PRIVACY POLICY

At WKSU, we recognize the importance of privacy to visitors of our Web sites. This Privacy Policy explains what type of information is collected from you when you visit the Kent State Folk Festival Web site and how that information may be used. Please note that this Privacy Policy is separate and distinct from the privacy policies governing Web sites that may link to or from the Kent State Folk Festival Web site.

GATHERING OF INFORMATION – WKSU collects personally identifying information (such as your name, e-mail address, address, telephone number, credit card information) from the Kent State Folk Festival Web site for a variety of purposes.

WKSU asks visitors to provide certain personal information when they register for certain features or services of the Kent State Folk Festival Web site, when they e-mail or share a page of the Kent State Folk Festival Web site, when they donate to the Kent State Folk Festival, when they post, upload, transmit and/or otherwise submit ("Submit") a comment, message, story idea, essay, photo, image, or other text, content or material ("User Materials"), and when they subscribe to the Kent State Folk Festival e-mail newsletter. WKSU also may ask visitors to provide personal information in other limited circumstances specified at the time the information is gathered. Any information that you Submit on or through the Kent State Folk Festival Web site or other social networking features, as part of a story, or otherwise Submit to the Kent State Folk Festival Web site, may become public, including the full name that you provide when submitting your User Materials.

Like all other Web servers, WKSU's Web server automatically creates log files for each visitor who accesses the Kent State Folk Festival Web site. These "access logs" allow us to make our site more useful to our visitors. The access logs do NOT record a visitor's name, address, e-mail address, phone number, credit card numbers or any other personally identifying information. Rather, they contain some or all of the following information:

COOKIES AND OTHER TECHNOLOGIES – WKSU also uses "cookies" to collect information. A cookie is a string of characters that can be written to a file on the user's hard drive when the user visits a Web site. Only the Web site that set the cookie can read it, and it can only be used as a record keeping device to store user IDs and information that the site already has. It cannot be used to read other information from the user's hard drive.

WKSU uses cookies to track users' activity through the site in order to improve the site's architecture, to offer the user interactive features that would not be possible without them, and to recall specific information to save the user time during subsequent visits to the site. Third-party vendors that measure and analyze the use of the Kent State Folk Festival Web site may also use their own cookies.

WKSU and the third-party vendors that measure and analyze use of the Kent State Folk Festival Web site also may use Web beacons, alone or in conjunction with cookies, to help compile information about and facilitate usage of the Kent State Folk Festival Web site, including usage of certain API Content. A Web beacon is an electronic image, also known as a single-pixel (1 x 1) or clear .gif, which can be used to recognize certain information on your computer, such as cookies, the time and date of a page viewed, and a description of where API Content is placed. We may use Web beacons on this site from time to time for this and other purposes.

If you wish to prevent certain or all cookies or Web beacons from being set to your hard drive you may disable them in your browser's preferences, although your browser might then be unable to accommodate certain functionalities on the Kent State Folk Festival Web site.

USE OF INFORMATION – The use of personally identifying information is limited to the following: managing and administering the Kent State Folk Festival Web site; responding to user messages; listing name and location (city, state and/or country) information provided by users when broadcasting or publishing User Materials; processing donations; editorial purposes such as contacting users for an online survey; sending Kent State Folk Festival e-mail newsletters and other communications, including marketing and promotional communications, from WKSU or the Kent State Folk Festival to users who have "opted in" to the receipt of such communications; other internal WKSU or Kent State Folk Festival purposes; and other purposes specified at the time the information is gathered. WKSU may contact users regarding their submissions in certain circumstances.

Any information that you disclose via the Kent State Folk Festival Web site, such as your full name, is likely to become public. This information may be posted on the Kent State Folk Festival Web site. In addition, WKSU and the Kent State Folk Festival may use, copy, sublicense, modify, transmit, publicly perform, display, create derivative works of, host, index, cache, tag, encode, and/or adapt any User Materials, and any information contained therein, in any and all media formats or channels, whether now known or hereafter devised, including, but not limited to, the Kent State Folk Festival Web site, other third-party Web sites, over the air (on radio or television), and on mobile platforms. Further, other users of the Kent State Folk Festival Web site may embed a widget or feed that allows your User Materials to appear on their personal, noncommercial Web site, blog or other application, subject to conditions set forth in the Terms of Use.

In addition, if you send User Materials to WKSU through our Kent State Folk Festival Web site, we may print the User Materials, or an excerpt from the User Materials, on the Kent State Folk Festival Web site, read them on air, or otherwise publish them in any other medium, together with your name and location (city, state and/or country) if you provide that information to us. Excluding information provided by the user when sending User Materials to WKSU, which may become public as discussed above, personally identifying information collected by WKSU is not provided to outside parties except WKSU service vendors (such as WKSU's Webmaster), and other third parties when the user specifically consents to such distribution (such as the disclosure of your name to a friend when you e-mail a story to that friend). In these circumstances, the information is provided for the sole purpose of – and only to the extent necessary for – delivering the requested goods to the user, delivering communications from WKSU or the Kent State Folk Festival to users who have "opted in" to the receipt of these communications, providing services for and on behalf of WKSU or the Kent State Folk Festival, or serving other internal WKSU or Kent State Folk Festival purposes.

WKSU also may disclose personal information if required to do so by law or if it believes that such action is necessary to (a) comply with the law or with a legal process, (b) protect against misuse or unauthorized use of the Kent State Folk Festival Web site, or (c) protect the personal safety or property of users of the Kent State Folk Festival Web site, the public or WKSU and its employees.

If you do not want your personally identifying information to be collected or used for any of these purposes, please do not provide it (although if you do not provide it, you may not be able to use or participate in certain features of the Kent State Folk Festival Web site). You can also "opt out" according to the process described below.

WKSU, with the assistance from time to time of its third-party service vendors, uses non-identifying aggregate information to analyze use of and better design the Kent State Folk Festival Web site and to share with third parties in aggregate form only as appropriate. For example, we may tell a third party that a certain number of users accessed a particular audio stream on our Web site. However, we will not disclose any information that could be used to identify those users.

SECURITY – WKSU has in place what we believe to be appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online. Credit card information provided to the Kent State Folk Festival Web site is protected against unauthorized use by 128-bit encryption and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) security features, which scramble your personal information so that only your Web browser and our Web site's server can decipher it. However, no Internet or e-mail transmission is ever fully secure or error free. Because most e-mail is not encrypted, you should take special care in deciding what information you send to us via e-mail.

Children – Under 13: You must be at least 13 years old in order to register for e-mail newsletters or other features of the Kent State Folk Festival Web site. If you are under 13 years of age, please do not send any information about yourself, including your name, address or e-mail address. If we discover that we have collected any personally identifying information from a child under the age of 13, we will remove that information from our database as soon as possible.

13-18: You must be at least 18 years old in order to Submit any User Materials on or through the Kent State Folk Festival Web site. Visitors between the ages of 13 and 18 must obtain permission from their parents or guardians before registering for e-mail newsletters or other features of the Kent State Folk Festival Web site or otherwise sending any personally identifying information.

CORRECTIONS TO PERSONAL DATA; OPTING OUT – Please Contact Us to a) correct or update any personal information in the WKSU or Kent State Folk Festival database that you state is erroneous; b) opt-out of future communications from WKSU or the Kent State Folk Festival; or c) request WKSU to make reasonable efforts to remove your personal information from the Kent State Folk Festival Online database, thereby canceling your e-mail newsletter registration and other registrations. This will not necessarily remove previous public comments and other User Materials Submitted for public display on the Kent State Folk Festival Web site. The user understands that it may be impossible to delete personal information entirely because of backups and records of deletions.

ACCEPTANCE OF PRIVACY POLICY TERMS – WKSU reserves the right to change this policy. Any changes to this policy will be posted to this page as soon as reasonably possible, so please check this page periodically. Use of the Kent State Folk Festival Web site constitutes consent to any policy then in effect. Please make sure that you read WKSU's Terms of Use to understand additional terms and conditions which apply to the use of the Kent State Folk Festival Web site.

LINKS TO OTHER SITES – It is important to note that the Kent State Folk Festival Web site contains links to other sites that may not follow the same privacy policies as the Kent State Folk Festival Web site. For instance, clicking on a sponsorship notice on kentstatefolkfestival.org will take you to an entirely different site. These sites may use cookies, collect data, and use the data in ways that the Kent State Folk Festival Web site would not. WKSU is not responsible for the privacy practices or any information or materials on these other sites. Please visit these sites if you wish to review their privacy policies.

INTERNATIONAL USER NOTICE – For international users, please note that it may be necessary to transfer your information internationally and, in particular, your information may be transferred to and processed in the United States. For residents of the European Union: the data protection and other laws of other countries outside of the European Union may not be as comprehensive as those of the European Union. Please be assured that we take steps to ensure that your privacy is protected as described in this policy. By using this site, you agree to have your information used and transferred to the United States as set forth in this policy.

QUESTIONS – If you have any questions or comments concerning our Privacy Policy, please Contact Us or send a letter to:
Kent State Folk Festival Webmaster
89.7 WKSU
1613 East Summit St.
P.O. Box 5190
Kent, Ohio 44242-0001