Last Revised January 08, 2008
The following Privacy
Policy summarizes the various ways that The Condé Nast Publications
("Service Provider," "we" or "our") treats
the information you provide while using http://www.cookieassortment.com ("Website").
It is our goal to bring you information that is tailored to your individual
needs and, at the same time, protect your privacy.
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. You can access the Privacy Policy
any time at http://www.cookieassortment.com/services/privacy. Your use of and/or registration
on any aspect of the Website will constitute your agreement to this Privacy
Policy. If you cannot agree with the terms and conditions of this
Privacy Policy, please do not use the Website. This Privacy Policy does not
cover information collected elsewhere, including without limitation offline
and on sites linked to from the Website.
In addition to reviewing this Privacy Policy, please read our User
Agreement. Your use of the Website constitutes agreement to its terms
and conditions as well.
This Privacy Policy may be modified from time to time; the date of the most
recent revisions will appear on this page, so check back often. Continued
access of the Website by you will constitute your acceptance of any changes
or revisions to the Privacy Policy.
I. THE TYPE OF INFORMATION THE WEBSITE COLLECTS
The Website generally collects personally identifying information with your
specific knowledge and consent. For instance, when you enter a sweepstakes
or contest, complete a survey, make a purchase, subscribe to our publication(s),
or register for any portion of our services, you are asked to provide information
such as your e-mail address, name or phone number. Optional information such
as your age or gender may also be requested.
Our servers may also automatically collect information about your computer
when you visit the Website, including without limitation the type of browser
software you use, the operating system you are running, the website that referred
you, and your Internet Protocol ("IP") address. Your IP address
is usually associated with the place from which you enter the Internet, like
your Internet Service Provider, your company or your university.
II. HOW THE WEBSITE USES INFORMATION PROVIDED BY YOU
Service Provider uses personally identifying information you supply through
the Website to provide you with the service you have requested. For example,
if you subscribe to any of our publications, we may use your e-mail address
to send you a confirmation notice and your mailing address to send you the
publication. Similarly, if you enter an online sweepstakes, we will use this
information to notify you if you are a winner. We may also use the information
to communicate with you about new features, products or services, and/or to
improve the services that we offer by tailoring them to your needs.
Unless otherwise specified on the Website, Service Provider may sell or share
personally identifying information with our affiliates and with carefully
selected companies who we think can offer you services and products of interest
to you. If you do not wish to have your personally identifying information
shared, write to us at the street address set forth at the end of this document.
If you do not wish to receive future commercial communications from us by
e-mail, simply follow the unsubscribe instructions contained within the e-mail.
If you've registered on any part of the Website, please use the mechanism
on the Website that allows you to change or update your member preferences
or information, if available, to keep all such date accurate and up-to-date.
Otherwise, contact our Privacy Policy Coordinator as described below with
your changes.
We also allow access to our database by third parties that provide us with
services, such as technical maintenance or forums and job search software,
but only for the purpose of and to the extent necessary to provide those services.
And if you choose to purchase items through features on the Website, we may
forward your information to third parties for services such as credit card
processing and order fulfillment. There are also times when you provide information
about yourself to us in areas of the site that may be managed or participated
in by third parties, such as auction services or shopping areas. In such cases,
the information may be used by us and by such third party(ies), each pursuant
to its own policies. We may also provide your information to our advertisers,
so that they can serve ads to you that meet your needs or match your interests.
While Service Provider will seek to require such third parties to follow appropriate
privacy policies and will not authorize them to use this information except
for the express purpose for which it is provided, Service Provider does not
bear any responsibility for any actions or policies of third parties. We may
also provide access to our database in order to cooperate with official investigations
or legal proceedings, including, for example, in response to subpoenas, search
warrants, court orders, or other legal process.
In addition, we reserve the right to use the information we collect about
your computer, which may at times be able to identify you, for any lawful
business purpose, including without limitation to help diagnose problems with
our servers, to gather broad demographic information, and to otherwise administer
our Website.
While your personally identifying information is protected as outlined above,
we reserve the right to use, transfer, sell, and share aggregated, anonymous
data about our users as a group for any business purpose, such as analyzing
usage trends and seeking compatible advertisers and partners.
In addition, as our business changes, we may buy or sell various assets. In
the event all or a portion of the assets owned or controlled by Service Provider,
its parent or any subsidiary or affiliated entity are sold, assigned, transferred
or acquired by another company, the information from and/or about our Website
users may be among the transferred assets.
III. COOKIES
You may have read about "cookies," nuggets of information that are
placed by a Website in a storage place on your own computer. We may use cookies
to control the display of ads, to track usage patterns on the site, to deliver
editorial content, and to record registration and personalization information.
For example, if you register on any part of the Website and are given the
option to save your user name and password on your computer, we can provide
this convenience to you by placing a cookie on your computer. Our cookies
may contain personally identifiable information and such cookies may be shared
with our affiliates and other companies.
Some of our advertisers occasionally serve you cookies as well. We do not
have control over cookies placed by advertisers.
We may also use advertising service vendors to help present advertisements
on the Website. These vendors may use cookies, web beacons, or similar technologies
to serve you advertisements tailored to interests you have shown by browsing
on this and other sites you have visited, to determine whether you have seen
a particular advertisement before and to avoid sending you duplicate advertisements.
In doing so, these vendors may collect non-personal data such as your browser
type, your operating system, Web pages visited, time of visits, content viewed,
ads viewed, and other clickstream data. The use of cookies, web beacons, or
similar technologies by these advertising service vendors is subject to their
own privacy policies, not ours, and Service Provider disclaims all liability
in connection therewith. If you do not want the benefits of these advertising
cookies, you may be able to opt-out by visiting http://www.networkadvertising.org/optout_nonppii.asp.
If you don't want any cookies, your Web browser likely includes an option
that allows you to not accept them. However, if you set your browser to refuse
cookies, some portions of the Website may not function properly.
IV. INFORMATION SECURITY AND NOTIFICATION
Because no data transmission over the Internet is completely secure, and no
system of physical or electronic security is impenetrable, Service Provider
can not guarantee the security of the information you send to us or the security
of our servers or databases, and by using the Website you agree to assume
all risk in connection with the information sent to us or collected by us
when you use the Website. In the unlikely event that we believe that the security
of your information in our possession or control may have been compromised,
we may seek to notify you. If notification is appropriate, we may notify you
by e-mail (provided we have your e-mail address).
V. KIDS AND PARENTS
This Website is not intended for use by children, especially those under age
13. No one under age 13 is allowed to provide any personal information or
use our public discussion areas, forums and chats. Minors between the ages
of 13 and 17 must get the permission of their parent(s) or legal guardian(s)
before making purchases, including subscriptions, on this site.
If your children disclose information about themselves in publicly accessible
areas of the Website, they may get unsolicited messages from other parties.
Accordingly, you should tell them not to do so.
If you're worried about your children's activities or their privacy on our
site, we encourage you to contact our Privacy Policy Coordinator as described
below.
VI. PRIVACY POLICY COORDINATOR
If you have any concerns or questions about any aspect of this policy, please
feel free to contact our Privacy Policy Coordinator as follows:
Privacy Policy Coordinator
The Condé Nast Publications
1313 Market Street
Wilmington, DE 19801
Privacy_administration@advancemags.com