We recognize the importance of privacy to visitors of our web site.  Public Radio Delmarva collects personally-identifying information (such as your name, e-mail address, address, telephone number and/or credit card information) from this web site only if you choose to provide that information to us.

We may ask you to provide certain personal information when you contact us through this web site, as when you pledge a contribution to Public Radio Delmarva. 

Like all other web servers, ours automatically creates log files for each visitor who accesses our site. These logs allow us to make our site more useful to you. The access logs do NOT record a visitor's name, address, phone number, credit card numbers, or any other personally-identifying information. Rather, they contain some or all of the following information:

• The Internet Protocol Address (IP Address) of the machine which accessed our web site.
• The date of the visit.
• The time of the visit.
• The path taken through our web site.
• The browser being used.
• A list of files downloaded or viewed.
• The amount of time spent listening to RealAudio or Windows Media files.
• Any errors encountered.     

Cookies
We also use 'cookies' to collect information. A cookie is a string of characters that can be written to a file on the user's hard drive when the user visits a web site. Only the web site that set the cookie can read it, and it can only be used as a record keeping device to store information that the site already has. It cannot, for example, be used to read other information from the user's hard drive.

We use cookies to track users' activity through the site in order to improve the site's architecture, to offer the user interactive features that would not be possible without them, and to recall specific information to save the user time during subsequent visits to the site. If you wish to prevent certain or all cookies from being set to your hard drive you may disable them in your browser's preferences, although your browser might then be unable to accommodate certain functionalities on publicradiodelmarva.net.

Use of Information
The use of personally-identifying information is limited to the following: pledges of support; responding to user e-mails; fulfillment of thank-you gift or audio tape/CD orders; editorial purposes such as contacting users for an online survey; other internal purposes; and other purposes specified at the time the information is gathered.

Personally-identifying information collected by Public Radio Delmarva is not provided to outside parties except when you specifically consent to such distribution.  We use the information provided for the sole purpose of -- and only to the extent necessary for -- delivering the requested thank-you gift or audio tape/CD to the user, communicating with donors, or serving other internal station purposes.

Public Radio Delmarva also may disclose personal information if required to do so by law or if it believes that such action is necessary to (a) comply with the law or with legal process, (b) protect against misuse or unauthorized use of this web site, or (c) protect the personal safety or property of Public Radio Delmarva web site users, the public, or Public Radio Delmarva and its employees.

If you do not want your personally-identifying information to be collected or used for any of these purposes, you can simply 'opt out' according to the process described below.

We may use non-identifying aggregate information to analyze use of and better design our web site and to share with third parties in aggregate form only as appropriate. For example, we may tell a third party that a certain number of users accessed a particular audio stream on our web site. However, we will not disclose any information that could be used to identify those users.

Security
Public Radio Delmarva has in place what we believe to be appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online. Credit card information provided to us is protected against unauthorized use by encryption which scrambles your personal information so that only your web browser and our web site's server can decipher it.

Children
You must be at least 18 years old in order to participate in any online contests. Visitors between the ages of 13 and 18 must obtain permission from their parents or guardians before sending any personally-identifying information.   If we discover that we have collected any information from anyone under the age of 13, we will remove that data from our files as soon as possible.

Corrections to Personal Data; Opting Out
Please contact us to a) correct or update any personal information in our database that you state is erroneous, b) opt-out of future communications from Public Radio Delmarva or c) request that we make reasonable efforts to remove your personal information from our database.  The user understands that it may be impossible to delete personal information entirely because of backups and records of deletions.

Acceptance of Privacy Policy Terms
We reserve the right to change this policy. Any changes to this policy will be posted to this page as soon as reasonably possible, so please check this page periodically. Use of this web site constitutes consent to any policy then in effect.

If you have any questions or comments concerning our privacy policy, please contact us via e-mail or send a letter to:

Public Radio Delmarva                                                                                                            P. O. Box 2596                                                                                                                  Salisbury, MD 21802

Links to other Sites
It is important to note that this web site contains links to other sites that may not follow the same privacy policies as the Public Radio Delmarva web site. These sites may use cookies, collect data, and use the data in ways that we would not. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or any information or materials on these other sites. Please visit these sites if you wish to review their privacy policies.