Privacy Policy for LFP Publishing Group, LLC

In addition to the other disclosures described in this Privacy Policy, LFP may (and you authorize us to) share or disclose information collected from and about you on the Websites to other companies or individuals as set forth below. We may provide access to information to vendors that are performing services on our behalf, including fulfilling subscriptions to our Publications, managing our email lists and sending email messages on our behalf, processing payments, providing customer support and performing other administrative services, in order to carry out such services (the “Service Provider Use”). Subject to this Section 5, we do not share the information we collect with anyone except for parties required to process payments and/or ship products to fulfil orders. We do not sell information or data collected from the Website to advertisers or advertising agencies, nor do we sell such information or data for advertising purposes.

We may share your information with our parent, subsidiary and affiliated companies, successors and/or assigns, who may use personal information or data for any purpose disclosed in or consistent with this Privacy Policy. Additionally, in the event of a sale, merger, consolidation, change in control, transfer of substantial assets, bankruptcy, reorganization, or liquidation, we may transfer, sell, or assign to third parties any and/or all information collected from or about you subject to Section 5(n). We have not sold any personal information to third parties for a business or commercial purpose in the preceding twelve (12) months.

We may share your information with our service providers and business partners in connection with services such as hosting, payment processing and billing, delivering packages and fulfillment, data storage, security, customer service, extended warranty services, credit reporting, customer relationship management, accounting, auditing, administering sweepstakes, surveys, email and mailing services, marketing or other relationships for joint marketing purposes or such partners’ own marketing purposes in connection with the operation of the Website or our business.

(a) Provide, Manage and Improve our Websites. LFP uses information we collect from you in part to provide you with the goods and service you have requested (e.g., to sign up for an event, request promotional materials directly from a third-party partner), to respond to your inquiries, to administer the Websites and for other lawful business purposes.

(b) Advertising and Analytics. We use the information in connection with advertising and to serve other content, as described below. We also use the information we collect and obtain about you to measure and improve our Websites, to customize certain features of the Websites, to deliver relevant content and to provide you with an enhanced experience based on the type of device you are using.

(c) Transactional Communications. We use the information provide transactional or service communications about the Websites, such as to notify you when you have won one of our contests or sweepstakes or other promotions (a “Promotion”), when we make changes to subscriber agreements, to fulfill a request for you for an email newsletter, or to contact you about your account. If you wish to unsubscribe from our email newsletters, please follow the unsubscribe/opt-out instructions at the bottom of the newsletter.

(d) Reader Surveys. We may collect information from you in connection with voluntary surveys about your readership of our Publications, your household/personal characteristics and your purchase behavior. The information you provide in any audience marketing surveys will only be shared in the aggregate with advertisers and partners unless we notify you otherwise at the time of collection. Any other survey results may be shared with advertiser and partners, at our discretion, unless we notify you otherwise at the time of collection.

(e) Editorial Use. In addition, we may use information you provide us through emails, blogs, forums, in response to polls, or through any other user generated submission for editorial purposes and may use your name and any stories you provide us in articles published in our Publications. If you provide us with personal anecdotes, they may be attributed to you. LFP can edit, rewrite, use, and reuse the content, including your name, likeness, photograph, and biographical information you provide, with or without attribution, including publication in the Publications, and in trade media, and advertising. You hereby consent to this.

(f) Marketing. Subject to applicable law, we may combine and use any and all information we collect on you either online or otherwise, including from third parties, for marketing purposes, including sending you promotional emails regarding special offers about our products and services or on behalf of third-party marketing partners who we think can offer services and products of interest to you. Unless we expressly notify you otherwise at the time of collection, we also may disclose information that we receive from you and from third-party sources to third parties whose practices are not covered by this privacy statement (e.g. other marketers, magazine publishers, retailers, participatory databases and non-profit organizations) that want to market products or services to you. This includes licensing information about your interests and activities, and marketing segments created with such data, which we may share with third parties for their marketing purposes.

(g) Wireless Email Address and Short Message Services. If the email address you provide to us is a wireless email address, we will send you and you agree to receive messages at such address from LFP or from third parties. Similarly, we may make available services through which you can receive messages on your phone or wireless device SMS Service. If you subscribe to one of our SMS Services, you thereby agree to receive services and messages at the address you provide for such purposes. Such messages may come from LFP, or from third parties. You may opt-out of these messages from us by following the instructions provided in the message. To use the wireless email address or SMS Service, you must reside in the United States. We may also obtain the date, time and content of your messages. We will use the information we obtain in connection with these services in accordance with this Privacy Policy. Your wireless carrier and other service providers may also collect data about your wireless device usage, and their practices are governed by their own policies. By providing us your wireless email address or by signing up for any SMS Service, you consent to receiving messages as described above. You understand that your wireless carrier’s standard rates apply to these messages. You represent that you are the owner or authorized user of the wireless device on which messages will be received, and that you are authorized to approve the applicable charges.

(h) Promotions. By agreeing to participate in a Promotion, you are agreeing to the official rules that govern that Promotion.

(i) Anonymous Information. We may create aggregated or anonymized information about you and other users of the Websites by excluding information (such as your name) that relate to an identifiable individual (“Anonymous Information”). We may use this Anonymous Information for any purpose permitted under the law and disclose Anonymous Information to third parties in our sole discretion.

(j) Third Party Contests and Promotions. In some cases you may have entered a contest or sweepstakes sponsored by a third-party, in which case the information you provide via the contest or sweepstakes may be shared by us with that third-party for their use in their discretion, including direct marketing. Some of our contests and sweepstakes will ask you at the time of entry whether you would like to have your personal information shared with the sponsor, in which case we will honor your selection. Other contests will not give you that option and in that event, if you do not want your information to be shared, you should not enter the contest. The privacy policies of such third-party companies apply to their use and disclosure of your information that we collect and disclose to such third-party companies.

(k) Cross-Device Tracking. We may use cookies in combination with the information we collect — for instance, IP addresses and unique mobile device identifiers — to locate or try to locate the same unique users across multiple browsers or devices (such as smartphones or tablets), or work with service providers that do this, in order to save your preferences across devices and analyze usage of the Websites.

(l) Affiliates. We may transfer your information to other LFP offices and affiliates for internal management and administrative purposes on our behalf.

(m) Administrative and Legal Reasons. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, we may at all times and in any manner access, use, preserve, transfer and disclose your information, including disclosure to third parties: (i) to satisfy any applicable law, regulation, subpoenas, governmental requests or legal process, or in connection with a legal investigation, if in our good faith opinion such is required or permitted by law; (ii) to protect and/or defend the Websites’ Terms of Service or other policies applicable to the Websites, their content, services or functionality, including investigation of potential violations thereof; (iii) to protect the safety, rights, property or security of the Websites or any third-party (for example, if we are trying to collect money you owe us); and/or (iv) to detect, prevent or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues. Further, we may use Identifiers and other information to identify users, and may do so in cooperation with third parties such as copyright owners, internet service providers, wireless service providers and/or law enforcement agencies, including disclosing such information to third parties, all in our discretion (the “Legal Use”). Such disclosures may be carried out without notice to you.

(n) Sales or Transfer of Business or Assets. In connection with a sale, merger, transfer, exchange, or other disposition (whether of assets, stock, or otherwise, including via bankruptcy) of all or a portion of the business conducted by the Website to which this policy applies, in which case the company will possess the information collected by us and will assume the rights and obligations regarding your information as described in this Privacy Policy (the “Acquisition Use”).

(o) Social Networks. As noted, above, if you use your login credentials from a social media networking service on a Website, we may receive information from such service in accordance with its terms and privacy policy and your settings. If you elect to share your information with these social networking sites, we will share information with them in accordance with your election. The terms and conditions of these social networking sites will apply to the information we disclose to them.

(p) Co-Branded Areas. Some of our Websites may from time to time partner with a retailer or other third-party to offer online shopping opportunities, games, services, subscriptions, registration opportunities for our events and summits and other applications on a co-branded or cross-promotional basis (“Co-Branded Areas”). Those transactions on the Co-Branded Areas may take place on a Website, or the site of the third-party. In either case, the information you provide in connection with the transaction may be collected directly by, or shared by LFP with, the third-party, as well as with any participating sponsors or advertisers of such Co-Branded Areas. Some of our Websites may offer you the ability to access a third-party site with whom we have a relationship to access both sites through a co-branded registration or password; in that event, your applicable registration information may be collected directly by, or shared by LFP with, the third-party partner. We will notify you at the applicable point of sign up if any such co-branded registration or password practices will be in effect. These third parties will use your information in accordance with their own privacy policy.

(q) Information You Disclose Publicly. You may submit photographs, user profiles, written material, music, video, photos, comments and other content, which may include information relating to individual users (collectively, “UGC”) on the Websites. We do not control who will have access to the UGC you choose to make public or how they will use it and take no responsibility for ensuring such UGC remains private or is secure. The UGC is not subject to this Privacy Policy. We are also not responsible for the accuracy, use or misuse of any UGC that you disclose or receive through the Websites. Please see our Terms of Service for further information about the terms that govern the UGC you post.

(r) Legal. We reserve the right to use IP addresses to identify you and, where permitted or required by law, we may provide information about or relating to you, including any Personally Identifiable Information about you, to third parties without your consent if we reasonably believe that such action is necessary to: (a) comply with a court order, subpoena, government request for information, or other legal or regulatory requirements; (b) protect or defend our rights or property, our Website, or other Website users; (c) respond to claims that any posting or other content of our Website violates the rights or property of any third party, including without limitation providing information necessary to satisfy the Digital Millennium Copyright Act; (d) to protect the health and safety of our Website’s users or the general public; (d) to enforce compliance with our Terms of Use; or (f) to fulfill the purpose for which you provide it to us, and otherwise with your consent.