Updated: Friday, 07 Aug 2009, 11:55 AM CDT
Published : Tuesday, 07 Jul 2009, 5:09 PM CDT
Privacy Policy
MyFoxZone.com is committed to protecting your privacy. Please
read this Privacy Policy carefully so that you understand our
privacy practices. By visiting MyFoxZone.com, you agree that your
use of our site, and any dispute over privacy, is governed by this
Privacy Policy.
Privacy of Children
Protecting the privacy of children is especially important.
For that reason, MyFoxZone.com does not knowingly allow anyone
under the age of 18 to register for the site or provide us with any
personally identifying information. In no other way do we knowingly
collect or maintain personally identifiable information on
MyFoxZone.com from persons under 18 years of age, and no part of
our website is directed to persons under 18. If MyFoxZone.com
learns that personally identifiable information of persons less
than 18 years of age has been collected, then MyFoxZone.com will
take the appropriate steps to delete this information. If you are
under the age of 18, please do not attempt to register to use this
site.
Because of the nature of this site, activities involving
children, or a specific child, may be the topics of postings and
comments on MyFoxZone.com, and photographs posted on the site by
parents or other community members may include images of children.
Please respect the privacy of these children by not providing
personal information about any child on the site unless you are the
child's parent or guardian or have the explicit consent of the
child, parent or guardian. In any event, never use the site to
demean children or a specific child in any way.
Information Collection and Use by MyFoxZone.com
The information we collect falls into two categories: (1)
user-provided personal information such as information that you
provide to us when you register to use our Web site, and (2)
certain anonymous information that we collect as you navigate
through the MyFoxZone.com pages. You also provide personal
information when choosing to participate in various activities on
MyFoxZone.com such as uploading videos, photos, posting messages on
our site, entering contests or sweepstakes, taking advantage of
promotions, responding to surveys, or subscribing to newsletters or
other mailing lists. Below is a description of each type of
information we collect and how we use it:
• Registration Information. Anyone may visit
MyFoxZone.com and read its contents, but only registered users may
post information or comments or use certain MyFoxZone.com services.
We require users to register to encourage responsible and courteous
conduct. In our registration process, we require you to provide
your e-mail address, zip code, gender and year of birth. We use
this information to create a unique registration profile for you,
to communicate with you regarding your registration, and to verify
that you are not under the age of 18. We also may ask you to
provide, at your option, your address and certain demographic
information. This information will help us to better understand our
audience, but is not required as a condition of registering; you
may decline to provide any or all such optional information. Once
you register with MyFoxZone.com and sign in to our site, you are
not anonymous to us, though you may use an assumed member name when
posting to the site if you'd prefer to remain anonymous to other
members of the MyFoxZone.com community and other visitors to the
site.
• Your E-mail Address Required. We require you to
provide your e-mail address as part of the registration process.
When you register with our site, we will send you an e-mail
confirming your registration. We may use your e-mail address to
send you administrative e-mails from time to time containing
announcements and communications regarding the MyFoxZone.com
service. If you do not wish to receive administrative e-mails from
us, please do not register to use our site. You also may elect to
receive regular newsletters or information updates from us or to
receive commercial e-mails from us that advertise our services and
the products or services of our advertising partners. Even if you
choose to receive commercial e-mails, we will not share your e-mail
address with our third-party advertisers, though we may send you
advertising materials on their behalf. Our newsletters, information
updates and advertising e-mails will be sent to you only if you
request them on an opt-in basis. Once you have opted in to receive
such e-mails, you may unsubscribe from them at any time by
following the simple instructions included in each e-mail.
• Browser-Level Information. When you visit
MyFoxZone.com, our web server automatically collects limited
information about your computer configuration, such as the type of
browser software you use and the operating system you're running
and your IP address. So MyFoxZone.com does log
non-personally-identifiable information including IP address,
profile information, aggregate user data, browser type, browser
language, referring / exit pages and URLs, platform type, number of
clicks, domain names, landing pages, pages viewed and the order of
those pages, the amount of time spent on particular pages, from
users and visitors to the site. This data is used to manage the
website, track usage and improve the website services. This
non-personally-identifiable information may be shared with
third-parties to provide more relevant services and advertisements
to members. User IP addresses are recorded for security and
monitoring purposes. We use this information to make our site as
useful as we can for as many users as possible.
• Cookies and Web Beacons. We also use "cookies" to
track which pages of our site you visit. Our use of cookies also
prevents you from having to re-enter your log-in information each
time you visit the site. By supplementing our records, this
information helps us learn things like what pages are most
attractive to our visitors, which of our products most interest our
customers, and what kinds of offers our customers like to see. If
you leave MyFoxZone.com to visit our advertisers' Web sites, some
of those advertisers also may place cookies on your computer. We
don't have access to those cookies or to any information they
contain, and the use and collection of your information by such
third-party advertisers is governed by the advertiser's Privacy
Policy, which may be different from ours. Because cookies are
stored on your hard drive, not on our Web site, you can set your
browser to decline cookies and can delete them from your computer.
However, if you don't accept cookies, you may need to re-enter your
log-in information each time you visit our site, and you may not be
able to take advantage of various features on our site that are
available to other visitors.
• Aggregate Information Used to Serve and Target Ads.
We may aggregate the information we collect from our users and use
this anonymous, aggregated information to target ads on our site.
(For example, we may use this information to tell advertisers the
age range, gender composition, and geographic location of the
audience the advertisers will be reaching.) When we aggregate your
information, no specific personal information is included, and you
cannot be identified from this aggregate information. Please keep
in mind that whenever you voluntarily make your personal
information available for viewing by third parties on our site -
for example, in a post, comment, classified ad, event listing or
Yellow Pages review, or on other areas of our site - that
information can be seen, collected and used by anyone who visits
the site. We cannot control and therefore cannot be responsible for
any unauthorized third-party use of such information. Please
respect the privacy of others by not posting their personal
information on our site without their permission.
Disclosure of Information
Information about our customers is an important part of our
business, and we are not in the business of selling it to others.
MyFoxZone.com will not rent, sell, or share your personal
information with unaffiliated companies or people except (1) as
necessary to provide you with products or services you've
requested, (2) when we have your permission, or (3) as follows:
• We may disclose your personal information to trusted
partners who work on behalf of MyFoxZone.com under confidentiality
agreements. These companies may use your personal information to
help us serve you. However, these companies are not allowed to
share this information or to use it for their own purposes.
• We may disclose your personal information to conform
to legal requirements or to respond to a subpoena, search warrant
or other legal process received by MyFoxZone.com, whether or not a
response is required by applicable law.
• We may disclose your personal information to enforce
our MyFoxZone.com Terms of Use Agreement, or to protect the rights,
property or safety of members of the MyFoxZone.com community, other
visitors to our site, our advertisers and other customers, the
public, or MyFoxZone.com and its employees.
• As our business grows, we may buy or sell various
assets. In the event that MyFoxZone.comor some or all of our assets
are acquired by another company, information about our users may be
among the transferred assets.
Promotions, Contests and Sweepstakes
From time to time, MyFoxZone.com or a partner may sponsor a
promotion, sweepstake or contest on MyFoxZone.com. Users may be
asked to provide personal information including name, email address
or home address or to answer questions in order to participate. We
may transfer personal information to certain ad partners that you
have explicitly requested to receive information from. It will be
clear at the point of collection who is collecting the personal
information and whose privacy statement will apply.
Making Changes to Your Personal Information
You can edit your MyFoxZone.com registration information,
including your e-mail address and options for receiving news and
information and advertising e-mails, and can delete your
registration and member name, at any time by going to the
Registration page. If you delete your MyFoxZone.com registration,
certain personal information might remain in our archived records
after your account has been deleted.
Email Choice/Opt-out
Members who no longer wish to receive updates or
notifications may choose not to by unsubscribing on the Mailing
List Admin page. All notification emails and MyFoxZone.com
newsletters also include the above instructions for opting-out of
those communications in the future.
Links to Other Sites
MyFoxZone.com, and users who post information on
MyFoxZone.com, may provide links to third-party Web sites whose
privacy policies we do not control. When you access another site,
use of any information you provide is governed by the Privacy
Policy of the operator of the site you're visiting. When linking to
another site a user should read the privacy policy stated on that
site. Our privacy policy only governs information collected on
MyFoxZone.com.
Archiving and Storage
All MyFoxZone.com postings may be stored in our database,
even after deletion from the site. Our web logs and other records
may be stored indefinitely. In addition, search engines and other
sites not affiliated with MyFoxZone.com may cache or archive
postings from MyFoxZone.com, and may make such postings available
for viewing on their sites. (For example, some search engines take
a snapshot of each web page examined by the search engine as it
crawls the web, and may cache these pages as a backup in case the
original page is unavailable. Search engine users can view the
cached pages simply by clicking on the "cached" link.) We have no
control over this.
Security
MyFoxZone.com has taken steps to protect the confidentiality
of the personal information it collects from members of the
MyFoxZone.com community. Information we gather on MyFoxZone.com is
stored within MyFoxZone.com-controlled databases (or databases
hosted on our behalf) on servers maintained in protected
environments, and we limit access to your personal information to
MyFoxZone.com employees who we believe need to see that information
to provide you with services or otherwise do their jobs. However,
no physical or electronic security system is impenetrable, and we
cannot guarantee the security of our servers or databases, nor can
we guarantee that the information that you supply to us won't be
intercepted during transmission over the Internet. It is important
for you to protect against unauthorized access to your
MyFoxZone.com account, especially on a shared computer, by logging
out when you are finished using our site. Unauthorized entry or
use, hardware or software failure, and other factors may compromise
the security of member information at any time
Changes to Our Privacy Policy
Because the web is an evolving medium, we may need to change
our Privacy Policy at some point in the future, in which case we'll
post the changes to this Privacy Policy on this Web site and update
the Effective Date of the policy to reflect the date of the
changes. By continuing to use the MyFoxZone.com Web site after we
post any such changes, you accept the Privacy Policy as
modified.
Contacting Us with Questions
For more information, or if you have questions about this
Privacy Policy, please contact us at comments@FoxSanAngelo.com
.
Report Misconduct
If you see something on MyFoxZone.com that you consider
inappropriate or abusive, please let us know immediately.
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