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Chicago News Bench uses Statcounter, which tells us how many visitors we get and what city they are in, but never collects your personal data. See Statcounter's statement about personal data collection. Please keep this in mind as you read the rest of this Privacy Policy.
At Chicago News Bench, accessible from https://rogersparkbench.blogspot.com, one of our main priorities is the privacy of our visitors. This Privacy Policy document contains types of information that is collected and recorded by Chicago News Bench and how we use it.
This Privacy Policy applies only to our online activities and is valid for visitors to our website with regards to the information that they shared and/or collect in Chicago News Bench. This policy is not applicable to any information collected offline or via channels other than this website. Our Privacy Policy was created with the help of the H-supertools Privacy Policy Generator.
ConsentBy using our website, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its terms.
Chicago News Bench will never ask you for your personal information. You do not need an account to view this website. We do, however, require you to have a Google account in order to leave a comment on a post. Google may ask you for some personal information, but that is not shared with Chicago News Bench. Please refer to the Preamble at the top of this Privacy Policy.
How we use your informationChicago News Bench does not use your personal information (please refer to the Preamble at the top of this Privacy Policy). However, Blogger, Google, and Adsense do use the information we collect in various ways, including to but not limited to:
- Provide, operate, and maintain our website
- Improve, personalize, and expand our website
- Understand and analyze how you use our website
- Develop new products, services, features, and functionality
- Send you emails
- Find and prevent fraud
Chicago News Bench follows a standard procedure of using log files. These files log visitors when they visit websites. All hosting companies do this and is part of hosting services' analytics. The information collected by log files include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. These are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable. The purpose of the information is for analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users' movement on the website, and gathering demographic information. Again, please refer to the Preamble atop this Privacy Policy.
Cookies and Web BeaconsBlogger, Google, and AdSense use 'cookies'. These cookies are used to store information including visitors' preferences, and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. The information is used to optimize the users' experience by customizing our web page content based on visitors' browser type and/or other information. Chicago News Bench uses Statcounter, which uses cookies only to tell us what city users are in, what kind of browser they are using, which pages they visit and for how long. No personal data is collected. See the Preamble above.
Google is a third-party vendor on our site. It also uses cookies, known as DART cookies, to serve ads to our site visitors based upon their visit to www.website.com and other sites on the internet. However, visitors may choose to decline the use of DART cookies by visiting the Google ad and content network Privacy Policy at the following URL – https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads
Some of the advertisers on our site may use cookies and web beacons. Our advertising partners are listed below. Each of our advertising partners has their own Privacy Policy for their policies on user data. For easier access, we hyperlinked to their Privacy Policies below.
Third-party ad servers or ad networks uses technologies like cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons that are used in their respective advertisements and links that appear on Chicago News Bench, which are sent directly to users' browser. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. These technologies are used to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on websites that you visit. Note that Chicago News Bench has no access to, or control over, cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.
Chicago News Bench's Privacy Policy does not apply to other advertisers or websites. Thus, we are advising you to consult the respective Privacy Policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information. It may include their practices and instructions about how to opt-out of certain options.
You can choose to disable cookies through your individual browser options. To know more detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers, it can be found at the browsers' respective websites.
Under the CCPA, among other rights, California consumers have the right to:
Request that a business that collects a consumer's personal data disclose the categories and specific pieces of personal data that a business has collected about consumers.
Request that a business delete any personal data about the consumer that a business has collected.
Request that a business that sells a consumer's personal data, not sell the consumer's personal data.
If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.
We would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:
The right to access – You have the right to request copies of your personal data. We may charge you a small fee for this service.
The right to rectification – You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request that we complete the information you believe is incomplete.
The right to erasure – You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to data portability – You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.
Another part of our priority is adding protection for children while using the internet. We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate in, and/or monitor and guide their online activity.
Chicago News Bench does not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information from children under the age of 13. If you think that your child provided this kind of information on our website, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately and we will do our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.
