We respect and are committed
to protecting your privacy. That is why we have
adopted this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy
lets you know how your personal information is
processed and explains data collection and use
practices for
Publishing Excellence. "Publishing Excellence" includes
all Web pages, newsletters, discussion forums and
lists and opt-in announcement lists owned and
operated by Publishing Excellence home page. By accessing
the Publishing Excellence web site, you are consenting to
the information collection and use practices
described in this Privacy Policy.
We promise that we will use your
personal information only in ways that are
compatible with this Privacy Policy as follows:
What information do we collect
and how are we collecting it?
We may collect IP addresses
Every computer connected to
the Internet is given a domain name and a set of
numbers, that serve as that computer's "Internet
Protocol" IP address. When a visitor requests a page
from any Web site within publishingexcellence.com, our Web
servers automatically recognize that visitor's
domain name and IP address. The domain name and IP
address reveal nothing personal about you other than
the IP address from which you have accessed our
Sites. We use this information to examine our
traffic in aggregate, and to investigate misuse of
Publishing Excellence, its users, or to cooperate with law
enforcement. We do not collect and evaluate this
information for specific individuals. Our Web
servers do not automatically record e-mail addresses
of the visitors.
What are cookies?
From time
to time, Publishing Excellence may send a "cookie" to your
computer. A cookie is a small piece of data that is
sent to your Internet browser from a Web server and
stored on your computer's hard drive. A cookie can't
read data off of your computer hard disk or read
cookie files created by other Web sites. Cookies do
not damage your system. We use cookies to identify
which areas of publishingexcellence.com you have visited or
customized, so the next time you visit those pages
may be readily accessible. You can choose whether to
accept cookies by changing the settings of your
Internet browser. You can reset your browser to
refuse all cookies, or allow your browser to show
you when a cookie is being sent. If you choose not
to accept these cookies, your experience at our Site
may be diminished and some features may not work as
intended.
Do we use single-pixel
gifs?
Publishing Excellence, its third party
service providers and advertisers may use
single-pixel gif images, sometimes referred to as
web bugs or web beacons, to count Web page accesses
and gather some general statistical information.
Publishing Excellence does not gather personal information
through the use of these images. We may use
single-pixel gifs that can track personal
information from cookies that may have been
previously placed on a user's computer. Publishing
Excellence also uses various third party providers to
track and analyze non-personally identifiable
aggregate usage information from visitors to our
websites in order to continuously improve the
quality of our sites and services to you.
What personal information
do we collect?
Wherever Publishing Excellence
collects personal information, we make an effort to
include a link to this Privacy Policy. We will ask
you when we need information that personally
identifies you (personal information) or allows us
to contact you. The personal information we collect
may include your name, title, company or
organization name, e-mail address, phone number,
work or home address, information about your job
function, information about your company, and credit
card information.
We may request your e-mail
address or mailing address for the purposes of
conducting a contest or to provide additional
services (for example, subscriptions to announcement
lists or information about events and product sales
events). Participation in contests or other
promotions on the Publishing Excellence site is completely
voluntary and you have a choice whether or not to
disclose personal information. Information requested
may include contact information (such as name and
shipping address), and demographic information (such
as zip code).
If you are purchasing something
on the Publishing Excellence site, we, and any third party
provider, need to know your name, e-mail address,
mailing address, credit card number and expiration
date. This allows us, or third party providers, to
process and fulfill your order and to notify you of
your order status. Credit card and e-mail
information will not be shared or sold to third
parties for any purpose except as provided in this
Privacy Policy without your express permission.
When you sign up for Publishing
Excellence's discussion forum, your name or alias is
recorded solely for purposes of maintaining your own
account within the forums. This information is not
used to monitor your activity within a forum, nor is
it used to identify you outside Publishing
Excellence
When you use co-branded services,
or those provided by a third party, within the
Publishing Excellence, your information may be passed to the
co-brand or third party provider and their use of
your information is subject to their applicable
privacy policies.
We may from time to time send
e-mail announcing new products and services. If you
choose to supply your postal address in an online
form, you may receive postal mailings from
Publishing Excellence
Will we disclose the
information you collect to outside third parties?
Publishing Excellence will disclose
personal information and/or an IP address:
1) To contact you regarding
products and services which may be of interest to
you. At any time, however, you may opt out of such
contact;
2) When required by law or in
the good-faith belief that such action is necessary
to:
a) Cooperate with the
investigations of purported unlawful activities and
conform to the edicts of the law or comply with
legal process served on Publishing Excellence;
b) Protect
and defend the rights or property of the Publishing
Excellence of sites and related properties, or visitors to
the Publishing Excellence of sites and related properties;
c)
Identify persons who may be violating the law, the
Publishing Excellence legal notice and Web site User
Agreement, the rights of third parties, or otherwise
misusing the Publishing Excellence or its related
properties;
d) Fulfill a user's order or
request;
3) To process and fulfill your
order or notify you of order status;
4) When we
have your consent to share the information;
5) When
you use co-branded services within our network of
sites, you grant us permission to pass your
registration information back to that service
partner. Their use of your information is subject to
their applicable privacy policies.
We maintain a strict "No-Spam"
policy that means that we do not sell, rent, or
otherwise give your e-mail address to a third-party,
without your consent or as permitted by this Privacy
Policy.
What else should you know
about my privacy when online?
Publishing Excellence may use
third-party advertising companies and advertising
networks (including Revenue Science, Inc.) to serve
ads to you based on information (not including your
name, address, email address or telephone number)
about your visits to our Web sites in order to
provide targeted advertisements about goods and
services that may be of interest to you while
visiting other Web sites. For more information about
Revenue Science, Inc. and targeted ads, please see
www.revenuescience.com/privacycenter.asp.
To opt out of the targeting program, please go to
www.networkadvertising.org/consumer/opt_out.asp.
Opting out does not mean that you will not receive
online advertising.
The Publishing Excellence contains many
hyperlinks to third party Web sites. The Publishing
Excellence also contains advertisements of third parties.
Publishing Excellence is not responsible for the privacy
practices or the content of such third party Web
sites or advertisers. Publishing Excellence does not share
any of the individual personal information you
provide Publishing Excellence with the third parties to
which Publishing Excellence links, except as stated
elsewhere within this Privacy Policy, although
Publishing Excellence may share general, aggregate data with
such third parties (such as how many people use our
Site). Please check with those Web sites to
determine their privacy policy.
If you use Publishing Excellence's
discussion threads, you should be aware that any
personally identifiable information you submit there
can be read, collected, or used by other users of
these forums, and could be used to send you
unsolicited messages. We are not responsible for the
personally identifiable information you choose to
submit in these discussion threads. In order to
avoid your e-mail address or other personal
information from being gathered and used by others
for inappropriate or harmful purposes, Publishing
Excellence
advises that you should be cautious about posting a
real e-mail address or other personal information to
newsgroups, chats, or other public forums.
Please keep in mind that whenever
you voluntarily disclose personal information online
- for example through e-mail, discussion lists, or
elsewhere - that information can be collected and
used by others. In short, if you post personal
information online that is accessible to the public,
you may receive unsolicited messages from other
parties in return.
Certain Publishing Excellence media
properties use a shopping cart feature that
safeguards this information by using industry
standard SSL (Secure Socket Layer) encrypted
servers. SSL codes the information transferred
between you and the server, rendering it unreadable
to anyone trying to intercept the information. Other
Publishing Excellence media properties do not use SSL and
thereby do not offer a secure coded way to transfer
information.
Ultimately, you are solely
responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your
personal information. Please be careful and
responsible whenever you're online.
Business transfers
We are always seeking to
improve our network of Web sites and our business.
In accomplishing these objectives, we may sell a
company, assets or websites or one or more of the
companies in our corporate family may merge with, or
be acquired by, another company. In connection with
the foregoing, we may transfer some or all of your
information in order that the service being provided
to you may continue or for other business purposes.
Your Consent To This
Agreement
By using the Publishing
Excellence,
you consent to the collection and use of information
by Publishing Excellence as specified above. We reserve the
right to modify this Policy. If we decide to change
our Privacy Policy, we will post those changes on
this page so that you are always aware of what
information we collect, how we use it, and under
what circumstances we disclose it.
Please send any questions about Publishing
Excellence's
Privacy Policy to:
privacy@publishingexcellence.com
Please note that your use of the Publishing
Excellence Web
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