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Customer Privacy
Statement
Manufacturers' News, Inc. takes your
privacy seriously. Please read the following to learn more about our
customer privacy policy.
What This Privacy Policy Covers
- This policy covers how
Manufacturers' News, Inc. treats personal information that
Manufacturers' News, Inc. collects and receives, including
information related to your past use of Manufacturers' News, Inc.
products and services. Personal information is information about you
that is personally identifiable like your name, address, email
address, or phone number, and that is not otherwise publicly
available.
- This policy does not apply to the
practices of companies that Manufacturers' News, Inc. does not own
or control, or to people that Manufacturers' News, Inc. does not
employ or manage.
Information Collection and Use
- Manufacturers' News, Inc. collects
personal information when you register with Manufacturers' News,
Inc., when you use Manufacturers' News, Inc. products or services,
when you visit Manufacturers' News, Inc. pages or the pages of
certain Manufacturers' News, Inc. partners, and when you enter
promotions or sweepstakes. Manufacturers' News, Inc. may combine
information about you that we have with information we obtain from
business partners or other companies.
- When you register we ask for
information such as your name, email address, address, zip code,
state, country, phone, and fax. Once you register with
Manufacturers' News, Inc. and sign in to our services, you are not
anonymous to us.
- Manufacturers' News, Inc. collects
information about your transactions with us and with some of our
business partners, including information about your use of products
and services that we offer.
- Manufacturers' News, Inc.
automatically receives and records information on our server logs
from your browser, including your IP address, Manufacturers' News,
Inc. cookie information, and the page you request.
- Manufacturers' News, Inc. uses
information for the following general purposes: to customize the
advertising and content you see, fulfill your requests for products
and services, improve our services, contact you, conduct research,
and provide anonymous reporting for internal and external clients.
Information Sharing and Disclosure
- Manufacturers' News, Inc. does not
rent, sell, or share personal information about you with other
people or nonaffiliated companies except to provide products or
services you've requested, when we have your permission, or under
the following circumstances:
- We provide the information to
trusted partners who work on behalf of or with Manufacturers'
News, Inc. under confidentiality agreements. These companies may
use your personal information to help Manufacturers' News, Inc.
communicate with you about offers from Manufacturers' News, Inc.
and our marketing partners. However, these companies do not have
any independent right to share this information.
- We respond to subpoenas, court
orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal
rights or defend against legal claims;
- We believe it is necessary to
share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take
action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations
involving potential threats to the physical safety of any
person, violations of Manufacturers' News, Inc.'s terms of use,
or as otherwise required by law.
- We transfer information about
you if Manufacturers' News, Inc. is acquired by or merged with
another company. In this event, Manufacturers' News, Inc. will
notify you before information about you is transferred and
becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
- Manufacturers' News, Inc. displays
targeted advertisements based on personal information. Advertisers
(including ad serving companies) may assume that people who interact
with, view, or click on targeted ads meet the targeting criteria -
for example, women ages 18-24 from a particular geographic area.
- Manufacturers' News, Inc. does
not provide any personal information to the advertiser when you
interact with or view a targeted ad. However, by interacting
with or viewing an ad you are consenting to the possibility that
the advertiser will make the assumption that you meet the
targeting criteria used to display the ad.
- Manufacturers' News, Inc.
advertisers include financial service providers (such as banks,
insurance agents, stock brokers and mortgage lenders) and
non-financial companies (such as stores, airlines, and software
companies).
- Manufacturers' News, Inc. does
reserve the right at our discretion only to publicly list companies
that are subscribers to our service in the form of company name and
state/province, country.
Cookies
- Manufacturers' News, Inc. may set
and access Manufacturers' News, Inc. cookies on your computer.
- Manufacturers' News, Inc. lets other
companies that show advertisements on some of our pages set and
access their cookies on your computer. Other companies' use of their
cookies is subject to their own privacy policies, not this one.
Advertisers or other companies do not have access to Manufacturers'
News, Inc.'s cookies.
- Manufacturers' News, Inc. may use
web beacons to access Manufacturers' News, Inc. cookies inside and
outside our network of web sites and in connection with
Manufacturers' News, Inc. products and services.
Your Ability to Edit and Delete Your
Account Information and Preferences
- You can edit your Manufacturers'
News, Inc. Account Information, including your marketing
preferences, at any time.
- New categories of marketing
communications may be added to the Marketing Preferences page from
time to time. Users who visit this page can opt out of receiving
future marketing communications from these new categories or they
can unsubscribe by following instructions contained in the messages
they receive.
- We reserve the right to send you
certain communications relating to the Manufacturers' News, Inc.
service, such as service announcements, administrative messages and
the Manufacturers' News, Inc. Newsletter, that are considered part
of your Manufacturers' News, Inc. account, without offering you the
opportunity to opt-out of receiving them.
Confidentiality and Security
- We limit access to personal
information about you to employees who we believe reasonably need to
come into contact with that information to provide products or
services to you or in order to do their jobs.
- We have physical, electronic, and
procedural safeguards that comply with federal regulations to
protect personal information about you.
- Your Manufacturers' News, Inc.
Account Information is password-protected.
- In certain areas Manufacturers'
News, Inc. uses industry-standard SSL-encryption to protect data
transmissions.
- Obtaining Manufacturers' News, Inc.
subscriber information by electronic or other means is strictly
prohibited. Usage of such private information, including email,
phone, address or other contact information is strictly prohibited
and violators will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
- Manufacturers' News, Inc. may update
this policy. We will notify you about significant changes in the way
we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary
email address specified in your Manufacturers' News, Inc. account or
by placing a prominent notice on our site.
Questions and Suggestions
- If you have questions or
suggestions, please email
us.
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