Privacy Policy

We at Home & Project Studio Magazine, LLC are dedicated to protecting your privacy to the fullest extent possible. In fact, many of the products on our site are available for viewing and downloading without our collecting any personally identifiable information from you. That means you can visit the Home & Project Studio Magazine, LLC Website and access much of our content anonymously. This is how you will generally be able to download the Magazine. However, sometimes we will need your personal information to understand how to make our Magazine and Website better meet your needs. This Privacy Policy explains our data collection policy and how we use your information to do this. Please read the complete Privacy Policy so that you are aware of its details.

US and Non-US Visitors

Our Privacy Policy is intended to meet the laws and requirements of the United States. If you are visiting our Website or downloading materials from our Website from outside the United States, any information you provide will be treated in accordance with the laws of the United States. If the law of your jurisdiction does not permit you to access our Website, for some reason, then you should not access this Website.

Collecting Your Personal Information

We will ask you when we need information that personally identifies you or allows us to contact you (for instance, your first and last name; your home or business address; your e-mail address; your telephone number; your gender). Generally, this information is requested when you are asked to register before entering a contest or if you elect to participate in a survey. Personal information collected on our Website often is limited to e-mail address, language, country or location, but may include other information when needed. For example, if you enter a contest, we may request your name, address, telephone number, and shipping information in order to fulfill the terms of the contest.

How We Use Your Personal Information

We may use your personal information for any of the following primary purposes.

1. To help us create and deliver content most relevant to you.

2. To alert you to special offers, updated information, and other products.

3. To help us determine if any modifications need to be made to our Magazine.

4. To contact you regarding participation in a reader survey or contest.

5. To deal with any questions or comments you may have about our Magazine or Website.

We may occasionally hire other companies to provide limited services on our behalf, including packaging, mailing and delivering products, answering customer questions about products, sending postal mail, and processing event registration. We will only provide those companies the information they need to deliver the agreed service, and they are prohibited from using that information for any other purpose. We also may occasionally share this information with third parties so that you may be informed of matters, services, or products of interest to you. Other than as provided above, we will disclose your personal information only if required to do so by law or if, in good faith, believe that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on us, a court order, subpoena, administrative order, to cooperate with a pending investigation or to prevent damage, loss or personal injury to another person; (b) protect and defend our rights or property; (c) act in urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of our Website, or the public; and (d) comply with negotiated agreements in the event of a merger or sale or as part of the process and conclusion of a merger.

Control of Your Personal Information

When you register on our Website, or otherwise give us personal information, we will not share that information with third parties without your permission, other than for the limited exceptions listed above.

Security of Your Personal Information

Home & Project Studio Magazine, LLC will use its best efforts to protect the security of your personal information and honor your choices for its intended use. However, aggregate counts of click-through patterns may be provided to advertisers on request. Even so, an advertiser will never know that a specific user clicked their ad. Home & Project Studio Magazine, LLC does not target advertising against specific user information and Home & Project Studio Magazine, LLC will not provide specific user information to any third-party company, except as explained above.

Correspondence

All e-mail and other correspondence to our Website or Magazine becomes the property of Home & Project Studio Magazine, LLC. We may use your correspondence in our publication for editorial or other purposes. If you wish to have your name and/or home or e-mail address withheld from publication, please state so at the time of submission. Note that we may also privately respond to e-mail or other mail sent directly to us. E-mail information will only be shared with a third party in connection with a court order, sale of the Website to a third party or to defend a legal claim. All e-mails are kept internally for our own day-to-day business purposes.

Special Notification with Respect to Children’s Privacy (Users under the age of 13)

Congress enacted the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (“COPPA”), which sets forth rules and procedures governing the ways in which Websites may collect, use and disclose any personal information about children under the age of 13. In accordance with our policy and COPPA regulations, we DO NOT:

1. Request or knowingly collect personally identifiable online or offline contact information from users under 13 years of age;

2. Knowingly use or share personal information from users under 13 years of age with third parties;

3. Give children the ability to publicly post or otherwise distribute personally identifiable contact information; or

4. Entice children with the prospect of a special game, prize or other activity to divulge more information than is needed to participate in the activity.

Parental Rights

Except upon our receipt of permission from a parent or guardian, we DO NOT collect information from children under 13. We are required by COPPA to post parental rights concerning removal of this information. A parent or guardian may confirm, correct or have deleted the child’s personal information; discontinue further use of the child’s information and/or communication with the child; and/or revoke his or her earlier consent to collect and use the child’s information. To do so, please contact us at letters@homeandprojectstudio.com and we will review or update your child’s information, as appropriate. Please be sure to include in your e-mail message the information you want changed or deleted.

Use of Cookies

To ensure we are publishing content customers need and want, we may elect to collect aggregated site-visitation statistics using cookies. We do not track an individual’s use of the site. A cookie is a small file that is placed on your hard drive so that you can easily re-enter our Website.

Third-Party Advertising

We may use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our Website, download copies of our Magazine, or access other materials we may provide. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements on this site and other sites about goods and services that may be of interest to you. Home & Project Studio Magazine, LLC does not provide any personal information to an advertiser when you interact with or view a targeted ad. However, by interacting with or viewing an ad you are consenting to the possibility that the advertiser will make the assumption that you meet the targeting criteria used to display the ad. If you interact with downloads or other content from third-party advertisers, you will be subject to that advertiser’s privacy policies, not ours. Home & Project Studio Magazine, LLC lets other companies, which show advertisements on some of our pages, set and access their cookies on your computer. Other companies’ use of their cookies is subject to their own privacy policies, not ours. Advertisers or other companies do not have access to Home & Project Studio Magazine, LLC cookies.

Third-Party Cookies & IP Addresses

In the course of serving advertisements to this site, our third-party ad server may place or recognize a unique “cookie” on your browser. Some of our business partners use cookies on our site (for example, advertisers). However, we have no access to or control over these cookies, once we have given permission for them to set cookies for advertising. Most browsers are automatically set to accept cookies. You can disable cookies or set your browser to alert you when cookies are being sent. However, some areas may not function properly if you do so. There are many sources for additional information about Internet cookies, and we encourage anyone concerned about the use of cookies to do more research on the topic so that you can make an informed decision about accepting them from any site. As technology advances and cookies provide more functionality, we expect that we may utilize them in different ways.

IP Addresses

An Internet Protocol (IP) address is a unique string of numbers that is assigned to your computer by your Internet Service Provider. Web servers automatically identify your computer by its IP address. We will use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer our site. Your IP address also may be used to gather broad demographic information. The IP address is not tied to any personally identifiable information.

Changes to This Statement

If we decide to change our Privacy Policy, we will post the changes on this page of our Website. Users are encouraged to review this page for any changes. Your continued use of this site constitutes your acceptance of this entire privacy policy statement.

Controlling Law

Our Website is subject to the internal laws of the State of Illinois, excluding its conflict of laws, principles or rules.

Contacting Us

If at any time you have any questions concerning our Privacy Policy, contact us at letters@homeandprojectstudio.com or by mailing your inquiry to:

Home & Project Studio Magazine, LLC
1333 Maple Avenue, Unit 2F
Evanston, IL 60201

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