PRIVACY POLICY

Our Commitment to Privacy

Thank you for visiting islamtribune.com.  Your privacy is important to us and we are fully committed to protect it.  Thus, we provide this notice explaining our online information practices and the options and choices you can make about the way your information is collected, shared and used.  It will notify you of the following:

1. What personally identifiable and non-personally identifiable information is collected from you through the website, how it is used and with whom it may be shared.
2. What choices are available to you regarding the use of your data.
3. The security procedures in place to prevent the misuse of your information.
4. How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information.

This privacy policy applies solely to information acquired through the Islam Tribune website.  For your convenience and easy reference, this notice is posted on our homepage and at every point where personally identifiable information may be requested or required.

The Information We Collect

This notice applies to all information collected or submitted on the Islam Tribune. On some pages you can submit articles and/or reports, offer comments, express an opinion, vote in polls, register to receive materials, order products, subscribe to services, participate in our online forums or communities or send donations.

When you opt to pursue any of these activities, we need to collect from you various types of personal information which are needed to effect the required response or action.  Among the types of personally identifiable information that may be collected are the following: name, age, address, zip code, email address, telephone number, fax number, credit/debit card information, and information about your interests in and use of various products, programs, and services.

On some pages and on certain occasions and events, we may also collect information from you about other people.  For example, if you want to send an electronic greeting card or order a gift online and have it sent directly to the recipient, you will need to submit the recipient's address. In such instances, among the types of personally identifiable information that may be collected about other people at these pages are: name, age, address, zip code, e-mail address, and telephone number.

On certain pages of our website, only persons who provide the required personally identifiable information will be able to order products, avail of services or otherwise participate in the site’s activities and offerings.

We, our partners, service providers and advertisers may also collect various types of non-personally identifiable information when you visit our site. Such types of non-personally identifiable information may include: current Internet protocol address and type of browser used (e.g., Firefox, Internet Explorer), type of operating system used (e.g., Microsoft Windows or Mac OS), domain name of your Internet service provider (e.g., America Online, Earthlink), the web pages you have visited, the content you have accessed and the advertisements you have been shown and/or clicked on.

How We Use the Information

In order to use our website, a user must first complete the registration form, which requires you to provide certain information (such as real name and email address). This information is used to contact you about the materials you submit for publication (articles and photographs) and products/services on our site in which you have expressed interest. At your option, you may also provide demographic information (such as gender or age) about yourself, but it is not required.

The personally identifiable information you provide about yourself may be used to fulfill your requests to receive or avail of our products, services or offerings, respond to your inquiries, offer other products or additional services that we deem may be of interest to you, enforce the legal terms that govern the use of our site, and/or for the purposes for which you provided the information.

We may sometimes use the information to communicate with you, such as to clarify facts or issues related to an article/report you have submitted, to notify you when you have won one of our contests, to fulfill a request by you for an online newsletter, or to respond to a query directly addressed to the staff.

We use the information provided about others to enable us to send them your cards or gifts or to provide them the information you may request us to send to them.  From time to time, we may also use this information to offer them our products, programs, or services.

The information collected in connection with our online forums and communities is used to provide an interactive experience. This information facilitates participation in these online forums and communities and, from time to time, may be used to offer you products, programs, or services.

If you choose to submit content for publication (e.g., an article or report, a comment on an article or report posted on our website, letter to the editor, posting on a forum or discussion board), we may publish your name and other information you have provided to us (e.g., name, age, country or state location).

We may on occasion combine information we collect through our sites with information that we collect from other sources.

The non-personally identifiable information collected may be used to improve the design and content of our site, deliver more relevant messages and advertisements and enable us to personalize your Internet experience. We also may use this information to analyze usage of our site, as well as to offer you products, programs, or services.

Unless you ask us not to, we may contact you via email in the future to tell you about new services or changes to this privacy policy.

Finally, we never use or share the personally identifiable information provided to us online in ways unrelated to the ones described above without also providing you an opportunity to opt-out or otherwise prohibit such unrelated uses.

If you have signed up to receive our e-mails and prefer not to receive marketing information from this site, follow the "unsubscribe" instructions provided on any marketing e-mail you receive from this site.

Information Sharing and Disclosure

We are the sole owners of the information collected on this site. We only have access to and collect information that you voluntarily give us via email or other direct contact from you.

To maintain the islamtribune.com site free of charge, we display advertisements on our web site. We also use the information you give us to help our advertisers target the audience they want to reach. At no time does any party other than islamtribune.com have access to your personally identifiable information, and you will never be contacted by any party other than islamtribune.com.

The only exceptions to the foregoing are that we may disclose personally identifiable information (i) in response to legal process, for example, in response to a court order or subpoena, (ii) in response to a law enforcement agency’s request, or where we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of another person, violations of our terms of use, or as otherwise required by law, to verify or enforce compliance with the policies governing our sites and applicable laws or as otherwise required or permitted by law or consistent with legal requirements; or (iii) in the event we are acquired by or merged with another company.

We may disclose personally identifiable information to third parties whose practices are not covered by this privacy statement (e.g., other marketers, magazine publishers, retailers, participatory databases, and non-profit organizations) that want to market products or services to you. In such cases, we will provide you with an opportunity to opt out or block such uses either at the point of submission of your personally identifiable information or prior to any such disclosure.

We may use non-identifying and aggregate information to improve the design our website and to provide visitors with additional or more relevant product and service opportunities.  We may also share with advertisers (e.g. we may tell an advertiser that X number of persons visited a specific page on our website, or that Y number of men and Z number of women filled out our registration form), but we would not disclose anything that could be used to identify those individuals.

Collection of Information by Third-Party Sites, Sponsors, Advertisers and Ad-Servers

Our website contains links to other sites whose information practices may be different from ours. Please be aware that we have no control over and are thus not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such sites.  We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy notices of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.

From time-to-time our site may offer content (e.g., surveys, contests or promotions) that is sponsored by or co-branded with third parties. Through such arrangements, the third parties may obtain personally identifiable information that visitors voluntarily submit to participate in the site activity. . Information requested may include contact information (such as name and shipping address), and demographic information (such as zip code, age level).

We have no control over these third parties’ use of this information. The site will notify you at the time of requesting personally identifiable information if these third parties will obtain such information.

Cookies and Web Beacons

We use “cookies” on our site.  A cookie is a piece of data stored on a site visitor's hard drive to help us improve your access to our site and identify repeat visitors to our site. For instance, when we use a cookie to identify you, you would not have to log in a password more than once, thereby saving time while on our site. We also may use cookies to help us offer you specific products, programs, or services that may be of interest to you and to deliver relevant advertising.

Some of our business partners and/or advertisers may also use cookies on our site.  We have no access to or control over these cookies.

Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information on our site.

We, our third party service providers, advertisers or partners may also use “web beacons” or clear .gifs, or similar technologies, which are small pieces of code placed on a web page, to monitor the behavior and collect data about the visitors viewing a web page. For example, web beacons may be used to count the users who visit a web page or to deliver a cookie to the browser of a visitor viewing that page.

You can change your privacy preferences regarding the use of cookies and similar technologies through your browser. You may set your browser to accept all cookies, block certain cookies, require your consent before a cookie is placed in your browser, or block all cookies.

Our Commitment to Data Security

To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the correct use of information, we have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure, and to use correctly the information we collect online.

How You Can Access or Correct Your Information

You can access all your personally identifiable information that we collect online and maintain by creating and using your own password-protected account within our site.  We use this procedure to better safeguard your information.

You can correct factual errors in your personally identifiable information by sending us a request that credibly shows error.

To protect your privacy and security, we will also take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting access or making corrections.

You may also send an e-mail or letter to the following e-mail or street address requesting access to or correction of your personally identifiable information. For verification purposes please include your first name, last name, e-mail address and the password you use for such service.

How to Contact Us

Should you have other questions or concerns about these privacy policies or their implementation, please call us at [phone number] or send us an email at [email address].

Effective Date and Updates

This privacy statement may be updated from time to time. We will notify visitors of material changes in the way we treat personally identifiable information by placing a notice on our site. We encourage you to periodically check back and review this policy so that you always will know what information we collect, how we use it, and with whom we share it.

The Privacy Statement posted on this site was updated on 01-01-2010