Information Collection

Garden and Hearth Magazine respects your right to privacy. We request very little personal information on our site.  For that information which is collected Garden and Hearth retains sole ownership.  Following are the uses of those places that we deemed information collection necessary.

Third Party Advertising

The ads appearing on this Web site are delivered to users by Linkshare, Commission Junction, Performics, Google and Fast Click our Web advertising partners. Information about users’ visit to this site, such as number of times they have viewed an ad (but not user name, address, or other personal information), is used to serve ads to users on this site. For more information see Linkshare's privacy policy, Commission Junction's privacy Policy,  Performics privacy policy , Google's privacy policy and Fast Click's privacy policy.

Log Files

Like most standard Web site servers we use log files. This includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, platform type, date/time stamp, and number of clicks to analyze trends, administer the site, track user’s movement in the aggregate, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses, etc. are not linked to personally identifiable information.  We use a tracking utility called Microsoft bCentral that uses log files to analyze user movement.

Communications from the Site

Special Offers and Updates

We send all new members a welcoming email to verify password and username and to ensure that the person receiving the newsletter has personally opted in.  If you have been signed up for a newsletter that you did not authorize or no longer wish to receive, an opt out option is always included with all correspondences. Established members will occasionally receive information on products, services, special deals, and a newsletter. Out of respect for the privacy of our users we present the option to not receive these types of communications. Please see the Choice and Opt-out sections.

Newsletter

If a user wishes to subscribe to our newsletter, we ask for contact information such as name and email address. Out of respect for our users privacy we provide a way to opt-out of these communications. Please see the Choice and Opt-out sections.  This information is stored and processed through Topica. (Topica's privacy policy). Garden and Hearth uses this information for no other purpose than to send out our newsletter.

Customer Service

If any circumstance should arrive that we need to communicate with our readers to answer questions or concerns we will do so via email at the request of the reader.

Sharing

Legal Disclaimer

Though we make every effort to preserve user privacy, we may need to disclose personal information when required by law wherein we have a good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a current judicial proceeding, a court order or legal process served on our Web site.

Aggregate Information (non-personally identifiable)

We share aggregated demographic information with our partners and advertisers. At no time are names or email addresses supplied, simply the demographics of the readership that the readership has voluntarily supplied.

Business Transitions

In the event that Garden and Hearth Magazine goes through a business transition, such as a merger, being acquired by another company, or selling a portion of its assets, users’ personal information will, in most instances, be part of the assets transferred. Users will be notified via email prior to a change of ownership or control of their personal information. If as a result of the business transition, the users’ personally identifiable information will be used in a manner different from that stated at the time of collection they will be given choice consistent with our notification of changes section.

Choice/Opt-out

Our users are given the opportunity to ‘opt-out’ of having their information used for purposes not directly related to our site at the point where we ask for information. For example, our newsletter has an ‘opt-out’ mechanism so users may leave the list at any time at which time the email address is deleted from the mail list.

Users of our site are always notified when their information is being collected by any outside parties. We do this so our users can make an informed choice as to whether or not they should proceed with services that require an outside party.

Links

This Web site contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we,  Garden and Hearth Magazine, are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every Web site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this Web site.

Surveys & Contests

From time-to-time our site requests information from users via surveys or contests. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and the user therefore has a choice whether or not to disclose this information. The requested information typically includes contact information (such as name and shipping address), and demographic information (such as zip code). Contact information will be [shared with the contest [survey] sponsors to notify the winners and award prizes. Anonymous Survey information will be used for purposes of monitoring or improving the use and satisfaction of this site. Users’ personally identifiable information is not shared with third parties unless we give prior notice and choice. Though we may use an intermediary to conduct these surveys or contests, they may not use users’ personally identifiable information for any secondary purposes.

Contact Information

If users have any questions or suggestions regarding our privacy policy, please contact us at:

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