Privacy Policy
Effective Date: June __, 2008
This website (the Site) is owned and operated by the San Francisco Jewish Community Publications Inc., d/b/a J. the Jewish news weekly of Northern California (J., we, us). Your privacy is important to J. This Privacy Policy outlines the types of personally identifiable information (such as your email address, first and last name, and address) and other information (such as cookies and log files that, when linked to your name or contact information, allows us to personalize your visit) that we gather while you are visiting the Site, as well as ways in which we process and disseminate such information. This Privacy Policy does not pertain to information collected on any other site owned by J., its subsidiaries or other businesses.
J. reserves the right to change, modify, add, or remove provisions of this Privacy Policy. Any changes to this Privacy Policy will be posted here, and we encourage you to check back from time to time to ensure continuing familiarity with the most current version of our Privacy Policy. At the top of this page, we will indicate the Effective Date of the most recent version of the Privacy Policy; this will allow you to determine whether the Privacy Policy has been revised since your previous visit to the Site.
Please read this Privacy Policy
as well as the Terms of Use carefully. Your use of the Site constitutes
your acceptance to be bound by this Privacy Policy and the Terms of
Use without limitation, qualification or change. If at any time you
do not accept all the terms and conditions contained herein and in the
Terms of Use, you must immediately discontinue use of the Site.
What Information We Collect.
Non-Personally Identifiable Information.
When you enter the Site, information is gathered from your Internet browser. This information may include your IP address and log files (which allows us to determine the identity of your Internet Service Provider), your operating system and the type of browser software that you are using to access the Site. All information obtained from your browser is anonymous, and no personal information is ever transmitted to us in this manner.
The Site may use a standard
technology called a cookie, or web beacons or other similar technology
to collect information about how you use the Site. Cookies reside
on your computer and help the Site recognize your computers browser
as a previous visitor. In addition, on occasion the Site may also
set a session cookie which helps us administer the Site.
The session cookie expires when you close your browser and does not
retain any information about you after it expires.
If you use a standard web browser,
you should be able to modify your browser preference to provide you
with choices relating to cookies; for example, you should have the choice
to accept all cookies, to be notified when a cookie is set or to reject
all cookies. If you choose to reject cookies, you may be unable to
use certain Site services (e.g., those services that require you to
log on to the Site). For more information on modifying your browser
preference, please refer to the documentation accompanying your browser.
Personally Identifiable Information.
We do not collect any personally identifiable information from you without your knowledge. The only personally identifiable information that J. may collect about you as a result of your visit to the Site is limited to such information that you may voluntarily submit to J. by filling out one or more registration forms found on the Site. The information requested in such registration form may include, but is not limited to:
- email address;
- first and last name; and
- address.
J. may also from time to time
request additional information that is helpful or necessary for running
the Site and providing products, services and information.
Transactions With E-Commerce Partners, Vendors and Advertisers
When you provide personally
identifiable financial information and other personally identifiable
information to one of the Sites e-commerce partners, vendors or advertisers,
this transaction will occur in connection with the site of the e-commerce
partner, vendor or advertiser, not on the Site, and, as such, the financial
and other personally identifiable information you provide is collected
pursuant to and controlled by the privacy policy of such e-commerce
partner, vendor or advertiser. J. is not responsible for such parties
privacy policies and we encourage you to familiarize yourself with the
applicable privacy policy of the e-commerce site with which you transact
business or to contact the operator of such site for more information.
Shopping/Commercial Services
The Site may offer merchandise and/or services, which may be offered by us or by an entity that operates a store under contract with us. If the Site offers shopping or other commercial services, you will use a customer order form to request information, products, and services. The order form will ask you to give us personally identifiable information (such as name, address and/or email address, mobile phone number), financial information (such as account or credit card numbers), and demographic information (such as zip code or age). We will use your mailing address to fulfill orders of merchandise as well as to send you announcements and notifications that may be of interest to you. We will use the financial information that you provide to bill you for products and services. By giving the Site your credit card and related personal information, you are authorizing us to give that information to the merchant (if the merchant is a separate entity) and credit card company in order to confirm and fulfill your order. We may use your email address or mobile telephone numbers messaging capability to send you special announcements or notifications of events or services that may be of interest to you and to verify and authorize the use of your credit card for services for which you have registered or requested.
Online Surveys/Sweepstakes and Contests
From time to time, we conduct online surveys and offer online sweepstakes or contests on the Site. These will ask you for your personally identifiable information (such as name or email address) and demographic information (such as zip code or age), as well as any other contact information necessary (such as a physical address) for us to provide notifications or deliver requested materials related to the survey, sweepstakes or contest. We may use this information from our surveys, sweepstakes and contests to provide you with information about our company and promotional material on behalf of some of our partners, and to contact you when necessary. Please note that we may post relevant privacy information in the official rules and/or registration area for the sweepstakes or contest. That privacy information, to the extent it conflicts with this Privacy Policy, will govern that particular sweepstakes or contest.
Public Forums and Other Interactive Features
Because J. reserves the right to use content created or provided by you in connection with our chat room, forum, message board or news groups, to the extent that you include personally identifiable information in such content, J. may republish such personally identifiable information, as part of the content, in connection with the Site and promotion thereof. If we republish your content, we may provide authorship credit by listing your member name as well. Please be aware that when you disclose personally identifiable information in a chat room, forum, message board or news groups on the Site, the information may become public and accessible to all or a part of the Site community and can in turn be used by those people to send you unsolicited communications, so it is important for you to exercise discretion and appropriate caution when deciding to reveal personal information in these areas. For example, your e-mail address may be available to other Site members, who may send unsolicited e-mail to you. In the event that you encounter any Site user who you believe is improperly collecting or using information about you or other users, please notify us immediately at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
Compliance With Applicable Law.
J. may also access and disclose personally identifiable information in the event that we believe, in J.'s discretion, that such action is reasonably necessary to comply with government requests; to enforce the Terms of Use or other published guidelines; to protect J., its users or others; to respond to circumstances that we feel constitute an emergency; or as otherwise required or permitted by applicable law. Please be aware that, in connection with the foregoing, J. may provide information about you gathered through other sites controlled, owned or operated by J. or J.s affiliates to the extent permitted under the applicable privacy policy governing collection and use of such information.
How We Use Information We Collect.
Non-Personally Identifiable Information.
We may use non-personally identifiable
information to measure the number of visits, average time spent on the
Site and pages viewed as well as to diagnose problems with our servers
and to administer the Site. We may then use this information to analyze
and improve the features and functionality of the Site.
Personally Identifiable Information.
J. uses your personally identifiable information for purposes that include, but may not be limited to: send you notifications of special offers, new offerings, products or other services targeted to your interests and to contact you when reasonably necessary.
Opt-In/Opt-Out Policy
When you supply J. with personally identifiable information in connection with the Site, you may be asked to indicate whether you are interested in receiving information from us about our product and service offerings. If you do choose to opt-in, you will receive such communications in accordance with your opt-in consent. You may, of course, choose not to receive additional information from us as follows:
- At any time, you can follow a link provided in our commercial email messages (but excluding e-commerce confirmations and other administrative emails) to unsubscribe from that particular mailing list or email service; or
- At any time, you can contact us by clicking on the Contact Us link on the Site to have your contact preference changed to Do Not Contact Me.
If you decide to contact us to change your contact preference to Do Not Contact Me, J. will implement this change within ten(10) business days after your request. Please be aware that your requested change will not be effective until J. implements such change. In addition, please keep in mind that even if you opt-out from receiving communications from the Site, residual information about you will remain within J. databases, access logs and other records, which may or may not contain such personally identifiable information. The residual information will not be used for commercial purposes; however, J. reserves the right, from time to time, to contact former customers or users of the Site for administrative purposes or in order to comply with applicable law.
Please note that J. reserves the right to change its opt-in/opt-out practices by modifying or updating this Privacy Policy as set forth above.
Childrens Personal Information
Consistent with the Childrens Online Privacy Protection Act:
This Site does NOT collect, use, or disclose personal information (including online contact information) of children under the age of 13. In the event that a child under the age of 13 attempts to register or make a purchase on the Site, we will NOT accept the registration and will delete information received from the child. In the event that a child posts personal information in a public forum such as a chat room, we will attempt to delete that information once we become aware of it.
Security Precautions.
J. employs reasonable security
measures consistent with standard industry practice, for information
collected through the Site. However, you should exercise discretion
with respect to the submission of any personal or financial information
to the Site. Transmitting information via the Internet is never completely
secure and, therefore, any information submitted may be intercepted,
collected, used or disclosed by others. We cannot, and do not,
guarantee that information supplied by users will not be accessed on
our servers, or intercepted, collected, used or disclosed by others
while being transmitted to or from the Site over the Internet.
Links to Other Websites.
The Site may contain links
to other websites, which may or may not be owned or operated by J.
All links to websites not part of our company are made without any representations
or warranties relating to the integrity, security or legitimacy of such
websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content
of websites that are not owned and operated by J., including such sites
use of any information (such as IP number, browser type or operating
system) collected when visitors to the Site click through links to those
sites. This Privacy Policy cannot and does not apply to external
websites and, once you leave the Site, you are subject to those websites
privacy policies and procedures. We strongly encourage you to become
familiar with the privacy practices and privacy policies of external
websites before providing personally identifiable information. If you
have concerns about any linked website, please contact us.
Legal Construction of this Privacy Policy.
This Privacy Policy and the
Terms of Use provided on the Site are governed by and construed in accordance
with the laws of the State of California, United States of America,
without regards to its principles of conflicts of law. You agree to
submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of any State or Federal court located
in the County of San Francisco, California, United States of America,
and waive any jurisdictional, venue or inconvenient forum objections
to such courts. No waiver by either party of any breach or default
hereunder shall be deemed to be a waiver of any preceding or subsequent
breach or default. Any heading, caption or section title contained
in this Privacy Policy is inserted only as a matter of convenience and
in no way defines or explains any section or provision hereof.
If any provision of this Privacy
Policy, or the application thereof to any person or circumstances, is
held to be unlawful, void or for any reason unenforceable, then that
provision shall be deemed severable from this Privacy Policy and shall
not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions.
Unless expressly provided otherwise, this Privacy Policy and the Terms
of Use presented on the Site comprise the entire agreement between you
and J. with respect to the use of the Site and shall not be modified
except in writing, signed by an authorized representative of J.
European Union and Other Foreign Nations
The Site is governed by and operated in accordance with the laws of United States of America. J. makes no representation that the Site is governed by or operated in accordance with the laws of other nations. By using the Site and submitting any personal information, visitors from outside of the USA acknowledge the Site is subject to USA law, consent to the transfer of personal data to the USA, and waive any claims that may arise under their own national laws.
Contact Us.
If you have any questions about our company, the Site or this Privacy Policy, please contact us by clicking on the Contact Us link on the Site.
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