Welcome to the Design NJ Website (the “Site”). Design NJ is committed to protecting your privacy and trust and will only use your data as set forth in this Privacy Policy and any amendments hereto. This Privacy Policy discloses the privacy practices for Design NJ and explains how we collect information and how we use the information that we collect.
Please read this information carefully before accessing the Site. The privacy statement may be amended at any time, with or without notice to users. You should periodically visit this page to review the then current Privacy Policy. Your use of the Site constitutes your consent and agreement to abide by this Privacy Policy and your consent to the use of the information that we collect, including personally identifiable information, as set forth in this Privacy Policy. Please regularly consult this Privacy Policy in order to be aware of updated practices.
Should you not wish Design NJ to collect and use your personal information in the manner set forth in this Privacy Policy, please do not provide the information to Design NJ.
Personally Identifiable Collection of Information
You may voluntarily provide Design NJ with personally identifiable information such as your name, email address, mailing address, telephone number, fax number, credit card information and information about your interest in various products, programs and services (“Personal Information”). Examples of how you may provide this information are: volunteering your email address in order to sign up for newsletters, volunteering your information when you subscribe to Design NJ Magazine or an affiliated publication, volunteering your ISP address, purchasing products or services from the Site (which includes a subscription), participating in blogs, posting comments, sending a letter to the editor, expressing an opinion on the Site, entering a sweepstakes or contest, or completing a survey.
Additionally, you may be able to sign up for certain promotions, newsletters or affiliated publications on behalf of or for delivery to third parties. You may order a service as a gift for a third party and send such gift directly to the third party through a submission of the third party’s name, address, email address and telephone number. This also constitutes personally identifiable information.
Purchases
If you should make a purchase on the Site, including a subscription for a magazine, we will typically ask for your name, address, mailing address, phone number, credit card number and the expiration date. If the product or subscription is provided or shipped by a third party, we will pass on to the third party the information needed to fulfill your order.
Promotions and Contests
Design NJ Magazine may from time to time sponsor sweepstakes, contests or other events (“Promotions”) which require the collection, processing, and storage of individual contact information plus demographic information. These Promotions may also ask registrants to answer survey questions. Any personally identifiable information collected through Promotions will be treated as personal information. No purchase is ever necessary to enter a Design NJ Magazine Promotion.
Design NJ Magazine may from time to time co-sponsor Promotions with other companies, in which case any information collected is likely to be shared with other participating sponsors, who may use this information. A registrant’s personal contact and demographic information will not be released to any third party organization other than named sponsors without the registrant’s consent.
Surveys and Polls
Design NJ Magazine may from time to time conduct anonymous surveys and polls of users to the Site to obtain aggregate demographic information about the users. Such information may be compiled and shared in the aggregate with advertisers and other third parties but not personal details will be traceable or associated with specific individuals unless otherwise disclosed in any survey or poll rules.
Should Design NJ Magazine request other personally identifiable information from you, you are not required to share any such information to gain access to the Site. Simply, you can refuse to provide any such information.
Use of Collected Information
We use your personally identifiable information to supply you with and fulfill your requests for services, for products, for subscriptions, for offerings, for additional information, and to include you on a subscription list. We may use such information to send you a confirmation. We may use such information to provide you with gift cards, notifications of new products, programs or services, and to notify you of added features to the Site.
We may use the information collected for internal purposes for administrative purposes, for technical maintenance purposes, the marketing and promotion of products and services that might be of interest to you, to communicate with you about customer service issues, to measure the number of visitors to the site, to make the site more useful to users and to use in seeking advertisers and partners.
To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the correct use of information, we have put in place appropriate procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.
We reserve the right to share both aggregate and personal information collected from you with third parties if we are authorized to do so, if the law requires it, to protect the rights of Design NJ Magazine, or as part of a sale or other disposition of our assets (our customer records). We may also use and disclose Personal Information to prevent or trace abuses of the Site.
We may also use and disclose Personal Information to comply with any court order or government investigation, subpoena or inquiry, or as otherwise required by law, or to protect the rights, property or personal safety of Design NJ Magazine, users of the Site, or the public. Additionally, in a letter to the editor section, we may typically disclose the city/town in which the letter writer resides.
Disclaimers
While Design NJ Magazine has taken reasonable steps to limit the uses of information provided by you, we cannot guarantee that the information will remain permanently secure. There is always a possibility that your information could be lost due to technical problems or stolen from our databases. Design NJ Magazine is not responsible for any such loss or theft or any other unanticipated security breach.
Cookies
Design NJ Magazine uses cookies and similar tracking technologies to enhance your browsing experience, personalize content, and analyze website traffic. To manage your cookie preferences, your browser may have an option that enables you to disable or not accept cookies.
Hyperlinks
We may post hyperlinks to the Web sites of third-party web sites (“Third Party Sites”). We cannot control the actions of such third parties or be held responsible for their use of any information that you provide directly to them. We advise you to take the time to educate yourself about the privacy policy and terms of use of any Web site that you visit.
Design NJ Magazine does not control or endorse Third Party Sites.
Children’s Online Privacy
Consistent with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”), this Site is not intended for use by anyone under the age of 13. Design NJ Magazine does not knowingly collect personal information from children through this Site, or any of its Web sites. Minors between the ages of 13 and 17 must obtain the permission of their parents or legal guardians before making purchases of any type on this Site.
If you are a parent with concerns about children’s privacy issues in conjunction with the use of this Site, or any other privacy issue, please contact us at customerservice@designnewjersey.com.
Effective Date: June 1, 2024