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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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