Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy discloses the general privacy practices for Forum Communications Company's web sites, including INFORUM.
If you have any inquiry about our privacy policy, please contact:
Forum Communications Company Address: 101 5th Street North, Fargo, ND, 58102 Phone: 701-451-5628 Fax: 701-451-5633 email: news@forumcomm.com |
Forum Communications Company is committed to respecting your privacy rights when visiting any Forum Communications Company web site, such as this one. To protect your personal information, Forum Communications Company has adopted the guidelines outlined below.
Information Collected
While visiting any of the Forum Communications Company web sites we may
ask you to register and/or provide information that personally identifies you
for purposes of interacting with the site. Such personal information may include,
but is not limited to, your name, phone number, street address and e-mail address.
On any page that collects personal information, we will specifically describe
what information is required in order to provide you with the product or service
or enter you in the promotion you have requested, as well as respond to your inquiry
or comment.
What are Cookies?
A cookie is an element of data that a web site can send to your browser, which may then be stored on
your system. This element of data is a piece of text, not a program. The site
can only access the information from a cookie sent by the site. We cannot access
other cookies sent by other web sites or the information contained therein. Additionally,
we cannot learn your e-mail address or any other information about you through
the use of a cookie. The only way we would learn such information is if you specifically
and voluntarily submit that information to us, for example, through a registration
system, by entering a sweepstakes or promotion, etc.
Why does the site use cookies?
Forum Communications Company uses cookies
to track usage of the site and further personalize your experience when you are
visiting the site. By tracking usage, we can best determine what features of the
site best serve the users.
What benefits do I receive from cookies?
Overall, the use of cookies helps to give you a more personalized experience at the site. The information is used
to keep our site fresh and relevant to you the user. Cookies also allow you to
avoid retyping your e-mail address and password each time you access the site.
May I decline to accept a cookie?
You may decline to accept cookies sent by the site by selecting an option on your browser to reject cookies. However,
some portions of the site may require registration in order to access those areas.
In such cases, we ask that you register and provide us with basic information
on our registration page, or sign in if previously registered. Cookies enable
our server to know that you are a registered user; and will eliminate the need
for you to log in each time you access our site. In addition, our registration
system may require that you accept the cookies from the site in order to access
that portion of the site. Other sites linked to the site may also send cookies;
however we do not control such activities.
What happens with the information collected in a cookie?
The information stored in a cookie is used to identify you to our server, to allow us to personalize
your experience on the site, and to serve content and communications that may
be of interest to you.
IP Addresses: Forum Communications Company does log IP addresses, or the location of your computer on the Internet, for systems administration and troubleshooting purposes and to determine site usage.
Use of Personal Information
We believe in protecting your privacy, and will not share personal information
with third parties outside of Forum Communications Company except as described
in this Privacy Policy. We believe that we can enhance your experience on our
site with the information you share with us. We use personal information about
you to improve our advertising and marketing efforts, to statistically analyze
site usage, to improve our content and product offerings and to personalize the
site's content, layout, and services. We may also use your personal information,
such as your e-mail address or mailing address, to contact you regarding products
and/or services that may be of interest to you, to respond to an inquiry from
you regarding the information that we have collected or respond to your comments
and suggestions.
INFORUM will not sell you personal information or user database to outside companies, however, we may facilitate delivery of special offers or promotions from local businesses which are relevant to our users. All e-mails generated from user registration will come from an @forumcomm.com or @in-forum.com address. Forum Communications Company may match specific and/or aggregated personal information with third party data to provide you with product and content offerings that interest you and improve our advertising and marketing efforts. Forum Communications Company also may disclose aggregated user statistics in order to describe our services to potential advertisers, partners, other third parties, our affiliate companies, and for other lawful purposes. As part of your experience on our site, you may receive communications from us related to products and services that might interest you. While we believe these services will enhance your experience at our site, you will at all times be able to opt out from receiving these communications, either by specifically opting out of these services or by deleting your profile from our database.
We have today, and will in the future have, arrangements with third party service providers, such as credit card processors, shipping companies and fulfillment services. When you sign up for a service we offer on the site, we may be required to share Personal Information with that service provider in order to provide the service. These third party providers are not permitted to retain or use personal information for any purpose unrelated to providing the service.
Forum Communications Company may also offer other services as a part of our site (e.g., car buying service, personalized finance and weather information alerts, contests, sweepstakes and other promotions with unaffiliated third parties). If you choose to use these optional services or opportunities, we may provide some of your personal information to third parties, such as service providers and other parties assisting us in providing the service. We will not do so without telling you how we will use that information, and you can avoid having us make such disclosures by choosing not to use these services or features of the site.
We reserve the right to disclose personal information when needed to comply with the law or a legal process, cooperate with investigations of purported unlawful activities, to identify persons violating the law, or in connection with the sale of part or all of Forum Communications Company.
Party Collecting the Information
This Privacy Policy only addresses the use and dissemination of information that
we collect from you. To the extent that you disclose any information to other
parties, whether through, for example, on-line auctions, chat rooms, personal
ads, or the like, through third party services or promotions offered on or through
the site or through other web sites throughout the Internet, different policies
may apply and Forum Communications Company shall not be responsible for the use
or dissemination of such information.
Our sites may operate as part of a larger group of sites, and may carry co-branded pages. In addition, other sites may use the site's or Forum Communications Company's name. Since Forum Communications Company does not control the privacy policies of third parties, you are subject to the privacy customs and policies, if any, of such third parties, and Forum Communications Company shall not be responsible for the use or dissemination of your private information by such parties. Therefore, we encourage you to ask questions and review those parties' privacy policies before you disclose your personal information to others.
Links to Other Materials
Third party sites linked to and from the site are not necessarily under the control
of Forum Communications Company. Forum Communications Company shall have no responsibilities
or liabilities whatsoever for the content or privacy practices of any such linked
site or any link or linking program at any time. Forum Communications Company
does not necessarily endorse companies (or related products or services) to or
from which the site is linked. If you decide to access any of the third party
sites linked to the Site, you do so entirely at your own risk. Forum Communications
Company hereby disclaims any rights to trademarks, service marks, trade names,
logos, copyrights, patents, domain names or other intellectual property interests
of third parties.
Children's Privacy
Forum Communications Company cares about the safety of children and their use
of the Internet. Therefore, in accordance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection
Act of 1998, we will never knowingly request or solicit personally identifiable
information from anyone under the age of 13 without verifiable parental consent.
In the event that we receive actual knowledge that we have collected such personal
information without the requisite and verifiable parental consent, we will delete
that information from our database as quickly as is practical.
Opting-Out
We respect your privacy and ability to choose whether to share information with
us and any third party. You may choose to "opt-out" altogether from
providing personal information to us by not registering on the site and thereby
not providing personal information. You may also choose at a later date to have
your name removed from our database. To do so, please follow the process described
below.If you no longer wish to receive special offers and promotions from IN-FORUM
via e-mail, you may "opt-out" by editing your account information. To edit your account, please click here.
Certain portions of the site and certain services provided on the site, however,
do require registration in order to access or use these areas and services. If
you choose not to register or provide certain information, these areas will not
be accessible to you.
Reviewing, Changing and Deleting Your Personal Information
You may access all of the personal information that we collect from you online
and maintain by using the procedure that follows. We use this procedure to better
safeguard your personal information. To protect your privacy and security, we
will also take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting access
or making corrections.
You may also at any time choose to change or delete your profile from our database using this procedure. You should know that as a result of deregistration, certain areas of our Site may no longer be accessible to you.
1. Enter (or click) http://www.inforum.com/event/login/ in your browser.
2. Sign in by entering your e-mail address and password. Your account information will then be displayed.
3. Modify your information and submit the form.
Security
Forum Communications Company maintains industry standard safeguards to ensure
the security, integrity and privacy of the personal information that you provide
to Forum Communications Company.
Contacting Us
If you have any questions or comments about our Privacy Policy, please e-mail
us at news@forumcomm.com