Privacy Policy
Mensjournal.com is committed to protecting your privacy online. Please take a moment to read our policy explaining our use of the personal information that you provide and the choices you can make about the collection and use of your information by Mensjournal.com.
Contact Us
Mensjournal.com is owned and operated by Men’s Journal LLC. If you have any questions concerning this policy or the content and material on our website, or if you would like to update your personal information, you may contact us at:
Men’s Journal Magazine
Attention: Customer Relations, Mensjournal.com
1290 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10104
or you may email us by clicking here.
Providing personal information
At Mensjournal.com, we provide many interactive features which allow you to vote in polls, provide commentary on our features, participate in online forums and subscribe to our magazine online. While you may use features of the website without providing any personal information, we may at times ask that you provide us with certain information so that we may perform the service you request.
This information may include, but is not limited to, your name, e-mail or home address, telephone number, fax number, credit card information, birth date, gender, and information about your interests in and use of various products, programs, and services.
We will never collect personal information from you without your knowledge or consent, and you may always choose not to provide the information we request. Please note, however, that if you do not provide us with this information, you may be unable to access some of the features of the website.
How we use personal information
From time to time, we may use the personal information you provide us to send you information regarding Men’s Journal magazine and/or Mensjournal.com features and subscriptions. We may use the information to contact you about your account or to notify you in the event that you win one of our contests or sweepstakes. We may also offer you other products, programs, or services that we believe may be of interest to you. You will always have the choice to opt out of receiving these offers, updates, and information. We may disclose personal information at the request of a law enforcement agency or when compelled by a court order or subpoena to do so. If you submit written content to Mensjournal.com, we may publish information about you that you provide, such as your name, screen name, and hometown along with your content.
We may share your information with third parties who we think can offer services and products of interest to you, however you may always opt-out of having this information shared. If you wish to opt-out of having your information shared with third parties for their direct marketing purposes, you may send us a written request by clicking here and marking your request “re: Opt-Out.”
Non-personally identifiable information
We may collect non-personally identifiable information, for example, the type of operating system you use to access our website, the domain name of your internet service provider, and the type of browser you are using. We use this information to improve many of the features of Mensjournal.com; we may also use this information in the aggregate to analyze site usage and to provide data to our advertisers.
Information from Persons Under the Age of 13
We do not seek to collect personally identifiable information from persons under the age of 13. If we become aware that we have inadvertently received such information online from a child under the age of 13, we will delete it from our records. If you are under the age of 13, please do not submit any personally identifiable information to us. If you are the parent or guardian of a person under the age of 13 who has provided personally identifiable information to us, please inform us by contacting us at the address provided in the “Contact Us” section above, or by email by clicking here and we will remove such information from our database. If you are concerned about your children’s use of the Site, you may use web filtering technology to supervise or limit access to the Site.
Cookies
We use cookies, as well as other tracking programs, for various features on Mensjournal.com. A “Cookie” is a small data file that is able to store certain information when you visit a website. We may use cookies to perform such services as saving your password in password-protected areas and remembering your video plug-in preferences so that you do not have to reset them each time you visit our site. We may also use cookies to track how often visitors are visiting Mensjournal.com, which pages are visited most often, and user preferences. Cookies will not allow us access to personal information which you have not already provided to us. If you wish to disable cookies, you may do so by turning them off in your web browser. While many parts of Mensjournal.com will still be accessible to you if you choose to disable cookies, you may be unable to use certain features of the website.
Security Information
We take the protection of your personal information seriously. Our databases are stored in a secure location and your information is guarded by firewalls and other technology. Although we take appropriate precautions to ensure the security of your information, we cannot assure you that the personal information that we collect will never be disclosed in a manner that is inconsistent with this Privacy Notice.
Changes to the policy
From time to time, we may make changes to the guidelines and content of our policy. These changes will always be posted at this location on our website. In order to keep yourself fully informed of our privacy policy information, we encourage you to periodically review this policy.
Third party advertising and websites
We use a third-party advertising company to serve ads when you visit Mensjournal.com. This company may use information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visit to our website in order to provide advertisements about goods and services that may be of interest to you. In the course of serving advertisements to this site, our third-party advertiser may place or recognize a unique cookie on your browser. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by this company, please click here.
Mensjournal.com may contain links to other websites. The privacy policies of these websites may be different than those listed here, and we do not have any control over, and are not responsible for, the information or use of this information that these websites collect. Please read the privacy notices of any third party websites for their policies.
From time to time, Mensjournal.com may offer promotions, contests, or sweepstakes that are sponsored or co-sponsored by other companies. These companies may have access to the personal information you provide in order to participate in these promotions, sweepstakes, or contests. We do not have any control over, and are not responsible for, our sponsors’ or co-sponsors’ use of this information.
Sale or Bankruptcy Information
In the event of a bankruptcy, sale, merger, public offering, or other change in control of Men’s Journal LLC and/or Mensjournal.com, your information may be shared with the person or business that assumes ownership or control of this website.
Your California Privacy Rights(As provided by California Civil Code Section 1798.83)
A California resident who has provided personal information to a business with whom he/she has established a business relationship for personal, family, or household purposes (“California customer”) is entitled to request information about whether the business has disclosed personal information to any third parties for the third parties’ direct marketing purposes. In general, if the business has made such a disclosure of personal information, upon receipt of a request by a California customer, the business is required to provide a list of all third parties to whom personal information was disclosed in the preceding calendar year, as well as a list of the categories of personal information that were disclosed.
However, under the law, a business is not required to provide the above-described lists if the business adopts and discloses to the public (in its Privacy Policy) a policy of not disclosing customer’s personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes unless the customer first affirmatively agrees to the disclosure or gives customers a mechanism to opt out of having their personal information disclosed to third parties for their direct marketing purposes.
Rather, the business may comply with the law by notifying the customer of his or her right to prevent disclosure of personal information and providing a cost free means to exercise the right.
We have opted for this alternative approach. As stated in our Privacy Policy, we give customers a mechanism to opt out of having their personal information disclosed to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. Therefore, we are not required to maintain or disclose a list of third parties that received your personal information for marketing purposes.
If you wish to opt-out of sharing your Personal Information with third parties for their direct marketing purposes, please click here and mark your request “Re: Opt-out.”
California customers may request further information about our approach to this law by writing to us at the address provided in the “Contact Us” section above or by email by clicking here and requesting further information.
Updated 1/9/12
