Privacy Policy
This Web site is published and maintained by Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S., Inc. ("HFM U.S."), with offices located at 1633 Broadway, New York, NY 10019. This Privacy Policy governs HFM U.S.'s collection of information on this site and our use of such information. This Privacy Policy does not apply to information HFM U.S. collects in connection with your subscription to any of our print publications. By visiting this site, you agree to the terms of this policy as they may be amended from time to time. As we update and expand our services, this policy may change, so check back to this page from time to time. Purpose
Right to Opt Out Attention
Kids Note
to Parents.
HFM U.S. does not collect any Personally Identifying Information such as name, address or e-mail address on its Web sites without the knowledge and consent of the individual submitting such information. Such information is collected through registration forms, games and contests and through voluntary online questionnaires that appear from time to time on some HFM U.S. Web sites. "Personally Identifying Information", or just “Personal Information,” includes your name, home or other address (like a school), e-mail address, telephone number, or any other information that may identify you or allow online or offline contact with you. We may also ask you to provide other information about yourself such as your age, hobbies, likes, dislikes, etc. You may review the Personal Information that you have provided to HFM U.S.’s Web sites by e-mailing privacy@hfmus.com or writing to HFM U.S. at 1633 Broadway, 40th Fl., New York, NY 10019 ATTN: Legal Department. We will send you a copy of such Personal Information we have on file in your user account (if any). You may send us new or updated information at any time.
We
try to provide you with services, products and offers customized
to your interests. In order to do that, we use "cookies"
to keep, and sometimes track, information about you. Cookies are
small pieces of data that are sent to your browser from a Web server
and stored on your computer's hard drive. Cookies do not gather
any Personally Identifying Information about you; they simply track
where you travel on the HFM U.S. Web sites and what you look at.
(Cookies may, however, store your login name which allows you access
to our online forums.) In doing so, a cookie may enable HFM U.S.
to relate your use of the Web sites to Personally Identifying Information
that has already been submitted. Many other web sites use cookies
for very similar purposes. HFM U.S.’s Web advertising technology company, DoubleClick, also uses cookies and other technologies. The non-personally identifiable information collected by DoubleClick, for example, about your visits to this and other web sites is used for the purpose of targeting ads and measuring ad effectiveness on behalf of DoubleClick's advertisers and Web publishers who specifically request it. For additional information on the information that is collected by DoubleClick, and to know your choices about not having this information used by DoubleClick, please click here to check its Privacy Policy.
Our server automatically collects data about your server’s domain address when you visit us. This information, known as an Internet Protocol address, or IP Address, is a number that’s automatically assigned to your computer by your Internet service provider whenever you’re on the Web. When you request pages from HFM U.S., our servers log your IP Address. Our server may also record the referring page that linked you to us, e.g., a search engine. Our server cannot automatically record your name or address.
We will use the Personal Information you provide to our Web sites to fulfill a specific purpose. For example, Personal Information will be used to enter you in a sweepstakes or contest, to send to an e-newsletter or fulfill a product or service order. We may also use your Personal Information to maintain our internal record keeping. In addition, we may send you e-mail notices about products, services, companies and events that we think might interest you. You may opt-out of receiving future mailings from us by following the instructions in the e-mail you receive from us or sending an e-mail to the e-mail address provided in the Opt-out section below. We use cookies to access your account information (stored on our computers) in order to deliver better and more personalized services; estimate our audience size for our advertisers; assist in processing items in your shopping basket; track the number of entries in our promotions, sweepstakes and contests; and identify which areas of our site you have visited. We may also match information obtained from cookies with data provided by you or collected by third parties. We analyze this data both in the aggregate and in connection with individual users. This information lets us give you the services you want that are connected with your interests. We also provide the analysis of our users (as a group, of course) to prospective partners, advertisers and other third parties. HFM U.S. uses IP Addresses for internal system administration, to help diagnose problems with our server, to report aggregate information to our advertisers, and to administer our Web site. Your IP address is also used to gather broad demographic information, such as country of origin and Internet Service Provider (i.e. AOL, Earthlink, etc.).
When
registering on the Site, HFM U.S. provides visitors an opportunity
to receive offers from advertisers and other companies who have
services, products and offers that we think might be of interest
to you. If you do not at that time indicate a preference not to
receive such offers, HFM U.S. will from time to time provide your
contact information to these entities so that they may send you
these offers. If you do not decline to receive such offers at the
time you provide your information or if you change your mind and
no longer want us to share your contact information with others,
send an email to the email address provided in the opt-out section
below. HFM U.S. reserves the right to analyze user behavior as a measure of interest in and use of the HFM U.S. Web sites and HFM U.S. e-mails. HFM U.S. may disclose such analyses to advertisers or other third parties in the form of aggregate data, such as overall patterns or demographic reports that do not describe or identify any individual user. E-mail Legal
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U.S.'s Right to Change this Policy Security/Enforcement If you are requested to send us any sensitive personal information, such as your credit card number, password, membership number or pin number, in an e-mail or into a web site or otherwise, and you are uncertain whether such request is authorized by us, please do not hesitate to ask us by sending an e-mail to our privacy officer at privacy@hfmus.com. In the unlikely event that we believe that the security of your personally identifiable information in our possession or control may have been compromised, we may seek to notify you of that development. If a notification is appropriate, we would endeavor to do so as promptly as possible under the circumstances, and, to the extent we have your e-mail address, we may notify you by e-mail. By using this web site, you consent to our use of e-mail as a means of such notification. REMEMBER - DO NOT DISCLOSE PERSONAL INFORMATION IN CHAT ROOMS, THROUGH VOICE CHAT OR ON MESSAGE BOARDS. WHENEVER YOU DO SO, ALL OF THAT INFORMATION CAN BE COLLECTED AND USED BY OTHERS. IF YOU POST PERSONAL INFORMATION IN PUBLIC PLACES, OTHERS MAY SEND YOU UNSOLICITED E-MAIL MESSAGES. BE CAREFUL AND BE SMART WITH YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION.
Effective
Date: October 25, 2005 |
