The Baltimore Banner’s Statement Regarding Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies

Please read this Statement Regarding Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies before using thebaltimorebanner.com website or any of The Baltimore Banner's other sites, applications, platforms, or services (collectively, the "The Baltimore Banner Services").

We and our service providers use cookies to collect information. A cookie is a string of characters that can be written to a file on the user’s computer or device when the user visits a site, application, platform, or service.

We use the following types of cookies for the purposes set out below:

Essential Cookies

These cookies are essential to provide you with services available through The Baltimore Banner Services and to enable you to use some of their features. For example, these cookies allow The Baltimore Banner to remember your registration information while you are logged in. The Baltimore Banner Shop and other interactive features also use cookies. Without these cookies, the services that you have asked for cannot be provided, and we only use these cookies to provide you with those services.

Functionality Cookies

These cookies allow our Services to remember choices you make when you use them, such as remembering your preferences and remembering your account details. The purpose of these cookies is to provide you with a more personal experience and to avoid you having to re-enter your preferences every time you visit The Baltimore Banner Services.

Analytics and Performance Cookies

These cookies are used to collect information about traffic to our services and how users interact with The Baltimore Banner Services. The information collected includes the number of visitors to The Baltimore Banner Services, the websites that referred visitors to The Baltimore Banner Services, the pages that they visited on The Baltimore Banner Services, what time of day they visited The Baltimore Banner Services, whether they have visited The Baltimore Banner Services before, and other similar information. We use this information to help operate The Baltimore Banner Services more efficiently, to gather broad demographic information and to monitor the level of activity on The Baltimore Banner Services.

Targeted and Sponsor Cookies

These cookies track your browsing habits or other information, such as location, to enable us to show sponsorship credits which are more likely to be of interest to you. These cookies use information about your browsing history to group you with other users who have similar interests. Based on that information, and with our permission, we and our sponsors can place cookies to enable us or our sponsors to show sponsorship credits and other messages that we think will be relevant to your interests while you are using third-party services.

Social Networking Service Cookies

These cookies are used when you share information using a social media sharing button or you link your account or engage with our content on or through a social networking service such as Facebook and Twitter. The social networking service will record that you have done this.

Third-Party Cookies

Third-party service providers also use their own cookies that measure and analyze visitor usage of The Baltimore Banner website for The Baltimore Banner and serve sponsorship credits and other messages onto The Baltimore Banner Services also use their own cookies. For example, The Baltimore Banner’s third-party analytics service providers use cookies across multiple sites to collect visitor data (such as data related to age, gender, and visitor interests). In addition, The Baltimore Banner works with third-party service providers that may serve sponsorship credits or other messages to you on other websites after you visit The Baltimore Banner Services. These third-party service providers use their own cookies to recognize you as a The Baltimore Banner Services visitor and to serve you sponsorship credits or other messages on other websites that they believe you will find most relevant. This Privacy Policy does not cover the cookies used by these third-party service providers.

Additionally, we use these technologies:

Metadata tags

The Baltimore Banner, its sponsors and content producers may use ID3 tags or other metadata containers embedded in podcasts and other media files to collect listening data when these files are played using a compatible Internet-connected media player platform.

Pixel tags

The Baltimore Banner and its service providers also may use pixel tags, alone or in conjunction with cookies. A pixel tag, also known as a web beacon or clear GIF, is an electronic image that can be used to recognize certain information on your device, such as cookies, the time and date a web page is viewed, or a description of where API content is placed. Cookies and these other tracking technologies enable us to assign a unique number to a user’s device and relate information about a user’s use of The Baltimore Banner Services to other information about the user, including personal information. These technologies also enable The Baltimore Banner and its service providers to recognize you when you access The Baltimore Banner Services using different computers, devices, or browsers.

Advertising Trackers

Advertising trackers help us determine which ads from third parties are selected for you. Some of these trackers collect or use information about your behavior on various sites to aid this targeting. These trackers sometimes limit the number of times you see an ad, make an ad more relevant to you or measure the effectiveness of an ad campaign.

In the European Economic Area (E.E.A.), advertising is not personalized or targeted by third parties through personal data given to them. Instead, the ads you see are either not personalized, or personalized using only information that we have about you and that is not shared with third parties.

We work with advertisers, ad agencies and other vendors to serve these ads. The ads served can include additional trackers.

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