Privacy Policy / Terms & Conditions

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Bigsmilemagazine.com allows users to post News and Events. By posting anything to our web site you hereby agree that your submission is to become property of Big Smile Magazine. Submissions are published when administrators of bigsmilemagazine.com see fit that the content posted by any user is appropriate to be published by bigsmilemagazine.com. If for any reason any administrator does not feel that any post is appropriate for any reason to be posted on bigsmilemagazine.com than the submission will be deleted. If you submit the same News or an Event twice, even if you personally did not submit the content the first time, both posts will be deleted, and you may be blocked from submitting any future content.

Bigsmilemagazine.com believes all posts from our writers/publishers/users/and other sources to be true. If for any reason in part or in whole our content is not true, you can submit a comment and request to remove such content to the e-mail address provided below. We claim no responsibility for any typographical errors as well as materials that are tainted, misconstrued, or otherwise false. We do our best not to slander or talk down to/about anyone. We also feel it is important not to have any content that we would not say to a child. If you do find any content such as explicit use of words, or anything of concern, please submit a comment and request to remove such content to the e-mail address provided below.

Big Smile Magazine / Big Smile FREE Online Daily/Weekly/Monthly/Quarterly Independent Music Magazine / BSM / bigsmilemagazine.com respects the privacy concerns of users of this web site As a general rule, no personal information is automatically collected from users of bigsmilemagazine.com. Personally identifiable data about users of bigsmilemagazine.com are known to bigsmilemagazine.com only when voluntarily submitted by users of the site. However, certain non-personal information of users (for example, the type of browser being used, the operating system used by the user and the domain name of the user's Internet service provider) is collected. This information is primarily used for internal purposes, but only in an aggregate form (individual users cannot be identified). Personally identifiable information may be collected from users of bigsmilemagazine.com when users voluntarily provide this information. All such personal information is retained by big smile magazine and is not sold or otherwise transferred by big smile magazine unless the express consent to do so has been obtained or if big smile magazine is required by law or by a court or governmental order to disclose such information in a particular circumstance. This information is used by big smile magazine to better understand usage patterns and to enhance user enjoyment of bigsmilemagazine.com. Aggregate information may be shared with advertisers; however, as is set forth more fully below, no data concerning users under the age of 13 is ever used. Big smile magazine sometimes uses e-mail addresses and other personally identifiable information to contact users who provide their e-mail addresses for specific purposes. Each communication will contain instructions on how to discontinue receipt of such communications.

Children under the age of thirteen (13) should not provide any personally identifiable information on this site without the knowledge and permission of his or her parent or guardian. In the event that big smile magazine determines that a user of this site is under the age of 13, big smile magazine will not maintain or use any personally identifiable information about such user without the consent of his or her parent or guardian, except as allowed by law. The result of the foregoing is that children under the age of 13 will be unable to participate in some activities on the site without parental consent. Big smile magazine may collect personally identifiable information directly from visitors on this site who may be under the age of 13. However, big smile magazine does not collect this information without the knowledge of the visitor.

All activities on this site are carried out in compliance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act. Pursuant to the foregoing Act, big smile magazine does not ask a child web site visitor to provide more personal information than is reasonably necessary to allow the child visitor to participate in an activity on this site. To further comply with the Act, any personally identifiable information collected from such a visitor is used only for the purpose of enabling the visitor's participation in activities on this site. If, for example, big smile magazine offers certain promotional items to users of the web site, such as a promotional compact disc, poster, t-shirt and/or other promotional materials of any kind, big smile magazine requests that such interested party provide his or her name and mailing address in order to send the web site visitor the promotional item. The visitor's email address is used only if we need to contact the visitor to verify name and mailing address, unless otherwise stated at the point of submission In the event that big smile magazine conducts an Internet contest on this site, big smile magazine asks each contestant to provide date of birth, as well as his or her name, address, e-mail address, and other information that may be used in use of a survey or study about our visitors and their opinion(s). Information submitted in order to participate in a contest is not used for any other purpose, unless otherwise stated at the point of submission In some circumstances, big smile magazine also asks child visitors to this site to provide big smile magazine with his or her parent's or guardian's contact information so that big smile magazine may contact the child visitor's parent or guardian to notify them of big smile magazine's information practices with respect to children, to notify that person of a child's participation on this site, and/or to seek the consent of the parent or guardian to such participation. The parent or guardian of any person under the age of 13 whose personal information has been collected on this site may ask to review that personal information and may, if they so choose, request that such information be deleted, and that no additional information be gathered by big smile magazine. For more information on how to request review of personal information and/or to request that big smile magazine cease gathering such information, please contact the contact person listed below. Please note that no personal information collected on this site is shared with third parties other than a parent or guardian of a site visitor, except that information may be shared with those with whom big smile magazine contracts in order to carry out the internal operations of the site (for example, to send a visitor a promotional item that he or she may have requested on the site). In particular, big smile magazine does not rent or sell mailing lists of site visitors to any third party.

The method by which the foregoing information is gathered is know as "cookies." big smile magazine uses "cookies," which are pieces of information that are transferred to an individual user's hard drive for record-keeping purposes. Cookies do not contain any personally identifying information. Cookies function by saving your passwords and site preferences. As a result, it is possible to speed up a visitor's future activities on the web site and allow big smile magazine to provide such visitor information specifically tailored to his or her interests. Such visitor may be able to set his or her browser to refuse cookies or to alert you when cookies are being sent. The big smile magazine' site may contain links to Web sites other than the big smile magazine's site. Big smile magazine is only responsible for its own privacy practices and the content of its site. Big smile magazine is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of any other Web sites.

By using big smile magazine / bigsmilemagazine.com, you signify your consent to this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to the terms of this policy, please do not use bigsmilemagazine.com. Big smile magazine reserves the right, at their sole discretion, to change, modify, add or remove portions of this policy at any time. Please check this page periodically for changes. Your continued use of big smile magazine / bigsmilemagazine.com following the posting of changes to these terms will mean that you accept those changes.

Individuals with questions about this policy, should please contact and be as specific and detailed as possible: bigsmileperiodical@hotmail.com.