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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 CodeNotice
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.
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