Privacy
Policy
Bonnier Corporation Privacy Policy
This policy was last updated on October 11, 2011.
At Bonnier Corporation, your privacy is important to us. This Privacy
Policy applies to all of the products, services, and websites offered
by Bonnier Corporation and its subsidiaries or affiliated companies
(collectively, "Bonnier").
To better protect your privacy, we provide this notice
explaining our privacy practices and the choices you can make about the
way your information is collected and used by Bonnier.
Bonnier adheres to the U.S. Department of Commerce Safe Harbor
framework and the privacy principles of Notice, Choice, Onward
Transfer, Security, Data Integrity, Access, and Enforcement. For more
information on the framework, please visit the
Safe Harbor website.
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If you have any questions
about this Privacy Policy, please write to us
via
e-mail at privacy@bonniercorp.com, or via postal mail at:
Privacy Department
Bonnier Corporation
460 N. Orlando Avenue, Suite 200
Winter Park, FL 32789
An overview of the information that Bonnier may collect
You are able to take advantage of many Bonnier products, services, and
websites without providing any information that personally identifies
you. We only collect personally-identifying information when you
voluntarily submit it to us.
Sometimes, we need personally-identifying information in order to
provide you with the products and services that you request. Depending
upon the product or service, we may ask you for a variety of
personally-identifying information. This might include, for example,
your name, address, e-mail address, telephone number, gender, and birth
date. We may also ask for other information about you, such as your
credit card information (when you are making a purchase), interests,
income, or education level. We consider certain identifying information
"sensitive." This includes your credit card number, income level, or
any other information that would normally be considered confidential.
You may choose not to provide us with any personally-identifying
information. In that case, you can still access and use many portions
of our websites; however, you will not be able to access and use those
portions of any Bonnier website that require your personal information.
Many Bonnier websites include community features, such as online forums
and message boards. Information that is posted in these areas becomes
public information and the use that any third party makes of this
information is beyond our ability to control. You should exercise
caution before disclosing any personally-identifying information in
these public venues. If you elect to submit content that includes
information that can be used to identify you, you must assume that the
content can and will be displayed on any website on the Internet.
At some Bonnier sites and through certain promotions, you can submit
personally-identifying information about other people. For example, you
might submit a person's name and e-mail address to send an electronic
greeting card; or, if you order a gift online or offline and want it
sent directly to the recipient, you might submit the recipient's name
and address. Some Bonnier websites also provide referral services to
help you inform a friend about our websites, products, or services. The
types of personally-identifying information that we collect about other
people at pages like these may include the person's name, address,
e-mail address, or telephone number. We will only ask you for the
information about your friend that we need in order to do what you
request.
In some circumstances, we also collect non-personally-identifying
information. When you visit a Bonnier website, we may collect
information such as the type of browser you use, your operating system,
your IP address, and the domain name of your Internet Service Provider.
This information, by itself, does not permit individual identification,
meaning that you will remain anonymous. However, if you elect to
provide us with personally-identifying information during your visit,
that information may be linked to your IP address.
When you visit our websites, we may send one or more cookies
– small, removable data files – to your computer.
We use cookies to uniquely identify your browser, which allows us to
enhance and personalize your online experience at Bonnier websites. For
example, cookies allow us to recognize you when you return to a website
and present relevant content to you when you visit. Most browsers are
initially set up to accept cookies, but you can configure your browser
to warn you when cookies are sent, or to refuse all cookies. Some of
the features and services of Bonnier websites may not operate properly
if your cookies are disabled. Cookies, by themselves, do not provide us
with any personally-identifying information.
On our websites, we may also use tiny graphic images called pixel tags,
web beacons, or clear gifs. These tiny images help us to analyze our
users' online behavior and collect other data, such as page views or
advertising responses. Pixel tags also allow us to send you e-mail in a
format that you can read, and let us know when you have opened an
e-mail message from us. Pixel tags may also be used to deliver cookies.
Some of our websites also use third-party advertising companies to
serve ads when you visit. These companies may use
non-personally-identifying information about your visits to this and
other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and
services of interest to you.
We work with reputable third parties that provide data tracking and
collection technologies in order to:
- Present or serve the advertisements you may see at Bonnier websites;
- Deliver and track e-mail communications;
- Process purchase orders through e-commerce transactions;
- Fulfill print and digital subscription orders; and
- Provide marketing leads to third-party organizations (where you have
agreed to allow us to do so).
These companies may collect information about you on our behalf. We
require that these parties agree to process any such information based
on our instructions and in compliance with this Privacy Policy and any
other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.
We allow third-party companies to serve ads and/or collect certain anonymous information when you visit our web site. These companies may use non-personally identifiable information (e.g., click stream information, browser type, time and date, subject of advertisements clicked or scrolled over) during your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services likely to be of greater interest to you. These companies typically use a cookie or third-party web beacon to collect this information. To learn more about this behavioral advertising practice or to opt-out of this type of advertising, you can visit
networkadvertising.org.
Bonnier websites sometimes may offer contests, sweepstakes, or
promotions that are sponsored by or co-sponsored with identified third
parties. By virtue of their sponsorship, these third parties may obtain
personally-identifying information that visitors voluntarily submit to
them in order to participate in the contest, sweepstakes, or promotion.
Bonnier has no control over the third-party sponsors' use of this
information. If a third-party sponsor beyond our control will obtain
information that you supply us, we will notify you at the time we
collect the information from you. For certain promotions, only those
who provide us with the requested personally-identifying information
will be able to order products, programs, and services, or otherwise
participate in the promotion's activities and offerings.
Some of our websites contain links to other sites. By clicking on these
links, you will leave the website operated by Bonnier and this Privacy
Policy will no longer apply. These other sites' 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.
How we use the information we collect
We use the personally-identifying information that you provide us 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, 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.
We may syndicate the publicly available content of our community areas
to unaffiliated third-party websites, using RSS or other technologies. The information you have shared in the community areas may be included in this syndication.
We will use the personally-identifying information that you provide
about others in order to provide the products or services that
you have requested; for example, to enable us to send them your gifts
or cards. If you provide us someone else's
personally-identifying information for referral purposes, we may use
that information to invite them to visit our websites or to provide
them information about our products or services.
If you provide us with your e-mail and/or postal address, we may
include that address in e-mail and/or postal address lists that we
sell, trade, or rent to third parties. These lists will never contain sensitive information. If you do not wish for your e-mail or postal address to be shared with companies not owned by Bonnier who want to market products or services to you, you have the opportunity to opt out, as described below. You may also opt out of the receipt of any marketing materials
from Bonnier as detailed below.
We may transfer your sensitive personally-identifying information to
other Bonnier offices for internal management and administrative
purposes. In addition, your personal data will be transferred to other
Bonnier offices where necessary for the performance or conclusion of
our contractual obligations to you or for your benefit. Transfers of
personally-identifying information may also be made where necessary for
the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims.
Bonnier will only share your sensitive personal information with
outside companies or individuals in any of the following limited
circumstances:
- When we use trusted businesses or persons to process personal
information on our behalf. Before sharing any personal information with
outside parties, we require that these parties agree to process such
information based on our instructions and in compliance with this
Privacy Policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security
measures.
- When we have a good faith belief that access, use, preservation, or
disclosure is necessary to (a) comply with applicable law, regulation,
or legal process; (b) enforce the applicable Terms of Service or other
agreements and policies on the Company's Websites; (c) detect, prevent,
or otherwise address fraud, security, or technical issues; or (d)
protect against imminent harm to the rights, property, or safety or
Bonnier, its users, or the public as required or permitted by law.
- When you consent. Before we share your sensitive personal information
outside of the previously listed circumstances, we will ask you for
permission first. Please note that this only applies to sensitive
information, as defined above.
We may also use, transfer, sell, and share aggregated, anonymous data
about our users for any legal purpose, such as analyzing usage trends
and seeking compatible advertisers and partners. In no event will this
aggregated data contain any information that could be used to identify
individual users of our products or services.
How we protect the safety and integrity of the
information we collect
We take appropriate physical, electronic, and procedural measures to
safeguard and protect your personal information. We use a variety of
security measures, including encryption and authentication, to maintain
the confidentiality of your personal information. We store your
personal information on systems behind firewalls that are only
accessible to a limited number of persons, each of whom is required to
keep the information confidential. We also take appropriate measures to
secure the transmission of sensitive personal information from your
computer to the Company's computers. When you transmit sensitive
personal information to us, like credit card information, we offer the
use of a secure connection to our servers. To the extent you select the
secure connection method or your browser supports such functionality,
all credit card account information that you supply is transmitted via
Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology. Regardless of these measures, no
system connected to the Internet or data transmission sent over the
Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. We will provide notice if
we become aware of any security breach that may affect any sensitive
personal information pertaining to you that we have stored on our
systems.
Bonnier employees, agents, and contractors who have access to
personally-identifying information are required to protect this
information in a manner that is consistent with this Privacy Policy and
may not use the information for any purpose other than to carry out the
services they are performing for Bonnier. These individuals are bound
by confidentiality obligations and may be subject to discipline,
including termination and criminal prosecution, if they fail to meet
these obligations.
Bonnier only collects personal information that is relevant to the
purposes for which it will be used. Though we do take appropriate steps
to review and update the information that we store to ensure that it is
accurate, complete, and current, we also depend on you to update or
correct your personal information when necessary.
You may correct or delete any or all of the personal information you
have provided to us at any time. Many of our websites provide means to
review and update the personal information that you have provided on
that website. To inquire about personally identifiable information that
Bonnier has collected about you, or about other ways to correct factual
errors in that information, please
e-mail
us at privacy@bonniercorp.com.
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To protect your privacy and security, we will take reasonable steps to
help verify your identity before granting access or making corrections.
We will decline to process requests where we cannot verify the identity
of the requester. We may also decline to process requests that are
automated, repetitive, systematic, or impractical, or that might
jeopardize the privacy of others.
In some limited circumstances, such as to resolve disputes,
troubleshoot problems, and enforce our policies, we may retain some of
information that you have requested us to remove. Therefore, you should
not expect that all of your personal information will be completely
removed from our databases in response to your requests.
We only use the information we collect for purposes consistent with
this policy. If we propose to use your personal information for
purposes beyond that explained in this policy, we will provide
appropriate notice before doing so and we will provide you with the
means to opt out of those uses. We will not use your sensitive personal
information for any purposes other than those described in this Policy
unless we have obtained your consent.
Your privacy options
If you prefer not to receive e-mail communications from other companies,
you may choose to remove yourself from any lists that we provide to
third parties for marketing purposes by
emailing
us at emailoptout@bonniercorp.com. You will still receive
information from Bonnier and its various brands, but we will not share
your address information with anyone else.
If
you prefer not to receive postal communication from
other companies,
you may choose to remove
yourself from any postal mailing lists that we provide to third parties
for
marketing purposes by sending us an e-mail at emailoptout@bonniercorp.com,
or writing us at P.O. Box 420235, Palm Coast, FL. You will still receive
information from Bonnier
and its various brands, but we will not share your address information
with
anyone else.
We only want to communicate with you if you want to hear from us.
If
you prefer not to be contacted at all, you may opt out
of receiving any communications from us at any time by
notifying
us at emailoptout@bonniercorp.com. You may also notify us by
sending mail to the following address:
Online Marketing Department
Bonnier Corporation
460 North Orlando Avenue, Suite 200
Winter Park, FL 32789
In all requests, please tell us what communications you would like to
opt out of, what means we have been using to contact you (such as your
e-mail or postal address), the date of your request, and a way to
contact you in case we need to personally contact you in an effort to
comply with your request. We reserve the right to send you certain
communications, such as technical alerts, without offering you the
opportunity to opt out of receiving them.
Enforcement and Compliance with this Privacy Policy
We take our Privacy Policy seriously and we regularly review our own
compliance with this Policy. If you have any questions or concerns
about this Policy, or if you think that we have used your personal
information in a manner inconsistent with this Policy, please contact
us at:
Privacy Department
Bonnier Corporation
460 North Orlando Ave., Suite 200
Winter Park, FL 32789
If we receive a complaint from you, we will contact you in an attempt
to address your concerns. If we are not able to resolve a complaint, we
will participate in the appropriate independent recourse mechanism as
necessary.
