azTeen Magazine Privacy Policy

azTeen Magazine LLC, its website and various publications are hereafter referred to as "azTeen". azTeen is committed to protecting the privacy and safety of children, young people and adult readers of its magazine, publications and website. The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to describe how azTeen treats and handles personal identifiable information that is provided voluntarily by you with your specific knowledge and consent and collected via the azTeen website electronically or manually via azTeen Magazine.

Purpose of this Privacy Policy
This privacy policy describes how azTeen Magazine treats your personally identifiable information that is collected about you when you visit this web site to which this policy is linked.

What Is Personal Identifiable Information.
"Personal identifiable information" is information submitted by you that azTeen uses to identify you as an individual. Such information includes your name, address, phone number, email address, date of birth, age, date of high school graduation and other information that is connected to you personally.

Minimum Age Requirement: 13 Years Old or Older.
We do not permit persons that are younger than 13 years of age to submit personal information for any purpose including subscriptions, entering contests, or participating in polls, surveys, blogs or discussion groups. Upon discovery of the minimum age violation, the person shall not be eligible to win contest prizes and such subscriptions shall be terminated.

The use of the azTeen website is free to all users without registration. Our policy is to only include content that is family and child safe. However, we encourage parents and guardians to closely monitor usage by persons under 18 years of age.

How Information Is Secured.
All information is stored in a secure database. Only azTeen employees or agents that need access to personal information are granted access through password processes. We require strict security and confidentiality when handling such information. Occasionally azTeen will use third-party contractors to collect personal data, to mail and distribute its magazine or to provide information or offers that have been requested. azTeen holds all third-parties and agents to the same high degree of safe handling and confidentiality required of employees.

Use of Collected Personal Information.
When you subscribe to azTeen Magazine we may use your email address to send you a a subscription notice and use your name and address to mail your subscription. Similarly if you enter a contest, we will use this information to notify you if you become a winner. Click here to read General Contest Rules and Guidelines.

We might also send emails to users and contest entrants to announce special offers, services and announcements from azTeen and our advertisers. If you provide personal information for use in any of our social networking channels, blog posts or comments we will use that information in the manner contemplated by the particular networking channel. Please check each channel for a description of how networking is conducted.

We also may use provided personal information to send you marketing information, promotional material that we feel may interest you. We may also share personal information with third-parties that may choose to contact you to promote or market its certain products or services that could be of interest to you.

We may also use any personal information you send for marketing and promotional purposes and we may combine information we receive online with outside records to enhance our ability to market products or provide services that we believe may be of interest to you. In those cases we require that associated third-parties only use such information within the terms of this policy and not to use the information for any other purpose. azTeen requires that contracted third-parties shall not loan, rent or sell such personal information.

azTeen may from time to time partner with a retailer or other third party to offer online shopping opportunities, games, services, subscriptions and other applications on a co- branded or cross-promotional basis. Those transactions may take place on the azTeen Magazine website, or the site of the third party. In either case, personal information you provide in connection with the transaction may be shared with the third party, as well as with any participating sponsors or advertisers of such opportunities and features.

azTeen requires you top submit personal information when subscribing to it Magazine or entering contests or sweepstakes. If you do not want to receive information that may be of interest to you and you do not want your personal information shared with our associated partners, affiliates, sponsors or advertisers, then do not subscribe to azTeen Magazine or enter any of its contests or sweepstakes.

Use of Personal Information In Submitted Articles.
All website and magazine articles are written by teenagers. Articles submitted to azTeen for publishing may or may not be published. If published, only the first name, last name, year of high school graduation and name of high school of the author will byline the article. When other personal names are used within a submitted article we require that the writer secure approval to use his or name in the article. Submission of the article indicates that such approval has been secured. In some cases writers include personal photos that support human interest in the article. By submitting photos, the writer confirms that approval has been secured to publish the photos with the article.

In addition, we may use information you provide us through emails, Q & A, and in response to polls for editorial purposes, and may use your name and any stories you provide us in articles published online and in our Magazine. Please be advised that any such submissions become the non-exclusive property of azTeen Magazine and may be used by azTeen for any lawful purpose. If you provide us with personal anecdotes, they may be attributed to you. azTeen Magazine can edit, rewrite, use, and reuse the content whether in its owned publications or other third party publication in either print or in websites. azTeen may or may not use your personal information including your name, likeness, photograph, and biographical information you provide, in any way and any media whether now known or invented in the future, with or without attribution, including publication in the Magazine, and in trade media, and advertising. You agree that any content you send us will not violate any rights of any third party and that you will only send us content for which you own the rights.

Blogs, Video, Community Discussion Comments.
User generated posting to blogs, forums or other community boards that may be available on the azTeen websites or if you choose to upload photos, illustration, audio or video, you will be solely responsible for all generated content. You agree not to furnish postings to which you do not own the rights. You also agree and warrant that your user-generated postings and uploads will be true and accurate and further agree not to defame any person or invade any person's privacy and will not infringe the proprietary rights of any person. By providing user generated postings or uploads, you are giving azTeen the right to use such postings and image uploads in any manner azTeen so determines at its sole discretion. You further agree that any postings or uploads will be in good taste, family safe and children safe and that azTeen has no obligation to monitor or delete postings or image uploads.

You further agree to refrain from making any user-generated postings or uploading of images that violate law, are harmful to minors, threatening, abusive, defamatory, pornographic, harassing, invasive of another's privacy, libelous, intimidating or hateful to individuals or groups based on religion, gender, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, age or disabilty.

Since azTeen may not monitor postings, you agree to use and rely on them at your own risk. azTeen cannot make warranty about any posting and assumes no responsibility. Any contact with others you may meet in person, you do so at your own risk. We highly encourage users not to meet with strangers and mention any such requests to your parents or guardians for you own safety.

IP Address
Your Internet Protocol ("IP") address is usually associated with the place from which you enter the Internet, like your Internet Service Provider, your company or your university. Our server has the capability of detecting your IP Address when you engage online interactive intake forms within the azTeen website. Any intent to do harm or plant viruses may be in violation of law. IP addresses are traceable to the individual that intends harm either to others or azTeen mechanisms.

Cookies
azTeen Magazine(or third party service providers on our behalf) may set and access cookies on your computer. A cookie is a small amount of data (often including a unique identifier), that is sent to your browser from a website's computers and stored on your computer's hard drive. azTeen Magazine uses cookies to understand site usage and to improve the content and offerings on our site. We may use cookies to control the display of ads, to track usage patterns on the sites, to deliver editorial content, to record requests for subscriptions and to personalize information.

Our cookies may contain personally identifiable information and such cookies may be shared with others to the same extent indicated above. azTeen Magazine (or third party service providers on our behalf) may also use cookies to collect aggregate information about web site users on an anonymous basis. We may share aggregate demographic and usage information with our prospective and actual business partners, advertisers and other third parties for any business purpose.

Some of our advertisers may serve you cookies as well. We do not have control over cookies placed by advertisers.

If you don't want cookies, most Web browsers include an option that allows you to not accept them. However, if you set your browser to refuse cookies, some portions of our sites may not function efficiently.

Kids And Parents.

The sites covered by this policy are not intended for use by children, especially those under age 13. If you are younger thas 13 years of you may read the content with the azTeen website and magazine, but you are not permitted to provide personal information. Therefore you may not subscribe to the magazine, contribute articles, enter contests or post or upload images to blogs, forums or community chats. When children disclose personal information in public discussion areas, they may receive unsolicited contact and messages from other parties. Therefore we strongly encourage parents and gardians to tell there children under 13 years old not to participate by providing an erroneous age. We also encourage parents to monitor the interactive aspects of forum and blog communities to help protect the safety and security of their children regardless of age.

Opting Out of Receiving Future Information.
At any time you prefer not to receive any further emails, mail or phone communication of subjects that may be of interest to you, you may opt-out and have your personal information removed from our secure database. Email communication will have an "unscribe option". Simply click on the "unsubscribe option" which electronically instructs us to remove your personal information from electronic storage. You may notify us in writing by sending a notice to azTeen at the following address.

azTeen Magazine
3219 East Camelback Road
Suite 363
Phoenix, AZ 85018

Also read Our Terms and Conditions of Website Use which are part of and in tandem to the above Privacy Policy. The safety and welfare of our youth is a top priority. Therefore your cooperation is appreciated.