Privacy
Policy
At Nikki Coe we take your privacy seriously, which
is why we developed this privacy policy to explain our
online information collection and use practices. Unless
otherwise noted, the information and descriptions in
this online Privacy Policy are limited strictly to online
transactions and do not apply to the off line privacy,
data collection and data transfer policies of Nikki
Coe.
We may occasionally change the features and content
found on this site. Consequently, our privacy policy
may be modified to reflect any revisions to the site.
We suggest you revisit our privacy policy from time
to time to be sure that you are familiar with our practices.
ACCEPTANCE OF PRIVACY POLICY By completing and submitting
a registration and entry form at nikkicoe.com, you signify
your agreement to the nikkicoe.com privacy policy. If
you do not accept this privacy policy, please do not
use the nikkicoe.com site. We reserve the right, at
our discretion to change, modify, add or remove portions
of this privacy policy. You should check this page periodically
for any changes and to insure you are familiar with
our practices. This policy and all of our legal obligations
under this policy are subject to the laws of New York
and the USA regardless of the location of the user.
Policy last updated: January 2005.
1. Why does nikkicoe.com collect
personal information?
2. How and what information does
nikkicoe.com gather or track?
3. What are Cookies and Pixels?
4. Does nikkicoe.com disclose
user information to third parties?
5. Can I opt-out of nikkicoe.com's
data collection and/or distribution?
6. What about external web
sites?
7. Does nikkicoe.com allow users access
to their information for review and updating?
8. What does nikkicoe.com do to keep
their site secure?
9. Does nikkicoe.com collect information
from users outside of the United States?
10. Does nikkicoe.com collect personal
information from children?
11. Your Texas Privacy Rights
12. What about Nikki Coe's off-line
information and privacy practices?
13. Other Questions?
1. Why does
nikkicoe.com collect personal information? We need to
collect certain personal information from our visitors
primarily to process and fulfill online online orders
for the products and services we offer. We may also
use the personal data we collect for systems administration
and troubleshooting purposes, and to report aggregate
information to our marketing partners and others.
To provide our users with a more personalized and relevant
web service, we also collect and use personal data to
identify users' specific interests and needs. If given
permission, we may notify our users of offers and information
we feel may be of interest to them available from nikkicoe.com
and our marketing partners. If given permission, we
may also share information with select marketing partners
who may directly contact our users regarding their own
offers of interest. If you do not want to receive such
offers you may follow the simple unsubscribe procedure
located at the permission notice box appearing on the
nikkicoe.com order page. Our online order page contains
a clearly identified checked box indicating that by
submitting the form you wish to receive offers from
nikkicoe.com and our marketing partners. Users may unsubscribe
from such offers by clicking to remove the check in
the permission notice box before submitting the order
form. We may share our unsubscribe list with select
marketing partners for the sole purpose of insuring
that individuals on this list do not receive electronic
commercial mail messages containing Nikki Coe advertisements
that may be sent by such partners.
If you are currently receiving commercial e-mail messages
from Nikki Coe messages after previously providing permission
and no longer wish to receive such offers you may always
follow the unsubscribe procedures which will be found
within the commercial e-mails received from nikkicoe.com,
our affiliates and marketing partners. You may also
contact nikkicoe.com either through our "Contact"
page of nikkicoe.com or by writing directly to Nikki
Coe, P. O. Box 153237, Arlington, Texas 76015.
2. How and what
information does nikkicoe.com gather or track? We collect
personal data from our users mainly during the initial
registration process for order processing. Although
some of the personal identifying information is necessary
to deliver these services (e.g., an address is required
to buy goods and services from nikkicoe.com), in some
cases some of the information is optional. Users can
determine to some extent what information they wish
to submit. In addition to the initial registration process,
we may, from time to time, ask users to answer optional
questions about products and services. We gather this
data in order to better understand our users' interests
and provide them with relevant offers and information.
Through the use of "cookies" and “pixel tags”
(both described below) and online survey and registration
forms, we may collect personal data on, among other
things, the following information:
Demographic
Technical
- IP address
- domain name
- e-mail address
- site traffic
Reference
- name
- land address
- telephone number
- password
3. What are Cookies?
"Cookies" are small pieces of information
that are stored by your web browser software on your
computer's hard drive or temporarily in your computer's
memory. The use of cookies is now an industry standard,
and users will find them on most major web sites. nikkicoe.com
may place and store Internet cookies on a user's hard
drive. Cookies can save any of the types of information
noted above. Cookies enable us to recognize you and
personalize your viewing experience on the nikkicoe.com
site. For example, we use cookies to recognize user
access privileges to nikkicoe.com, track site usage
and traffic patterns, add advertisements for goods or
services that we think may interest you, and estimate
our audience size. We also use cookies to store user
names and information that are supplied at registration.
Although most web browsers are initially set up to accept
cookies, if you prefer, you can decline the placement
of a cookie on your hard drive by using the appropriate
feature(s) of your web browser software (if available)
to delete the cookie. Please note, however, that certain
areas on the site will not function properly if your
web browser does not accept cookies.
"Pixel tracking", a common process which may
be used in connection with advertisements on other sites,
involves the use of pixel tags that are not visible
to the user of the site and consist of a few lines of
computer coding. Pixel tracking measures the effectiveness
of these advertisements and compiles aggregate and specific
usage statistics. A "pixel tag" is an invisible
tag placed on certain pages of websites you may visit
and is used to track an individual user's activity.
We may access these pixel tags to identify activity
and interests that may allow us to better match our
offers with your interests. For example, if you visit
our Web site from an advertisement on another site,
the pixel tag will allow the advertiser to track that
their advertisement brought you to the nikkicoe.com
site. If you visit our website and we link you to another
site we may also be able to determine that you were
sent to and/or transacted with a third party web site.
This data is collected for use in our marketing and
research. Personally identifiable information about
you is not collected by the third party advertising
company, nor is any tracking information generated from
the pixel tag allowed to be used by them for any other
purpose other than to report web site activity to us.
4. Does nikkicoe.com
disclose user information to third parties? Except as
otherwise noted in this policy, nikkicoe.com only discloses
user information in aggregate form to marketing partners.
For example, we might tell a marketing partner how many
users visited nikkicoe.com over a period of time, but
we will never tell them who it was that saw or clicked
on their offer, unless that user has given us permission
to do so.
nikkicoe.com believes that consumers should be able
to control the use of their data. We will not share
personally identifiable information with marketing partners
if you follow the simple unsubscribe procedure of removing
the check mark located at the permission notice box
appearing on the nikkicoe.com registration and entry
page. If an opt out is not submitted, we will notify
users of exciting offers of interest from nikkicoe.com
and our marketing partners. We may also share your name,
land address and e-mail address with marketing partners
so that they can send you offers directly for products
and services that may be of interest to you. The personal
information our users provide to us may be combined
with other personally identifiable information (such
as demographic information and past purchase information)
available from our records and other sources. This allows
us and our marketing partners , with permission, to
present our users with offers and information geared
towards their interests. We require each permission
based e-mail our partners send to include a description
of a simple opt-out process that will enable you to
stop receiving promotional e-mail from them in the future.
We will only deal with marketing partners who offer
products or services that we believe may be of interest
to our users. Nevertheless, nikkicoe.com is not and
cannot be responsible for the activities or privacy
policies of these third parties. We may share our unsubscribe
list with select marketing partners for the sole purpose
of insuring that individuals on this list do not receive
electronic commercial mail messages containing Nikki
Coe advertisements that may be sent by such partners.
We do not rent, license, or sell personal data to third
parties unless permission is granted through user submission
of the checked permission notice box appearing at the
registration and entry page of nikkicoe.com. In the
event of a merger, acquisition, or change of control
of nikkicoe.com, customer data would be considered a
business asset and would be transferred. We will disclose
information we maintain when required to do so by law,
for example, in response to a court order or a subpoena.
We may also disclose personal information as required
by law or to protect the safety and security of our
users.
You should also know that when you order a publication
from nikkicoe.com, we need to provide your name and
address to the books publisher so they can start your
service. Publishers may exchange or rent their subscriber
names, typically to third party companies that match
reader interests. If you do not wish to receive such
offers, we suggest that you notify the publisher directly
(the contact information is usually found in each publication).
5. Can I opt-out of
nikkicoe.com's data collection and/or distribution?
Receiving email messages from nikkicoe.com, our affiliates
and partners is optional. As noted earlier, the collection,
use, and distribution of personal data helps us create
a more personalized, relevant, and intelligent web service
for our users. While some basic data is necessary to
provide certain services, such as entry into the sweepstakes
and fulfillment of products and services ordered through
nikkicoe.com, there are some cases where the submission
of information is optional.
We will not contact you with e-mail offers or share
personally identifiable information with marketing partners
if you follow the simple opt-out procedure of removing
the check mark located at the permission notice box
appearing on the nikkicoe.com registration and entry
page. If you are already receiving nikkicoe.com emails
and no longer wish to receive such communications, simply
follow the "unsubscribe" instructions that
appear in every nikkicoe.com e-mail, or contact us through
our "Conact" page or by writing directly to
Nikki Coe, P. O. Box 153237, Arlington, Texas 76015.
If you have provided personal information directly to
our third party marketing partners and are receiving
email communications directly from these third parties
nikkicoe.com cannot, in most instances, unsubscribe
users from these third parties. If you wish to unsubscribe
from one of our marketing partner's e-mail programs,
please follow their unsubscribe procedures which will
be found within their e-mails or in their privacy policy.
6. What
about external web sites? To the extent hyperlinks or
banner advertisements incorporating hyperlinks are utilized
on this Site to access third party sites, users should
be aware that these third party web sites are not controlled
by nikkicoe.com and, therefore, are not subject to this
privacy policy. We recommend that users check the privacy
policies of these individual sites to see how their
personal information will be utilized.
7. Does nikkicoe.com
allow users access to their information for review and
updating? Users can access the personal information
they have provided to nikkicoe.com for the purposes
of reviewing and updating such information by following
instructions in the "Your Account" section
of the Site.
8. What does nikkicoe.com
do to keep their site secure? We have implemented a
number of security features throughout the nikkicoe.com
site that are intended to prevent the unauthorized release
of or access to the user information we collect online.
For example, database information is firewall protected.
Also, only authorized nikkicoe.com personnel have access
to any stored personal information we collect from our
users. Moreover, password and credit card information
you submit to nikkicoe.com is always encrypted during
transmission. Users should be aware that e-mail is not
encrypted and is not considered a secure means of transmitting
credit card numbers.
While we strive to create a secure and reliable site
for our users, the confidentiality of any communication
or material transmitted over the Internet cannot be
100% guaranteed. Users should keep in mind that any
information submitted through an Internet transaction
is potentially accessible to the public, and consequently,
can be collected and used by others without their consent.
nikkicoe.com is not responsible or liable for illegal
interception of personal data via any Internet transaction.
9. Does nikkicoe.com
collect information from users outside of the United
States? The nikkicoe.com site is not directed to visitors
residing outside of the United States and such users
are not eligible to submit online sweepstakes entries.
However, as indicated in the Official Rules on the site,
some sweepstakes promoted on the nikkicoe.com Site are
open to residents of the U.K. and Canada. Residents
from these countries can participate in these sweepstakes
by sending a write-in entry to the address provided
in the Official Rules. We regret that as a result of
system limitations at this time non-U.S. residents may
not order products through nikkicoe.com. If nikkicoe.com
becomes aware that a user who does not reside in the
United States has registered with the nikkicoe.com site,
nikkicoe.com will use reasonable efforts to remove such
information from its files.
10. Does nikkicoe.com
collect personal information from children? The nikkicoe.com
site is not targeted nor directed to children under
the age of thirteen. nikkicoe.com does not intend to
collect personally identifiable information from individuals
in this age group. If nikkicoe.com receives actual notice
that a child under the age of thirteen has provided
personal information to nikkicoe.com, nikkicoe.com will
use reasonable efforts to remove such information from
its files.
11. Your Texas Privacy
Rights: The following information for Texas residents
covers on-line (internet) and off-line (direct mail)
information sharing activities. Please review the complete
Nikki Coe Privacy Policy for full details on our information
sharing and privacy practices. As detailed in our policy,
from time to time we may share or exchange marketing
information about the consumers who respond to our offers
with other companies so they may contact you about products
and services that may interest you. If you do not want
your name passed on to other companies for the purpose
of receiving marketing offers, just tell us by contacting
us at info@nikkicoe.com or by writing to Nikki Coe,
P. O. Box 153237, Arlington, Texas 76015 and we will
be pleased to respect your wishes. Please make sure
to provide both your email address and full name, mailing
address, city, state and zip code information if you
wish your request to apply to both on-line and off-line
marketing information sharing.
12. What about Nikki
Coe's off-line information and privacy practices? Nikki
Coe collects certain personal information from our direct
mail customers and entrants primarily to process sweepstakes
entries and fulfill orders for the products and services
we offer. For example, we need your full name and address
to enter you in the sweepstakes, notify you if you've
won a prize or to send you any magazine subscription
or product you may purchase. We may also use the personal
data we collect for systems administration and troubleshooting
purposes, and to report aggregate information to our
marketing partners and other third parties. From time
to time we may share or exchange marketing information
about the consumers who respond to our offers with other
companies so they may contact you about products and
services that may interest you.
If you do not want your name passed on to other companies
for the purpose of receiving marketing offers, just
tell us by contacting us at info@nikkicoe.com or by
writing to Nikki Coe, P. O. Box 153237, Arlington, Texas
76015 and we will be pleased to respect your wishes.
Please make sure to provide your full name, address,
city, state and zip code information if you wish your
request to apply to both on-line and off-line marketing
information sharing.
13. Other Questions?
We welcome any questions or comments you may have regarding
this privacy policy or the use of personal data. To
contact us, please visit the Contact page of the site
or write directly to Nikki Coe, P. O. Box 153237, Arlington,
Texas 76015.
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