This Privacy Policy describes how Dow Jones & Company, Inc., publisher of Barron's and its affiliates (hereafter referred to collectively as "Dow Jones"), treat the personal information we receive about you when you subscribe to the print edition of Barron's ("Barron's") or visit our customer service Web site at www.barronsmag.com ("barronsmag.com" or "our Web site").
Other Dow Jones Products and Services
In addition to Barron's, Dow Jones has many other products and services, such as Barron's Online at www.barrons.com, The Wall Street Journal print and online editions, and The Wall Street Journal Europe and The Asian Wall Street Journal newspapers. Any information that you provide for these other Dow Jones products and services is not subject to this Privacy Policy.
Links to Other Web sites
Barronsmag.com may feature some content and services from our affiliated Web sites, such as Barron's Online at www.barrons.com, and third party Web sites. For example, if you subscribe for digital delivery of Barron's, you will be linked to Newsstand Inc.'s Web site at www.newsstand.com for that service. Remember that any information that you provide on any other Web site is not subject to this Privacy Policy. We recommend that you review the privacy policy at each other Web site to determine how that site treats your personal information.
Information We Collect
General: When you subscribe to Barron's or use some of our Web site's features, such as renewing your subscription to Barron's, completing a change of address form, requesting that we suspend or resume delivery of Barron's or contacting us through the "Contact Us" form, and at other times, we will collect personally identifiable information from you that may include your name, telephone number, email address, mailing address, credit card account number and similar information.
We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of thirteen.
Web site Usage Information: We automatically collect IP addresses and Web site usage information from you when you visit barronsmag.com. This information helps us evaluate how our visitors use and navigate our Web site on an aggregate basis, including the number and frequency of visitors to each Web page, and the length of their visits.
Online Surveys: We may conduct occasional online surveys. For example, when you are within our Web site, you may see a pop-up window offering you the opportunity of participating in a survey. These surveys are entirely voluntary and you may easily decline to participate.
How We Use Information Collected
We may use information in the following ways:
We may combine the information that we collect from you with information that you provide in connection with your use of other Dow Jones products, services and Web sites and with information provided to us by third parties.
We may hire other companies to perform services on our behalf including, without limitation, facilitating some aspects of our Web site, sending email, and fulfilling subscription and other requests. These other companies may be supplied with or have access to your personally identifiable information solely for the purpose of providing these services to us or on our behalf.
We also may use third parties, called third-party ad servers or ad networks, to deliver ads to you on our behalf. These third-party ad servers may be supplied with or have access to your information solely for the purpose of providing these services to us or on our behalf.
We may disclose and use personally identifiable information in special circumstances where it is necessary to enforce our rights (for example, when necessary to protect our intellectual property rights) or when we, in our sole discretion, believe it is necessary or appropriate, in connection with a sale or transfer of some or all of our assets in the Web site or Barron's. We also may disclose personally identifiable information when we, in good faith, believe that the law requires us to do so.
Your Ability to Choose
You can let us know that you do not want us to share your information with any third parties who wish to send you information about their products and services by contacting us by email at barrons.service@dowjones.com, by postal mail at Mail Preference Service, Barron's, 200 Burnett Road, Chicopee, MA 01020, by fax to 1-800-975-8618 or by telephone to Barron's Print Customer Service at 1-800-544-0422.
You also can let us know that you do not wish us to send you information by email about Dow Jones products and services by using the "email Alerts" form on our Web site or by contacting us by email at barrons.service@dowjones.com, by postal mail at Mail Preference Service, Barron's, 200 Burnett Road, Chicopee, MA 01020, by fax to 1-800-975-8618 or by telephone to Barron's Print Customer Service at 1-800-544-0422.
Security
The personally identifiable information we collect about you is stored in limited access servers.
Transfer to U.S.
Your information may be stored and processed in the United States or any other country where Dow Jones has facilities, and by subscribing to our services, you consent to the transfer of information outside of your country.
Review and Correction
If you are an active subscriber to Barron's, and you wish to change your email address or mailing address, you can do so by clicking on "Change my Address" on the home page of our Web site. You can then change as desired.
If you are an active subscriber to Barron's, and you wish to change your email address or email preferences, you can do so by clicking on "email Alerts" on the home page of our Web site. You can then change as desired.
You also may review and update any of the personally identifiable information that you have provided to us by contacting us, at any time, by email at barrons.service@dowjones.com, by postal mail at Mail Preference Service, Barron's, 200 Burnett Road, Chicopee, MA 01020, by fax to 1-800-975-8618 or by telephone to Barron's Print Customer Service at 1-800-544-0422.
Cookies and Online Advertisements
We may use cookies on our Web site to allow you to move quickly through our site, to recognize repeat visitors and to allow you to take advantage of some of our site's features. A cookie is a string of information that is sent by a Web site and stored on your hard drive or temporarily in your computer's memory. Cookies are small files (just a few hundred bytes) and won't pose any significant disk-space concerns.
When you view an ad for Barron's on other Web sites, our third party advertising company may place or recognize a unique cookie on your browser. Our advertising company may also use invisible images (often referred to as pixel tags, clear GIFs or Web beacons) to note which pages of our Web site you visit after viewing our ads. The information that is collected through the use of these images is not personally identifiable and is used only to track responses to our advertising efforts.
Policy Modifications
When we make any material change to this Privacy Policy, we will inform you by posting a notice on the main page of this site that the policy has been updated and by changing the date on this page noting when the policy was last updated.
Comments and Questions
If you have any questions, comments or concerns about our Privacy Policy, you may contact us by email at barrons.service@dowjones.com or by postal mail at Mail Preference Service, Barron's, 200 Burnett Road, Chicopee, MA 01020.