Geaux Girl!’s policy and priority is to ensure that all personal information remains private and secure. www.geauxgirlmagazine.org collects information by the following process:

1. General

To protect your privacy, Geaux Girl!:

• Provides a privacy notice and/or a link to this Privacy Statement on all pages that ask for personal information
• Will not release personal identifying information about you without first obtaining consent; and
• Will not knowingly collect or use personal identifying information from children younger than 13.

2. Basic Information

When you visit the Geaux Girl! website, we may collect some basic information about your computer, including:

• IP address (your computer’s unique signature)
• Operating system (e.g., Windows 10, iOS, Android)
• Browser software (e.g., Google Chrome, Microsoft Internet Explorer)
• Internet Service Provider (e.g., AT&T, Cox)
• Geographic location (e.g., New Orleans, LA)

Your Geaux Girl! information may be used for purposes that include:

• to operate and improve the sites, services, and offerings available through Geaux Girl!;
• to personalize the content and advertisements provided to you (including to present offers to you on behalf of business partners and advertisers);
• to fulfill your requests for products, programs, and services;
• to communicate with you and respond to your inquiries;
• to conduct research about your use of Geaux Girl!; and
• to help offer you other products, programs, or services that may be of interest.

Unless we are addressing an inquiry submitted by you, the information we collect reflects the population as a whole rather than focusing on individuals, and we use it to help us better understand the people who visit the Geaux Girl! website. This information helps us identify the most popular areas on Geaux Girl!’s website.

For the same purposes, we may use cookies (small text files placed on your computer’s hard drive) to help us determine the type of content and sites to which you link, the length of time that you spend at any particular page, and the Geaux Girl! services you use. We use cookies to personalize visitors’ experiences. The cookies used in connection with certain pages may allow Geaux Girl! to compile demographic data (which is not identifiable to a specific individual) about visitors to Geaux Girl!.

3. E-mail

We may collect the e-mail addresses of people who communicate with us via e-mail to respond to these communications and to send future correspondence. We may archive messages for quality assurance purposes. In accordance with CAN-SPAM, a law that sets the rules for commercial email, you can unsubscribe from Geaux Girl!’s emails at any time by clicking the “unsubscribe” button at the bottom of any email.

4. Personal Information

When you register on our website, submit content for publication in the magazine, enter contests, or sign up for other services at Geaux Girl!, we collect personal identifying information from you, which may include the following:

• First and last name;
• Home or other physical address;
• E-mail address;
• Phone number;
• Name of your school;
• Your age and/or date of birth
• Any other information that identifies you as a specific individual;
• Any other information that, when tied to the above information, may identify you as a specific individual.

We collect this information on pages where you can submit your work to Geaux Girl! for publishing consideration or register to join Geaux Girl! services. Such information will be used only for the purposes stated at the location of the collection and/or within this Privacy Statement.
We use information about Geaux Girl! members and visitors for administrative and other purposes that we deem necessary to maintain and improve Geaux Girl!’s services. Such uses include data transmission, surveys conducted by Geaux Girl! or third parties, e-mail or chat services and other future services. We reserve the right to use third parties to provide these services. These third parties may receive certain personal identifying information about you in order for them to perform their services.

Geaux Girl! cooperates with law enforcement agencies in identifying those who use Geaux Girl! services for illegal activities. We reserve the right to release information about members who we believe are in violation of Geaux Girl!’s content guidelines, even without a subpoena, warrant or court order. We also reserve the right to report to law enforcement agencies any activities that we reasonably believe to be unlawful.

We save your personal information indefinitely because we may need to contact you in the event we want your permission to publish your work in the future. If you would like us to remove you from our database, please contact us at info@geauxgirlmagazine.org. We maintain information on members who have been removed for violating Geaux Girl!’s content guidelines in order to identify repeat offenders. From time to time, we may contact members to inform them of improvements or enhancements to Geaux Girl! services.

5. Credit Cards

Geaux Girl! will use your credit card information in order to provide you with subscription services or goods or other services that you request, as well as for any donations that you submit. Information collected by Geaux Girl! is securely stored on Geaux Girl!’s servers. Credit card transactions take place solely on servers that offer a higher level of security.

The transactions are handled by a third-party financial institution, which receives the credit card number and other personal identifying information in order to verify the credit card number and process the transaction. Only authorized Geaux Girl! employees have access to this information, in a manner consistent with industry standards.

6. Third Party Sponsors

Geaux Girl! may host promotions that may be sponsored and administered by outside parties. We require that outside parties conducting promotions on the Geaux Girl! website clearly identify who is conducting the promotion and state their practices concerning the use of personal identifying information. We will post privacy information in the rules and/or login area for the promotions and sweepstakes that we host. To the extent that the privacy information relating to the promotion or sweepstakes conflicts with Geaux Girl!’s Privacy Statement, the specific privacy information regarding the promotion or sweepstakes will govern that particular promotion or sweepstakes.

Third parties that receive information about you from Geaux Girl! at your request are obligated to:

• Clearly indicate the sender of the e-mail message; and
• Provide you with a method of opting out from receiving future communications. If you receive e-mail from a third party stating that it is associated with Geaux Girl!, and you do not want to receive promotional materials from that third party, please follow the third party’s removal procedures.

Additionally, be aware that when you click on ad banners, they may lead you to other sites not operated by or affiliated with Geaux Girl!. These outside parties may have different privacy policies from ours. Geaux Girl! does not assume any responsibility for actions of third parties.

Privacy Policy Addendum

This privacy policy applies to the information Geaux Girl! collects about you as a user of the Geaux Girl! website and services. Some of these services may provide you with additional information and choices about your privacy, which you should review.

This policy does not apply to information about you collected by third-party websites and offerings linked to or otherwise accessible from Geaux Girl!. The information collected or received by third parties is subject to their own privacy policies.

Sharing of Your Geaux Girl! Information

Geaux Girl! does not rent or sell your Geaux Girl! information (such as name, address, telephone number, username, or credit card information) to third parties for their marketing purposes. Geaux Girl! may share your Geaux Girl! information with third parties to provide products and services you have requested, when we have your consent, or as described in this Privacy Policy.

Your Geaux Girl! information may be shared with sites and services subject to this Privacy Policy.

The contents of your online communications, as well as other information about you as a Geaux Girl! user, may be accessed and disclosed in response: to lawful governmental requests or legal process (for example, a court order, search warrant or subpoena); in other circumstances in which Geaux Girl! has a good faith belief that a crime has been or is being committed by a Geaux Girl! user; that an emergency exists that poses a threat to the safety of you or another person; when necessary either to protect the rights or property of Geaux Girl!; or for us to render the service you have requested.

Please note that if you use Geaux Girl! communications tools to disclose information about yourself publicly (for example, in profiles made available by Geaux Girl!), others outside of Geaux Girl! may obtain access to information you provide.

Geaux Girl!’s offerings may include features or functionalities provided by third parties. In the process of providing such functionalities within Geaux Girl! services, your browser may automatically send certain technical information to the third-party provider. The use of these third-party provided features or functionalities is subject to their own privacy policies.

Business partners or other third parties may receive data about groups of Geaux Girl! users but do not receive information that personally identifies you.

We may use agents and contractors in order to help operate Geaux Girl!. Their use of information is limited to these purposes.

Cookies, Web Beacons, and Similar Technologies

Browser cookies are text files that are placed in your computer’s browser, and that can be used to help recognize you as a Geaux Girl! services user. Web beacons are small pieces of code placed on web pages that can be used, among other things, to count the users who visit that web page, or to deliver a cookie to the browser of a user viewing that page. Many websites, including Geaux Girl!, may also use Flash cookies that operate similarly to browser cookies.

We may use cookies, web beacons, or similar technologies in combination with your Geaux Girl! information to enhance and personalize your experience of Geaux Girl! services, including:

• to help authenticate you when you use Geaux Girl! services;
• to remember your preferences and registration information;
• to enable a shopping cart;
• to present and help measure and research the effectiveness of service offerings, advertisements, and e-mail communications (by determining which Geaux Girl! e-mails you open and act upon);
• and to customize the content and advertisements provided to you through the Geaux Girl! service.

You can control browser cookies through your browser’s settings. You can control Flash cookies via the Macromedia Flash application on your computer, or by going to the Macromedia Flash Player website, which allows you to view, modify, and delete Flash cookies. Please note that if you reject all browser or Flash cookies you will not be able to take advantage of many Geaux Girl! services.

The use of cookies, web beacons, or similar technologies by third party ad network or content providers is subject to their own privacy policies.

Display of Advertising

Your Geaux Girl! information may be used for the presentation of advertisements. Geaux Girl! may use ad networks to customize and display advertising on Geaux Girl! services. Geaux Girl! may share certain information about you as a user (such as age, zip code, or other information we have collected or received) with certain ad network and service providers to help them deliver more relevant content and advertisements through their networks.

Third party advertisers and service providers may use cookies, web beacons, or other technologies in connection with advertising, content, and services offered through Geaux Girl! services and other sites, including helping to operate ad networks. The use of cookies, web beacons, or other technologies by content and ad network providers is subject to the privacy policies of those third parties.

If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, you can visit the Network Advertising Initiative or Digital Advertising Alliance.

You can also use your browser to control your experience. When you clear the cookies in your browser, you may clear the information used to build a behavioral profile. Depending on the browser you are using, you can also choose to block third-party cookies (such as cookies from ad networks) or browse in a private browsing mode.

Our Commitment to Security

Geaux Girl! has established safeguards to help prevent unauthorized access to or misuse of your Geaux Girl! information but cannot guarantee that your information will never be disclosed in a manner inconsistent with this Privacy Policy (for example, as a result of unauthorized acts by third parties that violate applicable law or the policies of Geaux Girl! and its affiliated providers). To protect your privacy and security, we may use passwords to help verify your identity before granting access or making corrections to your Geaux Girl! information.

Protecting Children

Geaux Girl! is committed to complying fully with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act.

The Geaux Girl! forums and profiles are not intended for use by children under the age of 13. We will not knowingly collect any information from site visitors in this age group and have taken such measures by requiring all users to enter their birth date prior to entering personally identifiable information.

However, if we learn that a child under the age of 13 has submitted personally identifiable information online, in contravention of these measures, we will take all reasonable measures to delete such information from our databases and to not use such information for any purpose except where necessary to protect the safety of the child or others or as required by law.

We encourage children to talk with their parents about the information any website is collecting and decide together what information to share.

How to Contact Us

If you have any questions or concerns about the Geaux Girl! Privacy Policy or its implementation, you may contact us at info@geauxgirlmagazine.org.

Changes to this Privacy Policy and Additional Information

Geaux Girl! may update this Privacy Policy from time to time, so you should review this policy periodically. If there are significant changes to Geaux Girl!’s information practices, you will be provided with appropriate online notice.

Last updated 09/11/19