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Thank you for visiting macHOME.com. We respect the privacy of the personal information that you may provide to us on this online site. The following privacy policy is provided to explain how your information may be collected and how it may be used.
macHOME.com collects personal identifying information such as your name and e-mail address when you enter a contest or sweepstakes, fill out a survey, and/or complete subscription registration for sites or services requiring such information. macHOME.com also collects billing information including credit card number and expiration date from visitors who wish to pay for macHOME print magazine subscriptions.
macHOME.com may use the information in the aggregate for marketing and promotional purposes. macHOME.com never shares such personal identifying information with any third party, except with the individual sponsor of a contest, promotion, or sweepstakes, and only if the participant specifically asks to receive additional information from a specific sponsor and for the purposes of administering the contest and notifying the winners.
macHOME.com may log visitors' IP addresses for the collection of aggregate information about site visitors and their interests. macHOME.com does not link these IP addresses to personal identifying information such as visitor's name and/or e-mail address.
A cookie is a small amount of data that is sent from a web server of a site that you visit and is placed on your computer's hard drive. macHOME.com does not generally make use of cookies, although they may be used in a limited way to assist in the delivery of advertisements, to identify how many unique visitors there are to macHOME.com, or to track site usage.
Advertisers or independent third parties who operate servers on which ads reside may also place cookies. Although macHOME.com encourages third parties to adhere to appropriate privacy standards and policies, macHOME.com is not responsible for the actions or policies of such parties.
macHOME.com occasionally informs users and newsletter subscribers of special deals, new products, and other third-party product and service offers that it believes they will find interesting. macHOME.com users and newsletter subscribers are given the option to choose whether they would like to receive such mailings upon registration. At any time you can request that your information not be used for such purposes by sending an e-mail request to macHOME.com at webmaster@machome.com.
macHOME.com may also share personal information with third-party intermediaries - solely for the purposes of distribution - who will not store, retain, or use the information supplied to them. These intermediaries may include subscription service bureaus, credit card companies, and banks, or third-party providers of macHOME.com services that the user selects at our site. Users are given the option to discontinue such services at any time, at which point the user's personal information will be automatically deleted from the service providers' databases.
Protecting the privacy of children is extremely important to us. Children under the age of 13 should not submit any information to macHOME.com without the consent of a parent or guardian. No part of macHOME.com is intentionally structured to attract anyone under the age of 13. macHOME.com does not monitor the age of its audience.
macHOME.com will not disclose or make use of personal information without the consent of the user except (i) as described in this privacy policy, or (ii) as required by law, court order, or as requested by other government or law enforcement authority. This policy does not protect information that you post to any online bulletin board, chat room, newsgroup or other public forum within the macHOME.com site.
macHOME.com may contain links to sites on the Internet operated by others. macHOME.com cannot control and is not responsible for the privacy practices or content of these sites.
Subscribers to newsletters can unsubscribe by visiting the subscription areas of the appropriate newsletter and clicking the Unsubscribe button or clicking on the Unsubscribe link on the bottom of each newsletter. For any other changes, please contact macHOME.com at webmaster@machome.com.
If you have questions or concerns about macHOME.com's privacy policies and use of personal information, please send them to webmaster@machome.com.
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