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Privacy Policy for WTMJ-AMPrivacy Policy for WTMJ-AM Effective Date: January 2, 2007 WTMJ-AM / 620wtmj.com recognizes the importance of the relationships it has developed with its audiences, viewers, listeners and communities. In line with our valued relationships, we are committed to protecting your privacy and handling your personally identifiable information with care and respect. This Privacy Policy is designed to answer your questions regarding our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your personally identifiable information is collected and used at our website. “Personally identifiable information” is referred to in this Privacy Policy as “personal information” and means information that identifies a particular individual. WTMJ-AM is a division of Journal Broadcast Group, Inc., and is referred to in this Privacy Policy as “the station”, “we”, “us”, and “our”. This Privacy Policy applies only to personal information collected on this website owned and operated by the station and does not apply to any other information collected by the station through any other means. Each time you visit our website or use our online services, you consent to the collection, use, disclosure, and processing of personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. In addition to your consent, our website may enable you to make various choices about how your personal information is used. You may withdraw your consent at any time, subject to legal or contractual restrictions and reasonable notice. If you wish to withdraw your consent, please contact us using our information below. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully and before using our website and online services. Your visit to our website is subject to this Privacy Policy and our Website Terms and Conditions of Use. * What types of personal information do we collect? What types of personal information do we collect about you? We may ask you to provide various types of personal information to enhance your experience on our website. The more information you provide, the better we are able to customize your experience. The types of personal information our website may collect include your name, postal address, email address, telephone number, birth date, gender, occupation, household income, purchasing preferences, personal interest activities, bank/debit/credit card information, username and password for the website, and other personal information that you actively provide to us via our website or email. How do we actively collect and use personal information? We may actively collect personal information from you when you complete online forms or otherwise affirmatively provide such information to us. Our website collects information in different ways, including but not limited to when you participate in sweepstakes, contests, games, promotional offers, and surveys; subscribe to our online services, such as news, weather and traffic alerts; register for our station newsletters and listener clubs; download podcasts; purchase products or services through our shopping service; communicate with us via email; apply for employment with us; or otherwise affirmatively provide personal information to us. We may use your personal information in many ways, including but not limited to when we deliver email and other direct marketing communications to you regarding special product offers, sales, promotions, or other information about our or our affiliates or our advertisers’ products and services , provided that you have given us your consent at the time we collect your personal information; administer sweepstakes, contests, games or other promotional programs or activities and notify winners of such programs or activities; provide you with valuable online services, such as news, weather and traffic alerts; respond to your questions or provide other requested information; notify you of important changes in the functionality of our website or other notices related to the handling of your personal information; and evaluate your qualifications for employment. Our website may also enable you to submit personal information about other people. We may actively collect personal information about other people from you when you participate in various programs or when you submit news stories to us that involve other people.We generally use this personal information to process your request or to investigate and report new stories. How do we passively collect and use information through tracking technology? Our website may passively collect certain kinds of information that reveal the frequency with which you visit our website, the times and dates of your visits, the pages you reviewed, and other information, including Internet protocol (IP) addresses. Information is passively collected through various means. We use IP addresses to identify server problems, administer our website, and compile aggregated statistics for marketing and research purposes. We use navigational data, including log files and click-stream data, to identify information about your web browser and operating system, and the time period in which you visit our website or select pages or areas of our website. This information is also used to improve our website content. Our website uses small text files called “cookies” that are sent to the hard drive of your computer to store bits of information related to your use of our website. Cookies can store a variety of information, including IP addresses, navigational data, server information, data transfer times, user preferences, and passwords needed to access our website. You may configure your browser to reject cookies. However, if you do so, you might not be able to access important functions or enjoy certain conveniences at our website. Our website may also use “Web beacons” to help personalize your experience, similarly to how we use cookies. Third party companies that help us place advertisements on our website may use Web beacons to serve cookies and advertisements. We may also use Web beacons to gather non-personally identifiable information about the number of users who visit our website, the areas in which they spend their time visiting, and other demographic data. Our website typically does not combine passively collected information (as described above) with actively collected personal information.We also reserve the right to introduce new passive tracking technologies and techniques related to the use of our website. Do we share your personal information with third parties? Except as stated in this Privacy Policy or unless your consent is obtained at the time of collection or prior to transfer, your personal information will not be shared with any third party outside of Journal Broadcast Group’s corporate parent, divisions, affiliates and service providers. We will share your personal information with our corporate parent, Journal Communications, and our divisions, affiliates and service providers primarily for business and operational purposes and occasionally for promotional and marketing purposes. We may sometimes offer promotions or contests that are sponsored by or co-sponsored with third parties, in which we will provide you notice that your personal information will be shared with these identified third parties for purposes of fulfilling contest prizes and delivering email and other direct marketing communications to you regarding special product offers, sales, promotions, or other information about these third parties’ products and services that may be of interest to you. We may share your personal information and non-identifying and aggregate information with our service providers, and our divisions and affiliates, to help us serve you better and to perform functions on our behalf in order to support our business and operation of our website as necessary, including without limitation to provide online services, such as news, weather and traffic alerts; to provide shopping services and fulfill and process orders for products and services; to process credit card payments; to send communications to you; to facilitate promotional marketing campaigns; to facilitate advertisements on our website; to provide technical support services, and to host our website on third party servers. We also reserve the right to disclose your personal information to protect the security of our website; to protect ourselves and our corporate parent, divisions, and affiliates against liability; to respond to subpoenas, judicial processes, or government requests; to act in respect of an emergency that threatens life, health or security of an individual; to assist in the investigation of a contravention of a law; if we believe in good faith that the law requires it or authorizes it; or in connection with any proposed or actual purchase, sale, lease, merger, assignment, re-organization or financing of all or any portion of our station or any of the business or assets or shares of our station or a division thereof in order for you to continue to receive the same products and services from the third party. We reserve the right to fully use, share, and process any information collected via our website that is not in personally identifiable form. What choices do you have about the collection, use and sharing of your personal information? If you do not want to receive email and other direct marketing communications from our station regarding special product offers, sales, promotions, or other information about our or our affiliates or our advertisers’ products and services , you may choose to opt-out of receiving such communications from us by clicking on the unsubscribe links in certain email communications from us or by otherwise notifying us of your opt-out choice by using our contact information below. If you do not want us to share your personal information with third parties for purposes of delivering promotional or direct marketing materials to you or providing particular online services to you, you may choose not to allow the transfer by not using that particular online service or not participating in that particular online promotion. Alternatively you may contact us using our information below and we will take reasonable measures to avoid sharing your personal information in the future. Please note that third parties are usually independent from us, and if you wish to stop all communications from third parties, you will need to address such issues with the third parties directly. What do you need to know about links to other websites operated by third parties? Our website contains a variety of content and functionality and may provide links to other third party websites, including our affiliate websites. Despite these linkages or any references to our business and station at those websites, this Privacy Policy applies only to our station website. This Privacy Policy does not apply to other portions of our internal network or to any external websites. Please note that you are solely responsible for your interactions with external websites and third parties to which our website provides you access, such as by clicking on a link. How can you access or update your personal information? If you wish to update any personal information you have previously provided, please contact us using our contact information below. If you are a registered user of our website, you may access and correct certain personal information you have submitted through our website by entering your username and password and accessing your account. You may also ask us to remove your personal information from our station’s records, electronic or otherwise. We will usually be glad to update your personal information where appropriate, but we reserve the right to use personal information obtained previously to verify your identity or take other actions that we believe are appropriate. What security measures do we take to safeguard your personal information? The security and confidentiality of your personal information is extremely important to us. We maintain reasonable physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to protect your personal information. However, no security measures are impenetrable, and transmissions over the Internet are never 100% secure or error-free. As a result, we do not, and cannot, guarantee the security, accuracy, or completeness of personal information. Also, it is your responsibility to safeguard any username or password that you may have received in connection with our website, and to notify us if you ever suspect that the security and confidentiality of your username or password and associated account has been compromised in any way. You are solely responsible for any use of our website via your username and password. How will you know if we make changes to this Privacy Policy? We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy from time to time and in our sole discretion. If this Privacy Policy changes, the revised Privacy Policy will be posted at the “Privacy Policy” link on our website’s home page. In the event that the change is significant or material, we will notify such a change by revising the link on the home page to read “ Privacy Policy - Updated.” Please check the Privacy Policy frequently and particularly before you submit additional personal information via our website. Your continued use of our website constitutes acceptance of such changes in the Privacy Policy, except where further steps are required by applicable law.The effective date of this Privacy Policy is noted in the beginning of this Privacy Policy. Do we collect personal information from or about children? We recognize the particular importance of protecting the privacy of children. We are committed to protecting children’s privacy on the Internet and we comply fully with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13. If a child under the age of 13 has provided personal information to us via our website, we ask that a parent or guardian contact us using our email address below and we will delete the personal information about the child from our records. In the event that we otherwise learn that we have collected any personal information from a child under the age of 13, we will delete that information from our records. Our website may enable parents or guardians to submit information about their child under the age of 13 for purposes of participating in programs, such as a weather kids program. In this case, we only request the types of personal information necessary for participation in the program, which may include the child’s name, age, city, and a photograph of the child. This information would be used only for purposes of the program. What are “Your California Privacy Rights”? Under California law, California residents who have an established business relationship with us may choose to opt out of our station sharing personal information about them to third parties for marketing purposes. If you would like to opt-out of receiving direct marketing communications from non-affiliated third parties, our affiliates, and our station, please send your written request to us using our email address below and marking your request “Re: Your California Privacy Rights”. Your opt-out request will be processed within thirty (30) days of the date it was received. Please note that third parties are independent from our station and if you wish to stop all communications from third parties, you will need to address such issues with the third parties directly. How can you contact us? Please feel free to contact us with any comments, questions, or suggestions you may have regarding the information practices described in this Privacy Policy. Please also contact us to report any known or suspected privacy or security breaches. You may contact us at: WTMJ-AM webmaster@620wtmj.com (mention WTMJ-AM's Privacy Policy in your email.) TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE
Effective Date: January 2, 2007 Please read this AGREEMENT carefully and before using our website and online services at http://www.620wtmj.com (“this Service”). Your visit to our website AND USE OF THIS SERVICE is subject to this TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE AGREEMENT (“Agreement”) and our Website PRIVACY POLICY ( see above ). By accessing, browsing and/or using this Service, you agree to this Agreement and also to our Privacy Policy between you and WTMJ-AM (“the station“ or “We” or “Us” or “Our”), a division of Journal Broadcast Group. If you do not agree, do not access, browse or use this Service. Changes to this Agreement and this Service We reserve the right to change the terms of this Agreement or to modify any features of this Service at any time. We will provide notice of such change by revising this Agreement posted on our website and/or by revising the features of this Service on this website. By registering for this Service and/or continuing to use this Service on or after the effective date of any such change, you agree to be bound by such changes. If you do not accept these changes, you must immediately discontinue use of this Service. Copyright Notice and Restrictions on Use This Service, namely the material published in this website and our online services, including, but not limited to text, photographs, graphics, video, audio and other content, including third party content, is protected by copyright as a collective work or compilation under the copyright laws of the and other countries. All individual articles, content, including third party content, and other elements comprising this Service are also copyrighted works. You must abide by all additional copyright notices or restrictions contained in this Service. You may not copy, reproduce, distribute, publish, enter into a database, upload, post, display, perform, modify, create derivative works, transmit, or in any way exploit any part of this Service, for commercial purposes or otherwise, except that you may download material from this Service for your own personal use as follows: you may make one machine readable copy and/or one print copy that is limited to occasional articles of personal interest only. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, you may not distribute any part of this Service over any network, including a local area network, nor sell or offer it for sale or otherwise utilize this Service for any commercial purpose. In addition, these files may not be used to construct any kind of database. You may only use the material posted on this website and this Service for lawful purposes. Just as we and Journal Broadcast Group require users to respect our copyrights, and those of our affiliates and partners, we respect the copyrights of others. If you believe in good faith that your copyrighted work has been reproduced on our website without authorization in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, you may notify us by sending mail to our contact information below. This Service may enable you to open an account through a specified registration process by providing us with current, complete and accurate information as requested by the applicable online registration form. You will be solely responsible for the maintenance and security of your user ID and password associated with any such account, if any. Your user ID and password are unique to you, and you agree not to disclose or share your user ID and password with any third party. Additionally, you are entirely responsible for any activities that occur under your account, and you agree to notify the station immediately of any unauthorized use of your account. We reserve the right to deny or revoke access to this Service, or any part thereof, at any time in our sole discretion, with or without cause. Your access to this Service will terminate upon the termination of this Agreement for any reason. Interactive Services This Service may offer a variety of interactive features, such as bulletin boards, web logs, chat rooms, forums, personalized home pages and email services, which allow feedback and communication to the station and real-time interaction and communication between users. You agree that you will not:
You are solely responsible and liable for any postings and transmissions, including links or other materials, delivered to the station’s website using your account. The station does not control and is not responsible for any postings, transmissions, links, ideas, suggestions, files or other materials delivered to the station’s website by you or other users. The station has no obligation to monitor any bulletin boards, chat rooms, web logs, or other areas of this Service through which users can supply information or material. However, the station reserves the right at all times to disclose any information as necessary to satisfy any law, regulation or governmental request, or to refuse to post or to remove any information or materials, in whole or in part, that in the station’s sole discretion are objectionable or in violation of this Agreement. Unless otherwise provided, all postings and transmissions, including all remarks, ideas, graphics, or other information, communicated to us through the station’s website will automatically, immediately and forever become the property of the station and Journal Broadcast Group or any of its affiliated companies without limitation, and you waive all of your rights, including but not limited to moral rights, therein to the extent permitted by the applicable law. Except as described in our Privacy Policy, the station and Journal Broadcast Group or any of its affiliated companies shall be entitled to use the postings or transmissions or any similarities for any type of use forever including in any media whether now known or later devised, and without any obligation of confidentiality and without compensation to you or any other person. Subscription Services This Service may offer certain subscription services such as newsletters. By registering for such subscription services, you will be subject to any charges and rules set forth in the description of that service. Sweepstakes and Contests This Service may offer certain sweepstakes and contests on behalf of the station or other third party sponsors. By participating in such sweepstakes and contests, you will be subject to additional terms and official rules for such sweepstakes and contests. Shopping Services This Service may enable you to purchase products, services and information online from third party businesses that are not owned or operated by the station or Journal Broadcast Group. The purchase, payment, warranty, guarantee, delivery, maintenance, and all other matters concerning the products, services or information ordered or received from such businesses are solely between you and such businesses. The station does not endorse, warrant, or guarantee such products, services or information, and is not liable for the accuracy, completeness or usefulness of such information or the quality or availability of such products or services. You release the station, Journal Broadcast Group, and its affiliates from any damages that you incur, and agree not to assert any claims against them, arising from your purchase or use of any products, services or information made available by third party businesses through the station’s website. If you make a purchase from a third party business on the station’s website or on a website linked to by the station’s website, the information obtained during your visit to that business’ online store or website, and the information that you give as part of the transaction, such as your credit card number and contact information, may be collected by both the third party business and the station. Such third party businesses may have privacy and data collection practices that are different from ours. The station has no responsibility or liability for these independent policies. Advertising Services This Service may enable you to submit an advertisement for publication on the station’s website. By submitting such advertisements, you will be subject to additional terms and rules set forth in the description of that service. Links This Service may contain links to websites operated by independent third parties. We do not monitor or control the linked websites and make no representations regarding such websites, and are not liable or responsible for the accuracy, completeness, timeliness, reliability or availability of any of the content uploaded, displayed or distributed, or products or services available at such websites. If you choose to access any third party website, you do so at your own risk. The presence of a link to a third party website does not constitute or imply the station’s endorsement, sponsorship, or recommendation of the third party or the content, products, services or information contained on or available through such websites. Indemnification You agree to indemnify and hold harmless the station and Journal Broadcast Group, its directors, officers, managers, employees, shareholders, subsidiaries, affiliates, agents, and licensors, from and against all losses, expenses, damages and costs, including reasonable attorneys' fees, resulting from any violation of this Agreement or resulting from any postings or transmissions that you deliver to us through the station’s website. We reserve the right to take over the exclusive defense of any claim for which we are entitled to indemnification under this Section. In such event, you shall provide us with such cooperation as is reasonably requested by us. This Service is available "as is." We do not warrant that this Service will be uninterrupted or error-free. There may be delays, omissions, interruptions and inaccuracies in the information or other materials available through this Service. We are not responsible for the availability or content of other services that may be linked to this Service. We do not make any warranties, express or implied, including without limitation, those of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose, with respect to this Service. We do not make any representations, nor do we endorse the accuracy, completeness, timeliness or reliability of any advice, opinion, statement or other material or database displayed, uploaded or distributed in this Service or available though links in this Service. We reserve the right to correct any errors or omissions in this Service. Although we intend to take reasonable steps to prevent the introduction of viruses, worms, "Trojan horses" or other destructive materials to this Service, we do not guarantee or warrant that this Service or materials that may be downloaded from this Service do not contain such destructive features. We are not liable for any damages or harm attributable to such features. If you rely on this Service and any materials available through this Service, you do so solely at your own risk. We and Journal Broadcast Group, and its officers, directors, managers, employees, shareholders, subsidiaries, affiliates, agents, or licensors are not liable for incidental, indirect, consequential, special, punitive, or exemplary damages of any kind, including lost revenues or profits, loss of business or loss of data, in any way related to this Service or for any claim, loss or injury based on errors, omissions, interruptions or other inaccuracies in this Service (including without limitation as a result of breach of any warranty or other term of this Agreement). Any claim against us shall be limited to the amount you paid, if any, for use of this Service. WTMJ-AM, 620wtmj.com, "Standing up for what's right", and Journal Broadcast Group are trademarks of Journal Broadcast Group. Other marks are marks of their respective holders. All other station trademarks, service marks, domain names, logos, and company names referred to on this website are the property of Journal Broadcast Group, its affiliates or licensors. Journal Broadcast Group also claims other rights associated with, among other things, unregistered trademarks, service marks, domain names, logos, and company names. You may not use any trademark, service mark, domain name, logo, or company name of ours or any third party without permission from the applicable owner. You may contact us by using our contact information below to request written permission to use materials on this website for purposes other than stated in this Agreement or for all other questions relating to this Service. Termination We or you may terminate this Agreement and your right to access or use this Service at any time. The warranty disclaimers, limitations and exclusions of liability, reservation of property rights and other terms and conditions of this Agreement which by their nature are intended to survive will survive the termination or expiration of this Agreement for any reason. Jurisdiction This Agreement shall be governed by the laws of the and the State of Michigan, excluding any conflict of laws provisions that would refer to and apply the substantive laws of another jurisdiction. You and we agree to submit to the jurisdiction of, and agree that venue is proper in, these courts in any such legal action or proceeding. BY CONTINUING TO USE THIS SERVICE, YOU AGREE TO ABIDE BY THE TERMS OF THIS AGREEMENT. Export Controls We control and operate this Service from the and make no representation that this Service is appropriate or available for use in other locations. If you use this Service from other locations, you are responsible for compliance with applicable local laws including, without limitation, all export laws. Some materials, information and software from this Service may be subject to export controls imposed by the United States and may not be downloaded or otherwise exported or re-exported: (a) into (or to a national or resident of) any country to which the United States has placed an embargo, (b) to anyone in the U.S. Treasury Department's Specially Designated national list, or (c) to anyone on the U.S. Commerce Department's Table of Denial Orders. If you download or use the materials, information or software, you represent and warrant that you are not located in, or under the control of, or a national or resident of any such country or on any such list. Waiver The delay or omission by us to exercise any terms or rights pursuant to this Agreement will not impair any such term or right nor be construed to be a waiver thereof and shall in no way affect our right later to enforce it. Any waiver by us of any of the covenants, conditions or agreements to be performed by you will not be construed to be a waiver of any succeeding breach thereof or any covenant, condition or agreement herein contained. Miscellaneous If any part of this Agreement is unlawful, void, or unenforceable, that part will be deemed severable and will not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions. Any information related to your use of this Service for illegal purposes will be provided to law enforcement authorities. You may contact us at: WTMJ-AM webmaster@620wtmj.com (mention WTMJ-AM's Terms of Use in your email.) Most Popular |
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