Privacy Policy
Revised Privacy Policy, September 2018
Fort Wayne Newspapers values your privacy. Your registration/subscription information is subject to our Privacy Policy. Any and all personal information you provide us for purposes of registration/subscription will be kept strictly confidential and will not be sold, rented, or loaned to anyone outside Fort Wayne Newspapers except as may be required by law or valid court order.
While we do not advise you to use a shared or public computer to access any Fort Wayne Newspapers website, you should be careful not allow such a device to remember your password. Signing out after each session will prevent unauthorized access to your account.
Registration/subscription data may be aggregated for use and distribution of products by Fort Wayne Newspapers, but no personally identifiable information will be released.
Use of any Fort Wayne Newspapers website involves “cookies” being stored on your device. These cookies are used in a variety of ways including, but not limited to tracking your subscription status, remembering your user name and password, tracking page view history, the type of device being used, and serving relevant ads.
You have the option to turn cookies off at any time by adjusting your browser’s security settings. If your browser doesn’t support cookies, or if you have elected to turn all cookies
off, certain functions of the Fort Wayne Newspapers websites may not work. This is to be expected as some Fort Wayne Newspapers news sites require a subscription for complete access.
About Third Party Advertising
We may use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you use our websites or services. If so, a list of these ad serving companies will be available here. These companies may use information (generally, not including your name, address, e-mail address or telephone number) about your visits to our sites or use of our services, and to other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods or services of interest to you. These companies may employ cookies and clear GIFs to measure advertising effectiveness. Any information that these third parties collect via cookies and clear GIFs is generally not personally identifiable (unless, for example, you provide personally identifiable information to them through an ad or e-mail message). We encourage you to read these businesses’ privacy policies if you should have any concerns about how they will care for your personal information. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, see the Network Advertising Initiative’s consumer website.
Google Doubleclick for Publishers (DFP) is an ad network partner that displays ads on our Websites or services. To improve your ad experience on our sites and Websites or services and elsewhere on the Internet, we may send non-personal information to Google DFP based on your browser’s activities, such as type of pages viewed and categories of interests, so that the advertising you see is relevant to you. Google DFP also may use information regarding its own users to select which ads to display. Click here to learn more about Google DFP’s ad practices, including how to opt out of using anonymous information to select which ads to show you.
Opt-Out of Cookies
If you wish to manage or opt-out of cookies utilized by our site and third party advertisers, you can take the following steps:
• You may be able to download an opt-out cookie from the third party advertiser’s website allowing you to opt-out of cookies. Please visit the third party advertiser’s websites for more information.
• Your web browser may allow you to manage what cookies are accepted or declined. These settings can usually be found in the preferences or options menus of your web browser.
• Your web browser may also allow you to manually view cookies and delete the cookies you don’t want or need. Check your web browser’s settings for more information.
• Websites that require registration may allow you to opt-out of cookies. Check the account settings or preferences section of the website for more information.
• For more information, please visit http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/ .
About the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation)
You may see this message while you are traveling in Europe:
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Due to specific regulations (GDPR) this site is not intended for use by persons located within the European Economic Area (EEA). We do not request or accept personal information concerning or supplied by persons who are located within the EEA at the time they access this Site. If you have accessed this Site from within the EEA, you should immediately discontinue your use. If you have supplied personal information to us in
violation of this provision, whether through the registration/subscription of new user accounts or otherwise, please contact us at 260-461-8519 for a refund or further explanation of this policy.
ADD the following to the Privacy Policy
SMS PRIVACY POLICY
1. Information we collect
When you opt in to receive SMS messages from Fort Wayne Newspapers, we may collect the following personal information:
· Your mobile phone number
· Your name — if provided
· Any information you provide in your message responses
· Message delivery and interaction data — timestamps, status, etc.
2. How we collect your information
We collect information directly from you when:
· You opt in through a keyword text
3. How we use SMS information
We use your SMS data to: Send transactional messages for entry or voting verification. Analyze message delivery and engagement to improve our services
4. Sharing your information
Fort Wayne Newspapers does NOT sell or share your SMS opt-in data with third parties for their marketing purposes. We may share your information with trusted service providers who help us deliver our SMS messaging services, such as:
· SMS gateway providers
· Phone carriers
· Customer support platforms