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Privacy

This privacy policy pertains to the use of the ILLITERATE Magazine web site at ILLITERATEmag.com. It covers how ILLITERATE Magazine treats personal information that it collects. Personal information is information about you that is personally identifiable like your name or email address.

• When you register we ask for your email address and certain optional information such as your name.
• If you would like to subscribe, we will ask for your billing address, phone number, and credit card information.
• ILLITERATE Magazine automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser, including your IP address, cookie, and the page you request. This is normal website behavior.
• ILLITERATE Magazine uses information for the following general purposes: billing, identification and authentication, services improvement, contact, research, and anonymous reporting.

IP Addresses are automatically reported by your browser each time you view a web page. Your IP address is stored in our user registration databases when you register with ILLITERATE Magazine.

IP addresses may be used for various purposes, including:

• To diagnose or service technology problems reported by our users or engineers that are associated with the IP addresses controlled by a specific web company or ISP.
• To estimate the total number of users visiting ILLITERATE Magazine from specific geographical regions.
• To make sure that people are not abusing the voting or submission systems.

A cookie is a small amount of data, which often includes an anonymous unique identifier, that is sent to your browser from a web site's computers and stored on your computer's hard drive.

• You can configure your browser to accept all cookies, reject all cookies, or notify you when a cookie is set.
• If you reject all cookies, you will not be able to use ILLITERATE Magazine products or services that require you to "sign in" and you may not be able to take full advantage of the ILLITERATE Magazine service.
• ILLITERATE Magazine uses its own cookies for a number of purposes, including to:
  
  • Access your information when you "sign in".
  • Keep track of preferences you specify while you are using ILLITERATE Magazine's services.
  • Display the most appropriate advertising banners, based on your interests and activity on ILLITERATE Magazine.
  • Estimate and report our total audience size and traffic.
  • Conduct research to improve ILLITERATE Magazine's content and services.
• ILLITERATE Magazine lets other companies (such as Google) [that show advertisements on some of our pages set and access their cookies on your computer. Other entities' use of their cookies is subject to their own privacy policies, not this one. Advertisers or other entities do not have access to ILLITERATE Magazine's cookies.

• When you post a photo, your ILLITERATE Magazine ID or alias that you are posting under is visible to other users.
• If you post personal information online that is accessible to the public, you may receive unsolicited messages from other parties in return. ILLITERATE Magazine does not rent or sell your personal information.
• Generally, ILLITERATE Magazine does not share personal information about you with other people or nonaffiliated companies without your consent, except when compelled by subpoenas, warrants, court orders or legal process.
• It may be necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding suspected or actual illegal activities, including without limitation, fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of ILLITERATE Magazine's terms of use, or as otherwise permitted or required by law. We will transfer information about you if ILLITERATE Magazine is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, ILLITERATE Magazine will notify you by email or by putting a prominent notice on the ILLITERATE Magazine web site before information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy. ILLITERATE Magazine may share demographic information with business partners, such as "59% of users who regularly user ILLITERATE Magazine comments are between 18 and 24" or the like. No personally identifiable information will ever be used without your permission (i.e. we will ask you for a quote or testimonial)

• You can change your ILLITERATE Magazine profile information at any time, exc ept your Username which is fixed when created.
• We may send you certain communications relating to the ILLITERATE Magazine service, such as service announcements and administrative messages, that are considered part of your ILLITERATE Magazine account.
• You can delete your ILLITERATE Magazine account at any time by contacting us; however, please note that your identification, billing and contact information may remain in ILLITERATE Magazine's records for some period.
• We limit access to personal information about you to employees who we believe reasonably need to come into contact with that information to provide products or services to you or in order to do their jobs.
• Your ILLITERATE Magazine profile information is password-protected.
• In certain areas, ILLITERATE Magazine uses SSL-encryption to protect data transmissions.

ILLITERATE Magazine may update this policy at any time for any reason. If there are any significant changes to how we handle personal information we will send a notice to the primary email address specified in your ILLITERATE Magazine account or by placing a prominent notice on our site.

If you have questions or suggestions please contact us.