This web site is ©️2023 Journalistic Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Effective Date: 5/29/2018
Our postal address is:
100 Europa Drive, Suite 290
Chapel Hill, NC 27517-2310
We can be reached via e-mail at privacy@journalistic.com or you can reach us by telephone at 1-800-662-4834 ext 133.
If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should first contact our Privacy Policy Administrator at 1-800-662-4834 ext 133 or privacy@journalistic.com.
The book- and art-related properties of Journalistic, Inc., which include, but are not limited to, Fine Books & Collections and Art & Object, are governed by the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy as stated in this document. Visitors to our site accept these policies explicitly.
Information Collected and Used
When you complete any form on one of our websites, we are collecting personally identifiable information. Points of data collection may include:
- Magazine subscription forms
- E-letter subscription forms
- Purchase from our online store
- Event registration forms
- Email forwarding forms
We use this information in the following ways:
- To serve magazine subscriptions, in both print and digital formats
- To renew magazine subscriptions, by both email and mail
- To send e-letters and other editorial content notifications
- To deliver merchandize which you have purchased
- To send other email from us
- To send third-party emails
- To make contact with you and to find people with similar interests and demographics on other platforms
We may also provide this information to third-party vendors based on your implied interest in certain subject matter. This includes:
- Clicking on or viewing any content labeled as “Sponsored”
- Clicking on a banner in an e-letter
- Indicating purchase intent
- Registering for an event
Opting Out
Users may cancel magazine subscriptions or unsubscribe from email communications at any time. You may cancel a magazine subscription by emailing circulation.assistant@journalistic.com or calling us at 1-800-662-4834, ext 120. You may unsubscribe from email communication by clicking the “Unsubscribe” link included in every email communication you receive from us.
Upon request at the contact information above, we will purge you and all of your data from our system. However, we reserve the right to keep enough identifiable information to ensure you are not inadvertently re-added to our lists. To be re-added to our lists after a purge, you must contact us in writing with your explicit instructions. Please be mindful that digital services at Journalistic, Inc., are cloud-based and as such are routinely backed up. Backed up data is only used in rare situations, such as a computer failure, but it may exist indefinitely.
Log Files
As is true of most Web sites, we gather certain information automatically and store it in log files. This information includes Internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and click-stream data.
We use this information, which does not identify individual users, to analyze trends, to administer the site, to track users’ movements around the site and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole.
We do not link this automatically-collected data to personally identifiable information.
Our Email Service Provider (ESP) logs your interactions (e.g., receipt, opening, and/or clicking on a link) with our email communications. These interactions can be used for analytics purposes and in the case of interactions with our sponsors, shared with them.
Cookies
A cookie is a small text file that is stored on a user’s computer for record-keeping purposes. We use cookies on this site. We do not link the information we store in cookies to any personally identifiable information you submit while on our site.
We use session ID cookies. We use session cookies to make it easier for you to navigate our site and hold items in your shopping cart, to improve our services. A session ID cookie expires when you close your browser.
We use a third-party tracking service that uses cookies to track non-personally identifiable information about visitors to our site in aggregate. We may collect information such as your domain type, your IP address and click-stream information to monitor the usage of our site for marketing and design needs, as well as to maintain security against malicious activity.
If you reject cookies, you may still use our site, but your ability to use some areas of our site, such as contests or surveys, will be limited.
Some of our advertisers use cookies on our site. We have no access to or control over these cookies. See “Third Party Advertisers.”
This privacy statement covers the use of cookies by www.finebooksmagazine.com or www.artandobject.com, and other related websites of these properties only and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers. [See the “Third Party Advertisers” section.] This statement also does not cover the use of cookies by other third party services.
Third Party Ad Servers
The ads appearing on this website are delivered to users by third party ad servers. As a result of your visit to our site, ad server companies may collect information such as your domain type, your IP address and click-stream information.
Links to Other Sites
This Web site contains links to other sites that are not owned or controlled by Journalistic, Inc. Please be aware that we, Journalistic, Inc. and Fine Books & Collections and Art &Object Web sites, are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites.
We encourage you to be aware that when you leave our site, you should become familiar with the privacy of those sites.
This privacy statement applies only to information collected by this website.
Legal Disclaimer
We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our Web site.
Access to Personally Identifiable Information
Upon request we provide site visitors with access to transaction information (e.g., dates on which customers made purchases, amounts and types of purchases) that we maintain about them, contact information (e.g., name, address, phone number) that we maintain about them.
Consumers can have this information corrected by sending us e-mail at the above address, calling us at the above telephone number, writing to us at the above address.
Credit Card Data
If you purchase a product or service on our site and use a credit card, please be advised that this information is accepted on third party sites which offer high level secure transactions. Journalistic, Inc. has no control over the security of this data. Journalistic, Inc. does not collect, transmit, or store credit card data and has no access to this information when it is provided. Charges are processed by third parties and only the funds and basic payment information are transmitted to us in order to complete the transaction Your credit card number, CVV and expiration date are never part of the information that is transmitted.
Security
The security of your personal information is important to us. We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. However, no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. If you have any questions about security on our Web site, you can send email us at privacy@foodnewsmedia.com.
Changes in this Privacy Statement
We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our home page so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.
Contact Us
If you have any questions or suggestions regarding our privacy policy, please contact us at: 1-800-662-4834, ext 133, privacy@journalistic.com, 100 Europa Drive, Suite 290, Chapel Hill, NC 27517-2310.
