The Truth About... and My
Truth About…
Privacy Policy
We respect your privacy. This policy explains how information about you will
be treated as you make use of the My Truth About or The Truth About site (in
either case, the “Site”).
The Truth About Media, LLC (“TTAM”) provides about the Site to you
subject to the terms of this Privacy Policy. By registering with us or by using
the Site, you accept and agree to this Privacy Policy.
The Privacy Policy may change from time to time, without notice other than appearing
on the Site. The Revision Date below will show you when the Privacy Policy was
last revised.
1. REVISION DATE
This Privacy Policy was last revised on June 6, 2008.
2. REGISTRATION AND ACCOUNT INFORMATION
You can access the Site without having an account and without submitting personally
identifiable information. However, some features of the Site are available only
if you register and establish an account with My Truth About.
In order to register you will need to provide some basic information, including
your name and e-mail address. You will also need to create a password. We need
this information to communicate with you and to ensure the security of your
account. You may be asked to provide additional information, including your
age, gender, and income range. You don’t have to provide the additional
information, but if you do it will be part of your account information.
When you register you will be asked to create a member ID (username). You may
also include as part of your profile a photograph, birth date, location, company
affiliation, and other information, but you are not required to do so. The name
and other information you enter as part of your profile may appear on your user
profile page (“Profile Page”), and will also be part of your account
information. Your IP address may also be communicated to and stored by My Truth
About with your profile when you use the Site. The information you provide to
establish an account and in creating your profile is referred to as “Account
Information.”
Information that appears on your Profile Page is public. TTAM will not provide
other individually identifiable Account Information to any third party, except
as set forth in Sections 6, 8 and 10 below. TTAM will not use your email address
or other personally identifiable information to send commercial or marketing
messages without your consent, except as part of a specific program or feature
in which you choose to participate. We may, however, use your email address
without further consent for administrative purposes (such as notifying you of
major changes to the Site, or for customer service purposes). We may also use
your e-mail address to send you newsletters, newsfeeds, and other editorial
content, but you will either have to opt in to these services or you will be
given the opportunity to opt out.
Data obtained from Account Information (such as age, gender, and income range)
may be merged into group data, which may then used by TTAM or provided to third
parties in an aggregated form that does not include identifying information,
in order to determine how advertising is placed on the Site. When we provide
aggregated data to outside companies, it will not allow them to identify you
or contact you.
TTAM users have the opportunity to sign up for certain third party offers which
may include, but aren't limited to, magazine subscriptions and online services.
TTAM shares the least amount of personal information necessary to fulfill these
offers with the third party responsible for the offer. In the case of a magazine
subscription this information would include a member's name and shipping address.
Third parties may have different policies governing the use of personal information.
At the time of registering with the Site, users are asked whether they wish
to receive e-mail from TTAM, such as notification of new benefits and offerings.
TTAM does not sell or distribute to others the list of users who have "opted
in" to such mailings.
3. CONTENT YOU SUBMIT TO THE TRUTH ABOUT... AND MY TRUTH ABOUT...
My Truth About may include features allowing you to submit and post text, photos,
video, music, messages, comments, notes, advertisements, listings, links, and
other content (collectively "User Content"). User Content that you
submit to My Truth About or post on the Site, including any personal information
included in your User Content, becomes publicly available and can be seen, collected,
and used by others.
4. USAGE INFORMATION - USE BY TTAM
Each time you visit the Site, our servers, like most on the Web, collect some
basic technical information, including your IP address, domain name (e.g., whether
the user is logged on from aol.com or whitehouse.gov), referral data (e.g.,
the address of the last URL a user visited prior to clicking through to the
My Truth About Site) and browser and platform type (e.g., a Firefox browser
on a Macintosh platform).
The Site also uses cookies and/or web beacons. (A cookie is a small amount of
data that is sent to your browser from a Web server and stored on your computer's
hard drive, and that may be accessed when you use a website. A web beacon is
a small, transparent graphic image placed on a website, which allows the site
to record the actions of a visitor opening the page that contains the beacon.)
TTAM may use cookies, web beacons and log file information to: (1) help deliver
advertisements; (2) identify unique browsers that visit the Site; (3) track
usage throughout the Site (e.g., tracking where traffic comes from, how traffic
flows within the Site, etc.); (4) store information so that you will not have
to re-enter it during your visit or the next time you visit the Site; (5) monitor
the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns; and (6) monitor aggregate metrics
such as total number of visitors, pages viewed, etc.
TTAM may merge information about users and usage of the Site into aggregated
data, which may then be used by TTAM and/or shared with our advertisers. When
we provide aggregated information to outside companies, they will be able to
identify you or contact you based on that data. We will not disclose your individual
identity or personally identifiable data, except as provided in Sections 6,
8 and 10 below.
There is one additional exception to the general rule that usage information
is provided only in aggregate form. TTAM saves usage information for individual
Level Two subscribers. This information may be collected for TTAM Level Two
subscribers who use the My Truth About Site. This information will be used solely
by our customer support team, to help resolve problems Level Two subscribers
may have. It is not used for any other purpose, shared with any third party,
or correlated with any other information you may have provided to order your
Level Two subscription.
5. USAGE INFORMATION?USE BY ADVERTISERS AND OTHERS
TTAM may allow other companies to place advertisements on the Site. These companies
use technology to deliver advertisements you see on the Site directly to your
browser. In doing so, they automatically receive your IP address. The other
companies that place advertising on the Site also have the ability to use cookies
and/or web beacons to collect information, including information about your
usage of the Site. TTAM does not control the processes that advertisers use
to collect information. However, cookies and web beacons alone generally cannot
be used to identify individuals, only machines. Therefore, advertisers will
not know who you are unless you provide additional information to them, by responding
to an advertisement, by entering into an agreement with an advertiser, or by
some other means.
The Site may contain links to sponsor, advertiser, or other third party websites
that are not owned or controlled by TTAM. TTAM has no control over, and assumes
no responsibility for, the conduct, practices or privacy policies of others.
Review their terms of service and their privacy policies to learn how they handle
your information.
7. PAID MEMBERSHIP
In order to subscribe to the paid membership service at My Truth About... and
The Truth About..., you provide TTAM with personal information, including your
name, address, e-mail address and credit card information. TTAM keeps this information
confidential and does not sell or distribute it to others in any way.
8. PROMOTIONS AND SURVEYS
From time to time, TTAM may sponsor sweepstakes, contests or other events which
require the collection, processing and storage of individual contact (e.g.,
name and mailing or e-mail address) and demographic information (e.g., your
age and state of residence) to be used for the event. TTAM may co-sponsor these
events with other companies. In that case your individual contact and demographic
information is likely to be shared with other sponsors.
TTAM will not release your personal contact and demographic information to any
third party other than named sponsors without your consent (except as provided
in Section 10). TTAM will request that co-sponsors uphold the privacy of your
information by not distributing or sharing such information with any other businesses
or organizations. However, TTAM does not control the information practices of
others, and cannot guarantee that they will not disclose your information.
TTAM will from time to time conduct voluntary surveys of visitors to the site
to obtain aggregate demographic information about them. Such information may
be compiled and shared in the aggregate with advertisers and other third parties,
but no personal details that can be linked to specific individuals will be provided.
9. OUR COMMITMENT TO MINORS’ PRIVACY
Protecting the privacy of minors is important to us. For that reason, we do
not collect or maintain information at our Web sites from those we actually
know are under 18, and no part of our Web site is structured to attract anyone
under 18.
10. OTHER PERMITTED DISCLOSURES OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
TTAM will not use or disclose your personal information (personally identifiable
data such as your name, email address, password, and the content of your communications)
except: (1) as described in the Terms of Service ([www.thetruthabout.com/terms.htm)
or this Privacy Policy; (2) after obtaining your permission to a specific use
or disclosure; (3) if TTAM is required to do so in order to comply with any
valid legal process or governmental request (such as a court order, search warrant,
subpoena, civil discovery request, or statutory requirement); or (4) as otherwise
required by law.
11. WHO CAN I ASK IF I HAVE ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS OR CONCERNS?
If you have any further questions, concerns or complaints about our privacy
policies and use of personal information, please send them to privacy@thetruthabout.com.
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