Privacy Policy

Leader Publications is committed to maintaining the online privacy of its users. This privacy policy aims to explain the types of information we collect about our users, how we use that information and your rights in relation to that information.

Information collected on our websites

Leader Publications invites readers to become registered users on our website. Registration requires that you provide some personal information, including a valid e-mail address. This information is collected to help us understand our audience so we can improve the service we provide. Information about individuals is private and will not be shared with advertisers or other third parties, except in aggregate form, unless we are ordered to do so by a court of law. The Leader will not give up control of your e-mail address to any third party. The Leader reserves the right and at times might use e-mail addresses collected through the registration process for Leader marketing activities. Those marketing activities might involve the use of software and hosting services provided by third-party vendors. No third-party vendor will be authorized to use data collected by the Leader for any purpose outside the scope of service provided to the Leader. Users have the right to opt out of receiving marketing or any other kind of e-mail from the Leader, and the Leader will make it easy for users to exercise that option via a hyperlink in all e-mails sent by the Leader or any third-party vendor.

Site Statistics

The Leader uses server logs and third-party software programs to measure traffic to our website. While these logs and programs do not record user-specific information, they do record IP addresses, pages being requested, the date and time of the requests, referrals from other websites and information about the browser and operating systems of our users. This information is used by the Leader and shared with advertisers only in aggregate form.

Cookies

A cookie is a small file sent to your browser via a Web server and stored on your computer’s hard drive. Cookies are commonly used to remember registration information, to limit the frequency of pop-under ads and to limit participation in surveys. Most browsers allow users to adjust the cookie settings. Some features of the Leader’s website will not function correctly if you do not allow cookies. Some of our advertisers may serve cookies to your browser as well. The Leader does not have control over cookies placed by our advertisers. However, you have the ability to control whether or not your browser will accept cookies from certain advertisers or ad servers.

Third-Party Advertisers

We may use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit the website. These companies may use information (not including any Personally-Identifying Information) about your visits to the website and other websites that are contained in web cookies in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. Using a tool created by the Network Advertising Initiative, you can opt out of several third-party ad servers’ and networks’ web cookies simultaneously. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, please follow the following links: http://networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp, http://preferences-mgr.truste.com/, or http://www.aboutads.info/choices/. http://optout.networkadvertising.org/#!/ or http://optout.aboutads.info/#!/.

We may allow advertisers to choose the characteristics of users who will see their advertisements, and we may use any of the Non-Personally Identifying Information we have collected (including information you may have decided not to show to other users, such as your birth year or other sensitive personal information or preferences) to select the appropriate audience for those advertisements. We do not identify you to the advertiser.

Links

The Leader’s website contains links to other sites.  Leader Publications is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites. Leader Publications does not disclose personally identifiable information or unique identifiers to those responsible for linked sites. The linked sites, however, may collect personal information from you that is not subject to Leader Publication’s control. To ensure protection of your privacy, always review the privacy policy of the sites you may visit by linking from the Leader Publications site.

Prohibited Uses

This Site is not intended for use by persons located within the European Economic Area (EEA). We do not request or accept personal information concerning or supplied by persons who are located within the EEA at the time they access this Site. If you have accessed this Site from within the EEA, you should immediately discontinue your use. If you have supplied personal information to us in violation of this provision, whether through the registration of new user accounts or otherwise, please contact us at news@leaderpublications.biz.

Policy changes

The Leader retains the right to change this policy at any time at its sole discretion. 

Portions of this document are courtesy of columbiatribune.com and carrollcountynow.com