Editorial policy
Just so you know, our newsletters and blog posts are about stores,
products, people, events, restaurants, classes, activities, etc.,
that the editors think are neat-o. This content is not paid for.
All of our content is local to the five markets we cover – Seattle,
San Francisco, Portland, Los Angles and San Diego – so if you have
a product or story idea, please make sure it is relevant to those
markets (i.e. local distribution).
We’re not really into product reviews, so don’t worry about sending us anything besides a press release/product description. We’ll do the rest of the work ourselves (we’re sure you can find tons of sites that want to review your product). Please send your info directly to the most relevant editor. See our team bios here.
When you see advertising in the newsletter or on the site, it will
be clearly labeled “sponsor,” “sponsored content”
or “dedicated email.” Advertisers do not have any extra
say in what we cover editorially. Though we love our advertisers,
we want our readers to trust that we’re sending them unbiased
tidbits of news.
Favorites* is a highly-selective advertising program that offers ongoing promotion
of local businesses that we love and use ourselves. The sponsored
content is labeled as such and kept separate from our regular
posts.
Privacy Policy / Your California Privacy Rights
Thank you for visiting redtri.com, a site presented to you by Red Tricycle Inc. (“Red Tricycle”).
Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy, we provide this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the collection and use of the personally identifiable information you submit at our site.
Information We Collect:
Members of the Red Tricycle community who register can participate in all of our community offerings, which include participating and posting on blogs, in addition to many other activities such as contests, polls and topical newsletters. To become a registered user of our community you need to select a unique user name and password, and we need to collect some personally identifiable information including your email address.
We also may collect certain non-personally identifiable information when you visit many of our Web pages such as the type of browser you are using (e.g., Firefox, Internet Explorer), the type of operating system you are using (e.g., Windows or Mac OS), and the domain name of your Internet service provider (e.g., America Online, Earthlink).
Use and Disclosure of Information:
We use the personally identifiable information you provide about yourself to respond to your inquiries about our offerings, fulfill your requests for our products, programs, and services, and to offer you other products, programs or services that we believe may be of interest to you.
We also use this information to communicate with you, such as to notify you when you have won one of our sweepstakes or contests, to fulfill your request for an online newsletter, or to contact you about your account.
We use the non-personally identifiable information that we collect to improve the design and content of our site and to enable us to personalize your Internet experience.
At Red Tricycle, we may, from time to time, share non-individual, aggregate information (e.g. non-personally identifiable information) about our users internally within Red Tricycle and externally with third parties, such as advertisers and business partners. We also use personal information collected on our site internally within Red Tricycle, however, it is our policy to not disclose externally with third parties personally identifiable information collected on our site, except in the following instances:
Third Party Businesses
From time to time, we may partner with outside third parties to provide you with additional content, products, or services that we believe may be of interest. If you do not wish to receive information from outside third parties, you can unsubscribe by following the instructions at the bottom of any email you may receive and inform us that you no longer wish to receive such correspondences.
Agents
The personal information provided to Red Tricycle may be transferred, disclosed or shared with third parties who may be engaged by us specifically to handle and deliver certain activities (e.g., discussion boards, sweepstakes, newsletters) and perform other technical and processing functions, such as sending postal mail and e-mail, removing repetitive information from registration lists, programming, providing user services to our users, or otherwise operating our site. They have access to personal information needed to perform their functions, but may not use it for other purposes and have agreed to maintain the confidentiality of such information and have agreed to maintain the confidentiality of such information.
Business Transfers
In the event that the assets relating to Red Tricycle are transferred or sold to another entity, personally identifiable information may be transferred to the acquiring entity.
Online Contests and Sweepstakes
Red Tricycle may offer the opportunity to enter contests and sweepstakes. Red Tricycle may ask for information such as your full name, e-mail address, birth date, and in some instances, telephone numbers for certain types of contests. Red Tricycle uses this information for the purpose of conducting the contests and sweepstakes and does not (except as set forth herein) disclose such information to third parties, except with a fulfillment house which Red Tricycle uses to help select winners and fulfill prizes and, in some cases, with third-party sponsors. From time to time, Red Tricycle may offer contests and sweepstakes sponsored by third party businesses and may share with such third party businesses entrant information collected by Red Tricycle. In these types of contests and sweepstakes, ParentsConnect will disclose to potential entrants that such information will be so supplied and the identity of the third party to whom such information will be supplied at the time entrant information is collected and will provide potential entrants with the opportunity to opt out of such third party sponsored contests and sweepstakes. However, any information supplied to a third party may be retained by such third party and will be out of the control of Red Tricycle. Personal information collected online from contests and sweepstakes winners may be maintained by Red Tricycle and may be shared with third parties for fulfillment purposes, as described above, as well as internally.
Special Cases
We may also disclose personally identifiable information to third parties in order to comply with law or requests by law enforcement agencies, to enforce our Terms of Use or to protect the rights, property, or safety of our website, users of our website, and others.
Cookies and Log Data
Cookies are information files that your web browser places on the hard drive of your computer when you visit a website. Cookies cannot damage user files, nor can they read information from a user’s hard drive. Cookies allow websites to “remember” users’ activities on a website as well as users’ visits to a site. At Red Tricycle, cookies are used to determine the number of unique visitors to our website over a given period. We do not store any personal information into cookies nor do we link or combine information collected through cookies to any personal information submitted by users when participating in our activities. Log data collected on web servers both within Red Tricycle control and under the control of Red Tricycle’s third party ad service provider, who is required to maintain such data on a confidential basis, supplies Red Tricycle with aggregate information about the number of visits to different pages on our site. Red Tricycle uses such aggregate information to improve access to our content based on our visitors’ browsers and operating system types to make our content available to as many users as possible. We do not link the “log data” collected to personally identifiable information submitted by users when participating in our activities.
Security
Red Tricycle has taken steps to ensure that personally identifiable information collected is secure, including limiting the number of people who have physical access to our database servers as well as electronic security systems and password protections which guard against unauthorized access. Red Tricycle is intended for domestic visitors and, consequently, is specifically directed towards residents of the United States.
Updates
Red Tricycle reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to change, modify, or otherwise alter this Privacy Policy at any time. Such changes and/or modifications shall become effective immediately upon the posting thereof in this space. Please review this Privacy Policy periodically. Your continued use of the Site following the posting of changes and/or modifications will constitute your acceptance of the revised Privacy Policy.
For your information, this page was last updated on Sept 14, 2008.
Contact Us
If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact us at:
admin@redtri.com
Your California Privacy Rights
California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits our visitors who are California residents to request certain information regarding its disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please send an e-mail to admin@redtri.com.
