Privacy Policy
We work solely with the information provided by site visitors and contributors to assist us in serving our subscriber base. Late Talks on Air will not sell, distribute, or transfer personally identifiable information to third-party companies, organizations, or other parties without your permission. We will do everything commercially reasonable to protect the privacy and confidentiality of the personal information you entrust to us.
Definition of “personally identifying information.”
“Personally identifying information” is any information that can, by its nature, identify a person—for example, name, address, phone number, and email address.
Our Methods
This organization gathers personal information, as identified above, from clients, site members, and subscribers of its print products. In addition to name, address (postal and email), telephone number, and credit card information, we may collect demographics and opinions of subscribers or potential subscribers to our magazines, e-newsletters, and websites. Some of our sites collect data through on-site tools and applications designed to assist you, for instance, in polls and surveys. Late Talks on Air may track information about online users through forms, surveys, contests, over the telephone, mail, email, fax, and our website.
How we use the information.
Late Talks on Air uses information for the following reasons:
1. To deliver the products and services you have requested from us
2. To customize our editorial and advertising content;
3. To respond to inquiries from you through our contact form.
We may also use subscriber feedback and information about online visitors’ interests to improve our products and customer service. Late Talks on Air makes all commercially reasonable efforts to ensure that information is used responsibly and only for its intended purpose.
General visitor information may be compiled (we do not collect visitor names) and shared in an anonymous aggregate form with advertisers and other third parties, but no personal details will be traceable or associated with specific individuals. Late Talks on Air will only send personally identifiable information about you to other organizations when we have your consent to do so or if:
A. We need to share your information to provide the product or service you requested, which may require involving organizations that work on our behalf to provide the product or service. (Unless we tell you differently and unless you consent, these companies do not have any right to use the personal information we provide to them beyond what is necessary to assist us.)
B. We respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal processes.
C. We find that your actions on our website violate our Terms of Use or any of our usage guidelines for specific products or services.
D. We will obtain your express consent before using or disclosing your personal information for any purposes not identified in this policy.
Public Forums and Message Boards
Depending on the site, the name or email address you register with us will be posted on our message boards and public forums if you post comments there. Remember that the information you post can be publicly viewed. You should exercise caution in deciding what personal information you will share in these public forums. Members are expected to comply with the rules governing the message board, but we cannot control third parties’ use of information you may choose to provide in this public forum.
Cookies
Cookies are small data files written to your hard drive by some websites when you view them in your browser. Cookies and web server logs are used to collect information in an aggregated or non-identifiable way, and that information is used to improve your experience as a user on our sites, to improve the content of our web pages, to monitor the activity of our advertisements, to monitor traffic to and from our web sites, to customize the content and/or layout of our pages for each individual visitor and for purposes of internal review. Information gathered through cookies and web server logs may include the date and time of visits, the pages viewed, time spent at our website, the websites visited just before and just after our website, browser information, and your computer’s IP address. (IP stands for Internet Protocol. This address is a unique string of numbers that identifies a computer on the Internet. All resources on the Internet must have an IP address.) This information is collected on an aggregate basis, meaning that none of this information is associated with you as an individual. It may be shared with other organizations but only in aggregate and/or statistical form. Note that companies placing advertising on our sites have the ability to assign cookies to you in a process that Open Book Diaries Inc. does not control.
Your correspondence
If you choose to correspond with us via email, we may retain the content of your email messages together with your email address and our responses. Your email address will not become part of any other database. We provide the same protections for these electronic communications that we employ in the maintenance of non-electronic information, such as that received by mail and telephone.
Other ways of contacting you
We may obtain personal information from third parties, such as mailing list owners. Typically, personal information is provided to us with specific instructions on how it is to be used. We make all commercially reasonable efforts to ensure that such personal information is used only for the purposes stipulated and that it is subject to strict terms of confidentiality. In the case of personal information obtained from third parties, we will work with list owners to fulfill the right of clients to know of the existence, use, and disclosure of their personal information and to provide access to that information.
Other sites and their policies
The sites of advertisers, sponsors, and other third-party services may be accessible from our website. These third parties may collect information for their own promotions and offers and may have their own privacy policies. Open Book Diaries Inc. is not responsible for these third-party policies or actions and bears no liability for them.
How to protect your privacy online
There is always the risk that personal information disclosed online in forum areas or emails may be intercepted, collected, and used. Open Book Diaries Inc. is not responsible if that information is intercepted. You transmit information to anyone at your own risk. You should safeguard your passwords from others and take steps to keep your personal information safe.
Withdrawing your permission
Subject to contractual and other legal obligations, you are entitled to withdraw your consent to our use and disclosure of your personal information. Specifically, if you prefer that we do not use or disclose your personal data for marketing or promotional purposes, please send an email to privacy@openbookdiaries.org. Please note that your request may take three to four weeks to implement. We are legally bound to inform you that withdrawing your consent may preclude us from providing you with certain products and services.
Concerns not covered herein.
To access your personal information, inform us of changes you believe need to be made to that information, request that we investigate a concern you have about our personal information practices, or obtain further information about this policy, please submit your correspondence through our Contact Us page.
Thank you,
Late Talks on Air – Open Book Diaries Inc.