Whole Magazine is committed to your privacy. We appreciate that you’ve trusted us with personal information and we treat it as if it were our own. By this we mean that Whole Magazine does not sell, rent, lease, or give away personal information such as your email address, phone number, name, home address, etc. Your information will only be used for internal Whole Magazine’s purposes. By giving us your email address, you have given us permission to send you email periodically unless you specifically request otherwise.
Information Collection and Use
Whole Magazine is the sole owner of the information collected on this site. We do not sell, share, or rent this information to others in ways different from what is disclosed in this statement. Whole Magazine collects information from our users at several different points on our website.
Registration
In order to use certain sections of this website, a user must first complete the registration form. During registration a user is required to give their contact information (such as name and email address). This information is used to contact the user about the services on our site for which they have expressed interest. It is optional for the user to provide demographic information, but it is encouraged so we can provide a more personalized experience on our site.
Cookies
A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user’s hard drive containing information about the user. A cookie is used to remember your log-in number when you revisit our site. If a user rejects the cookie, they may still use our site. The only drawback to this is that the user may be limited in some areas of our site. Cookies can also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our site.
Some of our partners may use cookies on our site. However, we have no access to or control over these cookies.
Log Files
We use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the site, track user’s movement, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information.
Sharing
We may share aggregated demographic information with our partners. This is not linked to any personal information that can identify any individual person. We partner with another party to provide specific services. When the user signs up for these services, we may share names, or other contact information that is necessary for the third party to provide these services. These parties are not allowed to use personally identifiable information except for the purpose of providing these services.
Links
This website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that Whole Magazine is not responsible for the privacy practices of these sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by Whole Magazine.
Newsletters
If a user wishes to subscribe to our newsletter or daily email service, we ask for contact information such as your name and email address.
Surveys
From time-to-time our site requests information from users via surveys. Participation in these surveys is completely voluntary and the user therefore has a choice whether or not to disclose this information. Information requested may include contact information (such as name and shipping address), and demographic information (such as zip code and age level). Survey information will be used for purposes of monitoring or improving the use and satisfaction of this ministry.
Tell a Friend
If a user elects to use our referral service for informing a friend about our site, we ask them for the friend’s name and email address. Whole Magazine will automatically send the friend a one-time email inviting them to visit the site. Whole Magazine does not store this information.
Notification of Changes
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on our homepage so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances–if any–we disclose it. If at any point we decide to use personally identifiable information in a manner different from what was stated at the time it was collected, we will notify users with an email. Users will have a choice as to whether or not we use their information in this different manner. We will use information in accordance with the privacy policy under which the information was collected.