to the users for whom they are most pertinent. This means users see advertising that is most likely to interest them, and advertisers send their messages to people who are most likely to be receptive, improving both the viewer’s experience and the effectiveness of the ads. We disclose information to third parties only in aggregate or de-identified form.
Opt-In E-Mail Newsletters
Community Journals Publishing Group and our subsidaries will periodically send users who opt-in e-mail newsletters or promotional e-mail about services offered by Community Journals Publishing Group and its advertisers.
We will not share, sell, rent, swap or authorize any third party to use your e-mail address for commercial purposes without your permission.
If you have registered for online discussions or other services, you may receive e-mail specific to your participation in those activities.
Community Journals Publishing Group and our subsidaries offer several e-mail newsletters. If you no longer wish to receive a specific newsletter, follow the “unsubscribe” instructions located near the bottom of each newsletter.
E-Mail This Article Feature. Users may use this feature to e-mail links to articles (or other content such as slideshows). The e-mail addresses that you supply to this service are saved for your convenience for future articles you may wish to e-mail; these addresses are not used for any other purpose, and will not be shared with any third parties.
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WITH WHOM DO WE SHARE THE INFORMATION THAT WE GATHER?
We will not sell, rent, swap or authorize any third party to use your e-mail address or any information that personally identifies you without your permission.
We also share information about our audience in aggregate or de-identified form. Nothing in this Privacy Policy is intended to restrict Community Journals Publishing Group’s use of aggregated or de-identified information in any way.
In the future, we may sell, buy, merge or partner with other companies or businesses. In such transactions, we may include your information among the transferred assets.
IS MY INFORMATION PROTECTED?
To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy and ensure the appropriate use of information, we have put in place commercially reasonable physical, technical and administrative controls to protect the information. Please note that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure.
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Changes to This Policy
This Privacy Policy may be amended from time to time. Any such changes will be posted on this page. If we make a significant or material change in the way we use your personal information, the change will be posted on this page thirty (30) days prior to taking effect and registered users will be notified via e-mail.