LaPorteNow.Com PRIVACY POLICY
LaPorteNow.Com is committed to respecting the privacy concerns of its visitors to LaPorteNow.Com ("the Website"). LaPorteNow.Com has created this privacy policy (the "Policy") to establish guidelines that will govern the collection, use, protection and disclosure of the personal and non-personal information of its visitors. LaPorteNow.Com collects three kinds of information from this Website: (1) your voluntarily provided personal information; (2) anonymous non-personal information; and (3) "cookie" based information.
(1) Personal Information: LaPorteNow.Com
does not automatically collect personal information, such as name,
address, phone number, email address and other personally identifiable
information, from its visitors ("Personal Information"). From time to
time, LaPorteNow.Com will collect Personal Information that
is voluntarily provided by its visitors in filling out contest entry
forms and subscribing to newsletters and other activities carried out
on the Website. LaPorteNow.Com will only collect and use such
Personal Information solely for the purpose(s) disclosed by LaPorteNow.Com
at the time of collection and only after the visitor has voluntarily
agreed to such collection and use, by checking "I agree" on the online
form or in writing if entering via faxed or mailed form. LaPorteNow.Com
also sometimes use email addresses that have been voluntarily provided
by its visitors to respond to visitors who communicate with us, to
inform winners of contests or to subscribe to newsletters. All emails
from LaPorteNow.Com to its visitors include instructions on
how to discontinue receipt of emails, newsletters and other
communication from LaPorteNow.Com and visitors can
discontinue such communication at any time. Email addresses from
visitors who wish to discontinue receipt of LaPorteNow.Com’s
emails will be removed from LaPorteNow.Com’s distribution
list and data bases. All Personal Information that may identify a
visitor and has been collected with the visitor’s consent by LaPorteNow.Com
is not disclosed in any identifiable form to any other party outside
the company except for the fulfillment of the specific purpose
identified to the visitor at the time of collection. However LaPorteNow.Com
may disclose such information in anonymous, aggregated and
non-personally identifiable form to other parties for marketing,
advertising or other purposes and to better understand visitor’s use of
the Website. At any time, a visitor may send an email to webmaster@laportenow.com
to request that Personal Information be changed, removed or updated in LaPorteNow.Com’s
databases. Visitors should exercise caution when they disclosed
personally identifiable information on bulletin boards or chat rooms on
this Website or any other website. Such areas are accessible by anyone
and may result in the visitor receiving unsolicited messages from other
people and/or companies. Although LaPorteNow.Com is committed
to protecting the Personal Information provided to it by its visitors
in compliance with this Privacy Policy, it cannot guarantee the
security of information, whether personal or otherwise, that visitors
disclose online to publicly accessible bulletin boards or chat rooms.
(2) Anonymous Non-Personal Information: When visitors visit the Website, anonymous, non personal information about their visit is automatically collected. Such information may include the length and date of the visit, how the visitor navigated the Website, what pages the visitor viewed, the type of browser being used by the visitor, the type of operating system used by the visitor and the domain name of the visitor’s Internet service provider. LaPorteNow.Com uses this Anonymous Non-Personal information to track the success of its Website with its visitors and to better tailor the Website to visitors’ needs and interests. This Anonymous Non-Personal Information may be shared with other parties, such as broadcasters, advertisers, sponsors and partners.
(3) Cookie-based Information: LaPorteNow.Com
may use cookies on its Website. "Cookies" are pieces of information
that a website transfers to a visitor’s hard drive for record keeping
and identification purposes. Cookies are used to make the visitor’s use
of a website easier by saving visitor preferences and passwords and to
identify which areas of the Website are popular and which areas need
improvement and how to target certain advertising to its visitors. LaPorteNow.Com
does not use cookies to collect personally identifiable information
except in connection with a password protected online registration for a
contest or newsletter or other service and only with the visitor’s
informed consent. Visitors may visit the Website with its cookies
turned off to avoid the collection
of Cookie-based Information.
Protection of Visitors’ Personal Information: LaPorteNow.Com protects the Personal Information it collects with appropriate technological, physical and administrative safeguards to protect if from unauthorized disclosure or use. Access to Personal Information collected by [LaPorteNow.Com is limited to authorized individuals and stored on its databases, which are protected by firewall's and are password-secured. LaPorteNow.Com retains the Personal Information only for as long as is required for the purposes identified at the time of its collection and consented to by the visitor providing it or as otherwise required by law. Once Personal Information is no longer necessary for the purposes consented to by the visitor, it is LaPorteNow.Com’s practice to delete it from its data bases or systems or make it anonymous.
Linked Website's: This Website may be linked to other website's. These linked website's are not under the control of LaPorteNow.Com and are required to have their own privacy policies. Visitors should ensure that they read and understand how their Personal Information may be collected, used, and disclosed by the linked website's as LaPorteNow.Com is not responsible for and shall not be held liable for any procedures, policies or activities of any website's linked to the Website.
Visitor’s Consent to Privacy Policy: By visiting and using this website, the visitor agrees to the Privacy Policy and the terms of use ("Terms of Use") linked to this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to the Privacy Policy do not use this Website or provide Personal Information to LaPorteNow.Com. If you wish to amend, update or remove the Personal Information already provided, contact webmaster@laportenow.com.
Accountability: LaPorteNow.Com takes its commitment to securing privacy very seriously. From time to time, LaPorteNow.Com may amend or update this Privacy Policy to comply with visitor concerns, best practices and/or the law. LaPorteNow.Com has appointed a member of its management team to act as LaPorteNow.Com’s Privacy Officer and who is responsible for reviewing, approving and administering this Privacy Policy and LaPorteNow.Com’s commitments hereunder. If you have any questions, concerns or comments, feel free to contact the Privacy Officer at webmaster@laportenow.com.
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