Privacy policy
1ParentingTeensOnline™ and iFOS Publishing, L.L.C. ("we") are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This Privacy Statement sets out our privacy policy and explains what we do with the personal information that we collect from you. Please read the following to understand our practices regarding personal information. This statement discloses our current privacy practices; ParentingTeensOnline™ and iFOS Publishing, L.L.C. reserve the right to make non-significant changes to our privacy policy that will not affect ParentingTeensOnline™ and iFOS Publishing, L.L.C.'s use of a user's personally identifiable information at any time without any notice to you other than posting any such changes in a revised Privacy Policy on the web site. We encourage you to periodically review our Privacy Policy to be sure you are familiar with the most current version. We will send notice to the email address designated on your account if we make any significant changes to our Privacy Policy that affect the use of any personally identifiable information we collect. If you have any questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should contact ParentingTeensOnline™ at info@parentingteensonline.com.
E-mail and Street Addresses:
The addresses provided by you at registration will be used by ParentingTeensOnline™ and iFOS Publishing, L.L.C. to (1) provide you with parenting information and links to your newsletter and related articles (2) offers from ParentingTeensOnline, iFOS Publishing L.L.C and any subsidiaries, or any sponsors of ParentingTeensOnline, iFOS Publishing L.L.C. and any subsidiaries for any products or services offered by the above entities (3) notify you of major changes to the Web site and or to the Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy, and (4) request your participation in user polls and surveys, asking for feedback on the Web site and existing or prospective products and services, as well as information to better understand our users. User surveys greatly help us to improve our Web site, and gain insight into the parenting market-place. Any information we obtain in such surveys will only be shared with third parties in aggregate form. Market-place surveys may be shared in aggregate form as part of press releases or jointly released with other 3rd parties.
If you use our "E-mail to a friend" service to email one of our articles to a friend, you will need to provide us with your friend's email address and your email address as a return address. We will automatically send this person a one-time email, with the recommended article attached, as well as invite your friend to subscribe. We will not use these email addresses for any other purpose.
Except as permitted by this policy, ParentingTeensOnline™ and iFOS Publishing L.L.C. do not send unsolicited e-mail.
Encryption:
ParentingTeensOnline™ and iFOS Publishing, L.L.C. use state-of-the-art protection, including Secure Socket Layers (SSLs), to encrypt pages when collecting sensitive information such as your credit card number and billing address. This measure is designed to guard against interception of this information while it is on the Internet. You can tell if you are using a secure page by looking at the bottom of your browser window where you will see a lock. If it's in a closed state, the page is encrypted.
IP Addresses and Cookies:
ParentingTeensOnline™ and iFOS Publishing, L.L.C collect IP addresses for site security and to help us understand how people use our site so that we can improve our site and our users' respective experiences. For similar quality reasons, we use a feature known as a "cookie." Cookies contain bits of information that websites transfer to your computer's hard drive for record-keeping purposes. Cookies can make the Web more convenient by storing information about your preferences on a site. Although we may assign your browser a cookie, the cookie does not tell us who you are. Only you can tell us that. None of this information is sold for commercial use.
Hyperlinks:
Once you access another web site through a hyperlink, you are no longer on the ParentingTeensOnline™ site or in the ParentingTeensOnline pdf, and are then subject to the privacy policies of the specific web site containing that material. ParentingTeensOnline™ and iFOS Publishing, L.L.C. is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of third party sites.
Disclosure of your personal information:
ParentingTeensOnline™ and iFOS Publishing, L.L.C. do not give, rent, lend, or sell individual information and will not disclose any personally identifiable information about individual users, except as described in this Privacy Statement and in the following instances: (ii) unless required by applicable law or pursuant to a court or similar order; (iii) as deemed necessary, in ParentingTeensOnline™ and iFOS Publishing, L.L.C.'s discretion, to protect the legal rights or the property of ParentingTeensOnline™ and iFOS Publishing, L.L.C., or third party, or to prevent personal injury or wrongdoing; and/or (iv) in the event ParentingTeensOnline™ and iFOS Publishing, L.L.C. transfer information to a third party due to a sale, merger, assignment, joint venture or other transfer or disposition of a portion or all of the assets or ownership interests of ParentingTeensOnline™ and iFOS Publishing, L.L.C. or its affiliated entities.