Children's Privacy Policy

The Denver Newspaper Agency is committed to complying with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998. Because many visitors to this site are children, we employ special measures to help children protect their privacy while online. The Denver Newspaper Agency does not ask children to disclose more personal information than is necessary for them to participate in a particular activity. We urge children to check with their parents before entering information on any website and we urge parents to discuss with their children restrictions regarding the online release of personal information to anyone they don't know.

To help ensure a rewarding online experience for parents and children, we provide this summary of our information practices. As we continue to offer our visitors new and different types of content and services, we may modify our practices from time to time. However, we will treat all personal information we collect in accordance with the privacy notice in effect at the time the information is collected.

Information Collected

The Denver Newspaper Agency does not collect personal information online from children under 13 without their parent's consent, except in special limited circumstances. Generally, The Denver Newspaper Agency limits its collection of information from children to what is known as nonpersonally identifiable information (e.g. screen names, birthday, gender, city, state, zip code and country of residence). This information is collected so children can participate in activities (e.g. completing polls or online surveys, posting jokes, book reviews, movie reviews, toy reviews, video reviews, concert reviews, game reviews, artwork or questions/comments online, or playing online games) without giving unnecessary personal information. From time to time, however, we may request limited personally identifiable information (e.g. child's email address and/or parent's or guardian's email address), as explained below, in order to conduct online contests or sweepstakes or offer other online activities. The Denver Newspaper Agency does not condition a child's participation in any of our online activities on the disclosure of more information than is reasonably necessary to participate in the activity.

Contest and Sweepstakes

The Denver Newspaper Agency occasionally offers contest and sweepstakes, which may be entered online. When a child under thirteen enters a contest or sweepstakes, or participates in another activity that requires the use of personal information, we will ask for a parent's email address so that we can notify the parent of the child's entry and give the parent the option to have the child's entry deleted. All personally identifiable information collected by The Denver Newspaper Agency is securely maintained and used only for the purpose of conducting the contest or sweepstakes. Once the contest or sweepstakes is finished, The Denver Newspaper Agency will delete any personal information collected.

Use of Information

The Denver Newspaper Agency uses personally identifiable information provided by children for conducting contests or sweepstakes. The Denver Newspaper Agency uses parents' email addresses to notify them when we have received information from their children and to give parents the option to remove their child's information. The Denver Newspaper Agency does not keep any personal information obtained through a contest or sweepstakes after the particular event is completed. Sometimes, we use agents or contractors to provide services, such as helping us conduct a sweepstakes or sending prizes to winners. In these cases, we require the agent or contractor to keep the information confidential and to use it only for the specific services they are performing.

The Denver Newspaper Agency may disclose information maintained as required by law, for example, in response to a court order or a subpoena. The Denver Newspaper Agency may also disclose such information in response to a specific law enforcement agency's request.

Cookies

The Denver Newspaper Agency uses a software technology called "cookies." Cookies are small files that we place in visitors' computer browsers to store their preferences. Cookies themselves do not contain any personally identifiable information. Although cookies could enable The Denver Newspaper Agency to relate a visitor's use of this website to personal information that the visitor has provided, such as an email address, we do not use cookies for this purpose. We do use cookies to determine how many visitors we have and how often they visit various sections of our site. You can, of course, disable cookies on your computer by indicating this in the preferences or options menus in your browser.

Parental Access

Parents, please send a letter or postcard to our Privacy Coordinator at the mailing address provided below if you would like to do any of the following:

Please include your email address and telephone number where we can reach you. The Denver Newspaper Agency takes steps to verify the identity of anyone requesting information about a child and to ensure that the person is in fact the child's parent or legal guardian.

Contact Us

If you have any questions, comments or concerns regarding our privacy policy and/or practices, please contact us at the following email address, mailing address and telephone number:

Jill Armstrong
The Denver Newspaper Agency
1560 Broadway
Denver, Colorado 80202
303-820-1590
jarmstrong@denverpost.com