Members of the McKinley Park News may interact with the website in a number of ways, including personalizing profiles, commenting on articles, communicating with other members, posting original content and engaging with other site features. The McKinley Park News operates with responsible practices for privacy and content regarding our users, their content and how we use this and other information on the site and within business operations.
Member and User Privacy
When signing up for a membership on the McKinley Park News, the minimum information that must be provided is a username and a verified email address. A member may choose to also add information about themselves in profiles, via communication with other members, or posting to other interactive areas of the website.
Ultimately, an individual is responsible for deciding how much information to disclose on any platform. That being said, the McKinley Park News has enacted policies and enabled tools to emphasize and support privacy and safety for our members and users:
- By default, public website visitors cannot see personal information in member profiles. A member can control and customize nearly every aspect of profile data associated with their account.
- Powerful privacy controls let members set exactly who can see specific elements in their member profiles. For example, a member could make the username visible to public website visitors, the bio visible to other logged-in members and the email address visible only to other members with whom they've established a "connection" on the site.
- The McKinley Park News does not share, sell or rent individual or aggregated user information to third parties, including Sponsors. We may customize how we present our advertising to our users, however, we employ no outside systems to serve our advertising and marketing programs, and we share no information about how anyone uses our website. When you interact with the McKinley Park News, including our commercial and advertising services, your information is kept private and secure through our best practices in privacy and technology.
- The McKinley Park News eschews the use and integration of third-party services that endanger our users by subjecting them to unwanted surveillance, exploitation, profiteering and malware. In all possible circumstances, we serve our website's resources from within our own server environment and domain, and when we integrate a third-party feature, we choose sources that prioritize the privacy and security of our users.
- The McKinley Park News encourages and supports the use of privacy-respecting web browsers with script blocking for all of our users, for the McKinley Park News website and others.
- Full and formal information about our privacy practices is available in our Terms of Service.
Member Content
When you post or share original content with the McKinley Park News, you grant us a non-exclusive right to publish your content on our website. In other words, you still own your content and can use or re-use it in any other way you see fit. However, as a condition of using this website, you are giving us permission to store and present your content that you upload here.
Our Terms of Service detail our practices regarding user content, including additional requirements for content and potential actions we may take with content we find to be in violation of our Terms of Service. Our Community Guidelines provide an overview of expected member behavior.
For more information about our member privacy and content practices, send inquiries to info@mckinleypark.news.
