Privacy Policy
The Fort Mill Times has a firm commitment to privacy. We take your privacy concerns seriously and want to make every effort to address them. That is why we have adopted the following policy, which explains our position on information-gathering and disclosure.
Your Personal Information
From time to time, we will ask for information that personally identifies you, as in our user surveys or registration for The Fort Mill Times services such as e-mail, forums, or promotions. We use this information to operate The Fort Mill Times's services, provide you with the highest quality services and offer you opportunities we think will be of interest.
We use third-party advertising technology vendors to collect, via includes, cookies and web beacons (1x1 pixels), non-personally identifiable data when you visit our Web site. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other Web sites 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.
In order to describe our services to prospective partners, advertisers and others, we may disclose user information but only in a form that does not identify individual users. For example, we might disclose that a certain percentage of our users are male or within a certain age range.
Occasionally, we may disclose personal information in other circumstances, but we will only do this if we have explained at the time we collect the information the purpose for which it will be disclosed.
Kids' Privacy
The Fort Mill Times is particularly concerned with providing a safe online environment for kids. Therefore, in areas operated by The Fort Mill Times that are directed to kids or when we learn that a user is under the age of 13, we will ask for parental consent before collecting additional personal information about the child or allowing the child to use the The Fort Mill Times services to provide additional personal information. Parental consent can be provided in two ways:
- Send a fax copy of a completed Parental Consent Form to The Fort Mill Times at (803) 547-2321, including your signature; or
- Call us at 803-547-2353.
The Fort Mill Times will not knowingly disclose personal information about users under the age of 13 without prior parental consent, except as required by law. If for any reason you wish to access, update or remove information about your child or terminate your child's account, you may fax or call The Fort Mill Times at the numbers listed above or send an email to the webmaster.
The Fort Mill Times strongly recommends parental supervision when a child uses the Internet, and particularly when a child enters a forum or uses email. We also encourage parents to instruct their children not to give out personal information in these areas.
E-Commerce
The Fort Mill Times hosts a number of online stores that sell a variety of goods and services. These stores may collect information from you such as your name, credit card number and other contact information. The Fort Mill Times does not collect, use or disclose this information nor does it own or control the stores or have responsibility for transactions made by those merchants. If you would like to know more about the information collected when you participate in e-commerce on or through this site, please contact the store merchants directly.
Cookies
A "cookie" is a small data text file that is placed in your browser and allows The Fort Mill Times to recognize you each time you visit this site. Cookies themselves do not contain any personal information, and The Fort Mill Times does not use cookies to collect personal information. Instead, they allow us to see which parts of our site you have used so that we can better serve you when you return to our site. Cookies may be used to provide you with information and special opportunities tailored to your interests.
Direct Mailings and "Opting Out"
We may send you information about various products and services. If you don't want to receive this information, you can "opt out" by sending us an email to the webmaster and requesting that you not receive any of these of these offers.
You Can Change Your Private Information at any Time
Information you provide to The Fort Mill Times may be stored by us for an indefinite time. However, please feel free to change, update or delete this information at any time by sending an email to the webmaster.
Remember The Risks Whenever You Use The Internet
You should know that when you voluntarily disclose personal information on the The Fort Mill Times system (for example, in forums), that information can be collected and used by others and may result in unsolicited messages from other people. While we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of any information that you transmit to The Fort Mill Times and you are solely responsible for maintaining the secrecy of any passwords or other account information. In addition, our partners and other Internet sites or services that may be accessible through The Fort Mill Times have separate data and privacy practices independent of us, and therefore we disclaim any responsibility or liability for their policies or actions. Please contact those vendors and others directly if you have any questions about their privacy policies.
Tell Us How We're Doing
If you have any questions or comments about our policies, please contact us by sending an email to the webmaster.
Advertising Policy
The Fort Mill Times has a firm commitment to privacy. We take your privacy concerns seriously and want to make every effort to address them. That is why we have adopted the following policy, which explains our position on obtaining information from our users.
"Advertisements served by Real Media appear on pages throughout this site. Real Media utilizes certain technologies to deliver specific advertisements to visitors to this site. Privacy issues surrounding this technology are disclosed in their privacy policy, which can be viewed at http://www.realmedia.com/privacy.html."
If you have any questions or comments about our policies, please contact us by sending an email to the webmaster.
