In order to use this Web site, you must first complete
the registration form and create a user name and password. During registration you are required to give contact
information (such as name and email address). We use this information to
identify and contact you about the services on our site in which you have
expressed interest.
Detroit Legal News Publishing LLC is the sole owner of the information collected on the following websites:
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Detroit Legal News http://detroit.legalnews.com
Macomb County Legal News http://macomb.legalnews.com
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Jackson County Legal News http://jackson.legalnews.com
Washtenaw County Legal News http://washtenaw.legalnews.com
Flint-Genesee County Legal News http://flint.legalnews.com
Grand Rapids Legal News http://grandrapids.legalnews.com
Muskegon Legal News http://muskegon.legalnews.com
Detroit Legal News Publishing LLC collects personally identifiable information from our users at several different points on our Web site.
If you purchase a product or service from us, we
request certain personally identifiable information from you on our order form.
You must provide contact information (such as name, email, and shipping
address) and financial information (such as credit card number, expiration
date).
We use this information for billing purposes and to fill
your orders. If we have trouble
processing an order, we will use this information to contact you.
[From time-to-time] we may provide you the opportunity to participate in contests or surveys on our site. If you participate, we will request certain personally identifiable information from you. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and you therefore have a choice whether or not to disclose this information. The requested information typically includes contact information (such as name and shipping address), and demographic information (such as zip code).
We use this information to notify contest winner, award prizes, to monitor site traffic or
personalize the site (in the case of anonymous information collected in
surveys), to send participants an email newsletter.
We may use a third party service provider to conduct these surveys or contests; that company will be prohibited from using our users’ personally identifiable information for any other purpose. We will not share the personally identifiable information you provide through a contest or survey with other third parties unless we give you prior notice and choice.
If you choose to use our referral service to tell a
friend about our site, we will ask you for your friend’s name and email
address. We will automatically send your
friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit the site. Detroit Legal News Publishing LLC stores this
information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email and tracking
the success of our referral program.
Your friend may contact us at support@legalnews.com to
request that we remove this information from our database.
We will
save some key information in cookies on the user’s local computer to allow
one-time logon for all of our websites. We do not include any personal
information in these cookies. We only
store the internal user-id and newspaper-id numbers of your subscriptions.
We track the number of times you access each webpage. We do this to improve the overall performance of the website and to provide easier access to your most frequently used pages. We only save the internal user-id and webpage name in a log file on our server. This information is accumulated for the life of your subscription, and the totals are maintained in our database. When your subscription is terminated, all tracking information will be automatically deleted from our database.
We will occasionally send you information on products, services, special deals, and promotions to your email account. You can sign up for these emails from us on our registration page.
Out of respect for your privacy, we present the option not
to receive these types of communications.
Please see the “Choice and Opt-out.”
We will send you strictly service-related announcements on
rare occasions when it is necessary to do so.
For instance, if our service is temporarily suspended for maintenance,
we might send you an email.
Generally, you may not opt-out of these communications, which are not promotional in nature. If you do not wish to receive them, you have the option to deactivate your account.
Based upon the personally identifiable information you
provide us, we will send you a welcoming email to verify your username and
password. We will also communicate with
you in response to your inquiries, to provide the services you request, and to
manage your account. We will communicate with you by email or telephone, in
accordance with your wishes.
In order to provide
tailored promotions and marketing offers and to improve the content of the site
for you, we store information that we collect through cookies, log files, clear
gifs, and/or third party sources to create a “profile” of your
preferences. We do not tie your
personally identifiable information to information in the profile.
We do not share your
profile with other third parties.
Information Sharing and Disclosure
We share aggregated demographic information about our user base with our partners and advertisers. This information does not identify individual users. We do not link aggregate user data with personally identifiable information.
Personally identifiable information:
In general, We DO NOT Share Personally Identifiable Information with Third Parties.
However, we do share the information supplied for a newspaper subscription with our parent company (Detroit Legal News Publishing, LLC) and any of our other newspapers.
We also share your address information with agents and service providers used to publish and deliver the newspaper to you.
We use an outside shipping company to fulfill orders, and a credit card processing company to bill you for goods and services. These companies do not retain share, store or use personally identifiable information for any other purposes.
Service Providers
We may use other third parties to provide print and distribute our newspapers. When you sign up for a newspaper subscription, we will share the billing information with our credit card processing service and the mailing address with our distribution/home delivery providers.
These third parties are prohibited from using your
personally identifiable information for any other purpose.
We reserve the right to
disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law and when
we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or to comply
with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our Web
site
We provide you the opportunity to ‘opt-out’ of having your personally identifiable information used for certain purposes, when we ask for this information. For example, if you purchase a product/service but do not wish to receive any additional marketing material from us, you can indicate your preference on our order form.
If you no longer wish to receive our promotional communications, you may opt-out of receiving them by emailing us at subs@legalnews.com. We offer an opportunity to opt-out of certain communications on our Subscriber Services webpage, or you may contact us by phone: (248) 577-6100, Email: subs@legalnews.com or US Mail: 1409 Allen Road, Suite B, Troy Michigan 48083 to opt-out.]
You will be notified when your personal information is collected by any third party that is not our agent/service provider, so you can make an informed choice as to whether or not to share your information with that party.
As is true of most Web sites, we gather certain
information automatically and store it in log files. This information includes internet protocol
(IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit
pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and click stream data.
We use this information, which does not identify
individual users, to analyze trends, to administer the site, to track users’
movements around the site and to gather demographic information about our user
base as a whole.
We do not link this automatically-collected data to
personally identifiable information.
A cookie is a small text file that is stored on a user’s computer for record-keeping purposes. We use cookies on this site. We do not link the information we store in cookies to any personally identifiable information you submit while on our site.
A session ID cookie expires when you close you browser. A persistent cookie remains on your hard drive for an extended period of time. We only use session ID cookies and do not use persistent cookies. We use session cookies to make it easier for you to navigate our site.
You must allow cookies to use this site.
Some of our business partners (e.g., advertisers) use cookies on our site. We have no access to or control over these cookies. See “Third Party Advertisers.”
This privacy statement covers the use
of cookies by Detroit Legal News Publishing LLC only and does not cover the use
of cookies by any advertisers. [See the “Third Party Advertisers” section.]
Clear gifs are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies, and are used to track the online movements of Web users. In contrast to cookies, which are stored on a user’s computer hard drive, clear gifs are embedded invisibly on Web pages and are about the size of the period at the end of this sentence. We DO NOT use Clear Gifs, but some third-party advertisers may. To learn more about our advertising company’s use of clear gifs, please go to that company’s website.
This Web site contains links to other sites that are not owned or controlled by Detroit Legal News Publishing LLC. Please be aware that we, Detroit Legal News Publishing LLC, are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites.
We encourage you to be aware when you leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every Web site that collects personally identifiable information.
This privacy statement applies only to information collected by this Web site.
If your personally identifiable information changes, or if you no longer desire our service, you may [correct, update, delete or deactivate it] by making the change on our member information page or by emailing our Customer Support at support@legalnews.com or by contacting us by telephone or postal mail at the contact information listed below.
The security of your
personal information is important to us.
When you enter sensitive information (such as credit card number) on our
registration or order forms, we encrypt that information using secure socket
layer technology (SSL).
We follow generally
accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to
us, both during transmission and once we receive it. No method of transmission over the Internet,
or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore, while we strive to use
commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot
guarantee its absolute security.
If you have any
questions about security on our Web site, you can send email us at
support@legalnews.com
In the event Detroit Legal News Publishing LLC goes
through a business transition, such as a merger, acquisition by another
company, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, your personally
identifiable information will likely be among the assets transferred. You will be notified via email of any such
change in ownership or control of your personal information.
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will
post those changes to this privacy statement, the homepage, and other places we
deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we
use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.
We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement
at any time, so please review it frequently.
If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by
email, or by means of a notice on our home page.
If you have any questions or suggestions regarding our privacy policy, please contact us at:
Phone: (248) 577-6100
Fax: (248) 577-6111
Email: subs@legalnews.com or support@legalnews.com