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Privacy

EPmag.com is committed to providing visitors with a safe online experience, while at the same time protecting users from unexpected use of personally identifiable information. Like other web publishers, we collect information from users in order to deliver more effective content and advertising, but only within the limits specified in this policy.

If you have questions about our privacy policy, please Contact Us.

Collection of Personal Information

EPmag.com may collect personally identifiable information that you provide, such as your E-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number.

We may collect information from: sweepstakes and contest registrations, promotional voting and polling activities, and registration for subscription. There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by EPmag.com, such as your IP address, browser type, domain name, access time and referring website addresses.

Please keep in mind that if you disclose personally identifiable information through our chat room, message boards or other public on-line forums, this information may be collected and used by others accessing those sites.

EPmag.com encourages you to review the privacy statements and policies of other websites you choose to link to from EPmag.com, so that you can understand how those websites collect, use and store your information. EPmag.com is not responsible for the privacy statements, policies or content of other websites, including websites you link to from our co-branded sites. Websites containing co-branding (referencing our name and a third party's name) contain content delivered by the third party and not EPmag.com.

Use of Your Personal Information

We believe in protecting your private information. We will not share your information with companies outside our organization except as described in the Privacy Policy. We may disclose aggregated user statistics in order to describe our services to potential advertisers, partners, other third parties, our affiliate companies, and for other lawful purposes.

The information we gather from you may be used in several ways, now or in the future, as follows:

EPmag.com does not give away, sell, rent or lease its users' personally identifiable information to any merchant, advertiser or web publisher. Non-personally identifiable user information (such as usage pattern, browser type and your computer) may be shared with third party businesses or advertisers with which we have a business or contractual relationship. We reserve the right to disclose personal information when needed to comply with the law or a legal process, cooperate with investigations of purported unlawful activities, to identify persons violating the law, or in connection with the sale of part or all of EPmag.com's or its affiliates assets.

Control Your Personally Identifiable Information

If you prefer that we not use your personally identifiable information to allow third parties to call your attention to products, special offers and unique content that may be of interest to you, you will be offered the ability to decline at that time.

Cookies: What are they and why are they needed?

A cookie is a data text file sent from a web site to your browser. It will be stored within your system. The cookie identifies the user and allows access to articles, thus alleviating the need to continually log in with your username and password. EPmag.com only can access information from a cookie sent by EPmag.com, not other web sites. Cookies do not reveal information that you have not supplied. The only way EPmag.com learns information about you is if you specifically and voluntarily submit that information to us, for example, through registration. EPmag.com uses cookies to personalize your visit to the site. By tracking usage, we can best determine the needs of our customers and advertisers.