Mac OS Journal has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. The following discloses the information gathering and dissemination practices for all pages run by Mac OS Journal.

Information Automatically Logged

We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer our Web site. Your IP address is also used to gather broad demographic information in order to better target our advertisements to specific geographical locations.

Advertisers

We use an outside ad company to display ads on our site. These ads may contain cookies. While we use cookies in other parts of our Web site, cookies received with banner ads are collected by our ad company, and we do not have access to this information. Some customer data is shared with the advertising companies such as visitor frequency and geographical location.

Our site's subscriber form requires users to give us contact information (like their name and email address). Contact information from the registration forms is used to inform the subscriber of updates to the site and to send promotional material from some of our partners. However, subscriber information is never given or sold to a third party. All promotional mailouts for a third party are sent from within Mac OS Journal. Users may opt-out of receiving future mailings; see the choice/opt-out section below.

Demographic and profile data is also collected at our site. This information is shared with advertisers on an aggregate basis. We use this data to tailor our visitor's experience at our site showing them content that we think they might be interested in, and displaying the content according to their preferences.

Surveys

Our online surveys ask visitors for contact information (like email address), and demographic information (like zip code, age, or income level).

Contact information from the surveys is used to ship purchases and information about our company. The customer's contact information is also used to send promotional material from some of our partners to our customers, and to get in touch with the visitor when necessary.

Users may opt-out of receiving future mailings; see the choice/opt-out section below.

Demographic and profile data is also collected at our site. This information is shared with advertisers on an aggregate basis. We use this data to tailor our visitor's experience at our site showing them content that we think they might be interested in, and displaying the content according to their preferences.

Contests

We run contests on our site in which we ask visitors for contact information (like email address), and demographic information (like zip code, age, or income level).

Contact information from the contests is used to ship purchases, information about our company. The customer's contact information is also used to send promotional material from some of our partners to our customers, and to get in touch with the visitor when necessary.

Users may opt-out of receiving future mailings; see the choice/opt-out section below.

Demographic and profile data is also collected at our site. This information is shared with advertisers on an aggregate basis. We use this data to tailor our visitor's experience at our site showing them content that we think they might be interested in, and displaying the content according to their preferences.

This site contains links to other sites. Mac OS Journal is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites.

Special Relationships

Mac OS Journal is partnered with Applelust.com. While both sites may share the same advertisements and link to one another, all information between them is owned in full by the Site from which this information originated. When subscribing to Mac OS Journal, you will have an option to subscribe to Applelust as well. However, if you should choose not to subscribe to Applelust.com at that time, Mac OS Journal will not share your information with Applelust.com at that time. You may read Applelust's privacy statement here. Mac OS Journal is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of Applelust.com

Public Forums

This site makes chat rooms, forums, message boards, and/or news groups available to its users. Please remember that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information.

Children's Guidelines

We care about children and understand that they have special privacy needs. Therefore, we have adopted the following privacy policy regarding children:

1. We will NOT collect, use, or distribute to third parties personally identifiable information without prior verifiable parental consent.
2. We will NOT give the child access to unmonitored chat rooms, message boards, email accounts, or other services that would give the child the ability to publicly post or otherwise distribute personally identifiable information without prior verifiable parental consent
3. When verifiable parental consent is not obtained, we will only use the online contact information (such as email) to:
1. Respond directly to the child's request on a one-time basis and not use that information to re-contact the child for other purposes.
2. Request the name or online contact information of a parent for the purpose of obtaining verifiable parental consent or providing parental notification.
3. Respond more than once directly to a specific request from a child (such as in the case where a child requests a newsletter subscription) and not used to re-contact the child for other purposes. We will use our best efforts to provide parental notification, which will include the nature and intended use as well as an opportunity for the parent to prevent the use of the information and participation in the activity.
4. We will NOT entice the child to divulge more information than is needed to participate in any activity, game, or service.
5. We will provide the parent a description of the specific types of a personally identifiable information collected from their child upon request. We will allow the parent to refuse further use or future online collection of personally identifiable information and provide a way for a parent to obtain any personally identifiable information collected from their child.
6. We will provide notice to children in age appropriate terms of what personally identifiable information is to be collected.
7. We will encourage children to get their parent's permission before sharing personal information online.

Choice/Opt-Out

Our site provides users the opportunity to opt-out of receiving promotional/marketing information from our partners, and us.

1. You can send email to webmaster@macosjournal.com
2. If you are subscribed, you may unsubscribe on our subscribe page.

Data Quality/Access

This site gives users the following options for changing and modifying information previously provided:

1. You can send email to webmaster@macosjournal.com.
2. If you are changing subscription information, you should unsubscribe from our subscribe page and then subscribe with your new information at the subscribe page.

If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this Web site, you can contact: webmaster@macosjournal.com