PRIVACY POLICY OF FRANCINEMAGAZINE

Introduction

FrancineMagazine.com is committed to protecting the privacy of those who visit our site. This privacy policy explains how we protect your personal information. The Privacy Policy may change in order to address changes to the site and new issues that may arise. Any changes to the Privacy Policy will be posted here. Please review the Privacy Policy regularly.

Scope of Privacy Policy

This web site contains links to other sites. Please be aware that FrancineMagazine.com is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. This Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected by FrancineMagazine.com.

Personal Identification Information

We will not intentionally disclose any personal identification information about you as an individual user (such as, for example, your full name, street address, telephone number, credit card number or e-mail address) to any third party without having received your permission. We have the following exceptions to this policy: first, we will release specific information about you or your account to comply with any valid legal process such as a search warrant, subpoena, statute or court order, second, we will also release specific information in special cases, such as if there is an attempted breach of the security on the FrancineMagazine.com website or a physical threat to you or others.

We may request personal identification information from you in connection with your use of, or participation in, our contests, surveys, forums, registrations, content submissions, chats, bulletin boards, discussion groups, requests for suggestions, requests for comments, requests for information, and in connection with other activities, services or resources we make available on this site. In all of these cases, we will collect personal identification information from you only if you voluntarily submit such information to us. If you do provide us with personal information, we may use it to conduct the activities described above.

If you identify yourself to us by sending us an e-mail, we may use your personal information to respond to your questions or comments. We may file your questions and comments for future reference or we may discard the information after we have reviewed it. We may publish your comment or question on the web site, but we will not publish your email address, full name or other personally identifiable information unless you give us permission. Please understand that we cannot respond to all questions and comments that we receive.

Aggregate information is information that does not identify any individual person. We may share aggregate statistical information with our business partners, suppliers, advertisers and other third parties, but we will not share any personal identifiation information.

Please note that if you give out personal information online, such as through a message board or chat room, that information can be collected and used by third parties. We cannot guarantee the security of information you post in these forums. You disclose such information at your own risk.

Non-Personal Identification Information

Our system automatically gathers non-personal identification information about the areas visited on this site, what link, if any, was used to arrive at this site, the type of browser you use, and the country of the user. We use such information in the aggregate to understand how our users as a group use FrancineMagazine.com.

Again, aggregate information is information that does not identify any individual person. We may share aggregate statistical information with our business partners, suppliers, advertisers and other third parties, but we will not share any personal identifiation information.

Policy Concerning Children

We urge all parents to participate in their children's exploration of the Internet and any online services and also to teach their children about protecting their personal information while online. No information may be submitted on or to FrancineMagazine.com by persons under 13 years of age without the consent of their parent or guardian.

Access to, Removal of, Correction of, and Questions about Personal Information

If you would like to review, correct or remove any personal information that we have retained about you or if you have questions about the Privacy Policy, please send an e-mail to privacy@francinemagazine.com.

If you signed up to be on the mailing list that notifies you when the next month's issue of FrancineMagazine.com is on the internet and you want to stop receiving such email, you may have your name removed from the mailing list by sending an email to stopmail@FrancineMagazine.com.

Your Acceptance of these Terms

By using FrancineMagazine.com, you signify your acceptance of our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this policy, please do not use this site. Your continued use of this site following the posting of changes to the Privacy Policy will mean that you accept the changes.

(Last modified on February 4, 2001)