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Copyright ©2022, Butler Eagle and Cranberry Eagle, all rights reserved. Butler Eagle and Cranberry Eagle are wholly owned subsidiaries of Eagle Media Corporation. 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 514 W. Wayne St., Butler, PA 16001.
Editorial correspondence should be sent via email to news@butlereagle.com.

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

Butler Eagle and Cranberry Eagle are jointly committed to providing news coverage across Butler County, PA.

Butler Eagle offers coverage of news happenings from across Butler County using a subscription model. All readers are able to access select items, including but not limited to those classified as breaking news, without a subscription. Also, shortened versions of the full story, called digital media exclusives, are available without a subscription. All readers are able to sign up for a daily newsletter, which is managed through Constant Contact, to receive emails with the top news headlines. These newsletter subscribers cannot access all content on butlereagle.com. Only readers who sign up for a website subscription, which is managed through Clickshare, can access all news content posted to butlereagle.com and the “Complete Pages” version of the paper, as available. The Butler Eagle is not liable for technical difficulties, power outages or any other circumstance that prevents content from being presented immediately on the website.

Cranberry Eagle is a publication focused on the southwestern portion of Butler County, especially Cranberry, Adams, Middlesex, Forward and Jackson Townships. The Cranberry Eagle is a weekly print publication with more regular website updates available at cranberryeagle.com. All readers are able to access news posted to Cranberry Eagle without a subscription and are able to sign up for a daily newsletter, which is managed through Constant Contact, to receive emails with the top news headlines.

When signing up for a newsletter subscription with either the Butler Eagle or Cranberry Eagle, we may ask for information including name, email, and address.

When signing up for a website subscription with Butler Eagle, we may ask for information including name, email, address, credit card information and more.

Butler Eagle and Cranberry Eagle use 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.

Butler Eagle and Cranberry Eagle 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 Butler Eagle or Cranberry Eagle, that advertiser may also assign a cookie. Butler Eagle and Cranberry Eagle do 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 Butler Eagle and Cranberry Eagle 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 email 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. Butler Eagle and Cranberry Eagle do, 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. Butler Eagle and Cranberry Eagle assume 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.

The Butler Eagle uses Clickshare Service Corp. for managing website subscriptions. All personal information collected by Clickshare Service Corp. on behalf of its clients belongs to its clients (or to their customers) and is covered by their privacy policies. Clickshare does not sell or distribute personal information they collect on our behalf without notice.

Read Clickshare Service Corp’s Privacy Policy here: https://clickshare.com/about/privacy

Butler Eagle and Cranberry Eagle care deeply about Internet privacy issues. We may update this statement occasionally to better serve this end.

Deletion

If you wish to delete your Butler Eagle website account, reach out to our Circulation Department via phone at 724-282-8000 ext. 300 or via email at onlinesubscriptions@butlereagle.com.

If you no longer wish to subscribe to Butler Eagle or Cranberry Eagle’s newsletter, you can opt out by following the “unsubscribe” options included in each emailed newsletter. If you are still having trouble, email onlinemgr@butlereagle.com.

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

Posting and Opinions

Butler Eagle and Cranberry Eagle have web comments turned off. This is the result of limited staff being available to monitor a comment section, which can quickly fill with hateful comments. Without proper moderation, we’ve opted to avoid this by keeping the web comments turned off. We don’t, however, wish to silence readers. We welcome readers to send letters to the editor instead at letters@butlereagle.com.

By using this website, you agree to adhere to the terms and conditions stated above. If you believe Butler Eagle or Cranberry Eagle have violated this policy — or you have questions about it — please contact us by using one of the following:

E-mail: onlinemgr@butlereagle.com or tschuey@butlereagle.com

Phone: 724-282-8000

Mail: Butler Eagle, P.O. Box 271, Butler, PA 16003