Privacy Statement

TEXAS MONTHLY has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for this Web site. This information may be updated or changed without notice.

TEXAS MONTHLY will not release your personal data to anyone else without your consent.

We collect your IP address (a number that tells us where you are logged on from), and the address of the page you came from to get to our site, as well as the date and time that you visited, and the web browser and OS version you are using in order to improve service to our visitors, to help diagnose problems with our server, and to administer our Web site.

We use cookies to enhance to visitor's experience at our site, and for internal reporting. Cookies are a standard Internet technology that allow us to both store and retrieve information (such as whether you filled out a survey recently) on your computer.

This site contains links to other sites. TEXAS MONTHLY is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites.

TEXAS MONTHLY has relationships with SMARTpages whereby this company may maintain a TEXAS MONTHLY co-branded Web site. TEXAS MONTHLY is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of these Web sites. Any information collected by these sites is received by our partners. This information may be shared with TEXAS MONTHLY on an aggregate basis. TEXAS MONTHLY receives commissions from these companies.

TEXAS MONTHLY has an affiliate agreement with BookPeople. TEXAS MONTHLY receives commissions from BookPeople if you visit their site from ours by clicking on a text link, banner ad, icon, or other advertisement, and purchase a product from them.

We ask site visitors to register by giving us an email address, name, and physical address. We use your name and address to match your information against our subscriber list. We may use your email address to send you email inviting you to subscribe to TEXAS MONTHLY, or with special subscription offers or other information for TEXAS MONTHLY subscribers.

We run online surveys, contests, and sweepstakes which ask visitors for contact information (like their email address) and demographic information (like their zip code, age, or income level). In the case of contests and sweepstakes, this information is shared with our contest partner(s), who provide the prize. Do not enter if you do not want us to share your personal information with our contest or sweepstakes partner(s). We may also use your email address to send you email inviting you to subscribe to TEXAS MONTHLY, or with special subscription offers for TEXAS MONTHLY subscribers.

Where surveys and contests contain invitations to sign up to receive a TEXAS MONTHLY newsletter, TEXAS MONTHLY collects email addresses in order to distribute those newsletters. Users may opt-out of receiving future mailings.

Demographic information may be shared with advertisers on an aggregate basis, but TEXAS MONTHLY will not disclose your individual identity or personal data without your permission. We may use your demographic information to customize your experience at texasmonthly.com.

After signing up to receive any TEXAS MONTHLY newsletter by email, users will start receiving a TEXAS MONTHLY content newsletter. We collect mailing list subscribers' email addresses in order to distribute those newsletters. We will not share mailing list subscribers' email addresses with anyone without express permission. Users may opt-out of receiving future mailings.

We may use demographic information collected from you in sweepstakes, contests, or surveys to customize any advertising messages contained in our email newsletters.

Subscriber information is collected by CDS, who manage TEXAS MONTHLY Magazine subscriptions. Subscribers' personal information may be sold to vendors with products TEXAS MONTHLY considers suitable. Subscribers may remove themselves from this list by calling CDS at 1-800-759-2000. We may use information from the CDS database to customize your experience at texasmonthly.com.

We use Maxworldwide and other third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our Web site. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements on this site and other sites about goods and services that may be of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, please click here.

In the course of serving advertisements to this site, our third-party advertiser may place or recognize a unique cookie on your browser.

You'll never receive communications from us without your permission. If you no longer wish to receive email from us...

• You can send email to newmedia@texasmonthly.com
• You can visit the following URL:
  http://www.texasmonthly.com/newsletters
• You can call the following telephone number: 512-320-6995

If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this Web site, you can contact:

Charlie Llewellin
Texas Monthly
PO Box 1569
Austin TX
78767-1569
cllewellin@texasmonthly.com