Northeast Alabama Business Directory

Privacy Policy

This privacy policy applies to the Northeast Alabama Business Directory, which can be reached at the following domains:

The Northeast Alabama Business Directory is a service of the Consolidated Publishing Co., publishers of The Anniston Star, The Daily Home, The Jacksonville News, The Cleburne News, The St. Clair Times and The Piedmont Journal.

The Consolidated Publishing Co. reserves the right to change this policy at any time by notifying users through a notice posted on the Northeast Alabama Business Directory Web site.

COLLECTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

The Northeast Alabama Business Directory does not collect information that personally identifies you. Other sites published by The Consolidated Publishing Co. may collect information from subscribers as necessary to provide service. Please refer to the privacy policies on those sites for more details.

The Northeast Alabama Business Directory does not collect credit card or banking information online. Advertisers wishing to pay for a listing in the directory should contact and arrange payment with the appropriate advertising representative for their location, as listed on the front page of this site.

The Northeast Alabama Business Directory may collect certain information about your computer hardware and software. This information may include: your IP address, browser type, operating system, domain name, access times and referring Web site addresses. This information is used for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Northeast Alabama Business Directory.

The Northeast Alabama Business Directory also collects information about which pages our visitors visit within this site. This site visitation data is never linked with personal information.

USE OF YOUR COLLECTED INFORMATION

We use information gathered from visitors to the Northeast Alabama Business Directory for the following purposes:

To ensure our site is relevant to your needs.
To ensure our site is accessible.
To make adjustments as necessary to improve the usability of our site.
To provide our advertisers with aggregated demographic information on our visitors, which may include geographic location, computer hardware and software information, access times and referring Web site addresses. This shared information does not in any way personally identify visitors to our site.

Any information collected on the Northeast Alabama Business Directory may be shared within the Consolidated Publishing Co. and its subsidiaries. At no time will we share with any third party any personally identifiable information about you or your visit to the Northeast Alabama Business Directory without your express consent.

COOKIES

Cookies are pieces of information that a Web site transfers to an individual's hard drive for record-keeping purposes while at the site. Cookies make Web-surfing easier by, among other things, saving your passwords and preferences for you. The use of cookies is an industry standard, and you'll find cookies at most major Web sites.

Cookies help make the Northeast Alabama Business Directory better, by showing how and when guests use the site. Many content improvements and updates are based on such data as total number of visitors and pages viewed. This information is most easily tracked with cookies. The cookie itself does not contain any personally identifying information.

You may occasionally get cookies from our advertisers. These cookies are sent from third-party computers and are subject to such third parties' policies. Most browsers are initially set to accept cookies. If you'd prefer, you can set yours to refuse cookies. However, it is likely that some areas of the site will not function properly if you do so.

LINKS TO OTHER SITES

It is important to note that the Northeast Alabama Business Directory contains many links to sites other than the Northeast Alabama Business Directory and the holdings of Consolidated Publishing Co., and that those sites may not follow the same privacy policies as the Northeast Alabama Business Directory. These sites may send their own cookies to you. Neither the Northeast Alabama Business Directory nor Consolidated Publishing Co. nor its subsidiaries are responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web Sites, nor do we control the practices of such Web Sites. Please review the policies of those sites for an understanding of how your information is used at those venues.

CLARIFICATION AND CONTACT

Should you wish further clarification of this policy, please do not hesitate to contact us. You can reach the Online Director of Consolidated Publishing Co. at online@annistonstar.com or 256-235-3531. Our offices are located at 4305 McClellan Blvd., Anniston, Alabama, 36206.