Copyright
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Cars Holding Inc., DBA Pittsburgh City Paper, all rights reserved.
Pittsburgh City Paper is a wholly owned subsidiary of Cars Holding Inc. Reproduction in whole or in part without written permission of the publisher is prohibited. Publisher does not assume any liability for unsolicited manuscripts, materials, or other content. All advertising and business correspondence should be mailed to 4 Smithfield Street, Suite 1200, Pittsburgh PA 15222. Editorial correspondence should be sent via email to
[email protected].
Privacy Policy
This page informs readers of our policies regarding what personal information we collect from users who visit this website, and how it is used. It also explains the choices readers have associated with that data.
What information we collect
Pittsburgh City Paper remains committed to being a free service, both in print and online, for all of our readers. We do not require registration to view any content on Pittsburgh City Paper's site. However, readers can voluntarily sign up for a free account on the top right page of our homepage to save articles, place free event listings, and to sign up for our newsletters. When signing up for an account on City Paper or for one of our newsletters, we may ask for information including name, email, and address.
City Paper uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service offered by Google, to track and report individual information about our website traffic. This information may include, but is not limited to, age, location, gender, how much time a user spends on our site, how many times a user returns, and how many pages a user views in one session. This data contains no individually identifiable information and is shared with other Google services including Google AdSense & DoubleClick.
City Paper may also use cookies, which are data stored by your web browser that helps us identify things like traffic patterns and how many times a reader visits our website.
If you click on an advertisement on City Paper, that advertiser may also assign a cookie. City Paper does not control these cookies, nor is it responsible for any marketing or any other use of your information by any advertisers on our website.
How your information is used
Data collected by City Paper is used to help our editorial department better understand our readership and learn how we can better deliver content and services to the community. Our advertising department uses this information to provide demographics and statistics to our advertisers and sponsors as well as deliver ads. Google may use the collected data to personalize and contextualize the ads of its own advertising network.
Unless you give us permission to make your personal information public, we won't give away your e-mail address (or any other identifying info) to anyone.
We may use personal information for marketing and promotional purposes, but we will not intentionally disclose such marketing information to a third party without your prior approval. City Paper does, however, reserve the right to release specific information in certain, non-commercial cases, such as when required to do so by a subpoena, court order, or other valid legal process.
No data transmission by Internet or wireless network is 100% secure: Information you send may be viewed in transit by a third party. City Paper assumes no responsibility for such unauthorized viewing by third parties. We do our best to protect any information we receive from you, but we cannot guarantee this information will be kept safe from hackers or other intruders.
Pittsburgh City Paper cares deeply about Internet privacy issues. We may update this statement occasionally to better serve this end.
Deletion
If you wish to delete your Pittsburgh City Paper online account, log in and go to "Delete My Account" under settings. If you have trouble, email the request to your username from the email address you've used to login to [email protected].
Deleting your account will also delete any personal data from the site.
If you no longer wish to subscribe to Pittsburgh City Paper's newsletter, you can opt out by changing your online user profile, or by following the "unsubscribe" options included in each emailed newsletter. If you are still having trouble, email [email protected].
If you'd like to delete cookies or instruct your web browser to delete or refuse cookies, please visit the help pages of your web browser. Please note, however, that if you delete cookies or refuse to accept them, you might not be able to store your preferences.
For some browsers, such as Google Chrome, Google Analytics provides an opt-out add on for the browser that will keep personal information from being collected by Google Analytics. For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/
Google uses cookies to serve ads on our website as a third party vendor. Google's use of the DoubleClick cookie enables it and its partners to serve ads to our users based on their visit to our website. You can opt-out via the links below:
Doubleclick
Privacy policy: http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/
Opt-out: https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated?hl=en
Facebook
Privacy policy: www.facebook.com/full_data_use_policy
Opt-out: www.facebook.com/ads/preferences
Posting and Opinions
Pittsburgh City Paper turned off web comments in 2020, the result of a limited staff being available to monitor a comment section which was largely full of hateful comments from online trolls. The decision was not to silence reader responses, we just don't have time to deal with transphobic, racist posts. We welcome readers to send letters to the editor instead:
[email protected].
By using this website, you agree to adhere to the terms and conditions stated above. If you believe City Paper has violated its policy — or you have questions about it — please contact us by using one of the following:
E-mail:
Ali Trachta
Phone: 412-251-0185
Mail: Pittsburgh City Paper: 4 Smithfield St., Suite 1210. Pittsburgh, PA 15222
