ABOUT.COM ONLINE PRIVACY POLICY
The Short Version
About.com will never share, rent, or sell your personal information without your consent, unless it is required by law.
When About.com sends newsletters to subscribers it may allow Advertisers or Partners to include messages in those newsletters but those Advertisers or Partners will never have access to your personal information including your email address. All newsletters will come directly from About.com. At any time a user may unsubscribe from a newsletter (click here).
The Fine Print
About.com will use cookies, pixel trackers, server logs, and any Internet technology in order to measure the effectiveness of the About service and any Advertising campaigns as well as to target meaningful content and Ads to our users.
About.com uses DoubleClick, Google, and other third-party Ad Servers to serve and display Advertisements on About.com. About.com does not provide personally identifiable information to Ad Servers. They may use cookies, pixel trackers, or other internet technology to improve the effectiveness and targeting of Advertisements to you within About.com and any other place where that third-party is serving Advertisements. You may configure your web-browser to disable this. For more information about these third-party Ad Networks and opting out of tracking, see:
- http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp
- http://www.doubleclick.com/privacy/dart_adserving.aspx
It is possible that portions or all of About.com may be sold to another company. In that event, applicable user information whether personally identifiable or otherwise may be transferred as part of that sale.
About.com also uses a pixel tracker to track users and measure effectiveness of The New York Times family of companies.
As privacy standards evolve and internet technologies change, About.com will update this policy to reflect those changes. Material changes to this policy will be prominently posted in advance on this site.
Contact Information
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, please visit us at:
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Customer Care
About.com, Inc.
249 West 17th Street
New York, NY 10011
Updated October 2009