Updated May 2, 2023
Parents Beware of Language Used on The Lawrence Register and Your Children
Our site is meant for adults. Many stories in The Lawrence Register are unsuitable for children to read due to their violence and/or sexual situation. Even though these stories are tied into our history, parents should monitor and have total control over what their children read on The Lawrence Register. Also, some of the language used on our website can be viewed as racial by some parents. We try not to include racial slurs, replacing those words with *** or —-, but sometimes other words or phrases may be overlooked. We encourage you to contact us if there is something overlooked on our part. We will certainly research the complaint and do what is for the good of the children and adults.
We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children (including children under 13 in the United States.)
Parents, you can take steps to protect your kids too. To learn more about protecting your child online, read the helpful information the Federal Trade Commission provides by clicking here.
Our Privacy Policy
We use commercially reasonable security measures, including physical, technical, and administrative safeguards, to protect your information from unauthorized access, use, modification, or deletion.
The Internet is not 100% secure, though. We thus cannot promise that your use of our sites will be completely safe. We encourage you to use caution when using the Internet. This includes not sharing your passwords. We keep personal information as long as necessary or relevant to the practices described in this Policy.
This privacy policy has been compiled to serve better those concerned with how their ‘Personally identifiable information’ (PII) is being used online. PII, as used in US privacy law and information security, can be used on its own or with other information to identify, contact, or locate a single person or an individual in context. Please read our privacy policy carefully to understand how we collect, use, protect or otherwise handle your Personally Identifiable Information on our website.
What personal information do we collect from people visiting our blog or website?
When commenting on our site, as appropriate, you may be asked to enter your name, email address, or other details to help you with your experience.
When do we collect information?
We will only collect your information when you want to leave a comment. To do that, you must register using your name and email address.
We embed social media widgets. These widgets may collect your IP address, and your web browser, retrieve cookies on your browser, embed additional tracking, and monitor your interaction with the widget, including correlating your social media accounts.
We use a Facebook widget to allow you to see the number of likes/shares/recommends and “like/share/recommend” our web pages. This widget may collect your IP address and your web browser User Agent, store and retrieve cookies on your browser, embed additional tracking, and monitor your interaction with the widget, including correlating your Facebook account with whatever action you take within the widget (such as “liking/sharing/recommending” our webpage), if you are logged in to Facebook. For more information about how this data may be used, please see Facebook’s data privacy policy: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/update
We use a Twitter Tweet widget on our website. As a result, our website requests Twitter servers for you to tweet our web pages using your Twitter account. These requests make your IP address visible to Twitter, who may use it under their data privacy policy: https://twitter.com/en/privacy#update
We use the Pinterest Save widget on our website to allow you to pin images to Pinterest from our web pages. Per their data privacy policy, these requests may track your IP address: https://policy.pinterest.com/en/privacy-policy.
We use Reddit Badge widget on our website, which may log information when you interact with the widget. This may include your IP address, user-agent string, browser type, operating system, referral URLs, device information (e.g., device IDs), pages visited, links clicked, user interactions (e.g., voting data), the requested URL and hardware settings, under their privacy policy: https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/12boszd/policy_update_on_gender_identity_and_ads/
How do we use your information?
We may use such information in the following ways:
- To personalize the user’s experience and allow us to deliver the type of content and product offerings you are most interested in.
- To improve our website to serve you better.
- To allow us to better service you in responding to your customer service requests.
- To administer a contest, promotion, survey, or other site feature.
How do we protect visitor information?
Our website is scanned regularly for security holes and known vulnerabilities to make your visit to our site as safe as possible.
We use regular Malware Scanning.
Your personal information is contained behind secured networks. It is only accessible by a limited number of persons with special access rights to such systems and must keep the information confidential. In addition, all sensitive/credit information you supply is encrypted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology.
We implement a variety of security measures when a user comments or accesses their information to maintain the safety of their personal information.
Do we use ‘cookies’?
Yes. Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computer’s hard drive through your Web browser (if you allow), enabling the site’s or service provider’s systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information.
For instance, cookies are also used to help us understand your preferences based on previous or current site activity, which enables us to provide you with improved services. We also use cookies to help us compile aggregate data about site traffic and interaction to offer better site experiences and tools in the future.
We use cookies to:
- Understand and save users’ preferences for future visits.
- Compile aggregate data about site traffic and interactions to offer better site experiences and tools in the future. We may also use trusted third-party services that track this information on our behalf.
You can have your computer warn you each time a cookie is sent, or you can turn off all cookies. You do this through your browser settings. Each browser is different, so look at your browser’s Help menu to learn how to modify your cookies.
If you disable cookies, some features will be disabled. It will turn off some of the features that make your site experience more efficient, and some of our services will not function properly.
See Our Cookie Policy.
How can you opt out, remove or modify the information you have provided to us?
You can request your information removed by clicking the Contact Us button on this or the home page.
Please note that we may maintain information about an individual sales transaction to complete that transaction and for record-keeping purposes.
Third-Party Disclosures
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer your personally identifiable information to outside parties unless we provide you with advance notice. This does not include website hosting partners and other parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect our or others’ rights, property, or safety.
However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.
Third-party Links
Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or offer third-party products or services on our website. These third-party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We, therefore, have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these sites.
Transfer of Your Personal Information
Your personal information may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers outside your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those from your jurisdiction.
We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and under this Privacy Policy, and no transfer of your personal information will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place, including the security of your data and other personal information.
Disclosure of Your Personal Information
Your personal information may be transferred if we are involved in a merger, acquisition, or asset sale. We will provide notice before your personal information is transferred and becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy.
Under certain circumstances, we may be required to disclose your personal information if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g., a court or a government agency).
Retention of Your Personal Information
We will retain your personal information only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your information to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.
Information Regarding Your Data Protection Rights Under General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
We are a Data Controller of your personal information for this Privacy Policy.
If you are from the European Economic Area (EEA), our legal basis for collecting and using your personal information, as described in this Privacy Policy, depends on the information we collect and the specific context in which we collect it. We may process your personal information because:
- We need to perform a contract with you, such as when you create a Policy with us.
- You have permitted us to do so.
- The processing is in our legitimate interests; your rights do not override it.
- To comply with the law.
If you are a European Economic Area (EEA) resident, you have certain data protection rights. In certain circumstances, you have the following data protection rights:
- The right to access, update, or delete the personal information we have on you.
- The right of rectification.
- The right to object.
- The right of restriction.
- The right to data portability.
- The right to withdraw consent.
Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before responding to such requests.
You have the right to complain to a Data Protection Authority about our collection and use of your personal information. For more information, please get in touch with your local data protection authority in the European Economic Area (EEA).
Service Providers
We employ third-party companies and individuals to facilitate our Website (“Service Providers”), to provide our Website on our behalf, to perform Website-related services, or to assist us in analyzing how our Website is used. These third parties have access to your personal information only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.
Analytics
Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Service. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its advertising network.
You can opt out of having made your activity on the Service available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js, and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity.
For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: https://safety.google/privacy/privacy-controls/
Contacting Us
You may contact us if you have any questions regarding this privacy policy.