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Saturday, 27 September 2008 00:00

Dystopiamagazine.com respects your right to the privacy of the personal information you provide us on our website. To that end, unless you designate otherwise or we state otherwise in this policy or at the time information is collected, any personal information you provide to Dystopiamagazine.com will be known only to two parties: you and Dystopiamagazine.com. The following policy is intended to explain how your personal information will be treated as you make use of our site and their features. Personal information includes your name, street, and e-mail addresses, billing information, click-through activity, and any other personal information you may provide here. This policy may change from time to time, so please check back periodically.

Children:
The dystopia Magazine.com member area is not directed to children under the age of 13. dystopia Magazine.com prohibits registration by, and dystopia Magazine.com will not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from, anyone under 13. This requirement will be posted at points of data collection within dystopia Magazine.com, such as registration for services.

Overview:
We take your privacy seriously. Because we gather certain types of information about our users we want to help you understand the terms and conditions surrounding the collection and use of that information. This privacy statement discloses the types of information we gather, how we use it, and how to correct or change it.

Information Collected:
Our primary goal in collecting personal information is to provide you with the best and most useful content and services. We collect personally identifiable information when you provide it to us, such as when you register on our site. Services that we offer on our sites, such as message boards, may require registration as a condition of use.

This personally identifiable information is limited to:
1. First and last name
2. Email address
3. Date of Birth
4. Gender
5. State and country of residence

Information Use
We use the information we gather for four general purposes:

To customize the advertising and content you see.
To enhance the user experience. We use tracking information to determine how well each page performs overall based on aggregate user demographics and traffic patterns to those pages. This helps us continue to build a better service for you.
To fulfill your requests for certain products and services, such as sending out electronic newsletters and enabling users to participate in polls, contests and message boards.
To send you information you agreed to receive about topics we think will be of interest to you.

Additional Uses
Traffic Data:
Each time a visitor comes to Dystopiamagazine.com, our server—like most on the Web—collects some basic technical information, including, for example, the visitor's domain name (e.g., whether the user is logged on from aol.com or whitehouse.gov), referral data (e.g., we record the address of the last URL a user visited prior to clicking through to Dystopiamagazine.com), and browser and platform type (e.g., a Netscape browser on a Macintosh platform).

We also count, track, and aggregate the visitor's activity into our analysis of general traffic flows at our site (e.g. tracking where traffic comes from, how traffic flows within Dystopiamagazine.com, etc.). To these ends, we may merge information about visitors and visits into group data, which may then be shared on an aggregated basis with our advertisers; but we will not disclose your individual identity or personally identifiable data without your permission. When we do present aggregated information to outside companies, no one will be able to identify you or contact you.

Promotion:
We have engaged companies to work with us or on our behalf to provide a product or service that you have requested, such as opt-in e-mail announcements.

From time to time, Dystopiamagazine.com may sponsor sweepstakes, contests, or other events which require the collection, processing, and storage of individual contact and demographic information (e.g., your age and state of residence) to be used for the event. Dystopiamagazine.com may also co-sponsor these events along with other companies, in which case the user's individual contact and demographic information is likely to be shared with other participating sponsors, who may use this information as they wish. A registrant's personal contact and demographic information will not be released to any third-party organization other than named sponsors without the user's consent, and Dystopiamagazine.com will request that such named sponsors uphold the privacy of the registrants' information by not distributing or sharing such information with any other businesses or organizations.

Surveys:
Dystopiamagazine.com 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 will be traceable or associated with specific individuals.

Reader Mail:
From time to time, Dystopiamagazine.com will publish e-mails received from our readers, which may be edited for length and content. In order to protect your privacy, Dystopiamagazine.com will not publish your e-mail address nor will we sell, trade, or otherwise disclose your contact information to third parties.

Other Disclosure of Personal Information:
Dystopiamagazine.com will not otherwise use or disclose your personal information without your consent except (i) as described in this privacy policy, or (ii) as required by law, court order, or as requested by other government or law enforcement authority. This policy does not protect information you post to any online bulletin board, chat room, newsgroup, or other public forum within our website. We respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process; or we believe that your actions violate applicable laws, dystopia Magazine.com' Terms of Use or any usage guidelines for specific products or services, or threaten the rights, property, or safety of our company, our users, or others

dystopia Magazine.com reserves the right to restrict access at will to users who are perceived as being detrimental to the community.

Updating Personal Information
You can review, correct or change the information collected during registration by visiting your preferences page after you login. Users may change information at any time and as often as necessary. Users who are experiencing problems with our services or who have questions about how our services work can contact us using e-mail addresses at the bottom of this page.

Other Sites:
Dystopiamagazine.com contains many links to other sites on the Web. We cannot control and are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of such other websites.

Cookies:
On the Internet, a "cookie" is a piece of information (a file) that a Web site transfers to a user's computer for record-keeping purposes. The use of cookies is common on the Internet. The process we use to serve advertisements and to track use of dystopia Magazine.com involves cookies. We use cookies to recognize users who have already registered on dystopia Magazine.com, allowing those users to speed up their future activities on the site. Cookies help dystopia Magazine.com track the frequency and placement of advertisements. Cookies also enable us to measure aggregate (total) usage and traffic to dystopia Magazine.com. This aids us in producing content that best meets our users' preferences. We may use that information to display advertisements that we think will be of particular interest to you. You may configure your browser to reject cookies, but this may interfere with some functionality of dystopia Magazine.com. Certain pages of dystopia Magazine.com may contain electronic images (called a "single-pixel GIF" or "web beacon") that allow a web site to count users who have visited that page. dystopia Magazine.com may occasionally use web beacons in order to count users and to recognize registered users by accessing the dystopia Magazine.com cookies.

If you have any further questions or concerns about Dystopiamagazine.com's privacy policies and use of personal information, please send them to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

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