ONLINE PRIVACY STATEMENT
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This website (the "Site") is brought to you by Strong Publications LLC. At Strong Publications LLC we are serious about protecting your privacy, and this Privacy Statement discloses how we collect, protect, use, and share the personal information gathered on this Site.
Your use of this Site is subject to the Terms of Use posted on this website (which includes this Privacy Statement). The Terms of Use (including this Privacy Statement) or any part thereof may be revised from time to time through an updated posting, and therefore you should check the Terms of Use (including this Privacy Statement) periodically. Revisions are effective upon posting and your continued use of this website following the posting of revisions to the Terms of Use (including this Privacy Statement) will indicate your acceptance of such revisions. If you have any questions concerning the Terms of Use (including this Privacy Statement), please Contact us.
PLEASE ALSO NOTE THAT THE PRIVACY POLICES OF VARIOUS STRONG PUBLICATION LLC PRODUCTS AND SERVICES WITHIN THIS SITE OR LINKED TO THIS SITE MAY BE SUBJECT TO DIFFERENT TERMS AND POLICIES. PLEASE CHECK ON THE APPROPRIATE PRIVACY POLICY LINK FREQUENTLY TO DETERMINE THE PRIVACY TERMS APPLICABLE TO SUCH STRONG PUBLICATIONS LLC PRODUCTS AND SERVICES.
WHAT INFORMATION IS COLLECTED
Personal Information
As a general policy, Strong Publications LLC only collects personal information from you when you voluntarily provide it to us by: (1) placing an order; (2) registering on the Website; (3) contacting us (including our customer service representatives, subject matter experts and other employees) by email, telephone or through any of the contact forms found on this Site; and (4) completing any surveys. In connection with these activities, we may collect personal information, including, but not limited to, your name, physical address, e-mail address, telephone number, credit card number, credit card expiration date, other unique identifiers, website password, username, and other demographic information.
Non-Personal Information
As part of the standard operation of this Site and Internet servers, we may collect certain non-personal information from you including, but not limited to, your IP address, and the domain name from which you accessed the Website.
In addition, we may collect information about your browsing behavior, such as the date and time you visit this Site, the areas or pages of this Site that you visit, the amount of time you spend viewing this Site, the number of times you return to this Site, and other click-stream data.
Cookies
We may use cookies to collect the non-personal information described above, which may be combined with your personal information. A cookie is a small text file that may be stored on the hard drive of your computer when you access this Site.
We may also use cookies to: (1) track and report your order to an affiliate Company so you may receive credit for your order, when applicable (the affiliate company may have also placed a cookie on your computer for this purpose); (2) conduct research to improve our content and services; (3) access your account when you login to the website and provide you with customized content, when applicable; and (4) require you to re-enter your password periodically to help prevent others from accidentally accessing your account information, when applicable.
You are always free to decline cookies, but by doing so, you may not be able to use certain features on the Website or take full advantage of all of our offerings. You can configure your browser to accept all cookies, reject all cookies, erase cookies, or notify you when a cookie is set. (Each browser is different, so check the “Help” menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences.)
Access to Information You Provide to Us
You may access any personal information you provide to us, correct or modify any such personal information, or direct us to make no further use of your personal information. To do so, please inform us of your request by clicking here.
Use of Information
We may use the information we collect from you for any of the following purposes: (1) to fulfill your requests for certain products and services; (2) to provide you with targeted offers based on your specific requests or your stated preference to receive certain categories of offers; (3) to send you information and promotional materials and offers from our company as well as from our subsidiaries, affiliates, marketing partners, advertisers, and other third parties; (4) to deliver targeted display advertisements and offers (by matching criteria provided by our advertisers with information collected from our visitors); (5) to enable our marketing partners, advertisers, and other third parties to communicate with individuals; (6) to contact visitors of this Site when necessary; (7) to help address problems with this Site or services; (8) to administer this Site; (9) to conduct internal reviews of this Site (for example, to determine the number of visitors to specific pages within the Website); (10) to help us better understand visitors’ use of this Site; and (11) to protect the security or integrity of this Site.
Non-personal information may be used for these purposes as well to monitor this Site, provide a greater online experience for our visitors, identify the source of orders and obtain accurate aggregate demographic usage patterns.
Disclosure of Information
Strong Publications LLC may transfer or otherwise disclose information collected from you to the following entities for the following purposes: (1) to our employees, independent contractors, subsidiaries, affiliates, consultants, business associates, service providers, and suppliers, if the disclosure will enable any of these entities to perform a business, professional, or technical support function for us; (2) to our employees, independent contractors, service providers and suppliers, to fulfill a product or service request; (3) to our marketing and business partners and advertisers, who may use the information in connection with their business operations, such as to send marketing and other communications to visitors of the Website; (4) as necessary if Strong Publications LLC determines that there has been a violation of the Terms of Use; (5) as necessary if we have reason to believe that such disclosure is necessary to identify, contact, or bring legal action against someone who may be causing injury to or interference (either intentionally or unintentionally) with our rights or property, other users of this Site, or anyone else that could be harmed by such activities; (6) to respond to judicial process and provide information to law enforcement agencies or in connection with an investigation on matters related to public safety, as permitted by law, or otherwise as required by law; and (7) as provided for under the “Unforeseen Circumstances” section below. Strong Publications LLC may also sell, rent, or lease any personal information collected from you to any of its marketing partners, advertisers, or other third parties.
Security
Strong Publications LLC features security measures to protect against the loss, misuse or alteration of information placed under our control. We maintain physical, electronic, contractual, and managerial steps to safeguard and secure the information we collect from visitors to this Site.
Children
We do not direct this Site to, nor do we knowingly collect any personal information from, children under eighteen.
Third Party Websites
This Site may contain links to other third party Websites (such as those of our marketing partners or advertisers), which may have privacy policies that differ from our own. We are not responsible for the activities and practices that take place on these Websites. Accordingly, we recommend that you review the privacy policy posted on any web site that you may access through this Site.
Unforeseen Circumstances
As we continue to develop our business, we or our affiliates may sell or buy other businesses or entities. In such transactions, personal information may be one of the transferred business assets. Also, in the event that Strong Publications LLC or substantially all of its assets are acquired, your personal information may be one of the transferred assets.
Changes
If we change this Privacy Policy, we will post those changes here and revise the Effective Date accordingly.
OWNERSHIP
This Site is owned and operated by Strong Publications LLC and the contents of this Site are protected by copyright of Strong Publications LLC and/or its licensors.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ABOUT PRIVACY
If you have any concerns or questions about privacy on this Site, please Contact us.
Strong Publications LLC (Revised -February, 2008)
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