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TABLE OF CONTENTS
*Your California Privacy Rights
*General Privacy Guidlines
*Website Collection, Use, And Disclosure of Personal Information
*Disclosure to Advertiser
*Cookies and Image Tags
*Children's Privacy Policy
*Email
*Shopping & E-Commerce Policy
*Monitoring and Use Of Aggregate Personal Information
*Advertising and Other Third Party Content
*Hyper Links to Other Websites
*Off-Line Collection, Use, and Disclosure of Personal Information
*Security Measures
*Review, Update and Deletion of Personal Information
*Contact Us
PRIVACY POLICY AND YOUR CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS
This Site is owned and operated by Mother USA, Inc. ("Owner and Operator").
Your privacy is very important to us. Because we gather certain types of
personally identifiable information ("Personal Information") from users of our
website and for various Station activities, operational and business purposes,
we feel you should know how we collect, use, disclose, manage, and store the
Personal Information that you may voluntarily provide us and the Personal
Information that is collected passively through the use of cookies or image
tags on our website. This Privacy Policy is a part of the Site's Terms of Use
Agreement, which is binding on all Site users. This Policy applies only to the
Personal Information collected by this Station and does not cover any such
information collected by its corporate parent(s), affiliates, or any other
company, unless specifically stated.
If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy, please do not participate in
either the online or off-line activities and services that require you to
provide your Personal Information. (The type of Personal Information collected
is listed below.) This Policy provides information regarding your choices to
either Opt-out or Opt-in when your Personal Information is used for various
promotional and marketing purposes by the Company, Site, its corporate
affiliates, and/or our generous advertisers, sponsors, or promotional partners
(collectively, "Advertisers"). For example, for the Site or our corporate
affiliates use of your Personal Information for marketing and promotional
purposes, we provide you with the right to Opt-out. However, the choice for
sharing your Personal Information with Advertisers may be different. Please see
details in the "Disclosure to Advertisers" section below.
Your California Privacy Rights
Residents of the State of California, under a new provision of the California
Civil Code, have the right to request from companies conducting business in
California a list of all third parties to which the company has disclosed
Personal Information during the preceding year for direct marketing purposes.
Alternatively, the law provides that if the company has a privacy policy that
gives either an Opt-out or Opt-in choice for use of your Personal Information
by third parties (such as advertisers or affiliated companies) for marketing
purposes, the company may instead provide you with information on how to
exercise your disclosure choice options.
This Company qualifies for the alternative option; it has a comprehensive
privacy policy and provides you with details on how you may Opt-out or Opt-in
to the use of your Personal Information by third parties for direct marketing
purposes. Therefore, we are not required to maintain or disclose a list of the
third parties that received your Personal Information during the preceding year
for marketing purposes.
If you are a California resident and request information about how to exercise
your third party disclosure choices you must send a request to the following
address with a preference on how our response to your request should be sent
(email or postal mail). You may contact us in two ways. Send email to Privacy
Administrator at support@motherfm.com
Alternatively, you may contact the Company at:
Mother USA, Inc.
841 Worcester Road #341
Natick, MA 01760
Attn: Your California Privacy Rights
c/o Privacy Administrator
For requests sent via email, you must put the statement "Your California
Privacy Rights" in the subject field of your email. All requests sent via
postal mail must be labeled "Your California Privacy Rights" on the envelope or
post card and clearly stated on the actual request. For all requests, please
include your name, street address, city, state, and zip code. (Your street
address is optional if you wish to receive a response to your request via
email. Please include your zip code for our own recordkeeping.) We will not
accept requests via the telephone or by facsimile. We are not responsible for
notices that are not labeled or sent properly, or do not have complete
information.
To all other users of this Site, if you have other questions about this Privacy
Policy, please contact our Privacy Administrator at the following email
address: support@motherfm.com or:
Mother USA, Inc.
841 Worcester Road #341
Natick, MA 01760
Attn: Privacy Administrator
General Privacy Guidlines
Unless specified otherwise on the Site, all users must be at least 18 years of
age and a legal resident of the United States to participate in any activity
that requires the submission of Personal Information. This Site is designed and
targeted to United States (U.S.) audiences and is governed by and operated in
accordance with the laws of the United States . We make no representation that
this Site is operated in accordance with the laws or governed by other nations.
By your participation in our Site activities, you certify that you are at least
18 years of age and located in the U.S. If you are located in the European
Union or elsewhere outside of the U.S. and you participate in activities on
this Site contrary to our policy that only U.S. residents are eligible for
certain activities, you do so at your own risk and initiative, and are
responsible for compliance with any applicable local laws.
Please be aware that any Personal Information you transfer to us will be
transferred to the U.S and subject to U.S. law. By using this Site,
participating in any Site activities, and/or providing us with your Personal
Information, you consent to this transfer of Personal Information to the U.S.,
and waive any claims that may arise under your own national laws. All users of
the Site are required to provide true, current, complete and accurate Personal
Information when prompted and we will reject and delete any entry that we
believe in good faith to be false, fraudulent, or inconsistent with this
Privacy Policy.
Your continued participation on this Site indicates your acceptance of this
Privacy Policy and of the collection, use, disclosure, management and storage
of your Personal Information as described below. We may from time to time,
transfer or merge any Personal Information collected off-line to our online
databases or store off-line information in an electronic format. We may also
combine Personal Information we collect online with information available from
other sources, including information received from Advertisers, or marketing
companies. This Privacy Policy covers all such Personal Information and will
remain in full force and effect as long as you are a user of the Site or a
participant in Company activities. We reserve the right to revise this policy
at any time by updating this posting without advance notice to you. Such
revisions shall be effective to you immediately upon posting. Therefore, we
encourage you to check this Privacy Policy often.
We use your Personal Information to provide you with the features, services, or
goods you request and to respond to billing and/or other such questions related
to the Company or Site. We will also use your Personal Information to notify
you about updates, new features, programming and activities on behalf of the
Company, Site, or our Advertisers that may be of interest to you. (We explain
below in the next section what our policy is for the collection, use and
disclosure of Personal Information to Advertisers.) We may also use your
information for hiring, operational and business purposes, or to find out how
we can improve our Station and Site via surveys or online tracking mechanisms.
We use aggregate Personal Information to help us to evaluate and modify
existing services and features. We also use your Personal Information to
develop new services and features that may be of interest to you. We will not
sell, exchange, rent, lease or otherwise disclose your Personal Information or
Sensitive Personal Information to other third party marketers or any such
persons that are not associated with the Station as Advertisers unless it is
necessary to: 1) conform to regulatory and legal requirements or to comply with
legal process; 2) to protect the safety and security of our users, employees,
or property; 3) to defend the rights of the Site or the Station; or 4) to
enforce the Terms of Use Agreement.
It is also necessary that we share your Personal Information and Sensitive
Personal Information with our operational service providers, the specialists
that provide internal support to Company operations and activities and/or for
Site design, development, hosting and operations including maintenance,
management, storage and/or fulfillment of our membership and e-mail clubs,
various contests, sweepstakes, services, events and online stores. We use
operational service providers to efficiently provide the full range of content,
activities and membership services we bring to you and we request that our
operational service providers also protect your privacy and not disclose your
Personal Information or Sensitive Personal Information to third party marketers
that are not associated with the Station or website. Additionally, such
providers are not to use your personal Information for their own marketing or
promotional purposes.
In the event that the assets or stock of the Company, its corporate licensee or
parent company(s) are sold or transferred, merged with a different company or
entity, restructured, or subject to other fundamental corporate changes, we
reserve the right to disclose any and all databases compiled from Personal
Information or Sensitive Personal Information collected by the Station to such
successor. We will seek to obligate the Station's successor to agree to the
terms of the Privacy Policy, as it may hereafter be modified, but cannot
guarantee that we will be able to do so or that the successor company will
comply with this obligation.
We reserve the right to collect Personal Information using any new technology
yet to be developed and to use such technology to provide new services and
features to you, as well as for marketing and promotional purposes. Specific
information regarding your choice to Opt-in or to Opt-out to such use, or for
sharing your Personal Information with Advertisers, will be provided once the
new technology, service, or feature is introduced.
Website Collection, Use, And Disclosure of Personal Information
Generally, you may browse this Site without providing any Personal Information.
For certain activities (such as contest and sweepstakes registrations,
membership, awards points and loyal listener clubs, music sampling and surveys,
news/sports/weather alerts, nominations for civic or Best Teacher/Coach awards,
or registration for chat rooms and message boards) the Personal Information you
voluntarily provide may include your first/middle and last name, home address,
business address, email address, telephone number, mobile phone/text messaging
device number, birth date, gender, employer or personal preferences, depending
on the activity.
For specific purposes (such as the purchase of goods and services) we may
request a type of confidential personally identifiable information which shall
be called "Sensitive Personal Information" and is defined as any individual's:
(1) social security number; (2) driver's license number or state identification
card number; or (3) account number, credit or debit card number, in combination
with any required security code, access code or password that would permit
access to an individual's financial account. This Sensitive Personal
Information will only be used to implement the specific activity or event it
was submitted for. We will not share your Sensitive Personal Information with
Advertisers. However, more general Personal Information will be used to
implement the specific activity or event and will also be used for the
marketing of additional events, services and merchandising for this Site and
the Station.
Disclosure to Advertiser
Advertising support allows us to offer, free of charge, many great activities
and services to our users such as contests, sweepstakes and special events.
Therefore, we may also use your Personal Information for the marketing of
events, products or services of our generous Advertisers. There are two ways
users may receive such information from Advertisers, either indirectly via
newsletters, email or direct mail from the Site, or directly from the
Advertiser. We may use one or both methods depending on the activity and the
Advertiser.
We do not currently share Personal Information with our Advertisers. However,
depending on the activity, we may in the future do so and you will receive
notice on the Site and/or in the rules of participation ("Rules of
Participation") for the event or activity, or via an email notice. Please be
informed that our Advertisers may not have the same privacy policies that we
do. Therefore, we will ask you for your consent first to receive marketing
information directly from our Advertisers. You will need to check the "Opt-in"
click boxes that may be included on the registration area for the particular
activity or event, in an email, or notify the Site's Privacy Administrator at
support@motherfm.com. However, if you do not wish to receive marketing or
promotional materials from the Site and/or Company, you will need to tell us so
by clicking the "Opt-Out" click boxes that may be included on the registration
area for the particular event, or alternatively, notify the Site's Privacy
Administrator. Please note that this notification process is different than the
one for Advertisers.
We also provide you with an option to "Opt-out" of receiving advertising and
promotional email from us in compliance with federal law by installing an
Opt-out mechanism with all such email messages. You must use the designated
method in the email message to notify us of your Opt-out request, as we cannot
guarantee that other methods of notification will be effective or timely.
Please be aware that we may continue to contact you via email for
administrative or informational purposes, including follow-up messages
regarding contests you have entered or other transactions you have undertaken.
By law, such messages are not considered to be commercial email.
We are not responsible for removing your Personal Information from third party
lists or entities which you have previously authorized us to share your
information. You will need to contact those entities directly.
Cookies and Image Tags
The use of cookies is an industry standard and they are currently used on most
websites, including this Site. Cookies are a small text file containing a
unique identification number that is transferred from a website to the hard
drive of a user's computer so that the website administrator or a third party
operational service provider may identify the computer and passively track the
user's activities on the website. Image tags work in conjunction with cookies
and are small image files that may be located on select pages of our Site, or
with-in web-based email newsletters that we may send. (Image tags are also
called web beacons, web bugs, clear GIFs or single-pixel GIFs.) Tracking is
important because we can better understand what parts of our website are used
the most, when to launch new services and how to enhance current offerings. We
may share the information we receive from cookies and image tags with
third-parties and our Advertisers in aggregate form, which means that such
information does not contain specific Personal Information or Sensitive
Personal Information about any one visitor.
In short, cookies and image tags collect a user's Internet protocols and server
information. Such data files allow our Site to remember your web browser when
you visit our Site and are necessary tools for quick and efficient access to
membership clubs, awards programs and contests. A cookie will not allow the
Site to learn any Personal Information (such as your real name and email
address) or Sensitive Personal Information that you have not otherwise
disclosed. Cookies and image tags allow the Site to remember important
information that will make the Site easier for you to use and helpful in our
administration of various activities. We do not use cookies or image tags to
collect other Personal Information or Sensitive Personal Information unless you
give us permission to do so.
You can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie or image tag
is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all such devices. This is done
through your browser. If you turn cookies off, you may not have access to many
features at our Site that make your Internet experience more efficient and
enjoyable - like the features mentioned above - and some of our other services
will not function properly.
Children's Privacy Policy
Although persons of all ages may visit our Site and participate in activities
that do not require the collection of Personal Information or Sensitive
Personal Information, we do not knowingly or intentionally collect Personal
Information or Sensitive Personal Information from children under the age of
13. Except for the limited circumstances listed below, we will automatically
reject and delete the registration or entry of any person we believe in good
faith to be underage. Any false or fraudulent registration or entry from a
minor will be deemed to be ineligible and will disqualify the minor from the
receipt of a prize, benefit, or other participation.
Except to meet Federal Communications Commission ("FCC"), or other regulatory
and legal purposes, we will not use, store, or disclose any child's Personal
Information to a third party without prior parental consent.
Email
We do not generally keep email correspondence, except for those emails that
relate to the programs or operations of Mother USA, Inc. Therefore, be
informed that your Personal Information or Sensitive Personal Information
contained in certain emails, including Personal Information knowingly received
from a child under the age of thirteen, will be disclosed to the general
public. (Please see our Children's Privacy Policy section for details.) We
request that you not place any Sensitive Personal Information in your email
correspondence to the Station that pertains to station programming or
operations. You understand and agree that we are not responsible for Sensitive
Personal Information that is improperly disclosed in emails that are made
available to the general public in compliance with FCC regulations.
Shopping & E-Commerce Policy
If this Site sells goods and/or services or provides auction services we will
request Sensitive Personal Information that includes your credit card, debit
card or other payment information. Alternatively, the Site may use a third
party operational service provider to conduct the financial transaction in a
secured manner; the third party payment will be accessible via a hyperlink from
the Site and will be solely responsible for all financial transactions and the
collection, use, and storage of your Personal Information. The Site may request
additional Personal Information such as full name, billing and shipping
address, email address and telephone number and any such information that is
required to fulfill your order and to communicate with you regarding your
order. Sensitive Personal Information will be encrypted or collected though a
secured Internet connection generally via SSL or S-HTTP protocols. Such
Sensitive Personal Information will also be stored in a commercially reasonable
secure manner. We may use your Personal Information, (but not your credit card
or debit card number) to contact you about future products, services and
discounts from the Company or to provide such information indirectly from our
Advertisers, unless you tell us otherwise ("Opt-out"). We will only use your
credit card and debit card number to complete the specific transaction you
requested.
Monitoring and Use Of Aggregate Personal Information
We reserve the right to monitor and edit any Personal Information about our
users, including information about the use of website activities and services,
the contents of users' email and messages for internal purposes, and when
necessary, to disclose to law enforcement personnel, and/or the employer and/or
Internet Service Provider of a user that is not in compliance with the Terms of
Use Agreement or Privacy Policy. We will take such measures if we believe it is
necessary to protect the security, integrity, and operations of this Site or
Company. Without disclosure of Personal Information or Sensitive Personal
Information about individual users, we may provide aggregate statistics about
our users, traffic patterns and related website information to Advertisers,
reputable third party vendors or marketing companies.
Advertising and Other Third Party Content
This Privacy Policy does not cover third party advertising or third party
content that may be present on the Site. This Site may provide banner and
general advertising, in addition to other content provided by our Advertisers
or operational service providers. Users may from time to time purchase goods or
services offered through, or otherwise participate in or send messages
concerning such advertising, promotions or third party content offered through
the Site. Such correspondence, transactions and agreements are solely between
the user and the Advertiser or the third party content provider and do not
involve the Site. Also, Advertisers and such third party content providers may
not have the same privacy policies that we do and you are encouraged to read
their privacy policy first.
Hyper Links to Other Websites
This Site often provides links to third party websites that could be of
interest to our users, including the websites of our Advertisers. As stated in
our Terms of Use Agreement, the Station does not own or control these websites
and therefore, is not responsible for the content, business practices, nor
operations of such websites. Third party websites linked on this Site may have
different privacy policies and business practices than we do. The presence of a
link to a third party website does not constitute or imply our endorsement,
recommendation, or sponsorship of the third party content, goods, or services
available through, or contained on, the Site. By use of this Site, you have
agreed that you will use the hyperlinks to third party sites at your own risk.
Off-Line Collection, Use, and Disclosure of Personal Information
The Company also collects and uses Personal Information by other means, via
on-air broadcasts, telephone, direct mail, and direct from members of the
public. The various uses of such Personal Information include, but are not
limited to, contests & sweepstakes, loyal listener club registration, other
special membership only features/events, news-tip lines, job applications,
listener complaints, and operational and business purposes. Except for contests
& sweepstakes entries, or registrations for special membership
features/events, we do not ordinarily use your Personal Information collected
off-line for promotional or advertising purposes, nor do we share it with third
parties for promotional or marketing purposes. If Personal Information
collected off-line will be used by the Company or corporate affiliates for
promotional and marketing purposes, you will have the opportunity to Opt-out of
such use. If such information will be shared with Advertisers, you will have
the same rights as provided for the disclosure of Personal Information
collected online. (Please see the "Website Collection, Use, and Disclosure of
Personal Information" section.)
Security Measures
We conduct the collection, management, maintenance and storage of listener or
website user information in a secure and commercially reasonable manner using
acceptable industry standards of security technology and practices (such as
electronic security systems and password protections) to protect against the
loss, misuse or alteration of Personal Information. We also request that our
operational service providers take such precautions. Mother USA’s databases are
accessible only by authorized personnel.
However, please note that when users transmit Personal Information over an
unsecured Internet connection, the Site is not responsible for the security of
that information during the transmission stage as your email or registration
could be copied or intercepted by unknown third parties. We use a secured
connection only for the collection of Sensitive Personal Information, which is
necessary for the purchase of goods or services, but we do not use a secured
connection for other types of activities. Therefore, you understand,
acknowledge, and agree that you transmit certain Personal Information over this
Site at your own risk.
Review, Update, or Deletion of Personal Information
Generally, you may review, update or delete your Personal Information or
Sensitive Personal Information collected by the Site. You may also correct
factual inaccuracies. Certain types of Personal Information that are necessary
to check eligibility, such as birth date or age, cannot be deleted, but may be
modified with sufficient verification of the new information. Note that we
reserve the right to terminate or delete any membership or entry if we believe
the Personal Information submitted was knowingly false or fraudulent. To
review, update or delete your Personal Information or Sensitive Personal
Information collected by the Site, please email the Site's Privacy
Administrator at support@motherfm.com. To have access to your Personal
Information or Sensitive Personal Information, you must provide proof of
identification such as full name, street address, city/state and zip code, user
ID and password, and/or information about your recent activity on the website.
We reserve the right to deny access to any user if we believe there is a
question about your identity. And if the burden or expense of providing access
to your Personal Information is disproportionate to the risks to your privacy,
or if the legitimate rights of others would be violated, we may decide not to
provide access to such information. In such cases, we will provide to you an
explanation of why access cannot be provided and a contact person for further
inquiries.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this privacy policy, please contact our Privacy
Administrator at the following email address: support@motherfm.com or:
Mother USA, Inc.
841 Worcester Road #341
Natick, MA 01760
attn: Privacy Administrator
This Privacy Policy was last updated on November 1 and is effective
immediately.
Copyright 2005 Mother USA, Inc. All rights reserved.
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