Privacy Policy

Times News LLC d/b/a Lehigh Valley Press is the organization that produces the Lehigh Valley Press Website (“Website”). We are committed to safeguarding your privacy online. This Privacy Policy is applicable to this Website.

Information You Voluntarily Provide

You may visit our Website without disclosing any personal information. To make use of some features on our Website, you may need to register and provide certain personal information as part of the registration process.  This personal information we collect may include, but is not limited to, first and last name, street address, e-mail address, telephone number (e.g., home, work, mobile and/or fax), and birthdate. We may also collect other personal information that will be identified on the applicable page(s) of the Website.

Automatically Collected Information

We may use automatic methods, such as cookies (small amounts of data, which often includes an anonymous unique identifier that is sent to your browser from a Website’s computers and stored on your computer’s hard drive), to understand Website trends, deliver a more personalized experience, and to improve our content and offerings. Examples of the information we may collect and analyze using these methods include:  the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet, type and version, operating system, and platform; purchase history, which we may aggregate with similar information from other customers; the full Uniform Resource Locator (URL) clickstream to, on, and from our Website, including date and time; and cookie information. We may also use software tools to measure and collect session information, including page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), and methods used to browse away from the page.

If you do not want information collected through the use of cookies, there is a simple procedure in most browsers that allows the user to accept or reject cookies. If you set your browser not to accept cookies, you may not be able to take advantage of certain services on our Website.

Information Sharing or Disclosure

Except as described in this policy, the Lehigh Valley Press does not share your personally identifiable information without your consent. However, any information gathered or submitted to us may be shared with 1) our third party service providers acting on our behalf, such as when offering, advertising, or marketing our products and services, and 2) on occasion, we may offer a special promotion (such as a sweepstakes or other contests on the Website) or otherwise or in conjunction with a third party service provider, sponsor or promotional partner, and share your information with that sponsor or promotional partner so that it can send you other special promotions it offers, but only if you give us permission to do so. Most of our third party service providers, like Facebook, allow you to opt-out on their websites.  The Lehigh Valley Press may also share your personally identifiable information with entities affiliated with us through common ownership or control. We do not sell, lease, or share your personally identifiable information with anyone else.

We may share aggregated demographic information with third parties, but this information is not linked to any personal information that can identify you or another individual person. Therefore, no personal information is disclosed in this manner.

With your permission, we may also send you e-mails with special offers and promotions. If you don’t want to receive these, you may unsubscribe to our newsletter.

Aggregated Demographic Information

We may share aggregated demographic information with third parties, but this information is not linked to any personal information that can identify you or another individual person. Therefore, no personal information is disclosed in this manner.

Business Transfers

In the future, the Lehigh Valley Press may be sold along with its assets, or other transactions may occur in which customer information is one of the business assets transferred. In such a case, the customer information which we have gathered may be one of the business assets we transfer.

Disclosure for Legal Purposes

The law requires that we may be required to share your personal information and automatically collected information pursuant to judicial or governmental subpoenas, warrants, or orders. If we are required to do so, we will, of course, obey the law. In addition, notwithstanding any term to the contrary in this Privacy Policy, we reserve the right to use and disclose share your personal and non-personal information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of this Website’s Terms of Use, or as otherwise required by law.

Links

Our Website contains links to pages and other websites operated by unrelated third parties. Please note that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of third party websites. We encourage you to be aware of this when your leave our Website and to read the privacy policies of every website that collects personally identifiable information from you. The Privacy Policy applies only to this Website.

Contact Us

If you have questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, you can contact us at: Lehigh Valley Press 1633 N. 26^th Street, Allentown, PA 18104 or timesnews@tnonline.com.

Children’s Privacy

The Lehigh Valley Press takes children’s privacy seriously and wants children and parents to understand that our Website is not intended for children under the age of 13.  If you are under the age of 13, please do not use this Website.  We do not seek to collect personal information about children through our Website.

Changes to this Policy

We may change this Policy at our sole discretion.  We will post any changes on this page.  By continuing to use the Website after we post changes, you accept and agree to this Policy, as modified.

 

LAST UPDATED AND EFFECTIVE DATE: August 8, 2022