EDGE Atlanta

The EDGE Publications Privacy Policy may be found below. Your use of the EDGEatlanta.com Site and services constitutes your acceptance of the terms and conditions of the EDGEatlanta.com Privacy Policy. You are responsible for reviewing and becoming familiar with all of these terms.

EDGE Privacy Policy

EDGE Publications has created this privacy policy because we value our members and recognize their right to keep personal information private. This statement discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for our range of EDGE websites. We believe very strongly that private information should remain private.

Information Collection

Cookies

Our Web site uses cookies to gather broad demographic information about our users, to deliver user-specific content specific to your interest, and to auto-fill forms with your demographic information so that you don't have to manually type that information each time you visit.

A cookie is a small line of data that is stored on your hard drive. Some cookies are only stored for the duration of a single browser session; others persist across sessions. Information you provide to us voluntarily is NOT stored in the cookie; that information is kept encrypted and secure in our database. Other organizations that place advertising on our sites sometimes have the ability to assign a different cookie to you in a process that we do not control. All cookies assigned by our sites are anonymous, random number strings; neither us nor our advertisers will know who you are unless you specifically provide that information to us. While cookies set by our sites may be used to collect personally identifiable information and can be traced to an individual user, this personally identifiable information is used only for internal purposes; when information collected through cookies is shared with third parties, it is only used in aggregate form.

Online Polls

At times EDGE websites may run online polls. These polls are always optional, and they never collect any demographic information.

Advice / Editorial Letters

Our advice columns and editorial letters sections permit EDGE users to ask questions and provide feedback directly to EDGE staff and writers through online forms. These forms are entirely optional and can always be submitted anynomously. Any personal or demographic information submitted through these forms may be reproduced online as part of a published response.

Member Feedback

EDGE websites store feedback members send to us. This feedback is used to administer and refine the EDGE websites and associated services and at times may be shared with EDGE partners either in aggregate form or individually with specific identifying characteristics about the Member (e.g., e-mail address or name) removed.

Contests

From time to time we may provide you the opportunity to participate in contests or surveys on our site. If you participate, we will request certain personally identifiable information from you. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and you therefore have a choice whether or not to disclose this information. The requested information typically includes contact information (such as name and shipping address), and demographic information (such as zip code).

We use this information to notify you when you win or do not win said contests, and in order to ship any prizes you might win to you directly. When notified, your personal information may also be shared with the sponsors of said contests. Your entry to any contests is linked to your Registration (see below) and so the information you provide is subject to the terms described below.

Registration and the EDGE Social Network

When you register with EDGE, you provide us with certain personal information, such as your name, your email address, your telephone number, your address, your gender, schools attended and additional personal or preference information.

When you use EDGE, you may set up your personal profile, form relationships, send messages, enter contests, perform searches and queries, form groups, set up events and transmit information through various channels. We collect this information so that we can provide you the service and offer personalized features. In most cases, we retain it so that, for instance, you can return to view prior messages you have sent or easily see your friend list.

You post content on EDGE at your own risk. Although we allow you to set privacy options that limit access to your pages and private information, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. We cannot control the actions of other users with whom you may choose to share your pages and information. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that content you post on EDGE will not be viewed by unauthorized persons. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on EDGE. You understand and acknowledge that, even after removal, copies of your content may remain viewable in cached and archived pages or if other users have copied or stored your content.

If you wish for your account to be deactivated, please send a request to support@edgepublications.com.

Any improper collection or misuse of information provided on EDGE is a violation of the EDGE Terms of Service and should be reported to privacy@edgepublications.com.

If you choose to use our invitation service to tell a friend about our site, we will ask you for information needed to send the invitation, such as your friend's email address. We will automatically send your friend a one-time email or instant message inviting him or her to visit the site. EDGE stores this information to send this one-time invitation, to register a friend connection if your invitation is accepted, and to track the success of our referral program. Your friend may contact us at support@edgepublications.com to request that we remove this information from our database.

Communications from EDGE

Newsletters, Special Offers and Updates

We may occasionally send you information on products, services, news, special deals, or promotions. You can sign up for these promotional emails through the homepage of our websites. Out of respect for your privacy, we present the option not to receive these types of communications. Every email communication you receive from EDGE includes instructions for "opting out" of any future communications from our company.

Service-related Announcements

We will send you strictly service-related announcements on rare occasions when it is necessary to do so. For instance, if our service is temporarily suspended for maintenance, we might send you an email. As always, every such email you receive from EDGE includes instructions for "opting out" of any future communications from our company.

Additional Disclosures

Notwithstanding anything else in this policy, EDGE may also disclose personal and aggregate information when required by a valid legal mechanism such as a search warrant, subpoena, or court order, or when we deem it necessary, in our sole discretion, to protect our rights and the safety of others, or our members, employees, or properties.

EDGE reserves the right to share some or all of your personal information with its parent company, subsidiaries, joint ventures or other companies under common control with EDGE, in which case EDGE will require such entities to honor this privacy policy. If EDGE is acquired by another company, that company will obtain the member information collected by EDGE and will assume the rights and obligations set forth in this privacy policy regarding that information.

Off-site Links

EDGE provides links to other sites. EDGE is not responsible for the privacy practices or contents of these other sites.

Syndicated Content

EDGE websites may syndicate its content to and distribute its content through other sites on the Internet. Although you may see the EDGE logo on these pages, your activity on these sites is governed by the privacy statement on the site you're visiting.

Contacting Us

If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this site, you can contact us via email at privacy@edgeatlanta.com.

Change Policy

From time to time we may revise this privacy notice. If we make a material change, we will post a notice on the EDGE websites or notify you by email, at which time you'll be able to "opt out" of these new practices by contacting us (using the contact information above).