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Kansas City Star has a firm commitment to privacy. We take your privacy concerns seriously and want to make every effort to address them. That is why we have adopted the following policy, which explains our position on information-gathering and disclosure.
From time to time, we will ask for information that personally identifies you, as in our user surveys or registration for Kansas City Star services such as e-mail, forums, or promotions. We use this information to operate Kansas City Star's services, provide you with the highest quality services and offer you opportunities we think will be of interest.
We will not disclose any personal information without your advance permission except when we believe the law requires us to do so or the disclosure is necessary to protect the rights or property of Kansas City Star.
In order to describe our services to prospective partners, advertisers and others, we may disclose user information but only in a form that does not identify individual users. For example, we might disclose that a certain percentage of our users are male or within a certain age range.
Occasionally, we may disclose personal information in other circumstances, but we will only do this if we have explained at the time we collect the information the purpose for which it will be disclosed.
Kansas City Star is particularly concerned with providing a safe online environment for kids. Therefore, in areas operated by Kansas City Star that are directed to kids or when we learn that a user is under the age of 13, we will ask for parental consent before collecting additional personal information about the child or allowing the child to use the Kansas City Star services to provide additional personal information. Parental consent can be provided by:
Kansas City Star will not knowingly disclose personal information about users under the age of 13 without prior parental consent, except as required by law. If for any reason you wish to access, update or remove information about your child or terminate your child's account, you may fax or call [paper name] at the numbers listed above or send an email to the webmaster.
Kansas City Star strongly recommends parental supervision when a child uses the Internet, and particularly when a child enters a forum or uses email. We also encourage parents to instruct their children not to give out personal information in these areas.
Kansas City Star hosts a number of online stores that sell a variety of goods and services. These stores may collect information from you such as your name, credit card number and other contact information. [paper name] does not collect, use or disclose this information nor does it own or control the stores or have responsibility for transactions made by those merchants. If you would like to know more about the information collected when you participate in e-commerce on or through this site, please contact the store merchants directly.
A "cookie" is a small data text file that is placed in your browser and allows Kansas City Star to recognize you each time you visit this site. Cookies themselves do not contain any personal information, and Kansas City Star does not use cookies to collect personal information. Instead, they allow us to see which parts of our site you have used so that we can better serve you when you return to our site. Cookies may be used to provide you with information and special opportunities tailored to your interests.
We may send you information about various products and services. If you don't want to receive this information, you can "opt out" by sending us an email to the webmaster and requesting that you not receive any of these of these offers.
Information you provide to Kansas City Star may be stored by us for an indefinite time. However, please feel free to change, update or delete this information at any time by sending an email to the webmaster.
You should know that when you voluntarily disclose personal information on the Kansas City Star system (for example, in forums), that information can be collected and used by others and may result in unsolicited messages from other people. While we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of any information that you transmit to Kansas City Star and you are solely responsible for maintaining the secrecy of any passwords or other account information. In addition, our partners and other Internet sites or services that may be accessible through [paper name] have separate data and privacy practices independent of us, and therefore we disclaim any responsibility or liability for their policies or actions. Please contact those vendors and others directly if you have any questions about their privacy policies.
By posting or submitting any content to be used on KansasCity.com, including photos and videos, you are representing that you are the owner of the material, or are making your posting or submission with the express consent of the owner of the material. You also automatically grant Kansas City Star and KansasCity.com a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide, perpetual, sublicensable (through multiple tiers), license to use, modify, copy, distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, publish, adapt, create derivative works of, distribute, transfer or sell any such content, for any purpose, including commercial purposes, without any payment to you, in any type of media or in any form now known or later developed. In addition, you automatically waive and give up any claim that any use of such content violates any of your rights, including privacy rights, publicity rights, moral rights or any other right, including the right to approve the way KansasCity.com uses such content.
If you have any questions or comments about our policies, please contact us by sending an email to the webmaster.
Kansas City Star has a firm commitment to privacy. We take your privacy concerns seriously and want to make every effort to address them. That is why we have adopted the following policy, which explains our position on obtaining information from our users.
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If you have any questions or comments about our policies, please contact us by sending an email to the webmaster.
