Privacy Policies of Mark Baratelli

This Privacy policy is based on that of gawker DOT com which is available on their website

Privacy
This privacy statement covers all of the Mark Baratelli sites (MB sites). Please read this statement carefully before using proceeding to access MB sites. Your use of MB sites indicates your agreement to abide by the Terms in effect.

Information Collection
Mark Baratelli is the sole owner of the information collected on the MB sites. Mark Baratelli may collect information from our users at several different points on the MB sites.

Comments
In order to enhance their use of the MB sites, users can choose to leave comments on particular articles of interest.

Mailing List
Mark Baratelli may launch a mailing list for some or all of the GM Sites. In order to sign up to receive regular emails from a site?s mailing list, users must submit information including a valid email address and demographic information such as location and interests. 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 not be passed to any other organization. Users who choose to sign up for a mailing list will receive regular emails from the site, including new articles added to the site as well as emails from third party site sponsors. If you do not wish to receive emails from third party advertisers, do not sign up for the mailing list.

Discussion Group
In order to further enhance the user experience, Mark Baratelli may launch a discussion board service on some or all of the MB sites where users can discuss common topics of interest. Users will have the option of signing up for this service, and to do so must submit information including a valid email address. Mark Baratelli uses this information to screen out users who leave comments prohibited by our terms and conditions of use and to pick out topics of interest to discussion board users. Mark Baratelli will not pass this information to any other organization except in aggregate form.

Legal Disclaimer
Though we make every effort to preserve user privacy, Mark Baratelli may need to disclose personal information when required by law wherein we have a good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a current judicial proceeding, a court order or legal process served on any of the MB sites.

Business Transitions
In the event Mark Baratelli goes through a business transition, such as a merger, acquisition by another company, or sale of a portion of its assets, users' personal information will, in most instances, be part of the assets transferred.

Links
The GM Sites contain links to other sites. Please be aware that Gawker Media is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every Web site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by Gawker Media.

Notification of Changes
Whenever mark Baratelli changes its privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, and other places we deem appropriate so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.

Contact Information
If you have any questions or suggestions regarding our privacy policy, please contact the editor of the MB sites in question, or send an email to info AT markbaratelli DOT com.