Privacy Statement for NCRcafe.org (effective as of June 1, 2006)
The National Catholic Reporter Publishing Co., Inc. (“NCR”) is
committed to protecting your privacy.
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully so that you understand our
privacy practices. By visiting NCRcafe.org, you agree that your use of
our site, and any dispute over privacy, is governed by this Privacy
Policy and our Community Agreement.
Children’s Privacy
NCRcafe.org is not intended for children under the age of 13, and we
do not knowingly allow anyone under the age of 13 to register for the
site or provide us with any personally identifying information. If you
are under the age of 13, please do not attempt to register to use this
site.
The Information We Collect and How We Use It
The information we collect falls into two categories: (1) personal
information that you provide to us when you register to use our Web
site, and (2) certain anonymous information that we collect as you
navigate through the NCRcafe.org pages.
We may use information: (a) for the purposes for which you
specifically provided the information, (b) to send you e-mails only
relating to NCRcafe, (c) to enhance existing features or develop new
features, products and services, and (d) to provide advertisers and
other third parties with aggregate (non-personally identifiable)
information about our user base and usage patterns.
Registration Information
Anyone may visit NCRcafe.org and read its contents, but only
registered users may post information or comments or use certain
NCRcafe.com services. We require users to register to encourage
responsible and courteous conduct that is consistent with our
Community Rules. In our registration process, we require you to
provide a user name, e-mail address and demographic information. We
use this information to create a unique registration profile for you,
to communicate with you regarding your registration, and to verify
that you are not under the age of 13. Once you register with
NCRcafe.org and sign in to our site, you are not anonymous to us,
though you may use an assumed user name when posting to the site if
you’d prefer to remain anonymous to other members of the NCRcafe.org
community and other visitors to the site.
E-mail Address
We require you to provide your e-mail address as part of the
registration process. When you register with our site, we will send
you an e-mail confirming your registration within 24 hours. We may use
your e-mail address to send you administrative e-mails from time to
time containing announcements and communications regarding the NCRcafe
service. If you do not wish to receive administrative e-mails from us,
please do not register to use our site.
Browser-Level Information and Cookies
When you visit NCRcafe.org, our Web server automatically collects
limited information about your computer configuration, such as the
type of browser software you use, the operating system you're running
and your IP address, and we also use “cookies” to track which pages of
our site you visit. This information does not contain your personal
information or otherwise tell us who you are. We use this information
to make our site as useful as we can for as many users as possible. We
use cookies to prevent you from having to re-enter your log-in
information each time you visit the site. If you leave NCRcafe.org to
visit our advertisers’ Web sites, some of those advertisers also may
place cookies on your computer. We don't have access to those cookies
or to any information they contain, and the use and collection of your
information by such third-party advertisers is governed by the
advertiser’s Privacy Policy, which may be different from ours. Because
cookies are stored on your hard drive, not on our Web site, you can
set your browser to decline cookies and can delete them from your
computer. However, if you don't accept cookies, you may need to
re-enter your log-in information each time you visit our site, and you
may not be able to take advantage of various features on our site that
are available to other visitors.
Aggregate Information Used to Serve and Target Ads
We may aggregate the information we collect from our users and use
this anonymous, aggregated information to target ads on our site. (For
example, we may use this information to tell advertisers the age
range, gender composition, and geographic location of the audience the
advertisers will be reaching.) When we aggregate your information, no
specific personal information is included, and you cannot be
identified from this aggregate information.
Please keep in mind that whenever you voluntarily make your personal
information available for viewing by third parties on our site – for
example, in a post, comment, classified ad, event listing or on other
areas of our site – that information can be seen, collected and used
by anyone who visits the site. We cannot control and therefore cannot
be responsible for any unauthorized third-party use of such
information. Please respect the privacy of others by not posting their
personal information on our site without their permission.
Disclosure of Information
We respect information about our customers and we are not in the
business of selling it to others. NCRcafe.org will not rent, sell, or
share your personal information with unaffiliated companies or people
except (1) as necessary to provide you with products or services
you've requested, (2) when we have your permission, or (3) as follows:
• We may disclose your personal information to trusted partners who
work on behalf of NCRcafe.org under confidentiality agreements. These
companies may use your personal information to help us serve you.
However, these companies are not allowed to share this information or
to use it for their own purposes.
• We may disclose your personal information when release is
appropriate to comply with law, to enforce our Community Agreement, or
to protect the rights, property or safety of members of the NCRcafe
community, other visitors to our site, our advertisers and other
customers, the public, or NCR and its employees.
• In the event that NCRcafe.org or some or all of our assets are
acquired by another company, information about our users may be among
the transferred assets.
How To Make Changes To Your Personal Information
You can edit your NCRcafe.org registration information, including your
e-mail address and options for receiving news and information and
advertising e-mails, and can delete your registration and member name,
at any time by going to the My Account page. If you delete your
NCRcafe.com registration, certain personal information might remain in
our archived records after your account has been deleted.
Links To Other Sites
NCRcafe.org, and users who post information on NCRcafe.org, may
provide links to third-party Web sites whose privacy policies we do
not control. When you access another site, use of any information you
provide is governed by the Privacy Policy of the operator of the site
you're visiting.
Archiving and Storage
All NCRcafe.org postings may be stored in our database, even after
deletion from the site. Our Web logs and other records may be stored
indefinitely. In addition, search engines and other sites not
affiliated with NCRcafe.org may cache or archive postings from
NCRcafe.org, and may make such postings available for viewing on their
sites. (For example, some search engines take a snapshot of each Web
page examined by the search engine as it crawls the Web, and may cache
these pages as a backup in case the original page is unavailable.
Search engine users can view the cached pages simply by clicking on
the “cached” link.) We have no control over this.
Security
NCRcafe.org has taken steps to protect the confidentiality of the
personal information it collects from members of the NCRcafe
community. Information we gather on NCRcafe.org is stored within
NCRcafe.org-controlled databases (or databases hosted on our behalf)
on servers maintained in protected environments, and we limit access
to your personal information to NCRcafe.org employees who we believe
need to see that information to provide you with services or otherwise
do their jobs. However, no physical or electronic security system is
impenetrable, and we cannot guarantee the security of our servers or
databases, nor can we guarantee that the information that you supply
to us won't be intercepted during transmission over the Internet. It
is important for you to protect against unauthorized access to your
NCRcafe.org account, especially on a shared computer, by logging out
when you are finished using our site.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
Because the Web is an evolving medium, we may need to change our
Privacy Policy at some point in the future, in which case we'll post
the changes to this Privacy Policy on this Web site and update the
Effective Date of the policy to reflect the date of the changes. By
continuing to use the NCRcafe.org Web site after we post any such
changes, you accept the Privacy Policy as modified.
