Registration: Frequently Asked Questions

Staff Writer
Wilmington StarNews
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Some frequently asked questions about our registration process

One of our goals at StarNewsOnline.com is to provide the type of information that our readers want. To do that, we need to know more about you and all of our readers. We're asking you to register so that we can offer content better suited to your interests and, in the future, better customize our information and services to your interests. We want to learn more about how you use our site so that we can improve your StarNewsOnline.com experience.

We also, of course, want to increase the value of our site for advertisers, since it's advertising revenue that allows us to provide, maintain and develop StarNewsOnline.com. Through the brief registration form that we're asking you to complete, we can better develop a portrait of our audience for our advertisers. And your registration will also provide you access, in the future, to new StarNewsOnline.com features - discussion forums, e-mail newsletters, contests and so forth.

We are asking for your birthdate in order to comply with the provisions of the Child's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998, as enacted by the Federal Trade Commission and made effective in April 2000.

We hate junk e-mail and spam as much as you do. That's why we guarantee that you will receive only one e-mail from us when you register -- a confirmation of your registration. After that, the only times you will receive e-mail from us are when there are important developments related to your registration or to the site operations that we feel you must know about immediately.

Beyond that, we will send you e-mail only if you request it, such as the daily e-mail newsletters that we plan to offer. We will absolutely not sell or provide your e-mail address to any outside party.

Since we deliver newspaper to subscribers' homes or re-stock newspaper racks, we have a pretty good idea of where our readers are. This is not the case on our Web site. We're still learning a lot about our StarNewsOnline.com readers -- such as whether they read our newspaper, whether they live in Southeast North Carolina, etc.

By learning more about our readers, we can build a better StarNewsOnline.com, one that's more reader-friendly. One other difference - subscribers or single-copy buyers pay to read the Star-News. We don't charge for full access to StarNewsOnline.com, nor do we have any plans to do so.

Not at all. Once you register, you can use that e-mail address and password to log in from anywhere in the world, be it your office, your home or your cousin's aunt's best friend's computer. Your e-mail address and password are unique to you.

Cookies are small files that help identify you and your registration information to our site. When you register with and/or log on to StarNewsOnline.com, we save a cookie on your computer that tell us who you are. Every time you visit a page, we check the cookie to make certain you're allowed to see that page. If you choose the option to save your ID and password on your computer, the cookie allows us to let you in to StarNewsOnline.com automatically without us asking you to log in. If you refuse to accept a cookie from us, we have no way of knowing that you're a member of our community and, thus, we cannot let you in. So, if you're blocking cookies, you will be unable to register.

If you are concerned about the privacy implications of allowing us to set a cookie, please read our privacy policy. We promise to safeguard any personal information that you share with us.

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