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.
Please note, by purchasing our product, you will be opted-in to our
mailing lists.
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:
A first and last name.
A home or other physical address,
including street name and name of a city or town.
An e-mail address.
A telephone number.
A social security number.
Any other identifier that permits the physical or online
contacting of a specific individual.
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 us an email 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.
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