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Welcome to the web sites of the La Crosse Tribune, a media
company located in western Wisconsin. We believe in your right to
know what information is collected during your visit to our web
sites and how the information is used and safeguarded.
The information gathered by the La Crosse Tribune website falls
into two categories:
(1) information voluntarily supplied by visitors
to our websites through optional registration, and
(2) tracking information gathered as visitors
navigate through our sites.
Other information on this Policy Statement site includes:
Information Gathered by Voluntary Submission:
To make use of certain features on our websites (such as discussion forums,
or submitting events to our calendars) visitors need to register and to provide
certain information as part of the registration or participation process. (We
may ask, for example, for your name, email address, sex, age, and zip code, and
we might request information on your interest in sports, personal finance, the
performing arts, and the like.)
The information you supply will help us to offer you more personalized features,
to tailor our sites to your interests and make them more useful to you. The more
you tell us about yourself, the more value we can offer you. Supplying such
information is entirely voluntary. But if you don't supply the information we
need, we may be unable to provide you with services we make available to
other visitors to our sites. Of course, even if you want to remain completely
anonymous, you're still free to take advantage of the wealth of content
available on our sites without registration.
Information Automatically Gathered About
All Visitors
We collect aggregate and user-specific information on what pages consumers
access or visit. This information is used to generate reports that help the
La Crosse Tribune assess the value of and interest in the various web
sites. The information we collect is used by us to improve the content of our
web page. We can build a better site if we know which pages our users are
visiting and how often.
Our web servers automatically collect limited information about your computer's
connection to the Internet, including your IP address but not the e-mail address,
when you visit our sites. Your IP address does not identify you personally. We
use this information to deliver our web pages to you upon request, to tailor our
sites to the interests of our users, and to measure traffic within our sites.
To help make our sites more responsive to the needs of our visitors, we may
utilize a standard feature of browser software, called a "cookie". The cookie
doesn't actually identify the visitor, just the computer that a visitor uses to
access our site. A cookie can't read data off your hard drive. Our advertisers
or content partners may also assign their own cookies to your browser, a process
that we cannot control. We use cookies to help us tailor our site to your needs,
to deliver a better, more personalized service.
Information Shared With Other Organizations
When we present information to our advertisers -- to help them understand our
audience and confirm the value of advertising on our websites -- it is usually
in the form of aggregated statistics on traffic to various pages within our sites.
From time to time, we may share information on visitors to our sites with those
marketing products and services that we believe may be of interest to you. This
list can include your e-mail address and, other specific information (such as
your phone number or street address) you may have provided us while online.
Special Attention to Children
Children should always get permission from their parents before sending any
information about themselves (such as their names, email addresses, and phone
numbers) over the Internet, to us or to anyone else. We do not specifically collect
information about children. We encourage parents to review and share safety tips
with their children participating in the online experience.
A Final Note
The La Crosse Tribune is affiliated with other online companies, some of which
feature our branding. This policy statement does not apply to those companies'
web sites; please refer to these affiliated sites to obtain information on their
privacy policies. If you can't find the privacy policy of any of these sites via
a link from the site's homepage, you should contact the site directly for more
information. The Web is an evolving medium. If we need to change our privacy
policy at some point in the future, we'll post the changes before they take
effect. Of course, our use of information gathered while the current policy is
in effect will always be consistent with the current policy, even if we change
that policy later.
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