YourNews is designed
strictly for your own personal
entertainment, information, education and
communication. We don't want to know your
yearly income, marital status, gender, blood
type, DNA map, address, zip code, or even
your name to use our service. In fact, we
don't want to collect and retain ANY
personal information about you. We don't
sell your info to marketers - there's
nothing to sell. We care about YOUR
community and YOUR entertainment. We want to
make sure that you have a safe, enjoyable
and easy-to-use cyber place to talk about
what is important to YOU.
Privacy for
Families:
As our communities move
into the cyberspace world, trust becomes even
more important to you, and to us.
To improve the safety,
value, and enjoyment of your family's visits
to our site, we will not collect personally
identifiable information from you unless you
choose to provide that information to us.
For example, suppose
you want to participate in
an YourNews
fantasy sports league, sweepstakes or
register for a giveaway: if you voluntarily
submit personal information to us for
entertainment or e-commerce purposes, we
keep it to ourselves. The data is accessible
only to YourNews and will NOT be sold or
distributed in any way to any other business
(except to satisfy the purpose for which the
information was given). When the offer is
has expired or the transaction completed,
the information is purged permanently from
our systems. Like we said, we don't want to
retain any of your personal information.
Although YourNews
encourages children to actively participate
in our online communities, we do NOT solicit
personally identifiable information from
children under the age of 13, pursuant to
the Children's Online Privacy Protection
Act. Additionally, children and teens (under
18) are not permitted to
participate in YourNews activities
that allow voluntary submission of personal
information.
If your child submits
stories, artwork, comments or anything else
to us which is
posted at any of our editions, he or she
should not include any personal information
without approval from parents or legal
guardians.
We promise to help
children, their families and communities find
the information they need to use the YourNews
safely and responsibly.
We select our
advertisers carefully, to ensure that the
advertiser's products and services fit
YourNews's
ethical standards. YourNews designed its
advertising policy with our children in
mind. YourNews encourages you to review our
family friendly advertising policy.
We want to make this site
a place where
families can surf together, and where parents
and caregivers are happy to have their children
interact, learn and share. This is, after all,
your site.
Homemade Cookies
To ensure an enjoyable
visit and to find your way easily-, YourNews
puts a small text file, called a "cookie," on
your system. Next time you visit (Y'all come
back now, ya hear?)
we can give you that 'down home' feeling as you
return to YourNews/yourhometown.
While you're enjoying the ride with YourNews,
we use the least intrusive cookies possible,
known as 'session cookies.' Session cookies make
sure you get the freshest local news. Best of
all, they disappear when you leave our site!
Unlike persistent cookies,
which could hang around your system for months
and even YEARS!
Commitment
We want to recreate and
sustain communities, and we can't do it without
you. We want you to feel comfortable here at
YourNews and we are committed to respecting your
privacy.
