At Bonnier
Corporation, your privacy is important to us.
This Privacy Policy applies to all of the products, services, and
websites offered by Bonnier Corporation and its subsidiaries or affiliated
companies (collectively, "Bonnier").
To better
protect your privacy, we provide this notice explaining our privacy practices
and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and
used by Bonnier.
Bonnier
adheres to the U.S. Department of Commerce Safe Harbor framework and the
privacy principles of Notice, Choice, Onward Transfer, Security, Data
Integrity, Access, and Enforcement. For
more information on the framework, please visit the Safe
Harbor website.
If you have
any questions about this Privacy Policy, please write to us via e-mail at
privacy@bonniercorp.com, or via postal mail at:
Privacy Department
Bonnier Corporation
460 N. Orlando Avenue, Suite 200
Winter Park, FL
32789
An overview of the information that Bonnier
may collect
You are
able to take advantage of many Bonnier products,
services, and websites without providing any information that personally
identifies you. We only collect
personally-identifying information when you voluntarily submit it to us.
Sometimes,
we need personally-identifying information in order to provide you with the
products and services that you request.
Depending upon the product or service, we may ask you for a variety of
personally-identifying information. This
might include, for example, your name, address, e-mail address, telephone
number, gender, and birth date. We may also ask for other information about
you, such as your credit card information (when you are making a purchase),
interests, income, or education level.
We consider certain identifying information "sensitive." This includes your credit card number, income
level, or any other information that would normally be considered confidential.
You may
choose not to provide us with any personally-identifying information. In that case, you can still access and use
many portions of our websites; however, you will not
be able to access and use those portions of any Bonnier
website that require your personal information.
Many
Bonnier websites include community features, such as online forums and message
boards. Information that is posted in
these areas becomes public information and the use that any third party makes
of this information is beyond our ability to control. You should exercise caution before disclosing
any personally-identifying information in these public venues. If you elect to submit content that includes
information that can be used to identify you, you must assume that the content
can and will be displayed on any website on the Internet.
At some Bonnier sites and through certain promotions, you can submit
personally-identifying information about other people. For example, you might submit a person's name
and e-mail address to send an electronic greeting card; or, if you order a gift
online or offline and want it sent directly to the recipient, you might submit
the recipient's name and address. Some
Bonnier websites also provide referral services to help you inform a friend
about our websites, products, or services.
The types of personally-identifying information that we collect about
other people at pages like these may include the person's name, address, e-mail
address, or telephone number. We will
only ask you for the information about your friend that we need in order to do
what you request.
In some
circumstances, we also collect non-personally-identifying information. When you visit a Bonnier
website, we may collect information such as the type of browser you use, your
operating system, your IP address, and the domain name of your Internet Service
Provider. This information, by itself,
does not permit individual identification, meaning that you will remain
anonymous. However, if you elect to
provide us with personally-identifying information during your visit, that
information may be linked to your IP address.
When you
visit our websites, we may send one or more cookies - small, removable data
files - to your computer. We use cookies
to uniquely identify your browser, which allows us to enhance and personalize
your online experience at Bonnier websites. For example, cookies allow us to recognize
you when you return to a website and present relevant content to you when you
visit. Most browsers are initially set
up to accept cookies, but you can configure your browser to warn you when
cookies are sent, or to refuse all cookies.
Some of the features and services of Bonnier
websites may not operate properly if your cookies are disabled.
Cookies, by
themselves, do not provide us with any personally-identifying information. However, if you elect to
provide us with personally-identifying information during your visit, that
information may be linked to the data stored in the cookie.
On our
websites, we may also use tiny graphic images called pixel tags, web beacons,
or clear gifs. These tiny images help us
to analyze our users' online behavior and collect other data, such as page views
or advertising responses. Pixel tags
also allow us to send you e-mail in a format that you can read, and let us know
when you have opened an e-mail message from us.
Pixel tags may also be used to deliver cookies.
We work
with reputable third parties that provide data tracking and collection
technologies in order to:
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Present or serve the advertisements you may see at Bonnier websites;
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Deliver and track e-mail communications;
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Process purchase orders through e-commerce transactions;
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Fulfill print and digital subscription orders; and
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Provide marketing leads to third-party organizations (where you have agreed to
allow us to do so).
These companies may
collect information about you on our behalf.
We require that these parties agree to process any such information
based on our instructions and in compliance with this Privacy Policy and any
other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.
Bonnier
websites sometimes may offer contests, sweepstakes, or promotions that are
sponsored by or co-sponsored with identified third parties. By virtue of their sponsorship, these third
parties may obtain personally-identifying information that visitors voluntarily
submit to them in order to participate in the contest, sweepstakes, or
promotion. Bonnier has no control over
the third-party sponsors' use of this information. If a third-party sponsor beyond our control
will obtain information that you supply us, we will notify you at the time we
collect the information from you. For
certain promotions, only those who provide us with the requested
personally-identifying information will be able to order products, programs,
and services, or otherwise participate in the promotion's activities and
offerings.
Some of our
websites contain links to other sites.
By clicking on these links, you will leave the website operated by
Bonnier and this Privacy Policy will no longer apply. These other sites' information practices may
be different than ours. You should
consult the other sites' privacy notices, as we have no control over
information that is submitted to, or collected by, these third parties.
How we use the information we collect
We use the
personally-identifying information that you provide us to fulfill your requests
for our products, programs, and services, to respond to your inquiries about
offerings, and to offer you other products, programs, or services that we
believe may be of interest to you. We
sometimes use this information to communicate with you, such as to notify you
when you have won one of our contests, when we make
changes to subscriber agreements, to fulfill a request by you for an online
newsletter, or to contact you about your account with us.
We may
syndicate the publicly available content of our community areas to unaffiliated
third-party websites, using RSS or other technologies.
We will use
the personally-identifying information that you provide about others only as
necessary to provide the products or services that you have requested; for example,
to enable us to send them your gifts or cards.
If you provide us someone else's personally-identifying information for
referral purposes, we may use that information to invite them to visit our
websites or to provide them information about our products or services.
If you
provide us with your e-mail and/or postal address, we may include that address
in e-mail and/or postal address lists that we sell, trade, or rent to third
parties. Before sharing your e-mail or
postal address with companies not owned by Bonnier who want to market products
or services to you, we will provide you with an opportunity to opt out. You may also opt out of the receipt of any
marketing materials from Bonnier as detailed below.
We may transfer your
sensitive personally-identifying information to other Bonnier
offices for internal management and administrative purposes. In addition, your personal data will be
transferred to other Bonnier offices where necessary
for the performance or conclusion of our contractual obligations to you or for
your benefit. Transfers of
personally-identifying information may also be made where necessary for the
establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims.
Bonnier
will only share your sensitive personal information with outside companies or
individuals in any of the following limited circumstances:
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When we use trusted businesses or persons to process personal information on
our behalf. Before sharing any personal
information with outside parties, we require that these parties agree to
process such information based on our instructions and in compliance with this
Privacy Policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.
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When we have a good faith belief that access, use, preservation, or disclosure
is necessary to (a) comply with applicable law, regulation, or legal process;
(b) enforce the applicable Terms of Service or other agreements and policies on
the Company's Websites; (c) detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud,
security, or technical issues; or (d) protect against imminent harm to the
rights, property, or safety or Bonnier, its users, or the public as required or
permitted by law.
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When you consent. Before we share your
sensitive personal information outside of the previously listed circumstances, we
will ask you for permission first.
Please note that this only applies to sensitive information, as defined
above.
We may also
use, transfer, sell, and share aggregated, anonymous data about our users for
any legal purpose, such as analyzing usage trends and seeking compatible
advertisers and partners. In no event
will this aggregated data contain any information that could be used to
identify individual users of our products or services.
How we protect the safety and integrity of
the information we collect
We take
appropriate physical, electronic, and procedural measures to safeguard and
protect your personal information. We
use a variety of security measures, including encryption and authentication, to
maintain the confidentiality of your personal information. We store your personal information on systems
behind firewalls that are only accessible to a limited number of persons, each
of whom is required to keep the information confidential. We also take appropriate measures to secure
the transmission of sensitive personal information from your computer to the
Company's computers. When you transmit
sensitive personal information to us, like credit card information, we offer
the use of a secure connection to our servers.
To the extent you select the secure connection method or your browser
supports such functionality, all credit card account information that you
supply is transmitted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology. Regardless of these measures, no system
connected to the Internet or data transmission sent over the Internet can be
guaranteed to be 100% secure. We will
provide notice if we become aware of any security breach that may affect any
sensitive personal information pertaining to you that we have stored on our
systems.
Bonnier employees, agents, and contractors who have access to
personally-identifying information are required to protect this information in
a manner that is consistent with this Privacy Policy and may not use the
information for any purpose other than to carry out the services they are
performing for Bonnier. These
individuals are bound by confidentiality obligations and may be subject to
discipline, including termination and criminal prosecution, if they fail to
meet these obligations.
Bonnier
only collects personal information that is relevant to the purposes for which
it will be used. Though we do take
appropriate steps to review and update the information that we store to ensure
that it is accurate, complete, and current, we also depend on you to update or
correct your personal information when necessary.
You may
correct or delete any or all of the personal information you have provided to
us at any time. Many of our websites
provide means to review and update the personal information that you have
provided on that website. To inquire
about personally identifiable information that Bonnier has collected about you,
or about other ways to correct factual errors in that information, please e-mail us at
privacy@bonniercorp.com. To protect your
privacy and security, we will take reasonable steps to help verify your
identity before granting access or making corrections. We will decline to process requests where we
cannot verify the identity of the requester.
We may also decline to process requests that are automated, repetitive,
systematic, or impractical, or that might jeopardize the privacy of others.
In some
limited circumstances, such as to resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems, and
enforce our policies, we may retain some of information that you have requested
us to remove. Therefore, you should not
expect that all of your personal information will be completely removed from
our databases in response to your requests.
We only use
the information we collect for purposes consistent with this policy. If we propose to use your personal
information for purposes beyond that explained in this policy, we will provide
appropriate notice before doing so and we will provide you with the means to
opt out of those uses. We will not use
your sensitive personal information for any purposes other than those described
in this Policy unless we have obtained your consent.
Your privacy options
If you prefer not to receive communications
from other companies, you may choose to remove yourself from any lists that we
provide to third parties for marketing purposes by emailing us at
emailoptout@bonniercorp.com. You will
still receive information from Bonnier and its various brands, but we will not
share your address information with anyone else.
We only
want to communicate with you if you want to hear from us. If you
prefer not to be contacted at all, you may opt out of receiving any
communications from us at any time by notifying us at emailoptout@bonniercorp.com. You may also notify us by sending mail to the
following address:
Online Marketing
Department
Bonnier Corporation
460 North Orlando Avenue, Suite
200
Winter Park, FL 32789
In your
request, please tell us what communications you would like to opt out of, what
means we have been using to contact you (such as your e-mail or postal
address), the date of your request, and a way to contact you in case we need to
personally contact you in an effort to comply with your request. We reserve the right to send you certain
communications, such as technical alerts, without offering you the opportunity
to opt out of receiving them.
Enforcement and Compliance with this Privacy
Policy
We take our
Privacy Policy seriously and we regularly review our own compliance with this
Policy. If you have any questions or concerns about
this Policy, or if you think that we have used your personal information in a
manner inconsistent with this Policy, please contact us at:
Privacy Department
Bonnier Corporation
460 North Orlando Ave., Suite 200
Winter Park, FL
32789
If we
receive a complaint from you, we will contact you in an attempt to address your
concerns. If we are not able to resolve
a complaint, we will participate in the appropriate independent recourse
mechanism as necessary.
This policy was last updated on March 18, 2008.
