Nature Photographer Magazine Privacy Policy

This privacy policy refers to www.naturephotographermag.com ( NP Website)

Personal information such as your name, e-mail address, physical address, zip code, or similar information including credit card numbers could be used to identify you personally. We may collect this information through various forms and in various places on the NP Website, including when you submit information, communicate or otherwise interact with us.

Credit card numbers which are entered through the NP Website are used only for payment processing by our third party processor, and are not stored on our web server or system.

In addition to any personal information or other information that you choose to submit to the NP Website, we and our third-party service providers may use a variety of technologies that automatically or passively collect certain information whenever you visit or interact with the NP Website. This may include the browser you are using, the URL that referred you to the NP Website, all of the areas within the NP Website that you visit, and the time of day, among other information. It is possible that we may use this Information for a variety of purposes, including improving the NP Website.

We do not share your personal information with third parties for those third parties’ marketing purposes unless you were to consent to such sharing at the time you provide your personal information.

We may use third party vendors to perform certain services on behalf of the NP Website, such as hosting the NP Website, designing and/or operating the features, tracking NP Website analytics, enabling you to purchase a Nature Photographer magazine subscription, a Nature Photographer magazine PDF, a Nature Photographer magazine back issue, or any other item that may be offered for sale on the NP Website or performing any other administrative services. We may provide these companies with access to user information, including personal Information, to carry out the services they are performing for you or for Nature Photographer.

When you click on a link to a website listed on the NP Website that is not our website, these parties may or may not collect website usage information and your device identifier when you access those websites. Nature Photographer does not control the websites of other parties nor any additional sites that those other websites may send you to from their sites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices employed by any of these other websites. For example, if you click on an advertiser’s live link website, an advertisement, an author’s website, or any website other than this NP Website, the click may take you off the NP Website onto a different website. These other websites may send their own cookies to you, independently collect data or solicit personal information and may or may not have their own published privacy policies. It is your responsibility to read the privacy statements of all third party websites.

We may use third party analytics service providers to evaluate and provide us with information about the use of the NP Website and viewing of our content.

The NP Website is operated in the United States. The information we collect, including, without limitation, personal information, will be transferred to, processed and stored in the United States. In the event you are located outside the United States, the data protection laws in the United States may differ from those of the country in which you are located, and your personal Information may be subject to access requests from governments, courts, or law enforcement in the United States according to laws of the United States. By using the NP Website or providing us with any information, you consent to this transfer, processing and storage of your information in the United States. Any information processed, transferred or stored by parties other than Nature Photographer who are located outside of the United States will be subject to applicable privacy laws in the country that they are located.

In the event we are required to respond to subpoenas or other legal process or if such disclosure is required by law we may transfer and disclose your information, including personal Information, to third parties. This can also be done at the request of governmental authorities conducting an investigation; to protect the NP Website terms or other policies; or to protect the personal safety, rights, property or security of any individual. We may also use IP address or other device identifiers to identify users, and may do so in cooperation with copyright owners, internet service providers, wireless service providers or law enforcement agencies in our discretion. Such disclosures may be carried out without notice to you.

Cookies may be used for many purposes, including, without limitation, remembering you and your preferences and tracking your visits. If you choose to disable cookies, some features of the NP Website may not function properly.

In the event of a corporate merger, consolidation, sale of substantially all of Nature Photographer Publishing Co. Inc.’s stock and/or assets or other corporate change, including, without limitation, during the course of any due diligence process, Nature Photographer may share all types and kind of information including personal, demographic, and usage to a new owner of the NP Website.

You may have the opportunity to engage in forum networking through the NP Website. Nature Photographer does not control who will have access to the information you make public and cannot ensure that parties who have access to such publicly available information will respect your privacy or keep it secure. This Privacy Policy does not apply to any information that you disclose publicly or share with others. We are not responsible for the accuracy, use or misuse of any content or information that you disclose or receive through the NP Website.

The NP Website is a general audience web site and we do not knowingly collect any personal information from children younger than the age of thirteen (13).

This policy applies to all websites and online services operated by Nature Photographer, including www.naturephotographermag.com as well as to the content and services we provide to mobile users, apps available on mobile devices such as Apple's iPad (collectively, our "Sites" or "Sites and Mobile Content").  (App purchases are typically also subject to the terms and conditions of the entity that operates the app store, which are accessible on that entity's website.)

We incorporate commercially reasonable safeguards to help protect and secure your personal Information. However, no data transmission over the Internet, wireless transmission or electronic storage of information can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Please note that we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us, and you use the NP Website and provide us with your information at your own risk.

Nature Photographer reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time without notice to you and changes will be effective upon the posting of the revised Privacy Policy.