PRIVACY
POLICY
Your
privacy is very important to us. We want to make your experience
on the Internet as enjoyable and rewarding as possible,
and we want you to use the Internet's vast array of information,
tools, and opportunities with complete confidence.
We
have created this Privacy Policy to demonstrate our firm
commitment to privacy and security. This Privacy Policy
describes how our company collects information from all
end users of our Internet services (the "Services")-those
who access some of our Services but do not have accounts
("Visitors") as well as those who may purchase
Products and/or pay a monthly service fee to subscribe to
the Service ("Members")-what we do with the information
we collect, and the choices Visitors and Members have concerning
the collection and use of such information. We request that
you read this Privacy Policy carefully.
Personal
Information Our Company Collects and How It Is Used
Introduction.
Our company collects information in different ways from
Visitors and Members who access the various parts of our
Services and the network of Web sites accessible through
our Service. We use this information primarily to provide
a customized experience as you use our Products and Services,
and generally, do not share this information with third
parties. However, we may disclose personal information collected
if we have received your permission beforehand or in very
special circumstances, such as when we believe that such
disclosure is required by law or other special cases described
below.
Registration:
Members
may be asked to provide certain personal information when
they sign up for our Products or Services including name,
address, telephone number, billing information (such as
a credit card number), and the type of personal computer
being used to access the Services. The personal information
collected from Members during the registration process is
used to manage each Member's account (such as for billing
purposes). This information is not shared with third parties,
unless specifically stated otherwise or in special circumstances.
However,
in instances where our company and a partner jointly promote
our Services, we may provide the partner certain personal
information, such as the name, address, and username of
persons who subscribed to the Services as a result of the
joint promotion for the sole purpose of allowing us and
the partner to assess the results of the promotion.
In
this instance, personal information may not be used by the
partner for any other purpose. We may also generate non-identifying
and aggregate profiles from personal information Members
provide during registration (such as the total number, but
not the names, of Members). As explained in more detail
below, we may use this aggregated and non-identifying information
to sell advertisements that appear on the Services.
Our
Company Partners and Sponsors:
Some
products and services may be offered to Visitors and Members
in conjunction with an affiliate, independent contractor
seller or non-affiliated partner. To provide Visitors and
Members some of these products and services, the partner
may need to collect and maintain personal information. In
these instances, you will be notified before any such data
is collected or transferred and may decide not to use that
particular service or feature.
Additionally,
our partners may have advertisements or co-branded Web Pages
that are cosponsored by an affiliate, independent contractor
seller, or non-affiliated partner. Our company may share
non-identifying and aggregate information (except as described
above), but not personal information, with such partners
in order to administer the co-branded products or services
offered.
Online
Shopping:
At
some Web sites, you can purchase products and services or
register to receive materials, such as a newsletter, catalog
or new product and service updates. In many cases, you may
be asked to provide contact information, such as your name,
address, email address, phone number, and credit/debit card
information.
If
you complete an order for someone else, such as an online
gift order sent directly to a recipient, you may be asked
to provide information about the recipient, such as the
recipient's name, address, and phone number. Our company
has no control over the third parties' use of any personal
information you provide when placing such an order. Please
exercise care when doing so.
If
you order services or products directly from our company
we will use the personal information you provide only to
process that order. We do not share this information with
outside parties except to the extent necessary to complete
that order.
Online
Advertisements:
Our
company may display our online advertisements. In those
cases we share aggregated and non-identifying information
about our Visitors and Members collected through the registration
process as well as through online surveys and promotions
with these advertisers.
Additionally,
in some instances, we use this aggregated and non-identifying
information to deliver tailored advertisements or joint
ventures. For instance, an advertiser or joint venture company
tells us the audience they want to reach and provides us
an advertisement tailored to the audience. Based upon the
aggregated and non-identifying information we have collected,
we may then display or send the advertisement to the intended
audience. Our company does not share personal information
about its Visitors or Members with these advertisers or
joint venture companies.
Responses
to Email Inquiries:
When
Visitors or Members send email inquiries to our company,
the return email address is used to answer the email inquiry
we receive. Our company does not use the return email address
for any other purpose and does not share the return email
address with any third party.
Voluntary
Customer Surveys:
We
may periodically conduct both business and individual customer
surveys. We encourage our customers to participate in these
surveys because they provide us with important information
that helps us to improve the types of products and services
we offer and how we provide them to you. Your personal information
and responses will remain strictly confidential, even if
the survey is conducted by a third party. Participation
in our customer surveys is voluntary.
We
may take the information we receive from individuals responding
to our Customer Surveys and combine (or aggregate) it with
the responses of other customers we may have, to create
broader, generic responses to the survey questions (such
as gender, age, residence, hobbies, education, employment,
industry sector, or other demographic information). We then
use the aggregated information to improve the quality of
our services to you, and to develop new services and products.
This aggregated, non-personally identifying information
may be shared with third parties.
Promotions:
Our
company may offer polls, contests, sweepstakes, drawings,
games, content, or other promotions that are sponsored by
or cobranded with third parties. In certain instances, company
may have to supply personally identifiable information of
the winners to the third parties. Our company has no control
over third parties' use of this information.
You
may be entered in a sweepstakes, contest, or other promotion,
simply by making a purchase from us or by providing us with
personally identifiable information for some other reason
or purpose. When the winning entries are chosen, only the
names and personally identifiable information of the winners
are shared with the entity administering the sweepstakes
or contest, so that they can notify the winners.
Special
Cases:
It
is our company's policy not to use or share the personal
information about Visitors of Members in ways unrelated
to the ones described above without also providing you an
opportunity to opt out or otherwise prohibit such unrelated
uses.
However,
we may disclose personal information about Visitors or Members,
or information regarding your use of the Services or Web
sites accessible through our Services, for any reason if,
in our sole discretion, we believe that it is reasonable
to do so, including: credit agencies, collection agencies,
merchant database agencies, law enforcement, or to satisfy
laws, such as the Electronic Communications Privacy Act,
the Child Online Privacy Act, regulations, or governmental
or legal requests for such information; to disclose information
that is necessary to identify, contact, or bring legal action
against someone who may be violating our Acceptable Use
Policy or Terms Of Service, or other user policies; to operate
the Services properly; or to protect our company and our
Members.
Notice
of Compliance to California Residents – Your California
Privacy Rights Under The California Online Privacy Protection
Act and the California Business and Professions Code
This
privacy policy identifies the categories of personally identifiable
information that our company collects through our Web site
or online service, about individual consumers who use or
visit our company's commercial Web site or online service
and the categories of third-party persons or entities with
whom our company may share that personally identifiable
information.
Our
company does not maintain a process for an individual consumer
who uses or visits our commercial Web site or online service
to review and request changes to any of his or her personally
identifiable information that is collected through our Web
site or online service.
See
the section below entitled "Revisions To This Policy"
for a description of the process by which our company notifies
consumers who use or visit our commercial Web site or online
service of material changes to our company's privacy policy
for this Web site or online service.
The
effective date of this privacy policy is listed at the end
of this privacy policy under the heading, "Last updated."
For
the purposes of this policy and California compliance the
following definitions apply:
Depending
on the visitor's activity, in our commercial Web site or
online service, the following "personally identifiable
information" may be collected, in addition to information
set forth in other sections of this document.
The
term "personally identifiable information" means
individually identifiable information about an individual
consumer collected online by our company from an individual
and maintained by our company in an accessible form, and
may include any of the following:
(1)
A first and last name.
(2) A home or other physical address, including street name
and name of a city or town.
(3) An e-mail address.
(4) A telephone number.
(5) A social security number.
(6) Any other identifier that permits the physical or online
contacting of a specific individual.
(7) Information concerning a user that the Web site or online
service collects online, from the user, and maintains in
personally identifiable form, in combination with an identifier
described within this privacy policy.
Under
California Law SB 27, California residents have the right
to receive, once a
year, information about third parties with whom we have
shared information about you
or your family for their marketing purposes during the previous
calendar year, if any, and a
description of the categories of personal information shared.
To make such a request,
please send an email to Privacy@PrivacyRequest.com and please
include the phrase
"California Privacy Request" in the subject line,
the domain name of the Web site you are inquiring about,
along with your name, address and email address. We will
respond to you within thirty days of receiving such a request.
"Cookies"
and How Our Company Uses Them.
A
"cookie" is a small data file that can be placed
on your hard drive when you visit certain Web sites. Our
company may use cookies to collect, store, and sometimes
track information for statistical purposes to improve the
products and services we provide and to manage our telecommunications
networks.
If
you are a Visitor or Member we may use a cookie to save
your settings and to provide customizable and personalized
services. These cookies do not enable third parties to access
any of your customer information. Additionally, be aware
that if you visit other Web sites where you are prompted
to log in or that are customizable, you may be required
to accept cookies.
Advertisers
and partners may also use their own cookies. We do not control
use of these cookies and expressly disclaim responsibility
for information collected through them.
Our
Company Commitment to Children's Privacy. Protecting children's
privacy is especially important to us. It is our policy
to comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection
Act of 1998 and all other applicable laws. Therefore we
restrict our Web site to persons eighteen years or older.
YOU
MUST BE EIGHTEEN (18) YEARS OR OLDER TO ACCESS THIS WEB
SITE. IF YOU ARE UNDER EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE, YOU ARE NOT
PERMITTED TO ACCESS THIS WEB SITE FOR ANY REASON. DUE TO
THE AGE RESTRICTIONS FOR USE OF THIS WEB SITE, NO INFORMATION
OBTAINED BY THIS WEB SITE, FALLS WITHIN THE CHILDREN'S ONLINE
PRIVACY PROTECTION ACT (COPPA) AND IS NOT MONITORED AS DOING
SO.
Public
Forums:
Please
remember that any information you may disclose in any Member
Directory, or other public areas of our Web sites or the
Internet, becomes public information. You should exercise
caution when deciding to disclose personal information in
these public areas.
Our
Company's Commitment to Data Security:
Services
and Web sites we sponsor have security measures in place
to protect the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information
under our control. While we make every effort to ensure
the integrity and security of our network and systems, we
cannot guarantee that our security measures will prevent
third-party "hackers" from illegally obtaining
this information.
Where
to Direct Questions About Our Privacy Policy:
If
you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or the
practices described herein, you may contact us through the
contact information provided on this Web site.
Revisions
to This Policy: Our company reserves the right to revise,
amend, or modify this policy, our Terms Of Service agreement,
and our other policies and agreements at any time and in
any manner, by updating this posting. Your use of this site
after such changes are implemented constitutes your acknowledgement
and acceptance of these changes. Please consult this privacy
statement prior to every use for any changes.
Last
updated: December 14, 2008
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