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The Associated Press and its
affiliates (collectively, “AP”) recognize the importance
of protecting the privacy of personal information that may be provided
to us by individual users or readers of AP content online. Accordingly,
we have adopted a privacy policy to govern how we treat such information.
This policy does not apply to information you may provide to us
offline. AP may change this privacy policy from time to time, in
its sole discretion, and any such changes will become effective
when the AP posts the revised privacy policy online. Your continued
use of this Web site indicates your consent to AP’s privacy
policy and the most current version then in effect.
WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?
AP may collect
personally identifiable information when you specifically and knowingly
provide it to us, such as when you provide your personal information
such as your e-mail address, name, phone number or address.
AP, or third parties on our behalf, may also collect
non-personally identifiable information via the use of cookies.
Cookies are pieces of information that are transferred to an individual's
hard drive for record-keeping purposes. Cookies are used to assist
you in using site information and content by saving your user preferences.
Cookies are also used to collect aggregate information about Web
site users on an anonymous basis. AP has contractual relationships
with third parties, including without limitation, advertisers and
companies to place online advertisements that may place their own
cookies on the Web sites displaying our content. In the course of
serving these advertisements, such third parties may place or recognize
a unique cookie of their own on your browser, and they may or may
not collect personally identifiable information. Such third parties’
use of cookies will be guided by their individual privacy policy,
which you should review. AP does not control such third party cookies
and is not responsible for information gathered by such cookies.
WHAT DOES THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DO WITH THE
INFORMATION THAT WE COLLECT? AP will use
the personally identifiable information directly submitted by you
solely for the purpose for which you have provided it, whether it
be to subscribe to a service, request information, order a reprint
of an article or photograph, etc.. We may also use the information
you provide to us to contact you for reasons related to your original
communication to us. Additionally, we may periodically send you
promotional e-mail about existing or prospective products and services
offered by The Associated Press and its advertisers, as well as
to obtain information to better understand our users. We may also
use information you provide to serve your advertisements, and, if
you have given your consent for us to do so, to send you e-mails
concerning offers from our partners and other third parties that
we think may be of interest to you. We may disclose all of the information
we collect about you to our affiliates who offer related goods and
services, and to nonaffiliated third parties that perform services
on our behalf, including marketing services.
With regard to non-personally
identifiable information, AP is currently using and has contracted
with third party vendors to track and analyze usage and volume statistical
information from our users to administer our content in order to improve
our services. We may also perform statistical analysis of user behavior
in order to measure interest in our online products and services for
product development purposes and to inform advertisers as to how many
consumers have seen or clicked their advertisement. We also use demographic
and preference information to allow advertisements on our sites to
be targeted to the users for whom they are most pertinent, so users
see advertising that is most likely to interest them, and advertisers
send their messages to people who are most likely to be receptive.
This information may also be used as part
of our demographic research. In this event, the research is compiled
and analyzed on an aggregated basis. The Associated Press reserves
the right and may grant to third parties such right to publish non-personally
identifiable, aggregate information regarding our users for promotional
purposes and as a representative audience for advertisers.
AP will not disclose any personally identifiable
information about our current or former users to anyone, except
as permitted or required by law, or as described herein. AP will
endeavor to maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards
to protect the confidentiality of the information that we collect
online.
WITH WHOM DOES THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SHARE THE
INFORMATION THAT IT COLLECTS?
As a general rule, AP will not disclose any of your
personally identifiable information except under one of the following
circumstances: we have your permission; we believe in good faith
determines is legally required to be revealed by any relevant statute,
regulation, ordinance, rule, administrative or court order, decree,
or subpoena; information revealed during the course of AP’s
enforcement of the policies and procedures of the website; information
that we determine must be disclosed to correct what we believe to
be false or misleading information or to address activities that
we believe to be manipulative, deceptive or otherwise a violation
of law; where you are otherwise notified at the time we collect
the data; where we need to share your information to provide the
product or service you have requested; when disclosed to an affiliate
of AP or when such disclosure is made subject to confidentiality
restrictions in connection with a sale, merger, transfer, exchange,
or other disposition (whether of assets, stock, or otherwise) of
all or a portion of the business conducted by the web sites to which
the AP privacy policy applies. AP may share the non-personally identifiable
information that AP gathers, in aggregate form only, with advertisers
and other partners.
THIRD PARTY ADVERTISING
The Associated Press uses third-party advertising
companies to serve ads when you visit some sections of our Web site.
These companies may use information (not including your name, address,
email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and
other Web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and
services of interest to you. If you would like more information
about this practice and to know your choices about not having this
information used by these companies,click
here.
CHILDREN'S POLICY
AP does not knowingly collect personally identifiable
information from children under 13. In the event that we learn that
we have collected any personal information from a child under the
age of 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete
that information from our database.
INTERNATIONAL USAGE If
you are located outside of the United States, please note that the
information you provide to us will be transferred to the United
States. By using this web site, you consent to this transfer.
HOW DOES A USER CHANGE OR UPDATE THEIR INFORMATION?
If you have any questions or concerns about
the AP privacy policy or would like the personally identifiable
information that you have provided to The Associated Press removed
from our files, please contact AP at: apdigitalsupport@ap.org.
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