This
statement discloses the privacy practices for The Gay & Lesbian
Review, Inc. (formerly, The Harvard Gay & Lesbian
Review) / glreview.com ("GLR").
GLR
is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit educational corporation located in
Boston, Massachusetts that acknowledges a users' trust and
confidence in the Internet. As such, GLR promotes the use of fair
information practices. Because GLR wants to demonstrate its
commitment to your privacy, it has agreed to disclose its
information practices. GLR agrees to notify you of:
- What personally
identifiable information of yours or third party personally
identification is collected from you through the web site
- The organization
collecting the information
- How the information
is used
- With whom the
information may be shared
- What choices
are available to you regarding collection, use, and distribution
of the information
How you can
correct any inaccuracies in the information.
If
you feel that we are not abiding by our posted privacy policy, you
should contact Privacy Director by e-mail at abuse@glreview.com or
US mail at GLR, PO Box 180300, Boston, MA 02118, Attn: Privacy
Director.
Information
Collection and Use
GLR
is the sole owner of the information collected on this site. We
will not sell, share, or rent this information to others in ways
different from what is disclosed in this statement. GLR collects
information from our users at several different points on our
web site.
Registration
Registration
is not required for any user to use this web site. Any information
submitted by any user is at the user's sole and exclusive
discretion.
Order
We
request information from the user on our order form. Here, a user
must provide contact information (such as their name and billing
address) and financial information (such as credit card number
and expiration date). This information is used for billing
purposes and to fill customer's orders and requests for information.
If we have trouble processing an order, this information is
used to contact the user.
Cookies
A
cookie is a piece of data stored on the user's hard drive
containing information about the user. For instance, by setting a
cookie on our site, the user would not have to log in a password
more than once, thereby saving time while on our site. If a
user rejects the cookie, they may still use our site. The only
drawback to this is that the user may be limited in some areas
of our site. Cookies can also enable us to track and target
the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our
site. Usage of a cookie, if any, is in no way linked to any
personally identifiable information while on our site. We do
not currently employ the use of cookies on our site.
Some
of our business partners use cookies on our site (for example,
advertisers). However, we have no access to or control over these
cookies. For these cookies, please refer to the owner of such
cookies (that is, the advertiser placing the cookie on your
computer).
Log Files
We
use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the site, track
users' movements, and gather broad demographic information for
aggregate use. IP addresses are not linked to personally
identifiable information. The purpose of gathering this
information is to improve the quality of the information presented
to you on our site. The information in the aggregate currently
being collected on our site includes peak usage periods, top
documents, top paths, referring URL, domains, operating system,
browser, screen resolution (including color depth), errors,
and search keywords.
Sharing
We
may, at our sole discretion, share aggregated demographic
information with our partners and advertisers. This is not linked
to any personal information that can identify any individual
person.
We
may use an outside shipping company to ship orders, and we may use
an outside credit card processing company to bill users for
goods and services. These companies do not retain, share, store
or use personally identifiable information for any secondary
purposes.
We
partner with other parties to provide specific services. When the
user signs up for these services, we will share names or other
contact information that is necessary for the third party to
provide these services.
These
parties are not allowed to use personally identifiable information
except for the purpose of providing these services.
Links
This
web site contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we,
GLR, are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other
sites. We encourage our users to be aware of when they leave
our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every
web site they visit, especially those that collect personally
identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely
to information collected by this Web site.
Newsletter
If
a user wishes to subscribe to our newsletter, should we provide
one, we ask for contact information such as name and e-mail
address so that we may deliver the newsletter to such user.
Surveys &
Contests
We
do not currently request information from users via surveys or
contests.
Tell-A-Friend
We
do not currently provide a referral service or affiliate program.
Security
This
web site takes every precaution to protect our users' information.
When users submit sensitive information via the website, your
information is protected both on-line and off-line.
When
our order form asks users to enter sensitive information (such as
credit card number and/or social security number), that
information is encrypted and is protected with the best encryption
software in the industry -- SSL. While on a secure page, such
as our order form, the lock icon on the bottom of Web browsers
such as Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer
becomes locked, as opposed to un-locked, or open, when you
are just "surfing." To learn more about SSL, please visit Verisign, Inc.'s
web site.
Note: You
may get a message informing you that the name on the security
certificate does not match the name on this site. If you click
on the details to view the certificate, it should say that
the security certificate issued to wwprotected.hostcentric.com by Equifax
Secure E-business CA. If this is the case, then it is ok to
proceed. If it says anything other than this, do not proceed
and contact
us immediately.
While
we use SSL encryption to protect sensitive information online, we
also do everything in our power to protect user-information
off-line. All of our users' information, not just the sensitive
information mentioned above, is restricted to our offices.
Only employees, affiliates, agents, or subcontractors who need
the information to perform a specific job are granted access
to personally identifiable information. Our employees, affiliates,
agents, and subcontractors must use password-protected systems
while working on a project for you. Furthermore, ALL such
employees, affiliates, agents, and subcontractors are kept
up-to-date on our security and privacy practices. Any time new
policies are added, they are notified and/or reminded about
the importance we place on privacy, and what they can do to
ensure our customers' information is protected.
If
you have any questions about the security at our website, you can
send an email to webmaster@glreview.com.
Correction/Updating
Personal Information:
If
a user's personally identifiable information changes (such as your
zip code), or if a user no longer desires our service, we will
endeavor to provide a way to correct, update or remove that
user's personal data provided to us. Additionally, you may
need to notify us of a change in address for your subscription.
All of the above can usually be accomplished by emailing Customer
Support or writing to G&L Review, PO Box
180300, Boston, MA 02118.
Choice/Opt-out
Although
we do not currently share personally identifyable information
with others, our users will be given the opportunity to
"opt-out" of having their information used for purposes
not directly related to our site at the point where we ask for the
information, should we choose to share such information in
the future. If we do decide to share such information in the
future, then we will use our best efforts to notify those users
who have submitted personally identifyable information to allow
them to opt out.
Users
who no longer wish to receive our newsletter or promotional
materials via e-mail may opt-out of receiving these communications
by replying with the word "UNSUBSCRIBE" in the subject
line of the email or they can e-mail us at support@glreview.com.
If a user no longer wishes to receive a newsletter or promotional
material from our partners, they should contact such partner
directly.
Users
of our site are always notified when their information is being
collected by any outside parties. We do this so our users can
make an informed choice as to whether they should proceed with
services that require an outside party, or not.
Notification of
Changes
If we decide
to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on
our web site so our users are always aware of what information
we collect, how we use it, and under circumstances, if any,
we disclose it. Unlike other sites, any changes to our Privacy
Policy will become effective with respect to any information
collected from the point this policy has been changed. We will
use information in accordance with the privacy policy under
which the information was collected.
Legal Information
All
information contained in this web site, all images, files,
graphics, multimedia files, and all such other content contained
herein, including the GLR logo, copyright © 1994-2001 GLR,
except as otherwise stated or with respect to any image or
logo of another company, such as that placed in an advertisement
or link, and except as to any site design, source code, or
other work product of the webmaster, which is copyright ©
2001, The Symposium.
Links/Browsing/Hacking
GLR
recognizes that some links may take you away from its domain. GLR
maintains no responsibility of any kind for any such links outside
its domain. GLR further disclaims any and all liability resulting
from the content of any articles, opinions, or other such content
published on its web site.
repeteadly
or otherwise engage in attempts to hack into our site, nor may
you engage in activity deemed to induce a denial-of-service
attack ("DoS"). GLR will be the sole arbiter of what is
considered to be hacking activity or activity designated to induce
a DoS.
Linking to
or entering the site by browsing to any page other than the
Splash Page, bookmarking any page other than the Splash Page,
hacking, or attempting to induce a DoS may result in legal
action taken against you as a cyber trespasser or as is otherwise
provided for by Massachusetts or United States law. Notwithstanding
the provisions of the foregoing, nothing contained herein is
to prevent you from navigating through our site once you have
legally entered it via the Splash Page.
Subject to
its sole discretion, GLR may assess a fee if it chooses to grant
you permission to link to pages within GLR's domain, other
than the Splash page. Notwithstanding the foregoing, GLR expressly
grants permission to the major Internet Search Engines (i.e.,
Yahoo, Excite!, Google, AskJeeves, AltaVista, Go.com, etc.)
to link to all of the web pages contained under GLR's domain.