Lift & Crane Applications and Equipment

Milo Media Publications ONLINE PRIVACY POLICY

The Lift & Crane Applications and Equipment Web site and associated sites are maintained by:

Milo Media Publications
135 Park Ave
Barrington, IL 60010

Milo Media collects personally identifying information and data about individuals, their company, and the company's demographics "personally identifying information and data" including when you provide information to Milo Media, such as when you register or sign up for any of our products such as publications, subscriptions, e-mails, contests, newsletters, memberships, RSS Feeds, webcasts, White Papers, online seminars, conferences and other communications with Milo Media. From time to time we may add other information that we collect from third party sources to enhance the information that you provided to Milo Media. Below is the current policy regarding the usage of personally identifying information and data collected by Milo Media. We reevaluate this policy on an ongoing basis based on feedback from readers. Milo Media reserves the right to change its privacy policy. However, if there are any changes to the use of personally identifying information and data that are different from that stated at the time of collection, we will notify you by posting a notice on our website.

Milo Media or one of our affiliated companies, or third party partners may place a "cookie" in the browser files of a user's computer. The cookie itself does not contain any personally identifying information, except when such information has been supplied by a subscriber or registered user.

If you have registered with Milo Media, the information in your "cookie" is used to provide a more personalized experience on our Web site.

If you haven't registered with our site, we may place a cookie on your system to help provide a more personalized experience on any of Milo Media's websites. This cookie identifies you as a unique user by means of a tracking ID. However, if you have not registered on our site, we cannot link that user ID with personal identifying information and data about you such as your name or e-mail address.

Other cookies without personally identifying information and data are used to enable Milo Media to manage the banner advertisements presented or personalized information to the user.

Browsers or third-party software can allow you to block the use of cookies while you surf our site. Or, you can use third-party "anonymizer" services to mask information in your cookies, or even general data such as your IP address. In such cases you would not be able to take advantage of most of the personalization services offered by Milo Media.

The aggregated information we collect is used for a number of purposes including the following:

to improve the content and design of the Milo Media's Web sites

to enable our audit bureau to verify our claims of traffic to the site

to help advertisers, potential advertisers or marketers assess
the suitability of the site for their ad campaigns

We may create and use aggregate customer data to understand more about the interests of our customers and may use the data to offer goods and services we believe may be of interest to our customers, on behalf of Milo Media, or select organizations.

Postal addresses, and other personally identifying information and data will be used to promote Milo Media's products and services, and may be rented and/or licensed to selected outside firms for promotional purposes. Offers for which the personally identifying information and data are rented and/or licensed for use and the users are required to target their offers carefully.

Telephone numbers of Milo Media print subscribers registered users are used by Milo Media to collect re-qualification data and may be used by Milo Media, affiliates and it's advertisers for promotional purposes. Milo Media may rent and/or license for use phone numbers to selected outside firms for promotional purposes. Offers for which the numbers are rented and/or licensed for use are required to target their offers carefully.

E-mail addresses of Milo Media print subscribers registered users are used for re-qualification purposes. These e-mail addresses may also be used to collect feedback by members of our editorial or research team, to promote Milo Media products and services, and they may be rented to other firms and/or licensed for promotional purposes. When you provide your email address to us, you agree to receive email from Milo Media. We allow users to "opt-out" of receiving e-mail from outside firms, however, when e-mail information is collected and with each e-mail use of the user's address you can individually "opt-out" of receiving further e-mail from outside firms and Milo Media. If a user does not choose to "opt-out" at the time the e-mail address is collected, or does not respond to the questions concerning how we may use their email address, the address may be rented and/or licensed for use to outside firms. Offers for which the e-mail address is rented and/or licensed for use require the users to target their offers carefully. Users who later decide they want to change their preferences may do so by sending an email to opt-out@milomediapub.com.

Personal identifying information submitted on portions of our site developed with outside third parties may be shared with those third parties, and the information will be governed by those parties' privacy policies as well as Milo Media's. Milo Media, nor any of its parent companies or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates do not bear any responsibility for any actions or policies of such third parties.

Milo Media users should be aware that when they disclose personal identifying information (e.g., user name, address, company name, telephone number, demographic information, buying information, other data and E-mail address) in discussion forums, chat rooms or other areas that are publicly accessible by others, that information can be collected and used by others and may result in unsolicited messages from other posters or parties. Milo Media nor its affiliates are not responsible for any information that you provide in the above areas. In the event that the ownership of Milo Media or any of its products are sold or transferred all lists and data which contain personally identifying information and data including, for example, user name, address, company name, telephone number, demographic information, buying information, other data and e-mail address, will be transferred to the new owner.

You can "opt-out" of receiving further email by clicking the appropriate links that appear at the bottom of any email you receive. If you do not want to receive other types of communication, including as applicable, postal mail, from the editor and publisher of the site, please refer to the site's privacy policy for the procedure to follow.

Milo Media Publications is intended for individuals over the age of 13 years old. Personal information may not be provided by anyone under 13 years of age. Further no one under 13 years old may participate in the forums or chat rooms or any other areas where public discussions may take place. In addition no one under that age of 18 may conduct any transactions for the purposes or purchasing or selling any items. Parents should be sure that their children are not conducting any of the above activities on any of the Milo Media websites.

If you have any questions or comments regarding the Milo Media or its use of information please send email to info@milomediapub.com or write to us at Milo Media Publications, 135 Park Ave., Barrington, IL 60010.

Last updated: Friday, November 10, 2006.