AllPeopleQuilt.com Online Privacy Policy
ONLINE PRIVACY POLICY
Welcome to our website! AllPeopleQuilt.com is a service provided by
Meredith Corporation ("Meredith," "we" or "us"). Since 1902, Meredith has been
committed to providing our customers with products and services characterized by
outstanding quality, customer service and value. Our Online Privacy Policy
continues our commitment to serve you and to protect your privacy online. Please click here to see
our Offline Privacy Policy.
By visiting any of our sites, you agree that your visit, and any dispute over
privacy, is governed by this Online Privacy Policy and our Visitor
Agreement. Please take a few minutes to read them before using or
registering with any of our sites.
PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS PRIVACY POLICY APPLIES ONLY TO OUR ONLINE COLLECTION
AND USE OF INFORMATION AND DOES NOT APPLY TO ANY INFORMATION THAT YOU MAY
PROVIDE TO US BY OTHER MEANS, SUCH AS VIA MAIL OR TELEPHONE.
Please read this Online Privacy Policy carefully so that you understand our
privacy practices regarding:
If you have questions about this Online Privacy Policy, please contact us at privacy@meredith.com.
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Children Under 13:
Meredith cares about protecting the privacy of children. We won't knowingly
allow anyone under 13 to provide us any personally identifying information.
Children should always get permission from their parents before sending any
information about themselves (such as their names, email addresses, and phone
numbers) over the Internet, to us or to anyone else. We encourage you to become
involved in your children's online experience, and to share your interest in our
sites with your young ones. If you're under 13, please do not register with any
of our sites or provide us with any personally identifying information (such as
your name, your email address or your phone number).
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Information We Collect:
The information we gather on our sites falls into two categories: (1)
information you supply when you register or initiate transactions, and (2)
tracking information collected as you navigate through our sites. Third-party
providers featured on, or linked to from, our sites, such as vendors of products
and services offered through our sites, may gather information, as well.
Personally Identifying Information
Registration Information. To use certain features on our
sites, we ask you to register. When you register, we collect personally
identifying information about you, including your name, mailing address, email
address, user name and password. We may also ask for some additional
information, such as, hobbies, age, browser type, and the like, but you're free
to register without providing this information if you prefer. In addition, at
various other points on our sites, we may ask you for personally identifying
information, including when you: place an order for products, complete a survey,
or report a problem with one of our sites. We use this information to process
your orders, to tailor our sites to your interests and to make them more useful
to you, and to help improve our sites generally.
Contests and Other Promotions. From time to time, we may
offer contests or other promotions involving marketing or advertising partners.
If you choose to participate in one of these contests or promotions, you'll have
to provide some information about yourself (such as your name, address, and
email address). We may share this information with sponsors of the contest or
other promotional partners, but we will always identify the other parties
involved (for example, in the contest rules) and provide notice that your
registration may be disclosed to these parties. We don't control these third
parties' privacy practices, and our Privacy Policy does not apply to their
collection and use of your information. We urge you to review their privacy
policies and learn how they will use your information before participating. If
you don't want us to collect the information requested in connection with a
promotion, or to provide it to our co-sponsors or partners, please do not
participate in the promotion.
Tracking Information
Cookies. To help us serve your needs better, we use
"cookies" to store and sometimes to track user information. A cookie is a small
amount of data that is sent to your browser from a web server and stored on your
computer's hard drive. A cookie contains a unique number that allows our sites
to identify your computer. For example, cookies allow us to keep track of your
user name and password (if you are a registered visitor) so you don't have to
re-enter that information each time you visit one of our sites. We also use
cookies to make sure you don't see the same ads repeatedly when you visit our
sites. The help function on most browsers contains information on how to set
your browser to notify you before accepting cookies or to disable cookies
entirely. However, if you don't accept cookies, you may not be able to take
advantage of various features on our sites that are available to other visitors.
In addition, our advertising and marketing partners may use their own cookies.
Third-Party Advertising Services. We use the services of
DoubleClick, a third-party advertising and email delivery company to serve and
target advertisements that you see on the pages of our sites, to serve and
target promotions or other marketing messages, and to send e-mails from us.
DoubleClick also collects "clickstream data," information about your visit to
our sites and to third-party sites that can be aggregated and used to target
advertising on this and other sites, and used for marketing research and other
similar purposes. This clickstream data does not include personally identifying
information such as your name, address, email address or telephone number.
DoubleClick uses cookies for many of the same reasons we do, and collects
information directly from our users. We share website usage information about
visitors to our sites who have received a targeted promotional campaign with
DoubleClick to facilitate targeting future campaigns and upgrading visitor
information used in reporting statistics. For this purpose, we and DoubleClick
note some of the pages you visit on our website through the use of pixel tags
(also called "clear gifs" or "web beacons"). If you would like to know more
about DoubleClick information gathering practices and "opt-out" procedures,
please see the privacy statement on the DoubleClick website.
Browser Level Information and IP Addresses. When you use our
sites, we may also collect information about your access time and your computer
configuration, including the type of browser software you use, the operating
system that you're running, the resolution of your computer monitor and your
Internet Protocol ("IP") address. Your IP address is a number that is used by
computers connected to the Internet to identify your computer so that data (such
as the web pages you request) can be sent to you. Your IP address does not tell
us who you are. Like the IP address, none of the other information described in
this paragraph identifies you personally. We collect this information for
purposes of aggregated reporting on site activity that we, and our advertisers,
may use. For example, we may want to know how long the average user spends on
our site, which pages or features get the most attention, and the like. The
aggregated information helps to understand our audience and confirm the value of
advertising on our websites.
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How Your Information Will Be
Used:
Our primary goal in collecting information is to provide you with a
customized experience when visiting our sites and to make our sites more
valuable to you.
Vendors and Service Providers. To make your experience on
our sites more useful and enjoyable, we may offer some features (such as chat
rooms and email newsletters) in conjunction with third party providers
("Provider Partners") that specialize in operating such services. We share with
each of these Provider Partners such information as is necessary to provide you
with the services we provide you in conjunction with that Provider Partner.
Their use of this information will be subject to the terms of their respective
privacy policies, which you can find on their websites. We will not provide
your email address to such third parties unless it's necessary to provide the
services you have requested, or to allow you to participate in a co-sponsored
promotion.
Sites to Which We Link. We also may provide links to other
websites, and provide access to products and services offered by third parties,
whose privacy policies we don't control. When you access another website or
purchase products or services or conduct other transactions through our
websites, use of any information you provide is governed by the privacy policy
of the operator of the site you're visiting or the provider of such products or
services. When you provide information in the course of obtaining products or
services through our sites, use of any information you provide may be governed
by the privacy policy of the provider of those products or services, even if it
appears that you're on one of our sites throughout the transaction. The
provider's privacy policy may differ from ours. If you can't find the privacy
policy of any of our providers via a link either from the site's homepage or
from the pages on which the products or services are offered, you should contact
the provider directly for more information.
Shopping. When you are ready to make a purchase through one
of our sites, we will ask you to provide us with certain information, including
your contact details (such as your name, address, telephone and email), and your
billing information (such as your credit card number and the date that your card
expires). We will use the information you provide us to process your transaction
and to contact you regarding your purchase if necessary. We will share this
information with the relevant merchant to the extent necessary to facilitate
your purchase (for purposes such as customer service, verification, fulfillment
and billing purposes). We may share non-financial information with such
merchants in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Our Other Websites. When you register for one of our sites,
the information that you provide will be added to a centralized Meredith
database so that you will simultaneously be registered for our other sites as
well. We may share the information that we collect from you with other divisions
of Meredith so that we and they can offer you products and services that we may
believe may be of interest to you.
Postal Address Lists. If you provide us with your postal
address, we may include that address in postal address lists that we sell or
rent to third parties. If you would like us to stop including your postal
address in such lists, please send us a letter (which should be addressed to
Meredith Corporation, Opt-Out Postal, Attn: Circulation, 1716 Locust Street, Des
Moines, Iowa 50309), requesting that we remove your postal address from these
lists. If we receive such a letter from you, we will act as promptly as possible
to remove your postal address from future postal address lists that we sell or
rent to third parties.
Other Disclosures. We may occasionally release information
about our visitors when release is appropriate to comply with law, to enforce
our Visitor
Agreement, or to protect the rights, property or safety of visitors to our
sites, the public, or Meredith Corporation. As our business grows, we may buy or
sell various assets. In the unlikely event that Meredith Corporation,
substantially all of our assets, or one or more of our sites (or substantially
all of its assets) is acquired by another company, information on our visitors
would be among the transferred assets.
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How to Correct or Update
Your Information:
Meredith Corporation believes strongly in providing you with the ability to
access and edit the personally identifying information that you have provided to
us through our websites. To update this information, please visit our My Account area.
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Newsletters and Promotions:
Newsletters. We may offer you the opportunity to subscribe
to email newsletters on various topics that we believe are of interest to our
visitors. If you have opted to receive a particular newsletter, you can always
unsubscribe later either (1) by following the 'unsubscribe' link located near
the bottom of each newsletter, or (2) by going to My Account ,
selecting "Unsubscribe" from the Newsletter options, unchecking the relevant
boxes and pressing the "Update" button.
Promotional Emails. If you provide us with your email
address, from time to time we may send you emails about Meredith products,
services and special offers (such as special Meredith magazine subscription
offers) that we believe may be of interest to you. When you register, you will
also be given an opportunity to tell us whether you would like to receive emails
about products, services and special offers from third-party providers. Though
we hope that you will find both types of promotional emails helpful, if you
decide that you no longer wish to receive either or both types of emails, please
go to the Email
Preferences page and update your preferences. Of course, you may change your
preferences at any time. We will make any changes you request as quickly as we
can.
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Security:
The personally identifying information we collect is stored within a database
that we control. We use standard, industry-wide procedures such as firewalls and
SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) encryption to protect your information. However, as
effective as encryption technology is, no security system is impenetrable. We
cannot guarantee the security of our database, nor can we guarantee that
information you supply won't be intercepted while being transmitted to us over
the Internet. And, of course, any information you include in a message you post
to any message board, discussion group, or other public posting area on our
sites is available to anyone with Internet access. If you don't want people to
know your name or email address, for example, make sure not to include it in any
message you post publicly. Please see our Visitor
Agreement for more information related to posting materials on our sites,
including our use of such materials.
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Miscellaneous:
The Internet is an evolving medium. If we need to change our Privacy Policy
at some point in the future, we'll post the changes before they take effect.
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YOUR CALIFORNIA PRIVACY
RIGHTS
(As provided by California Civil Code Section 1798.83)
Under California Civil Code Section 1798.83 – also known as the “Shine the
Light” law – California residents have a right to request certain information
from each business they patronize regarding that business’s disclosures of
personal information to third parties for the third parties’ direct marketing
purposes. Generally, if a business has disclosed personal information regarding
its California customers to third parties for direct marketing purposes in the
preceding calendar year, the business is required to provide, upon request and
free of charge, a list of the names and addresses of all such third parties,
together with a list of the categories of personal information that was
disclosed.
The “Shine The Light” law creates an exception for businesses that adopt and
disclose to the public (in their privacy policies) a policy of not sharing
personal information for direct marketing purposes without offering their
customers choices to prevent such disclosures. These businesses are not
obligated to provide the lists described above and may respond to requests from
California customers by notifying them of their rights to prevent disclosures of
personal information for direct marketing purposes and providing a cost-free
means of exercising those rights.
Meredith Corporation qualifies for this latter exception. As further
explained in our Online
Privacy Policy and Offline Privacy
Policy, we offer our customers choices to prevent the disclosure of their
personal information to third parties for the third parties’ direct marketing
purposes. To prevent such disclosures of your information, please follow the
instructions in our “Shine The Light” Customer Notice, which is included below
for your convenience. You can also request a copy of this Notice by emailing us
at privacy@meredith.com. Please note
that we are only required to respond to one request for per California customer
during the course of any calendar year and we reserve the right not to respond
to requests made by means other than through this email address.
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MEREDITH CORPORATION "SHINE THE LIGHT" CUSTOMER
NOTICE
The following options are available to any customers who wish to prevent the
disclosure of their personal information to third parties for direct marketing
purposes:
Disclosures of Name and Postal Address Information.
If you subscribe to a magazine published by Meredith Corporation, or if you
otherwise provide us with your name and postal address, we may share this
information with other reputable companies that offer products and services that
we believe may be of interest to you. To remove your name and postal address
from any marketing lists that we sell or rent to third parties, complete the
online “opt-out”
form or email your name and address to privacy@meredith.com. If you prefer to
contact us by regular mail, send a postcard or letter including your name and
postal address to Meredith Corporation, Opt-out Postal: Attn Circulation, 1716
Locust Street, Des Moines, Iowa 50309.
Disclosures of Website Registration Information.
When you register to become a member of one of our websites and when you use
our sites, you may be invited to sign up to receive special offers from
reputable third-party advertisers that we think may be of interest to you. If
you choose to register for these offers, we will share your registration
information with the advertisers that sponsor the offers you elect to receive.
To prevent the disclosure of your registration information to these advertisers,
please do not register to receive third-party offers when you sign up for
membership and/or use our sites.
Many of the third-party offers promoted through our websites are brought to
our visitors by a third-party agency, CoolSavings.com. When you register to
receive one or more offers from advertising clients of CoolSavings.com, your
information will be disclosed to CoolSavings.com and CoolSavings.com may use
your information and disclose it to its client advertisers subject to its
privacy policy at http://www.coolsavings.com/. If you do not wish to receive
third-party offers through CoolSavings.com, please do not register for these
offers when you use our websites.
Disclosures of Sweepstakes and Contest Registration Information.
From time to time, we may offer co-sponsored sweepstakes, contests and other
promotions with third-party advertisers and other partners. We may share your
registration information with third-parties involved in a co-sponsored
promotion, who will always be identified in the promotion materials (for
example, in the official rules). If you do not want your registration
information to be disclosed to these third-parties, please do not register for
any of our co-sponsored promotions.
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