Yall-DownSouth.com is the home of the Down South comic strip. Yall-DownSouth.com strives for a greater understanding of our information use practices and your options for protection of personal privacy on the Internet. Parents and children alike should take some time to learn about our web site and understand the collection and use of information that we collect from our users. Our information practices, described below, apply only to the online collection of information.
What Is Personal Information and What Is Aggregate Information?
Personal information is information about you that uniquely identifies you, and is called in this policy "Personally Identifiable Information." Personally Identifiable Information does NOT include aggregated demographical information that cannot uniquely identify you specifically. For instance, your Internet browser, the web pages that appear to be most frequently visited, and similar information is not Personally Identifiable Information because we cannot identify you from that information alone.
What Are Cookies?
Cookies are information files that your web browser places on the hard drive of your computer when you visit a web site. Cookies are designed to help a web site recognize a browser's prior visits to a site. Cookies are not designed to damage your computer files, pass on computer viruses, capture e-mail addresses or read information from your hard drive. At Yall-DownSouth.com, we do not store any information in cookies, including Personally Identifiable Information, nor do we link or combine information collected through cookies to any Personally Identifiable Information that is submitted online when participating in our activities.
What Personally Identifiable Information Does Yall-DownSouth.com Collect, How Does It Use It and When Does It Disclose It?
Yall-DownSouth.com does not solicit nor collect Personally Identifiable Information. However, users who may choose to voluntarily send Personally Identifiable Information to the editors via email are doing so at their own discretion and risk. Such personally Identifiable Information we receive in this manner is considered voluntary on the part of the sender, and it is the policy of Yall-DownSouth.com to consider this information protected. Thus, we do not provide, give, sell, or otherwise disclose any personally identifiable information you voluntarily provide to us. Any information collected to process a request by you is deleted immediately as soon as the request is processed and not permanently stored by Yall-DownSouth.com. Non-personally identifiable information may be used for statistical analysis and to rate the popularity of the DOWN SOUTH comic strip or to process a request by you.To protect your privacy, you are strongly encouraged not to place any Personal Identifiable Information in the body of the message, and to only use your first name.
What Aggregate (non-personal information) Does Yall-DownSouth.com Collect, How Does It Use It and When Does It Disclose It?
Yall-DownSouth.com may collect aggregate information about visitors to this site, none of which is Personally Identifiable Information. Any aggregate information collected is limited to statistical data derived from programs that track frequency and volume of web pages that appear to be most frequently visited. This and similar information is not Personally Identifiable Information because we cannot identify you from that information alone.
Does Yall-DownSouth.com Link To Other Web Sites and Does It Control the Information Practices of Those Sites?
Yall-DownSouth.com links to many third-party web sites. Yall-DownSouth.com does NOT share any Personally Identifiable Information with any of those web sites. In each of these instances, the information practices of those third-party sites are NOT controlled or monitored by us. You should be aware that these third parties may have very different information practices than Yall-DownSouth.com. To understand your privacy options, we strongly recommend that you read those third parties' privacy policies.
Is Your Personal Information Secure? We use our best efforts to ensure the security of personal information submitted by you. As stated above, we immediately delete from our files the information supplied by you once we have completed any requests, and we do not share, give, sell, or otherwise disclose your email address, name, or other information provided by you to any other entity outside of Yall Magazine and Yall-DownSouth.com or any third party sites.
If you have any questions, comments or concerns regarding Yall-DownSouth.com privacy policy and/or practices, please write to us at:
Down South
Yall Magazine
P.O. Box 1217
Oxford, MS 38655
To see the full Terms of Use Agreement pertaining to our site, please click here.
This policy is effective February 15, 2008. Any changes will be posted as they become policy.
The Down South web site is intended for viewers within North America and is specifically directed towards residents of the United States.
