The following statement explains how this Web site operated by the Walla Walla Union-Bulletin collect and use your personal information.

The basic principle
In general, we will never intentionally disclose your personal information to any third party for their use without first receiving your express permission. We will not send you e-mail unless you have requested it or unless it is in the course of a transaction you have initiated.

Free to use
You can access our Web site and use many of our services free of charge, but we may require you submit personal information before accessing them.

The people who make it possible for us to provide free content to you are our advertisers. To enable advertisers to invest their media dollars appropriately, we target advertising through cookies and provide advertisers with a general summary of demographics of our readership and usage of our site. We never disclose your identity to our advertisers unless you expressly give us permission to do so.

When do we collect your personal information?

You may need to provide personal information to make purchase on the site, such as, print and online classified advertising or newspaper subscriptions.

What information do we collect?

The information we collect can include your name, address, zip code, e-mail address, and phone number. We also collect credit card information for purchases. Whenever we collect personal information, we will make an effort to link to our privacy statement.

How do we use your personal information?
We do not share or provide personal information we may collect, such as names, e-mail addresses, and phone numbers with our advertisers without your express permission.

Advertisers may sponsor some of our online sweepstakes or contests. In these cases we will clearly state that by participating in the contest or sweepstakes your entry information is shared with the advertisers. If you do not wish to have your information shared, do not enter the contest.

How do we use site usage statistics?
The Walla Walla Union-Bulletin collects some information automatically via server logs and cookies. This information can include your IP address, browser type, domain names, access time, and referring URLs. We use this information to prepare for peak usage times and insure fast loading site, to help diagnose problems with our server and to understand which features of our site are being used and when.

Disclosures Required by Law or for Security or Safety.
Regardless of your choices with respect to your information, the Walla Walla Union-Bulletin will disclose personal information when it believes in good faith that such disclosures are (a) required by law, including, for example, to comply with a court order or subpoena, or (b) will help enforce our terms of use, enforce contest and sweepstakes rules, protect your safety or security and/or protect the safety and security of the Walla Walla Union-Bulletin, our Web site, our property, or our employees: or (c) protect the safety and security of third parties.

Children's guidelines
Our site is not intentionally targeted at children. We require written parental consent for children, under the age of 14, to register or submit personal information to our site.

· Children: Be sure to ask your parents for permission before you send any personal information about yourself or anyone else over the Internet.

· Parents and Guardians: We encourage you to get involved with your children's online usage and be aware of the activities in which they are participating.

Notification of policy changes
We retain the right, at our discretion, to change any of these policies in the future. Our current procedures will be disclosed on this page. How to contact the Walla Walla Union-Bulletin