Buffalo.com^SM and BuffaloNews.com Privacy Policy (updated 11/09)

Your privacy is very important to us. To make use of certain features of our website; ie, Free email, MyBuffalo.com, BuffaloNews.com article commenting, etc., visitors need to register and provide certain information as part of the registration process. The information you provide will help us to provide the services you request from us.

Registration at BuffaloNews.com, Buffalo.com^SM, and MyBuffalo.com is voluntary, but certain information is required to complete the registration process. By providing required registration information, you agree to receive periodic email notifications of new features, products, offers, or newsworthy items that may interest you. You will have the ability to opt out of these email messages or to discontinue the use of your registered account at any time.

We utilize a standard feature of browser software called a "cookie" to assign each visitor a unique number that resides on your browser. We use this as a form of identification. Although a cookie can't identify a visitor, it only identifies the computer that a visitor uses to access our site. Unless you voluntarily provide personal information through registration for one of our services, we don't know who you are, even if we assign a cookie to your browser. Our cookie cannot read data off of your hard drive. Our partners, affiliates, sponsors and advertisers may assign their own cookies to your browser when you access their sites, a process we do not monitor or control.

Cookies enable us to deliver personalized services to you. We can improve and enhance our site if we know the path visitors are taking through our site, which pages of our site are being visited, and how often. Of course, you can set your browser not to accept cookies but, if you do, it is possible that some features of Buffalo.com^SM and BuffaloNews.com may not function properly or you may not be able to utilize the personalized services enjoyed by other visitors to our site. For further information on setting your browser's cookies, please refer to the Help instructions furnished with your browser or contact the browser's manufacturer. Buffalo.com^SM cannot provide assistance with your cookie settings.

Our web servers automatically collect certain information about your computer's connection to the Internet when you visit our site, including your IP address, the number that tells computers attached to the Internet where to send you the web pages you want to view. We use your IP address to deliver our web pages to you, to tailor our site to your personal interests and to measure our site’s traffic.

To make our site more valuable to our visitors and to provide the content that they seek, we offer some features in conjunction with other providers that specialize in offering such services. Also, our site contains links to many other websites whose privacy policies we do not control. When you click on one of these links and leave our servers (check the URL in your browser's location bar to see where you are), that site's privacy policy governs any personal information you provide to that site. We recommend you familiarize yourself with that site's policy, as it may differ from Buffalo.com's^SM.

Buffalo.com^SM does not sell, trade or rent any personal information about its users unless otherwise indicated on affiliated Buffalo.com^SM websites. However, Buffalo.com^SM does share information with our partners, affiliates, sponsors and advertisers to assist them in market research and to confirm the value of advertising on Buffalo.com^SM, and this information is in the form of aggregate statistics on traffic to pages of our site. These statistics include no personally identifying information other than gender an ZIP code.

If you have consented as part of the registration process for free email, BuffaloNews.com commenting capabilities, email or mobile alerts, a MyBuffalo.com social networking account, contests and other features, we also share information on our visitors with our partners, affiliates, sponsors and advertisers that may be marketing products and services of interest to you. As part of the registration process, you agree, as part of our Terms and Conditions, to receive occasional marketing messages from Buffalo.com^SM, its partners, affiliates, sponsors or advertisers. You are given the ability to opt out of these types of messages.

All information gathered on Buffalo.com^SM is encrypted for storage on our database. However, no security system is impenetrable and we cannot guarantee the security of our database, nor can we guarantee that information you supply will not be intercepted while being transmitted to us over the Internet.

Children should always get their parents permission before providing any information about themselves over the Internet, such as name, email address, phone number, etc.

Children must be 13 years of age or older to become a registered member Buffalo.com^SM, BuffaloNews.com, or any of our partner sites and the affiliated products.

Yahoo! is an ad network partner, operating through the APT from Yahoo! platform, that displays ads on The Buffalo News & Buffalo.com^SM sites. To improve your ad experience on The Buffalo News & Buffalo.com^SM sites and elsewhere on the Internet, we may send non-personal information to Yahoo! based on your browser’s activities, such as type of pages viewed and categories of interests, so that the advertising you see is relevant to you. Yahoo! also may use information regarding its own users to select which ads to display.

Yahoo! is an ad network partner, operating through the APT from Yahoo! platform, that displays ads on The Buffalo News & Buffalo.com^SM sites. To improve your ad experience on The Buffalo News & Buffalo.com^SM sites and elsewhere on the Internet, we may send non-personal information to Yahoo! based on your browser’s activities, such as type of pages viewed and categories of interests, so that the advertising you see is relevant to you. Yahoo! also may use information regarding its own users to select which ads to display.

To learn more about Yahoo!’s ad practices, including how to opt out of using anonymous information to select which ads to show you, see http://info.yahoo.com/privacy/us/yahoo/opt_out/targeting/details.html.

Yahoo! is a member of the Network Advertising Initiative. See http://www.networkadvertising.org.

See the Terms of Service for Buffalo.com^SM Free Email Service.

See the Terms and Conditions for MyBuffalo.com.

Please take a few minutes to review Buffalo.com's^SM Visitor Agreement.

Any changes to our privacy policy will be posted.

Please email us your questions regarding this privacy policy.