What This Privacy Policy Covers

This policy covers how Ph03nix New Media treats personal information that Ph03nix New Media collects and receives, including information related to your past use of Ph03nix New Media products and services. Personal information is information about you that is personally identifiable like your name, address, email address, or phone number, and that is not otherwise publicly available.

This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that Ph03nix New Media does not own or control, or to people that Ph03nix New Media does not employ or manage.

Information Collection and Use General

Ph03nix New Media collects personal information when you register with Ph03nix New Media, when you use Ph03nix New Media products or services, when you visit Ph03nix New Media pages or the pages of certain Ph03nix New Media partners, and when you enter promotions or sweepstakes. Ph03nix New Media may combine information about you that we have with information we obtain from business partners or other companies.

When you register we ask for information such as your name, address, email address, birth date, gender, postal/zip code, occupation, industry, and personal interests. Once you register with Ph03nix New Media and sign in to our services, you are not anonymous to us.

Ph03nix New Media collects information about your transactions with us and with some of our business partners, including information about your use of products and services that we offer.

Ph03nix New Media automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser, including your IP address, Ph03nix New Media cookie information, and the page you request.

Ph03nix New Media uses information for the following general purposes: to customize the advertising and content you see, fulfill your requests for products and services, improve our services, contact you, conduct research, and provide anonymous reporting for internal and external clients.

Children

When a child under age 13 attempts to register with Ph03nix New Media, we ask that he or she have a parent or guardian create a Ph03nix New Media Family Account to obtain parental permission.

Ph03nix New Media will not contact children under age 13 about special offers or for marketing purposes without a parent's permission.

Ph03nix New Media does not ask a child under age 13 for more personal information, as a condition of participation, than is reasonably necessary to participate in a given activity or promotion.

Information Sharing and Disclosure

Ph03nix New Media does not rent, sell, or share personal information about you with other people or nonaffiliated companies except to provide products or services you've requested, when we have your permission, or under the following circumstances: We provide the information to trusted partners who work on behalf of or with Ph03nix New Media under confidentiality agreements. These companies may use your personal information to help Ph03nix New Media communicate with you about offers from Ph03nix New Media and our marketing partners. However, these companies do not have any independent right to share this information.

We have a parent's permission to share the information if the user is a child under age 13. Parents have the option of allowing Ph03nix New Media to collect and use their child's information without consenting to Ph03nix New Media sharing of this information with people and companies who may use this information for their own purposes;

We respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims;

We believe it is necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of Ph03nix New Media's terms of use, or as otherwise required by law.

We transfer information about you if Ph03nix New Media is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, Ph03nix New Media will notify you before information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.

Ph03nix New Media displays targeted advertisements based on personal information. Advertisers (including ad serving companies) may assume that people who interact with, view, or click on targeted ads meet the targeting criteria - for example, women ages 18-24 from a particular geographic area. Ph03nix New Media does not provide any personal information to the advertiser when you interact with or view a targeted ad. However, by interacting with or viewing an ad you are consenting to the possibility that the advertiser will make the assumption that you meet the targeting criteria used to display the ad.

Ph03nix New Media advertisers include financial service providers (such as banks, insurance agents, stock brokers and mortgage lenders) and non-financial companies (such as stores, airlines, and software companies).

Ph03nix New Media works with vendors, partners, advertisers, and other service providers in different industries and categories of business.

Cookies

Ph03nix New Media may set and access Ph03nix New Media cookies on your computer.

Ph03nix New Media lets other companies that show advertisements on some of our pages set and access their cookies on your computer. Other companies' use of their cookies is subject to their own privacy policies, not this one. Advertisers or other companies do not have access to Ph03nix New Media's cookies.

Ph03nix New Media uses web beacons to access Ph03nix New Media cookies inside and outside our network of web sites and in connection with Ph03nix New Media products and services.

Your Ability to Edit and Delete Your Account Information and Preferences General

We reserve the right to send you certain communications relating to the Ph03nix New Media service, such as service announcements, administrative messages and the Ph03nix New Media Newsletter, that are considered part of your Ph03nix New Media account, without offering you the opportunity to opt-out of receiving them.

You can delete your Ph03nix New Media account by visiting our Account Deletion page.

Confidentiality and Security

We limit access to personal information about you to employees who we believe reasonably need to come into contact with that information to provide products or services to you or in order to do their jobs.

We have physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with federal regulations to protect personal information about you.

To learn more about security, including the security steps we have taken and security steps you can take, please read Security at Ph03nix New Media.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

Ph03nix New Media may update this policy. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your Ph03nix New Media account or by placing a prominent notice on our site.

Questions and Suggestions

If you have questions or suggestions, please complete a feedback form or you can contact us at: privacy@Ph03nixnewmedia.com

Effective Date: March 18, 2007