Privacy Policy

10 April 2004 TOL respects and protects your privacy and only collects the information we need to enhance and strengthen TOL and bring you exciting new features and services. Every step has been taken to ensure that your data is secure on our servers, and that all of our websites are secure Internet locations. This privacy policy extends to all TOL sections.

We collect data when users:

· subscribe to the magazine. Subscribers must fill in a form with personal data, which we use to contact subscribers regarding payment and other issues. This data is kept confidential and is not shared with any third party.

· fill in online surveys. TOL will frequently ask its readers to participate in surveys in which TOL gathers readership information. These surveys are for TOL’s internal use only and are used to help us build a better site. The data is kept confidential and is not shared with any third party.

· surf the TOL sites. Reader habits are stored in the TOL logfile. This logfile does not contain any data on specific readers, and no personal data is gathered in this file. Data stored includes browser type, linking pages, IP range, and domain. Such information is routinely kept by any website and does not infringe on privacy.

· readers may send us e-mails and letters as feedback on the site in the shape of letters to the editor or other correspondence that might be published on the site.

What the data is used for:

· to process customer orders faster and more efficiently
· to develop the site and future business strategies
· to allow large-scale subscriber access to the site based on the IP ranges
· to gather demographic data on overall readership for TOL funders


What is your e-mail policy?

TOL publishes a number of free newsletters that readers can sign up for free of charge. The TOL newsletter is standard with a subscription to TOL, but the subscription can be canceled at any time through the automatic system. To receive any of the TOL newsletters, you must sign up for them.

We do not sell or rent our mailing list to any third parties, no matter how reputable they may be. We do, however, feature materials and offers from advertisers who purchase space in our newsletter. If you subscribe to one or more of our newsletters, you will from time to time find advertisements in them.

The advertisers offer products and services of interest to users that suit our reader profile, but we are not responsible for their offers, products or views. This also applies to our banner advertisements.