This Privacy Policy
applies only to the web sites (however accessed
and/or used, whether via personal computers, mobile
devices, or otherwise) operated by Hawkeye
Publishing L.L.C. ("Company," "we," "our" or "us")
or other interactive features that are accessible or
downloadable through the web sites owned or
controlled by Company and that post a link to this
Privacy Policy (each one individually or
collectively, the "Web Sites"). This Privacy Policy
only covers information collected at the Web Sites,
and does not cover any information collected at any
other web site or offline by Company (unless
specifically stated). The purpose of this Privacy
Policy is to disclose to you what information we may
collect on the Web Sites, how we may collect it,
with whom we may share it, and certain other matters
related to such information, including the choices
you may have regarding our collection, use, and
disclosure of such information.
Please read this
Privacy Policy carefully. In addition, please review
our Terms of Use, which govern your use of the Web
Sites.
TYPES OF
INFORMATION THAT MAY BE COLLECTED
The following are the
types of information we may collect:
Web Site Usage
Information & Device Identifiers
We may receive and store certain types of web site
usage information whenever you visit or interact
with the Web Sites. For example, we may collect the
page served, the time, the source of the request,
the type of browser making the request, the
preceding page view, or other similar information.
We also may collect your IP address or some other
unique identifier for the particular device you use
to access the Internet, as applicable (collectively
referred to herein as a "Device Identifier"). A
Device Identifier is a number that is automatically
assigned to your computer, your cell phone, or other
device used to access the Internet, and our
computers identify your device by its Device
Identifier. We may associate your Device Identifier
with the personal information you provide. When
analyzed, web site usage information helps us
determine how visitors arrive at the Web Sites, what
type of content is most popular, and what type of
visitors are interested in particular kinds of
content and advertising.
Information You
Provide Us
We may ask you to provide us with two types of
information: (1) personal information, which is
information that could reasonably be used to
identify you personally, such as your name, e-mail
address, telephone or cell phone number, and
physical address; and (2) demographic information,
such as gender, zip code, or similar information. We
may collect this information at various places and
forms on the Web Sites, including registration forms
for newsletters and other communications (e.g.
whether by e-mail, mobile device, etc.), when you
communicate or otherwise interact with us, when you
submit information to us (whether or not the
information is intended to be posted on the Web
Sites), contests or sweepstakes, surveys or voting
or when you purchase a product or service through
the Web Sites. You may also be asked to choose a
user name and password in order to identify yourself
during future visits to the Web Sites. Do not use
your real name or the name of any other actual
person as your user name. Providing us with
information about yourself is your choice, and you
can always choose not to provide certain
information, but then you may not be able to take
advantage of some of the Web Sites’ features.
Information from
Other Sources
We may receive information about you from other
sources; for example, we may obtain geographic or
demographic information, or information regarding
your possible interests, from third parties, or we
may receive information from a marketing partner in
connection with a co-branded web site or promotion..
We may combine the information we receive from those
other sources with information we collect through
the Web Sites. In those cases, we will apply this
Privacy Policy to any personal information received,
unless otherwise specifically disclosed by us at the
time you provide your personal information.
Send To A Friend
If you send a friend a communication from the Web
Sites, the information you provide (names, e-mail
addresses, phone numbers, etc.) is used on a
one-time basis to facilitate the communication and
is not used for any other marketing purpose, unless
we obtain additional consent.
HOW
INFORMATION MAY BE COLLECTED
Cookies
The Web Sites use standard technology called
"cookies," which are small data files that are
transferred to your computer (or other
Internet-accessing device) when you visit the Web
Sites and allow your browser to accept cookies.
Cookies automatically identify your web browser to
the Web Sites whenever you visit the Web Sites, and
may make navigating and using the Web Sites easier
for you. Also, by tracking how and when you use the
Web Sites, cookies help us determine which areas are
popular and which are not. Many improvements and
updates to the Web Sites are based on data obtained
from cookies. Additionally, accepting cookies may
allow you to, among other things, personalize your
experience on the Web Sites. Cookies may also allow
the Web Sites to present to you advertising that may
be of interest to you as well as limit how often you
see certain ads that may detract from your user
experience on our Web Sites. If you do not want to
allow information to be collected through the use of
cookies, you can generally opt out of providing this
information by setting your browser to reject
cookies. However, please be aware that some areas of
the Web Sites may not provide you with an acceptable
user experience if you have disabled the use of
cookies.
Web Beacons
The Web Sites and any communications sent by the Web
Sites may contain electronic images (generally,
single-pixel ".gif" images) called "web beacons."
These web beacons allow Company and third parties to
monitor and collect certain information about the
viewer of the web page, web-based document, e-mail
message or other communication, such as the type of
browser requesting the web beacon, the Device
Identifier of the device that the web beacon is sent
to and the time the web beacon was viewed. Company’s
use of web beacons on its Web Sites, include,
without limitation, the following:
• counting unique
users (actually, unique web browsers), visits and
page views.
• monitoring traffic
and conversion patterns through our various product
and service offerings on the Web Sites. For example,
web beacons may be integrated into a merchandise
product page as well as the subsequent shopping
cart, transaction and verification pages.
• personalizing your
experience when you visit the Web Sites, including
the advertising and content you see.
• determining whether
or not messages were opened, links were clicked or
notifications/offers were acted upon.
HOW
WE USE THE INFORMATION COLLECTED
The information you
provide to us may be used to:
• Send you
newsletters, e-mails and/or other communications for
which you have registered;
• Contact you about
the Web Sites, including, without limitation, in our
discretion to notify you of changes to this Privacy
Policy, the Web Site’s Terms of Use, or other
policies that affect your use of the Web Sites;
• Confirm or fulfill
an order you have made;
• Provide special
offers or promotional materials to you on behalf of
us or third parties;
• Contact you with
regard to a sweepstakes, contest or promotion in
which you have participated;
• Authorize a
purchase or complete a transaction that you have
requested, i.e., to deliver the products or other
services that you ordered, and, if necessary, to
invoice you;
• Monitor or improve
the Web Sites;
• Administer the Web
Sites’ systems and for other internal business
purposes;
• Customize the
advertising and content you see;
• Comply with and
monitor compliance with our Terms of Use and other
applicable agreements and polices; and
• For other purposes
disclosed when you provide your information.
Moreover, if you submit to Company and/or the Web
Sites comments, photographs, videos, music, text or
other content, it may be published online or offline
(including on-air, on a CD or DVD, through wireless
distribution, and transmission of soft copies, or
any other media or format currently existing or
hereafter developed), and we may publish your name,
voice, likeness and other personal information in
connection with publishing the content or a portion
of the content, and we may use the content and any
excerpt from the content in connection with
advertising, marketing, publicity and promotional
activities. Please also see "Information You Submit"
in our Terms of Use [LINK], which governs any
content you submit through the Web Sites.
Please
note that information submitted to the Web Sites via
a "contact us," or other similar mechanism will not
necessarily receive a response. We will not use any
such information you provide to contact you for
marketing purposes unrelated to your request.
THIRD-PARTY AD SERVING & AUDIENCE AND TRAFFIC
MEASUREMENT SERVICES
The
Web Sites may use third party network advertisers to
serve advertisements on the Web Sites and may use a
traffic measurement service to analyze traffic on
the Web Sites. Network advertisers are third parties
that display advertisements based on your visits to
the Web Sites and other web sites you have visited.
Third-party ad serving enables us to target
advertisements to you for products and services in
which you might be interested. Although advertisers
and other companies do not have access to cookies
set by the Web Sites, the Web Sites’ third party ad
network providers, the advertisers, the sponsors,
and/or traffic measurement services may themselves
set and access their own cookies on your computer if
you choose to have cookies enabled in your browser.
These third party cookies are set to, among other
things, help deliver advertisements to you that you
might be interested in, to prevent you from seeing
the same advertisements too many times and to
conduct research regarding the usefulness of certain
advertisements to you. Note that any images (or any
other parts of a web page) served by third parties
in association with third party cookies may serve as
web beacons, which enable third parties to carry out
the previously described activities. Third party
cookies and web beacons are governed by each third
party’s specific privacy policy, not this one. While
we may use a variety of companies to serve
advertisements on the Web Sites, you may wish to
visit http://www.networkadvertising.org/optout_nonppii.asp,
which provides information regarding the "opt-out"
procedures of certain third party ad servers we may
use.
WITH WHOM
INFORMATION MAY BE SHARED
Except
as otherwise disclosed at the time you provide your
information, the following outlines the ways in
which your information may be shared with others:
Third parties
providing services on our behalf
We may employ third parties to perform functions on
our behalf; examples include hosting or operating
Web Sites, fulfilling orders for products and
services purchased through the Web Sites, sending
e-mail and/or other communications, providing
wireless services, removing repetitive information
from customer lists, data analysis, marketing
assistance, credit card payment processing, and
customer service. These third parties may have
access to your personal information for the purpose
of performing such functions on the Web Sites’
behalf.
Non-Personal
Information
We may share non-personal
information, such as aggregate user statistics,
demographic information, and web site usage
information with third parties.
When You Agree To
Receive Information From Third Parties
You may be presented with an opportunity to receive
information and/or marketing offers from third
party(s), also known as opt-ins. If you do not agree
to have your personal information shared, your
personal information will not be shared with such
third party(s) for direct marketing purposes. If you
do agree to have your personal information shared,
your personal information will be disclosed to such
third party(s) and all information you disclose will
be subject to the privacy policy and practices of
such third party(s). We are not responsible for the
privacy policies and practices of such third party(s)
and, therefore, you should review the privacy
policies and practices of such third party(s) prior
to agreeing to receive such information from third
party(s). If you later decide that you no longer
want to receive communication from a third party,
you will need to contact that third party directly.
Products and
Services Offered in Partnership with Third-Party(s)
Certain Web Sites are provided to you in partnership
with third party(s) ("Co-Branded Sites") and may
require you to disclose personal information in
order to register for and access products and/or
services. Such Co-Branded Sites will identify the
third party partner(s). If you elect to register for
such products and/or services at Co-Branded Sites
you may be providing your information to both
Company and the third party partner(s) and your
information may be subject to a separate privacy
policy available at the point of registration.
Further, if you sign-in to a Co-Branded Web Site
with a user name and password obtained at one of our
Web Sites, you are automatically registering with
the Co-Branded Site and your personal information
may be disclosed to the identified third party
partner(s) for that Co-Branded Site and will be
subject to the posted privacy policy(ies).
Sweepstakes,
Contests, Drawings and Promotions
We may offer sweepstakes, contests, and other
promotions through the Web Sites that may require
registration. If you choose to enter a sweepstakes,
contest drawings or other promotion, your personal
information may be disclosed to third parties in
connection with the administration of such
promotion, including, without limitation, in
connection with winner selection, prize fulfillment,
and as required by law, such as on a winners list.
Also, by entering a promotion, you are agreeing to
the official rules that govern that promotion, which
may contain specific requirements of you, including,
except where prohibited by law, allowing the
sponsor(s) of the promotion to use your name, voice
and/or likeness in advertising or marketing
associated with the promotion.
Business Transfers
Company shares the information collected through the
Web Sites with and among the Web Sites, and may
share the information with its parent, subsidiaries
and affiliates. Company or any of it assets,
including the Web Sites, may be sold, or other
transactions may occur in which your personal
information is one of the key business assets for
the transaction. In such a case, your personal
information may be one of the business assets we
transfer. Hence, Company reserves the right to
disclose and transfer user information, including
personal information, in connection with a corporate
merger, consolidation, restructuring, the sale of
substantially all of our assets, sale of an
individual website or other corporate change.
Legal Protections
and Law Enforcement
We may disclose information about our users,
including your personal information, in the event we
are required to respond to subpoenas, court orders,
legal process or other valid law enforcement
measures; to comply with a legal obligation; at the
request of governmental authorities conducting an
investigation; to verify or enforce compliance with
the policies governing the Web Sites and applicable
laws; or to protect the legal rights, interests, or
safety of the Web Sites, our users or others. We may
also use Device Identifiers to identify users, and
may do so in cooperation with copyright owners,
internet service providers or law enforcement
agencies in our discretion. Such disclosures may be
carried out without notice to you.
CORRECTING/UPDATING PERSONAL INFORMATION
The
Web Sites may contain web pages through which you
can change your subscriptions or correct or update
the personal information you have provided to us
through registration with one or more of the Web
Sites. With regard to subscriptions, you also may
cancel or modify if applicable your subscriptions by
following the instructions provided to you in
applicable communications regarding such
subscriptions.
CHAT ROOMS, FORUMS, AND MESSAGE BOARDS
The
Web Sites may make chat rooms, forums, blogs and
message boards available to its users. If you post
personal information online, it will be publicly
available and you may receive unsolicited messages
from other parties. We cannot ensure the security of
any information you choose to make public in a chat
room, forum, blog or message board. Also, we cannot
ensure that parties who have access to such publicly
available information will respect your privacy.
Please exercise caution when disclosing personal
information in these areas. Your use of chat rooms,
forums, blogs and message boards is subject to our
Terms of Use.
THIRD PARTY CONTENT AND LINKS TO OTHER WEB SITES
When
you are on the Web Sites you may be directed to
other sites that are operated and controlled by
third parties that are beyond our control. For
example, if you "click" on a banner advertisement,
the "click" may take you off the Web Sites onto a
different web site. This includes links from
advertisers, sponsors and partners that may use the
Web Sites’ logo as part of a co-branding agreement.
These other web sites may send their own cookies to
you, independently collect data or solicit personal
information and may or may not have their own
published privacy policies. If you visit a web site
that is linked from our Web Sites, you should
consult that web site’s privacy policy before
providing any personal information.
CONSENT TO TRANSFER
The
Web Sites are operated in the United States. If you
are located in the European Union, Canada or
elsewhere outside of the United States, please be
aware that any information you provide to us will be
transferred to the United States. By using the Web
Sites or providing us with your information, you
consent to this transfer.
SECURITY
Company incorporates reasonable safeguards to help
protect and secure your personal information.
However, no data transmission over the Internet, or
wireless transmission or electronic storage of
information can be guaranteed to be 100% secure.
Please note that Company cannot ensure or warrant
the security of any information you transmit to
Company via its Web Sites, and you do so at your own
risk.
A
SPECIAL NOTE FOR PARENTS CONCERNING PRIVACY
The
Web Sites are general audience web sites. We do not
knowingly collect any personal information from
children younger than the age of thirteen (13) on
the Web Sites and we will delete any information
later determined to be from a user younger than
thirteen (13).
NOTIFICATION OF CHANGES AND YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THE
PRIVACY POLICY
By using the Web
Sites, you acknowledge your agreement to the terms
of this Privacy Policy. From time to time, Company
may update this Privacy Policy. However, Company
will use your personal information in a manner
consistent with the Privacy Policy in effect at the
time you submitted the information, unless you
consent to the new or revised policy.
