We at
Maven Publications and our affiliated companies are committed to
respecting
your online privacy and recognize your need for appropriate protection
and
management of any personally identifiable information you share with
us.
We have created this Privacy Policy to demonstrate our firm
commitment to
privacy and security. We request that you read this Privacy
Policy
carefully.
Any information you may disclose in any public areas of our web sites
become
public information. Please
exercise
caution when deciding to disclose personal information in these public
areas.
You must be eighteen (18) years or older to access this web site.
Any
person under eighteen years of age is not permitted to access this web
site for
any reason. It is our policy to comply with all applicable
laws related
to children's privacy. No information obtained by this web
site falls
within the Child Online Privacy Act (COPA) due to the age restrictions
for use
and is not monitored as doing so.
For each visitor to our Web page, our Web server may automatically
recognize
the consumer's domain name and e-mail address (where possible). We may
collect
the domain name and e-mail address (where possible) of visitors to our
Web
page, the e-mail addresses of those who post messages to our bulletin
board,
the e-mail addresses of those who communicate with us via e-mail, the
e-mail
addresses of those who make postings to our chat areas, aggregate
information
on what pages consumers access or visit, user-specific information on
what
pages consumers access or visit, and information volunteered by the
consumer,
such as survey information and/or site registrations, name and address,
telephone number, fax number, and payment information (e.g., credit
card number
and billing address).
The
information we collect
may be used for internal review, used to improve the content of our Web
page,
used to customize the content and/or layout of our page for each
individual
visitor, used to notify consumers about updates to our Web site, and
used by us
to contact consumers for marketing purposes.
With
respect to cookies:
We may use cookies to store visitors preferences, record session
information,
such as items that consumers add to their shopping cart, record
user-specific
information on what pages users access or visit, alert visitors to new
areas
that we think might be of interest to them when they return to our
site, record
past activity at a site in order to provide better service when
visitors return
to our site, ensure that visitors are not repeatedly sent the same
banner ads,
and customize Web page content based on visitors' browser type or other
information that the visitor sends.
With
respect to Ad
Servers: To try and bring you offers that are of interest to you, we
may have
relationships with other companies that we allow to place ads on our
Web pages.
As a result of your visit to our site, ad server companies may collect
information such as your domain type, your IP address and clickstream
information. We do not control use of these cookies and other
data
gathering practices and expressly disclaim responsibility for
information
collected through them.
If
you supply us with your
postal address on-line you may receive periodic mailings from us with
information on new products and services or upcoming events. If you do
not wish
to receive such mailings, please let us know by writing to us at the
above
address. Please provide us with your exact name and address.
We will be
sure your name is removed from future postal mailings.
Persons
who supply us with
their telephone numbers on-line may receive telephone contact from us
with
information regarding new products and services or upcoming events. If
you do
not wish to receive such telephone calls, please let us know by writing
to us
at the above address. Please provide us with your name and phone
number. We
will be sure your name is removed from future outbound calls.
From
time to time, we may
use customer information for new, unanticipated uses not previously
disclosed
in our privacy notice. If our information practices change at some time
in the
future we will post the policy changes to our Web site to notify you of
these
changes. Your use of this site after such changes are implemented
constitutes
your acknowledgement and acceptance of these changes. Please
consult this
privacy statement prior to every use for any changes.
Upon
request we provide site visitors with access to a description of
information
that we maintain about them. Consumers can access this information by
sending a
written request to the address listed below.
Upon
request we offer
visitors the ability to have inaccuracies corrected in communications
that the
consumer/visitor has directed to the site. Consumers can have
this
information corrected by sending a written request to the address
listed below.
With
respect to security:
We have security measures in place to protect the information under our
control. While we make every effort to ensure the security of
our network
and systems, we cannot guarantee that our security measures will
prevent
third-party "hackers" from illegally obtaining this information.
If
you have any questions
about this Privacy Policy, you may contact us via email
at support@mavenpublications.com.
Last
Updated: 4/18/2008
Copyright
© 2008 by Maven
Publications,