Thank you for visiting this Web site, a West Virginia Media Holdings site. Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy, we provide our Privacy Policy below, explaining our online information practices and the way your information is collected and used on this West Virginia Media Holdings, LLC Web site.
The Information We Collect You can order subscriptions, vote in polls, subscribe to one of our services such as our email news alerts, send a postcard, submit story tips, get customized weather content, submit weather information and more on our sites.
The types of personally identifiable information that may be collected at these pages include: name, address, e-mail address, telephone number, fax number, credit card information, and other basic information.
You can submit information about other people. For example, to send a postcard, you need to submit a person's name and e-mail address.
On some areas of our sites, only persons who provide us with the requested information will be able to participate in the site's activities and offerings.
We also may collect certain non-personally identifiable information when you visit many of our Web pages such as the type of browser you are using (e.g., Netscape, Internet Explorer), the type of operating system you are using, (e.g., Windows XP or Mac OS) and the domain name of your Internet service provider (e.g., Citynet, Earthlink, AOL, etc.).
How We Use the Information We may use the information you provide about yourself to fulfill your requests for a subscription, site services, to respond to your inquiries about our offerings, or to contact you about a story tip or other information you have submitted to us.
We sometimes use this information to communicate with you, such as to notify you when we make changes to our subscriber agreements, to fulfill a request by you for an online service, to contact you about your subscription, or about information you have submitted to us, such as a story tip, weather information or similar.
If you choose to submit content for publication (e.g., "submit weather photos"), we may publish your name and other information you have provided to us.
We sometimes use the non-personally identifiable information that we collect to improve the design and content of our site and to enable us to personalize your Internet experience. We also may use this information to analyze site usage.
If required by law, we may disclose personally identifiable information in response to legal process, such as in response to a court order or a subpoena. We also may disclose such information in response to a law enforcement agency's request, or where we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, or as otherwise required by law.
Agents and contractors of West Virginia Media Holdings, LLC who have access to personally identifiable information are required to protect this information in a manner that is consistent with this Privacy Policy.
Although we take appropriate measures to safeguard against unauthorized disclosures of information, we cannot guarantee you that personally identifiable information we collect won’t be disclosed in a manner that is inconsistent with this Privacy Policy.
The Use of Cookies To enhance your experience with our sites, many of our Web pages use "cookies." Cookies are text files we place in your computer's browser to store your preferences.
Cookies, by themselves, do not tell us your e-mail address or other personally identifiable information unless you choose to provide this information to us by, for example, registering at one of our sites.
However, once you choose to furnish the site with personally identifiable information, this information may be linked to the data stored in the cookie.
How to Contact Us If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy you may contact us at privacy@wvmh.com .
Updates We may update this privacy policy. Please check back and review this policy so that you always will know what information we collect, how we use it, and to whom we disclose it.
