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Effective Date of Policy: April 8th, 2006
About This Site
This site is operated by Contrix Inc, on behalf of
Magazines4Less.com, hereinafter all collectively referred
to as the “Site.” By visiting the Site, you are accepting the practices described
in this Privacy Policy.
Information Collected from All Visitors
The Site may collect certain profile information from its users (including but not
limited to browser information, IP address, and general demographic information,
pages visited, time spent on pages and which site, if any, the user visited prior
to arriving at the Site) in order to improve our content, product offerings, and
promotional and marketing efforts. Our company also may use profile information
to create aggregate reports about its users. The above information may be collected
using cookies, server logs, and third party tracking solutions. In addition to the
forgoing, the Site may collect and maintain any information that you directly provide
while visiting the Site. Except as specifically stated herein, we have not granted
any third party the right to share your information with others.
Additional Information Collected from Registered Users and Customers
In order to fulfill customer orders and enhance user experience, the Site collects
certain specific personally identifiable information that its customers and registered
users provide when visiting the Site, such as their first and last name, their home
or other physical address including their street name and the name of their city
or town, their email address, their telephone number, and their credit card information
(none of the above-listed types of personally identifiable information will be collected
unless provided directly by the user). Such information is shared with contracted
third-parties in order to fill orders accurately and promptly, provide customer
service assistance, improve your shopping service, and improve the content of the
Site generally so that we may better meet our users' needs. We may also provide
the personally identifiable information (except email and credit card information)
we collect from our users to other businesses and companies that sell a wide variety
of products and services that we believe will be of interest to our customers. Because
we respect the privacy of our customers and visitors, you can request that we not
share your personally identifiable information with these other businesses and companies
by changing your privacy preferences by logging in to
your account. Except as specifically set forth in this privacy policy, we
will never share your email address or credit card information with third-parties.
Furthermore (as noted above), except as specifically stated herein, we have not
granted any third party the right to share your information with others.
Mandatory Communications
Please note that even if you unsubscribe from our marketing emails, the Site will
continue to send you important transactional correspondence such as expiration and
renewal notices, as well as any communications regarding financial transactions.
Use of Order Information with Third Parties
When you place an order for a magazine, the Site sends your personal information,
including name, address, credit card information and the titles you ordered to its
fulfillment partners. Fulfillment partners may only use this information to fulfill,
bill, and service your order. They have agreed not to sell, rent or lease your personally
identifiable information, or to use this information for any secondary purpose,
including marketing.
Contractual Relationships
We provide your information to our third party service vendors with whom we have
contractual relationships for the purpose of servicing our processing of your order.
These vendors provide various services on our behalf such as customer service, billing
and fulfillment. These vendors have agreed not to sell, rent or lease your personally
identifiable information or to use your information for any secondary purpose.
Publishers
When you order a magazine, we forward your contact information to the applicable
magazine publisher for fulfillment. Your information will be governed by the privacy
policy of the magazine publishers for the titles you have chosen to receive.
Exceptional Circumstances
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, with respect to all users of our Site,
we reserve the right to disclose any content, records, or electronic communication
of any kind (including personal information or private electronic communication
transmitted on our site): (i) to satisfy any law, regulation, or government request;
(ii) if such disclosure is necessary or appropriate to operate the Site; or (iii)
to protect the rights or property of
Magazines4Less.com
or its users, sponsors, providers, licensors, or merchants. The Site also reserves
the right to reject any order or to request additional information from any customer.
Business Transfers
In some cases, we may choose to buy or sell corporate assets. Customer information
is typically one of the business assets that is transferred in this type of transaction,
and notwithstanding anything to the contrary, it is possible that your information
may be transferred if we enter such a transaction. Additionally, if the Site is
acquired, if substantially all of our are acquired, or in the unlikely event that
we go out of business or enter bankruptcy, then notwithstanding anything to the
contrary, the customer information that we collect (including personally identifiable
information) may be transferred to or acquired by a third party, and that third
party may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.
Security
The information regarding your order is always sent in encrypted format in order
to protect against accidental disclosure. As an added safeguard, your credit card
information is encrypted on our servers.
Correcting/Updating Personal Information
If you want to change your personal information (such as your address or credit
card number) you can do so by accessing our online account
manager or by calling customer service at
Notification of Changes
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on the site
by identifying them as changes to our previous privacy policy. We will identify
those changes for at least 60 days so that you are always aware of what information
we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.
Questions
If you have any questions about this privacy policy, please contact our Privacy
Department by using our online contact form, or by
mailing us at the address below and including a mailing address for our response.
Contrix, Inc.
Privacy Department
575 Lexington Avenue
Suite 410
New York, NY 10022
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