All personal information supplied to PGC
is kept strictly confidential and will not be sold to any third parties.
PGC’s policy is to respect and
protect the privacy of members of PGC and any other
site published by PGC. This policy statement tells
you how we collect information from you and how we use it.
Be assured that PGC will not
disclose your personal information to third parties without your consent,
except in aggregated form, as explained below. However, PGC
reserves the right to disclose member information in special cases when we have
reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify,
contact or bring legal action against someone who may be causing injury to or
interference with (either intentionally or unintentionally) PGC’s
rights or property, other members, or anyone else that could be harmed by such
activities. PGC also reserves the right to disclose
member information when we believe in good faith that the law requires it.
PGC collects and shares aggregate
information about our members with advertisers, business partners, sponsors and
other third parties. For example, we will say PGC’s
audience is X percent females and Y percent males. This data is used to
customize PGC’s content and advertising to deliver a
better experience for our members and will in no way personally identify you.
There are cases where we may ask you for personal information
such as your name, email address, and birth date. For example, we request
personal information when you register for a PGC account,
for transactions, or for services that require registration or subscription.
PGC needs to collect this information for fulfilling services,
tracking/verifying compliance with PGC policies and
applicable law and/or for purposes of editorial content and decisions. In
addition, we may request your credit card information to bill you for
membership fees or other services or products offered for sale through
PGC or certain third party vendors. We may provide this credit card
information to such third party vendors if necessary to complete your requested
transaction.
Furthermore, we may use your personal information to send you
periodic communications, solicit your feedback, provide you with special
offers, or for other purposes and to customize the services we provide to you.
At the bottom of every communication, PGC provides a
link that can be used to opt out of receiving any communications from us.
In case you choose to delete or change some of the information
you have provided to us, you can do so by
contacting us.
Use Of
IP Address
An IP address is a number that’s automatically assigned to
your computer whenever you’re surfing the Web. Web servers–the big computers
that “serve up” Web pages–automatically identify your computer by its IP
address.
PGC collects IP addresses for the
purposes of system administration, to report aggregate information to our
advertisers, and to audit the use of our site. When guests request pages from
PGC, our servers log the guests’ IP addresses. It is not our
practice to link IP addresses to anything personally identifiable, which means
that a member’s session will be logged, but the member remains anonymous to us.
However, we reserve the right to use IP addresses to identify a member only
when we feel it is necessary to enforce compliance with our house rules or
terms of use agreement or to protect our service, site, customers or others.
Some services within PGC, such as certain message
boards, may display e-mail addresses along with the message poster’s name and
message.
Use Of Cookies
What are cookies? Cookies are pieces of information that a
website transfers to an individual’s hard drive for record-keeping purposes.
Cookies make Web-surfing easier for you by saving your preferences while you’re
at our site. We never save passwords or credit card information in cookies. The
use of cookies is an industry standard–you’ll find them at most major websites.
By showing how and when guests use a site, cookies help us see
which areas are popular and which are not. Many improvements and updates to the
site are based on such data as total number of visitors and pages viewed. This
information is most easily tracked with cookies. We use the information from
cookies to provide services better tailored to our members’ needs.
Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies. You can
reset your browser to refuse all cookies or indicate when a cookie is being
sent. However, note that many parts of the PGC service
will not function properly or may be considerably slower if you refuse cookies.
For example, without cookies, you will not be able to set personalized news
preferences or you may have difficulty completing transactions, entering
contests, or playing games.
You may occasionally get cookies from our advertisers.
PGC does not control these cookies. The use of advertising cookies
sent by third-party servers is standard in the Internet industry.
Links To Other Sites
/ “Public” Areas
Members should be aware that when you are on PGC,
you could be directed to other sites that are beyond our control. There are
links to other sites from PGC pages that take you
outside our service. These other sites may send their own cookies to members
collect data or solicit personal information. The privacy policies of these
other sites may significantly differ from that of PGC.
We are not responsible for the privacy practices of these other sites and
cannot guarantee the security of any of your personal information collected
there.
Please keep in mind that whenever you give out personal
information on a “public” venue online–- for example, via message boards or
chat–- that information can be collected and used by people you don’t know. If
you choose to voluntarily disclose information on a bulletin board, message
board or chat room on our website, this Privacy Policy will not cover such
disclosure of information. We urge you to use caution when disclosing any
private information on these venues.
Security
Protecting the security of all personally identifiable
information associated with our guests is of utmost concern to us. We take
reasonable precautions to ensure the security of your information on our
systems. When credit card information is transmitted we use industry standard,
SSL (secure socket layer) encryption. Unfortunately, no data
transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a
result, while PGC strives to protect its members’
personal information and privacy, we cannot guarantee or warrant the security
of any information you disclose or transmit to us online and cannot be
responsible for the theft, destruction, or inadvertent disclosure of your
personal information.
Privacy Policy For
Minors
PGC does not knowingly collect
information from minors. If you are under 18, please do not provide any
personal information to us.
Your Acceptance Of
These Terms
By using this site, you signify your assent to the
PGC Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this policy, please do
not use this site. The terms of this Privacy Policy may change from time to
time without prior notice to you, so please check this page periodically for
any changes. Your continued use of this site following the posting of changes
to these terms will mean you accept those changes.