Privacy Policy

Last Updated May 30, 2006

VIV Publishing, LLC (”VIV”) owns and operates the VIVmag website. VIVmag is committed to protecting its users’ privacy. This Privacy Policy applies to personally identifiable information we collect on the VIVmag website located at www.vivold.eroi.com (the “Site”). Your use of the Site is subject to this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully to understand how we treat information collected on this Site. This Privacy Policy may change from time to time, so please check back periodically.

Information We Collect

Although the Site is available without registration, in order to take advantage of some of our Site’s features, you will be asked to provide personal information. This personal information will be collected at various pages on the Site, such as the subscription page and pages that allow registration for various services including:

• surveys, contests or promotional events
• email newsletters
• VIV MOMENTS and other forum and networking sites, should they become available

Personal information collected on these pages will include your first and last name, email address, phone number, address and other similar information. Providing this information is optional, but failure to do so in some cases will limit the services available to you. In addition, you may choose to provide VIVmag with personal information if you contact us by email.

VIVmag’s web servers automatically collect Site usage information from you when you visit the Site, such as IP addresses, browser types, operating systems, domain names, access times, and referring website addresses. Site usage information informs us about how our visitors use and navigate the Site. In addition, certain pages of the Site may use cookies to track and store your information for the purposes described in this policy. Cookies are small files that are placed on your hard disk to allow us to recognize you if you return to the Site using the same computer and browser. VIVmag does not store any of your personal information in cookies. A cookie cannot read any other data off your hard drive, pass on a virus, or read cookie files created by other websites. You can set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie, giving you the chance to decide whether or not to accept it. While you may decide not to accept cookies, by doing so, you may not be able to experience the full functionality of our Site.

How We Use Your Information

We may combine the personally identifiable information you provide VIVmag with other information about you that is available to us, including information from third parties. VIVmag does not rent, sell, or trade any personally identifiable information but may use your information to, among other things:

• deliver newsletters
• service your account and customer support requests
• notify you of special offers or promotions
• respond to your inquiries
• compile anonymous, aggregated information that is useful to develop new features, improve the content and navigation of the Site, analyze trends and statistics, and ensure our Site remains relevant to your needs
• enforce VIVmag’s Terms of Use and otherwise prevent illegal or improper activity related to the Site
• notify you of changes to this Privacy Policy or to other policies or terms that may affect you and your use of the Site
• create user profiles

For the purposes described above, we may share your information with third party service providers, such as website operators, providers of complimentary services, marketing companies and, where appropriate, law enforcement authorities. In addition, VIVmag may process and fulfill magazine subscriptions through third party service providers. Whenever VIVmag shares your information with third parties, those third parties are obligated (except where otherwise required by law enforcement authorities) to treat your personally identifiable information as set forth in this Privacy Policy.

We may also disclose your information in connection with any merger or consolidation with, or sale of all or substantially all of our assets to a third party, provided that such third party agrees to comply with our Privacy Policy. In the event VIVmag sells its assets, including its database, your personal information will be transferred to the purchaser.

Security

VIVmag maintains commercially reasonable safeguards to ensure the security, integrity and privacy of personally identifiable information submitted to our Site, and we periodically review and update security measures in light of current technologies. Your password is a component of the VIVmag security system. As such, it is your responsibility to protect it. Do not share your password with any third parties. If your password has been compromised for any reason, you should notify VIVmag immediately.

Your Ability to Choose

We communicate with you to provide you information that you have requested. We will also send you valuable information and offers VIVmag and our third party service providers. You may always choose to not receive our marketing emails by following the instructions at the bottom of each email you receive from us. You may also change your preferences regarding the types of emails you receive from us by clicking here to email us.

Links to Other Sites

This Site contains links to third party websites that are provided for your convenience. VIVmag does not endorse nor is it responsible for the privacy practices or the content or services of such websites. We recommend that you review the privacy policies and terms of use that govern those websites when you visit them.

Children

The Site is directed towards adults. VIVmag does not knowingly collect information from children under the age of 13. Children under the age of 13 should not use this Site or submit information to us.

Review and Correction

We try to keep information about you accurate and current. If, however, you find errors or inaccuracies in your information, or if your contact information changes, please let us know by clicking here to send us an e-mail, and we will update your information upon request.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We will occasionally update this Privacy Policy. When we do, we will also revise the “last updated” date at the top of the Privacy Policy. For material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you by placing a prominent notice on our Site. We will not materially alter the use of your personally identifiable information without contacting you directly and seeking your affirmative consent.

Contact Information

If you have any questions or comments regarding this Privacy Policy, please send us an e-mail at legal@vivold.eroi.com