The information C & C Partnership, schememag.com and its affiliated persons and entities (”C & C Partnership”) collects about you at http://www.schememag.com , is used to provide you with a more personalized and rich experience while visiting Schememag.com. schememag.com is intended for viewing solely in the United States. Your use of schememag.com is expressly conditioned on your acceptance of and agreement to this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy sets forth the terms and conditions that apply to your use of schememag.com. By using schememag.com, you agree to abide by this Privacy Policy. In addition, when using specific services or entering contests or sweepstakes, you agree to abide by any guidelines or rules posted in connection with such services, contests or sweepstakes, all of which are hereby incorporated by reference into this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with any posted guidelines or rules, or with any part of this Privacy Policy, you must not use schememag.com. If you do not comply with this Privacy Policy at all times when using schememag.com, C & C Partnership reserves the right to deny or restrict your access. The terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy shall apply regardless of the means by which schememag.com was accessed, including but not limited to through the URL, electronic mail or links from other sites. Please read on for details.
What Does This Privacy Policy Cover?
This Privacy Policy covers how C & C Partnership treats information that C & C Partnership collects and receives about you via schememag.com including information related to your past use of schememag.com. C & C Partnership has prepared a detailed policy in order for you to know as much as possible about C & C Partnership’s; practices so that you can make informed decisions. By using schememag.com and thereby agreeing to this Privacy Policy, you expressly consent to C & C Partnership’s use and disclosure of automatic and personal information provided to C & C Partnership when you interact with schememag.com, as described in this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy does not apply to: (i) the practices of companies or other third parties that C & C Partnership does not own or control, or people that C & C Partnership does not employ or manage; or (ii) any offline matters, activities or information that C & C Partnership or any affiliate collects about you or anybody else.
YOUR CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS
Residents of the State of California, under a provision of the California Civil Code, have the right to request from companies conducting business in California a list of all third parties to which the company has disclosed personal information during the preceding year for direct marketing purposes. Alternatively, the law provides that if the company has a privacy policy that gives either an opt-out or opt-in choice for use of your personal information by third parties (such as advertisers or affiliated companies) for marketing purposes, the company may instead provide you with information on how to exercise your disclosure choice options.
schememag.com qualifies for the alternative option by allowing you to opt-out or opt in to the use of your personal information by third parties for direct marketing purposes as described below. Therefore, we are not required to maintain or disclose a list of the third parties that received your personal information for marketing purposes during the preceding year.
If you are a California resident and request information about how to exercise your third party disclosure choices you must send an email request to khary@schememag.com with the phrase “Your California Privacy Rights” in the subject line. The response will be sent to the email address from which the request was received. We will not accept requests via postal mail, the telephone or by facsimile. We are not responsible for notices that are not labeled or sent properly, or do not have complete information.
How Does C & C Partnership Collect and Use Information About You?
The information learned from schememag.com’s users, members and customers helps C & C Partnership personalize and continually improve your experience at schememag.com. Here are the types of information C & C Partnership gathers and how this information is used:
Automatic Information: C & C Partnership receives and stores certain types of Automatic Information whenever you interact with schememag.com. Here are the types of Automatic Information C & C Partnership gathers and how it is used:
IP Address: Your Internet Protocol (”IP”) address is a unique identifier used to connect your computer to the Internet. Your IP address also is stored in schememag.com user registration databases when you register with schememag.com.
IP addresses may be used for various purposes, including to:
- Help C & C Partnership identify you and your shopping cart and to gather broad demographic information.
- Diagnose service or technology problems reported by schememag.com users or engineers that are associated with the IP addresses controlled by a specific Web company or ISP.
- Estimate the total number of users visiting schememag.com from specific countries or regions of the world.
- Help determine which users have access privileges to certain content that schememag.com hosts.
Cookies: schememag.com uses a feature of your Internet Web browser called a “cookie,” a small piece of information stored on your hard drive that uniquely identifies your intra- and inter-requests on schememag.com. Cookies may be used for various purposes, including to keep track of preferences you specify while you are using schememag.com. Other companies that are presenting advertisements on some of schememag.com’s pages may set and access cookies on your computer. C & C Partnership does not control cookies from third-party advertisers. Other companies’ use of their cookies is subject to their own privacy policies and not the privacy policy of C & C Partnership The use of advertising cookies sent by third-party servers is standard in the Internet industry.
Personal Information: C & C Partnership also receives and stores information that personally identifies you. The types of personally identifiable information that may be collected at schememag.com include: name, address, email address, phone number, fax number, billing address, shipping address, product selections, order number, referring URL, IP address, password, username, how you got to know about schememag.com, gender, occupation, personal interests, your age and information about your interests in and use of various products, programs and services. You voluntarily provide this personally identifiable information when you enter it on schememag.com to sign up as a member of schememag.com, whether in connection with a newsletter subscription, when you enter a sweepstakes, promotion or contest and/or other special benefits.
At schememag.com, you can submit personally identifiable information about other people. For example, you might submit a person’s name and email address to email a schememag.com news story and, if you are located in the United States, order a gift on schememag.com and want it sent directly to the recipient, you might submit the recipient’s name and address. The types of personally identifiable information that may be collected and stored about other people at schememag.com include: recipient’s name, address, email address and telephone number. C & C Partnership does not knowingly share with, rent, transfer or sell personally identifiable information that you submit about other people to any third parties or nonaffiliated entities.
Does C & C Partnership Ever Share Information with Other Parties?
Disclosure of Information to Outside Parties:
C & C Partnership does not rent, sell, or share personal information about you with other people or nonaffiliated companies except to provide products or services you’ve requested, when we have your permission, or under the following circumstances. C & C Partnership may disclose information about you to those whose practices are not covered by this Privacy Policy under certain circumstances including, but not limited to:
- C & C Partnership provides the information to trusted partners who work on behalf of or with C & C Partnership and under confidentiality arrangements. These companies may use your personal information to help C & C Partnership communicate with you about offers from C & C Partnership and our marketing partners.
- C & C Partnership shares information in order to investigate, prevent or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of C & C Partnership terms of use or as otherwise allowed by law.
- C & C Partnership may also disclose information about you if it determines that for national security, law enforcement, or other issues of public importance, disclosure is necessary.
- C & C Partnership displays targeted advertisements based on personal information. Advertisers (including ad serving companies) may assume that people who interact with, view or click on targeted ads meet the targeting criteria (for example, women ages 18-24 from a particular geographic area). By interacting with or viewing an ad you are consenting to the possibility that the advertiser will make the assumption that you meet the targeting criteria used to display the ad.
Due to the existing regulatory environment, C & C Partnership cannot ensure that all of your private communications and other personal information will never be disclosed in ways not otherwise described in this Privacy Policy. By way of example (without limiting the foregoing), third parties may unlawfully intercept or access transmissions or private communications.
Links to Outside Third Parties:
C & C Partnership may establish relationships with business partners by creating a link between their sites and schememag.com. C & C Partnership is not, however, responsible for the content, maintenance or privacy policies of those sites. Once you click over to a third party site, C & C Partnership encourages you to check its privacy policy.
schememag.com may contain links to other sites whose information practices may be different than the information practices of C & C Partnership. Users who click over to a third party site from a link on schememag.com must be aware that C & C Partnership makes no warranties with regard to that site’s policies or business practices. C & C Partnership is not responsible for any transactions that occur between the user and the third party site. Please consult the other sites’ privacy policies, as C & C Partnership has no control over information that is submitted to or collected by these third parties. Should a user purchase any products or services from that third party site, the user must contact the third party site directly regarding any disputes that might occur, including but not limited to delayed shipping, missing products, damaged goods or pricing and billing discrepancies. C & C Partnership is not responsible for the actions of any third-party site.
Business Transfers:
As C & C Partnership continues to develop its business, it might sell or buy assets. In such transactions, customer information generally is one of the transferred business assets. Also, in the event that C & C Partnership or substantially all of its assets are acquired, customer information will be one of the transferred assets.
Children’s Guidelines:
C & C Partnership does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13, nor does it contact children under the age of 13 about special offers or for marketing purposes without a parent’s permission. C & C Partnership encourages parents and legal guardians to monitor their children’s Internet use. Also, C & C Partnership strongly encourages parents to help C & C Partnership enforce its Privacy Policy by instructing their children never to provide personal information on schememag.com without permission.
It is possible that due to fraud or deception by others, C & C Partnership may unknowingly receive information pertaining to children under the age of 13. If C & C Partnership is notified of this, once C & C Partnership has verified the information, C & C Partnership will promptly delete the information from its servers or otherwise obtain parental consent.
Public Forums:
Schememag.com has comments sections and may in the future add chat rooms and message boards. Please remember that any information disclosed in these areas becomes public information. Exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information, personally identifiable information you submit to one of these forums can be read, collected, or used by other individuals to send you unsolicited messages. C & C Partnership is not responsible for the personally identifiable information you choose to submit in these forums. As these forums are public and open for users to interact with each other, C & C Partnership expects all its users to respect the rights of others.
Changes to This Privacy Policy:
C & C Partnership will occasionally update this Privacy Policy at C & C Partnership’s sole discretion. Please check schememag.com frequently to see recent changes. Such changes and/or modifications shall become effective immediately upon posting thereof. When C & C Partnership changes the policy in a material way a notice will be posted on our website along with the updated Privacy Policy. Your continued use of schememag.com constitutes your agreement to this Privacy Policy, as it may be amended from time to time, and all of the terms and conditions set forth therein.
