Your privacy is very important to us. We want to make your
experience on l 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 s uch 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
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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