PRIVACY POLICY

PRIVACY POLICY
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact our Privacy
Administrator at the following address:
Manning Broadcasting
5742 Industry Lane
Frederick, MD 21704
Attn: Privacy Administrator
lyoung@manningbroadcastinginc.com
This Privacy Policy does not cover any website functions other than those
described below.
Your privacy is very important to us. Because we may gather certain types of
personally identifiable information (‘Personal Information’) from users of our
website and for various Station activities, operational and business purposes,
we feel you should know how we may collect, use, disclose, manage, and store
the Personal Information that you may voluntarily provide us and the Personal
Information that may be collected passively through the use of cookies or
image tags on our website. This Policy applies only to the Personal
Information collected by this Site and does not govern any such information
collected by its corporate parent(s), affiliates, or any other company, unless
specifically stated.
This Policy provides information regarding your choices to either Opt-out or
Opt-in when your Personal Information is used for various promotional and
marketing purposes by the Station, Site, its corporate affiliates, and/or our
advertisers, sponsors, or promotional partners (collectively, ‘Advertisers’).
If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy, please do not participate in the
Station’s online activities and services that may require you to provide your
Personal Information. (The type of Personal Information that may be collected
is listed below.)
GENERAL PRIVACY GUIDELINES
Unless specified otherwise on the Site, all users must be at least 18 years of
age and a resident of the United States to participate in any activity that
requires the submission of Personal Information This Site is designed and
targeted to United States (U.S.) audiences and is governed by and operated in
accordance with the laws of the U.S. We make no representation that this Site
is operated in accordance with the laws or governed by other nations. By your
participation in our Site activities, you certify that you are at least 18 years
of age and a resident in the U.S. If you are located in the European Union or
elsewhere outside of the U.S. and you participate in activities on this Site
contrary to our policy that only U.S. residents are eligible for certain
activities, you do so at your own risk and initiative, and are responsible for
compliance with any of your applicable local or national laws. Please be
aware that any Personal Information you transfer to us will be transferred to
and processed in the U.S and be subject to U.S. law. By using this Site,
participating in any Site activities, and/or providing us with your Personal
Information, you consent to this transfer of Personal Information to the U.S.,
and waive any claims that may arise under your own local or national laws. All
users of the Site are required to provide true, current, complete and accurate
Personal Information when prompted and we will reject and delete any entry
that we believe in good faith to be false, fraudulent, or inconsistent with this
Privacy Policy.
Your continued participation on this Site indicates your acceptance of this
Privacy Policy and of the collection, use, disclosure, management, and storage
of your Personal Information as described below. We may from time to time,
transfer or merge any Personal Information collected off-line to our online
databases or store off-line information in an electronic format. We may also
combine Personal Information we collect online with information available
from other sources, including information received from our corporate
affiliates, Advertisers, or marketing companies. This Privacy Policy will
remain in full force and effect as long as you are a user of the Site or a
participant in Station activities. We reserve the right to revise this Privacy
Policy at any time by updating this document without advance notice to you.
Such revisions shall be effective to you immediately upon posting. Notice of
material changes to this Privacy Policy may be posted on the Site’s
homepage. However, we encourage you to check this Privacy Policy often for
updates.
We may use your Personal Information to provide you with the features,
services, or goods you request, to respond to billing and/or other such
questions related to the Station or Site, and to notify you about updates, new
features, programming, and activities on behalf of the Station, Site, or our
Advertisers that may be of interest to you. (The next section describes our
policy regarding the collection, use and disclosure of Personal Information to
Advertisers.) We may also use your information for hiring, operational and
business purposes, to find out how we can improve our Station and Site via
surveys or online tracking mechanisms and to develop new services and
features that may be of interest to you. We may use aggregate Personal
Information to help us to evaluate and modify existing services and features.
For specific purposes (such as the purchase of goods and services) we may
request a type of confidential personally identifiable information which shall
be called ‘Sensitive Personal Information’ and traditionally includes an
individual’s: (1) social security number; (2) driver’s license number or state
identification card number; (3) employee identification number; (4) account
number, credit or debit card number, with or without any required security
code, access code or password that would permit access to an individual’s
financial account; (5) mother’s maiden name; (6) passport number; or (7)
electronic or digitized signature.
We will not sell, exchange, rent, lease or otherwise disclose your Personal
Information or Sensitive Personal Information to other third -party marketers
or any such persons that are not associated with the Station as Advertisers
unless it is necessary to: 1) conform to regulatory and legal requirements or
to comply with legal process; 2) to protect the safety and security of our
users, employees, or property; 3) to defend the rights of the Site or the
Station; or 4) to enforce the Terms of Use Agreement.
We may share your Personal Information with our corporate paren ts and
affiliated entities primarily for business and operational purposes.
It is also necessary that we share your Personal Information and Sensitive
Personal Information with our operational service providers, the third party
specialists that provide internal support to Station operations and activities
and/or for Site design, development, hosting and operations including
maintenance, management, storage and/or fulfillment of our membership and
e-mail clubs, various contests, sweepstakes, services, events and online
stores. We use operational service providers to efficiently provide the full
range of content, activities, and membership services we bring to you.
WEBSITE COLLECTION, USE, AND DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
Generally, you may browse this Site without providing any Personal
Information. For certain activities (including but not limited to contest and
sweepstakes registrations, membership, music sampling and surveys,
news/sports/weather alerts, or registration for chat rooms and message
boards) the Personal Information you may voluntarily provide may include
your first/middle and last name, home address, business address, email
address, telephone number, mobile phone/text messaging device number,
birth date, gender, employer or personal preferences, depending on the
activity. If Sensitive Personal Information is collected, it will only be used to
implement the specific activity or event it was submitted for. We will not
share your Sensitive Personal Information with Advertisers.
DISCLOSURE TO ADVERTISERS
Advertising support allows us to offer, free of charge, many great activities
and services to our users such as contests, sweepstakes and special events.
Therefore, we may also use your Personal Information for the marketing of
events, products, or services of our Advertisers. There are two ways users may
receive such information from Advertisers, either indirectly via newsletters,
email, or direct mail from the Site, or directly from the Advertiser. We may
use one or both methods depending on the activity and the Advertiser.
OPT-IN clause for current practice of disclosing information to advertisers,
sponsors, and promotional partners:
When we plan to share your Personal Information with Advertisers, you will
receive such notice on the Site, in the rules of participation (“Rules of
Participation”) for the activity or event, or via an email notice. However,
please be informed that our Advertisers may not have the same privacy
policies that we do. Therefore, we will ask you for your consent first to
receive marketing information directly from our Advertisers. You will need to
check the ‘Opt-in’ click boxes that may be located on the registration area for
the particular activity or event, in an email, or notify the Site’s Privacy
Administrator. However, if you do not wish to receive marketing or
promotional materials from the Site and/or Station, you will need to tell us so
by clicking the ‘Opt-Out’ click boxes that may be included on the registration
area for the particular event, or alternatively, no tify the Site’s Privacy
Administrator. Please note that this notification process for marketing
materials from the Site and/or Station is different than the one for
Advertisers.
OPT-OUT clause for current practice of disclosing information to advertisers,
sponsors, and promotional partners:
When we plan to share your Personal Information with Advertisers, you will
receive such notice on the Site, in the rules of participation (‘Rules of
Participation’) for the activity or event, or via an email notice. Howe ver,
please be informed that our Advertisers may not have the same privacy
policies that we do. Therefore, you will need to tell us if you do not want to
receive marketing information directly from our Advertisers. You will need to
check the ‘Opt-out’ click boxes that may be located on the registration area
for the particular event in an email, or alternatively, notify the Site’s Privacy
Administrator. You will also need to tell us if you do not wish to receive
marketing or promotional materials from the Site and/or Station in the same
manner.
COOKIES AND IMAGE TAGS
The use of cookies is an industry standard, and they are currently used on
most websites, including this Site. Cookies are a small text file containing a
unique identification number that is transferred from a website server to
either your browser or temporary storage of a user’s computer so that the
website administrator or a third-party operational service provider may
identify the computer and passively track the user’s activities on the websit e.
Image tags work in conjunction with cookies and are small image files that
may be located on select pages of our Site, or with-in web-based email
newsletters that we may send. (Image tags are also called web beacons, web
bugs, clear GIFs or single-pixel GIFs.) Tracking is important because we can
better understand what parts of our website are used the most, when to
launch new services and how to enhance current offerings. We may share the
information we receive from cookies and image tags with third -parties and
our Advertisers in aggregate form, which means that such information does
not contain specific Personal Information or Sensitive Personal Information
about any one visitor.
In short, cookies and image tags collect a user’s Internet protocols and server
information. Such data files allow our Site to remember your web browser
when you visit our Site and are necessary tools for quick and efficient access
to membership clubs, awards programs, and contests. A cookie will not allow
the Site to learn any Personal Information (such as your real name and email
address) or Sensitive Personal Information that you have not otherwise
disclosed. Cookies and image tags allow the Site to remember important
information that will make the Site easier for you to use and help us in our
administration of various activities. We do not use cookies or image tags to
collect other Personal Information or Sensitive Personal Information unless
you give us permission to do so.
This Site may contain advertisements, references and links to other services,
websites, and organizations. Third party Advertisers may also display or serve
advertising on the Site and communicate with you. Often these Advertisers
employ cookie, image tags and other technologies to measure ad vertising
effectiveness. You should be aware that different rules might apply to the
collection, maintenance, use and disclosure of your information by third
parties in connection with their advertisements, promotions, and other
websites you encounter on the Internet. The use of such technology by these
third parties is within their control and not ours. Even if we have a
relationship with a third party, we do not control their websites, their
technology or their policies and practices regarding your Person al
Information. This Privacy Policy does not cover any use of Personal
Information or Sensitive Personal Information that a third party, an
Advertiser or non-affiliated ad server may collect from you. We encourage you
to investigate and ask questions directly of them in this regard.
We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our
Site. These companies may use information (not including your name, address,
email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other
websites to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to
you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your
choices about not having this information used by these companies,
click here.
You may also choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie or
image tag is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all such devices. This is
done through your browser on your computer by turning off the setting that
allows it to accept third party cookies. If you turn cookies off in this manner,
you may not have access to many features at our Site that make your Internet
experience more efficient and personal, and some of our features or
Advertiser features or services may not function properly.
CHILDREN’S PRIVACY POLICY
Although persons of all ages may visit our Site and participate in activities
that do not require the collection of Personal Information or Sensitive
Personal Information, we do not knowingly or intentionally collect Personal
Information or Sensitive Personal Information from persons under the age of
18 (also called a minor). Except for the limited circumstances listed below,
we will automatically reject and delete the registrati on or entry of any person
we believe in good faith to be underage. Any false or fraudulent registration
or entry from minors (under the age of 18 or the age of adulthood in your
State) will be deemed to be ineligible and will disqualify the minor from the
receipt of a prize, benefit, or other participation.
Consistent with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998
(‘COPPA’), which governs the online collection of Personal Information from
children under the age of 13, we will not knowingly collec t, use, store, or
disclose any child’s Personal Information to a third party without prior
verifiable parental consent except to meet Federal Communications
Commission (‘FCC’), or other regulatory and legal purposes.
REVIEW, UPDATE, CORRECT, OR DELETE PERSONAL INFORMATION OR
SENSITIVE PERSONAL INFORMATION
Generally, you may review, update, or delete your Personal Information or
Sensitive Personal Information, if any, collected by the Site. You may also
correct factual inaccuracies. Certain types of Personal Information that is
necessary to check eligibility, such as birth date or age, cannot be deleted,
but may be modified with sufficient verification of the new information. Note
that we reserve the right to terminate or delete any membership or entry if
we believe the Personal Information submitted was knowingly false or
fraudulent.
To review, update or delete your Personal Information or Sensitive Personal
Information collected by the Site, please email the Site’s Privacy
Administrator the address provided above. To have access to your Personal
Information or Sensitive Personal Information, you must provide proof of
identification such as full name, street address, city/state and zip code, user
ID and password, and/or information about your recent activity o n the
website. We reserve the right to deny access to any user if we believe there is
a question about your identity. And if the burden or expense of providing
access to your Personal Information is disproportionate to the risks to your
privacy, or if the legitimate rights of others would be violated, we may decide
not to provide access to such information. In such cases, we will provide to
you an explanation of why access cannot be provided and a contact person for
further inquiries.
SECURITY MEASURES
We maintain reasonable standards of security and confidentiality for the
collection, use, and storage of non-sensitive Personal Information. However,
this Site, as do most Internet websites, collects such information over an
unsecured transmission. Please note that when users transmit Personal
Information over an unsecured Internet connection, the Site is not responsible
for the security of that information during the transmission stage as your
email or registration could be copied or intercepted by unknown th ird parties.
Therefore, you understand, acknowledge, and agree that you transmit certain
Personal Information over this Site at your own risk.