Effective Date: February 10, 2025
Through this Privacy Policy we provide you with important information about our privacy practices. This Privacy Policy applies when you interact with our website and online services and mobile applications (the “Sites”), as well as with respect to our collection and processing of your information for our newsletter publication offline (altogether the “Services”).
This Privacy Policy explains:
- What information we gather about you;
- How we use and protect the information we gather about you;
- The types of information we may share with others and under what circumstances;
- The choices you have about the collection, use, and sharing of your information;
- Along with other administrative details like how to update your information with us.
When this Privacy Policy Applies
Sites that are governed by this Policy will include a link to this Policy. This Policy applies also when you interact with us through social media and other websites or online services. Third party sites that are linked from our Sites are governed by their own privacy policies. When you interact with us through social media sites, the social media platforms’ privacy policy will apply to their collection of information. Please review the privacy policies of those websites and online services to understand their privacy practices.
Changes to this Policy: We will amend this Privacy Policy from time to time, and when we do, we will post any changes to our Website. The changes will become effective when they are posted to this page. Please check the date at the top of this policy for reference.
Information We Collect From or About You
Below we describe the different types of information we collect from you at different points of engagement with us.
Information You Give Us: Some parts of our Sites allow you to enter contact information and other information about you. We collect and store any information you enter on our Sites, including your name, mailing address, ZIP Code, phone number, email address, or other demographic information. This information may be collected during the registration process on our Sites and may be linked to an account number so that we can associate your preferences online and through our Services to your account.
Information Collected from Social Media: If you log onto our Sites through a social media platform, such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and others, we and the social media service may share certain information about you and your activities. Your interaction with social media typically allows the social media platform to collect some information about you through cookies they place on your device and other tracking mechanisms. In some cases, the social media platform may recognize you through its cookies even when you do not interact with their application. Please visit the respective privacy policies of third party social media platforms to better understand their data collection practices and controls they make available to you.
Other Information We May Collect: Special Offers and Events are held from time to time in the form of contests, sweepstakes, through surveys and market research we conduct. In such cases, we collect information voluntarily from you. Each special offer or event will be governed by its own privacy terms. We will notify you if we plan to share your information with third parties, except for in circumstances where the information is shared in the aggregate and cannot be attributed to a particular person or response. You can always decline to share your information by not participating in these special events or offers.
How We Use Information We Collect From or About You
We may use information you give us or we collect about you to:
- Communicate with you in response to your inquiries, to fulfill your requests, or to provide you with offers and information about our Services or services of our affiliates and partners.
- To provide and improve our products and services, both online and offline, to better understand and serve our users. We do so by collecting interest-based behavior information.
- To provide and manage the Services you request by processing your transactions at your request, authenticating your identity as our customer, and other features.
- Detect, investigate, and prevent activities that may violate our policies or be illegal or fraudulent. When we believe it is necessary, we will protect, enforce, and defend our legal rights, privacy, safety or property, or that of others. We comply with all applicable laws.
We may combine information collected on our Sites about you with: (1) information we obtain from our business records, (2) information provided by third parties, (3) other usage information collected on our Sites not specific to any one individual.
Our Email Policies and Your Opt-out Options
From time to time, we may provide subscribers with information and offers about other products and services, including subscriptions and other premium products and services. If you do not wish to receive emails about such offers, you may opt-out. Our email policy is the following:
- Newsletters: We offer email newsletters. If you no longer wish to receive a specific newsletter, you can click the “unsubscribe” link located near the bottom of each newsletter.
- Promotional Emails: If you provide us your email address for any reason (e.g. e-newsletter signup, contest entry, site registration, etc.) you are giving your permission to receive promotional emails from us. We periodically send emails with promotions about services we offer and services offered by our partners. We will not share, sell, rent, swap or authorize any third party to use your email address without your permission. You can always opt-out of messages you do not want to receive. If you feel you have received an email from us in error, please vfwpost7294@gmail.com.
- Account and Service-Related Email: Periodically we will send you emails related to your account with us that include information about order confirmations, renewal/expiration notices, and notices of credit-card problems, other transactional emails and notifications about major changes to the Site and/or to our Privacy Policy.
- Survey Emails: If you have not opted out, we may send you an email inviting you to participate in user surveys, asking for feedback on our Sites and existing or prospective products and services, as well as information to better understand our users. User surveys greatly help us to improve our Services, and any information we obtain in such surveys will not be shared with third parties, except in a de-identified or aggregate form.
- Emails Communications with You: If you send us emails, you should be aware that information disclosed in emails may not be secure or encrypted and thus may be available to others. We suggest that you exercise caution when deciding to disclose any confidential or sensitive information in emails. We will use your email address to respond directly to your questions or comments.