Revised: 7/1/03

This privacy statement (the "Statement") discloses the information collection, maintenance and use policies for your use of the Priority, A Pitney Bowes Publicationâ„¢ Web site located at www.prioritymagazine.com (the "Site"). Please read this Statement carefully prior to using the Services. Pitney Bowes Inc. and its affiliates and subsidiaries recognize the importance of personal privacy and are dedicated to protecting yours. All data collection by Priority, A Pitney Bowes Publicationâ„¢ Web site, both on and off line is conducted in accordance with this Statement, which we strictly adhere to. Questions regarding this statement should be directed to www.prioritymagazine.com/contact.

This web site is the responsibility of Pitney Bowes Inc. Priority, A Pitney Bowes Publicationâ„¢ can be contacted by mail at PB Direct, 23 Barry Place, Stamford, CT 06926 attention Priority, A Pitney Bowes Publicationâ„¢ or by e-mail at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .

1. Collection of Personal Information from Site Visitors
In order to access certain services or restricted areas within any of our web sites, we may require that you provide certain personally-identifying information. This information may include your legal name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, subscriber name or screen name, password used to access our services, method of payment, data entered to use certain services and, if applicable, credit card number. We reserve the right to request any additional information necessary to establish and maintain your account for use of these services.

Priority, A Pitney Bowes Publication™ Web site automatically collects and/or tracks: (1) the home server domain names, e-mail addresses, type of client computer, and type of web browser of visitors to our web site, (2) the e-mail addresses of visitors that communicate with us via e-mail, post messages to our bulletin boards, or post messages to our chat groups, (3) information knowingly provided by the visitor in sales orders, registration forms, surveys, and contest entries, and (4) aggregate or specific information on what pages visitors access.

Some pages on the Site use a technology called "cookies," which allows us to better serve visitors when they purchase a product on our web site, request additional information about our company, products or services, or participate in various activities posted on our site. Cookies are small data files that our Site places on visitors' computers. Cookies may be used to collect and maintain certain visitor provided data such as the visitor's name, user-name, shopping cart and other non-personal information such as pages or advertisements viewed by the visitor. When the visitor revisits the company's web site, we can recognize the visitor by the cookie and customize the visitor's experience accordingly. Although cookies are stored on the visitor's hard drive and not stored, in any form, by us, the visitor can set his or her browser to provide notice whenever a cookie is received, which gives the visitor the opportunity to decide whether to accept it or not.

Certain Priority, A Pitney Bowes Publication™ Web site pages may have software installed within the page which provides us with information about the "clickstream" of our customers during their Priority, A Pitney Bowes Publicationâ„¢ Web site visit. This software indicates which pages the visitors came from, what navigational paths they took, and which areas of the site they visited.

Certain email communications you may receive from us, if you sign up for our email distribution service, may contain "Web beacons". Web beacons consist of a line of code on our site that delivers a small graphic image from another Web site or third party ad server. They may not be visible as the beacon is generally a 1x1 pixel that is often designed to blend into the background of a Web page. We use may use beacons to monitor the effectiveness of ad banners in our email distributions.

2. Use of Personal Data Collected
Our goal is to provide our customers with comprehensive and personalized service. The information we collect helps us to achieve this goal. Personal data collected by us will be used for marketing and promotional purposes, feedback purposes, for a statistical analysis of users' behavior, for product development or enhancement, for content improvement, and to customize content and layout of our site. Names, postal and e-mail addresses, and phone numbers collected may be added to our databases and used for future contact regarding new products and services, upcoming events, status of orders placed online, processing orders and payment and customer service.

3. Disclosure of Personal Data to Third Parties
We maintain a secured area on our site for the maintenance and transmission of personal data which is not connected to the Internet. Although we will use all reasonable efforts to safeguard the confidentiality of the personal data you provide to us, transmissions made by means of the Internet cannot be made absolutely secure. We will have no liability for disclosure of such data due to errors in transmission or interception by unauthorized acts of third parties.

We may, from time to time, make certain contact information about our customers available to third parties for the following purposes: we may disclose information to vendors who facilitate and/or support our customer transactions; we may disclose information to entities to whom we are legally required to disclose information; and/or we may disclose information to third parties with whom we have relationships through which permission-based marketing is conducted. At any time you can request that we not provide your contact information to the companies with whom we share information for marketing purposes by sending an e-mail to This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .

4. Opt-Out Rights
Visitors may opt out of having their personal information disclosed to third parties (excluding any mandatory disclosure to government agencies and/or certain vendors who facilitate and/or support our customer transactions), or used by us or third parties to send promotional materials to the visitor, by contacting us by e-mail or by indicating such preference by unchecking the applicable box adjacent to the location where personal information is requested.

5. Access to and Ability to Correct Personal Data
Upon request by e-mail or by mail, and upon proper verification, we will provide to visitors a summary of any personal information retained by us regarding the visitor. Visitors may modify, correct, or update their personal record or cause their personal record to be removed from our database. Priority, A Pitney Bowes Publicationâ„¢ Web site will only send personal records to the e-mail address on file for the visitor name associated with it.

6. Company's Right to Contact Visitors
We reserve the right to contact visitors that register with this Site regarding their account status and changes to any subscriber agreement, this Statement, or any other policies or agreements relevant to site visitors.

7. Other Sites
Our site may contain links to other sites. Other sites may also reference or link to our site. Priority, A Pitney Bowes Publicationâ„¢ Web site is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such other sites.

8. Your Use of the Site
By using this Site, you signify your assent to this Statement. If you do not agree with the terms of this Statement, please do not use our site. We reserve the right, at our discretion, to change, modify, add, or remove portions from this Statement at any time. Your continued use of our Site following the posting of changes to these terms means you accept these changes.