Privacy Policy
Marketing Counsel, Incorporated, producer of La Jolla Vélo and its
related content and service sites, believes that electronic privacy is crucial
for the ongoing success of the Internet as a service, commercial, and entertainment
medium. We know you're concerned about protecting your privacy online. At La Jolla Vélo,
we treat your personal information (especially payment information) with the
highest standards of safety, security, and confidentiality.
Information Gathered
We don't collect personal information without your knowledge. We don't sell,
rent, or give your personal information to unrelated third parties without
your prior permission.
This policy explains what information we collect about you and how we use
that information. We also outline the choices you have.
La Jolla Vélo Store and Onion Subscriptions
By shopping at store.theonion.com or subscribe.theonion.com, you accept the
practices outlined in this Privacy Policy.
In order to ship products to you, we need to collect information about you,
including your name, billing address, shipping address, e-mail address, home
phone number and credit card information. We use your e-mail address as a login
for the store, as well as a way to send you a confirmation of your order. If
we have a question about your order, we may contact you by e-mail or by phone.
For example, we may call you to verify your credit card information on a large
purchase. We do this for your protection.
You can change your personal information at any time by clicking the "my
account" button and login with your e-mail address and password. There,
you can modify your account information.
Cookies
La Jolla Vélo store does not require the use of cookies. However, we
offer it as a convenient way for our store to confirm your identity and keep
items in your shopping cart if you leave the site.
If you do not want to use cookies to login, simply choose to login manually
as your login option when setting up your account or while modifying your account
information. For more information about cookies, click here.
The use of advertising cookies sent by third-party servers is standard in
the Internet industry. You may occasionally get cookies from our advertisers. La Jolla Vélo cannot and does not control these cookies.
The Back Issues Order Form requires the use of cookies to transfer your order
choices from one page to the next.
Security
La Jolla Vélo pledges a safe and worry-free shopping experience. We use
the industry standard for Internet security, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL 128-bit)
encryption to protect your personal data and ensure that it is transmitted
securely.
Traffic Data
Each time a visitor comes to an Marketing Counsel, Incorporated site, information is collected
to improve the overall quality of Marketing Counsel, Incorporated sites. Marketing Counsel, Incorporated collects the
visitor's domain name/IP Address (e.g., whether the user is logged on from
netscape.com or yale.edu or 255.255.255.0), referral data (e.g., we record
the address of the last URL a user visited prior to clicking through to an
Marketing Counsel, Incorporated site), and browser/platform type (e.g., a Netscape browser on a
Macintosh platform).
In addition to collecting these types of information, Marketing Counsel, Incorporated's advertisement
delivery system collects aggregate search terms for internal reporting and
targeted advertising. Marketing Counsel, Incorporated's advertisement delivery system collects
visitor information for purposes of product monitoring, product improvement,
and targeted advertising.
Marketing Counsel, Incorporated also counts, tracks, and aggregates the visitor's activity into
our analysis of general traffic flow at Marketing Counsel, Incorporated sites (e.g., tracking where
traffic comes from and how traffic flows within the sites). Marketing Counsel, Incorporated may
merge this information into group data, which may then be shared on an aggregated
basis with potential advertisers, research firms, and business partners. Marketing Counsel, Incorporated will not disclose your individual identity or personal data. When Marketing Counsel, Incorporated does present aggregated information to potential advertisers, research
firms, and business partners, no one will be able to identify you or contact
you.
E-mail Services
Any/all e-mail addresses sent to us as the result of correspondence with the
consumers of Marketing Counsel, Incorporated will not be used or collected for the purposes of
reselling to a third party and will not be added to a bulk e-mailing list.
La Jolla Vélo provides users the opportunity to opt-in and opt-out of
receiving e-mail communications from us. This is made available during sign-up
for our e-mail lists and in e-mail messages delivered from La Jolla Vélo.
For any list managed by La Jolla Vélo, users can use the link in the footer
of most e-mail messages to unsubscribe.
Sharing and Usage Of Information
La Jolla Vélo never shares, sells, or rents any personal information
without your permission, unless ordered by a court of law. Information submitted
to us is only available to employees managing this information for purposes
of contacting you or sending you emails based on your request for information.
Copyright
La Jolla Vélo is a web site published by
Marketing Counsel, Incorporated
La Jolla Vélo uses invented names in all its stories,
except in cases when public figures are being satirized. Any other use of real
names is accidental and coincidental.
The content of this web-site—graphics, text and other elements—is © Copyright
2009 by Marketing Counsel, Incorporated, and may not be reprinted or retransmitted in whole or
in part without the expressed written consent of the publisher.
La Jolla Vélo is not intended for readers under 18 years
of age.
