Privacy Policy

The Louisiana Weekly believes that electronic privacy is crucial for the ongoing success of the Internet as a service, commercial, and entertainment medium. We know you're concerned about protecting your privacy online. At The Louisiana Weekly, we treat your personal information (especially payment information) with the highest standards of safety, security, and confidentiality.

Your use of louisianaweekly.com constitutes agreement to its terms and conditions.

Information Gathered

We don't collect personal information without your knowledge. We don't sell, rent, or give your personal information to unrelated third parties without your prior permission.

This policy explains what information we collect about you and how we use that information.

The Louisiana Weekly Subscriptions

By subscribing at our subscription form, you accept the practices outlined in this Privacy Policy.

In order to deliver your newspaper subscription, we need to collect information about you, including your name, billing address, shipping address, e-mail address, home phone number and credit card information. If we have a question about your order, we may contact you by e-mail or by phone. For example, we may call you to verify your credit card information or your address. We do this for your protection.

Cookies

"Cookies" are pieces of information that are placed by a website in a storage place on your computer. We use cookies to control the display of web pages, to track usage patterns on the site, to deliver editorial content, and to record registration and personalization information. For example, if you log in to a section of louisianaweekly.com, your user name may be stored in a cookie on your computer during your visit.

Our cookies may contain personally identifiable information.

Some of our partners and advertisers occasionally serve you cookies as well. We do not have control over cookies placed by other parties.

If you don't want cookies, your Web browser probably includes an option that allows you to not accept them. However, if you set your browser to refuse cookies, some portions of our website may not function properly.

Security

The Louisiana Weekly pledges a safe and worry-free shopping experience. We use the industry standard for Internet security, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL 128-bit) encryption to protect your personal data and ensure that it is transmitted securely.

Children under 13

The Louisiana Weekly does not accept subnmissions from children under the age of 13 due to the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act ("COPPA"). COPPA was enacted to prevent websites from collecting and/or distributing information from children without their parents' consent. For more information on COPPA, please refer to the Federal Trade Commission Website.

Traffic Data

Each time a visitor comes to The Louisiana Weekly site, information is collected to improve the overall quality of our sites. We collect the visitor's domain name/IP Address (e.g., whether the user is logged on from bellsouth.com or yale.edu or 255.255.255.0), referral data (e.g., we record the address of the last URL a user visited prior to clicking through to our site), and browser/platform type (e.g., a Internet Explorer browser on a Macintosh platform).

The Louisiana Weekly also counts, tracks, and aggregates the visitor's activity into our analysis of general traffic flow at our site (e.g., tracking where traffic comes from and how traffic flows within the sites). The Louisiana Weekly may merge this information into group data, which may then be shared on an aggregated basis with potential advertisers, research firms, and business partners. The Louisiana Weekly will not disclose your individual identity or personal data. When The Louisiana Weekly does present aggregated information to potential advertisers, research firms, and business partners, no one will be able to identify you or contact you.

E-mail Services

Any/all e-mail addresses sent to us as the result of correspondence with the consumers of The Louisiana Weekly will not be used or collected for the purposes of reselling to a third party and will not be added to a bulk e-mailing list.

Correspondence and Unsolicited Submissions

Any correspondence with The Louisiana Weekly via email, website submission forms, or any other method will be considered an unsolicited submission and will become the property of The Louisiana Weekly unless other agreements in writing have been made. Communications may be published in print or other media as a Letter to the Editor, in marketing and promotional material, or used in any other manner The Louisiana Weekly may see fit.

Sharing and Usage Of Information

The Louisiana Weekly never shares, sells, or rents any personal information without your permission, unless ordered by a court of law. Personal information submitted to us is only available to employees managing this information for purposes of contacting you or sending you emails based on your request for information.

Updates & Effective Date

From time to time, we may update this privacy notice. We will notify you about material changes in the way we treat personally identifiable information by placing a notice on our site. We encourage you to periodically 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.