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Revision Date: March 16, 2001
The protection
of your privacy is of the greatest importance to Meltmagazine.com.
We believe
that you have the right to understand how your information
is stored and used. Our privacy
commitment is described in this Privacy Policy.
This
Privacy Policy will let you know the following:
What
Information Meltmagazine.com Collects From You
How Meltmagazine.com Uses the Information
that it Collects
Who Else Collects Information From Your
Use of Meltmagazine.com
What Are Your Choices As to Collection,
Use and Distribution of Information
Children's Privacy
How Meltmagazine.com Can Modify This Privacy
Policy
How You Can Contact Meltmagazine.com About
this Policy
What Information Does Meltmagazine.com
collect from me?
Our web
server automatically recognizes your domain name. Our web
server does not recognize
your e-mail address. Meltmagazine.com is designed such that
it does not require the use of any
personal identifiers (such as name, address, telephone number
or e-mail address). IF YOU SEND
US AN E-MAIL OR SUBSCRIBE TO A NEWSLETTTER, WE WILL HAVE YOUR
E-MAIL
ADDRESS AT OUR SITE.
You may
request delivery of content, service, or merchandise to your
e-mail address or an off-linedestination, or you may elect
our more personalized services. If so, you will be notified
of the
need to provide personal identifying information to us or
to another company providing the
content, service or merchandise. You may freely decide whether
to request the services or utilize
the services.
How does Meltmagazine.com use the
information that it collects?
We will
only use the information to provide you with the services
you have requested and as
otherwise described in this Privacy Policy.
When
you provide us with personal identifying information for a
specific purpose, we may also
use that information to personalize the site for you. We will
not use that information to contact
you for other purposes, unless use of that information is
necessary for enforcement of any of the
terms of this Privacy Policy.
Who
Else Collects Information From My Use of Meltmagazine.com?
In order
to bring you offers that are of interest to you and to help
finance the cost of making our
site available, we have relationships with other companies
that we allow to place advertisements
and/or product and service offers on our web site. As a result
of your visit to our site, these
advertising service companies may collect information such
as:
1. your domain type
2. your IP address (binary code address for your domain)
3. "clickstream" information (data reporting the
categories or sections on our site that you
have visited).
Our advertising
service companies may place cookies on your computer. We do
not allow our
advertising service companies to collect personal identifying
information about you without your
express prior consent. Note that if you do provide personal
identifying information to an
advertising service company, it may be able to connect that
information with the data collected by its cookie and other
information it may have from other sources so that such data
will become
personally identified. Other sites linked to our site may
also use cookies. For further information,
consult those companies' privacy policies: for example, http://www.doubleclick.com/us/corporate/privacy/
Unless
it is necessary to provide you with the service you have requested,
we will not disclose
your personal identifying information to any third party;
provided that a limited number of our
employees, such as customer service representatives, and contractors
providing services to us,
such as market research companies, may have limited access
to personal identifying information
maintained on our systems. All are required to keep such information
strictly confidential and to
use it only as necessary to perform their responsibilities.
Failure to do so may result in
termination. We also take immediate steps to address any accidental
disclosure to third parties
which come to our attention.
We sometimes
use, or supply to others, aggregated data (independent of
any personal identifiers)
for the purposes of target advertising, research and other
commercial purposes.
Note that if you obtain dial-up access to our site from a
third party independent Internet service
provider (an "ISP"), it may have information relating
to you which can be connected with
information it collects about your usage of our site.
Please
check the privacy policy of any ISP that you use, or other
company providing content,
service or merchandise to you, as to its use of the information.
What
Are My Choices As to Collection, Use and Distribution of Information?
If personal
identifying information must be disclosed to a third party
to provide a requested
service, we will tell you, so you can decide whether to request
the service [i.e. "opt in" or "opt
out"]. You will always have the option of requesting
that the personal identifying information be removed from
our systems by contacting us at the address indicated at the
end of this policy. If you register with us, you also have
the right, upon reasonable notice, to view your registration
information and make any corrections that are necessary. If
you have requested e-mails from us,
but you decide that you do not want to receive e-mails from
us in the future, please contact us at
the address indicated at the end of this policy.
What
About Children's Privacy?
This
site is for adults. Therefore, we do not intend to collect
information from children. If we
learn that we inadvertently have collected personal identifying
information from a child under the age of 13, we will promptly
delete that data from our systems.
How Can Meltmagazine.com Modify this
Privacy Policy?
We may
decide to use information collected from you in new ways and
our services may evolve to serve you better. As a result,
we may from time to time change this Privacy Policy. Please
check back here periodically to see if there have been any
changes. To make it easier for you to
determine, we post at the top of the policy the last date
that the policy was revised. Even if we do
make a change to the policy, we will not use any personal
information we already have collected
in a way not disclosed under the prior version of the policy
without first obtaining your consent.
Can
I Contact Meltmagazine.com About this Privacy Policy?
If you
have any questions or suggestions with respect to this Privacy
Policy, or if you wish to ask
us to delete or show you your information as provided above,
please contact us here.
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