All Hispanic Digital Network owned sites, including this site, are covered by the policies herein. Hispanic Digital Network (HDN) is national network of Hispanic publication Internet sites throughout the United States. HDN affiliates each have their own Terms of Use and Privacy Policies. Please additionally review any and all terms or policies pertaining to any such affiliated sites.

When does HDN collect my personally identifiable information?

When you register on one of HDN’s sites, or for services on any of our sites, we collect personal identifiable information from you. During registration you are asked to provide your email address and some demographic information including such items as your gender, year of birth, and address. The more information you provide, the better we are able to customize our services and your experience to suit your needs and preferences. In addition to registration, we may collect personal identifiable information from you when you enter contests and sweepstakes (which may be done in conjunction with site registration), participate in promotions and special programs, register for premium or customized services, make a purchase at one of our merchants or partners, subscribe to one of our print publications, or download a software product or plug-in.

In addition, we may collect personal identifiable information from you when you provide content to us for display or use on one or more HDN sites, including, but not limited to, when you participate in user surveys, post messages to bulletin boards or chat areas, submit personals or other classified listings, build a home page, report a problem with one of our sites or services, or submit a letter to the editor.

If you use our referral service ("Email and Article to a Friend") to tell a friend about our site, we will ask for your email address and theirs. We automatically send a one-time email to the address you provided. Neither your email address nor the email address you provide is stored or used for any other purpose.

How is my personal identifiable information used?

Our main goal is to provide you with a customized and more relevant experience on HDN sites. We review our users' preferences, demographics, traffic patterns, and other information in aggregate so that we can better understand who our audience is, and what it is you want. Tracking user preferences also helps us serve you more relevant advertising. Please note that we do not share your personal identifying information with the advertiser.

We use a third party to serve ads when you visit our site. This third party ad server may use certain information about your visit to our site in order to provide advertisements about goods and services that may be of interest to you, but they are not allowed to collect or use personal identifiable information about you for their own purposes.

The email address provided by you at registration, or as updated, may be used by HDN and its affiliates to contact you for any reason, including: (1) Your account status (including an email confirmation of registration), (2) Major changes to the website or the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy, (3) Participation in user surveys, asking for feedback on the website and (4) Notifying you of existing or prospective products and services offered by us or our advertisers and partners. This information helps us to improve our website. The information provided by you at registration may be used by HDN and its affiliated site or entities to contact you with special offers and promotions.

To update your newsletter subscriptions you either a) visit your newsletter subscription page in your account, or b) unsubscribe by following the instructions within the email newsletter.

If you opt-in to a third party offer on this site then your relationship with the third party will be governed by their respective terms of use or privacy policies. If you no longer wish to receive communication from the third party, then you will need to contact them directly to opt-out. When you sign up for some third-party services on this site, you will be taken to a co-branded site which may appear to be within the HDN site or one of its affiliated sites.  However, if the third party is collecting information from you, the use of such information is governed by the co-branded partner's terms of use or privacy policies.

What other information does HDN collect and how is it used?

Cookies. We use cookies for AwStats to report unique stats. Information collected about user activity may be done in partnership using a 3rd party tracking tool. The information collected from cookies is tracked to enhance security and to improve the functionality of the website by avoiding duplicate data entry, facilitating navigation, and increasing the relevance of content. Cookies on the site may collect the following information: a unique identifier, user preferences and profile information used to personalize the content that is shown, and membership information to access sitename.com's services. Some cookies used by sitename.com may remain on the user's computer after they leave the website.

Most browsers can be configured to reject cookies or alert you when cookies are being sent. Keep in mind that if you refuse cookies, it is possible that some portions of HDN site and that of its affiliated sites may not function exactly as intended.

IP Address. HDN may also collect IP addresses for the purposes of systems administration or to report information in aggregate form to our advertisers (e.g. how many visitors logged in to a HDN site). An IP address is a number that is assigned to your computer automatically when you use the Internet. When you visit a particular HDN web page, our servers log your IP address. Your IP address is not linked to any other personal identifiable information.

Who does HDN share information with?

User information is shared within HDN and its affiliates in order to provide you with a more integrated and customized user experience. We will not disclose your personal identifiable information to third parties except (1) to the extent necessary to provide you with a requested product or service, or (2) in order to provide targeted promotional offers during the registration process. If you do not accept any of the offers, your information will not be retained by our registration or such partners.

To the extent you are notified of uses of your personal information which are different from those described in this Policy Statement during your enrollment in any particular service, sweepstakes, contest or promotion, the uses of which you are specifically notified will govern that service, sweepstakes, contest or promotion. We may co-sponsor some contests on our site with other companies. If you enter one of these contests, our co-sponsor may receive the information collected. In such cases, we will tell you who the co-sponsor is and notify you the use of this information is governed by the co-sponsor's privacy policy.

We reserve the right to disclose your personal identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our website.

What else should I know about my privacy?

You should be aware that if you voluntarily disclose personal information online in a public area, that information may be collected and used by others. We do not control the actions of our visitors and registered users. If you disclose personal information in a chat room, forum, on your home page, or any other publicly accessible place on HDN sites, you do so at your own risk and you understand that your submitted information may be collected and used by others to send you unsolicited messages, advertisements, or for other purposes.

Please remember that protection of your privacy begins with you. You are solely responsible for maintaining the secrecy of any password you use to register, and you should always be careful and responsible whenever disclosing information online.

This website contains links to other sites that are not owned or controlled by HDN. Please be aware that we, Hispanic Digital Network, are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites.

We encourage you to be aware when you leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personal identifiable information.

This privacy statement applies only to information collected by this website.

PRIVACY PROTECTION FOR CHILDREN. In compliance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), we will not knowingly provide access to HDN sites to persons under the age of thirteen (13). If HDN later learns that any registered user is under the age of thirteen (13), we will take appropriate steps to remove the member's information from the database and we will restrict this individual from future access to HDN sites. We feel strongly about protecting the privacy of children. We encourage kids to involve their parents in any interactive activity they participate in online. Except where otherwise disclosed, we will not collect or use any personal information from children we know to be under the age of thirteen without obtaining express parental consent. All general information collected from users under the age of thirteen is used only for aggregate statistical analysis.

Acceptance of Privacy Policy. By using HDN sites and services, you signify your acceptance of this Privacy Statement. If you do not agree or are not comfortable with any policy described in this Privacy Statement, your only remedy is to discontinue use of HDN sites. We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Statement at any time. If we materially change how we use your personal information, we will notify you either by email or through a prominent notice on the website. Your continued use of any portion of HDN sites following notification or posting of such changes will constitute your accept of those changes. If you have questions or concerns about our specific policies, please contact us through our feedback form. Hispanic Digital Network, 13205 SW 137 Avenue, Suite 228, Miami, FL 33186.