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 ñ 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 CHILD ONLINE PRIVACY
ACT (COPA) 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
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 ñ 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 CHILD ONLINE PRIVACY
ACT (COPA) 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
