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PRIVACY STATEMENT
This statement informs you of MTS Broadcasting, LC's practices with respect to the
online collection, use, and disclosure of personal information from this website. Personal information is information that allows us to contact
you (such as email address, home address, or telephone number) or other
information that, when linked to your name or contact information, allows us to
personalize your visit to our site by providing you with information that suits
your interests.
MTS Broadcasting, LC is the owner of this website and retains all ownership rights
to the information collected at this site. MTS Broadcasting, LC reserves the right to
change, modify, add, or remove provisions of this Privacy Statement. Any changes
to this Privacy Statement will be posted here, and we encourage you to check
back from time to time.
Personalization Although you may use many features of this site
without completing a registration or sign-up form, visitors who do register
and/or sign up for special services may have access to additional features of
the site and are more likely to receive information suited to their interests.
For example, a registered user is eligible for additional services provided by
this website such as listener clubs and personalized content. Our registration
and special services sign-up forms may ask you for contact information (like
name or email address) and demographic information (like zip code or age). You
must provide the information in order to receive the benefits of registration or
of the special service.
We may use the contact information you give us to better tailor your website
experience to your interests, to request your opinions with respect to media and
entertainment, and to send you information about MTS Broadcasting, LC and its services
as well as promotional material on behalf of some of our partners. We may use
information that you provide to us to inform you of content on the web, radio
and other methods of content delivery, in which you may be interested and to
provide or display the content according to your preferences.
In addition, we may share this information with advertisers or other third
parties that are not part of the MTS Broadcasting, LC family on an aggregate or other
basis that does not disclose your identity or contact information.
Online Surveys/Contests From time to time, we may conduct online
surveys and contests. These ask you for contact information (like name or email
address) and demographic information (like zip code or age). We may use this
contact information from our surveys and contests to provide you with
information about our company and promotional material on behalf of some of our
partners, and to contact you when necessary.
Supplemental Information To enhance MTS Broadcasting, LC's ability to
tailor this site to your preferences, we may combine information that you
provide us on registration and other online sign-up forms with other information
about you that we may obtain. We do not share that information with any other
party.
Shopping/Commercial Services This MTS Broadcasting, LC site may offer
shopping services, which may be offered by us or by a firm that operates a store
under contract with us. If our site offers shopping or other commercial
services, you will use a customer order form to request information, products,
and services. The order form will ask you to give us contact information (like
name or email address), financial information (like account or credit card
numbers), and demographic information (like zip code or age).
We will use
the financial information that you provide to bill you for products and
services. By giving our site your credit card and related personal information,
you are authorizing our store to give that information to the merchant and
credit card company in order to confirm and fulfill your order.
We will
use contact information from the order form to fulfill your orders. We may also
use contact data to get in touch with you when necessary. We will not otherwise
use or distribute your financial information without your prior
approval.
Public Forums This site may make available chat
rooms, forums, message boards, and news groups. Please remember that any
information that you disclose in these areas becomes public information and you
should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information.
Information Sharing With Third Parties From time to time we may
enter into a special relationship with another company that is not owned by
MTS Broadcasting, LCl to provide additional features at this site. These special
relationships may include “powered by” partners, business partners, sponsors,
and co-branded sites (referred to here as “co-branded pages”). Any personal information that you provide when signing up at
one of those co-branded pages may be shared with our third party partner. You
should also check our partner’s website for information regarding its privacy
policies.
Also, the nature of some features of our site may require that
we share personal information about you with persons or companies outside of the
MTS Broadcasting, LC family. For example, this may occur at a feature that enables you,
via our site, to ask questions of persons or entities that are not part of the
MTS Broadcasting, LC family. By responding to those features of the site, whether by
email or direct entry of information on our website, you are consenting to our
transferring that information to such persons or entities.
With respect
to specific registration modules, like contests, we may disclose personal
information collected, and we will post a conspicuous statement on the
registration module to the effect that we will be disclosing the information
collected with third parties
Finally, we may share any of the information
collected from you with these other non-MTS Broadcasting, LC companies in an aggregate
basis. The aggregated information is not linked to any information that can
identify you.
IP Address and Log Files We may use your IP address to administer
our website, to help diagnose problems with our server, to analyze trends, to
track users’ webpage movements, to help identify you and your shopping cart, and
to gather broad demographic information for aggregate use.
Cookies This MTS Broadcasting, LC site may use a standard technology
called a “cookie” to collect information about how you use the site. Cookies
reside on your computer and help our website to recognize your computer's
browser as a previous visitor. This information allows us to customize delivery
of information. For example, our site may use cookies to save and remember
registration information or preferences that you may have set while browsing the
site, to keep track of your shopping cart, to ensure you don't see the same ad
content repeatedly, to deliver content specific to your interests, and to save
your password so you don't have to re-enter it each time you visit our site. We
use cookies only to gather information as indicated in this policy. In
addition, on occasion our site may also set a “session cookie” which helps us
administer the site. The session cookie expires when you close your browser and
does not retain any information about you after it expires.
Finally, we may also use an ad network provider to help present
advertisements on this and other MTS Broadcasting, LC web sites. This ad network
provider, like other advertising service vendors, uses cookies, web beacons, or
similar technologies on the hard drive of your computer to serve you
advertisements tailored to interests you have shown by browsing on this and
other sites you have visited, and to determine whether you have seen a
particular advertisement before and to avoid sending you duplicate
advertisements. In doing so, the provider collects non-personal data such as
your browser type, your operating system, Web pages visited, time of visits,
content viewed, ads viewed, and other clickstream data. The use of cookies, web
beacons, or similar technologies by these ad network providers is subject to
their own privacy policies, not ours. Banner Advertising We license ad-server software from another
company to place banner advertising on our sites. All of the data provided and
generated by the ad-server software remains in our possession and no data is
transferred to the licensor of the software. This feature of our site may, on
occasion, set “cookies” on your computer. Any information collected or stored by
the ad-service or the cookies is treated in the same manner as other information
as described in this statement.
Children’s Personal Information
Consistent with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act:This site does NOT collect, use, or disclose personal information (including
online contact information) of children under the age of 13.
In the event that a child under the age of 13 attempts to register on our
site, we will NOT accept the registration and will delete information received
from the child.
In the event that a child posts personal information in a public forum such
as a chat room, we will attempt to delete that information once we become aware
of it.
Your Choices This MTS Broadcasting, LC site provides you the opportunity
to opt-out of receiving email communications from us and our special
relationship partners. To opt-out of receiving email communications, you may:
• Modify your registered user
information on our website; or • Send an email to MTS
Broadcasting, LC Please include the web
address, call letters or station's name. (Please note that this email address
should only be used for specific technical issues related to the website such as
unsubscribing from a database. The recipients of these emails will not
be able, in general to answer concerns regarding on-air programming, promotions
or other non-web related issues.)
Access to Personal Information MTS Broadcasting, LC gives you the
opportunity to modify or remove personal information that you have provided to
us. You may do so by modifying your password-protected registered user
information on our website.
Security of Your Personal Information MTS Broadcasting, LC employs
reasonable security measures consistent with standard industry practice, for
information collected through this website. We believe that we have adequate
security measures in place in our physical facilities to protect against the
loss, misuse, or alteration of the information we collect on our website. We
also use internal protections to limit access to users' personal information to
only those employees who need the information to perform a specific job.
Sale or Merger If this site is sold to, or merges with, another
company not owned by MTS Broadcasting, LC, you should expect that some or all of the
information collected from this website may be transferred to the
buyer/surviving company. If so, MTS Broadcasting, LC will seek to obligate the
acquiring company to use any personal information transferred by this site in a
manner consistent with this statement, but cannot guarantee that it will be able
to impose that requirement or that the acquiring company will comply.
Legal Process You should be aware that MTS Broadcasting, LC may be
required to disclose your personal information to the government or third
parties under certain circumstances, such as in court or regulatory
proceedings.
Contacting the Website If you have any questions about this privacy
statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this website, you
can contact MTS
Broadcasting, LC Support. Please include the web address,
call letters or station's name. Please note that this email address should only
be used for specific technical issues related to the website such as
unsubscribing from a database. The recipients of these emails will not
be able, in general to answer concerns regarding on-air programming, promotions
or other non-web related issues.
Leased Content Neither Standard & Poor nor any third-party
licensor shall have any liability for the accuracy or completeness of this
service or any component thereof or for delays, unauthenticity, omissions, or
other defects therein nor for any claims or losses arising therefrom or
occasioned thereby, including, without limitation, any lost profits, indirect,
special, or consequential damages. Either Standard & Poor or third party
licensors have exclusive proprietary rights from the information received via
the service. Customer, end-user, or visitor, as applicable, shall not use or
permit anyone to use the information provided through the service for any
unlawful or unauthorized purpose. Customer, end-user, or visitor, as applicable,
is not authorized or permitted to furnish such information to any person or firm
for reuse or retransmission without prior written approval of the source of such
information. Provision of the information on the service is subject to
termination in the event that any agreement between a third party licensor and a
provider of information distributed through the service is terminated in
accordance with its terms. Third party licensor and its subsidiaries,
affiliates, information providers and content partners shall have no liability
for investment decisions based on the information provided hereby.
General Information This Agreement and the Additional Terms shall
be governed by, construed and enforced in accordance with the laws of the State
of Maryland, as it is applied to agreements entered into and to be performed
entirely within such state, without regard to conflict of law principles. You
agree that any cause of action you or MTS Broadcasting, LC brings to enforce this
Agreement and/or the Additional Terms, or in connection with any matters related
to this MTS Broadcasting, LC website and/or the Privacy Statement, shall be brought
only in either the state or Federal courts located in Cambridge, Maryland . You
agree to submit to the personal jurisdiction of the courts of the State of Maryland
for any cause of action arising out of this Agreement. You agree to file any
cause of action with respect to this Agreement within one year after the cause
of action arises. You agree that a cause of action filed after this date is
barred.
If any provision of this Agreement, or the application thereof to any person
or circumstances, is held invalid or for any reason, unenforceable including,
but not limited to, the warranty disclaimers and liability limitations, then
such provision shall be deemed superseded by a valid, enforceable provision that
matches, as closely as possible, the original provision, and the other
provisions of this Agreement shall remain in full force and effect. The failure
of either party to insist upon strict performance of any provision of this
Agreement shall not be construed as a waiver of any provision or right. Unless
expressly provided otherwise, this Agreement is the entire agreement between you
and MTS Broadcasting, LC with respect to the use of this MTS Broadcasting, LC
website and
shall not be modified except in writing, signed by an authorized representative
of MTS Broadcasting, LC.
If you have any questions concerning this Agreement, you may send them by
via postal mail to: Mrs. Beverly Jones c/o MTS Broadcasting, LC, P.O. Box
237, Cambridge, MD 21613 European Union and Other Foreign Nations This MTS
Broadcasting, LC website
is governed by and operated in accordance with the laws of United States of
America and is intended for enjoyment of residents of the United States. MTS
Broadcasting, LC makes no representation that this website is governed by or operated in
accordance with the laws of other nations. By using this site and submitting any
personal information, visitors from outside of the United States acknowledge the
this site is subject to U.S. law, consent to the transfer of personal data to
the U.S., and waive any claims that may arise under their own national laws.
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