Privacy Policy

Welcome to FloridaTrend.com.
This website is operated by Trend Magazines Inc. We are committed to protecting personal information about our users and persons who transact business through Web sites we own and operate, including but not limited to: FloridaTrend. com, BusinessFlorida.com, FloridaSmallBusiness.com and FloridaNEXT.com.

Our postal address is 801 Third Street South., St. Petersburg, FL 33701.

We can be reached by email at webmaster@floridatrend.com or (727) 821-5800.

Your use of our websites indicates to us that you have read and accepted this Privacy Policy and our Terms and Conditions.

Sitewide and eNewsletters

Our web sites use "cookies," an element of data stored on your computer. We use cookies in the following ways: In site administration, to complete a user's requested activity, to target specific information, to perform analysis and for research and development.

Our servers automatically collect some basic information about your computer configuration, including the type of browser and operating system you use, the resolution of your monitor, the web site that referred you, and your IP address. (Your IP address is the numerical address of the computer connected to the Internet, used to transmit requested data, such as the web page you want to view. It does not tell us who you are. It just identifies the computer being used.) We use IP addresses for systems administration purposes, to deliver our web pages to you, to tailor our ads to the interests of our users, and to measure traffic within our site. To improve our sites' interest and usefulness to users, we may send non-personally identifying information to ad networks displaying ads on our sites.

We also use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our websites or receive our newsletters. The third-party advertising technology we employ uses information derived from your visits to target advertising within our sites. In addition, our advertisers may use other third-party advertising technology to target advertising on our sites and on other sites. In the course of advertisements being served to you, a unique third-party cookie or cookies may be placed on your browser. In addition, we may use Web beacons (also called action tags, pixel tags or clear gifs) provided by third-party advertising companies, to help manage and optimize our advertising. Web beacons enable us to recognize a browser's cookie when a browser visits one of our sites.

Florida Trend may, from time to time, use information you provide as part of the registration process to send you information regarding other products or services from Florida Trend. In addition, Florida Trend may provide aggregated, anonymous statistical information about Florida Trend users to other persons, including potential advertising clients.

We collect aggregate information on what pages consumers access or visit, and we collect information supplied by those who wish to subscribe to or purchase our print publications. Persons who supply us with their telephone numbers on-line may receive telephone contact from us with information regarding orders they have placed on-line.

A user's personally identifying information will not be disclosed to any other party unless otherwise stated prior to collection. Florida Trend accepts no responsibility for any actions or policies of third parties who misuse such information, though Florida Trend will make every effort to pre-screen anyone who requests or purchases this information.

While we do not share personally identifiable information about you with our advertisers except as described above, we do aggregate information you provide with data from other users and provide pools of information about our users to our advertisers, in order to make them aware of the audiences our sites reach. For example, we may tell advertisers how many of our users are male or female or live in a certain zip code. We may tell advertisers about the habits and preferences of our users using this type of aggregated or statistical information about traffic to, from and within our sites as well.

We cannot control the privacy policies of sites we may link to in our editorial coverage or advertising sections. Therefore, if you provide personal information, including credit card information, to linked third-party sites, the information is stored on their servers and is governed by their privacy policies.

Contests, Surveys and Promotions

In general, we collect two categories of information: (1) information that personally identifies you (for example, your name and address) that you voluntarily supply when you register for an on-line discussion or other site use, or when you subscribe, order, complete a survey, or initiate some other transaction, and (2) non-personally identifying information, which includes information about usage patterns and preferences as users navigate around our sites or use our information services. In some cases, an agent, affiliate, or business partner of Florida Trend collects the information. Third party providers featured on our sites, such as vendors of products and services offered through our sites, may be gathering the same kinds of information.

WE DO NOT SELL THE NAMES, EMAIL ADDRESSES, OR OTHER PERSONAL INFORMATION YOU ENTER ON OUR SITES TO ANY THIRD PARTIES, INCLUDING ADVERTISERS, UNLESS WE HAVE YOUR PERMISSION TO DO SO, SUCH AS THROUGH A REGISTRATION FOR A CONTEST, SURVEY, OR PARTICULAR SERVICES OR INFORMATION.

From time to time, we or our advertisers may offer contests, sweepstakes, giveaways, or other promotions on our sites. If you enter one of these, you will be asked to provide information about yourself such as your name, address, telephone number and email address so that we or our advertisers can contact you if you win. We may share this information with our corporate affiliates and any co-sponsors of the contest, sweepstakes, give-away, or other promotion. If you do not want us to collect the information requested, to use it to contact you, or to share it, please do not enter any contest, sweepstakes, give-away or promotion.

Apps

Florida Trend authorized apps, distributed via Apple AppStore or Google Play, may collect usage data and identifiers for the purposes of analytics, product personalization and/or app functionality. Any data collected in these apps is not linked to your identity.

 

Contact webmaster@floridatrend.com (727-821-5800) with questions about this website or additional information regarding the user agreement, copyright or privacy policy. Any rights not expressly granted herein are reserved.

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