Privacy Policy

When accessing our Website, Black Hills Pioneer will learn certain information about you during your

visit. How we will handle information we learn about you depends upon what you do when visiting our

site.

If you visit our site to read or download information on our pages, we collect and store only the following

information about you:

1. The name of the domain from which you access the Internet

2. The date and time you access our site

3. The Internet address of the website you used to link directly to our site.

If you identify yourself by sending us an e-mail containing personal information, then the information

collected will be solely used to respond to your message.

The information collected on our website is for statistical purposes. Western South Dakota Journalism Foundation may use software programs to create summary statistics, which are used for such purposes as assessing the number of visitors to the

different sections of our site, what information is of most and least interest, determining technical design

specifications, and identifying system performance or problem areas.

For site security purposes and to ensure that this service remains available to all users, Western South Dakota Journalism Foundation uses software programs to monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change

information, or otherwise cause damage.

Western South Dakota Journalism Foundation will not obtain personally-identifying information about you when you visit our site,

unless you choose to provide such information to us, nor will such information be sold or otherwise

transferred to unaffiliated third parties without the approval of the user at the time of collection.