Our commitment to your
privacy
This site is owned and
operated by Jaffe Life Design
LLC (“JLD”). Your privacy on the
Internet is of the utmost
importance to us. At JLD, we
want to make your experience
online satisfying and safe.
Because we gather certain
types of information about our
users, we feel you should fully
understand the terms and
conditions surrounding the
capture and use of that
information. This privacy
statement discloses what
information we gather and how we
use it.
Definition of the Information
JLD gathers and keeps track of.
JLD gathers two types of
information about users:
- Information that users
provide through optional,
voluntary submissions. These
are voluntary submissions to
receive our electronic
newsletters, to participate
in our message boards or
forums, to email a friend,
and from participation in
polls and surveys:
- Information JLD gathers
through aggregated tracking
information derived mainly
by tallying page views
throughout our sites. This
information allows us to
better tailor our content to
readers' needs and to help
our advertisers and sponsors
better understand the
demographics of our
audience. Under no
circumstances does JLD
divulge any information
about an individual user to
a third party.
JLD Gathers User Information
In The Following Processes:
Optional Voluntary
Information
We offer the following free
services, which require some
type of voluntary submission of
personal information by users:
1. Electronic newsletters
(Dispatches) We will offer a free electronic
newsletter to users. JLD gathers
the email addresses of users who
voluntarily subscribe. Users may
remove themselves from this
mailing list by following the
link provided in every
newsletter that points users to
the subscription management
page.Users can also subscribe
to the newsletters at the time
of registration. 2. Message boards/forums/blogs Users of the site's Message
Boards, Forums and Blogs must
register separately for these
services in order to post
messages, although they needn't
register to visit the site.
During registration the user is
required to supply a username,
password, and email address.
3. "Tell-A-Mom" Service Our site users can choose to
electronically forward a link,
page, or documents to someone
else by completing and
submitting an electronic form
located on the site. The user
must provide their email
address, as well as that of the
recipient. This information is
used only in the case of
transmission errors and, of
course, to let the recipient
know who sent the email. The
information is not used for any
other purpose. 4. Polling We may offer interactive polls
to users so they can easily
share their opinions with other
users and see what our audience
thinks about important issues.
Opinions or other responses to
polls are aggregated and are not
identifiable to any particular
user. JLD may use a system to
"tag" users after they have
voted, so they can vote only
once on a particular question.
This tag is not correlated with
information about individual
users. 5. Surveys JLD may occasionally conduct
user surveys to better target
our content to our audience
and/or solicit feedback on our
events, experts and services. We
sometimes share the aggregated
demographic information in these
surveys with our sponsors,
advertisers and partners. We
never share any of this
information about specific
individuals with any third
party. CHILDREN Consistent with the Federal
Children's Online Privacy
Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA),
we will never knowingly request
personally identifiable
information from anyone under
the age of 13 without requesting
parental consent. USAGE TRACKING JLD tracks user traffic patterns
throughout all of our sites.
However, we do not correlate
this information with data about
individual users. JLD does break
down overall usage statistics
according to a user's domain
name, browser type, and MIME
type by reading this information
from the browser string
(information contained in every
user's browser). We use tracking information to
determine which areas of our
sites users like and don't like
based on traffic to those areas.
We do not track what individual
users read, but rather how well
each page performs overall. This
helps us continue to build a
better service for you. COOKIES We may place a text file called
a "cookie" in the browser files
of your computer. The cookie
itself does not contain Personal
Information although it will
enable us to relate your use of
this site to information that
you have specifically and
knowingly provided. But the only
personal information a cookie
can contain is information you
supply yourself. A cookie can't
read data off your hard disk or
read cookie files created by
other sites. JLD uses cookies to
track user traffic patterns (as
described above). Our
advertising system delivers a
one-time cookie to better track
ad impressions and click rates. You can refuse cookies by
turning them off in your
browser. If you've set your
browser to warn you before
accepting cookies, you will
receive the warning message with
each cookie. You do not need to
have cookies turned on to use
this site. However, you do need
cookies to participate actively
in message boards, forums,
polling and surveys. USE OF INFORMATION JLD uses any information
voluntarily given by our users
to enhance their experience in
our network of sites, whether to
provide interactive or
personalized elements on the
sites or to better prepare
future content based on the
interests of our users. As stated above, we use
information that users
voluntarily provide in order to
send out electronic newsletters
and to enable users to
participate in polls, surveys,
message boards, and forums. We
send out newsletters to
subscribers on a regular
schedule (depending on the
newsletter), and occasionally
send out special editions when
we think subscribers might be
particularly interested in
something we are doing. JLD
never shares newsletter mailing
lists with any third parties,
including advertisers, sponsors
or partners. When we use tracking information
to determine which areas of our
sites users like and don't like
based on traffic to those areas.
We do not track what individual
users read, but rather how well
each page performs overall. This
helps us continue to build a
better service for you. We track
search terms entered in Search
function as one of many measures
of what interests our users. But
we don't track which terms a
particular user enters. JLD creates aggregate reports on
user demographics and traffic
patterns for advertisers,
sponsors and partners. This
allows our advertisers to
advertise more effectively, and
allows our users to receive
advertisements that are
pertinent to their needs.
Because we don't track the usage
patterns of individual users, an
advertiser or sponsor will never
know that a specific user
clicked their ad. We will not
disclose any information about
any individual user except to
comply with applicable law or
valid legal process or to
protect the personal safety of
our users or the public.
SHARING OF THE INFORMATION JLD uses the above-described
information to tailor our
content to suit your needs and
help our advertisers better
understand our audience's
demographics. This is essential
to keeping our service free. We
will not share information about
individual users with any third
party, except to comply with
applicable law or valid legal
process or to protect the
personal safety of our users or
the public. SECURITY JLD operates secure data
networks protected by industry
standard firewall and password
protection systems. Our security
and privacy policies are
periodically reviewed and
enhanced as necessary and only
authorized individuals have
access to the information
provided by our customers. OPT-OUT POLICY We give users options wherever
necessary and practical. Such
choices include:
- Opting not to register to
receive our electronic
newsletters.
- Opting not to participate in
certain interactive areas, which
completely alleviates the need
to gather any personally
identifiable information from
our users.
YOUR CONSENT By using this site, you consent
to the collection and use of
this information by JLD. If we
decide to change our privacy
policy, we will post those
changes on this page so that you
are always aware of what
information we collect, how we
use it, and under what
circumstances we disclose it. |
