Privacy Policy
Updated as of June 2008
This Privacy Policy discloses the general privacy practices for the JAK Publications, Inc. web site, including ZWeddings.com.
JAK Publications, Inc.is committed to respecting your privacy rights when visiting any JAK Publications, Inc. web site, such as this one. To protect your Personal Information, JAK Publications, Inc. has created the guidelines outlined below. Understanding that Internet technologies are rapidly evolving, any changes to this policy will be promptly posted on this page, with an updated "effective date" posted at the end of this policy.
Information Collected:
While visiting any of the JAK Publications, Inc. web sites (collectively, the "Site"), we may ask you to register and/or provide information that personally identifies you ("Personal Information") for purposes of interacting with the Site. Such Personal Information may include, but is not limited to, your name, phone number, street address, and e-mail address.
JAK Publications, Inc. and its partners also collect information related to your wedding, including dates and places of the rehearsal, wedding and reception. JAK Publications, Inc. also uses forms for you to request certain information and services. On such forms, we collect your contact information and demographic information.
Specials - In signing up to enter our monthly contests and updates, you will automatically be entered to win our monthly prize(s). Below is the information we collect and the use of this information:
Email Address - We collect your email address in order to send you contest information and updates. ZWeddings may provide your email address to vendors who advertise with ZWeddings.
Wedding Date - We collect your wedding date, so that we know when to stop sending you our updates.
Location of Wedding - We ask for the location of your wedding, so that we have an understanding of where our visitors are planning their wedding. We use this information to make our site more helpful.
Name & Address - If you indicate that you'd like to receive information on specials from wedding-related vendors, we may give your mailing address for these vendors to "snail" mail you.
Information Collected:
While visiting any of the JAK Publications, Inc. web sites (collectively, the "Site"), we may ask you to register and/or provide information that personally identifies you ("Personal Information") for purposes of interacting with the Site. Such Personal Information may include, but is not limited to, your name, phone number, street address, and e-mail address.
Use of Personal Information
We believe in protecting your privacy, and will not share Personal Information with third parties outside of JAK Publications, Inc. except as described in this Privacy Policy. We believe we can enhance your experience on our Site with the information you share with us. We use Personal Information about you to improve our advertising and marketing efforts, to statistically analyze Site usage, to improve our content and product offerings and to personalize the Site's content, layout, and services. We may also use your Personal Information, such as your e-mail address or mailing address, to contact you regarding products and/or services that may be of interest to you, to respond to an inquiry from you regarding the information that we have collected, or respond to your comments and suggestions.
JAK Publications, Inc. may match specific and/or aggregated Personal Information with third party data to provide you with product and content offerings that interest you and improve our advertising and marketing efforts. JAK Publications, Inc. also may disclose aggregated user statistics in order to describe our services to potential advertisers, partners, other third parties, our affiliate companies, and for other lawful purposes.
As part of your experience on our Site, you may receive communications from us related to products and services that might interest you. While we believe these services will enhance your experience at our Site, you will at all times be able to opt out from receiving these communications, either by specifically opting out of these services or by deleting your profile from our database. Please refer to "Opting-Out" for further reference.
We have today, and will in the future have, arrangements with third party service providers, such as credit card processors, shipping companies and fulfillment services. When you sign up for a service we offer on the Site, we may be required to share Personal Information with that service provider in order to provide the service. These third party providers are required to comply with this policy and protect your information in the same way we do. They are not permitted to retain or use Personal Information for any purpose unrelated to providing the service.
JAK Publications, Inc. may also offer other services as a part of our Site (e.g., contests, sweepstakes and other promotions with unaffiliated third parties). If you choose to use these optional services or opportunities, we may provide some of your Personal Information to these parties. We will not do so without telling you in advance, and you can avoid having us make such disclosures by choosing not to use these services or features of the Site. Some of these third parties may also collect their own Personal Information in connection with providing the service. We encourage you to check the applicable privacy policy for that portion of the Site prior to disclosing Personal Information. Please refer to "Party Collecting the Information" for further reference.
We may provide Personal Information to our affiliated companies in order to improve our marketing and advertising efforts and your experience with our Site. Although this Privacy Policy generally applies only to JAK Publications, Inc., and not to activities or information collected by our offline partners, in the event we share Personal Information you provide us on the Site, we will require that our affiliated companies comply with this policy with respect to that information and protect your information in the same way we do.
We reserve the right to disclose Personal Information when needed to comply with the law or a legal process, cooperate with investigations of purported unlawful activities, to identify persons violating the law.
Links to Other Materials
Third party sites linked to and from the Site are not necessarily under the control of JAK Publications, Inc. JAK Publications, Inc. shall have no responsibilities or liabilities whatsoever for the content or privacy practices of any such linked site or any link or linking program at any time. JAK Publications, Inc. does not necessarily endorse companies (or related products or services) to or from which the Site is linked. If you decide to access any of the third party sites linked to the Site, you do so entirely at your own risk.
Children's Privacy
JAK Publications, Inc. cares about the safety of children and their use of the Internet. Therefore, in accordance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998, we will never knowingly request or solicit personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13 without verifiable parental consent. In the event that we receive actual knowledge that we have collected such personal information without the requisite and verifiable parental consent, we will delete that information from our database as quickly as is practicable.
Contacting Us
If you have any questions or comments about our Privacy Policy, please e-mail us at jak@ZWeddings.com or mail us at:
JAK Publications, Inc.
3011 North 35th Street
Boise, Idaho 83703
www.ZWeddings.com
Effective Date and Changes
This Privacy Policy is effective as of July 2008. JAK Publications, Inc. reserves the right to modify the terms of this policy at any time and in our sole discretion, by posting a change notice to this page. Your continued use of the Site following our posting of a change notice will constitute binding acceptance of those changes.
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