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 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.
"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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