The privacy of our users is important to us. As such we have set out this privacy policy for the benefit everyone who visits the website located at http://TheJazzLine.com and all associated services (“The Jazz Line”). Please read this statement carefully before using or proceeding to access our website. Your use of The Jazz Line indicates your agreement to abide by our Terms of Use.

Our Publisher, Mersion Media (“Publisher” or “Us”), is the sole holder of all information collected on The Jazz Line. There are several ways we may collect information for you:

  1. Comments: Users may choose to leave comments on particular articles of interest. The Jazz Line exclusively uses ‘Facebook Comments’, which allows users with an existing Facebook, AOL, Hotmail, or Yahoo (cumulatively, “The Service Providers”) account to comment on one or more articles or content pages on The Jazz Line. No personal information is transferred to the Publisher from the comments that you leave on The Jazz Line. By choosing to leave a comment, users are agreeing to the privacy policies applicable to one or more of The Service Providers. Users understand that by leaving a comment, personal information may be visible outside the context of The Service Providers, such as on The Jazz Line, including but not limited to the name you provided to one or more of The Service Providers. If a comment is found to be in breach of The Jazz Line Terms of Use, then in accordance with The Jazz Line Terms of Use the comment may be removed. Reasonable efforts will be made to contact the user, through The Service Provider, to alert them to the situation.
  2. Mailing Lists: The Publisher may launch a mailing list for The Jazz Line in order to provide subscribers with relevant information, breaking news, or weekly or daily summations of recent content. In order to sign up to receive emails from our mailing list users may be required to submit information including but not limited to a valid email address and demographic information such as location. This information will be used in aggregate form only in order to assess general user interest in various internal and third party products and services, and your personal and contact information will never be passed to any third party. Users who choose to sign up for a mailing list agree to receive regular emails from The Jazz Line.
  3. Other sources: Any information collected from other sources on The Jazz Line, such as competitions or chat forums, will be controlled by the Publisher, and will never be transferred to any third party unless explicitly stated at the information collection point. All information collected from these other sources will be permanently deleted after there is no longer any need to hold the information. For example, upon completion of a competition all losing entries will be immediately and permanently deleted. If the competition was a sweepstakes, winner’s information will be retained for the minimum period required by law before being permanently deleted. Where information is retained, such as on chat forums, you may notify The Jazz Line of any updates, amendments and corrections to previously collected information by Contacting Us. Further, upon your request, The Jazz Line will use commercially reasonable efforts to delete your information.

Links: The Jazz Line may contain links to other websites. Please be aware that The Jazz Line and its Publisher is not responsible for the privacy practices of other websites. We encourage users to be aware of when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each website that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy policy applies solely to The Jazz Line.

Advertising: Any advertisements that may appear on The Jazz Line are served through a web advertising vendor carefully selected by our Publisher. Our advertising vendor, and some third-party advertisers, may use technology such as scripts or cookies when they advertise on our site to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to The Jazz Line and/or other websites on the internet. Information such as your IP Address and the type of browser you are using may be collected in the process of serving advertisements; however, no personally identifiable information will be collected or stored by any advertiser. The advertising vendor for The Jazz Line is engaged in behavioral targeting, as defined by the FTC. If you wish to opt-out of targeting and tracking through the use of cookies, both the advertisers and the FTC provide a simple means to disable this tracking by opting out on the FTC’s Network Advertising Initiative website here.

Miscellaneous:

The Jazz Line reserves the right to track and analyze websites and pages you visit within The Jazz Line in order to measure interest in different areas of and services offered by The Jazz Line and to optimize the experience for all users of the platform. We may share this information with trusted partners, such as Google Analytics, to perform statistical analysis and keep track of any data collected. No personally identifiable information will be collected with any data-sets or used in any analyses. If you wish to opt-out of Google Analytics, you can do so here.

While we make every effort to preserve user privacy we may need to disclose information when required by law wherein we believe, in our sole discretion, that such action is necessary to comply with a current judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on The Jazz Line or its Publisher.

The Jazz Line and its Publisher reserve the right, at any time, to modify, alter, or update this privacy policy. Last Updated: November 1, 2013.

If you have any queries regarding this privacy policy, please Contact Us.