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PRIVACY POLICY - COMMITMENT
TO YOUR PRIVACY
This site is owned and operated by HereThere Magazine. Your privacy
on the Internet is of the utmost importance to us. At HereThere Magazine,
we want to make your experience online satisfying and safe. Because we
gather certain types of information about our users, we feel you should
fully understand our policy and the terms and conditions surrounding the
capture and use of that information. This privacy statement discloses
what information we gather and how we use it.
INFORMATION HereThere Magazine GATHERS AND TRACKS
HereThere Magazine gathers two types of information about users:
* Information that users provide through optional, voluntary submissions.
These are voluntary submissions to receive our electronic magazine subscriptions,
to participate in our message boards or forums, to email a friend, and
from participation in contests, polls and surveys.
* Information HereThere Magazine gathers through aggregated tracking
information derived mainly by tallying page views throughout our sites.
This information allows us to better tailor our content to readers' needs
and to help our advertisers and sponsors better understand the demographics
of our audience. Because HereThere Magazine derives its revenue mainly
from sponsorships and advertising, providing such aggregated demographic
data is essential to keeping our service free to users. Under no circumstances
does HereThere Magazine divulge any information about an individual user
to a third party.
HereThere Magazine Gathers User Information In The Following Processes:
Optional Voluntary Information
We offer the following
free services, which require some type of voluntary submission of personal
information by users:
1. Electronic magazine
subscriptions policy (Dispatches)
We will offer a free electronic magazine subscription to users. HereThere
Magazine gathers the email addresses of users who voluntarily subscribe.
Users may remove themselves from this mailing list by going to our website,
entering their email address, and selecting "Unsubscribe."
4. Polls and Contests
We may offer interactive contests and polls to users so they can easily
share their opinions with other users and see what our audience thinks
about various products. Opinions or other responses to polls are aggregated
and are not identifiable to any particular user. HereThere Magazine
may use a system to "tag" users after they have voted, so they
can vote only once on a particular question. This tag is not correlated
with information about individual users.
5. Surveys
HereThere Magazine may occasionally conduct user surveys to better
target our content to our audience. We sometimes share the aggregated
demographic information in these surveys with our sponsors, advertisers
and partners. We never share any of this information about specific individuals
with any third party.
CHILDREN
Consistent with the Federal Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of
1998 (COPPA), we will never knowingly request personally identifiable
information from anyone under the age of 13 without requesting parental
consent.
USAGE TRACKING
HereThere Magazine tracks user traffic patterns throughout all
of our sites. However, we do not correlate this information with data
about individual users. HereThere Magazine does break down overall
usage statistics according to a user's domain name, browser type, and
MIME type by reading this information from the browser string (information
contained in every user's browser).
HereThere Magazine sometimes tracks and catalogs the search terms
that users enter in our Search function, but this tracking is never associated
with individual users. We use tracking information to determine which
areas of our sites users like and don't like based on traffic to those
areas. We do not track what individual users read, but rather how well
each page performs overall. This helps us continue to build a better service
for you.
COOKIES
We may place a text file called a "cookie" in the browser files
of your computer. The cookie itself does not contain Personal Information
although it will enable us to relate your use of this site to information
that you have specifically and knowingly provided. But the only personal
information a cookie can contain is information you supply yourself. A
cookie can't read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created
by other sites. HereThere Magazine uses cookies to track user traffic
patterns (as described above). Our advertising system delivers a one-time
cookie to better track ad impressions and click rates.
You can refuse cookies by turning them off in your browser. If you've
set your browser to warn you before accepting cookies, you will receive
the warning message with each cookie. You do not need to have cookies
turned on to use this site. However, you do need cookies to participate
actively in message boards, forums, polling and surveys.
Privacy Policy Use
USE OF INFORMATION
HereThere Magazine uses any information voluntarily given by our
users to enhance their experience in our network of sites, whether to
provide interactive or personalized elements on the sites or to better
prepare future content based on the interests of our users.
As stated above, we use information that users voluntarily provide in
order to send out electronic newsletters and to enable users to participate
in polls, surveys, message boards, and forums. We send out newsletters
to subscribers on a regular schedule (depending on the newsletter), and
occasionally send out special editions when we think subscribers might
be particularly interested in something we are doing. HereThere Magazine
never shares newsletter mailing lists with any third parties, including
advertisers, sponsors or partners.
When we use tracking information to determine which areas of our sites
users like and don't like based on traffic to those areas. We do not track
what individual users read, but rather how well each page performs overall.
This helps us continue to build a better service for you. We track search
terms entered in Search function as one of many measures of what interests
our users. But we don't track which terms a particular user enters.
HereThere Magazine creates aggregate reports on user demographics
and traffic patterns for advertisers, sponsors and partners. This allows
our advertisers to advertise more effectively, and allows our users to
receive advertisements that are pertinent to their needs. Because we don't
track the usage patterns of individual users, an advertiser or sponsor
will never know that a specific user clicked their ad. We will not disclose
any information about any individual user except to comply with applicable
law or valid legal process or to protect the personal safety of our users
or the public.
SHARING OF THE INFORMATION
HereThere Magazine uses the above-described information to tailor
our content to suit your needs and help our advertisers better understand
our audience's demographics. This is essential to keeping our service
free. We will not share information about individual users with any third
party, except to comply with applicable law or valid legal process or
to protect the personal safety of our users or the public.
SECURITY
HereThere Magazine operates secure data networks protected by industry
standard firewall and password protection systems. Our security and privacy
policies are periodically reviewed and enhanced as necessary and only
authorized individuals have access to the information provided by our
customers.
OPT-OUT POLICY
We give users options wherever necessary and practical. Such choices include:
* Opting not to register to receive our electronic magazine subscriptions.
* Opting not to participate in certain interactive areas, which completely
alleviates the need to gather any personally identifiable information
from our users
YOUR CONSENT
By using this site, you consent to the collection and use of this information
by HereThere Magazine. If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will
post those changes on this page so that you are always aware of what information
we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it.
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