Overview
WHAT’S HAUTE (“WH”); a division of MARIPOSA MEDIA GROUP (“MMG”) is committed to protecting the privacy of Internet users. Our readers’ privacy and confidentiality is of the utmost importance to us, our Contributors and our advertiser clients. Our reputation and integrity is directly related to how we serve you, our readers, and protect your privacy. At the end of this policy we have provided contact information, should you have any additional questions.
Applicability of Policy
To try and bring you offers that are of interest to you, we have relationships with other companies that we allow to place ads on our Web pages, and on the weblogs of our contributors.
This privacy policy applies only to advertising-related information that is collected and stored by WH’s and WH’s third-party advertising and website traffic analytics systems, when pages of contributor’s weblogs are viewed and advertising media is delivered to those visitors.
Information Collected
WH does not obtain any personally identifiable information about you, such as your name, address, phone number, or email address, when you visit one of our blogs. WH may, however, automatically collect non-personally identifiable information about you which is specific to how you use the Internet, such as the IP address of the server your computer is logged into, your browser type, your screen resolution setting, the Web pages you visited, which ads have been displayed and whether you responded to any ads delivered by WH. This non-personally identifiable information collected by WH is used for the purpose of determining which ads to deliver and for measuring aggregate advertising display and response for client and network reporting.
Also, as a result of your visit to our site and to our participating blogs, WH’s ad server and web analytics partners may collect non-personally identifiable information such as your domain type, your IP address, your ad display history, and your click stream information. For further information, consult the privacy policies of:
Glam Network Privacy Policy: http://glam.com/app/site/loadServicePage.act?id=5357926&pageId=5357941
Doubleclick “DFP” advertising service provider Privacy Policy: http://www.doubleclick.com/us/about_doubleclick/privacy/
Nielsen NetRatings “Site Census” web analytics platform Privacy Policy: http://www.nielsen-netratings.com/privacy/sitecensus.htm
Limitations on Disclosures
Information collected by WH about individual visitors that is stored in the ad server database will not be sold or disclosed to any merchant or third party, except when required by law or court order or as set forth in this Policy. WH does disclose aggregate advertising information, which does not identify individuals or any personally identifiable information, to business partners, advertisers, bloggers, and other advertising third parties. WH also reserves the right to use such non-personally identifiable information gathered for promoting WH products and services or the products and services of WH advertisers and sponsors.
Cookies
WH and its advertising partners use browser cookies to enable advertising. Cookies are small files that your Web browser places on your computer’s hard drive to record information about your visit. The WH cookie cannot be associated with any personal information about you and WH is not able to identify you personally when you visit any blog. WH cookies do not damage your system or files in any way. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies but you can change your browser settings to prevent the acceptance of cookies if you desire.
Third party advertisers or third party ad servers that place and present advertising on the WH site or participating blogs also may collect information from you via cookies, web beacons, clear .gifs or similar technologies. These third party advertisers and ad servers may use the information they collect to help present their advertisements, to help measure and research the advertisements’ effectiveness, or for other uses. The use and collection of your information by these third party advertisers and ad servers is governed by the relevant third party’s privacy policy and is not covered by WH’s privacy policy. Indeed, the privacy policy of these third party advertisers and ad servers may be different from WH’s privacy policy. All third party cookies that are used to track or manage user experience are set outside of the WH or blog domains.
Disclosure
WH openly volunteers its practices of collecting information, its targeting capabilities and its use of cookies. If you have any questions pertaining to this privacy policy and its contents, please direct your correspondence to info (at) whatshaute.com.
Information Sent to us via Email
When you send us a comment via links on our site, we use that information internally to track comments, suggestions, and problems. We do not create mailing lists from the email addresses we receive, and we certainly don’t sell the email addresses of those who do use our feedback links. We do not retain personally identifiable information when you send a message to us unless you request us to do so.
Notification of Changes to Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time as needed. If WH decides to change the privacy policy, we will post these changes on this web page so that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it. It is your obligation to review this Privacy Statement periodically, and your continued use of the bloggers after changes have been posted will be deemed to be your acceptance of the revised Statement.
Privacy Statement last updated, August 2008
Notice Regarding Online Behavioral Advertising – (Added August 2012)
We allow third-party companies to serve ads and/or collect certain anonymous information when you visit our Web site. These companies may use non-personally identifiable information (e.g., click stream information, browser type, time and date, subject of advertisements clicked or scrolled over) during your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services likely to be of greater interest to you. These companies typically use a cookie or third party web beacon to collect this information. To learn more about this behavioral advertising practice or to opt-out of this type of advertising, you can visit www.networkadvertising.org.