Welcome to the Frederick Business magazine website (the “Site”)! Frederick Business magazine (or FB) is committed to protecting your privacy and trust and will only use your data as set forth in this Privacy Policy and any amendments thereto. This Privacy Policy discloses the privacy practices for Frederick Business magazine and Pulse Publishing, LLC (collectively “Frederick Business” of “We”) and explains how we collect information and how we use the information that we collect.

Please read this information carefully before accessing the Site. The privacy statement may be amended at any time, with or without notice to users. You should periodically visit this page to review the then-current Privacy Policy. Your use of the Site constitutes your consent and agreement to abide by this Privacy Policy and your consent to the use of the information that we collect, including personally identifiable information, as set forth in this Privacy Policy. Please regularly consult this Privacy Policy in order to be aware of updated practices.

Should you not wish FB to collect and use your personal information in the manner set forth in this Privacy Policy, please do not provide the information to FB.

Personally Identifiable Collection of Information

You may voluntarily provide FB with personally identifiable information such as your name, email address, mailing address, telephone number, fax number, credit card information, and information about your interest in various products, programs, and services (“Personal Information”). Examples of how you may provide this information are: volunteering your email address in order to sign up for newsletters, volunteering your information when you subscribe to FB Magazine or an affiliated publication, volunteering your ISP address, purchasing products or services from the Site, participating in blogs, posting comments, participating in forums, chat rooms or message boards on the Site, sending a letter to the editor, express an opinion on the Site, enter sweepstakes or contest, or complete a survey.

Additionally, in order to participate in various forums and portions of the Site, users may be required to submit a valid email address, demographic details, and areas of interest. Such information may be used to select editorial topics and for screening out users who leave comments prohibited by the Terms and Conditions of this Site.

Additionally, you may be able to sign up for certain promotions, newsletters, or affiliated publications on behalf of or for delivery to third parties. You may order a service as a gift for a third party and send such a gift directly to the third party through a submission of the third party’s name, address, email address, and telephone number. This also constitutes personally identifiable information.

Purchases

If you should make a purchase on the Site, including a subscription for a magazine, we will typically ask for your name, address, mailing address, phone number, credit card number, and expiration date. If the product or subscription is provided or shipped by a third party, we will pass on to the third party the information needed to fulfill your order.

Promotions and Contests

FB magazine may from time to time sponsor sweepstakes, contests, or other events (“Promotions”) which require the collection, processing, and storage of individual contact information plus demographic information. These Promotions may also ask registrants to answer survey questions. Any personally identifiable information collected through Promotions will be treated as personal information. No purchase is ever necessary to enter an FB Promotion.

FB may co-sponsor Promotions with other companies, in which case any information collected is likely to be shared with other participating sponsors, who may use this information. A registrant’s personal contact and demographic information will not be released to any third-party organization other than named sponsors without the registrant’s consent.

Chat Rooms, Clubs, Forums, Blogs, and Message Boards

It is important that you consult all Terms and Conditions that apply to our chat rooms, clubs, forums, blogs, and message boards prior to participating in any such forum. You should be aware that any personal information, such as your name, address, and email address, as well as any other information that you post in any FB Forum, or otherwise specifically and knowingly disclosed by you in the use of a Forum, may be directly collected and used by FB and third parties. Therefore, you may receive unsolicited emails as a result of your disclosure of such information. We advise you to use discretion in sharing information about yourself on the Internet. Privacy is an important right and we advise you to be careful and responsible when disclosing information online. You should have no expectation of privacy with respect to your communications through these Forums.

Surveys and Polls

FB will from time to time conduct anonymous surveys and polls of users on the Site to obtain aggregate demographic information about the users. Such information may be compiled and shared in the aggregate with advertisers and other third parties but no personal details will be traceable or associated with specific individuals unless otherwise disclosed in any survey or poll rules.

Should FB request other personally identifiable information from you, you are not required to share any such information to gain access to the Site. Simply, you can refuse to provide any such information.

Other Collected Information
In the normal course of visiting the Site, viewing our pages, and downloading any information from the Site, our servers also collect information such as:

The domain name from which you access the Internet
Client host names
Your computer’s Internet Protocol (IP) address
The name and version of your computer’s operating system and browser
Use of Collected Information
We use your personally identifiable information to supply you with and fulfill your requests for services, products, subscriptions, and offerings, for additional information, to include you on a subscription list, and to select forum topics.

We may use such information to send you a confirmation or notify you that you have won a contest.

We may use such information to provide you with gift cards, notifications of new products, programs, or services, and to notify you of added features to the Site.

We may use the information collected for internal purposes administrative purposes, technical maintenance purposes, the marketing and promotion of products and services that might be of interest to you, to communicate with you about customer service issues, to measure the number of visitors to the site, to make the site more useful to users and to use in seeking advertisers and partners. This may involve sharing such information with other FB or Pulse Publishing, LLC offices or affiliates for said purposes.

To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the correct use of information, we have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

We reserve the right to share both aggregate and personal information collected from you with third parties if we are authorized to do so, if the law requires it, to protect the rights of FB, or as part of a sale or other disposition of our assets (including our membership and/or customer records). We may also use and disclose Personal Information to prevent or trace abuses of the Site.

We may also use and disclose Personal Information to comply with any court order or government investigation, subpoena or inquiry, or as otherwise required by law, or to protect the rights, property or personal safety of FB, users of the Site, or the public. Additionally, in our letters to the editor section, we typically disclose the city/town in which the letter writer resides.

Disclaimers
While FB has taken reasonable steps to limit the use of information provided by you, we cannot guarantee that the information will remain permanently secure. There is always a possibility that your information could be lost due to technical problems or stolen from our databases. FB is not responsible for any such loss or theft or any other unanticipated security breach.

Cookies

FB does not use Cookies at the present time. In the future, however, users of this Site may be issued a “cookie,” a small text file placed on the user’s hard drive to track usage of the Site. Cookies help to prevent you from having to register or re-enter your information every time you visit the Site. Cookies are also used to authenticate your identity. Cookies from our Site provide us with certain information about your computer, but will not interfere with the operation of your computer. FB may use cookies to gain knowledge of Internet usage and improve content and advertisements.

Some cookies that are issued may contain your personally identifiable information, and such cookies may be shared with the affiliates of FB.

If you would like to avoid cookies, your web browser may have an option that enables you to disable or not accept cookies. It should be noted, however, that should you disable or not accept cookies, portions of the Site may not properly function.

Hyperlinks
We may post hyperlinks to the websites of third-party websites (“Third Party Sites”). We cannot control the actions of such third parties or be held responsible for their use of any information that you provide directly to them. We advise you to take the time to educate yourself about the privacy policy and terms of use of any Web site that you visit.

FB or Pulse Publishing, LLC does not control or endorse Third Party Sites.

Third Party Advertisements
Third-party advertisements that appear on FB are sometimes delivered (or “served”) directly to users by third party advertisers. The advertisers may automatically receive your IP address when this happens. These third party advertisers may also download cookies to your computer, or use other technologies to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize advertising content. Cookies will allow the advertiser to recognize your computer each time they send you an advertisement. In this way, they may compile information about where individuals using your computer or browser saw their advertisements and determine which advertisements are clicked. FB does not have access to or control of the cookies that may be placed by the third party advertisers. Third party advertisers have no access to your contact information stored on the Site unless you choose to share it with them.

This privacy policy does not cover the use of cookies or other tracking technologies by any of its advertisers. Some third-party ads on our sites will enable geographic, behavioral, and contextual targeting. To opt out of such DoubleClick targeting, click this link to visit the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page.

Again, if you would like to avoid cookies, your web browser may have an option that enables you to disable or not accept cookies. It should be noted, however, that should you disable or not accept cookies, portions of the Site may not properly function.

Children’s Online Privacy
Consistent with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”), this Site is not intended for use by anyone under the age of 13. FB does not knowingly collect personal information from children through this Site, or any of its websites. Minors between the ages of 13 and 17 must obtain the permission of their parents or legal guardians before making purchases of any type on this Site.

If you are a parent with concerns about children’s privacy issues in conjunction with the use of this Site, or any other privacy issue, please contact us at publisher@pulsepublishing.net