Effective Date: Jan 1, 2005 What This Privacy Policy Covers
This policy covers how MacMillans treats personal information that MacMillans collects and receives, including information related to your past use of MacMillans products and services. Personal information is information about you that is personally identifiable like your name, address, email address, or phone number, and that is not otherwise publicly available.
This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that MacMillans does not own or control, or to people that MacMillans does not employ or manage.
MacMillans collects personal information when you use MacMillans products or services, when you visit MacMillans pages or the pages of certain MacMillans partners, and when you enter promotions or sweepstakes. MacMillans may combine information about you that we have with information we obtain from business partners or other companies.
MacMillans collects information about your transactions with us and with some of our business partners, including information about your use of financial products and services that we offer.
MacMillans automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser, including your IP address, MacMillans cookie information, and the page you request.
MacMillans uses information for the following general purposes: to customize the advertising and content you see, fulfill your requests for products and services, improve our services, contact you, conduct research, and provide anonymous reporting for internal and external clients.
MacMillans does not rent, sell, or share personal information about you with other people or nonaffiliated companies except to provide products or services you've requested, when we have your permission, or under the following circumstances:
We provide the information to trusted partners who work on behalf of or with MacMillans under confidentiality agreements. These companies may use your personal information to help MacMillans communicate with you about offers from MacMillans and our marketing partners. However, these companies do not have any independent right to share this information.
We respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims;
We believe it is necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of MacMillans's terms of use, or as otherwise required by law.
We transfer information about you if MacMillans is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, MacMillans will notify you before information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
MacMillans advertisers include financial service providers (such as banks, insurance agents, stock brokers and mortgage lenders) and non-financial companies (such as stores, airlines, and software companies).
MacMillans works with vendors, partners, advertisers, and other service providers in different industries and categories of business. For more information regarding providers of products or services that you've requested please read our detailed reference links.
MacMillans may set and access macmillans.com cookies on your computer.
MacMillans lets other companies that show advertisements on some of our pages set and access their cookies on your computer. Other companies' use of their cookies is subject to their own privacy policies, not this one. Advertisers or other companies do not have access to MacMillans's cookies.
MacMillans uses web beacons to access macmillans.com cookies inside and outside our network of web sites and in connection with MacMillans products and services.
New categories of marketing communications may be added to site. Users who visit this page can opt out of receiving future marketing communications from these new categories or they can unsubscribe by following instructions contained in the messages they receive.
We reserve the right to send you certain communications relating to the MacMillans service, such as service announcements, administrative messages and the MacMillans Newsletter, without offering you the opportunity to opt-out of receiving them.
We limit access to personal information about you to employees who we believe reasonably need to come into contact with that information to provide products or services to you or in order to do their jobs.
We have physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with federal regulations to protect personal information about you. To learn more about security, including the security steps we have taken and security steps you can take, please read Security at MacMillans.
MacMillans may update this policy. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your MacMillans account or by placing a prominent notice on our site.
