Privacy Statement

The Internet is an amazing tool. With only a few mouse-clicks, you can follow the news, look up facts, buy goods and services, and communicate with others from around the world. It's important to the North Pole Times to help its users retain their privacy when they take advantage of everything the Internet has to offer.

The North Pole Times believes that strong electronic privacy is crucial for the ongoing success of the Internet as a service, commercial, and entertainment medium. To this end, we have created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for this website: www.NorthPoleTimes.com.

Security:
NorthPoleTimes.com is committed to protecting all confidential data collected from users, and accordingly, we have security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. All information provided by users of NorthPoleTimes.com is placed on servers that are inaccessible to anyone other than our authorized personnel.

Cookies:
What Are Cookies?
As is common practice with almost all professional websites this site uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience. This page describes what information they gather, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored however this may downgrade or 'break' certain elements of the sites functionality.

For more general information on cookies see the Wikipedia article on HTTP Cookies.

How We Use Cookies:
We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. Unfortunately in most cases there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not in case they are used to provide a service that you use.

Disabling Cookies:
You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of the this site. Therefore it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.

The Cookies We Set:
Forms related cookies.
When you submit data to through a form such as those found in our Post Office cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence.

Third Party Cookies:
In some special cases we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this site.

This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solution on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content.

For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page.

We also use social media buttons and/or plugins on this site that allow you to connect with your social network in various ways. For these to work the following social media sites including; Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest, will set cookies through our site which may be used to enhance your profile on their site or contribute to the data they hold for various purposes outlined in their respective privacy policies.

The North Pole Times keeps all of your Personal Information private and does not share it with any third parties. The North Pole Times will not disclose your Personal Information unless acting under a good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (1) conform to legal requirements or comply with legal process; or (2) protect and defend the rights or property of NorthPoleTimes.com.

External Links:
This site contains links to other sites. The North Pole Times is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites.

Children's Guidelines:
It is important that you know that you and your children can enjoy the North Pole Times website without ever submitting any personal information whatsoever. There are, however, some areas that offer enhanced personal experiences if very minimal information is provided. This information is restricted to the childs first name and/or e-mail address. This information is used simply to personalize pages such as Santa's List or to respond to children who write to Santa.

We care about children and understand that they have special privacy needs. Therefore, we have adopted the following privacy policy regarding children:

1. We will NOT distribute personally identifiable information to third parties. Any and ALL personally identifiable information collected will strictly be used by NorthPoleTimes.com to enhance personal experiences.
2. We will NOT give the child access to unmonitored chat rooms, message boards, email accounts, or other services that would give the child the ability to publicly post or otherwise distribute personally identifiable information.
3. We will only use the online contact information (such as first name or email) to:
   1. Respond directly to the child's request to pages such as Santa's List or to respond to children who write to Santa. We will NOT use that information to re-contact the child for other purposes.
   2. Request the name or online contact information of a parent for the purpose of obtaining verifiable parental consent or providing parental notification.
   3. Respond more than once directly to a specific request from a child and not used to re-contact the child for other purposes. We will use our best efforts to provide parental notification, which will include the nature and intended use as well as an opportunity for the parent to prevent the use of the information and participation in the activity.
4. We will NOT entice the child to divulge more information than is needed to participate in any activity, game, or service.
5. We will provide the parent a description of the specific types of a personally identifiable information collected from their child upon request. We will allow the parent to refuse further use or future online collection of personally identifiable information and provide a way for a parent to obtain any personally identifiable information collected from their child.
6. We will NOT provide any links to Web sites that are unsuitable for children.
7. We will encourage children to get their parent's permission before sharing personal information online.

Contacting the Web Site:
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this Web site, you can contact: