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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.
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 may be
shared with third parties, as stated herein, 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 purpose of
offering you other products and services.
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.
Also, with
purchases, we supply our member's contact information, to our
business partners, who then may contact the member by telephone
after the member purchase. Sales proceeds are collected by the that
business partner company. We also may supply other companies with
contact information, for mail offers we believe would be of interest
to our members, with or without compensation from those companies.
At times we may send an advertisement for a third party product,
where we collect the sales proceeds, and forward the purchaser's
information to that third party.
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.
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 use
the personal information you provide to process that order. We do
share this information with outside parties that we do business
with.
Online
Advertisements: Our company may display our online advertisements.
In those cases we share 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 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 information we have collected, we may then display or send the
advertisement to the intended audience. Our company does 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.
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.
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. 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. Due to these third party relationships, the third parties
may obtain personally identifiable information that visitors
voluntarily submit to our company. Our company has no control over
third parties' use of this information.
Additionally, personally identifiable information may be collected
when you order products, enter contests, vote in polls or otherwise
express an opinion, subscribe to one of our services such as our
online newsletters, or participate in one of our online forums or
communities. The types of personally identifiable information that
may be collected at these pages include but may not be limited to:
name, address, e-mail address, telephone number, fax number, credit
card information, and information about your interests in and use of
various products, programs, and services. Our sponsors or third
parties may send you material that relates to our company's
services, products or activities.
Special Cases: It is our company's policy to use or share the
personal information about Visitors or Members in ways described
herein without additional notice or means to opt out or otherwise
prohibit such unrelated uses.
Also, 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) Any other identifier that permits the physical or online
contacting of a specific individual.
(6) 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, 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 purposes stated herein as well as
for statistical purposes to improve the products and services we
provide and to manage our telecommunications networks.
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:
June 30, 2009
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