FoxValleyMagazine.com strives to offer
its visitors the many advantages of Internet technology and to provide
an interactive and personalized experience. We may use Personally Identifiable
Information (your name, e-mail address, street address, telephone number)
subject to the terms of this privacy policy. Please note this policy
applies only to information collected by FoxValleyMagazine.com online
and does not impact information collected or used by FoxValleyMagazine.com
or its affiliates through other means.
How we gather information from users.
How we collect and store information
depends on the page you are visiting, the activities in which you elect
to participate and the services provided. You can visit many pages on
our site without providing any information. Other pages may prompt you
to provide information, such as when you register for access to portions
of our site, sign up for membership, request certain features (e.g.,
newsletters, news updates and other products), sign up for a magazine
subscription or make a purchase. You may also provide information when
you participate in sweepstakes and contests, voting and polling activities,
message boards and chat rooms and other interactive areas of our site.
Like most Web sites, FoxValleyMagazine.com
also collects information automatically and through the use of electronic
tools that may be transparent to our visitors. For example, we may log
the name of your Internet Service Provider or use "cookie"
technology. Among other things, the cookie may store your user name
and password, sparing you from having to re-enter that information each
time you visit, or may control the number of times you encounter a particular
advertisement while visiting our site. As we adopt additional technology,
we may also gather information through other means. In certain cases,
you can choose not to provide us with information, for example by setting
your browser to refuse to accept cookies, but doing so may limit your
ability to access certain portions of the site or may require you to
re-enter your user name and password. Additionally we may not be able
to customize the site's features according to your preferences.
What we do with the information we collect.
We will use your information only as
permitted by law. Aggregated Information (information that does not
personally identify you) may be used in many ways. As one example, we
may combine information about your usage patterns with similar information
obtained from other users to learn which pages are visited most or what
features are most attractive. Aggregated Information may occasionally
be shared with our advertisers and business partners, but cannot be
used to contact you individually.
We also collect information to enhance
your visit and deliver more individualized content and advertising.
For example, we may use Personally Identifiable Information collected
on FoxValleyMagazine.com to communicate with you regarding our privacy
policy, products and services offered by FoxValleyMagazine.com and other
affiliates and partners, administration of sweepstakes and contests,
processing e-commerce transactions and other topics we think you might
find of interest.
Personally Identifiable Information
collected by FoxValleyMagazine.com may also be used for other purposes
including but not limited to site administration and troubleshooting.
Certain third parties who provide technical support for the operation
of our site (our Web hosting service and our newsletter provider, for
example) may access such information.
As we continue to develop our business,
we may sell, buy, merge or partner with other companies or businesses.
In such transactions, user information may be among the transferred
assets. We may also disclose your information in response to a court
order, at other times when we believe we are reasonably required to
do so by law, in connection with the collection of amounts you may owe
to us, and/or whenever we deem it appropriate or necessary to give such
information to law enforcement authorities. Please note we may not provide
you with notice prior to disclosure in such cases.
Your choice to opt out.
The quality news and information on
FoxValleyMagazine.com is supported by advertising revenue and a controlled
program of e-mail marketing is an important element of our online publishing
business. Like other Web publishers, we sometimes permit our advertising
and promotional partners to e-mail you about services, features, products,
special offers and unique content we believe might interest you. If
you prefer not to receive e-mail communications sent directly from our
advertisers or promotional partners, you will be given an opportunity
to decline before you provide us information we might use for this purpose.
If you decline at the time you provide us such information, we will
not share the Personally Identifiable Information you provide with non-Affiliated
advertisers for such purposes, though we may on occasion send you information
on their behalf.
Affiliated sites, linked sites and advertisements.
FoxValleyMagazine.com expects its partners,
advertisers and third-party affiliates to respect the privacy of our
users. However, third parties, including our partners, advertisers,
affiliates and other content providers accessible through our site,
may have their own privacy and data collection policies and practices.
For example, during your visit to our site you may link to, or view
as part of a frame on a FoxValleyMagazine.com page, certain content
that is actually created or hosted by a third party. Also, through FoxValleyMagazine.com
you may be introduced to, or be able to access, information, Web sites,
advertisements, features, contests or sweepstakes offered by other parties.
FoxValleyMagazine.com is not responsible for the actions or policies
of such third parties. You should check the applicable privacy policies
of those third parties when providing information on a feature or page
operated by a third party.
While on our site, our advertisers,
promotional partners or other third parties may use cookies or other
technology to attempt to identify some of your preferences or retrieve
information about you. For example, some of our advertising is served
by third parties and may include cookies that enable the advertiser
to determine whether you have seen a particular advertisement before.
Through features available on our site, third parties may use cookies
or other technology to gather information. FoxValleyMagazine.com does
not control the use of this technology or the resulting information
and is not responsible for any actions or policies of such third parties.
Please be careful and responsible whenever
you are online. Should you choose to voluntarily disclose Personally
Identifiable Information on our site, such as in message boards, chat
areas or in advertising or notices you post, that information can be
viewed publicly and can be collected and used by third parties without
our knowledge and may result in unsolicited messages from other individuals
or third parties. Such activities are beyond the control of FoxValleyMagazine.com
and this policy.
Children.
FoxValleyMagazine.com does not knowingly
collect or solicit Personally Identifiable Information from or about
children under 13 except as permitted by law. If we discover we have
received any information from a child under 13 in violation of this
policy, we will delete that information immediately. If you believe
FoxValleyMagazine.com has any information from or about anyone under
13, please contact us at the address listed below.
Contacting us.
We can be reached by contacting:
FoxValleyMagazine.com
P.O. Box 748
Geneva, IL 60134
Email: admin@FoxValleyMagazine.com
Changes to this policy.
FoxValleyMagazine.com reserves the right to change this policy at any time.
Please check this page periodically for changes. Your continued use of our site following the posting of
changes to these terms will mean you accept those changes. Information
collected prior to the time any change is posted will be used according
to the rules and laws that applied at the time the information was collected.
Governing law
This policy and the use of this Site are governed by Illinois law. Any claim related to the Site or this
policy shall be brought in a federal or state court in Chicago, Illinois,
within one year after the claim arises. You agree no such claim may
be brought as a class action. Users of FoxValleyMagazine.com consent
to the jurisdiction and venue of such court as the most convenient and
appropriate for the resolution of disputes concerning this policy. FoxValleyMagazine.com
is controlled, operated and administered entirely within the United
States. If you are located outside the United States, please note the
information you provide to us will be transferred to the United States.
You hereby consent to this transfer.</font></p>
<p><font size="1" face="Verdana">In the event case of any conflict between
the terms of this policy and the terms of any electronic or machine-readable
privacy policy (for example, a P3P electronic privacy policy), the terms
of this written policy shall control.
