Special Note to Parents of Minor
Children
Cookies and Web Beacons
Big Country 1073.com uses a software technology called "cookies."
Cookies are small text files that we place in visitors' computer browsers to
store their preferences. Cookies themselves do not contain any personally
identifiable information. Although cookies
could enable us to relate a visitor's use of this web site to personal information
that the visitor has provided, such as an e-mail address, we do not use cookies
for this purpose with one exception: for some activities, we use session
cookies to ensure that visitors under the age of 13 provide a parental email
address to assist with our compliance with the Children's Online Privacy
Protection Act. We do use cookies to determine how many visitors we have and
how often they visit various sections of our site.
Parental Review of
Information
Parents, please send a
letter or postcard to our Privacy Manager at the mailing address provided below
if you would like to do any of the following:
- access personally identifiable information that the Big Country
1073.com site has collected online from your child,
- correct factual errors in such information,
- request to have this information deleted, or
- request that we no longer collect or
maintain such information.
Please be sure to include
your e-mail address and a telephone number where we can reach you. To protect
your child's privacy and security, we will take reasonable steps to verify your
identity before granting you access to the personal information that we collect
and maintain about your child.
Updates & Effective Date
From time to time, we may update this privacy notice. We will notify you
about material changes in the way we treat personally identifiable information
by placing a notice on our site. We encourage you to periodically check back
and review this policy so that you always will know what information
we collect, how we use it, and to whom we disclose it.
A Final Note to Parents
The Internet offers a world of opportunity for children. Your guidance and
involvement are essential to help ensure that children have a safe and
rewarding online experience. Your efforts to instill responsible information
practices will help steer your children to age-appropriate sites, and will go a
long way toward ensuring that your children have enriching online experiences.
Cumulus Ft. Smith, Big
Country 107.3 Website Privacy Statement
This document was last updated on June 26, 2006.
1. Acknowledgement and acceptance of terms
Cumulus Ft. Smith,
Big Country 107.3 is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Statement
sets forth our current privacy practices with regard to the information
we collect when you or your computer interact with our website. By accessing Cumulus Ft. Smith,
BigCountry1073.com, you acknowledge and fully understand Cumulus Ft. Smith, Big
Country 107.3’s Privacy Statement and freely consent to the information
collection and use practices described in this Website Privacy Statement.
2. Participating Merchant Policies
Related services and offerings with links from this website,
including vendor sites, 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 Cumulus Ft. Smith, Big Country 107.3
services are encouraged to participate in industry privacy initiatives and to
take a responsible attitude towards consumer privacy. However, since we do not have direct control
over the policies or practices of participating merchants and other third
parties, we are not responsible for the privacy practices or contents of those
sites. We recommend and encourage 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.
3. Information We Collect and How We Use It
Cumulus Ft. Smith,
Big Country 107.3 collects certain information
from and about its users three ways: directly from our Web Server logs, the
user, and with Cookies.
a. Web Server Logs.
When you visit our Website, we may track information
to administer the site and analyze its usage. Examples of information
we may track 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.
b. Use of Cookies
Cumulus Ft. Smith,
Big Country 107.3 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.
Cumulus Ft. Smith, Big Country 107.3 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 Cumulus.com 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 reject cookies by changing your browser settings then be aware that this
may disable some of the functionality on our Website.
- Personal
Information Users
Visitors to our website can register to purchase
services. When you register, we will
request some personal information such as
name, address, email, telephone number or facsimile number, account number and
other relevant information. If you are purchasing a service, we will
request financial information. Any financial information
we collect is used only to bill you for the services you purchased. If you purchase by credit card, this information
may be forwarded to your credit card provider. For other types of
registrations, we will ask for the relevant information.
You may also be asked to disclose personal information
to us so that we can provide assistance and information
to you. For example, such data may be warranted in order to provide online
technical support and troubleshooting.
We will not disclose personally identifiable information
we collect from you to third parties without your permission except to the
extent necessary including:
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To fulfill your service requests for services.
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To protect ourselves from liability,
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To respond to legal process or comply with law,
or
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In connection with a merger, acquisition, or
liquidation of the company.
4. Use of Web Beacons or GIF files
Cumulus Ft. Smith,
BigCountry1073.comWeb pages may contain electronic images known as Web beacons
– sometimes also called single-pixel gifs – that allow Cumulus Ft. Smith, Big
Country 107.3 to count users who have visited those pages and to deliver
co-branded services. Cumulus Ft.
Smith, Big Country 107.3 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 emails and compile anonymous information in
relation to those page views, which in turn enables us and our service
providers to learn which advertisements and emails bring you to our website and
how you use the site. Cumulus Ft.
Smith, Big Country 107.3 prohibits
Web beacons from being used to collect or access your personal information.
5. Accessing Web Account Information
We will provide you with the means to ensure that personally
identifiable information in your web account
file is correct and current. You may
review this information by contacting us by
sending an email to our support attendant – helpdesk@bigcountry1073.com.
8. Changes to this Statement
Cumulus Ft. Smith,
Big Country 107.3 has the discretion to occasionally update this privacy
statement. When we do, we will also
revise the “updated” date at the top of this Privacy page. We encourage you to periodically review this
privacy statement to stay informed about how
we are helping to protect the personal information
we collect. Your continued use of the
service constitutes your agreement to this privacy statement and any updates.
7. Contacting Us
If you have questions regarding our Privacy Statement, its
implementation, failure to adhere to this Privacy Statement and/or our general
practices, please contact us at: helpdesk@bigcountry1073.com or send your
comments to :
Cumulus Ft. Smith,
Big Country 107.3
Attention: Privacy Statement Personal
3104 South 70th Street
Fort Smith AR. 72903
Cumulus Ft.Smith, Big Country 107.3 will use commercially
reasonable efforts to promptly respond and resolve any problem or question.