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This Privacy Policy discloses the general privacy practices
for the Belo Interactive web sites, including DiscoverDFW.com.
Belo Interactive, Inc. ("Belo Interactive") is a
subsidiary of Belo Corp.
Belo Interactive is committed to respecting your privacy
rights when visiting any Belo Interactive web site, such as
this one. To protect your Personal Information, Belo Interactive
has created the guidelines outlined below. Understanding that
Internet technologies are rapidly evolving, any changes to
this policy will be promptly posted on this page, with an
updated "effective date" posted at the end of this
policy.
Information Collected:
While visiting any of the Belo Interactive web sites (collectively,
the "Site"), we may ask you to register and/or provide
information that personally identifies you ("Personal
Information") for purposes of interacting with the Site.
Such Personal Information may include, but is not limited
to, your name, phone number, street address, and e-mail address.
On any page that collects Personal Information, we will specifically
describe what information is required in order to provide
you with the product or service, enter you in the promotion
you have requested, or respond to your inquiry or comment.
What are Cookies? A cookie is a small data text file that
a web site sends to your browser, which is stored on your
system. The Site can only access the information from a cookie
sent by the Site. We cannot access cookies sent by other web
sites or the information contained therein. Additionally,
we cannot learn your e-mail address or any other information
about you through the use of a cookie. The only way we would
learn such information is if you specifically and voluntarily
submit that information to us, for example, through a registration
system, or by entering a sweepstakes or promotion.
We use an advertising server developed by a third party to
display ads on the Site. Some of these ads may contain cookies
that are sent by third parties (e.g. advertising agencies
or advertising clients). We do not have access to these cookies
or any information that they contain. We encourage you to
contact the advertiser or its privacy policy for more information
on these cookies. Links from other Web sites that appear on
the Site may also send cookies; but we do not control such
activities.
Why does the Site use cookies? Belo Interactive uses cookies
to track usage of the Site and further personalize your experience
when you are visiting the Site. By tracking usage, we can
best determine what features of the Site best serve the users.
What benefits do I receive from cookies? Overall, the use
of cookies helps to give you a more personalized experience
at the Site. The information is used to keep our Site fresh
and relevant to you the user. Cookies also identify you to
our server, allowing you to avoid retyping your e-mail address
and password each time you access the Site.
May I decline to accept a cookie? You may decline to accept
cookies sent by the Site by selecting an option on your browser
to reject cookies. However, portions of the Site which require
registration will not be accessible to you. In such cases,
we ask that you register and provide us with basic information
on our registration page, or sign in if previously registered.
Cookies enable our server to know that you are a registered
user, and will eliminate the need for you to log in each time
you access our Site.
IP Addresses: Belo Interactive logs IP addresses, or the
location of your computer on the Internet, for systems administration
and troubleshooting purposes and to determine site usage.
Your IP address does not contain personal information about
you.
Use of Personal Information
We believe in protecting your privacy, and will not share
Personal Information with third parties outside of Belo Corp.
except as described in this Privacy Policy. We believe we
can enhance your experience on our Site with the information
you share with us. We use Personal Information about you to
improve our advertising and marketing efforts, to statistically
analyze Site usage, to improve our content and product offerings
and to personalize the Site's content, layout, and services.
We may also use your Personal Information, such as your e-mail
address or mailing address, to contact you regarding products
and/or services that may be of interest to you, to respond
to an inquiry from you regarding the information that we have
collected, or respond to your comments and suggestions.
Belo Interactive may match specific and/or aggregated Personal
Information with third party data to provide you with product
and content offerings that interest you and improve our advertising
and marketing efforts. Belo Interactive also may disclose
aggregated user statistics in order to describe our services
to potential advertisers, partners, other third parties, our
affiliate companies, and for other lawful purposes.
As part of your experience on our Site, you may receive communications
from us related to products and services that might interest
you. While we believe these services will enhance your experience
at our Site, you will at all times be able to opt out from
receiving these communications, either by specifically opting
out of these services or by deleting your profile from our
database. Please refer to "Opting-Out" for further
reference.
We have today, and will in the future have, arrangements
with third party service providers, such as credit card processors,
shipping companies and fulfillment services. When you sign
up for a service we offer on the Site, we may be required
to share Personal Information with that service provider in
order to provide the service. These third party providers
are required to comply with this policy and protect your information
in the same way we do. They are not permitted to retain or
use Personal Information for any purpose unrelated to providing
the service.
Belo Interactive may also offer other services as a part
of our Site (e.g., car buying service, personalized finance
and weather information alerts, contests, sweepstakes and
other promotions with unaffiliated third parties). If you
choose to use these optional services or opportunities, we
may provide some of your Personal Information to these parties.
We will not do so without telling you in advance, and you
can avoid having us make such disclosures by choosing not
to use these services or features of the Site. Some of these
third parties may also collect their own Personal Information
in connection with providing the service. We encourage you
to check the applicable privacy policy for that portion of
the Site prior to disclosing Personal Information. Please
refer to "Party Collecting the Information" for
further reference.
We may provide Personal Information to our affiliated companies
in order to improve our marketing and advertising efforts
and your experience with our Site. Although this Privacy Policy
generally applies only to Belo Interactive, and not to activities
or information collected by our offline partners, in the event
we share Personal Information you provide us on the Site,
we will require that our affiliated companies comply with
this policy with respect to that information and protect your
information in the same way we do.
We reserve the right to disclose Personal Information when
needed to comply with the law or a legal process, cooperate
with investigations of purported unlawful activities, to identify
persons violating the law, or in connection with the sale
of part or all of Belo Interactive's or its affiliate's stock
or assets.
Party Collecting the Information
This Privacy Policy only addresses the use and dissemination
of information that we collect from you. To the extent that
you disclose any information to other parties, whether through,
for example, on-line auctions, chat rooms, personal ads, or
the like, through third party services or promotions offered
on or through the Site or through other web sites throughout
the Internet, different policies may apply and Belo Interactive
shall not be responsible for the use or dissemination of such
information.
The Site may offer forums, message boards, or chat rooms
as one of the services on the Site. If you disclose personal
information in one of these forums, this information can be
viewed, collected, and used by others. Belo Interactive is
not responsible for the use of information you disclose in
these forums. We encourage you to consult the Forum Rules
regarding the policies and procedures that apply to that portion
of the Site.
Our Sites may operate as part of a larger group of sites,
and may carry co-branded pages. In addition, other sites may
use the Site's or Belo Interactive's name. Since Belo Interactive
does not control the privacy policies of third parties, you
are subject to the privacy customs and policies, if any, of
such third parties, and Belo Interactive shall not be responsible
for the use or dissemination of your private information by
such parties. Therefore, we encourage you to ask questions
and review those parties' privacy policies before you disclose
your Personal Information to others.
Links to Other Materials
Third party sites linked to and from the Site are not necessarily
under the control of Belo Interactive. Belo Interactive shall
have no responsibilities or liabilities whatsoever for the
content or privacy practices of any such linked site or any
link or linking program at any time. Belo Interactive does
not necessarily endorse companies (or related products or
services) to or from which the Site is linked. If you decide
to access any of the third party sites linked to the Site,
you do so entirely at your own risk.
Children's Privacy
Belo Interactive cares about the safety of children and their
use of the Internet. Therefore, in accordance with the Children's
Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998, we will never knowingly
request or solicit personally identifiable information from
anyone under the age of 13 without verifiable parental consent.
In the event that we receive actual knowledge that we have
collected such personal information without the requisite
and verifiable parental consent, we will delete that information
from our database as quickly as is practicable.
Opting-Out
We respect your privacy and ability to choose whether to
share information with us and any third party. You may choose
to "opt-out" of sharing Personal Information in
several ways. When choosing to use certain features or services
on the Site, you can choose whether to share optional Personal
Information in connection with the feature or service. If
you receive communications from us that you prefer not to
receive, you may opt out from receiving these communications,
by modifying the contact options in your registration profile.
There are four contact preference options available: (1)
"opt-in" includes you in our special offer, discount
and other programs with respect to our advertisers and partners
via our My Specials Direct e-mail program or a similar program;
(2) "site" includes you in our special offer, discount
and other programs that relate to this Site from DallasNews.com;
(3) "phone" allows you to be contacted by telephone
with respect to any of these programs, and (4) "mail"
allows you to be contacted by mail with respect to any of
these programs. You may choose to be contacted by any or all
of these methods, or "opt-out" by not selecting
any contact options. You may change your contact options at
any time by following the process described in "Reviewing,
Changing, and Deleting Your Personal Information."
You may "opt-out" altogether from providing Personal
Information to us by not registering on the Site and thereby
not providing Personal Information. You may also choose at
a later date to have your name removed from our database by
deleting your registration profile. To do so, please follow
the process described in "Reviewing, Changing, and Deleting
Your Personal Information."
Certain portions of the Site and certain services provided
on the Site, however, do require registration in order to
access or use these areas and services. If you choose not
to register or provide certain information, these areas will
not be accessible to you.
Reviewing, Changing and Deleting Your Personal Information
You may access all of the Personal Information that we collect
from you online and maintain by using the procedure that follows.
We use this procedure to better safeguard your Personal Information.
To protect your privacy and security, we will also take reasonable
steps to verify your identity before granting access or making
corrections.
You may also at any time choose to change or delete your
profile from our database using this procedure. You should
know that if you choose to delete your profile, certain areas
of our Site may no longer be accessible to you.
1. Enter (or click) http://signin.DallasNews.com in your
browser.
2. Sign in by entering your e-mail address and password.
Your account information will then be displayed.
3. To change your contact options select "Contact Options,"
make your selections, and submit the form.
4. To remove your registration profile from our database,
select "Delete My Account," make your selections,
and submit the form.
Security
Belo Interactive maintains industry standard safeguards to
ensure the security, integrity, and privacy of the Personal
Information that you provide to Belo Interactive.
Contacting Us
If you have any questions or comments about our Privacy Policy,
please e-mail us at helpcenter@belointeractive.com.
Effective Date and Changes
This Privacy Policy is effective as of July 1, 2002. Belo
Interactive reserves the right to modify the terms of this
policy at any time and in our sole discretion, by posting
a change notice to this page. Your continued use of the Site
following our posting of a change notice will constitute binding
acceptance of those changes.
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