What personal information will we collect?
We will collect information that identifies you ("personal information") only when you voluntarily provide it to us. For example, when you decide to subscribe online for our magazine, or to complete an online survey, we may ask you to provide some personal information, such as your first and last name, mailing address and/or email address. When we collect such information, we will make every effort to link to this privacy policy.

How will we use this information?
  We will use this personal information to fulfill your online requests. For example, if you subscribe online for our magazine, we will use your personal information to process your request and to send you your magazine. We also may use this information to notify you of special offers, new products and other services about which you might be interested. If you do not wish to receive these types of communications, simply follow the unsubscribe features contained in any email from us. We may use this information in aggregate form in various ways; for example, to help us evaluate and modify existing services, and to help us develop additional services that are likely to be of interest to our users. Arthur Frommer’s Budget Travel may do research on our users’ demographics, interests and behavior based on the information provided to us upon registration, during a promotion, from our server log files and from surveys. We do this to better understand and serve our users. Arthur Frommer’s Budget Travel may share this aggregated data with advertisers or business partners. Under confidentiality agreements, Arthur Frommer’s Budget Travel may match aggregated user information with third party data. Also, Arthur Frommer’s Budget Travel may disclose aggregated user statistics in order to describe our services to prospective partners, advertisers, and other third parties, and for other lawful purposes.

With whom will we share this information?
We will share your personal information with our current or future affiliated companies and with those unaffiliated third parties that assist in fulfilling subscriptions or provide contractual services for us. For example, we allow access to our database by third parties that provide us with services, such as technical maintenance or forums software, but only for the purpose of and to the extent necessary to provide you with those services. Any third party that has access to our database for this purpose is bound by the terms set forth in this policy. If we wish to share your e-mail address with an unaffiliated third party for any other purpose, including marketing products or services that may be of interest to you, we will give you an opportunity to opt out before sharing such information. Finally, we may be required to disclose personal information by law or legal process, to protect and defend the rights or property of Newsweek or to protect the personal safety of our website users and customers. We reserve the right to contact appropriate authorities when activities that are illegal or violate our policies are taking place on our website.

How we protect this information?
We take reasonable measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access through the use of encryption and network firewalls. We also safeguard your personal information from unauthorized access by limiting the number of employees permitted to access such information, and by having in place processes for disciplinary action where appropriate.

How you can access this information?
If you are a current subscriber to our magazine, you may access and modify your personal information by visiting the "Your Subscription" portion of our website.

What non-personal information will we collect?
In some instances, our site may collect information about you that is not personally identifiable, as described below.

Cookies
We may collect certain non-personal information through the use of "cookies." "Cookies" are small text files placed on your hard drive that recognize repeat visitors, facilitate ongoing access to some sites, and allow sites to understand how and when pages are visited and by how many people. We use cookies primarily to make improvements and updates to our site based on which areas are popular and which are not. Cookies also make web-surfing easier by saving your passwords and preferences when you visit our site. Most browsers are designed to accept cookies. You can reset your browser to refuse all cookies; however, some parts of our site may not function or may be considerably slower if you do so.

Please note that our advertisers may occasionally place cookies on your computer, which is standard in the Internet industry. We do not control these cookies, and these cookies are not subject to this privacy policy.

Internet Protocol Addresses
An Internet Protocol (IP) address is a number automatically assigned to your computer whenever you access the Internet. If you request pages from this site, our server will enter your IP address into a log. We may use this information to measure site traffic for purposes of system administration and for our sponsors. This information generally is not linked to any personal information, however, in some cases, it may be possible to contact a user through his or her IP address. Although it is not our policy to attempt such contact, and not to release this information to third parties, we reserve the right to use this information to identify and, when appropriate, prosecute anyone who threatens our service, site, customers and/or others. We also may release logged information to comply with any legal process.

What about kids?
We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 13. In the event that we learn that we have collected any personal information from a child under the age of 13 without parental consent, we will delete that information from our database as quickly as possible.

External Links
Our website may provide links to various websites that we do not control. When you click on one of these links, you will be transferred from our site and connected to the website of the organization or company that you selected. Even if an affiliation exists between this site and another site, we exercise no control over linked sites. Each of these linked sites maintains its own independent privacy and data collection policies and procedures. If you visit a website that is linked to this site, you should consult that site’s privacy policy before providing those sites with any of your personal information.

Terms, Changes and Questions
By providing personal information through this website, you signify your agreement to the terms of our privacy policy. If you do not agree with these terms, please do not disclose any personal information through this site.

You will be responsible for all charges incurred while your account is being used, if any, including payment for any goods or services.

This service is available "as is." We do not warrant that this service will be uninterrupted or error-free. We are not responsible for the availability or content of other services that may be linked to this service. We do not make any warranties, express or implied, including without limitation, those of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose, with respect to this service. We reserve the right to correct any errors or omissions in this service. Although we intend to take reasonable steps to prevent the introduction of viruses, worms, "Trojan horses" or other destructive materials to this service, we do not guarantee or warrant that this service or materials that may be downloaded from this service do not contain such destructive features. We are not liable for any damages or harm attributable to such features.

Technology on the Internet is developing at a rapid pace, and we need to maintain our flexibility in the online arena. If we need to change our policy in the future, we will post these changes as soon as they go into effect.

If you have any questions or comments about this policy or our use of personal information, you may send an email to privacy@afbtmag.com. We will use reasonable efforts to promptly investigate any complaint you may have regarding our use of personal information.

Date: August 7, 2002