Introduction:

Depending on what you do when you visit any web site, you are providing information about your visit to the site's owners. This includes the web site maintained by the California State Automobile Association at viamagazine.com. We value privacy and think you do too, so we want you to have the information you need to make your own decisions about your personal privacy. When you visit or supply information to any web site, we think it's a good idea for you to first understand what that site's privacy policies are. If the site doesn't tell you, don't hesitate to ask.

The bottom line for the VIA on-line site is that we use the information that we get from your visit for internal tracking purposes, to make the VIA Online site as useful and interesting to you as we can, and to respond to your requests for information or other services and to advise you of services and products. Except as specifically noted below or in the VIA Online Web Site Terms, Conditions and Notices ("Terms"), we do not use your personal information for any other purpose, we never sell it to any third party, and we never even share it with any third party.

Here is more detail on how we handle information we learn from you when you visit viamagazine.com.

Browsing:

When you visit viamagazine.com and move from page to page, read pages or download content onto your computer, we learn which pages are visited, what is downloaded, the domains our visitors come from (e.g. 'aol.com,' or 'umich.edu') and the addresses of sites visited immediately before coming to viamagazine.com.

Viamagazine.com uses cookie technology as part of our web site's statistical reporting. The information in the cookies lets us trace the paths followed by visitors to our site as they move from one page to another. We also use standard Web server log files, to help us count visitors and evaluate our site's technical capacity.

We use this information to find out how many people visit viamagazine.com, help us arrange the pages in the most user-friendly way, keep the site browser-friendly, and to make our pages more useful to our visitors.

Responding to Games or Surveys:

When you respond to a trivia game by submitting your answers or respond to a survey question with your opinion, we learn your answer or opinion. We use your response to come up with the game or survey results and, sometimes, to publish those results in aggregate on the site

Email:

When you send us an email to comment on something or ask us a question, we learn your exact email address and the thoughts you share.

We use your email address to thank you for your comment and/or reply to your question, and we will store your communication and our reply in case we correspond further. From time to time we make the email addresses of those who access our site available to other reputable organizations whose products or services we think you might find interesting.

Mailing Lists, Other Services:

When you give us your email address and/or other information and ask us to use it to provide you with specific communications or other services offered on the VIA Online site, we learn your exact email address, any other information you provide, and your request.

If you supply us with your postal address on-line, you may receive periodic mailings from us with information on new products and services or upcoming events. If you supply us with your telephone number on-line, you may receive telephone contact from us with information regarding orders that you have placed on-line or to inform you of new products and services or upcoming events. From time to time, we make your address or other information available to other reputable organizations whose products and services we think you might find interesting.

Linking To Other Sites:

Please remember that when you use a link to go from viamagazine.com to another Web site, the VIA Online Terms and this Privacy Policy are no longer in effect. Your browsing and interaction on any other Web site, including sites which have a link on viamagazine.com, is subject to the terms, conditions and policies of that site. Please read over those terms, conditions and policies before proceeding.

Please note the whenever you submit any information to us in connection with any service or product provided in connection with viamagazine.com, your consent to CSAA's processing this information in the United States as necessary to provide the services in which you are participating. Please also read over the VIA Online Terms. CSAA takes privacy matters very seriously, and intends to stay at the forefront of privacy policy and protection matters. If you have any questions, comments, criticisms, or complaints about viamagazine.com's privacy policy and/or the way it affects you, please feel free to email us.

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