South magazine has created this privacy statement to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. This statement sets forth our information gathering and dissemination practices for the thesouthmag.com website.

What Do We Collect and Where?
Our site uses several different forms that visitors can use to request information, products, and services. From these forms, we may collect the following information:

• Visitors’ contact information (like e-mail addresses)
• Unique identifiers (like customer numbers)
• Financial information (like account or credit card numbers)
• IP addresses

How Secure is the Information We Collect?
South magazine makes every effort to follow industry standard security measures to prevent the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. All financial information is encrypted during transmission, and our company databases are accessible only to internal employees.

What Do We Use This Information For?

• Contact Information
  We use your contact information to send you information about our website, company or products and to get in touch with you when necessary. We also use the information we collect to improve the content of our Web site.
• Correcting /Updating Your Contact Information
  You can update your contact information on South Magazine at any time, just email your request to info@thesouthmag.com.
• Financial Information
  We may ask you to enter your credit card or account information in our subscription system, if you are ordering online. All information you will be asked to enter is protected using SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) encryption to prevent it being intercepted by anyone else as it is transferred over the Internet. We collect this information on a transaction-by-transaction basis and will never authorize the release of this information with anyone not directly involved in processing the transaction. This information may be encrypted and stored for logging purposes.
• IP addresses
  We use your unique network address (IP address) to help diagnose problems with our server, and to administer our Web site.
• Cookies
  We may use cookies to keep track of your activity during the time you view thesouthmag.com. We also use them to recognize return visitors and to track our promotions. We gather this information for internal use only and will never authorize the release of this information with anyone outside South magazine.
• Linked Sites
  This site may contain links to external websites. South magazine is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of these Web sites.