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Werner Publishing Corporation Online Privacy Policy

Effective Date: August 6, 2008

Thank you for visiting a Werner Publishing Corp. site. Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy, we provide this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used at Werner Publishing Corp. sites. Click here for a list of the Werner Publishing Corp. publications and products whose sites are governed by this Privacy Policy. By visiting this site, you agree to the terms of this policy as they may be amended from time to time. As we update and expand our services, this policy may change, so check back to this page every so often.

Collected Information
The information we collect is gathered from several sources. These include our magazine and e-Newsletter subscription forms, site registration, contest entries, website message postings, survey information and purchases via telephone, direct mail, email and other electronic sources. From these sources, we may collect postal addresses, e-mail addresses, telephone numbers and/or demographic information for those individuals who volunteer such information. For each visitor to our websites, our web server automatically recognizes the visitor’s domain name and IP address only, but no other identifiable information unless volunteered. In addition, we collect aggregate information on what web pages visitors access.

How We Use Collected Information
The information we collect is used to improve the content of our web pages, customize the content and layout of our pages for each individual visitor, and/or notify visitors about updates to our website. As part of a subscription, registration or contest entry agreement, subscribers, contest entrants and registrants can be contacted by us through both mail and e-mail to communicate with them about their subscription, registration, contests and topics that may be of interest. Persons who supply us with their telephone numbers online will only receive telephone contact from us with information regarding orders they have placed online . We also may use the information to contact them for marketing purposes and share this information with other reputable organizations to allow them to contact our subscribers and registrants.

Postal Communications
If you supply us with your postal address online, you may receive periodic mailings from us with information on new products and services or upcoming events. If you do not wish to receive such mailings, please let us know by calling us at the number(s) provided below or writing to us at the below address.

You may receive mailings from other reputable companies. You can, however, have your name put on our do-not-share list by calling us at one of following phone numbers, depending on the title:

Digital Photo Pro

800.814.2993

Golf Tips

800.283.4640

HDVideoPro

800.333.6926

Outdoor Photographer

800.283.4410

PCPhoto

800.537.4619

Pilot Journal

800.288.6187

Plane & Pilot

800.283.4330

E-mail Communications
If you have registered for our products and/or services, entered a contest and have supplied an e-mail address, you will receive emails pertaining to these types of products, services and upcoming contests. If you do not want to receive e-mail from us in the future, please let us know by clicking on “Edit Profile” (at the bottom of all our e-mails) and editing your e-mail preferences.

From time to time, we make the e-mail addresses of those who opt in and sign up for our e-Newsletters and contest promotions available to other reputable organizations whose products or services we think you might find interesting. If you do not want us to share your e-mail address with other companies or organizations, please let us know by clicking on “Edit Profile” (at the bottom of all our e-mails) and editing your e-mail preferences.

Werner Publishing Corp. sites 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 identifiable information that visitors voluntarily submit to participate in the contest, sweepstakes, or promotion. Werner Publishing Corp. has no control over the third-party sponsors’ use of this information. The Werner Publishing Corp. site will notify you at the time of requesting personally identifiable information if third-party sponsors will obtain such information.

Attention, Kids
If you are under the age of 13 (12 or younger), you may not provide any information about yourself to this Site. While you may view content on the Site, you may not register with the Site, enter any of our sweepstakes or contests or participate in any of our chat rooms, bulletin boards or other activities that would let you enter information about yourself. If we learn that you have provided information about yourself to this Site, we will delete such information.

Note to Parents
Werner Publishing Corp. will not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from kids under 13. If you have any concerns about this Site or its related services, wish to find out if your child is a member of one of our services or wish to cancel your child's membership, please contact us at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Ad Servers
To bring you offers that may be of interest to you, we have relationships with other companies that we allow to place ads on our web pages. As a result of your visit to our site, ad server companies may collect information such as your domain type, your IP address and click-stream information.

Werner Publishing Corp. sites may use reputable third parties to present or serve the advertisements that you may see at its web pages and to conduct research about the advertisements. Our privacy policy does not cover any use of information that such third parties may have collected from you or the methods used by the third-parties to collect that information (e.g., cookies, web beacons and clear gifs).

For further information, consult the privacy policies of:
http://www.doubleclick.com/privacy/index.aspx
http://www.operative.com/privacy_policy.php

From time to time, we may use customer information for new, unanticipated uses not previously disclosed in our privacy notice. If our information practices change at some time in the future, we will post the policy changes to our website to notify you of these changes and provide you with the ability to opt out of these new uses. If you are concerned about how your information is used, you should check back at our website periodically. Customers may prevent their information from being used for purposes other than those for which it was originally collected by following the information above.

Upon request, we provide site visitors with access to information we maintain about them, unique identifier information (e.g., customer number or password) that we maintain about them, transaction information (e.g., dates on which customers made purchases, amounts and types of purchases) that we maintain about them, communications that the consumer/visitor has directed to our site (e.g., e-mails, customer inquiries) and contact information (e.g., name, address, phone number) that we maintain about them.

Consumers can access this information by signing into the customer service area of our websites.

In reference to customer subscriptions, upon request, we offer visitors the ability to have inaccuracies corrected in contact information.

Consumers can have all other, non-subscription information corrected by e-mailing or writing to us at the below address.

Security
We have appropriate security measures in place in our physical facilities to protect against the loss, misuse or alteration of information that we have collected from you at our site, and when we transfer and receive financial information, transactions are conducted through a secure server.
REMEMBER — DO NOT DISCLOSE PERSONAL INFORMATION IN FORUMS OR ON MESSAGE BOARDS. WHENEVER YOU DO SO, ALL OF THAT INFORMATION CAN BE COLLECTED AND USED BY OTHERS. IF YOU POST PERSONAL INFORMATION IN PUBLIC PLACES, OTHERS MAY SEND YOU UNSOLICITED E-MAIL MESSAGES. BE CAREFUL AND SMART WITH YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION.

If you feel that this site is not following its stated information policy, you may contact us at the below addresses or phone number.

Our postal address is:
Werner Publishing Corp.
12121 Wilshire Blvd, Suite 1200
Los Angeles, CA 90025
ATTN: Marketing Department

We can be reached via e-mail at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it or you can reach us by telephone at 310-820-1500.

 

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