Privacy Policy / Your California Privacy Rights

CBS RADIO INC. PRIVACY POLICY

AND YOUR CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS

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Your California Privacy Rights

General Privacy Guidelines

Website Collection, Use and Disclosure of Personal Information

Disclosure of Personal Information to Advertisers

Cookies and Image Tags

Children’s Privacy Policy

Email

Shopping and E-Commerce

Chat Rooms, Message Boards and Public Areas

Monitoring and Use of Aggregate Personal Information

Advertising and Other Third-Party Content

Hyperlinks to Other Websites

Off-line Collection, Use and Disclosure of Personal Information

Security Measures

Review, Update, Correct or Delete Personal Information

The website (“Site,” “us,” or “we”) from which you linked to this Privacy Policy is owned and operated by CBS Radio Inc. (“CBS”) either directly or through one of its direct or indirect subsidiaries. CBS or such subsidiary also owns and operates one or more radio stations that are associated with the Site (collectively, the “Station”).

Your privacy is very important to us. Because we gather certain types of personally identifiable information (“Personal Information”) from users of the Site for various Station activities and for CBS’s 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 the Site. This Privacy Policy is a part of the Site’s Terms of Use Agreement, which is binding on all Site users. This Privacy Policy applies only to the Personal Information collected by this Site and does not cover any such information collected by other Sites owned by CBS its affiliated entities or any other company, unless specifically stated.

If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy, please do not participate in our 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 Privacy 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 Station, Site, CBS, its affiliated entities and/or our generous advertisers, sponsors, or promotional partners (collectively, “Advertisers”). For example, we provide you with the right to Opt-out of the use of your Personal Information for marketing and promotional purposes by the Station, Site, CBS, or its affiliated entities.  However, the making of a choice with respect to sharing your Personal Information with Advertisers may be done differently. Please see details in the “Disclosure of Personal Information 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 Site 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.

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 privacyadministrator@cbsradio.com or you may contact CBS at:

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.  (To participate in and win certain Site contests, you may be required to provide proof of age and United States (“U.S.”) or other residency eligibility by showing a driver's license, state or federal identification.).

The Site is designed and targeted to U.S. audiences and is governed by and operated in accordance with the laws of the U.S. We make no representation that the Site is operated in accordance with, or governed by, the laws of other nations.  By your participation in Site activities, you certify that you are at least 18years 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 use of the 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 without limitation, information received from Advertisers, or marketing companies. We reserve the right to revise this Privacy Policy at any time by updating this posting without advance notice to you. Such revisions shall be effective, and applicable to you, immediately upon posting. Therefore, we encourage you to check this Privacy Policy often.  When we make changes in the Privacy Policy, we will identify the date the Privacy Policy was updated.  

We use your Personal Information to provide you with the features, services, or goods you request and to respond to billing or other such questions related to the Station or Site. On behalf of the Station, Site or our Advertisers, we will also use your Personal Information to notify you about updates, new features, programming, activities, goods and services, 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. 

Unless otherwise specified in this Policy or if you have consented pursuant to an Opt-in, we will not sell, exchange, rent, lease or otherwise disclose your Personal Information, including, without limitation, Sensitive Personal Information (as defined below), to other third-party marketers or any such persons that are not associated with the Site, CBS, Station or Advertisers (and in the case of Sensitive Personal Information, will not supply to 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, CBS or Station; or 4) to enforce the Terms of Use Agreement.    

We will share your Personal Information with Station, CBS and its affiliated entities primarily for business and operational purposes. On occasion, we will also share your Personal Information with them for promotional and marketing purposes. 

It is also necessary that we share your Personal Information with our operational service providers, the specialists that provide internal support to the Site’s, Station’s or CBS’s operations and activities and/or for the Site’s design, development, hosting and operations including, without limitation, maintenance, management, storage and/or fulfillment of our membership and email 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 to third-party marketers that are not associated with the Site, Station or CBS. Additionally, such providers are not to use your Personal Information for their own marketing or promotional purposes.

In the event that the assets of the Station or the stock or assets of the corporate owner of the Station or such owner’s direct or indirect parent company(ies) 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 collected by us to such successor.  We will seek to obligate such 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, without limitation, 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. 

Unless stated otherwise, we do not request contact information for a mobile phone, text messaging or any wireless device that includes a domain name address (such as “.net” or “.com”) as part of the contact information.  Federal law prohibits the sending of commercial email messages directly to a wireless device that uses a domain name, unless you have first given your affirmative consent.  We may inadvertently collect a wireless device number that includes a domain name when you send us an inquiry or register for a contest or membership club.  However, we will not knowingly use that contact information for sending commercial email. We reserve the right to respond to user inquiries or requests sent via a wireless device that uses a domain name as such messages are not deemed to be commercial email and therefore, are not regulated by Federal law. However, when “computer to phone” commercial emails are prohibited by law, we may reject your wireless device contact information when such information is submitted for certain Site features or services. We will attempt to notify you under this circumstance.

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 the Site and the Station.  

DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION TO ADVERTISERS 

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 forthe marketing of events, products or services of our generous Advertisers. There are two ways users may receive such information from Advertisers, either (1) indirectly via newsletters, email or direct mail from the Site or Station, or (2) directly from the Advertiser. We may use one or both methods depending on the activity and the Advertiser. 

When we plan to share your Personal Information with Advertisers, you will receive such notice on the Site, in the rules of participation (“Rules of Participation”) for the activity or event, or via an email notice. However, please be informed that our Advertisers may not have the same privacy policies that we do. Therefore, depending on the activity and the Advertiser we will either give you an option to Opt-in or Opt-out. When we ask you for your consent prior to your receiving marketing information directly from our Advertisers you will be given the opportunity to check the “Opt-in” click box that may be located on the registration area for the particular activity or event or in an email. If you do not Opt-in we will not share your Personal Information. At other times you will be given a notice on the Site, in the Rules of Participation or via an email notice that we will share your Personal Information with an Advertiser unless you Opt-out. In such case you will need to tell us if you do not want to receive marketing information directly from our Advertisers. You will need to check the “Opt-out” click box that may be located on the registration area for the particular event or in an email. Regardless of the manner in which You will also need to tell us if you do not wish to receive marketing or promotional materials from the Site and/or Station in the same manner.

Whenever you register for an event or activity you are agreeing to receive marketing or promotional materials from the Site and/or Station. However, if at any time thereafter you do not wish to receive such materials, you can tell us so by contacting the CBS privacy administrator at privacyadministrator@cbsradio.com and informing the privacy administrator from which entity or entities you want to stop receiving marketing or promotional materials. As noted above, this notification process is different than the one for Advertisers.

In compliance with federal law, we also provide you with an option to “Opt-out” of receiving advertising and promotional email from us 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, including, without limitation Advertisers, with which you have previously authorized us to share your information. You will need to contact those entities directly.

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 the Site, or within 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, including, without limitation, our Advertisers, in aggregate form, which means that such information does not contain specific 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 the Site to remember your web browser when you visit the 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 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 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 of the 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.

Although persons of all ages may visit our Site and participate in activities that do not require the collection of Personal Information, we do not knowingly or intentionally collect 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 or benefit or from participating in the activity. 

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.

In the event the Site has a special section designed for children or may have contests and prizes that could appeal to children we will not knowingly or intentionally collect Personal Information from children. If we unintentionally receive Personal Information from children under the age of 13 in connection with such a special section, we will comply with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (“COPPA”) and reject and destroy such correspondence upon knowledge of such collection, except for the limited circumstances above. For more information about COPPA, please see the Federal Trade Commission’s website: www.ftc.gov.

We do not generally keep email correspondence, except for those emails that relate to the on-air programs or operations of the Station. As required by the FCC, if any part of your email correspondence relates to Station programming or operations, we must place such correspondence in the Station’s FCC Public Inspection File, or make the correspondence available via electronic file access at the Station to anyone that requests such information. Therefore, be informed that your 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 disclosed in emails that are made available to the general public in compliance with FCC regulations.

If this Site sells goods and/or services or provides auction services we will request Sensitive Personal Information that includes, without limitation, 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.  Such third party’s website will be accessible via a hyperlink from the Site and the third party will be solely responsible for all financial transactions and the collection, use and storage of your Personal Information. The third party and/or we may request additional Personal Information such as full name, billing and shipping address, email address and telephone number and any such other 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 Site or Station 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.

For your enjoyment and entertainment, the Site may offers user interactive activities such as chat rooms, message boards, and/or public forums (“Public Areas”). We do not share any Personal Information that is entered into the Public Area registration section on the Site with Advertisers. 

We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to save and archive any content of any nature posted to the Site and we may, without liability to any user, disclose such content (1) if required to do so by law or to comply with legal processes; (2) to respond to claims that any of the content violates the property, privacy, publicity or other rights of others; or (3) to protect the rights, property or safety of the Site, Station, their employees, users of the Site or members of the public. For more information on this Site’s rules of conduct for these Public Areas, please see our Terms of Use Agreement.

MONITORING AND USE OF AGGREGATE PERSONAL INFORMATION

We reserve the right to monitor and edit any Personal Information about our users, including, without limitation, information about the use of website activities and services and 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 such user 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 the Site, Station or Advertisers. Without disclosure of Personal Information about individual users, we may provide aggregate statistics about our users, traffic patterns and related website information to Station, Advertisers, CBS or its affiliated entities, 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. The 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 before participating in any of their activities or features.

The 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, CBS 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 to from the 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 third-party website.  By use of the Site, you have agreed that you will use the hyperlinks to third-party websites at your own risk. 

OFF-LINE COLLECTION, USE AND DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

The Station 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 and 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 and sweepstakes entries, or registrations for a loyal listener or other special membership feature/event, neither Station nor we 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 us, the Station or CBS, its direct or indirect parent company(ies) or affiliated entities 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.)

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.  Our databases are accessible only by authorized personnel. 

However, please note that when users transmit Personal Information over an unsecured Internet or wireless 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 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 to the Site at your own risk.  

REVIEW, UPDATE, CORRECT OR DELETE PERSONAL INFORMATION

Generally, you may review, update or delete your 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 collected by the Site, please emailthe Site’sPrivacy Administrator at privacyadministrator@cbsradio.com. To obtain access to your 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.

This Privacy Policy was last updated on November 12, 2008 and is effective immediately.