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www.thequills.org appreciates your visiting this web site. Our site visitors’
privacy and trust are important to us. We provide this notice in order to make
sure that your expectations and our practices are aligned, and that you are
aware of your choices with regard to our use and disclosure of the information
you provide to this site.
This Privacy Policy describes the policies of Reed Business Information
(“RBI” or “we”), a division of Reed Elsevier Inc., regarding the collection,
use, disclosure and protection of the following types of information:
• Information obtained when you (“you” or “User”) visit the
www.thequills.org web site (the “Site”).
• Information obtained through e-mail communications with you related to the
Site.
This privacy policy does not apply to information we collect by other means
(including offline) or from other sources. Your use of this Site constitutes
your acceptance of this Privacy Policy and your consent to any action we take
with respect to your information in compliance with this Privacy Policy.
We may change the terms of this Privacy Policy, so Users are encouraged to
review this page from time to time. Your continued use of this Site following
the posting of changes to the Privacy Policy means that you accept the changes.
Information We Collect and How We Collect It
We require you to provide certain information about yourself when you
register with this Site and when you request products and services. We also
collect information when you participate in contests and surveys, when you
respond to requests for feedback and when you submit postings to public areas of
this Site (e.g., moderated discussions and bulletin boards).
The information we collect may include information from which you may be
personally identified (“Personally Identifiable Information”), such as name,
postal address, telephone number, fax number and e-mail address, and certain
business information such as employer name, occupation, job function, job title
and buying information (e.g., preferences or history). We also will collect
credit card and related information when you request a product or service
(including registering for the Site) for which there is a charge. This Site only
collects Personally Identifiable Information with your knowledge.
When you visit this Site, we may collect the IP address of your computer. We
also use automatic data collection technology to record other information that
identifies your computer and tracks your behavior on the Site. We do not collect
Personally Identifiable Information in this way, but if you provide us with
Personally Identifiable Information, we may associate that information with the
information that is collected automatically.
How We Use Your Information
We use Personally Identifiable Information collected on this Site for the
following purposes:
• To provide you with this Site and other products and services.
• To respond to your inquiries and contact you about changes regarding the
Site.
• To provide you with e-mail, fax and other notices (such as expiration and
renewal notices) regarding your account and the products or services that
you are receiving, and for billing and collection purposes.
• For any other purpose disclosed at the time the information is collected
or to which you consent.
• As otherwise specifically described in this Privacy Policy.
We also may use your information to better understand our Users and to
improve our Site. For example, we may use this information to determine what
portions of the Site are most popular and the demographics of our Users
generally. Cookies and other User information also enable us to customize your
experience on the Site. We may use IP addresses to help diagnose problems with
our servers or to administer our Site. We may also use IP addresses to help
identify a User during a particular session and to gather data regarding use of
the Site.
We may use the information you provide us to send you e-mail, fax and other
communications on behalf of RBI and our affiliates. These communications may
include e-mail newsletters that are relevant to this Site, as well as offers for
other RBI and Reed Elsevier services. All email newsletters will provide you
with an opportunity to opt out of receiving future issues of the newsletter. All
promotional offers will include an opportunity to opt out of receiving future
promotions from the brand whose product/service is being promoted.
We also may use your information to send you e-mail and other communications
on behalf of third parties. Each of these communications will include
instructions for opting out of receiving future third party offers from us. You
may also opt out of receiving third party offers from this Site at any time by
sending an e-mail to
privacymanager@reedbusiness.com with the subject line “opt out – third
party.”
Our Disclosure of Your Information
We may disclose aggregated, anonymous statistics about many Users, and
individual information that is not Personally Identifiable Information without
restriction as long as no individual is identifiable by the information
disclosed, and otherwise will not disclose your Personally Identifiable
Information except as follows:
• Name and/or business name and title (but not information by which you
may be contacted (i.e. name, postal address, telephone number, fax number
and e-mail address ) in representative lists of our magazine circulation
and/or web site membership, but not for further use or dissemination by the
recipient.
• To third parties engaged to provide services under contractual requirement
to keep Personally Identifiable Information confidential and use it only to
perform the services.
• Portions of this Site may be provided as “Premium” or “Sponsored” content.
Premium or Sponsored content is made available to Users on the condition
that we may share certain of the User’s registration information with the
Premium or Sponsored content’s sponsors and advertisers. We will always
disclose when you are registering or being provided with Premium or
Sponsored content.
• To other third parties to market their products or services under
contractual requirement to keep Personally Identifiable Information
confidential and use it only to market and provide their products or
services. You may opt out of such disclosures by sending an e-mail to
privacymanager@reedbusiness.com with the subject line: “do not disclose.”
• To any successor pursuant to an asset sale, merger, consolidation,
restructuring, reorganization, liquidation or other similar transaction
involving RBI or this Site.
• When we believe such disclosure is required by law, regulation or
securities exchange requirement or for the protection of persons or
property.
• When disclosure is necessary to accomplish the purpose for which you
provide it.
• We may share any information (including Personally Identifiable
Information) you provide with other Reed Elsevier member companies for any
uses consistent with those disclosed in this Privacy Policy.
Security
We use reasonable safeguards to protect Personally Identifiable Information
we collect on this Site from unauthorized access, use, modification or
disclosure. However, due to the design of the Internet and other factors outside
of our control, we cannot guarantee that communications between you and our
servers will be free from unauthorized access by third parties.
Right to Access and Change Information
You may view and update information that you previously submitted to this
Site by visiting the newsletter or website registration page for this Site, or
which you submitted to request a print publication, by sending an e-mail to
subsmail@reedbusiness.com.
However, a request to change information may not be accommodated if the request
would conflict with legal requirements or result in incorrect information.
Requests to view or change personal information may take a few days to process.
Links
This Site contains content, services, advertising and other materials that
link to Web sites operated by third parties. We have no control over those other
sites, and this Privacy Policy does not apply to them. We encourage you to refer
to the privacy policies, if any, of those sites.
This Site is operated by:
Reed Business Information
360 Park Avenue South
New York, NY 10010
Email:
privacymanager@reedbusiness.com
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