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Updated 8/18/05
If you have questions or concerns
regarding this statement, you should first contact our Webmaster
by email by clicking
here.
NewsMax.com has created this privacy statement
in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. The following discloses our
information gathering and dissemination practices for our website, NewsMax.com.
NewsMax.com offers a "Send
to Friend" feature that allows readers to forward articles to their
friends. This utility does not retain or store the e-mail addresses users
enter into the form. Use of this feature is completely anonymous.
From time to time NewsMax.com
will offer a survey in regards to a current news topic. We may request
your email address, but this is only used to limit multiple same user
entries. These email addresses are not utilized in any other way nor can
your vote be matched with your email address or any other user data.
NewsMax.com gathers information about users
from data that is provided through optional, voluntary registrations,
order forms, occasional online surveys, certain contests and sweepstakes,
and data NewsMax.com gathers through aggregating tracking information
derived mainly by tallying page views and hits throughout our site.
Such information enables us to better tailor our content to readers'
needs and to help our advertisers better understand the demographics
of our audience. Because NewsMax.com derives much of its revenues
from advertising, providing such aggregated demographic data is essential
to keeping our service free to users.
NewsMax.com does not rent to third parties our opt-in email lists. We do allow advertising, however, in our news emails. NewsMax Media does offer for rent postal files to third parties lists. These lists are comprised of both online and offline customers of NewsMax products. Customers may opt-out of such list offerings by Clicking Here.
This site contains links to other sites.
NewsMax.com is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites.
We encourage you to read the privacy statements of each and every web site
that collects your personally identifiable information.
Though we make every effort to
preserve user privacy, we may need to disclose personal information when
required by law wherein we have a good -faith that such action is necessary
to comply with a current judicial proceeding, a court order or legal process
served on our Web site.
NewsMax.com gathers user information in the
following processes:
- Order forms
- Our site uses an order form for customers to
request information, products, and services. We collect visitor contact information and
financial information (i.e. credit card numbers).
- NewsMax.com has partnered
with several affiliates to provide a wide range of products and
services to our visitors. These include GTC.com. Please be aware when you make a purchase
from these affiliates you link to their site. However they do
collect all the users credit card and billing address for their
purchase to be shipped by them. They are the sole collectors of this
information, NewsMax does not have access to any personally
identifiable information.
- Online surveys
- Our occasional online surveys may ask visitors for
contact information (i.e. email address) and demographic information (i.e. zip codes, age,
income level, etc.) to better target our content to our audience. We sometimes share the
aggregated demographic information with our advertisers and partners.
- Contests
- We occasionally run contests and/or sweepstakes on
our site in which we may ask visitors for contact information. The customer's contact
information is used to contact the visitor when necessary.
- Email alerts
- NewsMax.com offers electronic newsletters to
users. NewsMax.com gathers the email addresses of users who voluntarily subscribe. You may
opt-out of receiving future electronic newsletters by sending an email to the address
provided in each mailer.
- NewsMax.com delivers newsletters, marketing and
product offerings via email to registered recipients from our subscription center.
- Agents
-
We use an outside fulfillment
company to ship our magazine subscription, and a credit card
processing company to bill you for goods and services. These
companies do not retain, share, store or use personally identifiable
information for any other purposes.
- Security
- This site has security
measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration
of the information under our control.
- When our registration/order
form asks you to enter your sensitive information (credit card
number and/or social security number), that information is encrypted
and is protected with the best encryption software in the industry,
SSL. When you are on a secure page, such as our order form,
you should notice that the lock icon on the bottom of your browser
(Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer) becomes
locked, as opposed to un-locked, or open, when you are just
‘surfing’.
- While we use SSL encryption
to protect your sensitive information online, we also do everything
in our power to protect your information off-line.
All of our customers'
information, not just the sensitive information mentioned
above, is restricted in our offices. Only employees who need
the information to perform their job (for example, our billing
clerk or a customer service representative) are granted access
to your information. Each filing cabinet has a lock, and keys
to the cabinets are themselves locked up at night.
Also, our employees
must use password protected screen-savers, so that in the
event they are away from their desks, no unauthorized personnel
have access.
Furthermore, ALL employees
are kept up-to-date on our security and privacy practices.
Every quarter, as well as any time new policies are added,
our employees are notified and/or reminded about the importance
we place on privacy, and what they can do to ensure our customers'
information is protected.
If you have any questions
about the security at our website, you can send an email to our
Webmaster.
- Usage tracking
- NewsMax.com tracks user traffic patterns
throughout our entire site.
- Cookies
- NewsMax.com uses cookies in some areas to allow
access to registered users. The cookies are used only to store information to identify the
user. Information is not web accessible and access to the information is restricted.
If the user has cookies disabled in their browser, will we identify
that user by their IP number.
- NewsMax uses cookies as
"shopping carts" in its online store at http://www.newsmaxstore.com.
These cookies are used strictly to keep track of items selected for
purchase. Without cookies enabled users will not be able to keep
track of multiple purchases but may purchase items individually.
These cookies are not tied to a user's personally identifiable
information.
- We use third-party
advertising companies to serve our ads on our Web site. These
third-party advertising companies employ cookie and 1x1 pixel .gifs or
web beacons to measure and improve the effectiveness of ads for their
clients. To do so, these companies may use anonymous information about
your visits to our website and other websites. This information can
include: date/time of banner ad shown, the banner ad that was shown,
their cookie, the IP address. This information can also be used for
online preference marketing purposes.
If you want to prevent a
third-party advertiser from collecting data, currently you may either
visit each ad network's web site individually and opt out or visit the
NAI gateway opt-out site to opt-out of all network advertising
cookies.
Click
here for the NAI gateway opt-out site. This site will also allow
you to review the third-party advertising companies' privacy policies.
- NewsMax.com works with
various third parties to serve ads on our site. These ads may contain cookies.
This policy only covers the use of cookies by NewsMax.com and does
not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers. NewsMax.com does
not have control over, nor access to the information contained in its
advertisers' cookies To find out more about how our ad agencies
manage
the privacy of information in conjunction with serving ads on this
site go to.
- Choice / Opt-out
Our site provides users the opportunity to opt-out
of receiving direct mail and/or electronic communications from us and our partners at the point where we
request information about the visitor. This site gives the users the following options for
removing their information from our database to not receive future electronic
communications:
- Follow the unsubscribe
instructions included with each e-mail or
go here and enter your email address to pull up your account
info. You can then modify your settings or unsubscribe.
- To modify or unsubscribe
from paid subscriptions, please contact our Customer Service
Department by using the link in the email or
go here. We
ask that these requests go through Customer Service to ensure that
we also cancel your billing.
- Correct / Update
- This site gives users
the option for changing and modifying information previously
provided. To do so, send an email to our
Webmaster.
- Notification of Changes
- This policy may be revised
over time as new features are added to the web site. We will post
those material changes prominently on our Web site so that you will always know
what information we gather, how we might use that information, and
whether we will disclose it to anyone. If we are going to use users’
personally identifiable information in a manner different from that
stated at the time of collection we will provide users with a choice
as to whether or not we use their information in this different
manner. Please check this site for information about revisions to our
privacy policy.
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