PRIVACY POLICY

Sandiegomix.com is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy lets you know how your personal information is processed and used. We promise that we will take steps to use your personal information only in ways indicated in this Privacy Policy. The following discloses Sandiegomix.com's Privacy Policy.

1. What Personally Identifiable Information Does Sandiegomix.com Collect?

Sandiegomix's primary goal in collecting personal information is to provide you with the best and most useful content and services. Because Sandiegomix. derives its revenue mainly from advertising, collecting information is essential to keeping our services free to users. Sandiegomix.com collects personally identifiable information when you provide it to us, such as when you register on one of our sites, when you subscribe for a e-mail newsletter, when you enter Sandiegomix.com contests, and when you visit Sandiegomix.com pages and read newsletters. Several of the services that we offer on our site may require registration as a condition of use. Once you register with one of our Sandiegomix.com sites you are no longer anonymous to us. Sandiegomix.com may also receive information about you from other sources and add it to the information you have provided to us. 

2. What Anonymous Information Does Sandiegomix.com Collect?

Cookies

Your Internet browser has a feature called "cookies" which store small amounts of data on your computer about your visit to any of our sites. However, cookies tell us nothing about who you are unless you specifically give us personally identifiable information. You do not need to have cookies turned on to visit most Sandiegomix.com sites, although active participation in certain areas of our sites may require cookies. In addition, you may elect not to allow cookies to be collected by selecting certain options on your browser. 

Web Bugs & Servers

We use electronic images known as Web bugs - sometimes called single-pixel GIFs, transparent GIFs, or clear gifs- that allow us to track general user traffic patterns. Sandiegomix.com also automatically receives and records information from our servers and from your browser including your IP address, the time, and information about the page you requested. 

We use tracking technologies in a variety of ways, including: 

· keeping count of return visits to our site or our advertiser' or partners' sites 
· accumulating and report anonymous, aggregate (data collected in mass), statistical information on Web site and advertisement usage 
· determining which features users like best 
· saving your password so you don't have to re-enter it each time you visit our sites 

3. How Does Sandiegomix.com Use The Information?

Sandiegomix.com uses the information we gather for four general purposes: 
· to customize the advertising and content you see, which helps keep our services free to users 
· to enhance the user experience in our site. We use tracking information to determine how well each page performs overall based on aggregate user demographics and traffic patterns to those pages. This helps us continue to build a better service for you 
· to fulfill your requests for certain products and services, such as sending out electronic newsletters and enabling users to participate in polls, contests, message boards, and auctions. 
· to send you information you agreed to receive about topics we think will be of interest to you 

4. How Does Sandiegomix.com Share The Information?

Personally Identifiable Information

Sandiegomix.com will make your personally identifiable information available to other companies or people when: 
· we have your consent to share the information 
· we respond to subpoenas, court orders or legal process; or we believe that your actions violate applicable laws, or threaten the rights, property or safety of Sandiegomix.com, our users, or others 

Aggregate Information

Sandiegomix.com aggregates personally identifiable information and discloses such information in a non-personally identifiable manner to advertisers and other third parties for marketing, promotional and other purposes. We do not disclose to these entities any information that could be used to identify you personally. 

5. What Are My Options?

Users who would rather not provide any of the user data requested by our registration process do not need to register with us. You can still view much of the content and use many of the services offered by our sites without registering. 

We also give users the following options: 
· opting not to receive our electronic newsletters or those of third parties when registering. Users who opt-in may remove themselves from mailing lists at any time through the subscription management pages or by following the instructions at the end of the e-mail they received from us; 
· opting not to provide certain personal information when registering for a site. 
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6. Is there anything else that I need to know?

The Sandiegomix.com site contains many links to other Web sites. Sandiegomix.com is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites. Sandiegomix.com does not share any of the individual personal information you provide Sandiegomix.com with the sites to which Sandiegomix.com links, although Sandiegomix.com may share aggregate data with such Web sites (such as how many people use our Site). Please check with those sites to determine their privacy policy. 

Please keep in mind that whenever you voluntarily disclose personal information online - for example through e-mail, discussion lists, or elsewhere - that information can be collected and used by others. In short, if you post personal information online that is accessible to the public, you may receive unsolicited messages from other parties in return. 

Ultimately, you are solely responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your personal information. Please be careful and responsible whenever you're online. 

Your Consent To This Agreement

By using our Web site, you consent to the collection and use of information by Sandiegomix.com as specified above. If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page so that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it.