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| Privacy Policy for www.hardwaremag.com |
Agreement between User and www.hardwaremag.com
- 1. THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT
- Through www.hardwaremag.com, you can order products, enter contests, vote in polls or otherwise express an opinion,
or subscribe to one of our services such as our online newsletters. You are able to visit much of this website and
enjoy services and promotions without providing any personally identifiable information. Sometimes, however, we do
need your personally identifiable information to provide you with the products and services that you request.
The types of personally identifiable information that may be collected at these pages and elsewhere include,
but are not limited to: name, address, e-mail address, telephone number, fax number, credit card information,
and information about your interests in and use of various products, programs, and services.
For certain promotions, only persons who provide us with the requested personally identifiable information will
be able to order products, programs, and services or otherwise participate in the promotion's activities and offerings.
We also may collect certain non-personally identifiable information when you visit many of our web pages such as the
type of browser you are using, the type of operating system you are using, and the domain name of your Internet service provider.
- 2. HOW WE USE THE INFORMATION
- We may use the information you provide about yourself 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 or 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.
If you choose to submit content for publication (e.g., a "letter to our editors"), we may publish your name,
screen name, and other information you have provided to us.
The information we collect in connection with our online forums and communities is used to provide an interactive
experience. We use this information to facilitate participation in these online forums and communities and,
from time to time, to offer you products, programs, or services.
We sometimes use the non-personally identifiable information that we collect to improve the design and content
of our publications and websites and to enable us to personalize your Internet experience. We also may use this
information in the aggregate to analyze site usage, as well as to offer you products, programs, or services.
We will disclose information we maintain when required to do so by law, for example, in response to a court order
or a subpoena. We also may disclose such information in response to a law enforcement agency's request.
Agents and contractors of HWM who have access to personally identifiable information are required to protect this
information in a manner that is consistent with this Privacy Notice by, for example, not using the information for
any purpose other than to carry out the services they are performing for HWM.
We may transfer your personally identifiable information to other Hardware Zone offices for internal management
and administrative purposes. Your personal data will be transferred to other Hardware Zone offices where necessary
for the performance or conclusion of our contractual obligations to you or for your benefit. Transfers of personally
identifiable information may also be made where necessary for the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims.
Although we take appropriate measures to safeguard against unauthorized disclosures of information, we cannot assure
you that personally identifiable information that we collect will never be disclosed in a manner that is inconsistent
with this Privacy Notice. Inadvertent disclosures may result, for example, when third parties misrepresent their
identities in asking the site for access to personally identifiable information about themselves for purposes of
correcting possible factual errors in the data.
- 3. PRIVACY OPTIONS
- If you prefer not to receive any information from HWM or any other Hardware Zone products, please email your request
to admin@hardwaremag.com.
www.hardwaremag.com will not use or transfer personally identifiable information provided to us in ways unrelated to
the ones described above without also providing you with an opportunity to opt out of these unrelated uses.
- 4. COLLECTION OF INFORMATION BY THIRD-PARTY SITES AND SPONSORS
- Some of our sites contain links to other sites whose 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.
www.hardwaremag.com may offer contests or promotions that are sponsored by or co-sponsored with identified
third parties. By virtue of their sponsorship, these third parties may obtain personally identifiable information
that visitors voluntarily submit to participate in the contest or promotion. www.hardwaremag.com has no control over the
third-party sponsors' use of this information. www.hardwaremag.com will notify you at the time of requesting personally
identifiable information if third-party sponsors will obtain such information.
www.hardwaremag.com may use reputable third parties to present or serve the advertisements that you may see at its
web pages and to conduct research about the advertisements. This privacy notice does not cover any use of
information that such third parties may have collected from you or the methods used by the third-parties to
collect that information.
- 5. COOKIES
- To enhance your experience with our sites, our web pages may use "cookies." Cookies are text files we place in your
computer's browser to store your preferences. Cookies, by themselves, do not tell us your e-mail address or other
personally identifiable information unless you choose to provide this information to us by, for example, registering
at one of our sites. However, once you choose to furnish the site with personally identifiable information,
this information may be linked to the data stored in the cookie.
We use cookies to understand site usage and to improve the content and offerings on our sites. For example, we
may use cookies to personalize your experience at our web pages (e.g. to recognize you by name when you return to our site),
save your password in password-protected areas, and enable you to use shopping carts on our sites. We also may use
cookies to offer you products, programs, or services.
- 6. OUR COMMITMENT TO SECURITY
- We have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and help prevent
unauthorized access, maintain data security, and correctly use the information we collect.
- 7. HOW YOU CAN ACCESS OR CORRECT INFORMATION
- To inquire about personally identifiable information that this www.hardwaremag.com has collected about you, or
how to correct factual errors in such information, please email us at admin@hardwaremag.com.
To protect your privacy and security, we will take reasonable steps to help verify your identity before granting
access or making corrections.
- 8. SPECIAL NOTES FOR PARENT
- www.hardwaremag.com is a general audience site.
- 9. CHANGES TO THIS NOTICE
- This Notice may be changed by www.hardwaremag.com. The revised Notice will be posted to this page so that you
are aware of the information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we may disclose it.
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