Welcome to the web sites of the The Westby Times, a
media company located in western Wisconsin. We believe in your
right to know what information is collected during your visit
to our web sites and how the information is used and safeguarded.
The information gathered by the The Westby Times website falls into two categories:
(1) information voluntarily supplied by visitors to
our websites through optional registration, and
(2) tracking information gathered as visitors navigate
through our sites.
Other information on this Policy Statement site includes:
Information Gathered by Voluntary
Submission:
To make use of certain features on our websites (such as discussion forums, or
submitting events to our calendars) visitors need to register and to provide
certain information as part of the registration or participation process. (We
may ask, for example, for your name, email address, sex, age, and zip code, and
we might request information on your interest in sports, personal finance, the
performing arts, and the like.)
The information you supply will help us to offer you more personalized features,
to tailor our sites to your interests and make them more useful to you. The more
you tell us about yourself, the more value we can offer you. Supplying such information
is entirely voluntary. But if you don't supply the information we need, we may
be unable to provide you with services we make available to other visitors to
our sites. Of course, even if you want to remain completely anonymous, you're
still free to take advantage of the wealth of content available on our sites
without registration.
Information Automatically Gathered About
All Visitors
We collect aggregate and user-specific information on what pages consumers access
or visit. This information is used to generate reports that help the
La Crosse Tribune assess the value of and interest in the various web sites.
The information we collect is used by us to improve the content of our web page.
We can build a better site if we know which pages our users are visiting and
how often.
Our web servers automatically collect limited information about your computer's
connection to the Internet, including your IP address but not the e-mail address,
when you visit our sites. Your IP address does not identify you personally. We
use this information to deliver our web pages to you upon request, to tailor
our
sites to the interests of our users, and to measure traffic within our sites.
To help make our sites more responsive to the needs of our visitors, we may utilize
a standard feature of browser software, called a "cookie". The cookie doesn't
actually identify the visitor, just the computer that a visitor uses to access
our site. A cookie can't read data off your hard drive. Our advertisers or content
partners may also assign their own cookies to your browser, a process that we
cannot control. We use cookies to help us tailor our site to your needs, to deliver
a better, more personalized service.
Information Shared With Other Organizations
When we present information to our advertisers -- to help them understand our
audience and confirm the value of advertising on our websites -- it is usually
in the form of aggregated statistics on traffic to various pages within our sites.
From time to time, we may share information on visitors to our sites with those
marketing products and services that we believe may be of interest to you. This
list can include your e-mail address and, other specific information (such as
your phone number or street address) you may have provided us while online.
Special Attention to Children
Children should always get permission from their parents before sending any information
about themselves (such as their names, email addresses, and phone numbers) over
the Internet, to us or to anyone else. We do not specifically collect information
about children. We encourage parents to review and share safety tips with their
children participating in the online experience.
A Final Note
The The Westby Times is affiliated with other online companies, some of which feature
our branding. This policy statement does not apply to those companies' web sites;
please refer to these affiliated sites to obtain information on their privacy
policies. If you can't find the privacy policy of any of these sites via a link
from the site's homepage, you should contact the site directly for more information.
The Web is an evolving medium. If we need to change our privacy policy at some
point in the future, we'll post the changes before they take effect. Of course,
our use of information gathered while the current policy is in effect will always
be consistent with the current policy, even if we change
that policy later.
E-mail comments to the The Westby Times: webmaster@rivervalleynewspapers.com
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