The Bay Area Women’s Journal (BAWJ) is fully committed to providing an informative, useful, and entertaining Web site for its visitors. The BAWJ provides both print and Web-based information to provide its audience with pertinent information. Visitors to any BAWJ webpage have an opportunity to contact us online via E-mail, or offline via phone or US mail.

BAWJ’s policy is to respect and protect the privacy of its readers, subscribers, advertisers, and all other users. BAWJ does not sell or distribute any information obtained from our visitors to a third party, under any circumstance.

This policy defines how BAWJ collects information from you and how it is used. For each visitor to the BAWJ Web site, the following information is collected:

• Internet addressing information of visitors to our Web pages (IP Addresses)
• E-mail addresses of those who communicate with us via e-mail
• Information on what pages visitors access or visit
• Information volunteered by the visitor, such as survey information
• Personal information we request for information inquiries/requests, interactive features, etc.
• Payment and credit card information for paid services

There are cases where BAWJ Web site may request personal information such as user ID, password, name, address and credit card. To provide for your privacy in these instances, BAWJ provides a secure server which transmits and receives secure, encrypted data, which is decoded on the server side. This technology protects your information from being viewed by an outside user.

While BAWJ strives to protect its users' personal information and privacy, we cannot guarantee the security of any information you disclose online and you do so at your own risk. BAWJ's policy does not extend to anything that is inherent in the operation of the Internet, and therefore beyond our control, and is not to be applied in any manner contrary to applicable law or governmental regulation.

If you do not want to be contacted by us in the future, please let us know.

Our postal address is:  The Bay Area Women’s Journal 182 Howard Street, Suite 636 San Francisco, CA 94105

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