This Privacy Policy discusses the privacy practices for the www.NextGenJournal.com website (the “Site”), which is provided by Next Gen Media, Inc. This Privacy Policy governs our collection of information from you. Please read this policy carefully in order to fully understand our online privacy practices. By visiting this Site, you consent to this Privacy Policy and agree that your visit, and any dispute over our online privacy practices, is governed by this Privacy Policy and our Visitor Agreement.
INFORMATION WE COLLECT
We may collect and store information, personal or otherwise, that you voluntarily supply either while on our Site or in responding via email in connection with a feature provided on our Site. Some examples of this type of information include demographic information and personal information (such as your name or email address) that you electronically submit when you register for certain features on our Site or contribute content, and information that you post on message boards or other public posting areas on our Site.
We collect information from you when you register on our site or fill out a form. When ordering or registering on our site, as appropriate, you may be asked to enter your name or e-mail address. You may, however, visit our site anonymously.
Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on your site. Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to your users based on their visit to your sites and other sites on the Internet. Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.
In addition, NextGenJournal.com reserves the right to post advertisements. Third party advertisers or third party ad servers that place and present advertising on our Site also may collect information from you via cookies, web beacons, or similar technologies, a process that we do not control. The use and collection of your information by these third party advertisers and ad servers is governed by the relevant third party’s privacy policy and is not covered by our privacy policy.
DO WE USE COOKIES?
Yes. Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computers hard drive through your Web browser (if you allow) that enables the sites or service providers systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information.
We use cookies to keep track of advertisements and compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and tools in the future. We may contract with third-party service providers to assist us in better understanding our site visitors. These service providers are not permitted to use the information collected on our behalf except to help us conduct and improve our business.
USE AND DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION
NextGenJournal.com uses the information it collects from you while you are using the Site in a variety of ways, including using the information to customize features and advertising that appear on the Site. We also may provide your information to third parties, such as service providers, contractors, and advertisers, for a variety of purposes. For example, we may provide our advertisers with information about you and other visitors that will enable our advertisers to better target ads to specific types of visitors.
You agree that we may use your information to contact you for customer service purposes, to inform you of important changes or additions to our Site or the services offered over our Site, and to send you administrative notices, offers and any other communications that we believe may be of interest to you.
Please also keep in mind that whenever you voluntarily make your personal information available for viewing by third parties online – for example on message boards, through email or web logs, or in chat areas – that information can be seen, collected and used by others besides NextGenJournal.com. We are not responsible for any unauthorized third party use of such information.
Please be aware that we may occasionally release information about visitors when release is appropriate to comply with law, to enforce our Terms of Use Agreement, or to protect the rights, property or safety of visitors to our Site, the public, or to us or our Site.
Please also note that as our business grows, we may buy or sell various assets. In the unlikely event that NextGenJournal.com sells some or all of our assets, or our Site is acquired by another company, information about our visitors may be among the transferred assets.
THIRD-PARTY LINKS
Our Site may include links to third party websites whose privacy policies we do not control. Once you leave the Site, any information you provide at another site will be governed by the privacy policy of the operator of the site you are visiting. The privacy policies of third party websites may differ from that of NextGenJournal.com.
CHILDRENS ONLINE PRIVACY PROTECTION ACT COMPLIANCE
We are in compliance with the requirements of COPPA (Childrens Online Privacy Protection Act), we do not collect any information from anyone under 13 years of age. Our website, products and services are all directed to people who are at least 13 years old or older.
MODIFYING YOUR INFORMATION AND OPTING OUT
If you register with us as a commenter, you will have the opportunity to review, update, change or delete the information you have provided us (and that we continue to store) via the Disqus comment service at any time. If you remove your registration information completely, you may not be able to continue using certain services that require registration. To review, update, change or delete your registration information visit www.NextGenJournal.com.
STORAGE OF INFORMATION
All information gathered on our Site is stored within a database accessible only to the editors of NextGenJournal.com. However, as effective as the reasonable security measures implemented by us may be, no security system is impenetrable. We cannot guarantee the security of our database, nor can we guarantee that information supplied will not be intercepted while being transmitted over the Internet.
CHANGES TO THIS POLICY
If we need to change this Privacy Policy at some point in the future, we will post the modified Privacy Policy on this Site and update the Effective Date of the policy to reflect the date of the changes. By continuing to use the Site after we post any such changes, you accept the Privacy Policy as modified.
HOW TO CONTACT US
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact our Editor-in-Chief at connor.toohill@nextgenjournal.com
EFFECTIVE DATE
June 10, 2009, last modified September 17, 2010