We use the information you provide about yourself to fulfill your requests for our products, programs and services, to respond to your inquiries about offerings, and to offer you other products or services that we believe may be of interest to you. We sometimes use this information to communicate with you, such as to notify you when you have won one of our contests, when we make changes to subscriber agreements, to fulfill a request by you or to contact you about your account with us.
We use the information that you provide about others to enable us to fulfill your request to share content. From time to time, we also may use this information to offer relevant products or services to them. If you submit content for publication (for example, an interview, email or letter to one of our editors), we may publish your name and other information you have provided to us unless you specifically request that we not do so.
We sometimes use the non-personal information that we collect to improve the design and content of our sites and to enable us to personalize your experience. We also may use this information in the aggregate to analyze site usage, as well as to offer products or services. We may use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our hosting services, gather broad demographic information and administer our Web site.
We will disclose information in our database when required to do so by law, for example, in response to a court order or a subpoena. We also may disclose such information in response to a law enforcement agency’s request.
We allow access to our databases by third parties that provide us with services such as technical maintenance or content management, but only for the purpose of providing those services. If you choose to purchase items through one of our sites, we may forward your information to third parties for services such as credit card processing and order fulfillment. There also are times when you provide information about yourself to us in areas of the site that are managed or participated in by third parties. In such cases, the information may be used by us and by such third parties, each pursuant to its own policies.
We also may provide your information (first and last name, company name, title and email) to our advertisers, so they can provide you with product information that may meet your needs or match your interests. While we will seek to require such third parties to follow appropriate privacy policies and will not authorize them to use this information except for the express purpose for which it is provided, Spa Executive and its parent company have no control over such third parties and therefore do not bear any responsibility for any actions or policies of third parties.