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The
Light (WBYN-AM) and www.TheLightRadio.com PRIVACY POLICY
(Last updated: June 9, 2008)
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact our Privacy Administrator
at the following address:
The Light
(WBYN-AM)/TheLightRadio.com
619 Alexander Road
Third Floor
Princeton, NJ 08540
Attn: Privacy Administrator
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.
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.
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.
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