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 What is your commitment to my privacy?

We take your privacy concerns seriously. Our privacy policy explains our position on information gathering and how we intend to use any data we collect from our users. In short, here's what we won't and will do:

What we won't do:

• Share your personally identifiable information with a third party without your permission. You won't receive e-mail from anyone other than the Star Tribune Company as a result of having registered. This is our anti-spam pledge.

 What we will do.

• Help our advertisers understand our audience by providing demographic information in an aggregate form (which will NOT identify individual users).
• Send you occasional Member Notices about changes regarding your registration account or benefits.
• Send you the FYI Newsletter with what's new in the newspaper and on StarTribune.com as well as FYI Offers from advertisers. You may opt out of either of these in Member Center.

For more information, please read our complete privacy policy.

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 What if the privacy policy changes?

This privacy policy is subject to change. If the policy is revised, a notice will be posted in our Member Center and an e-mail notice outlining the changes may be sent to you. All users of StarTribune.com may view the privacy policy, including any revisions, by clicking on the privacy policy link in the footer of most StarTribune.com pages and from Member Center. If any changes represent a material departure from our current policy, they will be posted in advance of their effective date when feasible.

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 Will you disclose this information to anyone else?

We will not disclose your personally identifiable information without your advance permission except as explained in our privacy policy, or when we explained at the time of collecting the information the purpose for which the information will be disclosed, or when we deem it necessary or appropriate in order to comply with the law, to respond to claims, to protect our computer systems and customers, to ensure the integrity and operation of our business and systems, or to protect the rights, property or safety of the Star Tribune Network, its affiliates or others.

In order to describe our services to prospective partners, advertisers and others, we may disclose user information in an aggregate form that does not identify individual users. For example, we might disclose that a certain percentage of our users are female or within a certain age range or live within a cluster of ZIP Codes.

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 What other information will you keep?

In addition to registration data, we may also keep track of your IP address to administer our Web site and to help diagnose problems with our Web servers. (Your IP address is the identifier assigned to your particular computer when you access the Internet. Depending on how you connect to the Internet, your IP address may always be the same, or it may change each time you access the Internet.)

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 What do you do with the information you collect?

The user data we collect helps us better know our audience in order to develop new content and features to meet their needs as well as to increase the value of advertising campaigns on our sites. Data is used and shared with third parties including advertisers only in aggregate form; individual user data is never shared.