YOUR USE OF AND/OR REGISTRATION WITH ANY ASPECT OF THIS WEBSITE CONSTITUTES YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY.
The following summarizes the ways in which Evanston Parent (“Service Provider,” “we,” “us” or “our”) treats the information you provide while using www.evanstonparent.com (“the Website”). All references herein to Evanston Parent in any form are intended to include Evanston Parent, its sponsors and affiliated organizations. The terms “you,” “your,” and “yours” refer to you, the visitor to the Website. By accessing, viewing, or posting to any page hosted at www.evanstonparent.com, you agree to abide by these terms and conditions. Please read them carefully before accessing, viewing, or posting to the Website.
In addition to reviewing this page, please be sure to read our Terms of Use, which are incorporated herein by reference. If you cannot agree to the Terms of Use or this Privacy Policy, please do not use the Website. This Privacy Policy does not cover information collected elsewhere, including, without limitation, offline or on other sites linked to from the Website.
We reserve the right to change, at any time and in our sole discretion, the terms of this Privacy Policy. You are responsible for regularly reviewing the Privacy Policy for changes. Your continued use of the Website after such changes have been made constitutes your acceptance of all such revised terms.
Type of Information the Website Collects
The Website generally collects personally identifying information with your specific knowledge and consent. For instance, when you enter a sweepstakes or contest, complete a survey, submit a posting, make a purchase, subscribe to our publication(s), or register for any portion of our services, you may be asked to provide information such as your email address, name, or phone number. Optional information such as your age or gender may also be requested.
Our servers may also automatically collect information about your computer when you visit the Website, including without limitation the type of browser software you use, the operating system you are running, the website that referred you, and your Internet Protocol (“IP”) address. Your IP address is usually associated with the place from which you enter the Internet, like your Internet Service Provider, your company, or your school.
How the Website Uses Information Provided by You
Evanston Parent may use your username and password to grant you access to and use of the Website. Your email address will be used, at your request, to send you a copy of your username and password or other account-related communications. If you provide personally identifiable information, it will be used to provide you with the services or features you have requested. We may also use the information you provide to communicate with you about new features, products, services, newsletters, events, or promotions, and/or to improve the services that we offer by tailoring them to your interests and needs.
We may allow access to our database by third parties that provide us with services such as technical maintenance, hosting, analytics, forums, and coupon or promotional software, but only for the purpose of and to the extent necessary to provide those services. If you choose to purchase items or services through features on the Website, we may forward your information to third parties for services such as payment processing and order fulfillment.
You may provide information about yourself to us in areas of the Website that are managed or operated by third parties, such as job boards, e-commerce areas, or event registration platforms. In such cases, the information provided may be used by us and by such third parties, each pursuant to its own policies. We may also provide your information to our advertisers and marketing partners so that they can serve ads or offers that are more relevant to your interests. While we will seek to require such third parties to follow appropriate privacy practices and will not authorize them to use this information except for the express purpose for which it is provided, we do not bear responsibility for any actions or policies of third parties.
We may also provide access to our database in order to cooperate with official investigations or legal proceedings, for example, in response to subpoenas, search warrants, court orders, or other legal processes, or to protect our rights, property, or safety or that of our users or others.
In addition, we reserve the right to use the information we collect about your computer, which may at times be able to identify you, for any lawful business purpose, including without limitation to help diagnose problems with our servers, to gather broad demographic information, to analyze usage trends, and to otherwise administer and improve the Website.
While your personally identifying information is protected as outlined above, we reserve the right to use, transfer, sell, and share aggregated or de-identified data about our users for any lawful business purpose, such as analyzing usage trends and seeking compatible advertisers and partners.
In addition, as our business evolves, we may buy, merge, or sell various assets or business units. In the event that all or a portion of the assets owned or controlled by Evanston Parent or any affiliated entity are sold, assigned, transferred, or acquired by another company, the information from and/or about Website users may be among the transferred assets.
Posting
By submitting your content to us through use of the Website’s services, you grant Evanston Parent an unrestricted, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, worldwide, fully transferable, assignable, and sublicensable right and license to use, copy, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create collective or derivative works from, distribute, perform, and display your content in whole or in part, and to incorporate it in other works in any form, media, or technology now known or later developed. You further warrant that all so-called moral rights in the content have been waived to the fullest extent permitted by law.
We may collect registration and other information about you through the Website. By submitting your content to us through the services, you agree to have your content reviewed by our administration. We reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to edit, modify, publish, or decline to publish any content you submit to the Website.
You may not use our name to endorse or promote any product, opinion, cause, or political candidate. Representation of your personal opinions as institutionally endorsed by us or by our sponsors, partners, or any related organizations is strictly prohibited.
You understand that all content posted to the Website is the sole responsibility of the individual who originally posted the content. You further understand that all opinions expressed by users of the Website are expressed strictly in their individual capacities and not as our representatives or as representatives of any of our sponsors or partners. The opinions you or others post to the Website do not necessarily reflect our opinions.
By posting content to the Website, you warrant and represent that you own or otherwise control all of the rights to that content, including without limitation all rights necessary for you to provide, post, upload, input, or submit such content, or that your use of the content is a protected fair use. You agree that you will not knowingly or with intent to defraud provide misleading or false information. You represent and warrant that the content you supply does not violate this Privacy Policy or the Terms of Use. It is your sole responsibility to ensure that your postings do not disclose confidential and/or proprietary information. We strongly recommend that you do not disclose valuable personal information about yourself or your children (e.g., social security numbers, credit card numbers, bank account information, or precise home addresses) in any public area of the Website.
We ask that you respect our online community and participating individuals. Your conduct should be guided by common sense and basic etiquette. Regarding the posting of comments, photos, videos, music, links, or any other content (“Submissions”), YOU AGREE NOT TO:
- Use the Website in a manner that violates any applicable laws or regulations, whether local, state, or federal.
- Post or transmit any material (i) for which you do not have the right to transmit under applicable law, including copyright, trademark, trade secret, or securities laws, or (ii) in violation of your obligations to any third party, including nondisclosure agreements.
- Intentionally seek information on other users without their express permission; obtain copies of or modify files, passwords, or other data belonging to other users without their express permission; solicit other users’ passwords or other account information; or harvest usernames, email addresses, or other personal information for any purpose.
- Impersonate any person or entity, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity.
- Defame, abuse, harass, stalk, threaten, or otherwise violate the legal rights (such as rights of privacy and publicity) of others; use racially, ethnically, or otherwise offensive language; discuss or incite illegal activity; or use explicit or obscene language or solicit/post sexually explicit images (actual or simulated).
- Post Submissions that contain nudity, graphic violence, or otherwise offensive subject matter.
- Post photographs or videos of another person without such person’s consent, or otherwise invade anyone’s privacy through your Submissions.
- Promote information that you know to be false or misleading or that promotes or facilitates illegal activities, piracy, or conduct that is abusive, threatening, obscene, defamatory, or libelous.
- Promote religious intolerance, homophobia, or post personal attacks when using the Website.
- Engage in or facilitate the transmission of unsolicited mass mailings, or provide or post to the Website any Submission that constitutes junk mail, spam, advertising, or commercial offers not expressly authorized by us.
- Harvest or otherwise collect information about others, including email addresses, or use information obtained from the Website to send other users unsolicited email of any kind.
- Sell or otherwise transfer your profile or account on the Website to another person or entity.
- Use our facilities, services, or resources in a manner that interferes with or disrupts other network users, services, or equipment. Such interference or disruption includes but is not limited to: (i) propagation of computer worms or viruses; (ii) use of the Website to make unauthorized entry to other computational, information, or communications devices or resources; and (iii) use of automated processes to interact with the Website, such as scripts to harvest data. This also includes unauthorized security probing activities or other attempts to evaluate the security integrity of a network or host system without permission.
We reserve the right to investigate and take any appropriate legal or technical action against anyone who, in our sole discretion, we determine to have violated the restrictions set forth in this Privacy Policy, including without limitation removal of any offending profile information or Submission, and termination and/or suspension of your access to the Website or any portion thereof without notice or liability.
You agree to indemnify and hold Evanston Parent, its affiliates, officers, agents, and employees harmless from and against any and all claims, demands, damages, costs, and expenses (actual and consequential), including reasonable attorneys’ fees, that arise from or otherwise relate to your use of the Website, any content you supply to the Website, your violation of this Privacy Policy or the Terms of Use, or your violation of any rights of a third party.
Cookies and Web Beacons
We may use cookies or web beacons (also known as “pixel tags” or “clear pixels”) to control the display of ads, track usage patterns on the Website, deliver editorial content, and record registration and personalization information. Our cookies may contain personally identifiable information and such cookies may be shared with our affiliates and service providers as needed to operate the Website.
Some of our advertisers and partners may serve you their own cookies as well. We do not control cookies placed by advertisers or third parties, and their use of cookies is subject to their own privacy policies.
We may use advertising service vendors to help present advertisements on the Website. These vendors may use cookies, web beacons, or similar technologies to serve you advertisements tailored to interests you have displayed by browsing on this and other sites you have visited, to determine whether you have seen a particular advertisement before, or to avoid sending you duplicate advertisements. In doing so, these vendors may collect non-personal data, such as your browser type, operating system, web pages visited, time of visit, content viewed, ads viewed, and other clickstream data. The use of cookies, web beacons, or similar technologies by these advertising service vendors is subject to their privacy policies, not ours, and we disclaim all liability in connection therewith.
If you do not want to receive cookies, your web browser likely includes an option that allows you to refuse cookies or to be alerted when cookies are being sent. However, some portions of the Website may not function properly if cookies are disabled.
Information Security and Notification
Because no data transmission over the Internet is completely secure and no system of physical or electronic security is impenetrable, Evanston Parent cannot guarantee the security of any information you send to us or the security of our servers or databases. By using the Website, you agree to assume any and all risk related to information sent to us or collected by us when you use the Website.
In the event that we believe the security of information about you in our possession or control has been compromised, we may seek to notify you of that development. If notification is appropriate, we may notify you by email, provided that we have your email address.
Children
The Website is not intended for use by children under the age of 13 (“Minor Children”), and collecting personal information from Minor Children through the Website is strictly prohibited. Minor Children are not allowed to provide any personal information or use our public discussion areas, forums, or chats. No content should be directed toward Minor Children by other users. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13; if we learn that we have done so, we will delete such information as soon as reasonably practicable.ftc+2
Minors between the ages of 13 and 17 must have the permission of a parent or legal guardian before making purchases, including subscriptions, on the Website. If minors disclose information about themselves in publicly accessible areas of the Website, they may receive unsolicited messages from other parties. Accordingly, it is the responsibility of their parent(s) or legal guardian(s) to supervise and guide their online activity and to prevent them from disclosing personal information.
Privacy Policy Coordination and Contact
If you have any concerns or questions about any aspect of this Privacy Policy, or if you believe that your work has been copied and is accessible on the Website in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, or that your intellectual property rights have been otherwise violated, please contact us via email at:
info [at] evanstonparent [dot] com
You acknowledge that you have read and are bound by this Privacy Policy, as well as the Terms of Use and any other usage agreements of ours that may govern your conduct. Thank you for visiting the Website. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have questions or concerns.