Tar Heel Times Privacy Policy

At Tar Heel Times, we recognize that the privacy of your personal information is extremely important. The following explains the types of personal information we receive when you visit Tar Heel Times and how we safeguard your information. We never divulge or sell your personal information to third parties unless required to do so by law.

Log Files

As with most other websites, we collect and use data contained in log files. The information in the log files include your IP (internet protocol) address, your ISP (internet service provider, such as AOL or Time Warner Cable), the browser you used to visit our site (such as Google Chrome or Safari), the time you visited our site, and which pages you visited.

Cookies and Web Beacons

We do use cookies to store information, such as your personal preferences when you visit our site. This could include only showing you an advertisement once in your visit, or the ability to login to some of our features, such as forums.

We also use third party advertisements on Tar Heel Times to support our site. Some advertisers may use technology such as cookies and web beacons, which could also send these advertisers information including your IP address, your ISP, and the browser you used to visit our site. This is generally used for geotargeting purposes (showing Charlotte real estate ads to someone in Charlotte, NC, for example) or showing certain ads based on specific sites visited (such as showing sports-related ads to someone who frequents sports sites).

We may also collect non-identifiable personal information such as Age, Gender, and Personal Interests to share with our advertisers in aggregate fashion so that they may provide more targeted advertisements to the site.

You can choose to disable or selectively turn off our cookies or third-party cookies in your browser settings, or by managing preferences in programs such as Norton Internet Security. However, this can affect how you are able to interact with our site as well as other websites. This could include the inability to log in to services or programs, such as logging into forums.