The following privacy statement discloses the privacy practices of Next Wave Publishing, LLC (hereafter Next Wave Publishing or NWP) for www.nextwavepublishing.com. Please contact Next Wave Publishing, LLC with questions regarding this statement.

Next Wave Publishing's privacy policy recognizes that personal data requires protection. Next Wave Publishing collects two general types of contributor and visitor information. The first class of information that Next Wave Publishing collects is information that helps identify contributors and visitors of Next Wave Publishing. This information consists of items such as the user's name, email address, age, gender and any pertinent billing information. The second class of information that Next Wave Publishing collects is information about how consumers and clients access and use the facilities maintained by Next Wave Publishing's web presence. This information may include how consumers navigate through Next Wave Publishing web sites, what products and services consumers use and do not use, and the frequencies consumers access Next Wave Publishing products and services.

All personal data gathered by Next Wave Publishing, LLC is collected to the extent that Next Wave Publishing deems as necessary to service legitimate business purposes. If a contributor or visitor of Next Wave Publishing discloses personal data on any posting boards, in chat areas or any other medium used to communicate with the on-line community that may or may not be hosted by a site maintained by Next Wave Publishing, LLC, that information may be collected and used by third parties without the knowledge or consent of Next Wave Publishing, LLC. Data collected by third parties in this way may result in unsolicited communications by these or other third parties. Activities such as these are outside the control of Next Wave Publishing, LLC.

Next Wave Publishing, LLC may also use information provided by user agents accessing Next Wave Publishing web sites. Such information may include information available from HTTP headers and agents and tools used to access Next Wave Publishing, LLC web sites. The information collected from such agents and tools will be used to troubleshoot client problems with Next Wave Publishing, LLC web sites, identify security threats to Next Wave Publishing, LLC web sites and aid in gathering site usage statistics. Other uses for information collected in this manner that have not been listed may also occur, but in all cases that information will be used by Next Wave Publishing, LLC in accordance with the previously mentioned or to be mentioned usage and subject to the same conditions as all other contributor and visitor data as covered by this policy.

User-submitted information collected by Next Wave Publishing, LLC falls into two categories: public and private. Public information is defined as personal information that may at times be displayed on the site. Private information is defined as information that allows others to contact a contributor or visitor in some way other than through Next Wave Publishing, LLC or allows the collection of information about the contributor or visitor other than that information that may be displayed on a NWP site.

In order to manage and schedule content release and publication, Next Wave Publishing, LLC must gather personal information, which may include (but is not limited to): user identifier (possibly generated by NWP) and on-line activity data. This type of data is termed public as it is intended to be shared with other contributors and visitors to a NWP site.

Private information is gathered from contributors who supply content for a NWP on-line site. Information in this category includes (but is not limited to): name, mailing address, age, gender, email address and geographic location.

At various times, Next Wave Publishing, LLC may provide various forms of interactive offerings and feedback mechanisms; such (inter) active participation constructs, which might include contests or surveys, are completely voluntary to visitors and contributors alike. Because these forms of interaction with a NWP web site is voluntary, the visitor or contributor has the choice whether or not to disclose any information that these interactive devices might request. Types of information requested by these (interactive) devices may include contact information (e.g., name or shipping address) or information (such as age, geographic location) which might be termed as demographic. Occasionally and at the discretion of Next Wave Publishing, if certain items of information are not supplied, the interactive participation device many not function for the visitor or the contributor.

Partner sites are other web sites that have permission to support links from their own sites to one or more NWP sites or sites that have given Next Wave Publishing, LLC permission to link to their sites. Next Wave Publishing, LLC does not exchange personal information with the partner.

Transport information is information collected that is not personally identifiable, such as user agent (e.g., browser) type. This information may be gathered for all users to the site.

Public information supplied by the visitors and contributors may be viewed by visitors and contributors of a NWP site. Public information cannot be used to identify a specific visitor or contributor by name, email address, etc. unless clearly stated at the point of collection.

Private information is generally used for Next Wave Publishing to contact, work with and monitor contributor activity on the NWP web sites. Next Wave Publishing may further use a contributor's (or other respondent's) email address to send news regarding the NWP site. In such cases the contributor or respondent may choose to opt out of receiving email messages promoting NWP sites or otherwise communicating changes and updates to NWP sites. To opt out, a contributor or visitor may contact Next Wave Publishing, LLC and make their desire to have news and update email announcements discontinued.

Email addresses and other forms of personal information (such as postal mail address or telephone number) may also be used in private correspondence with the contributors or visitors for customer service issues, and in the case of contributors to help facilitate the work necessary to publish content on Next Wave Publishing web sites.

Any financial information that is collected is used to bill visitors for products and services or pay contributors for services rendered.

All other private information submitted by the user is confidential and will not be disclosed except as required by law or to protect contributors to Next Wave Publishing, LLC. All private information can be updated or deleted by the contributor or visitor at any time. In some cases, deletion of certain forms of personal information may result in the lost of contributor or registered respondent classification.

Contact and other information collected by interactive participation devices will be used to notify the participants of any germane results of interacting with the participation device (such as announcing a winner of a contest or supplying the results of a survey).

Information collected through surveys will be used for the purposes of taking the survey or for monitoring or improving the navigation and content of Next Wave Publishing, LLC web sites and offerings.

Information submitted by a partner is used for establishing and maintaining a business relationship. No personal or business information is shared outside the relationship between Next Wave Publishing, LLC and the partner. Next Wave Publishing does not allow partners to view or access private information collected from Next Wave Publishing contributors and visitors.

Next Wave Publishing may collect and use any, some or all information derived from network communication and related information for the purpose of general administration of NWP web sites, security monitoring of NWP web sites, customer service, usage tracking statistics and other activities considered germane to Next Wave Publishing's business and maintenance of NWP web sites.

With a limited number of exceptions, Next Wave Publishing, LLC does not give away, exchange for money (rent or sell), or swap (share or trade) any personal information. Exceptions to this policy are detailed in this section or will be made clear to the contributor or visitor otherwise at the point of collection.

Except where disallowed by law, financial institutions that negotiate or processes monetary transactions (for example, credit or debit cards) may have personal information supplied to them from Next Wave Publishing, LLC such as is necessary to do the business germane to the process or processes.

Next Wave Publishing web sites may contain links to other web sites. Next Wave Publishing, LLC is not responsible for the privacy policies and practices of other web sites. Visitors and contributors are strongly encouraged to read the privacy policies and statements of every web site that collects personal information, whether associated with Next Wave Publishing, LLC or not. This privacy statement applies exclusively to any information collected by Next Wave Publishing web sites.

Cookies are data that a web site or web service requests to be stored and returned by the user's agent (the user's browser, for example) and may contain information about the user's previous accesses to NWP web sites. Use of cookies may at times indirectly link to personally identifiable information collected by Next Wave Publishing, LLC. When the user terminates the agent (e.g., closes their browser), most cookies from the nextwavepublishing.com domain expire. Cookies may be used (but not limited in their use to) contributor login identification, session information and navigational aids for a particular NWP site. Most modern browsers (and other user agents) provide the user with the ability to reject cookies. If the user opts to make use of this particular feature of the agent they may experience restricted access to many areas on NWP web sites. Next Wave Publishing may occasionally use cookies to (anonymously) track advertising features deployed across NWP web sites. Cookies may also be used on NWP sites to provide additional capabilities such as posting boards or real-time chat rooms. In some cases, these cookies may not expire when the user agent is terminated. Cookies will be used only to manage and control visitor experience and interaction with NWP web sites.

It should be noted that partners and advertisers may use cookies on NWP sites. However, Next Wave Publishing, LLC has no access to or control over cookies belonging to other domains (e.g., partners or advertisers).

Next Wave Publishing, LLC may use third-party advertising companies to serve ads external to a NWP site on the behalf of other parties. Such companies may employ techniques that track and measure the effectiveness of some or all ads. Next Wave Publishing, LLC does not have access to the information collected by such third-party devices. Information collected by such third-party company devices is completely outside the control of Next Wave Publishing and the user of NWP web sites is encouraged to read these third-party sites' privacy statements.

Next Wave Publishing, LLC allows for several options for a user to update or remove their personal information. Please contact Next Wave Publishing to learn more about these options.

Changes to Next Wave Publishing's privacy policies will be advertised at various places throughout NWP web sites, including each site's main page. Where possible, if the use of personal information is modified so that it is different from that stated at the time such information was collected, Next Wave Publishing will notify affected users. At that time users will have the option to opt out of this change of policy.

Next Wave Publishing uses many precautions to protect user information. When users submit sensitive information via a NWP web site, that information is protected both on-line and off-line.

Next Wave Publishing takes many reasonable actions to protect contributor and visitor information off-line. All contributor and visitor information is restricted within NWP offices and NWP networks. Next Wave Publishing employees are granted access to personal information on a need to perform a service basis. This is the only time personally identifiable information is accessed by NWP employees.

Next Wave Publishing encourages that any questions about the security of NWP web sites be forwarded to nwp@nextwavepublishing.com.

Contributors and visitors are given the opportunity to opt out of having information used for purposes not directly related to using NWP sites. This can be done at the point where the information is asked for.

Contributors and visitors who no longer wish to get advertisements or newsletters promoting NWP sites or sites of NWP partners may opt discontinue such services. These advertisements and newsletters contain instructions that can be followed to opt out of the service.

For any and all questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or dealings with this NWP web site, please contact Next Wave Publishing, LLC.