PRIVACY POLICY

This policy describes the privacy practices of Indiana Minority Business Magazine. This Privacy Policy is applicable only to the Indiana Minority Business Magazine Web sites ("Web site(s)") and does not apply to the print versions of any of the Indiana Minority Business Magazine publications. This policy does not apply to any third party web sites or to companies or persons not controlled by, affiliated with or managed by the Indiana Minority Business Magazine and applies only to information collected by the Indiana Minority Business Magazine on the Indiana Minority Business Magazine Web sites and not to information disclosed, obtained or used by Indiana Minority Business Magazine through other means. Indiana Minority Business Magazine may provide links to unaffiliated web sites for which this privacy policy does not apply. If you are unsure whether a web site is controlled, affiliated or managed by the Indiana Minority Business Magazine, we recommend that you review the privacy policy at each linked web site to determine how that site treats your personal information.  Indiana Minority Business Magazine may change this privacy policy from time to time. The revised policy will be posted on the Indiana Minority Business Magazine’s Web site. Please check this page periodically for changes.

INFORMATION COLLECTED
Web Site User Registration: User registration is required to access the majority of content, services and features on the Indiana Minority Business Magazine Web sites. Upon registration, we require you provide your email address or your first name as a username and a password. User registration with Indiana Minority Business Magazine  Web sites is completed and membership activated upon clicking a link e-mailed to the address provided in registration.

Web Site Sites & Products: Your telephone number, credit card number or other billing information is generally collected in order to process the purchase of services or products on the Indiana Minority Business Magazine Web sites, such as purchasing a magazine subscription or placing an ad. Your information will also be collected upon registration for home delivery requests, vacation delivery stop requests and other similar requests as well as upon the use or download of software available on the Indiana Minority Business Magazine’s Web sites. Sweepstakes, Contests, Promotions, Special Offers: Indiana Minority Business Magazine  may request additional information from you upon your optional entry in any sweepstakes, contests, promotions or special offers found on the Indiana Minority Business Magazine Web sites. Feedback, Commentary, Surveys, Message Boards, Chat Rooms: Those Web site users that choose to provide feedback or commentary, fill out surveys, engage in Indiana Minority Business Magazine chat rooms or use the Indiana Minority Business Magazine’s message boards may be required to provide additional information such as demographic information, household/personal characteristics and purchase behavior.  If such information is gathered for a Indiana Minority Business Magazine survey, no personal information is released and is reported or used only in aggregate form.

Forwarding: Forwarding an article found on a Indiana Minority Business Magazine Web site generally requires that you disclose the name and e-mail address of the person to whom you are forwarding the article. Indiana Minority Business Magazine will retain this information only to provide the forwarding services.

Special Circumstances: Indiana Minority Business Magazine may disclose and use the information collected where required to do so by law, or where Indiana Minority Business Magazine, in good faith, believes the use or disclosure of the information collected is necessary to (1) comply with the law or legal processes; (2) protect and defend Indiana Minority Business Magazine rights and property; (3) protect against misuse or unauthorized use of any Indiana Minority Business Magazine Web site; or to (4) protect the personal safety or property of our users or the public. Indiana Minority Business Magazine may also use the information collected when, in its sole discretion, it believes necessary or appropriate in connection with a sale or transfer of some or all of Indiana Minority Business Magazine assets in our Web site.
Computer Identifying Information The information personal to your computer and your computer use that is automatically collected through the use of electronic tools is referred to as computer identifying information. The computer identifying information gathered by the Indiana Minority Business Magazine generally includes cookies, specific Web site page requests, the domain name (e.g., www.indianapolisrecorder.com) and Internet Provider (e.g., Comcast, AT&T, America Online, NetZero) from which you access the Internet, the Internet Protocol address of your computer, the browser software (e.g. InternetExplorer or Netscape) and operating system (e.g., Windows Vista, XP, 2000, OS/2, Linux or MacOS) you are using, your geographic location, the time and date you accessed the site, and the Internet address you visited prior to visiting the site.  Cookies and Web Beacons: Cookies are used to store and track information about you. A cookie is a small amount of data that is sent to your browser from Web sites and stored on your computer’s hard drive. Cookies are used to deliver targeted advertising based on your behavior and demographics and to track your entries in promotions and contests. Cookies may be linked to personal information.  In addition, Indiana Minority Business Magazine uses web beacons provided by third-party advertising companies to help manage our online advertising. Web beacons enable us to recognize a browser’s cookie when a browser visits a Indiana Minority Business Magazine Web site, and to learn which banner ads bring users to Indiana Minority Business Magazine Web sites. Our third party web advertising company, DoubleClick, may place or recognize a unique cookie on your browser. For more information about DoubleClick, cookies, and how to “opt-out,” please click here.  Internet Protocol (IP) Address: An IP address is your computer’s location on the Internet. Indianapolis Recorder Newspaper Web sites log IP addresses for systems administration and trouble shooting purposes, to gather demographic and other information about you and to link information about a user’s computer session to personal information.

USE OF INFORMATION COLLECTED
In general, Indiana Minority Business Magazine uses your personal and computer information that is collected to administer the Indiana Minority Business Magazine Web sites and to provide services you request. When you provide personal information information and access Indiana Minority Business Magazine Web sites, you are sharing personal information and computer identifying information with Indiana Minority Business Magazine and affiliates and Indiana Minority Business Magazine reserves the right to use and disclose the personal information and computer identifying information it collects. If you do not want to share your personal information, do not provide it. If you do not want to share computer identifying information, do not access Indiana Minority Business Magazine Web sites. In addition, Indiana Minority Business Magazine may share personal information, computer identifying information and/or aggregate information with third parties such as advertisers and business partners. personal information and computer identifying information may also be used to perform statistical, demographic and marketing analysis of subscribers and their subscribing and purchasing patterns, to target advertisements and to help diagnose problems with our services and our Web sites.  For example, Indiana Minority Business Magazine uses or may use the personal information and computer identifying information collected to do the following:

Web Site Use & Registration: Indiana Minority Business Magazine uses personal information and computer identifying information that is collected to fulfill subscriptions, change addresses, suspend delivery, confirm and process transactions and to contact the user regarding his or her account, new or existing products and services and special offers.

Personalization: Indiana Minority Business Magazine uses personal information and computer identifying information that is collected to personalize the content and advertising that users see based on personal characteristics and preferences, enhance products and services and develop new products and services, and share user information with select advertisers or other third parties whose products or services may be of interest to you.

Advertising & Third Parties: Indiana Minority Business Magazine may share personal information and computer identifying information that is collected with third parties hired to perform services on our behalf, including, but not limited to, fulfilling subscription requests, sending e-mails and assisting in the provision of the Indiana Minority Business Magazine Web sites and services.

Program & Product Offerings: Indiana Minority Business Magazine may use the personal information and computer identifying information that is collected in order to offer you the opportunity to receive information and offers about products or services from our business partners or third parties.

OPTING-OUT
If you do not wish to share your personal information, you always have the option to not provide the information or use the Indiana Minority Business Magazine Web sites that require it.
If you are a current Indiana Minority Business Magazine registered Web site user or would like to become one, but do not want your personal information shared with third parties or do not want to receive promotion and/or marketing information about other products, services and offerings from Indianapolis Recorder Newspaper and/or any third parties, please review the following:

Third Party Opt-Out: If, at any time, you do not want us to share your information with third parties who wish to send you information about their products and services, you may opt-out of such messages by going to the "Manage an Account" page and simply unclicking an opt-in box or you may email us at support@indianaminoritybusinessmagazine.com or write to us at: Web site Editor, Indiana Minority Business Magazine, 2901 N. Tacoma Ave., Indianapolis, IN 46201.
If you choose to opt-out via email, please put “THIRD PARTY OPT-OUT” in thesubject line, along with the name of the applicable site. Indiana Minority Business Magazine

Opt-Out: If, at any time, you do not want to receive information about special offers and new products and features from Indiana Minority Business Magazine, you may opt-out of such messages by going to the "Manage an Account" page and simply unclicking an opt-in box or you may e-mail us at support@indianaminoritybusinessmagazine.com or write to us at: Web site Editor, Indiana Minority Business Magazine, 2901 N. Tacoma Ave., Indianapolis, IN 46201.
Please reference the name of the applicable site.  If you choose to opt-out via email, please put “Indiana Minority Business Magazine OPT-OUT” in the subject line.

Opt-Out Exception: Even if the registered user chooses to opt-out of receiving e-mails from both Indiana Minority Business Magazine and third parties, Indiana Minority Business Magazine reserves the right to contact a registered user regarding account status, changes to this policy, the terms of use, license agreements and other matters relevant to the use of the Indiana Minority Business Magazine’s Web sites, services or software provided through the Web sites and/or the information collected.

SECURITY
Indiana Minority Business Magazine uses procedures to safeguard and help prevent unauthorized access to the information collected on the Indiana Minority Business Magazine Web sites. Although such protective measures have been put in place, Indiana Minority Business Magazine cannot ensure that the information collected will never be disclosed in a manner inconsistent with this Privacy Policy.

CHILDREN’S PRIVACY POLICY
This policy describes the privacy practices of Indiana Minority Business Magazine relating to information collected from children. This privacy policy does not apply to third party web sites, or to companies and persons that are not controlled by, affiliated with or managed by Indiana Minority Business Magazine. For most Indiana Minority Business Magazine Web sites, Indiana Minority Business Magazine does not knowingly collect information from children under 13 years of age. In the event that Indiana Minority Business Magazine collects information from children under 13 years of age, this Children’s Privacy Policy shall apply.

INFORMATION COLLECTED FROM CHILDREN
Indiana Minority Business Magazine does not ask children to disclose more personal information than is necessary for them to participate in a particular activity. We urge children to check with their parents before entering information on any web site and we urge parents to discuss with their children restrictions regarding the online release of personal information. Indiana Minority Business Magazine limits its collection of information from children to what is known as non-personally identifiable information (e.g. first name, screen names, age, gender, city, state, zip code and country of residence). This information is collected so children can participate in activities (e.g. completing polls or online surveys, posting jokes, book reviews, movie reviews, toy reviews, video reviews, concert reviews, game reviews, artwork or questions/comments online, or playing online games) without giving unnecessary personal information. From time to time, however, we may request personally identifiable information (e.g. child's email address and/or parent's or guardian's email address), as explained below, in order to conduct online contests or sweepstakes, email newsletters and offers, provide subscriptions, participate in chat rooms and message boards, or offer other online activities. Indiana Minority Business Magazine does not and cannot condition a child's participation in any of our online activities on the disclosure of more information than is reasonably necessary to participate in the activity.  Information is collected actively, such as through registration forms, and passively, such as through cookies.

USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION FROM CHILDREN
Indiana Minority Business Magazine occasionally offers contest and sweepstakes, which may be entered online. When a child under thirteen 13 enters a contest or sweepstakes, or participates in another activity that requires the use of personal information, we will ask for a parent's email address so that we can notify the parent of the child's participation, obtain the parent’s consent and give the parent the option to have the child's information deleted. All of the child’s personal information collected by Indiana Minority Business Magazine is securely maintained and used only for the specified purpose such as conducting the contest or sweepstakes and awarding prizes. Indiana Minority Business Magazine does not keep any of the child’s personal information after the particular event is completed. Sometimes, Indiana Minority Business Magazine uses agents or contractors to provide services that support the internal operations of the site, such as helping us conduct a sweepstakes or sending prizes to winners. In these cases, Indiana Minority Business Magazine requires the agent or contractor to maintain the confidentiality, security and integrity of the information and limit use to the specific services they are performing on our behalf. Indiana Minority Business Magazine may disclose information maintained as required by law, for example, in response to a court order or a subpoena.  Indiana Minority Business Magazine may also disclose such information in response to a specific law enforcement agency's request. Personal information is not disclosed to third parties except those who provide support for the internal operations of the site. Parents can consent to the collection and use of their child’s personal information without consenting to the disclosure of the information to third parties.

PARENTAL ACCESS
Indiana Minority Business Magazine and Indiana Minority Business Magazine’s affiliates are the operators collecting information at this web site. Please send an email or letter to our Privacy Coordinator at the email or mailing address provided below if you would liketo do any of the following:
Access personally identifiable information that Indiana Minority Business Magazine has collected from your child, Correct factual errors in such information, Request to have this information deleted, or Request that we no longer collect or maintain such information about your child.  Please include your email address and telephone number where we can reach you. Indiana Minority Business Magazine takes steps to verify the identity of anyone requesting information about a child to ensure that the person is in fact the child's parent or legal guardian.