MYENGLISHROSES.NET ONLINE PRIVACY POLICY

MYENGLISHROSES.NET ("Site") is a co-promotional Site maintained by Penguin Group (USA) Inc. and Calloway Arts & Entertainment ("the co-promoters," "us," or "we"), c/o Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, NY, 10014. We can be reached by e-mail at privacy@myenglishroses.net. This Policy applies only to information collected online by the co-promoters and does not cover any such information collected by either Penguin Group (USA) Inc. or Calloway Arts & Entertainment other than through this co-promotional site, or by either co-promoter's corporate parent(s), affiliates, joint ventures or co-promotions between either co-promoter and a third party, or any other company or party, unless specifically stated. Your privacy is important to us. The purpose of this policy is to inform you of how we collect, use, disclose, manage, and store the personal information that you may provide to us online. If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy, please do not participate in the Site's online activities and services that require you to provide personal information. Your continued participation on this Site indicates your acceptance of this Privacy Policy.

GOVERNED BY UNITED STATES AND NEW YORK LAW; JURISDICTION

This Site is operated in the United States and is designed for and targeted to U.S. audiences. It is governed by and operated in accordance with the laws of the United States or the State of New York as applicable, without giving effect to their principles of conflicts of law. By using this Site and/or providing us with your personal information, you waive any claims that may arise under the laws of other countries or territories located outside of the United States or states other than New York, and you agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of the State of New York and the federal courts of the Southern District, located in New York City, NY.

WEBSITE COLLECTION, USE, AND DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

As you interact with our Site, we and our operational service providers may collect certain information from you, including but not limited to name, postal address, email address, telephone number, date of birth and credit card information ("Personal Information"). The Site uses Personal Information in various ways, including but not limited to sending e-newsletters and e-mail alerts you subscribed for (sometimes through designated third party operational service providers on our behalf), processing your online purchases (applicable to sites with e-commerce), informing you about and improving our products and services, fulfilling contest, sweepstakes and other offers, and otherwise to better meet the needs and preferences of our customers. This Site may offer user interactive activities such as bulletin boards, forums, blogs or other public areas ("Public Areas"). We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to save and archive any content of any nature posted to the Public Areas and share such information as described in this Policy. See our Terms of Use Agreement.

We may share your Personal Information as follows:

  1. To comply with court orders or subpoenas and as necessary to satisfy any law or regulation;
  2. In cooperation with a law enforcement or government requests or where we believe it is necessary to investigate suspected illegal activities, fraud, or violations of our Terms of Use Agreement;
  3. With Penguin's operational service providers;
  4. With our corporate parent(s)and other affiliated entities for business, operational and marketing purposes;
  5. To a third party in the event of a corporate sale, merger or other restructuring; and
  6. With third parties (for example, our authors or promotional partners) for their own direct marketing purposes but only with notice and consent at time of collection.

OPT-IN/OPT-OUT OPTIONS

You can "opt in" or "opt out" of receiving promotional e-mail from us by checking or unchecking the appropriate box on the registration or submission area for the particular offer, by updating your preferences if applicable or by following the instructions in our e-mail messages. Please note that even if you choose to opt out of promotional e-mail, we will continue to send you important service-related communications (e.g., order confirmations). You may also opt out of having your information shared with third parties for direct marketing purposes under item 6 of Website Collection, Use, And Disclosure Of Personal Information by following the instructions listed immediately above.

SECURITY OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

We understand the need to prevent online fraud. To do so, we employ reasonable industry standard security measures involving both hardware and software. Please remember that no data transmission over the Internet, or by other means, can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Thus, while we strive to protect your personal data, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us. Therefore, you understand, acknowledge, and agree that you transmit certain Personal Information over this Site at your own risk.

COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING DEVICES

The co-promoters and our operational service providers employ cookies and other tracking devices to recognize you and improve your experience on the Site. Cookies are small pieces of information stored on your computer for record-keeping purposes. We use cookies to remember information customers give us so that they don't have to reenter it each time they visit the Site. You are always free to decline our cookies if your browser permits. Even without a cookie, you will still be able to use most of the features on our Site.

MONITORING AND USE OF AGGREGATE PERSONAL INFORMATION

Without disclosure of Personal Information about individual users, we may provide aggregate statistics about our users, traffic patterns and related Site information to third party vendors or marketing companies.

SPECIAL POLICY WITH REGARD TO INFORMATION FROM CHILDREN UNDER THIRTEEN

Your child's privacy is important to us, and we are committed to safeguarding children's personal information collected online, and to helping parents and their children learn how to exercise control over personal information while exploring the Internet.

To participate in certain of our interactive features, we may ask the user to provide us with the following types of information: first name, the visitor's e-mail address, parent's e-mail address, and age information. We use this information only for our internal purposes to enable them to enter one of our sweepstakes or contests or to otherwise participate in one of the activities on our site, or to respond to an e-mail message they have sent to us. We may also use information to enable parents and children to learn of additional product or service opportunities. We do not share children's personally identifiable information with outside third parties not bound by this Privacy Policy. Parents, if you would like to do any of the following, please send an e-mail to privacy@myenglishroses.net for instructions:

  • access the personally identifiable information that this site has collected from your child,
  • correct factual errors in such information,
  • request to have this information deleted, or
  • request that we no longer collect or maintain such information.

To protect your child's privacy and security online, we will take appropriate steps to help verify your identity before granting you access to the personal information that we collect and maintain about your child.

LINKS

We may provide links to third-party web sites as a service to our users. Please be aware that we cannot control and are not responsible for the information collection, use and disclosure practices of such web sites. We encourage you to review and understand the privacy policies on these web sites before providing any information to them.

CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS' PRIVACY RIGHTS

If you are a California resident and request information about how to exercise your third-party disclosure choices, you must send a request to the following address with a preference on how our response to your request should be sent (e-mail or postal mail). You may contact us in two ways. Send e-mail to privacy@myenglishroses.net, with the statement " California Residents' Privacy Rights" in the subject field of your e-mail. Alternatively, you may contact Penguin at:

MY ENGLISH ROSES.NET

c/o Penguin Group (USA)
375 Hudson Street
New York, NY 10014
Attn: California RESIDENTS' Privacy Rights c/o Legal Department

For offline requests, please include your name, postal address, city, state, and zip code. We will not accept requests via telephone or facsimile.

ENFORCEMENT

If any provision of this Privacy Policy shall be adjudged unlawful or void or unenforceable in whole or in part, the remaining provisions shall continue in full force and effect.

GENERAL REQUESTS ABOUT THIS POLICY

To all other users of this Site, if you have other questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact our Site Administrator at the following e-mail address: privacy@myenglishroses.net.

CHANGES TO OUR ONLINE PRIVACY POLICY

We may revise this Policy at any time by updating this posting without advance notice to you. Such revisions shall be effective immediately upon posting. Therefore, we encourage you to visit our website to review this Privacy Policy often.

LAST UPDATED: February 3, 2009