This Privacy Policy describes how the Company collects and uses personal and other specific information that is obtained in connection with your access to the services provided by Prose Media LLC (the “Company”). This Privacy Policy covers all of Company’s services (the “Services”).

If you do not agree with any terms of this Privacy Policy or the Terms and Conditions that are applicable to the Services, please do not use the Services. By accessing any part of the Services, you agree to be bound by and have accepted this Privacy Policy in full. If you have any questions relating to this Privacy Policy, please contact us.

SCOPE

This Privacy Policy concerns the collection and use of personal and other specific information which is collected through your access to the Services. The Company is committed to protecting the privacy of users, and accordingly does not collect personally identifying information unless it is provided to us voluntarily and knowingly, and does not share any information with anyone outside of our Company other than described herein. You are under no obligation to provide us with this information, but without it the Company may not be able to take the action requested.

MINORS

If you are under 18 years old, you may not use the Services or provide any of your personal information including, but not limited to, your name, address and email address.

INFORMATION COLLECTION AND USE

The Company collects personally identifying information to give you access to the Services, to optimize your experience using the Services and for email communications and billing purposes.

The Company may use your IP address and other information in order to grant you access to and otherwise administer the Services. For access to certain parts of the Services, the Company may ask you to provide your name or other information so that the Company may respond to a request, consider your application for registration, or take other action related to your use of the Services. For such use, you may be required to provide us your e-mail address and other personally identifying information (such as your name, phone number or date of birth) as the Company may deem necessary in order to communicate with you electronically or otherwise, or review your request for access to the Services.

The Company may collect information about you in several different ways, including but not limited to: from what you provide to us when you submit a request; from our website pages you visit; and from emails. The information the Company may obtain about you includes things such as contact information (name, mailing address, email address, phone number and other personal information that helps us customize our services).

When you provide any personally identifying information, you acknowledge that you are knowingly and voluntarily providing us the information. You can unsubscribe at any time by emailing a short message with your user name and/or email address and request to cancel your account, giving the appropriate notice as set forth in our Terms and Conditions.
In order to perform the Service and improve the website, the Company may gather information about you when you use it, such as details of your operating system, browser version, domain name and internet provider’s address, cookies (defined below), and details of the website from which you came.

You also should be aware that the Company collects certain usage information about our Services, such as the number and frequency of users and/or users’ Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, which are automatically logged by our servers and are used by us and our partners to analyze user activity at an aggregate level, such as the number of visits and geographic optimization. This data is used only in the aggregate and does not include any personally-identifying information.

INFORMATION SHARING

The Company does not sell or rent your personally identifiable information, other than as necessary to provide the Services, subject to the provisions stated below. The Company only shares personal information with other third parties in the following limited circumstances:

The Company has your consent;

The Company provides such information to subsidiaries, affiliated companies or other trusted businesses or persons for the purpose of processing personal information on our behalf; or

The Company will provide such information if the Company reasonably believe that access, use, preservation or disclosure of such information is necessary to (a) satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable governmental request, (b) enforce applicable Terms and Conditions, including investigation of potential violations thereof, (c) detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues, or (d) protect against imminent harm to the rights, property or our safety or the safety of our users or the public as required or permitted by law.

SUBMISSION OF OTHERS’ PERSONAL INFORMATION

From time to time the Company may ask you to provide personal details of your family or friends — e.g., when forwarding a blog post. Before sending blogs or providing such information, please ensure that you have obtained the receiver’s consent. The Company will not use these details in any manner, which is incompatible with this privacy policy.

DATA INTEGRITY

The Company takes reasonable steps to ensure that the personal information the Company processes is accurate, complete, and current, but the Company depends on users to update or correct their personal information whenever necessary. The Company makes good faith efforts to provide you with access to your personal information and either to correct this data if it is inaccurate or to delete such data at your request if it is not otherwise required to be retained by law or for legitimate business purposes. The Company asks individual users to identify themselves and the information requested to be accessed, corrected or removed before processing such requests, and the Company may decline to process requests that are unreasonably repetitive or systematic.

DATA SECURITY

The Company strives to maintain appropriate procedural and technical security with respect to its offices and information storage facilities so as to prevent any loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, or modification of personal information. The Company has implemented technology and policies with the objective of protecting your privacy from unauthorized access and improper use and will update these measures as new technology becomes available, as appropriate. The Company encrypts the pipe through which personal information is sent, using Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology to insure that your information is safe as possible.

COOKIES AND WEB BEACONS

Like many companies, the Company uses “cookie” and/or “web beacon” technology. Cookies may tell us whether you have accessed the Services before and what pages you have visited. The web beacons are tags that can monitor the behavior of a user accessing the Services.

Each time a user logs into the website, the Company stores a temporary “cookie” in the browser files of your computer. This cookie is used during your online session to allow you free access to the appropriate areas of the website without repeatedly requiring you to re-enter your user name and password. When you log off or leave the website, the cookies file is automatically removed.
The cookies do not collect any personally identifying information about you or provide us with any way to contact you, and the cookies do not extract any information from your computer.

You may be able to configure your browser to accept or reject all or some 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. However, you may have to enable cookies in order to use most functions on the site.

Information recorded through the web beacons is used to report anonymous individual and/or aggregate information about our users. Aggregate information may include demographic and usage information.

LINKS

This website may contain links to other websites and banner ads that take a visitor to another website. Please be aware that the Company is not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other websites. The Company encourages our users to be aware when they leave our website to read the privacy statements of any other website that collects personally identifiable information. Once you leave this website, the Company is not able to alert you should another site attempt to gather information from your browser.

OTHER INFORMATION YOU SUBMIT

If you use the communication features of this website to provide us with information other than personally-identifying information, including suggestions about the website, product and advertising ideas, and any other such information, that information will belong to us and may be used, reproduced, modified, distributed and disclosed by us in any manner the Company chooses, without paying compensation to you.

CHANGES IN PRIVACY POLICY

The Company reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to change this Privacy Policy at any time by posting revised terms. It is your responsibility to check periodically for any changes the Company may make to the Privacy Policy and your continuing to access the Services indicates your acceptance of any current Privacy Policy.

HOW TO CONTACT US

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us.

By e-mail to [email protected];

By visiting the Contact Us section; or

By mail: Prose Media LLC / 817 Broadway, 5th Floor / New York, NY 10003.

MISCELLANEOUS

This Privacy Statement constitutes the entire agreement between the Company and you with respect to the privacy policy of the Services. No changes to the Privacy Policy shall be made except by a revised posting on this page by the Company.
This Privacy Policy shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York without regard to conflict of laws. You irrevocably consent to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts located in the State of New York in connection with any action arising out of or related to this Privacy Statement or its subject matter. You waive any objection based on lack of personal jurisdiction, place of residence, improper venue or forum non-convenience in any such action.

If any court having competent jurisdiction holds any provision of this Privacy Statement invalid or unenforceable in any respect, such provision shall be enforced to the maximum extent permitted by law, and the remaining provisions of this Privacy Statement shall continue in full force and effect. No waiver of any provision of this Privacy Statement shall be deemed a further or continuing waiver of such provision or any other provision of this Privacy Statement.

You have the right to access your information held by the Company and, where necessary, to have it amended. You can also request not to receive marketing information the Company.