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This
Privacy Policy discloses the general privacy practices for the
Belo Interactive web sites, including DallasNews.com. Belo Interactive,
Inc. is a subsidiary of Belo Corp. ("Belo Interactive").
Belo Interactive is committed to respecting your privacy rights
when visiting any Belo Interactive web site, such as this one.
To protect your Personal Information, Belo Interactive 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 any of the Belo Interactive web sites (collectively,
the "Site"), 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
or enter you in the promotion you have requested, as well as
respond to your inquiry or comment.
What are Cookies? A cookie is an element of data that
a web site can send to your browser, which may then be stored
on your system. This element of data is a piece of text, not
a program. The Site can only access the information from a cookie
sent by the Site. We cannot access other 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, by entering a sweepstakes or promotion, etc.
Why does the Site use cookies? Belo Interactive uses
cookies to track usage of the Site and further personalize your
experience when you are visiting the Site. 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 the Site. The information is used to keep our Site fresh
and relevant to you the user. Cookies also allow you to avoid
retyping your e-mail address and password each time you access
the Site.
May I decline to accept a cookie? You may decline to
accept cookies sent by the Site by selecting an option on your
browser to reject cookies. However, some portions of the Site
may require registration in order to access those areas. 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. In addition, our registration
system may require that you accept the cookies from the Site
in order to access that portion of the Site.
We use an advertising server developed by a third party to display
ads on the Site. Some of these ads may contain cookies that
are set by third parties (i.e. advertising agencies or advertising
clients). We do not have access to these cookies or any information
that they may contain; please contact the advertiser for more
information on these cookies. Other sites linked to the Site
may also send cookies; however we do not control such activities.
What happens with the information collected in a cookie?
The information stored in a cookie is used to identify you to
our server, to allow us to personalize your experience on the
Site, and to serve content and communications that may be of
interest to you.
IP Addresses: Belo Interactive does log IP addresses,
or the location of your computer on the Internet, for systems
administration and troubleshooting purposes and to determine
site usage.
Use of Personal Information
We believe in protecting your privacy, and will not share Personal
Information with third parties outside of Belo Corp. except
as described in this Privacy Policy. We believe that we can
enhance your experience on our Site with the information you
share with us. We use Personal Information about you to improve
our advertising and marketing efforts, to statistically analyze
Site usage, to improve our content and product offerings and
to personalize the Site'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.
Belo Interactive may match specific and/or aggregated Personal
Information with third party data to provide you with product
and content offerings that interest you and improve our advertising
and marketing efforts. Belo Interactive also may disclose aggregated
user statistics in order to describe our services to potential
advertisers, partners, other third parties, our affiliate companies,
and for other lawful purposes. For example, we provide our advertisers
with aggregate information about our users, such as "2,000 people
viewed your ad today."
As part of your experience on our Site, you may receive communications
from us related to products and services that might interest
you. While we believe these services will enhance your experience
at our Site, you will at all times be able to opt out from receiving
these communications, either by specifically opting out of these
services or by deleting your profile from our database.
We have today, and will in the future have, arrangements with
third party service providers, such as credit card processors,
shipping companies and fulfillment services. When you sign up
for a service we offer on the Site, we may be required to share
Personal Information with that service provider in order to
provide the service. These third party providers are not permitted
to retain or use Personal Information for any purpose unrelated
to providing the service.
Belo Interactive may also offer other services as a part of
our Site (e.g., car buying service, personalized finance and
weather information alerts, contests, sweepstakes and other
promotions with unaffiliated third parties). If you choose to
use these optional services or opportunities, we may provide
some of your Personal Information to third parties, such as
service providers and other parties assisting us in providing
the service. We will not do so without telling you how we will
use that information, and you can avoid having us make such
disclosures by choosing not to use these services or features
of the Site.
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 Belo
Interactive's or its affiliate's stock or assets.
Party
Collecting the Information
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 Belo Interactive
shall not be responsible for the use or dissemination of such
information.
Our Sites may operate as part of a larger group of sites, and
may carry co-branded pages. In addition, other sites may use
the Site's or Belo Interactive's name. Since Belo Interactive
does not control the privacy policies of third parties, you
are subject to the privacy customs and policies, if any, of
such third parties, and Belo Interactive shall not be responsible
for the use or dissemination of your private information by
such parties. Therefore, we encourage you to ask questions and
review those parties' privacy policies before you disclose your
Personal Information to others.
Links
to Other Materials
Third party sites linked to and from the Site are not necessarily
under the control of Belo Interactive. Belo Interactive 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. Belo Interactive does not necessarily
endorse companies (or related products or services) to or from
which the Site is linked. If you decide to access any of the
third party sites linked to the Site, you do so entirely at
your own risk. Belo Interactive hereby disclaims any rights
to trademarks, service marks, trade names, logos, copyrights,
patents, domain names or other intellectual property interests
of third parties.
Children's
Privacy
Belo Interactive 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 practical.
Opting-Out
We respect your privacy and ability to choose whether to share
information with us and any third party. You may choose to "opt-out"
of sharing Personal Information in several ways. When choosing
to use certain features or services on the Site, you can choose
whether to share optional Personal Information in connection
with the feature or service. If you receive communications from
us that you prefer not to receive, you may opt out from receiving
these communications, either by specifically indicating this
preference in a communication to us or by deleting your registration
profile from our database.
You may also "opt-out" altogether from providing Personal Information
to us by not registering on the Site and thereby not providing
Personal Information. You may also choose at a later date to
have your name removed from our database. To do so, please follow
the process described below.
Certain portions of the Site and certain services provided on
the Site, however, do require registration in order to access
or use these areas and services. If you choose not to register
or provide certain information, these areas will not be accessible
to you.
Reviewing,
Changing and Deleting Your Personal Information
You may access all of the Personal Information that we collect
from you online and maintain by using the procedure that follows.
We use this procedure to better safeguard your Personal Information.
To protect your privacy and security, we will also take reasonable
steps to verify your identity before granting access or making
corrections.
You may also at any time choose to change or delete your profile
from our database using this procedure. You should know that
as a result of deregistration, certain areas of our Site may
no longer be accessible to you.
1. Enter (or click) http://signin.dallasnews.com
in your browser.
2. Sign in by entering your e-mail address and password. Your
account information will then be displayed.
3. Modify your information and submit the form.
Security
Belo Interactive maintains industry standard safeguards to ensure
the security, integrity and privacy of the Personal Information
that you provide to Belo Interactive.
Contacting
Us
If you have any questions or comments about our Privacy Policy,
please e-mail us at .
Effective
Date and Changes
This Privacy Policy is effective as of May 21, 2001. Belo Interactive
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 the Site following our posting
of a change notice will constitute binding acceptance of those
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