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SchoolClosed.com PRIVACY POLICY
AND YOUR CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS
SchoolClosed.com (“Site,” “us,” or
“we”) is a secondary website for Radio Station WWJ Newsradio
950, Detroit, Michigan (“Station”). This Site is owned
and operated by CBS Radio Inc. (“Owner and Operator”).
Your privacy is very important to us. Because we gather certain types of personally
identifiable information (“Personal Information”) from users of
our website and for various Station activities, operational and business purposes,
we feel you should know how we collect, use, disclose, manage, and store the
Personal Information that you may voluntarily provide us and the Personal Information
that is collected passively through the use of cookies or image tags on our
website. This Privacy Policy is a part of the Site’s Terms
of Use Agreement, which is binding on all Site users. This Policy applies
only to the Personal Information collected by this Station and does not cover
any such information collected by its corporate parent(s), affiliates, or any
other company, unless specifically stated.
If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy, please do not participate
in the Station’s online or off-line activities and services that require
you to provide your Personal Information. (The type of Personal Information
collected is listed below.) This Policy provides information regarding
your choices to either Opt-out or Opt-in when your Personal Information is used
for various promotional and marketing purposes by the Station, Site, its corporate
affiliates, and/or our generous advertisers, sponsors, or promotional partners
(collectively, “Advertisers”). For example, for the Station, Site
or our corporate affiliates use of your Personal Information for marketing and
promotional purposes, we provide you with the right to Opt-out. However, the
choice for sharing your Personal Information with Advertisers may be different.
Please see details in the “Disclosure to Advertisers”
section below.
YOUR CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS
Residents of the State of California, under a new provision of the California
Civil Code, have the right to request from companies conducting business in
California a list of all third parties to which the company has disclosed Personal
Information during the preceding year for direct marketing purposes. Alternatively,
the law provides that if the company has a privacy policy that gives either
an Opt-out or Opt-in choice for use of your Personal Information by third parties
(such as advertisers or affiliated companies) for marketing purposes, the company
may instead provide you with information on how to exercise your disclosure
choice options.
This Station qualifies for the alternative option; it has a comprehensive privacy
policy and provides you with details on how you may Opt-out or Opt-in to the
use of your Personal Information by third parties for direct marketing purposes.
Therefore, we are not required to maintain or disclose a list of the third parties
that received your Personal Information during the preceding year for marketing
purposes.
If you are a California resident and request information about how to exercise
your third party disclosure choices you must send a request to the following
address with a preference on how our response to your request should be sent
(email or postal mail). You may contact us in two ways. Send email to Privacy
Administrator at gherbert@cbs.com.
Alternatively, you may contact the Station at:
WWJ Newsradio 950
SchoolClosed.com
26495 American Drive
Southfield, MI 48034
Attn: Your California Privacy Rights
c/o Privacy Administrator
For requests sent via email, you must put the statement “Your
California Privacy Rights” in the subject field of your email. All requests
sent via postal mail must be labeled “Your California Privacy Rights”
on the envelope or post card and clearly stated on the actual request. For
all requests, please include your name, street address, city, state, and zip
code. (Your street address is optional if you wish to receive a response to
your request via email. Please include your zip code for our own recordkeeping.)
We will not accept requests via the telephone or by facsimile.
We are not responsible for notices that are not labeled or sent properly, or
do not have complete information.
To all other users of this Site, if you have other questions about this Privacy
Policy, please contact our Privacy Administrator at the following email address:
gherbert@cbs.com
or:
WWJ Newsradio 950
SchoolClosed.com
26495 American Drive
Southfield, MI 48034
Attn: Privacy Administrator
Unless specified otherwise on the Site, all users must be at least 18 years
of age and a legal resident of the United States to participate in any activity
that requires the submission of Personal Information. This Site is designed
and targeted to United States (U.S.) audiences and is governed by and operated
in accordance with the laws of the United States. We make no representation
that this Site is operated in accordance with the laws or governed by other
nations. By your participation in our Site activities, you certify that you
are at least 18 years of age and located in the U.S. If you are located in the
European Union or elsewhere outside of the U.S. and you participate in activities
on this Site contrary to our policy that only U.S. residents are eligible for
certain activities, you do so at your own risk and initiative, and are responsible
for compliance with any applicable local laws. Please be aware that any Personal
Information you transfer to us will be transferred to the U.S and subject to
U.S. law. By using this Site, participating in any Site activities, and/or providing
us with your Personal Information, you consent to this transfer of Personal
Information to the U.S., and waive any claims that may arise under your own
national laws. All users of the Site are required to provide true, current,
complete and accurate Personal Information when prompted and we will reject
and delete any entry that we believe in good faith to be false, fraudulent,
or inconsistent with this Privacy Policy.
Your continued participation on this Site indicates your acceptance of this
Privacy Policy and of the collection, use, disclosure, management and storage
of your Personal Information as described below. We may from time to time, transfer
or merge any Personal Information collected off-line to our online databases
or store off-line information in an electronic format. We may also combine Personal
Information we collect online with information available from other sources,
including information received from Advertisers, or marketing companies. This
Privacy Policy covers all such Personal Information and will remain in full
force and effect as long as you are a user of the Site or a participant in Station
activities. We reserve the right to revise this policy at any time by
updating this posting without advance notice to you. Such revisions shall be
effective to you immediately upon posting. Therefore, we encourage you to check
this Privacy Policy often.
GENERAL PRIVACY GUIDELINES
We use your Personal Information to provide you with the features, services,
or goods you request and to respond to billing and/or other such questions related
to the Station or Site. We will also use your Personal Information to notify
you about updates, new features, programming and activities on behalf of the
Station, Site, or our Advertisers that may be of interest to you. (We explain
below in the next section what our policy is for the collection, use and disclosure
of Personal Information to Advertisers.)
We may also use your information for hiring, operational and business purposes,
or to find out how we can improve our Station and Site via surveys or online
tracking mechanisms. We use aggregate Personal Information to help us to evaluate
and modify existing services and features. We also use your Personal Information
to develop new services and features that may be of interest to you.
We will not sell, exchange, rent, lease or otherwise disclose your Personal
Information or Sensitive Personal Information to other third party marketers
or any such persons that are not associated with the Station as Advertisers
unless it is necessary to: 1) conform to regulatory and legal requirements or
to comply with legal process; 2) to protect the safety and security of our users,
employees, or property; 3) to defend the rights of the Site or the Station;
or 4) to enforce the Terms
of Use Agreement.
We will share your Personal Information with our corporate parents, CBS Radio
and CBS Corporation and affiliated entities primarily for business and operational
purposes. On occasion, we will share your Personal Information with CBS Radio-related
corporate entities for promotional and marketing purposes. We will inform you
when we conduct cross-promotional events between our various stations or companies,
and you will have the right to Opt-out of such use.
It is also necessary that we share your Personal Information and Sensitive
Personal Information with our operational service providers, the specialists
that provide internal support to Station operations and activities and/or for
Site design, development, hosting and operations including maintenance, management,
storage and/or fulfillment of our membership and e-mail clubs, various contests,
sweepstakes, services, events and online stores. We use operational service
providers to efficiently provide the full range of content, activities and membership
services we bring to you and we request that our operational service providers
also protect your privacy and not disclose your Personal Information or Sensitive
Personal Information to third party marketers that are not associated with the
Station or website. Additionally, such providers are not to use your personal
Information for their own marketing or promotional purposes.
In the event that the assets or stock of the Station, its corporate licensee
or parent company(s) are sold or transferred, merged with a different company
or entity, restructured, or subject to other fundamental corporate changes,
we reserve the right to disclose any and all databases compiled from Personal
Information or Sensitive Personal Information collected by the Station to such
successor. We will seek to obligate the Station’s successor to agree to
the terms of the Privacy Policy, as it may hereafter be modified, but cannot
guarantee that we will be able to do so or that the successor company will comply
with this obligation.
We reserve the right to collect Personal Information using any new technology
yet to be developed and to use such technology to provide new services and features
to you, as well as for marketing and promotional purposes. Specific information
regarding your choice to Opt-in or to Opt-out to such use, or for sharing your
Personal Information with Advertisers, will be provided once the new technology,
service, or feature is introduced.
WEBSITE COLLECTION, USE, AND DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL
INFORMATION
Generally, you may browse this Site without providing any Personal Information.
For certain activities (such as contest and sweepstakes registrations, membership,
awards points and loyal listener clubs, music sampling and surveys, news/sports/weather
alerts, nominations for civic or Best Teacher/Coach awards, or registration
for chat rooms and message boards) the Personal Information you voluntarily
provide may include your first/middle and last name, home address, business
address, email address, telephone number, mobile phone/text messaging device
number, birth date, gender, employer or personal preferences, depending on the
activity.
Unless stated otherwise, we do not request contact information for a mobile
phone, text messaging or any wireless device that includes a domain name address
(such as “.net” or “.com”) as part of the contact information.
Federal law prohibits the sending of commercial email messages directly to a
wireless device that uses a domain name, unless you have first given your affirmative
consent. We may inadvertently collect a wireless device number that includes
a domain name when you send us an inquiry or register for a contest or membership
club. However, we will not knowingly use that contact information for sending
commercial email. We reserve the right to respond to user inquiries or requests
sent via a wireless device that uses a domain name as such messages are not
deemed to be commercial email and therefore, are not regulated by Federal law.
However, when “computer to phone” commercial emails are
prohibited by law, we may reject your wireless device contact information when
such information is submitted for certain Site features or services. We will
attempt to notify you if we will need new contact information.
For specific purposes (such as the purchase of goods and services) we may request
a type of confidential personally identifiable information which shall be called
“Sensitive Personal Information” and is defined as any individual’s:
(1) social security number; (2) driver’s license number or state identification
card number; or (3) account number, credit or debit card number, in combination
with any required security code, access code or password that would permit access
to an individual’s financial account. This Sensitive Personal Information
will only be used to implement the specific activity or event it was submitted
for. We will not share your Sensitive Personal Information with Advertisers.
However, more general Personal Information will be used to implement the specific
activity or event and will also be used for the marketing of additional events,
services and merchandising for this Site and the Station.
DISCLOSURE TO ADVERTISERS
Advertising support allows us to offer, free of charge, many great activities
and services to our users such as contests, sweepstakes and special events.
Therefore, we may also use your Personal Information for the marketing of events,
products or services of our generous Advertisers. There are two ways users may
receive such information from Advertisers, either indirectly via newsletters,
email or direct mail from the Site, or directly from the Advertiser. We may
use one or both methods depending on the activity and the Advertiser.
When we plan to share your Personal Information with Advertisers, you will
receive such notice on the Site, in the rules of participation (“Rules
of Participation”) for the activity or event, or via an email notice.
However, please be informed that our Advertisers may not have the same privacy
policies that we do. Therefore, you will need to tell us if you do not want
to receive marketing information directly from our Advertisers. You will need
to check the “Opt-out” click boxes that may be located on the registration
area for the particular event, in an email, or alternatively, notify the Site’s
Privacy Administrator at gherbert@cbs.com.
You will also need to tell us if you do not wish to receive marketing or promotional
materials from the Site and/or Station in the same manner.
We also provide you with an option to “Opt-out” of receiving advertising
and promotional email from us in compliance with federal law by installing an
Opt-out mechanism with all such email messages. You must use the designated
method in the email message to notify us of your Opt-out request, as we cannot
guarantee that other methods of notification will be effective or timely. Please
be aware that we may continue to contact you via email for administrative or
informational purposes, including follow-up messages regarding contests you
have entered or other transactions you have undertaken. By law, such messages
are not considered to be commercial email.
We are not responsible for removing your Personal Information from third party
lists or entities which you have previously authorized us to share your information.
You will need to contact those entities directly.
COOKIES AND IMAGE TAGS
The use of cookies is an industry standard and they are currently used on most
websites, including this Site. Cookies are a small text file containing a unique
identification number that is transferred from a website to the hard drive of
a user’s computer so that the website administrator or a third party operational
service provider may identify the computer and passively track the user’s
activities on the website. Image tags work in conjunction with cookies and are
small image files that may be located on select pages of our Site, or with-in
web-based email newsletters that we may send. (Image tags are also called web
beacons, web bugs, clear GIFs or single-pixel GIFs.) Tracking is important because
we can better understand what parts of our website are used the most, when to
launch new services and how to enhance current offerings. We may share the information
we receive from cookies and image tags with third-parties and our Advertisers
in aggregate form, which means that such information does not contain specific
Personal Information or Sensitive Personal Information about any one visitor.
In short, cookies and image tags collect a user’s Internet protocols
and server information. Such data files allow our Site to remember your web
browser when you visit our Site and are necessary tools for quick and efficient
access to membership clubs, awards programs and contests. A cookie will not
allow the Site to learn any Personal Information (such as your real name and
email address) or Sensitive Personal Information that you have not otherwise
disclosed. Cookies and image tags allow the Site to remember important information
that will make the Site easier for you to use and helpful in our administration
of various activities. We do not use cookies or image tags to collect other
Personal Information or Sensitive Personal Information unless you give us permission
to do so.
You can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie or image tag
is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all such devices. This is done
through your browser. If you turn cookies off, you may not have access to many
features at our Site that make your Internet experience more efficient and enjoyable
– like the features mentioned above – and some of our other services
will not function properly.
CHILDREN’S PRIVACY POLICY
Although persons of all ages may visit our Site and participate in activities
that do not require the collection of Personal Information or Sensitive Personal
Information, we do not knowingly or intentionally collect Personal Information
or Sensitive Personal Information from children under the age of 13. Except
for the limited circumstances listed below, we will automatically reject and
delete the registration or entry of any person we believe in good faith to be
underage. Any false or fraudulent registration or entry from a minor will be
deemed to be ineligible and will disqualify the minor from the receipt of a
prize, benefit, or other participation.
Except to meet Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”), or other
regulatory and legal purposes, we will not use, store, or disclose any child’s
Personal Information to a third party without prior parental consent.
EMAIL
We do not generally keep email correspondence, except for those emails that
relate to the on-air programs or operations of WWJ Newsradio 950.
As required by the FCC, if any part of your email correspondence relates to
Station programming or operations, we must place such correspondence in the
Station’s FCC Public Inspection File, or make the correspondence available
via electronic file access at the Station to anyone that requests such information.
Therefore, be informed that your Personal Information or Sensitive Personal
Information contained in certain emails, including Personal Information knowingly
received from a child under the age of thirteen, will be disclosed to the general
public. (Please see our Children’s Privacy Policy
section for details.) We request that you not place any Sensitive Personal Information
in your email correspondence to the Station that pertains to station programming
or operations. You understand and agree that we are not responsible for Sensitive
Personal Information that is improperly disclosed in emails that are made available
to the general public in compliance with FCC regulations.
SHOPPING & E-COMMERCE
If this Site sells goods and/or services or provides auction services we will
request Sensitive Personal Information that includes your credit card, debit
card or other payment information. Alternatively, the Site may use a third party
operational service provider to conduct the financial transaction in a secured
manner; the third party payment will be accessible via a hyperlink from the
Site and will be solely responsible for all financial transactions and the collection,
use, and storage of your Personal Information. The Site may request additional
Personal Information such as full name, billing and shipping address, email
address and telephone number and any such information that is required to fulfill
your order and to communicate with you regarding your order. Sensitive Personal
Information will be encrypted or collected though a secured Internet connection
generally via SSL or S-HTTP protocols. Such Sensitive Personal Information will
also be stored in a commercially reasonable secure manner. We may use your Personal
Information, (but not your credit card or debit card number) to contact you
about future products, services and discounts from the Station or to provide
such information indirectly from our Advertisers, unless you tell us otherwise
(“Opt-out”). We will only use your credit card and debit card number
to complete the specific transaction you requested.
CHAT ROOMS, MESSAGE BOARDS AND PUBLIC AREAS
For your enjoyment and entertainment, this Site offers user interactive activities
such as chat rooms, message boards, and/or public forums (“Public Areas”).
We do not share any Personal Information or Sensitive Personal Information that
is entered into the Public Area registration section on the Site with Advertisers.
We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to save and archive any content
of any nature posted to the Site and that we may, without liability to any user:
1) disclose such content if required to do so by law or to comply with legal
processes; 2) to respond to claims that any of the content violates the property,
privacy, publicity or other rights of others; or 3) to protect the rights, property
or safety of the Site, the Station, its employees, users and members of the
public. For more information on this Site’s rules of conduct for these
Public Areas, please see our Terms
of Use Agreement.
MONITORING AND USE OF AGGREGATE PERSONAL INFORMATION
We reserve the right to monitor and edit any Personal Information about our
users, including information about the use of website activities and services,
the contents of users’ email and messages for internal purposes, and when
necessary, to disclose to law enforcement personnel, and/or the employer and/or
Internet Service Provider of a user that is not in compliance with the Terms
of Use Agreement or Privacy Policy. We will take such measures if we believe
it is necessary to protect the security, integrity, and operations of this Site
or Station. Without disclosure of Personal Information or Sensitive Personal
Information about individual users, we may provide aggregate statistics about
our users, traffic patterns and related website information to Advertisers,
reputable third party vendors or marketing companies.
This Site licenses third party ad-server software to provide banner advertising
on the Site. We will place cookies on your computer that collect Personal Information,
monitor your website or Internet usage via this software and such information
will be collected, used, and stored in the same manner that other Personal Information
is collected on this Site. The third party software licensor does not have access
to your Personal Information.
ADVERTISING AND OTHER THIRD PARTY CONTENT
This Privacy Policy does not cover third party advertising or third party content
that may be present on the Site. This Site may provide banner and general advertising,
in addition to other content provided by our Advertisers or operational service
providers. Users may from time to time purchase goods or services offered through,
or otherwise participate in or send messages concerning such advertising, promotions
or third party content offered through the Site. Such correspondence, transactions
and agreements are solely between the user and the Advertiser or the third party
content provider and do not involve the Site. Also, Advertisers and such third
party content providers may not have the same privacy policies that we do and
you are encouraged to read their privacy policy first.
HYPER LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES
This Site often provides links to third party websites that could be of interest
to our users, including the websites of our Advertisers. As stated in our Terms
of Use Agreement, the Station does not own or control these websites and therefore,
is not responsible for the content, business practices, nor operations of such
websites. Third party websites linked on this Site may have different privacy
policies and business practices than we do. The presence of a link to a third
party website does not constitute or imply our endorsement, recommendation,
or sponsorship of the third party content, goods, or services available through,
or contained on, the Site. By use of this Site, you have agreed that you will
use the hyperlinks to third party sites at your own risk.
OFF-LINE COLLECTION, USE, AND DISCLOSURE
OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
The Station also collects and uses Personal Information by other means, via
on-air broadcasts, telephone, direct mail, and direct from members of the public.
The various uses of such Personal Information include, but are not limited to,
contests & sweepstakes, loyal listener club registration, other special
membership only features/events, news-tip lines, job applications, listener
complaints, and operational and business purposes.
Except for contests & sweepstakes entries, or registrations for a loyal
listener or other special membership features/events, we do not ordinarily use
your Personal Information collected off-line for promotional or advertising
purposes, nor do we share it with third parties for promotional or marketing
purposes. If Personal Information collected off-line will be used by the Station,
its parent company(s), or corporate affiliates for promotional and marketing
purposes, you will have the opportunity to Opt-out of such use. If such information
will be shared with Advertisers, you will have the same rights as provided for
the disclosure of Personal Information collected online. (Please see the “Website
Collection, Use, and Disclosure of Personal Information” section.)
SECURITY MEASURES
We conduct the collection, management, maintenance and storage of listener
or website user information in a secure and commercially reasonable manner using
acceptable industry standards of security technology and practices (such as
electronic security systems and password protections) to protect against the
loss, misuse or alteration of Personal Information. We also request that our
operational service providers take such precautions. SchoolClosed.com databases
are accessible only by authorized personnel.
However, please note that when users transmit Personal Information over an
unsecured Internet connection, the Site is not responsible for the security
of that information during the transmission stage as your email or registration
could be copied or intercepted by unknown third parties. We use a secured connection
only for the collection of Sensitive Personal Information, which is necessary
for the purchase of goods or services, but we do not use a secured connection
for other types of activities. Therefore, you understand, acknowledge, and agree
that you transmit certain Personal Information over this Site at your own risk.
REVIEW, UPDATE, CORRECT, OR DELETE
PERSONAL INFORMATION OR SENSITIVE PERSONAL INFORMATION
Generally, you may review, update or delete your Personal Information or Sensitive
Personal Information collected by the Site. You may also correct factual inaccuracies.
Certain types of Personal Information that are necessary to check eligibility,
such as birth date or age, cannot be deleted, but may be modified with sufficient
verification of the new information. Note that we reserve the right to terminate
or delete any membership or entry if we believe the Personal Information submitted
was knowingly false or fraudulent.
To review, update or delete your Personal Information or Sensitive Personal
Information collected by the Site, please email the Site’s Privacy Administrator
at gherbert@cbs.com
or click
here. To have access to your Personal Information or Sensitive Personal
Information, you must provide proof of identification such as full name, street
address, city/state and zip code, user ID and password, and/or information about
your recent activity on the website. We reserve the right to deny access to
any user if we believe there is a question about your identity. And if the burden
or expense of providing access to your Personal Information is disproportionate
to the risks to your privacy, or if the legitimate rights of others would be
violated, we may decide not to provide access to such information. In such cases,
we will provide to you an explanation of why access cannot be provided and a
contact person for further inquiries.
This Privacy Policy was last updated on December 27, 2005 and is effective
immediately.
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