Teaching Pre K-8 Online Privacy Notice

Application:
This privacy policy applies only to Teachingk-8.com and its affiliated promotional web sites.
For information pertaining to our offline privacy policy, please make a request via e-mail at Mail@teachingk-8.com

Contact Us:
Editorial and Publishing Office
40 Richards Avenue
Norwalk, CT 06854
800-249-9363
Fax: 203-855-2656
Mail@teachingk-8.com

Advertising Director: Carol Mata
607 N. Canyonwood Drive
Dripping Springs, TX 78620
800-992-6411
866-311-9495 fax
Carol@teachingk-8.com

Eastern Advertising Manager: Janice Welch
51 Creekside Court
Acworth, GA 30101
888-440-7054
858-300-5272 fax
Janice@teachingk-8.com

Changes to this Privacy Notice:
This Privacy Notice will change over time. Please check this page periodically as you continue to use our site to see if any changes have been made. This privacy notice was most recently changed on January 2006.

Personal Information Collected by Teachingk-8.com:
The information we collect from our visitors helps us to personalize and continually improve your experience at Teachingk-8.com. We gather the following types of information:

Automatic Information:
When you visit our web site, we recognize the domain name of your ISP (Internet Service Provider)via an Internet Protocol (IP) address. We do not recognize individual users, but we do know if visitors are connecting to the internet from popular ISPs like AOL, MSN, Earthlink, or a private company network.

We also track various tallies of website traffic. Examples include computer and connection information such as browser type and version, operating system and platform; the full Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) which lead to and around our site; and the pages viewed on our sites, including the date and time of visits. We collect and analyze this information to improve the content, navigation, and performance of our web site.

Like many Web sites, we use "cookies" ("cookies" are alphanumeric identifiers that we transfer to your hard drive through your Web browser to maintain information during your visit). For example, if you are a registered user, we use cookies to maintain your account information, history, and/or site preferences when you sign-in. Your browser allows you to reject cookies, and software is available from third parties which will allow you to visit our web site anonymously, although certain site functionalities may be impacted.

Information You Give Us:
We collect information you enter on our web site. This information is normally provided when you place an order (establish an account) or contact us. Examples of the types of supplied information include your name, address, telephone number, credit card information, and e-mail address. We use this information for such purposes as to confirm an order, ship product, billing and marketing/promotional initiatives. For more information regarding the use of e-mail addresses, and how we share information with other parties, please see below.

When you purchase a magazine subscription for Teaching Pre K-8 magazine, you can review the information you have provided to us, and update or delete such information.

How We Use E-mail Addresses:
Whenever we request your e-mail address, we tell you if the request is optional or mandatory. Every time we prompt for an e-mail address, we give you the opportunity to decide whether or not you want to receive e-mail promotions from Teaching Pre K-8. The following are some examples of how we use the e-mail addresses we collect:

• To confirm receipt of an online order
• To e-mail an online newsletter
• To send e-mail announcements and promotions
• To identify the author of postings to our message boards
• To answer customer service, product, and general inquiries
• To notify you about updates to the site

If you have elected to receive e-mail announcements and promotions and wish at any time to no longer receive such information, please call 800-249-9363 or send e-mail to Mail@teachingk-8.com. You will receive confirmation that your e-mail address has been removed from our announcement list. Please remember that removal requests are individual e-mail address specific. And while we will do our best to implement your preference change as quickly as possible, you may continue to receive promotional e-mails briefly after making your opt-out request.

Sharing of Information with Third Parties:

Third Party Marketing Partners: We may employ other companies or individuals to perform certain services/functions on our behalf. Examples include: sending e-mail, analyzing customer lists and data, providing marketing assistance, or consulting services. These third parties may have access to personal information; however, these independent contractors will be legally bound to use the information to perform only those functions designated by Highlights and NOT for any other purpose.

Purchase Security:
When we prompt you for credit card information, we encrypt the number for security. This is called Secure Socket Layer. Your credit information is handled by established third party banking and processing agents under contract to Teaching Pre K-8.

Business Transfer:
In the unlikely event that Teaching Pre K-8 is sold, has substantially all of its assets acquired, or merges or becomes affiliated with any other individual or entity, any and all customer information owned or under the control of Teaching Pre K-8 may be one of the transferred assets.

Law Enforcement and Protection of Users:
We will release personal information to third parties and organizations when we believe it is appropriate to do so to comply with the law. We will also do so to cooperate with law enforcement investigations, comply with court orders or subpoenas, protect the legal rights of us or others, when we believe the safety of a person may be in jeopardy, or when we believe it is needed for fraud protection and/or credit risk reduction.

Links to Third Party Sites:
Our web site contains links to third party sites. Teaching Pre K-8 is not responsible or liable for the privacy practices or content found on these sites. We suggest you check and fully understand the privacy policy of each site you visit.