NorthJersey.com PRIVACY POLICY

This policy applies only to information collected by NorthJersey.com online, as specified below, and does not govern or apply to information collected or used by North Jersey Media Group or its affiliates through other means. This policy does not cover any of NorthJersey.com's vendors or contractors, including advertisers. NorthJersey.com is not responsible for the content or the privacy policies of websites to which it may link. This policy may be modified, amended, or rescinded at any time without prior notice.

Please click here to view our Terms of Service.

How NorthJersey.com may use your information:

We believe that by having certain personal information about our users, we can provide you with better and more targeted services. The main uses of your information are to notify you of contests and promotions, to seek your participation in online surveys, to advise you of promotions or specials, or to advise you of changes to our Service. We also use that information to provide our advertisers and other vendors with demographic and preference information and for our own research purposes.

Children under 13:

Please do NOT send any information about yourself to us. All data inadvertently collected from a child under 13 years of age will be purged from our system and all of our records.

Types of personal information gathered by NorthJersey.com:

NorthJersey.com asks for your name, e-mail address, birth date, gender, Zip code, and country, and may ask you for additional demographic information. You will also be asked to register a “user name”. Please do not select a “user name” with the intent to impersonate another person. When registering to enter a contest, survey, or special offer, additional information may be required. If that information is shared with any third party other than publications owned by North Jersey Media Group, you will be notified.

We need to know who you are and where you are so that you can participate in the interactive portions of our site. But we won’t share your information with any third party without telling you.

Who your information is shared with:

If you register: When you register with www.northjersey.com, the personal information you provide is shared with its publisher, North Jersey Media Group Inc., including its publications and affiliates, as well as vendors’ list managers and hosting vendors providing contractual services for NorthJersey.com.

If you participate in a promotion or contest: Some or all of the personal information provided by you during a promotion or contest may be shared with the sponsor(s). If you enter a contest on www.northjersey.com, please read the rules carefully. You will have prior notice of this sharing so you can decide not to participate in the promotion or contest if you don't want this information to be shared.

If you provide information to an Advertiser or Link on www.northjersey.com: NorthJersey.com advertisers, or Web sites that have links on our site, may also ask you for personal information. You provide such data at your own risk for the privacy policies of those companies are not encompassed by this privacy statement.

• If you click a link from NorthJersey.com to one of our advertisers or another linked site, we can not control how they may use information you provide. Read the privacy policy of every web site that asks for your personal information.

We do not control the privacy policies of our advertisers, sponsors, or other sites or businesses to which we provide hyperlinks or access. Please visit the sites of these businesses to review their privacy policies.

Any information you post in a chat room or bulletin board becomes public which may result in unsolicited contact from others. NorthJersey.com has no control over data or other information that you have posted and made available to others.

Data Security:

Unfortunately, we cannot guarantee the security of our database or that any information you supply will not be intercepted while being transmitted to us. While we do have physical, electronic, and managerial procedures in place to protect information we collect, they do not provide any guarantee.

Cookies and how they are used.

As with many websites, NorthJersey.com uses a "cookie" to store and sometimes track information about you. It is also used to recognize you and your access privileges. We may use that information to prevent you from having to duplicate the log-in procedures, to prevent you from seeing an ad repeatedly, to see what links you have accessed, and to see your participation in our contests, surveys, and promotions. Advertisers and other vendors on our Service may also use their own cookies. You may opt-out of the cookies delivered by NorthJersey.com by changing the setting on your browser. Please be aware that this will disable all cookies delivered to your browser, not just the ones delivered by NorthJersey.com. You will not, however, be able to opt-out of cookies placed by a third-party host service.

• Your computer may save information, such as your log-in name, to make returning to a web site easier. If you clear your cookies, you may lose that saved data and be required to type in your name and password each time you visit our site and others