Privacy Policy
Effective Date: July 1, 2015
JiznLA.com has a firm commitment to privacy. We take your privacy concerns seriously and want to make every effort to address them as we strive to offer our site visitors a high quality and personalized experience. That is why we have adopted the following policy, which explains our position on information gathering and how we intend to use and share any information we collect. It is important to note that this policy applies only to information collected by JiznLA.com and does not apply to information obtained or used its affiliates through other means.
JiznLA.com collects and stores Personally Identifiable Information such as your name, address, e-mail address, etc. What information we collect and store depends on the page you are visiting and the services you elect to participate in. We use this information to operate our services, provide you with the highest quality services, offer you opportunities we think will be of interest, and better tailor the advertising you see from us to suit you. This information is not shared with anyone outside of JiznLA and JiznLA.com except as provided for in this Privacy Policy. More specifics on the information we collect are outlined within this policy. This privacy policy is subject to change from time to time. If the policy is revised, a New Effective Date will be placed at the top of the Privacy Policy.
Information We Collect and How it is Used
Some features and services may require additional Personally Identifiable Information or other demographic information. We may collect other personal information when you provide feedback, comments, or if you contact us offline. For example, when you contact us by phone you will be asked to also provide your phone number or e-mail address so that we can the proper group or division reach you in the event you need further assistance. All users may decline to share such information with us.
Passive Data Collection and Use
Like most Web sites, JiznLA.com also collects and logs information automatically and through the use of electronic tools that may be transparent to you, such as your IP address, the name, and location of your Internet Service Provider, the type and version of your browser, the length of time that you stay on JiznLA.com, search queries, your click-stream data, the location that referred you to JiznLA.com and the average number of pages viewed. If you visit another website prior to browsing JiznLA.com, that website might place personally identifiable information within a URL, which may be logged by us. Your IP address is the identifier assigned to your particular computer when you access the Internet. Depending on how you connect to the Internet, your IP address may always be the same, or it may change each time you access the Internet. Note that logging your IP address does not in and of itself provide us with your name, e-mail address or home or work address. We use this log information for systems administration and troubleshooting purposes and may also use it to gather general demographic information about you such as your general location and your Internet Service Provider. In order to better provide our services to you and to develop member profiles that enable us to focus our site, services, and advertisements on your interests, we may correlate this log information with other information about you.
Use of Personally Identifiable Information
Personally, Identifiable Information may be accessed by the user who entered it, by JiznLA and JiznLA.com personnel, and by certain third parties, such as those who provide technical support or content services to JiznLA.com. We ask these third parties to keep any personal information supplied by us confidential. We also endeavor to keep your Personally Identifiable Information inaccessible to other users or advertisers of JiznLA.com. We also reserve the right to disclose Personally Identifiable Information when deemed necessary or appropriate to comply with the law, respond to claims, protect our computer systems and customers, ensure the integrity and operation of our business and systems, or protect the rights, property or safety of JiznLA.com, its affiliates, or others. We will not disclose your Personally Identifiable Information without your advance permission except as explained in this privacy policy or as explained at the time the information was collected.
Use of Aggregated Information
In order to describe our services to prospective partners, advertisers, and others, we may use your Personally Identifiable Information to create a compiled, aggregate view of the JiznLA.com audience and their usage patterns. We use Aggregated Information to operate our services and to better understand our audience as we develop new content and services. Aggregated Information may also be shared with third parties we contract with to provide content and services on JiznLA.com as well as advertisers so that they can better understand our audience. For example, we might disclose that a certain percentage of our users are female or within a certain age range or live within a cluster of ZIP codes.
Your E-mail
JiznLA.com does not rent, sell, barter or give away its user’s or members' names, e-mail addresses or mailing addresses for use by advertisers and other third parties for the purpose of solicitations. When a user specifically authorizes e-mail solicitations we make available the user names and other Personally Identifiable Information in accordance with the applicable license. Our HTML-encoded e-mail messages may include graphic files, which we use to gather information about e-mails sent to our users. When such a message is opened in an HTML-capable e-mail program, the recipient's computer accesses our server to retrieve the graphics file and allows us to record and store the date and time, the recipient's e-mail address, and other standard logging information. These HTML-encoded e-mail messages may also read cookies.
We may use your email address to send you information about the JiznLA.com and JiznLA.com Vendors (such as news and events, special programs, fundraising campaigns, business services).
Affiliated Sites, Linked Sites, and Advertisements
JiznLA.com expects its partners, providers of content and services and advertisers to respect the privacy of our users. Be aware, however, that third parties, including our partners, providers of content and services, advertisers and others accessible through our site may have their own privacy and data collection policies and practices. For example, during your visit to JiznLA.com, you may link to or view as part of a frame on a JiznLA.com page, certain content that is actually created or hosted by a third party. Also through JiznLA.com, you may be introduced to, or be able to access information, services, Web sites, features, contest or sweepstakes offered by other parties. JiznLA and JiznLA.com are not responsible for the actions or policies of such third parties. You should check the applicable privacy policies of those third parties when providing information on a feature or page operated by a third party.
Electronic Commerce with JiznLA.com
For certain electronic commerce services on JiznLA.com, such as placing classified ads electronically or subscribing to JiznLA.com newspaper, we require additional information. To complete these transactions, we may collect information from you such as your name, credit card number and other financial or Personally Identifiable Information. We endeavor to protect the security of your payment information during transmission by using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology, which encrypts the information you submit. JiznLA.com uses the credit card and shipping information for the purpose of completing the transaction and does not provide this information to third parties except for the issuers of credit cards in order to process the transaction, or as otherwise set forth in this policy.
International Users
If you are an international user, by using JiznLA.com or by registering for any of its services, you agree that JiznLA.com may collect, use and transfer your personal information as described in this privacy policy, including transfers outside the country where you live. If you reside in a country in the European Union or other jurisdiction that provides access rights under the law.
General
In the event of the sale or merger of JiznLA Company and/or JiznLA.com, ownership of the information described in this Privacy Policy will be transferred to the acquiring or successor company. JiznLA.com endorses and abides by the privacy principles stated within this policy. If you have any questions or comments about our policies, we may be reached at [email protected]
