Privacy Statement
Intl News Media, LLC (“INM”) is committed to protecting your privacy, including any personal information that you may provide to INM via this web site (the “Site”). By visiting the Site, you agree to abide by all of the terms and conditions set forth below (the “Privacy Policy”).
Use of Personally Identifiable Information.
You may visit the Site without providing INM any personally identifiable
information about yourself. When you browse our Site, we do not automatically
collect personally identifiable information. If, however, you choose to
provide personally identifiable or other information to us, you expressly
consent to INM’s use and disclosure of such information as set forth
in this Privacy Policy. Types of personally identifiable or other information
that we may collect include: profile information (e.g., name, postal address,
telephone number, email address and user name and password), financial information
(e.g., credit card number), demographic information (e.g., zip code, hometown,
gender, age and purchase history information).
YOU MAY REVIEW AND UPDATE, OR REQUEST THAT WE DELETE, THE INFORMATION THAT YOU PROVIDE TO US THROUGH THE SITE BY CONTACTING US AS INDICATED BELOW.
INM will take reasonable precautions to protect your personally identifiable information. We follow generally accepted industry security standards to safeguard and help prevent unauthorized access, maintain data security and correctly use such personally identifiable information. While we strive to use modern and commercially reasonable means to protect your personally identifiable information, we cannot guarantee the absolute security of that information during its transmission or its storage on our systems.
You agree that INM may provide general aggregate data (i.e., data that cannot be used to identify specific individuals) that is partly based on information about you and your transactions with INM to outside companies for the purpose of conducting customer research in order to improve INM’s products and services. These outside companies are contractually bound to use information that INM shares with them only to perform the services we have hired them to provide. We also may ask you to allow us to share your personally identifiable information (together with non-personally identifying information you may provide) with our promotional partners and third-party advertisers. After we have received your “opt-in” or approval to provide your personally identifiable information to third parties, you may always “opt-out” of such use of your information by contacting us as indicated below. We will also release information about you if we are required by law to do so.
You agree that INM may provide your personally identifiable information to any party acquiring all or substantially all of the stock or assets of INM.
The Site is not intended for, nor is it designed to attract, children under the age of 13. INM does not knowingly solicit, collect or attract personal information from or about children.
NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OF THE FOREGOING, INM MAINTAINS NO CONTROL OVER THIRD PARTY SERVICE PROVIDERS AND DISCLAIMS ALL RESPONSIBILITY OR LIABILITY FOR ANY ACTIONS OR OMISSIONS OF ANY SUCH THIRD PARTY SERVICE PROVIDERS, INCLUDING ANY FAILURE OF SUCH THIRD PARTIES TO OBSERVE ANY SUCH INFORMATION UPDATE, DELETION, OR OPT-OUT REQUEST.
Special Note Regarding Use of Financial Information.
INM may use your financial information to check your qualifications, to
bill you for products and services or to enable you to participate in discount,
rebate or similar programs in which you may elect to participate. By making
a purchase or engaging in any other kind of transaction that uses financial
information on the Site (each a “Transaction”), you consent
to our providing your financial information to our third party service providers
and to such other third parties that we determine are reasonably necessary
to process your Transaction, as well as to your credit card issuer. These
third parties may include credit card companies and banking institutions
used to process the Transaction. By purchasing or making reservations for
products or services of third parties offered on the Site, or by participating
in programs offered on the Site that are administered by third parties and
that require you to submit financial information in order to participate
in them, you also consent to our providing your financial information to
those third parties. You authorize these third parties to use your financial
information in accordance with our contractual arrangements with such third
parties and in accordance with their own privacy policies. INM MAINTAINS
NO CONTROL OVER THIRD PARTY SERVICE PROVIDERS AND DISCLAIMS ALL RESPONSIBILITY
OR LIABILITY FOR ANY ACTIONS OR OMISSIONS OF ANY SUCH THIRD PARTY SERVICE
PROVIDERS.
Email Communications.
INM may use email links located on various pages of the Site to allow you
to contact us with questions or comments you may have. We welcome these
email communications and make efforts to respond to these communications
where appropriate. Email communications and the ideas sent to INM in these
email communications become the property of INM. We may use the email communications
to evaluate and improve our products, services and the Site. We may also
save these email communications for future reference or use. Once INM receives
an email communication from you, we may send you future email communications
relating to INM products or services. If you choose to not receive such
future email communications at any time, you may “opt-out” by
contacting us as indicated below or by following the “opt-out”
procedure set forth in each email communication.
Procedure to “Opt Out”.
You always have the option to receive fewer or no communications in the
future from INM by opting out. You may opt-out by following the instructions
included in the specific communication you no longer wish to receive, or
by contacting user support sending an email to unsubscribe@intlnewsmedia.com.
Other Information Collected.
INM web servers may automatically collect and record other information about
your visit to the Site (through the use of cookies and otherwise) as part
of our analysis of the use of the Site and its structure and performance.
For example, whenever a page is requested from our web server, we may record
the time, date and URL of the request, along with information on the browser
being used. This data is not used to personally identify you, but it may
be used to enhance your experience while using the Site or it may be aggregated
to enable us to become more familiar with where visits to the Site originate,
how often the Site is visited and what parts of the Site are visited most
often. Your browser is probably set to accept cookies. However, if you would
prefer not to receive cookies, you can alter the configuration of your browser
to refuse cookies. If you choose to have your browser refuse cookies, it
is possible that some areas of the Site will not function properly when
you view them.
Special Note Regarding Forum Profile Information and Information Voluntarily
Submitted to a Forum.
Notwithstanding anything in this Privacy Policy to the contrary, please
keep in mind that any personally identifiable information and other information
which you voluntarily submit to the generally-viewable user forum located
at www.e4um.com or any other chat room, bulletin board, news group, blog,
or user forum offered as part of the Site (“Forum”), including
without limitation, information which you elect to post to the Forum as
part of your generally-viewable user profile (such as your contact information,
occupation, birth date, and interests) and any submissions to the Forum
made by you (such as any messages, comments or emails posted by you), can
be viewed, collected and used by the general public and by other members
of the Forum. Furthermore, by posting personal information online that is
publicly accessible, you may receive unsolicited messages from other parties
in return.
Third Party Links.
The Site may contain links to web sites not owned or operated by INM (“Linked
Sites”). Some of the Linked Sites may contain our products, services,
trademarks or other intellectual property that we own, while others may
not. We provide links to Linked Sites only as a convenience. Please be aware
that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of such Linked Sites,
and this Privacy Policy does not apply to such Linked Sites. Consequently,
the operators of Linked Sites may collect different kinds of information
about you, and may use and disclose that information in different ways than
we would if it were collected on the Site. We encourage you to review the
privacy policies on the Linked Sites. INM DISCLAIMS ALL RESPONSIBILITY OR
LIABILITY FOR THE ACTIONS OF, PRIVACY PRACTICES OF, OR INFORMATION CONTAINED
ON OR COLLECTED VIA LINKED SITES.
Changes to the Privacy Policy.
INM reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to change, update, add or
remove any portion of this Privacy Policy at any time by posting the changes
to the Privacy Policy on the Site, which will be effective immediately.
Please review the Privacy Policy each time you visit the Site. Your continued
use of the Site after any changes to the Privacy Policy are posted will
be considered acceptance of such changes.
Contact Information.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please use the contact
us page. INM welcomes any questions and suggestions about this Privacy
Policy.
Last Updated: December 29, 2004