PRIVACY POLICY
Radio General, Ltd. is committed to safeguarding your privacy online. Please read the following policy to understand how your personal information will be treated as you make full use of our many offerings. This policy may change from time to time, so please check back periodically.
This policy will let you know:
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1. What personally identifiable information does Radio General, Ltd. collect from me?
Radio General, Ltd. collects information in several ways from different parts of our network of Website.
Some personal information is gathered when you enter a sweepstake, contest or promotion sponsored by Radio General, Ltd. (e.g. name, email address). If you contact Radio General, Ltd. to report a problem with our site or for any other purpose, we may keep a record of that correspondence. Whenever Radio General, Ltd. collects personal information we make an effort to include a link to this Privacy Policy on that page.
As part of offering and providing customizable and personalized services, Radio General, Ltd. uses cookies to store and sometimes track information about you. A cookie is a small amount of data that is sent to your browser from a web server and stored on your computer’s hard drive. All sites on the Radio General, Ltd. Website that are customizable require that you accept cookies.
Generally, Radio General, Ltd. uses cookies to:
a. Estimate our audience size. Each browser accessing Radio General, Ltd. is given a unique cookie which is then used to determine the extent of repeat usage and to help target advertisements based on user interests and behavior.
b. Assist merchants who advertise on Radio General, Ltd. Website to track visits to and business at their stores, and to process the items in your shopping basket. This information collected by cookies is sometimes called "clickstream" or "click trail" and may also describe which pages you have seen in each merchant’s store.
c. Track your progress and number of entries in some of Radio General, Ltd.'s promotions, sweepstakes and contests. When a Radio General, Ltd.-hosted promotion uses cookies, the information written to the cookie indicates the player’s progress through the promotion, and may be used to track entries, submissions, and status in prize drawings.
d. Measure certain traffic patterns, which areas of the Radio General, Ltd. Website you have visited, and your visiting patterns in the aggregate. Radio General, Ltd. uses this research to understand how our user’s habits are similar or different from one another so that we can make each new experience on Radio General, Ltd. a better one. We may use this information to better personalize the content, banners, and promotions that you and other users will see on the Radio General, Ltd. Website.
e. Radio General, Ltd. also collects IP addresses for system administration and to report aggregate information to our advertisers.
3. How does Radio General, Ltd. use my personal information?
Radio General, Ltd.’s primary goal in collecting personal information is to provide you, the user, with a customized experience on our Website. This includes personalization services, interactive communications, online shopping and many other types of services. In order to provide these services free of charge, we display advertisements. By gathering a small amount of information about you, Radio General, Ltd. is able to deliver more relevant advertisements and content. Essentially, in its role of delivering targeted advertisements, Radio General, Ltd. is the middleman.
4. Who is collecting personal information?
When you are on Radio General, Ltd.'s Website and are asked for personal information, you are providing that information with Radio General, Ltd. alone, unless it is specifically stated otherwise.
5. With whom does Radio General, Ltd. share my personal information?
As a general rule, Radio General, Ltd. will not disclose any of your personally identifiable information except when we have permission or under special circumstances, such as when we believe in good faith that the law requires it or under the circumstances described below. The following describes some of the ways that your information may be disclosed.
a. Radio General, Ltd. Stores & Shopping: if you make a purchase from a store hosted by Radio General, Ltd., the information obtained during your visit to those stores, and the information you give such as your credit card number and contact information, is provided to the merchants. This is necessary in order to enable the transactions to take place. Merchants listed on the Radio General, Ltd. Website have separate privacy and data collection practices. Radio General, Ltd. has no responsibility or liability for these independent policies. For more information regarding the merchant, their store, and their privacy policies, return to that store’s home page and click on the appropriate links.
b. Other: Radio General, Ltd. may also disclose personal information in special cases when we have reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be causing injury to or interference with (either intentionally or unintentionally) Radio General, Ltd.'s rights or property, other Radio General, Ltd. users, or anyone else that could be harmed by such activities. Radio General, Ltd. may disclose personal information when we believe in good faith that the law requires it and for administrative and other purposes we deem necessary to maintain and improve our services.
6. What are my choices regarding collection, use, and distribution of my personal information?
If you participate in promotions on our Website, we will ask for your email address so that we may provide you updates on your score, entries, and status in prize drawings. When you participate in these types of promotions, you will automatically receive promotion-related email. Occasionally these promotion-related messages may include targeted advertisements. Radio General, Ltd. does not sell, trade, or rent user information to anyone.
7. How does Radio General, Ltd. protect children’s privacy?
Radio General, Ltd.’s Website is a general audience Website. Naturally, the safety of children is very important to us. Radio General, Ltd. will not rent or sell children’s personally identifiable information to anyone. Radio General, Ltd. will not contact children under 13 about special offers or for marketing purposes without parental consent. Furthermore, under the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, no web site operator can require, as a condition of participation in an activity, that a child under the age of 13 disclose more information than necessary. To learn more about the privacy requirements for general audience Websites, parents and guardians should visit the Federal Trade Commission’s privacy pages http://www.ftc.gov/privacy/index.html.
8. What else should I know about my privacy?
Please keep in mind that whenever you voluntarily disclose personal information online – for example on message boards, through email, or in chat areas – that information can be collected and used by others. Thus, if you post your personal information online that is accessible to the public, you may receive unsolicited messages from other third parties in return. Ultimately, you are solely responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your passwords and /or any account information. Please be careful and responsible when you are online.
9. Changes to this Privacy Policy
Radio General, Ltd. may edit this policy from time to time. If we make any substantial changes we will notify you by posting a prominent announcement on our pages.
10. Additional Information
Questions regarding this statement should be directed to wktn@kenton.com.
For more information on protecting your personal information online, see the Federal Trade Commission’s privacy pages http://www.ftc.gov/privacy/index.html or the Electronic Privacy Information Center’s Website http://www.epic.org/.