Privacy Policy

Privacy will remain an important issue for internet users for many years to come. Other than the Mac360 Forums, we don’t collect much identifiable information about you. It’s not that we don’t care. The information isn’t that valuable.

Mac360’s Privacy Policy
Mac360 is a site developed and maintained by PanGeo Media, which is committed to protect your privacy. The information we collect while you are visiting our sites is used to provide you with a more personalized and richer experience. Please read further for details.

How does PanGeo Media collect information?

Your IP Address
Your IP address is a unique identifier we use to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer our web site tracking. We also use your IP address to help identify you and to gather broad and general demographic information.

Cookies
PanGeo Media may use a feature on your Internet Web browser called a “cookie.” A cookie is a small piece of information stored on your hard drive. It assigns a unique identification number to your computer and helps us maintain your preferences between visits to provide a personalized experience for you.

PanGeo Media uses cookies to tell us whether or not you have visited our Web site before and to track click-throughs to any of our advertisements. We also collect non-personally identifiable information, such as anonymous session numbers, with cookies.

PanGeo Media allows other companies that are presenting advertisements on some PanGeo Media pages to set and access cookies on your computer. PanGeo Media does not control cookies from third-party advertisers. Other companies’ use of their cookies is subject to their own privacy policies, not the privacy policy of PanGeo Media . Advertisers or other companies do not have to access to PanGeo Media cookies.

The use of advertising cookies sent by third-party servers is standard in the Internet industry.

What About Personal Information? Do You Collect That?
PanGeo Media does not house or collect any personal information about you unless you knowingly and willingly provide it.

Membership Registration
PanGeo Media may provide a registration process through which you voluntarily sign up to access the members-only features of our a site on our network. During the registration process, we may ask for your name, e-mail address, how you got to know us, your age range and your ZIP code.

Also, to make sure that nobody else can access our members-only features using your name or identity, we may ask that you create a unique user name with a password.

Newsletter Subscription
PanGeo Media may provide newsletters for visitors to our sites. When you subscribe to our FREE newsletters, we may ask for an e-mail address to send them to. You may opt out of receiving future mailings or cancel your subscription(s) at any time.

Contests and Promotions
When you enter a contest or take part in a promotion, we may ask for your name, mailing address and e-mail address. Should a third party sponsor the contest or promotion, that party will have access to this information. We need this information in order to notify our winners and, when applicable, ship the winners’ prizes.

Does PanGeo Media Ever Share Information with Others?

Disclosure of Information to Outside Parties
PanGeo Media does not and will not share your personal information with any outside parties unless you have knowingly and willingly consented to do so (e.g., by entering a contest, promotion or sweepstakes for which we would publish a list of winners). We do collect demographic and profile data, which is aggregated and shared with advertisers. Here’s an example of what our advertisers would receive. “Of the 25,371 clicks your banner received, 38% of the those were by users between the ages of 25-34.”

Links to Outside Third Parties
PanGeo Media may establish relationships with reputable business partners by creating a link between our sites. PanGeo Media chooses its business partners carefully. We are not, however, responsible for the content, maintenance or privacy policies of those sites. Once you click over to a third-party site, we encourage you to check their privacy policy.

PanGeo Media sites may contain links to other sites whose information practices may be different than the information practices of PanGeo Media . Users who click over to a third-party site from a link on PanGeo Media must be aware that PanGeo Media makes no warranties with regard to that site’s policies or business practices. PanGeo Media is not responsible for any transactions that occur between the user and the third-party site.

Please consult the other sites’ privacy policies as PanGeo Media has no control over information that is submitted to, or collected by, these third parties. Should a user purchase any products or services from that third-party site, the user must contact the third-party site directly regarding any disputes that might occur, including, but not limited to: delayed shipping, missing products, damaged goods, or pricing or billing discrepancies.

PanGeo Media is not responsible for the actions of any third-party site.

Children’s Guidelines
PanGeo Media does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of 15. We encourage parents and legal guardians to monitor their children’s Internet use. Also, we strongly encourage parents to help us enforce our privacy policy by instructing their children to never provide personal information on our web sites without permission.

Security
PanGeo Media has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. We are able to keep your personal information safe and secure by utilizing Secure Socket Layers (SSL) encryption technology. For maximum security, we may use a secure server that encrypts all your ordering information, including your name, address, and credit-card number when applicable.

Contacting the Web site
If you have any questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy, our Conditions of Use Agreement, our Copyright Notice, the practices of this this web site or any site within our network of sites, or your dealings with this web site or any within our network of sites, you may contact PanGeo, and the staff of Mac360, by clicking on the Feedback link on this page.

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