Collecting information
The Wahey Boys collect personal information, that is, information such as your full name, email address, mailing address and/or telephone number only in order to create or enhance our relationship with you. When we collect personal information from you it is because you are voluntarily submitting the information to us.
You may provide personal information to Wahey.com by sharing your e-mail address and subscribing to email newsletters or requesting site updates, by sharing personal information when you provide tips to our news department, by sharing personal information when you post comments on our posts or stories. We may also ask for other information at other times but at no time will you be required to share any personal information to gain complete access to our site. In addition to personal information—such as name, street and e-mail addresses, and telephone numbers—we may also collect information that is in no way personally identifiable. This may include the operating system you are working on, the internet browser you are using, the domain name of your internet service provider, and the web sites you visit directly before and after your visit to Wahey.com.
Cookies are small bits of information that the Internet site operated by The Wahey Boys places on the hard drive of your computer. Cookies remember information about your activities on our site and enable The Wahey Boys to make your visits to our site more enjoyable. For example, cookies can store your password for easy logon to a site you have previously visited or can save your preferences for a personalized home page. The cookie itself does not contain personal information and The Wahey Boys does not combine cookies with personal information. Third party advertisements displayed on the Internet site operated by The Wahey Boys may also contain cookies. The Wahey Boys do not control these advertiser cookies and visitors to our web site should check the privacy policy of the advertiser to see whether and how it uses cookies.
You can program your computer to warn you each time a cookie is being sent or to refuse cookies completely. However, without cookies you won't have access to certain features on The Wahey Boys ' web site.
The more we know about you, the better we are able to customize our web site to suit your personal preferences and interests. The e-mail address you provide may be used by Wahey.com for any reason, such as contacting you for editorial purposes or to advise you of any changes to our site. We may also from time to time send you messages about our marketing partners’ products.
To maintain a site that is free of charge and does not require registration, we display advertisements on our web site. We also use the information you give us to help our advertisers target the audience they want to reach. At no time does any party other than Wahey.com have access to your personally identifiable information, and you will never be contacted by any party other than Wahey.com. The only exceptions to the foregoing are that we may disclose personally identifiable information (i) in response to legal process, for example, in response to a court order or subpoena, (ii) in response to a law enforcement agency’s request, or where we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take actions regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of another person, violations of our terms of use, or as otherwise required by law, or (iii) in the event we are acquired by or merged with another company. When you sign up for our updates or receive e-mail messages from Wahey.com, you will always be given the chance to opt-out of special offers and site updates. You may change your preferences at any time and will only be contacted in manners consistent with your stated preferences.
Non-personally identifiable information (such as stated above) may be shared in aggregate form with our advertisers or marketing partners but your personally identifiable information will never be disclosed to them.
We have also contracted with a number of advertising network partners to monitor certain pages of our website and RSS feeds for the purpose of reporting website and RSS traffic, statistics, advertisement ‘click-throughs’, and/or other activities on our website. Where authorized by us, these advertising network partners may use cookies, web beacons, and/or other monitoring technologies to compile anonymous statistics about our website visitors. No personally identifiable information is collected by or transferred to these network partners. Third parties and web sites that have links on our site may also collect or use information about you. The information practices of other companies or people that Wahey.com does not employ or manage are not covered by this privacy statement. Third party advertisements displayed on this Internet site operated by The Wahey Boys may also contain cookies. Wahey.com does not control these advertiser cookies and visitors to our web site should check the privacy policy of the advertiser to see whether and how it uses cookies. The Wahey.com web site may be linked to Internet sites operated by other companies. Some of these third party sites may be co-branded with the Wahey.com logo, even though they are not operated or maintained by Wahey.com. The Wahey Boys web site also carries advertisements from other companies as well as advertisements placed by national Internet ad agencies. Although we choose our business partners and advertisers carefully, Wahey.com is not responsible for the privacy practices of web sites operated by third parties that are linked to our site or for the privacy practices of third party or so-called national advertisers. Once you've left the The Wahey Boys site via such a link or by clicking on an advertisement, you should check the applicable privacy policy of the third party or advertiser site to determine how they will handle any personal information they collect from you.
Any information you disclose voluntarily on our comments pages or in any forums we may develop in the future becomes public information. We cannot control the actions of our site users and advise you to use your discretion in sharing information about yourself on the internet. All information sharing is optional and done so at your own risk. Privacy is a very personal matter and we encourage you to be careful and responsible when disclosing personal information online.
Wahey.com uses reasonable administrative, technical, personnel and physical measures to safeguard personal information in its possession against loss, theft and unauthorized use, disclosure or modification. In addition, Wahey.com uses reasonable methods to make sure that personal information is accurate, up-to-date and appropriately complete.