Privacy
EverythingLongBeach.com is committed to protecting the privacy of our customers. The following policy discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for the EverythingLongBeach.com web site (this “Web Site”). The purpose of our policy is to inform you about the types of information we gather about you when you visit this Web Site, information we may receive from our associated newspapers or other affiliated companies, how we may use that information, whether we disclose it to anyone, and the choices you have regarding our use of, and your ability to correct, the information.
Please be aware that our promotional partners, advertisers, sponsors, affiliated companies, and other third-party Internet sites accessible through this Web Site may have their own privacy and data collection policies and practices. We are not responsible for any actions or policies of such third parties. You should check the applicable privacy policies of those third parties when providing personally identifiable information through such linked sites.
I. Information Which We Collect or Obtain
We collect information in several ways by your use of this Web Site. We may ask you to voluntarily provide us with personal information on this Web Site, or our Affiliates may ask you to voluntarily provide personal information on their web sites and may share such personal information with us. For example, we may collect personal information when you provide your contact information to us, you register to use the web sites, enter a contest or promotion, participate in an online survey, sign up for a subscription to email or rss subscriptions. During these instances, you may be asked to provide certain personal information, such as your name, e-mail address, postal address, ZIP code, telephone number, user name and password, or certain demographic information, such as age, sex or marital status and annual or other income. Whenever we collect information about you, we will make an effort to link to this Privacy Policy, and will treat information we receive from our Affiliates in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Anyone under the age of 13 should not provide personally identifiable information through this Web Site. We will not knowingly request personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13 without first obtaining verifiable parental consent. If it comes to our attention that an online subscriber or a registered user of this Web Site is under the age of 13, we will remove from our files all personally identifiable information about that person. Even if we remove this information, however, we may still maintain a record of that person’s name and address in a “do not register” file to avoid subsequent registration. Please note that this Web Site may link to other web sites that we may maintain, which may have their own privacy and data collection policies and practices. You should check the applicable privacy policies of those linked web sites when providing personally identifiable information through such web sites.
Like many other commercial web sites, we utilize a standard technology called a “cookie” to automatically collect information about how this Web Site is used and to enhance your visit upon your return to this Web Site. Cookies were designed to help a web site recognize a user’s browser as a previous visitor and thus save and remember any preferences that may have been set while the user was browsing the web site. Our cookies may collect your domain name and track your selections through this Web Site. We may use cookies to alert you to new areas of this Web Site that we think might be of interest to you when you return to this Web Site. We also may use cookies to deliver targeted advertising based on your behavior or demographics and to track your number of entries in some of our promotions and contests. You can set your browser to refuse to accept cookies, but if you do we will not be able to customize this Web Site’s features according to your preferences.
II. Use of User Information
Our primary goal in collecting information is to provide you with a customized experience. We will use the information we automatically collect from you to improve the content of this Web Site, to enhance users’ experiences when visiting this Web Site and to customize the content and layout of this Web Site for each individual user. We use information collected from server log files, such as Internet Protocol addresses and domain names, to help diagnose problems with our services, to administer this Web Site and to report and gather aggregate information about site usage and user demographics.
We will use information that you voluntarily provide to us, or you provide to our Affiliates, which such Affiliates then share with us, to respond to any request, contest, promotion, online survey or registration to use this Web Site or the web sites of our Affiliates, to notify you of updates to such web sites, and to advise you of news related to EverythingLongBeach.com, our Affiliates, their productions and services or upcoming events.
III. Disclosure to Third Parties
When you use this Web Site, or, in some cases, the web sites of our Affiliates, and are asked to provide personal information, you are sharing that information with EverythingLongBeach.com.
We will not rent or sell your personal information with third parties.
We may share aggregate information regarding the users of this Web Site and our statistical analysis of site usage with third parties, such as advertisers and business partners as well as our Affiliates.
We will disclose information we maintain when required to do so by law or pursuant to a legal proceeding, including without limitation, in response to a court order or a subpoena. We may also disclose such information in response to a law enforcement agency’s request.
IV. Accuracy of User Information, Policy Changes and Questions
In order to ensure the accuracy of your personal information, you may contact us in order to access or to change any contact information (for example, your name, e-mail address, mailing address, phone number, user name or password) you have provided to us.
Questions regarding our Privacy Policy, the accuracy of your personal information or the use of the information collected should be directed via e-mail to info [at] everythinglongbeach.com.
This Privacy Policy is effective as of the date it is posted on this Web Site. We reserve the right to change this policy at any time, and will post any changes to this policy on this Web Site. Please check this page periodically for changes. All revised Privacy Policies are effective as soon as they are posted. If you desire to prevent your personal information from being used for any new purposes disclosed in our revised Privacy Policy, please send us an email to notify us of your objection to our use of your personal information.
V. Security of Information.
When we collect information from our users, we employ reasonable security procedures to protect the security and integrity of such information. Due to the nature of electronic communications, however, we cannot assure you that the safeguards that we have put in place will prevent unauthorized access, maintain data security, or correctly use the information collected.
VI. Opting-out.
If at any time you wish to stop receiving e-mail from us, please follow the removal instructions located at the bottom of each e-mail and on this Web Site. If at any time you wish to stop receiving mailings from us, please let us know by sending us an email.
VII. Use of Materials.
Your use of this Web Site is governed by our Terms of Use Agreement.
