How WBGN handles information we collect through our web site
***Before you continue, please read this special statement about collecting information from and/or about children younger than 13 years old***
ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS
WBGN is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Statement sets forth WBGN’s current privacy practices with regard to the information WBGN collects when you or your computer interacts with our website and/or internet services. By accessing our website and/or internet services, you acknowledge and fully understand this Privacy Statement and freely consent to the information collection and use practices described in this Privacy Statement.
CHANGES TO THIS STATEMENT
WBGN has the discretion to occasionally update this Privacy Statement. WBGN encourages you to periodically review this Privacy Statement to stay informed about how WBGN is helping to protect the personal information WBGN collects. Your continued use of the service constitutes your agreement to this Privacy Statement and any updates.
WBGN currently collects information through its web site in the following ways:
WBGN will use collected information generally to compile statistical data, keep in contact with web site users and provide them with a better interactive experience. We may use your information specifically for the following purposes, depending on the type of information you have supplied and any requests for information you have made: to contact you as part of a promotion, to allow you to make a posting on the site, to provide technical or customer support, to send you marketing materials from WBGN and/or other stations in our group and/or our advertisers, to complete business transactions, to meet legal requirements, to provide internet security, and/or to analyze the collected information. In addition, if WBGN is involved in a sale of a our business assets, or a portion thereof, your information may be a part of the transferred assets.
If you have any questions about the types of personal information collected and how it is used, or if you want to request that we not use your information to contact you or for other purposes, please contact WBGN at (270)843-3333 and ask for Shannon Presley or write to Shannon Presley at WBGN, 1919 Scottsville Road, Bowling Green, KY 42104, or email her at shannonpresley@beaverfm.com.
Email communications to WBGN: WBGN provides on its web site email addresses of on-air personalities and other staff members of WBGN. All email sent to these addresses becomes the property of WBGN, and we reserve the right to use any emails sent to us in any manner deemed appropriate, which may include reading them on the air (ex: stories, jokes, messages, etc.) or passing them on to our advertising staff if the sender appears to be a business or potential advertiser, in which case the sender may receive marketing materials from WBGN and/or other stations in our group. If you do not wish your email to be used on the air, you may either state in your email that you do not want us to use it on the air, or do not send the email. WBGN does not sell or release personal information contained in emails we receive to third parties (outside of anything we may use on the air), unless required by law enforcement or other legal agencies in order to facilitate legal or criminal investigations. See the special statement about collecting information from and/or about children younger than 13 years old.
Online contests: WBGN may, from time to time, run online contests or promotions, in which we solicit personal information from the entrant. By submitting your information and entering the online contest or promotion, you give WBGN, and/or any sponsor(s) running the contest or promotion, permission to use your information in order to facilitate the administration of the contest or promotion. In addition, you give WBGN and/or the sponsor(s) permission to contact you using the information you provide, and WBGN and/or the sponsor(s) may elect to send you marketing materials. WBGN will not sell or release your personal information to third parties, unless required to do so by law enforcement or other legal agencies in order to facilitate legal or criminal investigations. Contest/promotion sponsor(s), if any, may possibly choose to sell or release your personal information to other parties, and WBGN is not responsible for the sponsor's use of your information. If you have concerns about any contest/promotion sponsor(s) using or selling your personal information, you should contact the sponsor(s) directly BEFORE entering the contest or promotion. WBGN may also post links to online contests administered by third parties, in which case WBGN is not responsible for collection, maintaining or use of personal information in those contests. The privacy statements of the entities or individuals running the contests would apply in those situations. WBGN advises you to carefully read and be sure you understand those privacy statements before entering any third party contests. See the special statement about collecting information from and/or about children younger than 13 years old.
Web Server Logs: When you visit the WBGN website and/or internet service, WBGN may track information to administer the WBGN website and/or internet services and analyze the usage. Some examples of information that may be tracked include:
• Your Internet protocol address.
• The kind of browser or computer you use.
• Number of links you click within the site.
• State or country from which you accessed the site.
• Date and time of your visit.
• Name of your Internet service provider.
• Web page you linked to our site from.
• Pages you viewed on the site.
Use of Cookies: WBGN's web site may use cookies to personalize or enhance your user experience. A cookie is a small text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a Web Server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.
One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. For example, if you personalize a web page, or navigate within a site, a cookie helps the site to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. Hence, this simplifies the process of delivering relevant content and eases site navigation by providing and saving your preferences and login information as well as providing personalized functionality.
WBGN reserves the right to share aggregated site statistics with partner companies, but does not allow other companies to place cookies on our website unless there is a temporary, overriding customer value (such as merging into WBGN's website a site that relies on third-party cookies).
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies. If you rejects cookies by changing your browser settings, then be aware that this may disable some of the functionality on our website.
Use of web beacons or gif files: WBGN's website and/or internet services may contain electronic images known as web beacons – sometimes also called single-pixel gifs – that allow us to count users who have visited those pages and to deliver co-branded services. WBGN may include web beacons in promotional e-mail messages or newsletters in order to determine whether messages have been opened and acted upon.
Some of these web beacons may be placed by third party service providers to help determine the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns or email communications. These web beacons may be used by these service providers to place a persistent cookie on your computer. This allows the service provider to recognize your computer each time you visit certain pages or email, and compile anonymous information in relation to those page views, which in turn enables WBGN and our service providers to learn which advertisements and emails bring you to our website and/or internet services and how you use the site. WBGN prohibits web beacons from being used to collect or access your personal information.
Other:PARTICIPATING MERCHANT POLICIES - Related services and offerings with links from WBGN's website and/or internet service, including vendor sites, may have their own privacy statements that can be viewed by clicking on the corresponding links within each respective website. Online merchants and others who participate in our website and/or internet services are encouraged to participate in industry privacy initiatives and to take a responsible attitude towards consumer privacy. However, since WBGN does not have direct control over the policies or practices of participating merchants and other third parties, WBGN is not responsible for the privacy practices or contents of those sites. WBGN recommends and encourages that you always review the privacy policies of merchants and other third parties before you provide any personal information or complete any transaction with such parties.
Special statement regarding the collection of information from and/or about children younger than 13 years old: In order to comply with The Children's Online Privacy Protection Rule, WBGN asks that anyone younger than 13 years old NOT submit any personal information about themselves, or any other person younger than 13 years old, unless the parents or legal guardians of all involved submit written permission to: WBGN, 1919 Scottsville Road, Bowling Green, KY 42104. Permission will not be accepted verbally. This restriction applies to submissions of birthdays and/or anniversaries via the WBGN web site, contests that WBGN administers on our web site, emails to our staff sent via our web site, or any other communication or post via the WBGN web site. In addition, WBGN asks adults to NOT send personal information about any child younger than 13 years old, unless the child is your own, or in your legal custody, or unless the parent or legal guardian has given written permission for you to do so. This restriction applies to submissions of birthdays and/or anniversaries via the WBGN web site, contests that WBGN administers on our web site, emails to our staff sent via our web site, or any other communication or post via the WBGN web site. If you have questions about the Children's Online Privacy Protection Rule, visit the Federal Trade Commission online at www.ftc.gov/kidzprivacy. You also may call the FTC's Consumer Response Center toll-free at 1-877-FTC-HELP (382-4357), or write Consumer Response Center, Federal Trade Commission, 600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20580.
