Privacy Policy

Phoenixx (“Phoenixx”, “The Magazine”, “The Phoenixx Magazine”, “Site”, “Website”) wants to ensure that visitors, subscribers, members, team, staff, alumni, donors, volunteers and everyone with whom we have a relationship understands what data we collect, and how we use it, when they use any and all of Phoenixx’s websites. This privacy policy is designed to assist you in understanding how we collect and use the personal information you provide to us. Please review this Privacy Policy before you use the Website or any of the services or features offered on or through the Site.

By accessing or using each of Phoenixx’s websites and/or providing any personal information to us, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy. If you do not accept these practices, please do not access or use the Websites or provide us with your personal information. By using this site you consent to our collection and use of your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy. If we change our privacy policies and procedures, we will post those changes on this site to keep you aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we may disclose it. Please address Privacy Policy inquiries to Phoenixx by e-mailing us at [email protected].

Scope of Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy is intended to cover your use of each Website, including all Phoenixx programs and publications available on the Phoenixx websites. It is important that you read this Privacy Policy, together with any other privacy policy or fair processing notice we may provide on specific occasions when we are collecting or processing personal data about you in connection with a program, so that you are fully aware of how and why we are using your data.

Collected Information

Personal data, or personal information, is any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It does not include data where a person’s identity has been removed (anonymous data).

We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which may include the following categories:

  • Identity Data includes first name, last name, username or similar identifier, address, city, state, zip code, email address, date or year of birth, school, grade level, awards, among others. Identity Data may also include: race, gender, or ethnicity.
  • Contact Data includes mailing address, delivery address, email address and telephone numbers.
  • Transaction Data includes details about services you have obtained from Phoenixx, including registrations.
  • Technical Data includes Internet Protocol (IP) address, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform and other technology on the devices you use to access the Phoenixx Website.
  • Profile Data includes your username and password, registrations, and sign-ups by you.
  • Usage Data includes information about how you use Phoenixx Websites and services.
  • Marketing and Communications Data includes your preferences for receiving marketing from Phoenixx and your communication preferences.

Information Collected

Phoenixx may collect certain personal information from you when you register to use the Website or its services and features, such as any e-mail newsletter or membership to the free content library, including, but not limited to, your name, e-mail address, and location. We may also collect additional personal information, including your physical address, in order to deliver products. We may also collect certain non-personally identifiable information from users of our site, such as their Internet protocol address, the type of browser and operating system they use, the domain name of your Internet service provider, and the web pages, content and advertisements you may have visited, viewed or clicked on. We collect this information in several ways, including the following:

  • Cookies: Cookies are text files placed in your computer’s browser to store your preferences. Cookies do not contain personal information, but if you choose to furnish us with personal information, this information may be linked to the data stored in the cookie. We may use “cookies” to maintain a record of your visits and to improve the content and services on our site.
  • Web Server Logs: Information gathered through cookies and web server logs may include the date and time of visits, the pages viewed, time spent at this site, and the websites visited just before and just after our site. We, our advertisers and ad serving companies may also use small technology or pieces of code to determine which advertisements and promotions users have seen and how users responded to them.
  • IP Addresses: Our system may also collect your IP address, which is a numerical address that is used to identify a computer connected to the Internet. We may use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, to administer our site, to deliver web pages to you upon request, to tailor our site to the interests of our users, and to measure traffic within our site.
  • Public Posting: If you post in the comments of a post or article on the Website (or anywhere on social media), you should be aware that any information you share is visible to other users. Personally identifiable information you submit to one of these forums can be read, collected, or used by other individuals to send you unsolicited messages. Phoenixx is not responsible for the personally identifiable information you choose to submit in these forums. For example, if you choose to make information, which was previously non-public, available by enabling certain user features, (including but not limited to blog or article comments) Phoenixx will collect that information from your interaction and the information will become publicly available.

How Information Is Used

We may use your personal information within Phoenixx and associated websites to:

  • conduct and process transactions with you;
  • communicate with you, such as to respond to your inquiries, send purchase receipts, newsletters, emails, and/or notify you of any changes to any legal terms applicable to the Website or any changes to this Privacy Policy;
  • improve the Website and the content and services offered on the Site;
  • enforce legal terms that govern your use of the laws applicable to the Site;
  • protect the Website, services, systems, information, employees, business partners, service providers, users, customers or others; and
  • for any other purposes for which the information is collected and maintained.

We may use your non-personally identifiable information to analyze the usage of our site, improve the design and content of our site, deliver relevant marketing messages, personalize your Internet experience, and offer you products and services. In some cases, we may use your IP address to identify you in order to enforce any legal terms that govern our site or to protect our site, services, systems, information, employees, business partners, service providers, users, customers or others from injury or harm. Phoenixx will divulge any information collected from a User on the Websites when required to do so by law. In the event that the Websites or substantially all of our assets are acquired, merged or reorganized, your information may be transferred to another party.

From time to time, Phoenixx may share subscriber information with Third Party organizations or Third Party marketing partners for their own marketing or commercial use. Phoenixx closely reviews every request for information by Third-Parties to help ensure they are trustworthy and reputable, as determined by Phoenixx at its discretion. Phoenixx may receive mailing lists from Third Parties for direct mail marketing purposes that may contain names and mailing addresses. Phoenixx also reserves the right to share, transfer, or sell contact information to third parties. If you would like to opt-out of the use of your information, please contact us at [email protected] at the earliest. While we do our best to ensure third-parties are reputable and trustworthy, once the data is transferred, Phoenixx is not liable for how your data is used.

Other Tracking Technology

Phoenixx may also use web beacons, clear gif technology, action tags or other technologies to collect aggregate website visitation data by tracking how Users navigate to and through the Websites. We also include web beacons in our e-mail messages, including newsletters, in order to count how many e-mail messages have been delivered or opened. Web beacons cannot be declined when delivered using a regular web page, but they can be refused when delivered by e-mail. If a User does not wish to receive web beacons by email, they will need to disable HTML images or select text only for emails received with their email software.

Some web browsers may transmit “do not track” signals to the websites with which the browser communicates. There is no standard that governs what, if anything, websites should do when they receive these signals. Phoenixx does not currently take action in response to these signals. We may revise this Privacy Policy if and when we establish a standard for responding to these signals.

We may use a web analytics service such as Google Analytics, New Relic, and HotJar, or others to record and analyze activity on our Websites. These cookies collect information that is used either in aggregate form to help Phoenixx understand how our Websites are used, the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns, or to help us customize our Websites and applications in order to enhance the user experience. The Websites or any such service may track browsing across web sites that use the same service, may collect statistical data and/or IP address.

The Website’s web and ad servers log information about a User’s IP address, browser type and the current URL the User is requesting. This information is always provided by a User’s browser and automatically logged by most websites. These log files are stored in a secure location and used in our internal analysis of traffic patterns within our Websites.

Our Websites interface with social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter and may include social media features such as the Facebook “like” button, widgets or interactive mini-programs that run on our Websites. These features may collect a User’s IP address, screen resolution, browser type, browsing information, and may set a cookie to enable the feature to function properly. If a User is member of a social media site, the features may allow the social media site to connect the User’s visit to our Websites with the User’s personal information. User’s interactions with these features are governed by the privacy policy of the party providing the features.

Minors 

Minors under the age of 18 may request and obtain removal of certain content or information posted on our Websites by sending an email to [email protected].  Please be advised that our removal of your post(s) does not ensure complete or comprehensive removal of the content or information you have posted on our Websites. Phoenixx does not knowingly collect information from children under the age of 13. If you believe that your child has registered on our site or that we have collected information from your child, please contact us immediately so that we can remove that information from our database. Phoenixx does recognize that parents, guardians, or other adults may purchase our products for family use, including use by minors. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 for marketing purposes, but because some information is collected electronically, it can appear to be the personal information of the purchaser of the product, and will be treated as such by this privacy policy.

Third Party Links/Advertisements 

Our Websites contains advertisements, sponsor messages and links to Third Party websites. This Privacy Policy only addresses the use and disclosure of information that Phoenixx collects from Users. Although Users may link to other sites, Third Parties or their advertisements via Phoenixx’s Websites, we are not responsible for the privacy practices of Third Parties or the content of linked sites or advertisements. Phoenixx is not responsible for and does not endorse or accept any responsibility for the availability, contents, products, services or use of any Third Party Website, any website accessed from a Third Party Site, or any changes or updates to such sites. These linked websites are only for your convenience and therefore you access them at your own risk. You acknowledge that you bear all risks associated with access to and use of content provided on a Third Party Site and agree that Phoenixx and associated companies are not responsible for any loss or damage of any sort you may incur from dealing with a third party. You should contact the website administrator for the applicable Third Party Site if you have any concerns regarding such links or the content located on any such Third Party Site.

Before using any page on this site, please also review the Terms & Conditions. Accessing any and all Phoenixx websites indicates acceptance of these policies. If you have any questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy, you may contact us at [email protected] for more information.

Last Updated: 06/10/’24

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