SelfhelpMagazine

SelfhelpMagazine PRIVACY POLICY
4-6-09

At SelfhelpMagazine our goal is to respect your privacy. We gather information about our visitors to help with tailoring our services to our visitors. We do not collect personal information through cookies. We collect only such personally identifiable information as age, sex, e-mail addresses, etc., when voluntarily submitted. All such information is kept private, and not sold or transferred to third parties. It is used exclusively for our internal purposes.

The company owning SelfhelpMagazine, Pioneer Development Resources, Inc., will not knowingly violate your privacy. However, any name, address and other information about you, including information we might have regarding the manner in which you use any PDR publication, service or program, including but not limited to SelfhelpMagazine and/or the internet, will be processed or disclosed by PDR as allowed or required by applicable law or legal process. Even if you are anonymous to other users, our registration process requires you to leave information about yourself. That and any other information we have about you and your activities will be released to any court in the United States if they issue a specific and proper court order for us to release our records about you. By participating in any PDR website, service or program, including SelfhelpMagazine, you are agreeing, as a condition of participation, that you accept all of the terms herein, as well as those found in our SelfhelpMagazine Service Agreement and Code of Conduct. By participating in any PDR website, service or program, including SelfhelpMagazine, you are also agreeing, as a condition of participation, that you are acting by your own free choice, without reservation, coercion or restriction. PDR may modify these agreements at any time, at our sole discretion. Any and all modifications are effective immediately from the date of posting on these policy pages, and may apply retroactively. It is your sole responsibility to check our three policy pages for updated changes, and to act in compliance with them, as well as any and all applicable laws.

Also, despite our attempts at protecting you with our internal security, you may wish to know there are several ways in which you may unknowingly compromise yourself be subjected to unethical exploitation on the Internet:

1. Your Choices Matter & We Don't Correct Your Mistakes.
   When visiting SelfhelpMagazine, your exploration of our material is private unless you voluntarily choose to make your identity known to other readers in our Community Forums. By sending a message to any one of our forum areas, your message will appear on our pages for an indeterminate amount of time. If you choose to use these areas of the magazine, please be aware that we are able to offer you FREE access and free information, but our staff is not available to correct mistakes or remove your comments in a timely fashion. Double-check your submissions and post at your own risk.


2. Be Careful On Other Websites.
   If you choose to use our Psychological Resource Links & Lists and click on any website address in that department, or click any advertising that you find on our pages, you will actually be LEAVING OUR WEBSITE. By so doing, you will no longer be in our magazine, and may, therefore, be visiting a website that may track your stop at every page, and sell this information to companies that may try to sell you products or services related to the topics found on the pages you visited. Once you leave our pages, we cannot control what other people will do with your private information. Please proceed at your own risk.


3. Divulging Personal Information on Audio Recorded Calls.
   TeleWorkshops will be audio-taped and either given to the public for free or sold throughout the Internet and other electronic venues. If you want to participate by asking a question, please use the http://teleworkshops.com/ask webpage address to ask your question. Text questions can be also submitted if a Webinar address is offered that will be available with registration material that is available after you sign up for each call. If selected, your question will be read aloud by Dr. Maheu or her designated interviewer. If you want to participate but are concerned that someone will identify the situation you outline in email, omit any identifying information, or refrain from sending your question to us. You are the ultimate judge of what gets divulged during these events. Make your decisions wisely. We cannot and will not be held responsible for any information that you voluntarily give to us. We will not edit material out of our publications after these events if you later decide that you are uncomfortable or should not have participated. You can benefit from simply listening if you think that is the safest way to participate, given your circumstance. If you are under the care of a mental health or other health care professional, we advise that you discuss your level of participation in these events prior to registering, and most certainly prior to divulging any personal information for anyone in the world to potentially hear.


4. Anti Spam Policy
   SelfhelpMagazine offers web surfers a means to easily opt-in, or subscribe to various targeted information on the net. One of our priority responsibilities is to protect the privacy of our members and to create a better Internet Environment in general. We hate unsolicited commercial e-mail as much as you do. Please read our Anti-Spam Policy carefully as we have zero tolerance towards any kinds of spamming activities.
   
   
   What is Spam?
   Preventing Spam
   How SelfhelpMagazine Helps You to Avoid Spamming
   Laws Restricting Spam
   Questions to Ask Yourself
   Measures to Enforce the Anti-Spam Policy
   Reporting Spam
   False Spam Complaints
   
   We're happy to answer any questions you have about spam and our anti-spam policy. Just contact us! See below for address.
   
   
   A. What is Spam?
   Spam is commercial email or unsolicited bulk email, including "junk mail", which has not been requested by the recipient. It is intrusive and often irrelevant or offensive, and it wastes valuable resources. Spam messages are the opposite of permission-based email, which are normally anticipated, personal, relevant and/or associated with a pre-existing business or personal relationship. Inappropriate newsgroup activities, consisting of excessive posting of the same materials to several newsgroups, are also deemed to be spam.
   
   B. Preventing Spam
   Customers of SelfhelpMagazine products and services have agreed during their registration process, upon accepting the Terms of Use, to comply with this Anti-Spam Policy. Specifically, each customer agrees not to use the SelfhelpMagazine products or services to send unsolicited email or bulk email, whether or not for commercial purposes. SelfhelpMagazine reserves the right to determine in its sole discretion what constitutes actionable spam, as well as what measures are necessary in response to such spam activities.
   
   C. How SelfhelpMagazine Helps You to Avoid Spamming
   SelfhelpMagazine has developed its Internet marketing tools to incorporate a strict permission-based philosophy. This anti-spam philosophy is implemented through the following:
   
   
   • Communication and Agreement - The Terms of Use that you have agreed to as part of registering for the SelfhelpMagazine´s products and services state how and for what purposes you can collect your site visitor addresses, and that you will follow the SelfhelpMagazine Privacy Policy and Anti-Spam Policy.
   • Unsubscription - Each email created using SelfhelpMagazine products contains an "unsubscribe link". If your web site visitors use the link to request that they be unsubscribed, your subscriber lists will automatically be adjusted to eliminate the prospect of sending unwanted email to such persons. Additionally, each person on your subscriber list has the option of unsubscribing through a web-based method provided on the SelfhelpMagazine web site. Customers of SelfhelpMagazine who try to remove the unsubscribe link will be warned that they are doing so, and if they persist in having the link removed or deactivated in any way, then SelfhelpMagazine will have the right to terminate their account.
   • Purchased Mailing Lists - Mass mailings to purchased email lists are not allowed. SelfhelpMagazine only allows opt-in mailing lists. Purchased or inherited lists are by definition not opt-in. Similarly, you cannot use an email list relating to particular subject matter, and then use it for an unrelated topic.
   
   D. Laws Restricting Spam
   Spam laws vary from state to state, and from country to country. This SelfhelpMagazine Anti-Spam Policy has been developed to conform to the highest commercially reasonable standards. As a result, and without limiting the general prohibitions against all spam activities, the following are expressly prohibited:
   
   
   • Use of false headers, or other false information, to identify the point of origin or the transmission path of the email, or to hide the true origin of the email sender,
   • Unauthorized use of a third party´s internet domain name without the permission of such third party, to make it appear that the third party was the point of origin of the email,
   • Use of any false or misleading information in the subject line of the email, and
   • Assisting any person in using the products or services of SelfhelpMagazine for any of these previously mentioned activities.
   
   E. Questions to Ask Yourself
   To help in establishing whether you are participating in activities constituting spam, ask yourself the following questions:
   
   
   • Are you sending email to non-specific addresses, such as info@domain.com or sales@domain.com?
   • Have you deliberately falsified your transmission path information or originating address?
   • Are you sending email to mailing lists or distribution lists, which then send indirectly to various other email addresses?
   • Have you imported for use a purchased list of any type?
   • Are you continuing to mail to anyone who has asked to be deleted from your mailing list?
   • Does your email not provide a fully functioning link to unsubscribe?
   • Does you email subject line contain false or misleading information?
   • Have you used a third party´s email address or domain name without the party's consent?
   
   If you answer yes to any of these questions, you are likely involved in spam activities, and should contact SelfhelpMagazine customer support service at support@selfhelpmagazine.com.
   
   F. Measures to Enforce the Anti-Spam Policy
   SelfhelpMagazine warns all of its customers when signing up that if they participate in spamming activities they will be subject to the loss of SelfhelpMagazine services, fines and possible legal action.
   
   SelfhelpMagazine has the right to actively review its customers' subscriber lists and email for suspiciously large broadcasts. If SelfhelpMagazine finds any customers to be spamming, it will issue a warning, and if the activities are serious enough, SelfhelpMagazine e will take action immediately. If SelfhelpMagazine has any reason to believe that the customer, despite warning being given, threatens to or is continuing to send spam, then SelfhelpMagazine may take action immediately, including disabling the customer's account and/or reporting the customer and the incident to the proper authorities.
   
   SelfhelpMagazine does not attempt to censor any content, nor to curtail the business of its customers. However, spam activities do not fall within uses authorized by SelfhelpMagazine , and will not be tolerated.
   
   G. Reporting Spam
   If you believe that you have received spam from or through SelfhelpMagazine's facilities, please send a complaint from your email account along with the unsolicited email, with completed header, to support@selfhelpmagazine.com. Please provide any other information that you believe may help us in our investigation. SelfhelpMagazine's does not investigate or take any action based on "anonymous" spam complaints.
   
   H. False Spam Complaints
   SelfhelpMagazine supports the efforts of various organizations working to responsibly eliminate spam activities. However, if an individual has opted-in to receive email from a customer of SelfhelpMagazine's , and then falsely or maliciously files a spam complaint against SelfhelpMagazine or its customers, SelfhelpMagazine's will cooperate fully with the appropriate agencies to ban the complainant from use of anti-spam software and the Internet community.
   

Please use our pages to help yourself. If you become aware of any privacy issues or ways in which the privacy of others might be compromised without our knowledge, please help us make this site safe for everyone by reporting your concerns to us. Please feel free to contact the SelfhelpMagazine Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Maheu with any questions or concerns.