Torontonian.Com, believes that strong electronic privacy is crucial for the ongoing success of the Internet as a service, commercial and entertainment medium. Unless you designate otherwise, the information you enter here will be known to only two parties: you and Torontonian.Com.
While we will strive to deliver content and advertising that are specifically relevant to you, our pledge is that Torontonian.Com will not release your personal data to anyone else without your consent - period. If others want this information, including your name or your email address, only you can choose to give it to them.
From time to time, Torontonian.Com may introduce new products and services to its users. To the extent these new products and services affect this policy, this policy will be updated and you will be informed of these updates and any privacy conditions related to these services.
1. What information does Torontonian.Com gather/track and how is it used?
Use of traffic data
Each time a visitor comes to our web site, we collect some information to improve the overall quality of the online experience. At Torontonian.Com content sites, we collect the visitor's domain name (e.g., whether the user is logged on from ibm.com or yale.edu), referral data (e.g., we record the address of the last URL a user visited prior to clicking through to Torontonian.Com ), and browser and platform type (e.g., a Netscape browser on
a Macintosh platform).
The Torontonian.Com collects visitor information for purposes of product monitoring, product improvement, and targeted advertising.
We also count, track, and aggregate the visitor's activity into our analysis of general traffic flows at our sites (e.g. tracking where traffic comes from, how traffic flows within the
Torontonian.com's properties, etc.). To these ends, we may merge information about you into group data, which may then be shared on an aggregated basis with our advertisers; but we will not disclose your individual identity or personal data without your permission. When Torontonian.Com does present aggregated information to outside companies, no one will be able to identify you or contact you.
Use of cookies
Torontonian.Com site use cookies for internal reporting. Cookies are a standard Internet technology that allow us to both store and retrieve login information on a user's system. Our Web server automatically asks a new user whether his or her browser will agree to accept a Torontonian.Com cookie file. If a visitor accepts, our Web server will identify the user's cookie for Torontonian.Com's use internally.
Other companies which place advertising on our site also have the ability to assign their cookies to you in a process that Torontonian.Com does not control. However, cookies cannot be used to identify individuals, only machines, so these advertisers will not know who you are - and Torontonian.Com will not tell them without your consent.
Use of email addresses collected from newsletter subscriptions
After signing up to receive a Torontonian.Com newsletter by email, users will start receiving a Torontonian.Com content newsletter delivered on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis, as well as occasional product-related announcements. On our site that offer newsletters, we collect subscribers' email addresses in order to distribute those newsletters and product-related announcements.
In addition, Torontonian.Com has entered into agreements with a number of other companies to distribute Torontonian.Com newsletter content to users on their systems. These Newsletter Partners might include Web-based email, Internet browser, and email software companies. Torontonian.Com newsletters are also offered in a number of Newsletter Partner sites, all of which require a user's email address for distribution. In the case of those email addresses collected by our Newsletter Partners to conduct Torontonian.Com newsletter
programs, email addresses are either forwarded to us for maintenance by Torontonian.Com, or are kept and maintained exclusively by our Newsletter Partners under privacy conditions acceptable to Torontonian.Com. If you are concerned about the privacy policies of a Newsletter Partner site, please contact the webmaster of that site.
Users can choose to unsubscribe from Torontonian.Com newsletters or product-related announcements at any time by following the unsubscribe instructions found in each email.
Other circumstances
From time to time, Torontonian.Com may sponsor sweepstakes, contests, or other events which require the collection, processing, and storage of individual contact and demographic information to be used for the event. Torontonian.Com may also co-sponsor these events along with other companies, in which case the user's individual contact and demographic information is likely to be shared with other participating sponsors. A registrant's personal contact and demographic information will not be released to third-party or non-participating organizations without the user's consent, and Torontonian.Com will request that co-sponsors of such events uphold the privacy of the registrants' information.
When appropriate, an option will be made available for users to choose to receive information from third-party organizations during the event registration process. This option may be made available to events Torontonian.Com sponsors on behalf of its own properties, and/or through registration processes maintained by an event's other co-sponsors.
2. With whom does Torontonian.Com share the information it
gathers/tracks?
When we do present information to our advertisers, it is in the form of grouped statistics compiled from survey questions and on-site behavior. Torontonian.Com will not disclose the contact or demographic information of any individual user to advertisers or any other outside organization without the express permission of the individual.
If a user wants to receive information from other reputable organizations whose products or services Torontonian.Com thinks he or she might find interesting, users can choose the appropriate option when registering for newsletters, sweepstakes, contests, or other events that Torontonian.Com sponsors. In this case, user information will be shared with the partner organization. Torontonian.Com will never disclose individual contact or demographic information without user consent.
If you do choose to allow Torontonian.Com to share your personally identifiable information with reputable outside organizations, and you later decide to unsubscribe, Torontonian.Com will make every effort to remove your information from the list we share with other sources promptly following your unsubscribe request. However Torontonian.Com is not responsible for the removal of your personal information from third-party lists if you have previously authorized Torontonian.Com to distribute it.
3. What is Torontonian.Com's unsubscribe and data-removal
policy?
If you have agreed to allow Torontonian.Com to make
your information available to outside organizations, we will use our
reasonable best efforts to ensure that your individual data is no longer
distributed by Torontonian.Com after your removal request. However,
Torontonian.Com is not responsible for the removal of your personal
information from third-party lists if you have previously authorized
Torontonian.Com to distribute it.
Unsubscribing from Torontonian.Com newsletters
You can
go directly to the following unsubscribe sites for selected
Torontonian.Com newsletters or follow the unsubscribe instructions found
at the bottom of each email communication.
4. What is Torontonian.Com's policy on deleting or de-activating my name from its database?
You can ask to be deleted
from all Torontonian.Com mailing lists by emailing us at
support@torontonian.com.
5. Who can I ask if I have any additional questions?
You can direct all questions regarding customer
support by emailing
support@torontonian.com .
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