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Collection of your Personal Information

NewsChina Magazine may collect personally identifiable information, such as your name, address and email address if you sign up for our email update, or subscribe to the print magazine. If you purchase a NewsChina Magazine subscription or other products and services, we collect billing and credit card information through a third party. This information is used to complete the purchase transaction. We may gather additional personal or non-personal information in the future.

Information about your computer hardware and software may be automatically collected by NewsChina Magazine. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the NewsChina Magazine website.

NewsChina Magazine encourages you to review the privacy statements of websites you choose to link to from NewsChina Magazine so that you can understand how those websites collect, use and share your information. NewsChina Magazine is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on websites outside of the NewsChina Magazine website.

Use of your Personal Information

NewsChina Magazine may use any personally identifiable information you provide to inform you of other products or services available from NewsChina Magazine and its affiliates. NewsChina Magazine may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.

NewsChina Magazine does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties.

NewsChina Magazine may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. NewsChina Magazine may share data with trusted partners to help perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to NewsChina Magazine, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

NewsChina Magazine may keep track of the websites and pages our users visit within the NewsChina Magazine website, in order to determine what services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

NewsChina Magazine will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on the NewsChina Magazine website; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of NewsChina Magazine; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of NewsChina Magazine, or the public.

Use of Cookies

The NewsChina Magazine website may use "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

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You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the NewsChina Magazine services or websites you visit.

Security of your Personal Information

When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other websites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol.

Children Under Thirteen

NewsChina Magazine does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen. If you are under the age of thirteen, you must ask your parent or guardian for permission to use this website.

Changes to this Statement

NewsChina Magazine will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. We encourage you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how NewsChina Magazine is protecting your information.

Contact Information

NewsChina Magazine welcomes your questions or comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that NewsChina Magazine has not adhered to this Statement, please contact:

NewsChina Magazine
15 East 40th, 11th Floor
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Email Address: readers@NewsChina Magazine.com

Effective as of January 01, 2012

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