Privacy Policy
This policy reflects how Fine Jewelry News collects and uses consumer information in all of our marketing and communication. We want you to understand how we will protect and safeguard your privacy in any interaction you may have with us.
Sites, Products, and Services Covered by this Privacy Policy
As a publisher, Fine Jewelry News may develop new sites, products, and services that compliment our current offerings. This Privacy Policy will also apply to any new sites, products, or services we develop.
These sites, products, and services are referred to in this Privacy Policy as “Fine Jewelry News,” “we,” “us,” “our sites,” “our Web sites,’ and “our products and services.”
Information We Collect and How We Collect It
Many of the services on the Fine Jewelry News site are offered without our collecting any personally indentifiable information from you. For instance, you can access a sample issue, read forum entries, and take part in reader polls online without providing any personal information.
The information we gather through all marketing channels falls into three categories: (1) personal information you voluntarily supply to us such as when you subscribe, register for an online discussion, or provide your e-mail address, (2) tracking information collected as you navigate through our sites, and (3) customer service information we collect to resolve a problem or answer a question.
Personally identifiable information
You will need to provide us with personal information about yourself if you are interested in obtaining certain information, products, or services through any channel, or in participating in certain activities (such as subscribing to our publications or participating in other special initiatives). When you do this, we collect personally indentifiable information about you, including, but not limited to, your name, mailing address, e-mail address, telephone number, credit card information, and username and password.
If you do provide us with personal information we may use this to customize your experience online or provide you with personalized e-mail and direct-mail messages. We may track what online, e-mail, or direct-mail content you are interested in. We do this to focus our communications and provide you with content, services, and offers we believe may be of interest to you.
You may also provide us with information about other people. For example, you might submit a person’s name and e-mail address in order to give a product or service as a gift for that person and we will ask you for that person’s name, postal address, and e-mail address in order to complete delivery of the gift to the recipient.
Aggregate information collected through technology
When you use the Fine Jewelry News site, we may collect tracking information such as your browser type, the type of operating system you use, the domain name of your Internet service provider, and pages visited on the sites. None of this information indentifies you personally; we collect it for aggregate reporting on site activity. For example, we may want to know how long the average user spends on our site, or which pages or features get the most attention. We use this information to make our site more useful to you.
How Your Information Will Be Used
Fine Jewelry News uses personally indentifiable information collected through all channels in a limited number of ways. We use the information to complete transactions and fulfill requests for our services. We may also use the information you provide to send you promotional materials by postal mail, e-mail, or telephone only for Fine Jewelry News’s products, programs, or services that we believe may be of interest to you. If you prefer not to receive these communications, you can opt-out of e-mail promotions by following the “unsubscribe” instructions included in each communication.
We use the information you provide about others to enable us to send them your gifts. From time to time, we may use this information to send direct mail offering our products, programs, or services to them.
Sharing Your Personally Identifiable Information
With other companies for direct-mail promotional offers
If you subscribe to the Fine Jewelry News publication, we may exchange or rent your name and mailing address information (but not your e-mail address) with other reputable companies that offer marketing information or products through direct mail. We screen all such offers and strive to select trustworthy, reputable companies who offer high-quality products or services of interest to you.
To service providers
We contract with other companies to provide certain services on our behalf, including credit-card processing, shipping, mail and e-mail distribution, and analytics or promotions management. We provide these companies only with the information they need to perform their services. These service providers are restricted from using data in any way other than to provide services for Fine Jewelry News, and they may not share or resell this data.
For legal purposes
We reserve the right to share your personally indentifiable information with legal authorities if required by law, for example, to comply with a court order or subpoena, or if we determine in our sole discretion that it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding suspected illegal activities, any violations of our User Agreement (including this Privacy Policy), or in connection with any safety or security concerns.
Our E-Mail Policies
Account- and services-related e-mail: We will send you e-mails relating to your account. These include e-mails such as order confirmations, renewal/expiration notices, and credit-card problem notifications. If you register for online discussions or register for other services, you may receive e-mails specific to your participation in those activities.
Promotional e-mails: We may also e-mail you messages that we think may be of interest to you about other Fine Jewelry News products, services, or programs. You can choose not to receive these messages in the future by following the “unsubscribe” instructions located near the bottom of each e-mail.
E-mail opt-outs: In the event you decide to unsubscribe from our publication or promotional e-mails we will honor your request as quickly as possible.
E-mails from you: You may choose to send us e-mails. You should be aware that information disclosed in e-mails may not be secure or encrypted and this may be available to others.
Security
We work to protect your personal information from loss, misuse, or unauthorized alteration. We have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and help prevent unauthorized access, maintain data security, and correctly use the information we collect through all channels.
Security of the Personal Information You Provide
Credit Card Information. We use data encryption technology to help protect against loss, misuse, or alteration of your sensitive credit or debit card information. Once we process your credit card or debit card information, we do not store it.
Personal information. We protect the confidentiality and security of your personal information by using industry-recognized security safeguards such as firewalls, coupled with security procedures to protect your information from loss, misuse, or unauthorized alteration.
Please keep in mind that any information you include in a message you post online to any discussion group or other public posting area on our site is available to anyone with Internet access. If you don’t want people to know your name or e-mail address, for example, do not include them in any message you post publicly. Any information posted or communication to a public area of the Fine Jewelry News Web site is beyond our control.
Security of Access to Your Online Account Information
When you set up an account with us, you are asked to establish a username and password. When you later log on to your account, you will be asked to enter your username and password to protect the security of your online account.
It is your responsibility to control the dissemination and use of your username and password and to control access to and use of your account. We urge you to keep your username and password confidential and not disclose them to anyone. Be sure to sign off when finished using our site, especially if you are using a shared or public computer. We will not be responsible or liable for any loss or damage arising from your failure to comply with this provision, for example, a third party’s unauthorized access to certain of your account information, such as your billing address.
IMPORTANT: No method of transmitting or storing electronic data is ever completely secure; therefore, we cannot promise or guarantee that such information will never be accessed, used, or released in a manner that is inconsistent with this policy.
Children’s Privacy
Our Web site is a general audience site, and we do not knowingly collect information about children. Should a child whom we know to be under 13 make known to us his or her personally indentifiable information, we will use that information only to respond directly to that child to inform him or her that we must have parental consent before receiving his or her personally indentifiable information.
International Privacy
Our Web site is hosted by servers in the United States and we may have site visitors and registrants as well as subscribers and buyers of our publications and products from countries around the world. Accordingly, if you are located outside of the United States, the personal information you provide to us will be transferred to the United States. By submitting your personal information, you consent to its transfer and storage in the United States and its use in accordance with the purposes for which it was originally collected and as set forth in the Privacy Policy.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy may be amended from time to time. Any modifications will be reflected online, so check back often. If we make a significant or material change in the way we use your personal information, we will make you aware by prominently posting a notice on our Web site.
