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Privacy Policy

  1. Preamble
  2. Our Principles
  3. Personal Information PM Collects
  4. What PM does with the Personal Information
  5. Disclosures of Personal Information
  6. Security of Personal Information Collected via the Websites
  7. Data Usage Policy: Non Personal Browsing and Site Usage Information
  8. Reorganization or Spin-Offs
  9. Children
  10. Third-Party Sites
  11. Special Note to International Users
  12. Changes and Updates to this Privacy Policy

This Master Privacy Policy ("Privacy Policy") explains the collection, use, and disclosure of "personal information" by Prince Magazine ("PM"), with its principal place of business in New York City. This Privacy Policy includes products and services provided through websites that Creative Commons operates, which include, but are not limited to, http://www.princemagazine.com/ (the "Website").

This Privacy Policy explains our commitment to you with respect to our use and disclosure of non personal browsing and site usage data that Prince Magazine collects as the provider of the Websites. That commitment is contained in a "Data Usage Policy," below.

As used in this policy, "personal information" means information that would allow a party to identify you such as, for example, your name, address or location, telephone number or email address.

By accessing the Websites, you are accepting and agreeing to the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

Our Principles

Prince Magazine is committed to handling responsibly the information and data we collect about you through our Websites, whether personal information or non personal browsing and site usage data. We have designed our Privacy Policy and our Data Usage Policy consistent with the following principles (the "Principles"):

  1. Privacy policies and data collection and use policies should be human readable, comprehensive, and easy to locate;
  2. Only the minimum amount of information reasonably necessary to provide you with services should be collected and maintained, and only for so long as reasonably needed or required;
  3. Information you provide through our Websites, or that we gather as a result of your use of our Websites, should not be used for marketing or advertising purposes, nor should it be provided voluntarily (without your permission) to anyone else unless required; and
  4. Unless restricted or prohibited by law, and provided your email address has been collected and retained, you should be notified when circumstances require Prince Magazine to provide a third party with your personal information.

Personal Information PM Collects

We may collect personal information at several places on the Websites, including without limitation:

  • when you provide us with your personal information such as by sending an email to us or signing up to receive a newsletter or our events listing;
  • when you subscribe to one of our email discussion lists or register to establish a user account on any of our Websites (such as the subscription form (located at http://www.princemagazine.com/subscribe);
  • when you receive giveaways, donate money to us, or purchase merchandise;
  • when you provide personal information in connection with your participation in any of the forums we make available to the community.

What PM does with Personal Information

Emails and Newsletters. We use the personal information you provide to us when you send us emails or sign up to receive our newsletter or events listing in order to respond to your request — for example, to reply to your email or to send you communications about news and events related to Prince Magazine.

Donations. When you donate money to us or purchase merchandise via our support page (currently not active), your personal information will be handled in one of two ways, depending on which option you choose.

  1. If you purchase a t-shirt for example or other merchandise from Prince Magazine, we will use your personal information for the purpose of sending you the items you purchased.
  2. You may donate money to Prince Magazine directly or through a variety of on-line payment sites, including PayPal, among others. When you use any of those websites and services to donate to PM, your personal information is sent to, handled by and stored by those websites in accordance with their respective privacy policies and terms of use. You should read and understand the privacy policy and terms of use of any website you use to donate to Prince Magazine. When you donate money to Prince Magazine directly, we use your personal information to process your donation.

Regardless of the method by which you donate to Prince Magazine or purchase a t-shirt or other merchandise, we additionally use the personal information you provide for the purpose of contacting you about upcoming news and events relevant to Prince Magazine. When we contact you for the first time after your donation, we will use reasonable means to give you the option to choose not to be contacted in this manner again. When you donate money as part of one of PM's fundraising campaigns, your name will be published on our "supporters page" unless you request otherwise.

Disclosures of Personal Information

In general, it is not Prince Magazine's practice to disclose personal information to third parties. We may share personal information in one instance:

We may disclose your personal information to third parties in a good faith belief that such disclosure is reasonably necessary to (a) take action regarding suspected illegal activities; (b) enforce or apply our Master Terms of Use and Privacy Policy; (c) comply with legal process, such as a search warrant, subpoena, statute, or court order; or (d) protect our rights, reputation, and property, or that of our users, affiliates, or the public.

If Prince Magazine is required to provide a third party with your personal information (whether by subpoena or otherwise), then provided we have collected and retained an email address for you, Prince Magazine will use reasonable means to notify you promptly of that event, unless prohibited by law or PM is otherwise advised not to notify you on the advice of legal counsel.

Security of Personal Information Collected via the Websites

Prince Magazine has implemented reasonable measures to protect against unauthorized access to and unlawful interception or processing of personal information that Prince Magazine stores and controls. However, no website can fully eliminate security risks. Third parties may circumvent our security measures to unlawfully intercept or access transmissions or private communications. If a security breach occurs and we are aware of it, we will post a reasonably prominent notice to the Websites.

Data Usage Policy: Non Personal Browsing and Site Usage Information

Our Data Usage Policy covers how we maintain and use information about you that is collected by our Websites and server logs.

Non Personal Browsing Information We Collect. When you use the Websites, our servers (which may be hosted by a third party service provider) may collect information indirectly and automatically (through, for example, the use of your "IP address") about your activities while visiting the Websites and information about the browser you are using. In addition, whenever you log into any of our Websites, our servers (which, again, may be hosted by a third party service provider) keep a log of the websites you visit and when you visit them.

No Linking. We do not intentionally link browsing information or information from our server logs to the personal information you submit to us. We use this information for internal purposes only, such as to help understand how the Websites are being used, to improve our Websites and the features we provide, and for systems administration purposes. PM may use a third party analytics provider to help us collect and analyze non personal browsing information through operation of our Websites for those same purposes.

No Selling or Sharing. Except in the unique situations identified in this Privacy Policy, Prince Magazine does not sell or otherwise voluntarily provide the non personal browsing information we collect about you or your website usage to third parties.

No Access. As an account service provider, PM could technically access your web-based account tied to our account service, and could log in on behalf of any of its account users to any of the accounts they have accessed using their Prince Magazine ID. Prince Magazine will never use this technical login ability for any purpose unless otherwise required by law or without your consent.

No Retention. PM discards non personal browsing information from our server logs once we have used the information for the limited purposes noted above, under "No Linking."

Notice. If Prince Magazine is required to provide a third party with your non personal browsing information or to log in on behalf of an account user (whether by subpoena or otherwise), then PM will use reasonable means to notify you promptly of that event, unless PM is prohibited by law from doing so or is otherwise advised not to notify you on the advice of legal counsel.

Any other non-personal information that we collect which is not described specifically in this Privacy Policy will only be collected and used in accordance with the Principles.

Reorganization or Spin-Offs

Prince Magazine may transfer some or all of your personal and/or non personal browsing information to a third party as a result of a reorganization, spin-off or similar transaction. Upon such transfer, the acquirer's privacy policy will apply. In such event, Prince Magazine will use reasonable efforts to notify you and to ensure that at the time of the transaction the acquirer's privacy policy complies with the Principles.

Children

The Websites are not directed at children under the age of 13. Consistent with the federal Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA), we will never knowingly request personal information from anyone under the age of 13 without requiring parental consent. Our Master Terms of Use specifically prohibit anyone using our Websites from submitting any personally identifiable information about persons under 13 years of age. Any person who provides their personal information to PM through the Websites represents that they are 13 years of age or older or are accompanied by a parent.

Third-Party Sites

The Websites may include links to other websites. You should consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party sites. This Privacy Policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of, such other websites.

Special Note to International Users

The Websites are hosted in the United States. If you are accessing the Websites from the European Union, Asia, or any other region with laws or regulations governing personal data collection, use and disclosure that differ from United States laws, please note that you are transferring your personal data to the United States which does not have the same data protection laws as the EU and other regions. By providing your personal data you consent to:

  • the use of your personal data for the uses identified above in accordance with the Privacy Policy; and
  • the transfer of your personal data to the United States as indicated above.

Changes and Updates to this Privacy Policy

We may occasionally update this Privacy Policy. When we do, we will also revise the Effective Date below. We encourage you to periodically review this Privacy Policy to stay informed about how we are protecting the personal information we collect. Your continued use of the Websites constitutes your agreement to this Privacy Policy and any updates.

Prince Magazine would like to thank Creative Commons as this Privacy Policy is loosely based on the Creative Commons Policy licensed under CC BY 3.0.

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us by email at legal@princemagazine.com.

Effective Date: January 1, 2012