Privacy Policy
Updated 07/27/22

Bowen Media takes your privacy seriously. Please read through the following to learn what policies are in place regarding your privacy. We may modify this Privacy Policy from time to time, and if we make material changes to it, we will provide notice to you by updating the Privacy Policy on the Bowen Media site, and, if you’ve provided an email address, by sending you an email at that email address. This will give you an opportunity to review the changes before you continue to use the Bowen Media site. IF YOU OBJECT TO ANY CHANGES, YOU MAY DISCONTINUE USE OF THE BOWEN MEDIA SITE. CONTINUING TO USE THE BOWEN MEDIA SITE AFTER WE PUBLISH OR COMMUNICATE A NOTICE ABOUT ANY CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY MEANS THAT YOU ARE CONSENTING TO THE CHANGES.

This Privacy Policy will explain how we treat the Personal Information we collect from our users of the Bowen Media site ("Visitors"). Personal Information is information about our Members or Visitors that is personally identifiable, such as your name, address, email address, or phone number, and information that is not otherwise publicly available. You have the option to provide Bowen Media with Personal Information, however, if you choose not to provide certain information we won’t be able to contact you at your request.

What We Collect and When We Collect it.

Upon a Visitor filling out a "contact request form" on the Bowen Media site, we will request, and if you provide it, we will collect and store the following Personal Information:

  • your name,
  • your email address,
  • your phone number

By visiting the Bowen Media site, even if you have not filled out a "contact request form", we have access and may store the following Personal Information from your computer and browser, including

  • your IP address,
  • Bowen Media Cookie Information,
  • software and hardware attributes, and
  • the pages you request.

Cookies

A cookie is a small piece of information that is stored on a computer for identifying that browser during interaction on websites. Cookies may be used to store items such as identifiers and user preferences. A website may set a cookie to the browser if the browser's preferences allow it. If you don’t want Bowen Media to use cookies you may change your browser settings to prevent receiving them, however, this may change the user experience by causing the Bowen Media site to not function as intended. Bowen Media uses cookies to track how you’ve gotten to our site, how long you’ve spent on our site, what you do on our site, and where you go when you leave our site. Bowe Media makes use of Google Analytics and to help us better understand your use of the site. As such they have access to this cookie data, and their use policy can be found here.

How We Use What We Collect

Bowen Media uses the Personal Information for the following general purposes:​​​​

  • Improve our service to you and Bowen Media Visitors generally,
  • To contact you,
  • To customize your experience,

If you’ve provided an email address or other contact information we may use it to contact you in relation to any inquiry you have provided.

Bowen Media does not rent, sell, or share Personal Information about you with other people or non-affiliated companies except:

  • If disclosure is reasonably necessary to investigate, or prevent illegal action,
  • If disclosure is necessary to respond to subpoenas, court orders, to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims, or
  • If Bowen Media were to merge or is acquired by another company.

When reasonable, we will make reasonable efforts to notify of such disclosure before it happens.

Bowen Media may use the information we gather from your use of the Bowen Media site in an anonymized fashion. That is we will not allow any third party access to Personal Information but we may compile and make public aggregated reports that show use-trends of the Bowen Media site or other similar data. These reports will not contain your Personal Information.

How We Protect Your Personal Information

Bowen Media protects your Personal Information using industry standard security measures. We only allow approved contractors and employees who need to use Personal Information for their work with Bowen Media to access to your Personal Information. Although we take reasonable steps to prevent it, Bowen Media does not warrant that information will not be accessed or disclosed through a breach of any of our security protocol. If we become aware of a security breach involving your Personal Information, as soon as practicable, we will email you at the address you’ve provided, and post to the Bowen Media site a notice of such security breach. Bowen Media only retains Personal Information for as long as we need it to conduct business with you.

What Rights You Have Regarding Your Personal Information

At any time you may:

  • see the Personal Information you have provided to us,
  • modify or delete the Personal Information stored by us,
  • request we delete your Personal Information stored by us. We will delete this Personal Information within a reasonable time from the date of your request.
  • Request Bowen Media stops any direct marketing efforts directed toward you using your Personal Information

Additionally, if you are a California resident, in accordance with California law, you may request and we will provide you with a list of what Personal Information (if any) we disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes in the preceding calendar year and the names and addresses of those third parties. Requests may be made only once a year.

International Residents—If you are visiting the Bowen Media site from outside of the United States, be aware that you are sending Personal Information to the United States where our servers are located. That information, including Personal Information, may be transmitted within the United States or to other countries outside your country of residence. These countries may not have privacy and data protection laws as comprehensive as those in your country of residence. Your Personal Information, however, will at all times remain governed by this Privacy Policy.

Regarding the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), Bowen Media is not intended for children under the age of 13, and does not collect, use or disclose personal information from children.

We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make significant changes in the way we treat your Personal Information, or what Personal Information we collect, we will provide notice to through the email you provide, or by posting on the Bowen Media site. Please review the changes carefully. If you agree to the changes, simply continue to use the Bowen Media site. If you object to any of the changes to our terms and you no longer wish to use Bowen Media, you may close your account(s). Unless stated otherwise, our current Privacy Policy applies to all information that we have about you and your account. Using the Bowen Media site after a notice of changes has been communicated to you or published on our site shall constitute consent to the changed terms or practices.

It is Bowen Media’s general policy to be as transparent as possible about your privacy. If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please contact through email at [email protected]