PRIVACY POLICY
PASSWORD & DATA SECURITY
To ensure your data security- including password, address information and credit card numbers, The Hispanic Group (HG) always uses industry-standard encryption technology when transferring and receiving consumer data exchanged with any website owned or operated by The Hispanic Group ( Any site owned or operated by the Hispanic Group is hereby known as "HG Website"). We have appropriate security measures protecting against loss, misuse or alteration of information that we collected from Website users.
If a HG Website requires you to open an account, you must complete the specified registration process and provide HG Website with current, complete, and accurate information as requested by the applicable online registration form. It is your responsibility to maintain the completeness, accuracy of your registration data, along with keeping it current. Any loss caused by your failure to provide that complete, current, and accurate information is your responsibility.
You may be asked to choose a password and user name. It is your responsibility solely and entirely to maintain the confidentiality of your password and account. Additionally, you are entirely responsible for any and all activities that take place under your account. You agree to notify HG immediately of any unauthorized account usage. HG is not and will not be liable for any loss you may incur as a result of someone else using your password or account, either with or without your knowledge. You may cancel your account by delivering notice in the manner provided in the Additional Terms governing the particular HG Website.
Disclaimer of Warranties
NO WARRANTIES: WE, OUR MANAGERS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS AND PARTNERS, DISCLAIM, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ALL IMPLIED AND/OR EXPRESSED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ANY WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, SATISFACTORY QUALITY, WORKMANLIKE EFFORT, TITLE, INFORMATIONAL CONTENT, MATERIALS, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. YOUR USE OF, AND RELIANCE ON, ANY ADVICE OR INFORMATION OBTAINED FROM OR THROUGH THIS HG WEBSITE IS AT YOUR OWN RISK. FURTHERMORE, HG DOES NOT WARRANT OR MAKE ANY REPRESENTATIONS REGARDING SUITABILITY, AVAILABILITY, ACCURACY, RELIABILITY, COMPLETENESS, OR TIMELINESS OF ANY MATERIAL OF ANY KIND CONTAINED WITHIN THIS HG WEBSITE FOR ANY PURPOSE, INCLUDING SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, SERVICES, INFORMATION, TEXT AND RELATED GRAPHICS CONTENT.
THIS HG WEBSITE AND ALL CONTENT, INCLUDING SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, VIDEO, TEXT, SERIVCES, INFORMATION, GRAPHICS, ADVICE, OPINIONS IS PROVIDED "AS IS," “AS AVAILABLE” AND YOUR USE THEREOF IS AT YOUR OWN RISK. HG DOES NOT MAKE ANY REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANT THAT THIS HG WEBSITE AND OR ITS SERVER WILL BE FREE FROM VIRUSES AND/OR OTHER HARMFUL TECHNOLOGY COMPONENTS, AVAILABLE, OR THAT CONTENTS WILL BE ACCURATE, THAT HG WEBSITE WILL OPERATE ERROR-FREE OR UNINTERRUPTED, AND THAT DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED. ALTHOUGH WE TAKE REASONABLE STEPS TO SECURE THE HG WEBSITE, YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THE INTERNET IS NOT A COMPLETELY SECURE MEDIUM AND WE MAKE NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, THAT ANY INFORMATION OR MATERIALS YOU POST ON OR TRANSMIT THROUGH THE SITE WILL BE SAFE FROM UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS OR USE.
HG IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY FAILURES CAUSED BY SERVER ERRORS, MISDIRECTED OR REDIRECTED TRANSMISSIONS, FAILED INTERNET CONNECTIONS, INTERRUPTIONS IN THE TRANSMISSION, OR ANY COMPUTER VIRUS OR OTHER TECHNICAL DEFECT, WHETHER HUMAN OR TECHNICAL IN NATURE.
NO LIABILITY: TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, WE, OUR MANAGERS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS AND PARTNERS, HEREBY DISCLAIM ALL LIABILITY FOR ANY LOSS, COST OR DAMAGE (DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL ,OR OTHERWISE) SUFFERED BY YOU AS A RESULT OF YOUR USE OF THE HG WEBSITE OR FROM ANY COMPUTER VIRUS TRANSMITTED THROUGH THE SITE, OR OTHER SITES ACCESSED FROM THIS HG WEBSITE, WHETHER SUCH LOSS, COST OR DAMAGE ARISES FROM OUR NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE AND EVEN IF WE ARE EXPRESSLY INFORMED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH LOSS OR DAMAGE. IN NO EVENT SHALL OUR TOTAL LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ALL DAMAGES, LOSSES, COSTS AND CAUSES OF ACTION IN THE AGGREGATE (WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO NEGLIGENCE, OR OTHERWISE) ARISING FROM THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS, INCLUDING OUR PRIVACY STATEMENT, OR USE OF THE SITE EXCEED, IN THE AGGREGATE, $100.00 (US) OR EQUIVALENT.
Shopping/Commerce/Third Pary Goods & Services
WE DO NOT VOUCH FOR THOSE PERSONS, COMPANIES AND OTHER ORGANIZATIONS WHOSE GOODS OR SERVICES MAY BE ACCESSED OR DISPLAYED THROUGH OR ON THE SITE.
Shopping
HG Website may sell goods and/or services for which we may ask for:Your Personal Information. Your Personal Information can include your debit card, credit card or other payment information. Alternatively, the HG Website may use a third party service provider to process the financial transaction in a secured manner; the third party transaction and payment method will be accessible via a hyperlink from the HG Website and will have the sole responsibility for all financial transactions, collection, usage, and storage of Your Personal Information. Additional Person information can be requested for example: full name, email address and telephone number, billing and shipping address, and any such information required and necessary to fulfill your order and to further communicate with you regarding your order. Your Personal Information will be encrypted or collected through secured Internet connections generally via S-HTTP or SSL protocols. Your Personal Information will also be stored in a commercially reasonable secure manner. Be advised, we may use your Personal Information, (but not your credit card or debit card number) to contact you regarding additional products, services and discounts or to provide such information indirectly from our Advertisers, unless you tell us otherwise ("Opt-out"). We will only use your credit card or debit card number to complete the specific transaction you requested.
Third-Party Merchants
This HG Website may allow you to order and receive products, information and services from businesses not owned or operated by HG. The payment, warranty, purchase, guarantee, delivery, maintenance, and all other matters regarding the merchandise, information, services, opinion or advice ordered or received from such businesses are solely between you and such third-party businesses. HG does not warrant or guarantee such products, services or information, and is not liable for the accuracy, usefulness, or completeness of such information or the quality and availability of any such products or services. HG will not be a party to or in any way responsible for monitoring any transaction between you and third-party providers of such products, services, or information, or for ensuring the confidentiality of your credit card information. Any separate charges or obligations you incur in your dealings with these third parties are your responsibility and must be dealt with between you and the third party merchant.
Links
This HG Website may contain links to websites operated by third parties. HG does not monitor or control linked sites and makes no representations for them. HG is not and will not be responsible or liable for third-party site accuracy, timeliness, reliability, completeness, availability or any uploaded content that is thus displayed and/or distributed, or for products, or services available at these third party sites. If you choose to access any third party site from a link on HG Website, you do so at your own risk. The listing of a third-party link on HG Website does not constitute or imply HG's endorsement, recommendation, or sponsorship of the third party or of its content, products, and/or services contained on, or available through, the site.
Entire Agreement – These Terms & Conditions, including our Privacy Statement, constitutes the entire agreement between you and us in relation to its subject matter and supersedes any and all prior promises, representations, agreements, statements and understandings whatsoever between us. To the extent that software is available through the Site, such software may be subject to a license agreement that is distributed or included with such software and you agree to abide by the terms and conditions of any such license agreements . The failure by us to exercise or enforce any right or provision of the Terms & Conditions shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. If any provision of the Terms & Conditions is found by a court of competent jurisdiction to be unenforceable or invalid, the parties nevertheless agree that the court should endeavour to give effect to the parties’ intentions as reflected in the provision, and the other provisions of the Terms & Conditions shall remain in full force and effect. We may cede assign or otherwise transfer our rights and obligations in terms of these standard terms and conditions to third parties.
Privacy Statement
Privacy Policy / Terms of Use Agreement
HG agrees to abide by this Privacy Policy with regards to all Hispanic.com hosted services and Web pages. The terms "we" and "us" refer to Hispanic Group LLC, the Site, such Partners; provided, in no event shall HG or our Partners be liable for the other's breach or potential breach of this Privacy Policy. Our commitment to privacy, your privacy, is important to us. To better protect your privacy we provide this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used. To make this notice easy to find, we make it available via a link convenient to users of Hispanic.com and our Partners. This Privacy Policy is a part of the Site's Terms of Use Agreement, which is binding on all Site users. This Policy applies only to any Personal Information collected by HG and does not cover any such information collected by its corporate parent(s), affiliates, or any other company, unless specifically stated.
If you disagree with this Privacy Policy, please do not participate in any HG Website activities and services requiring Personal Information.
HG is committed to protecting your privacy when you visit the HG Website. You can access the HG Website and browse the HG Website without disclosing any of your personal data. HG does not collect personal information about individuals, such as names and mailing or e-mail addresses, unless it is knowingly provided by the individual and he or she has agreed to the terms under which HG will use it.
Disclosure of Information
HG, the Site, and Partners will not sell, trade, or rent your personal information to others. We do not automatically log personal data nor do we link information automatically logged by other means with personal data about specific individuals. We may use IP addresses to compile and provide aggregate statistics about our visitors, traffic patterns, and administer the site. This statistical information may also be related to third parties, but these statistics will not include any personally identifying information, track user’s movement, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information. We collect only the personal data that you may volunteer while using our services. We do not collect information about our visitors from other sources, such as public records or bodies, or private organizations. To protect your privacy and security, we will also take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting access or making corrections.
If you do not want to have your information used in this way, send an e-mail message containing your name and email address to admin@hispanic.com stating such a purpose. HG and the HG Website may release account information when such release is reasonably necessary to comply with the law; enforce the terms of any of our user agreements; or protect the rights, property, and safety of the HG Website, HG, the users of its site, or others.
This Policy gives you information about Opting-in or Opting-out when your Personal Information is or may be used for selected promotional and marketing purposes by the Site, its affiliates, and/or our advertisers. HG, the HG Website, and our corporate affiliates give you the right to Opt-out of the use of your Personal Information for marketing and promotional purposes. Nonetheless, choices with Advertisers for sharing your Personal Information may differ from HG and HG Website policies. Please see details in the Disclosure to Advertiser section below.
Your continued participation on this Website indicates your acceptance of this Privacy Policy and of the collection, use, disclosure, management and storage of your Personal Information as described herein. This Privacy Policy covers all such Personal Information and remains in full force and effect as long as you are a user of the HG Website. We reserve the right to revise this policy at any time by updating this posting without advance notice to you. Changes are effective immediately upon posting to the HG Website.
Public Forums
This site may make available chat rooms, video downloads, message boards, forums, live chats etc. Remember, any information disclosed within these areas becomes public information and you should be cautious about disclosing your private information.
Our Commitment to Children’s Privacy
Protecting the privacy of the very young is important to us. For that reason, we do not collect or maintain information at our sites from those we actually know are under 18, and no part of our site is structured to attract anyone under 18. Unless specified otherwise on the HG Website, all users must be at least 18 years of age and a legal resident of the United States to participate in any activity requiring Personal Information submission.
Some parts of this website may contain adult content intended for those 18 years old and over. By viewing this adult content, you, the site user are representing that you are 18 years old or older and that said content is acceptable to you. Commercial software is available to filter out any content which may not be acceptable to you.
Consistent with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act:
*This HG Website does not collect, use, or disclose personal information (including online contact information of children under the age of 13
*In the attempt a child under the age of 13 does try to register on the HG Website, the registration attempt will be rejected and information received from the child will be deleted.
*If a child posts information in a public area such as a chat room, the HG Website will delete that information as soon as the HG Website becomes aware of the information.
Except to meet Federal Communications Commission ("FCC"), or other regulatory and legal purposes, we will never use, store, record, and/or disclose any child's Personal Information to a third party without expressed written prior parental consent.
Foreign Nations
This HG Website is governed by and operated in accordance with the laws of the United States. HG and this HG Website make no representation this HG Website is operated in accordance with laws or governed by laws other nations. By your participation in HG Website activities, you certify you located in the U.S. If you are located outside of the U.S. and you participate in activities on this HG Website contrary to our policy that only U.S. residents are eligible for certain activities, you do so at your own risk and initiative, and are thus responsible for compliance with any applicable local laws. You must also be aware that if you do choose to participate in activities on this HG Website contrary to our policies, any Personal Information you provide to us will be transferred to the U.S and subject to U.S. law. By your usage of this HG Website participation in HG Website activities, and/or providing us with your Personal Information, you consent to this transfer of Personal Information to the U.S., and waive any claims that may arise under your country’s national laws. All users of the HG Website are required to provide true, current, complete and accurate Personal Information when prompted and we will reject and delete any entry that we believe in good faith to be false, fraudulent, or inconsistent with this Privacy Policy.
YOUR CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS
Under the California Civil Code, State of California residents have the right to request a list of all third parties companies conducting business in California have disclosed Personal Information during the preceding year for direct marketing purposes. Alternatively, the law states companies with privacy policies providing Opt-out or Opt-in choices Personal Information usage by third parties (such as advertisers or affiliated companies) for marketing purposes, may instead provide California residents with information on how to exercise disclosure choice options.
This HG Website qualifies for the alternative option: the HG Website maintains a comprehensive privacy policy and provides details on how California residents may Opt-out or Opt-in to Personal Information usage by third parties for direct marketing purposes. Consequently, the HG Website is not required to maintain or disclose a list of the third parties that received your Personal Information during the preceding year for marketing purposes.
California residents may request additional information about exercising third party disclosure choices through a request to our HG Website via either email or postal mail.
Email: admin@hispanic.com ; Request must have the subject line: “California Privacy Rights”
Postal mail:
California Privacy Rights
c/o Privacy Administrator
The Hispanic Group
9800 Airport Blvd., San Antonio, Texas 78216
All requests sent by postal mail must be labeled “California Privacy Rights” on the envelope or post card and clearly state such a notice on the actual request. All requests, should include your name, street address, city, state, and zip code. (Note: Street address is optional if you opt to receive a response via email. Please include your zip code for internal records.) Telephone and facsimile requests will not be accepted. HG, the Site, and Partners are not responsible for unlabeled or mislabeled notices, notices which are not sent properly, or those not containing complete information.
To all other HG Website users, if there are questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact our Privacy Administrator at the following email or:
admin@hispanic.com
Attn: Privacy Administrator
The Hispanic Group
9800 Airport Blvd., San Antonio, Texas 78216
Cookies and Non-Personally Identifiable Information
To help make our sites more responsive to the needs of our visitors, we may use a standard feature found in browser software, called a "cookie", to assign each visitor a unique, random number, i.e. an anonymous user ID that resides on your computer. The cookie does not identify the visitor, just the computer that a visitor uses to access our HG Website. A cookie will not and cannot read data off your hard drive. We do not link cookie data with personally identifiable information. At anytime, you can disable cookies by changing your browser preferences.
Also it’s important to note that our advertisers or third-party ad servers may assign their own cookies to your browser, a process that we do not control.
In addition HG may keep a record of certain non-personally identifiable information such as the number of hits a Web page receives, IP address, and other aggregate data. We do not link this aggregate data with any personal information. Third parties which help administer our Web sites may have access to this non-personally identifiable, aggregate data, as may our third-party ad servers. Nonetheless, these third parties are contractually bound to keep this information confidential.
External Web Sites
Please note the HG Website contains links to other web sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of these other sites. We encourage our users to be aware that when they leave our site that you read the privacy statements of each web site that might collect personally identifying information.
This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by HG Website. If you have any questions or concerns about our privacy policy, please contact: admin@hispanic.com.
GENERAL PRIVACY GUIDELINES
We use your Personal Information to provide you with the features, services, or goods you request and to respond to billing and/or other such questions related to the HG Website. We may also use your Personal Information to notify you about updates, new features, programming and activities on behalf of the HG Website, or our Advertisers that may be of interest to you.
We may also use your information for hiring, operational and business purposes, or to find out how we can improve our Website through surveys or online tracking mechanisms. We use aggregate Personal Information to help us to evaluate and modify existing services and features. We also use your Personal Information to develop new services and features that may be of interest to you.
We will not sell, exchange, rent, lease or otherwise disclose your Personal Information or Sensitive Personal Information to other third party marketers or any such persons that are not associated with the Station as Advertisers unless it is necessary to:
1) conform to regulatory and legal requirements or to comply with legal process;
2) to protect the safety and security of our users, employees, or property;
3) to defend the rights of the HG Website or staff; or
4) to enforce the Terms of Use Agreement.
We will inform you when we conduct cross-promotional events between HG Website or companies, and you will have the right to Opt-out of such use.
It is also necessary that we share your Personal Information and Sensitive Personal Information with our operational service providers, and/or for Site design, development, hosting and operations including maintenance, management, storage and/or fulfillment of our e-mail lists, contests, sweepstakes, services, events and online stores. We use operational service providers to efficiently provide the full range of content, activities and membership services we bring to you and we request that our operational service providers also protect your privacy and not disclose your Personal Information or Sensitive Personal Information to third party marketers that are not associated with the Station or website. Additionally, such providers are not to use your personal Information for their own marketing or promotional purposes.
In the event that the assets of HG Website, or its parent company(s) are sold or transferred, merged with a different company or entity, restructured, or subject to other fundamental corporate changes, we reserve the right to disclose any and all databases compiled from Personal Information or Sensitive Personal Information collected by the Station to such successor. We will seek to obligate the HG Website’s successor to agree to the terms of the Privacy Policy, as it may hereafter be modified, but cannot guarantee that we will be able to do so or that the successor company will comply with this obligation.
We reserve the right to collect Personal Information using any new technology yet to be developed and to use such technology to provide new services and features to you, as well as for marketing and promotional purposes. Specific information regarding your choice to Opt-in or to Opt-out to such use, or for sharing your Personal Information with Advertisers, will be provided once the new technology, service, or feature is introduced.
The information and opinions expressed in postings on this HG Website are not necessarily those of the HG or its content providers, advertisers, sponsors, affiliated or related entities, and HG makes no representations or warranties regarding that information or those opinions. HG does not represent or guarantee the truthfulness, accuracy, or reliability of any postings or determine whether the postings violate the rights of others. You acknowledge that any reliance on material posted by other users will be at your own risk.