Privacy Policy

3 September 2005 - 12:20pm

We respect your privacy. All information collected at this site will be kept strictly confidential and will not be sold, reused, rented, loaned, or otherwise disclosed. Any information you give to Planetizen will be held with the utmost care, and will not be used in ways to which you have not consented. A more detailed explanation about how we safeguard your personal information is described below. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to let us know.

This policy is based on our fundamental goal at Planetizen to provide the Internet community with relevant content while maintaining personal privacy. This policy is open to comment and is meant to provide an evolutionary framework from which we can address any concerns of the Internet community. Please forward any comments you may have regarding this policy to us at info@planetizen.com.

Resale or Disclosure of Information to Third Parties

Planetizen does not sell, rent, loan, trade, or lease any personal information collected at our site, including email addresses. (Please see advertising information below.)

Browser Information Collected on the Website

We analyze our website logs to constantly improve the value of the materials available on this website. Our website logs are not personally identifiable, and we make no attempt to link them with the individuals that actually browse the site.

Advertising

We do not use third-party advertisers.

Privacy of Our Email Lists

Planetizen maintains several email lists to keep the urban planning community informed about news and changes to our website. Individuals must affirmatively ask to join our mailing lists by contacting PLANetizen, or completing our online email newsletter subscription form. We do not sell, rent, loan, trade, or lease the addresses on our list to anyone. In addition, we configure our email list server software to refuse to divulge the email addresses of our list subscribers to anyone.

Online Privacy Alliance

Urban Insight, Inc. and Planetizen support the goals of the Online Privacy Alliance, a cross-industry coalition of more than 80 global companies and associations committed to promoting the privacy of individuals online. The Alliance is an ad hoc organization. Its sole purpose is to work to define privacy policy for the new electronic medium and to foster an online environment that respects consumer privacy.

If you have a question not covered by these topics please send us an email.

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