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INTRODUCTION
Your
privacy is essential to us. Here in Hip Hop Empire Magazine, we believe
that privacy is a top priority. We know that you care how information
about you is used and shared. Thus, we provide this Privacy Policy to
summarize our procedures and practices as regards to information
collection and use. This will serve you as a guide in making an
intelligent decision in sharing your information with us. By visiting
Hip Hop Empire Magazine, you agree to be bound by this Privacy Policy
and hereby accept the procedures and practices stated in this herein.
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COVERAGE
This
Privacy Policy also outlines our privacy practices on our corporate
website. This would describe and explain how we take care and handle
your personal information. You agree to this Privacy Policy, in its
entirety, when you: (1) access or use the Website; and/or (2) apply for
the publisher (“Publisher”) and/or advertiser (“Advertiser” and together
with the Publishers, “Clients”) services available through the Website
(“Services”). If you do not agree with the terms and conditions of our
Privacy Policy, please do not use or access the Website or apply for the
Services.
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INFORMATION COLLECTION
If
you attempt to become a Client or otherwise choose to provide
information to us, this website shall collect Personal Information from
you. This information includes, but is not limited to: name, address,
telephone number, mobile number and/or email address. Once collected, we
will store your information for a reasonable period of time for record
keeping purposes. The information that we store is sometimes deleted as
space requires or in the normal course of business.
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DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION
Information
that we collected and stored shall not be sold or make it for rent to
or with others. Your personal information is not shared with any third
parties, except:
(a)
where necessary to conduct business, such as invoicing Clients in
connection with the Services or making payments to, or collecting money
from, a Client;
(b) in case of a breach of any agreement between Client and Hip Hop Empire Magazine;
(c) when required by law, or requested by a court of competent jurisdiction;
(d) in the event of Hip Hop Empire Magazine bankruptcy, or if Hip Hop Empire Magazine is sold or acquired; or
(e)
where Hip Hop Empire Magazine determines, in its sole discretion, that
such disclosure is necessary to protect the rights of Hip Hop Empire
Magazine and/or a third party, or necessary to protect Hip Hop Empire
Magazine from liability of any kind.
In
an effort to respect your privacy and our ability to keep the community
free from bad actors, we will not otherwise disclose your personal
information to law enforcement, other government officials, or other
third parties without a subpoena, court order or substantially similar
legal procedure, except when we believe in good faith that the
disclosure of information is necessary to prevent imminent physical harm
or financial loss or to report suspected illegal activity.
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COOKIES AND WEB BEACONS
We
use “cookies” and web beacons to help us manage our Website. Cookies
are small text files that contain a string of alphanumeric characters.
Web beacons (also known as “1X1 pixels” or “clear GIFs”) are small
strings of code that provide a method for delivering a graphic image on a
web page or in an email message for the purpose of transferring data.
Web users have the option of blocking the use of cookies by changing a
setting in their browser. Web users can check their browser supplier’s
website for details on how to do this.
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SECURITY
All
collected information is stored in a technically and physically secure
environment. While we use SSL encryption to protect Sensitive
Information online, we also do everything in our power to protect PII
(including Sensitive Information) off-line. Unfortunately, no data
transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a
result, while we strive to protect our end-users’ personal information,
we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information that you
transmit to us, and you do so at your own risk.
Once
we receive the transmission of your personal information, we make
reasonable efforts to ensure its security on our systems. Access to this
information is strictly limited, and not accessible to the public. All
our end-users’ personal information is restricted in our offices. Only
employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for
example a customer service representative) are granted access to the
same.
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ACCESSING AND UPDATING PERSONAL INFORMATION
When
you use our services, we make good faith efforts to provide you with
access to your personal information and either to correct this data if
it is inaccurate or to delete such data at your request if it is not
otherwise required to be retained by law or for legitimate business
purposes. We ask individual users to identify themselves and the
information requested to be accessed, corrected or removed before
processing such requests, and we may decline to process requests that
are unreasonably repetitive or systematic, require disproportionate
technical effort, jeopardize the privacy of others, or would be
extremely impractical, or for which access is not otherwise required. In
any case where we provide information access and correction, we perform
this service free of charge, except if doing so would require a
disproportionate effort. Some of our services have different procedures
to access, correct or delete users’ personal information. We do
retain personal information from closed accounts to comply with law,
prevent fraud, collect any fees owed, resolve disputes, troubleshoot
problems, assist with any investigations, enforce our policies and take
other actions otherwise permitted by law.
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THIRD PARTIES
It
should be stressed here that the websites of our advertiser and
publisher clients as well as the websites on which we place
advertisements or any third party websites linked to one of our sites
also may collect information from you for various purposes, including,
but not limited to providing advertisements about goods and services
likely to be of greater interest to you. Such information may include
non-personally identifiable information through the use of Cookies and
other technology and any personally identifiable information you may
choose to give in registering and transacting with such website. These
companies typically use a cookie or third party web beacon to collect
this information. Although we choose our business partners and clients
carefully, we are not responsible for the privacy practices of such
third parties. You should check the applicable privacy policies of such
third parties to determine how they handle any information they collect
from you. If you disclose your information to others, whether they are
bidders, buyers or sellers on our sites or other sites throughout the
internet, different rules may apply to their use or disclosure of the
information you disclose to them. We encourage you to ask questions
before you disclose your personal information to others.
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MINORS
This
Website is not intended for visitors that are minors or under eighteen
(18) years of age. Hip Hop Empire Magazine does not knowingly solicit or
collect information from individuals under the age of eighteen (18). If
we determine that we have inadvertently collected personal information
from someone under eighteen (18) years of age, we will take reasonable
steps to purge this information from our database. We encourage parents
and guardians to spend time online with their children and to
participate and monitor the Internet activities of their children.
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CHANGES AND AMENDMENTS & NOTIFICATION OF CHANGES
Hip
Hop Empire Magazine reserves the right to change or update this Privacy
Policy at any time by posting a clear and conspicuous notice on the
Website explaining that we are changing our Privacy Policy. All Privacy
Policy changes will take effect immediately upon their posting on the
Website. Please check the Website periodically for any changes. Your
continued use of the Website and/or acceptance of our e-mail
communications following the posting of changes to this Privacy Policy
will constitute your acceptance of any and all changes.