PRIVACY POLICY
ARTISAN NEWS SERVICE is respectful of your privacy. For your own information and protection, please read the following policy carefully and check back from time to time for changes to the policy.

THIRD PARTIES
Personal information requested of you on Artisan News Service (www.artisannewsservice.com) or any of its affiliates, including that given in connection with any registration process, may be used by Artisan News Service for its own internal business purposes.  Artisan News Service reserves the right to send electronic mail to you for the purpose of informing you of changes in or additions to the website or any Artisan News Service product or service. Other acceptable internal business purposes include providing aggregated usage, usership, and statistical demographic information to advertisers and partners.

However, this privacy policy covers only Artisan News Service and not those partners and advertisers you may encounter through the website. The privacy policy of these third party vendors, advertisers, contest partners, etc., cannot be controlled by Artisan News Service and may therefore, be different. We suggest you familiarize yourself with these separate policies as well.

CONSENT
Personal information provided to Artisan News Service is not sold, traded or otherwise delivered to a third party without the permission of the person providing that information. Aggregated information may be given, leased or sold to third parties, but individual information will only be given to third parties if you have permitted us to do so.

PUBLIC FORUMS
Please understand that personal information made available for public viewing in public message boards, forums, chat areas or email may be captured and viewed by the public. Artisan News Service cannot be held responsible for information that you reveal to others publicly.

COOKIES
Information obtained online through the use of cookies is used by Artisan News Service, and it will be used to personalize your user experience with our website and protect both your safety and the safety of ANS. Cookies collect information about your website usage only. It is not possible to learn your email address or any other information about you through the use of a cookie. The only way this information could be learned is if you specifically submit that information to us, for example through a registration system, by entering a sweepstakes or promotion, etc. or by posting it on a public forum.

CHILDREN
In many of the contests, polls and other online promotional events conducted on Artisan News Service, personal information is sought from participants in order to maintain fairness and control the level of participation. Artisan News Service is proactive about the safety of children and their use of the Internet. Therefore, in accordance with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998, Artisan News Service will never knowingly request or solicit personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13 with the intent of selling its product without parental consent. In the event that we receive actual knowledge that we have collected such personal information without the requisite parental consent, we will notify the parent via email (if possible) and delete that information from our database as quickly as is practical.

DATA SECURITY
To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy and ensure the correct use of information, tulsaworld.com has established stringent physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

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