Privacy and copyright expectations for messages, email and chat session participation

If a user of post-gazette.com responds with information including feedback and data, such as questions, comments, suggestions, names, email or IP addresses, town of residence, or the like, such information is deemed to be non-confidential and post-gazette.com has no obligation of any kind with respect to such information and is free to reproduce, use, disclose and distribute the information to any third party without limitation. Post-gazette.com is free to use any ideas, concepts, know-how or techniques contained in such information for any purpose whatsoever including but not limited to developing, manufacturing and marketing products incorporating such information.

Viewer privacy statement

We use a third- party advertising company to serve ads. The same company also gathers non-personably identifiable information about site visitation patterns so that we can continue to improve our web site. This company may use information (not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visit to this web site in order to provide advertisements about goods and services that may be of interest to you. In the course of serving advertisements to this site, our third-party advertiser may place or recognize a unique “cookie” on your browser. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by this company, please click here.

Order Information Privacy

Information provided to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and post-gazette.com as part of the ordering process is not provided to anyone else. The only exception is that credit card transactions are handled by a third-party financial institution, which receives the credit card number and other personal identifying information like billing address to verify the credit card numbers and process transactions.