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Performance Media Group, LLC
(“PMG”) publishes this Internet Privacy Policy to inform you of our
practices concerning the collection and use of information you provide us
through interactions with this website and the other PMG-affiliated websites
and all PMG publications. This policy is not applicable to information
gathered by other methods or controlled by other agreements.
How We Collect Information
PMG collects personal
information in a variety of ways, including when you register with PMG on
this website, when you subscribe to PMG services through this website, when
you use PMG products or services via the website, when you visit PMG
websites or the websites of certain PMG partners, and when you enter
Internet-based promotions or sweepstakes sponsored or administered by PMG.
User Registration
When you register on our
website, we ask for and collect information such as your name, email
address, birth date, gender, zip code, occupation, and industry. For some
products and services we may also ask for your address and information about
you or your business’s assets or income. Once you register with PMG and sign
in to our services, you are not anonymous to us.
e-letters
Users may elect to
participate in a variety of PMG e-letters (email services), ranging from
daily news to supplier hot specials. PMG collects personal information in
connection with the registration for and use of such services.
Contests
Users may elect to
participate in promotions and/or promotional contests that PMG conducts from
time to time on behalf of its clients. PMG collects personal information in
connection with user registration for and participation in such promotions
and contests.
Educational Programs and
Seminars
Users may elect to
participate in educational programs and seminars that PMG conducts from time
to time. PMG collects personal information in connection with user
registration for and participation in such programs.
Cookies
“Cookies” are small pieces of
information that are stored by your browser on your computer’s hard drive.
PMG or its advertisers may send a cookie to your computer through your
browser. PMG uses cookies to track page requests and the duration of each
user’s visit and the use of cookies allows us to provide a user’s browser
with information tailored to the visitor’s preferences and needs and to also
streamline the user’s visits to our website. You can choose whether to
accept cookies by changing the settings of your browser. You can reset your
browser to refuse all cookies or allow your browser to show you when a
cookie is being sent. If you choose not to accept cookies, your experience
at our website and other websites may be
diminished and some features may not work as intended.
IP Addresses
PMG automatically receives
and records information on our server logs from your browser, including your
IP address, PMG cookie information, and the website page you request. PMG
uses this information to help diagnose problems with our servers, for system
administration, and to examine our website traffic in aggregate. The
information may be collected and used to improve the content of our Web
pages and to customize content and/or layout for each user.
Purchases
If you are purchasing
something from an PMG website, we need to know personally identifiable
information such as your name, email address, mailing address, credit card
number, and expiration date. This allows us to process and fulfill your
order and to notify you of your order status. This information may also be
used by PMG to notify you of related products and services. Credit card
information will not be shared or sold to unaffiliated third parties for any
purpose without your express permission, except as necessary to process the
transaction.
Use of Information
If you elect to provide us
personal information, we use it primarily to deliver the service you
requested. PMG may use personal information in a variety of ways including
the following:
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PMG may use personal information
to collected through its website to send out
targeted email promotions on behalf of its advertisers and industry
partners.
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PMG may combine information about
you that we have with information we obtain from business partners or other
companies in order to better deliver products and services that may be of
interest and benefit to you.
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PMG may use personal information
to contact users regarding renewing subscriptions to PMG services and
products.
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PMG may use personally
identifiable information to send notification of PMG’s
or our partners’ products and services by such methods as email and/or
postal mail.
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If you provide financial
information, we use that information primarily to verify your credit and
collect payments for your purchases, orders, subscriptions, etc.
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PMG may send product announcements
or special edition e-letters to online registrants.
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If you participate in an PMG
educational program, seminar, or other time-sensitive program, we may
contact you to remind you of upcoming deadlines or additional information
concerning these programs.
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PMG occasionally conducts
subscriber and/or user surveys to better target our content to our
audiences. The aggregated information collected is sometimes shared with our
advertisers, however, we will do not share
specific individual information with a third-party.
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PMG operates several websites
featuring its travel-related content and services. PMG may share personal
information collected from users of its websites internally across these
websites to better serve its users.
PMG has numerous products and
services and therefore numerous email and promotion lists. In an effort to
allow users to tailor their participation in PMG services and promotions,
PMG provides users the ability to choose specific lists or products of
interest and opt-out options are product and use/list specific. All email
promotions sent from PMG provide an opt-out link at the bottom of the email
pursuant to which users can opt-out of specific products and promotions. If
you receive one of these emails and wish to unsubscribe please follow the
instructions given in each email or contact
remove@pmgemail.com.
From time to time we may use
customer information for new, unanticipated uses not previously disclosed in
our Privacy Policy. If our information practices change at some time in the
future we will post the policy changes to our website.
Sharing of Information
Collected With Third Parties
In general, PMG does not
rent, sell, or share personal information about you with other people or
nonaffiliated companies except to provide products or services you have
requested, when we have your permission, or under the following
circumstances:
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We may provide personal
information about our users to trusted partners and vendors who work on
behalf of or with PMG under confidentiality and similar agreements
prohibiting such parties’ further use of the information. These companies
may use your personal information to help PMG communicate with you about
offers from PMG and our marketing partners. However, these companies do not
have any independent right to use or share this information.
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When you register for an
educational program, contest, or other promotion that is sponsored by a
third party, the third party will be provided personally identifiable
information unless otherwise posted in connection with the promotion.
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PMG may from time
to time share personal information such as email addresses with trusted
third parties who deliver content that is likely to be of interest to the
user and subject to opt-out obligation on the part of such third party.
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We may share personal information
where we have a good faith belief that such action is necessary to comply
with a judicial proceeding, a court order, or legal process served on PMG,
or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims.
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We may share such information
where we have a good faith belief that it is necessary in order to
investigate (or assist in the investigation of), prevent, or take action
regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving
potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of
PMG's terms of use, or as otherwise required by
law.
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If PMG is acquired by or merged
with another company, we will transfer information about you to this other
company in connection with the acquisition or merger.
Discussion Groups
Email discussion groups are
available for our users on some of our websites. Participants should be
aware that information disclosed in these discussion lists is made available
to all members and thus becomes public information. We suggest that you
exercise caution when deciding to disclose any personal information in such
discussion groups.
Security
This website takes
commercially reasonable precautions to protect your personal information.
When we transfer and receive certain types of sensitive information such as
credit card and payment information, we re-direct users to industry standard
SSL (Secure Socket Layer) encrypted servers. As a result, sensitive data you
submit to our website such as credit card and payment information is
transmitted securely over the Internet.
Disclaimers
PMG is not responsible for
any breach of security or for any actions of any third parties that receive
the information. PMG also links to a wide variety of other sites and
contains advertisements of third parties. We are not responsible for their
privacy policies or how they treat information about their users.
About Children's Privacy
This PMG website is not
intended for use by children and PMG does not knowingly collect information
from children. You must be 18 years old to access or use this site.
Update/Change Your Data
To update your email address
or change your email preferences please contact
support@pmgemail.com
Changes to this Privacy
Policy
PMG reserves the right, at
any time and without notice, to add to, change, update or modify this
Privacy Policy, simply by posting such change, update or modification on the
website. Any such change, update or modification will be effective
immediately upon positing on the website. Users will be informed of changes
to this Privacy Policy via the “updated as of” link on the PMG website.
What Else Should I Know
About My Privacy When Online?
The PMG websites contain many
hyperlinks to other websites. The PMG website also contains advertisements
of third parties. PMG is not responsible for the privacy practices or the
content of such third party websites or advertisers. PMG does not share any
of the individual personal information you provide PMG with the websites to
which PMG links, except as stated elsewhere within this Privacy Policy,
although PMG may share aggregate data with such websites (such as how many
people use our Site).
Please check with those third
party sites to determine their privacy policy. When PMG embeds third party
content into one of it's PMG web pages, PMG will
use reasonable efforts to advise our users that they have exited an PMG
operated website and are entering a third party controlled website.
Customers/users should read and understand any privacy policy noted on all
third party websites.
Please keep in mind that
whenever you voluntarily disclose personal information online - for example
through email, discussion lists, or elsewhere - that information can be
collected and used by others. In short, if you post personal information
online that is accessible to the public, you may receive unsolicited
messages from other parties in return.
Ultimately, you are solely
responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your personal information. Please
be careful and responsible whenever you're online.
Your Consent To This
Policy
By using our website, you
consent to the collection and use of information by PMG as specified in this
policy. Please also note that your use of the website is governed by the
PMG Terms and Conditions. If you do not agree to the terms of the Privacy
Policy or the Terms and Conditions, please do not use the website, products
and/or services.
Please send any questions
about PMG's Privacy Policy to
privacy@pmgemail.com |
