Thank you for visiting the vc Life & Style Magazine Web site. vc
Life & Style Magazine has designed its Privacy Policy to inform
you about our current data collection and how we use your personal information.
From time to time, vc Life & Style Magazine, may, without notice,
modify or eliminate all or a portion of this Privacy Policy.
The Privacy Policy is available from the home page of the vc Life &
Style Magazine Web site. From time to time, you may click to other vc
Life & Style Magazine Web sites or pages that have different privacy
policies. When this happens, you may review the privacy policies that
relate to those pages or sites.
We obtain personal information that is needed to provide you
with our goods and services.
When vc Life & Style Magazine collects information directly from
you, we obtain this personal information in order to provide you with
our goods or services, to provide customer service and to fulfill any
legal or regulatory requirements. We also obtain personal information
as a result of consumers' financial transactions with vc Life &
Style Magazine or with vc Life & Style Magazine merchants. When
we obtain information about consumers and merchants from third parties,
we use sources that we believe are reputable, including public repositories.
The only personal information we collect is information you
provide us.
The only information we collect about you is information that you provide
us. This information may include, for example, your name, mailing address,
e-mail address and telephone number. If you supply us with personal
data and request information from us, we will contact you to provide
you with the information you requested. We may also contact you to follow
up on your job opportunity inquiries, subscriptions, sweepstakes entries,
quarterly release parties, new web site functionality, benefits, etc.,
or we may send you other information about vc Life & Style Magazine
and its products, sponsorships or services that we believe you would
find interesting or helpful.
We are committed to protecting the confidentiality of your
personal information.
vc Life & Style Magazine 's policies limit access to the personal
information we collect to those vc Life & Style Magazine employees
and vc Life & Style Magazine business relationships who need the
information to fulfill their business responsibilities. We require our
employees to adhere to vc Life & Style Magazine 's Privacy Policy.
Employees who violate the vc Life & Style Magazine Privacy Policy
are subject to disciplinary action, up to and including dismissal.
When vc Life & Style Magazine collects personal information about
you, we handle this information in accordance with the terms and conditions
in the applicable privacy policy. When vc Life & Style Magazine
engages vendors and other outside contractors, they are subject to our
contractual requirements. For purposes of credit reporting, verification
and risk management, we may share information about you with third parties.
We also will disclose information in response to a request issued by
a court, government agency or regulatory authority.
We will inform you about the general uses of the information
we collect about you.
When we have a direct customer relationship with you, we will strive
to make information available to you about the general uses of the information
we collect. This information is made available at the point of sale,
through privacy notices on our Web sites, in other formats that are
publicly available or through other means specified by applicable state
and federal laws. In addition, when vc Life & Style Magazine obtains
personal information about consumers indirectly through our merchants,
we require our merchants to provide these consumers with their own timely
and complete privacy notice.
We strive to give you choices about how your information will
be used.
When we obtain personal information as part of our direct relationship
with you, we will not share this information with nonaffiliated third
parties, except in the following circumstances:
- In accordance with the vc Life & Style Magazine Privacy Policy
- To facilitate and complete merchant-initiated or authorized transactions
- To comply with federal, state and local laws, including credit
reporting laws and card association rules
- To combat fraud
- To offer information, products and services that vc Life &
Style Magazine believes may be of interest to you.
Since your needs may change, and vc Life & Style Magazine continuously
develops new products and services, we may contact you to determine
if we can provide you with additional services and information. Most
of our customers appreciate hearing about our event, information, new
products and services and prefer that we continue to contact them. If
you would prefer not to be contacted we will make information available
to you about how you may request to have your name removed from any
vc Life & Style Magazine owned marketing lists. You may also opt
out of information sharing by providing vc Life & Style Magazine
with all of your data – including the email address which we use
to send you email. Please mail your request along with your personal
information to: vc Life & Style Magazine, 1119 Buena Vista St.,
Ventura, CA 93001. You may also unsubscribe from vc Life & Style
email campaigns by following the unsubscribe information listed at the
bottom of each email.
We maintain procedures to assure the quality of information
we collect and, in some instances, we inform you how you can access
your information and make corrections, if necessary.
vc Life & Style Magazine employs appropriate measures to assure
the quality of information that we collect directly from you. In some
instances, where vc Life & Style Magazine collects information directly
from you, vc Life & Style Magazine informs you how to correct any
erroneous or out-of-date information stored in our database. These requirements
and procedures may vary by each vc Life & Style Magazine business
activity. As you visit our various Web pages, please be sure to review
the privacy policies applicable to those sites. We abide by applicable
laws related to such information.
We use appropriate security safeguards.
At vc Life & Style Magazine , security is important. vc Life &
Style Magazine employs appropriate measures, including advanced technology,
to protect personal information collected against unauthorized access,
disclosure, alteration or destruction. These measures may include, among
others, encryption, physical access security and other appropriate technologies.
vc Life & Style Magazine continually reviews and enhances its security
systems, as necessary.
vc Life & Style Magazine 's Web sites may be linked to
other Web sites.
vc Life & Style Magazine may create links to third-party Web sites.
vc Life & Style Magazine is not responsible for the content or privacy
practices employed by third-party Web sites that are linked to our Web
site. Neither does vc Life & Style Magazine control or warrant the
utility, merchantability or workmanship of the products or services
offered at third-party Web sites.
We strive to maintain our privacy standards.
vc Life & Style Magazine strives to meet our privacy program standards.
In doing so, we do the following:
- Employee privacy training and employee compliance related to the
Privacy Policy
- Periodic assessments of vc Life & Style Magazine 's compliance
with this Privacy Policy
- Periodic management review to ensure that vc Life & Style Magazine
actively participates in appropriate privacy activities, including
self-regulatory initiatives
How the vc Life & Style Magazine Privacy Policy applies
to you.
The examples contained in this Privacy Policy are illustrations only,
and they are not intended to be all-inclusive. If you decide to close
your merchant account or become an inactive customer, or if we close
or suspend your account, our Privacy Policy, as it may exist from time
to time, will continue to apply. We may amend this Privacy Policy at
any time, and we will inform you of changes as required by law. You
may have other privacy protections under state laws, and we will comply
with applicable state laws when we disclose information about you. This
Privacy Policy applies to all accounts you may have with us, and it
replaces all our previous disclosures to you about our information practices.
If you have any questions or comments about the vc Life & Style
Magazine Privacy Policy, please contact:
vc Life & Style Magazine
1119 Buena Vista St.
Ventura, CA 93001
This vc Life & Style Magazine Privacy Policy is currently applicable
only to vc Life & Style Magazine's United States customers and visitors
to our Web site. Cross-border transactions may have their own rules
and practices.
