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"), including those who access some of
our Services but do not have accounts ("Visitors") and those who may
purchase Products and/or pay a monthly service fee to subscribe to the
Service
("Members"). This Policy also explains 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
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
(or at any other time) is used primarily to provide a customized
experience as
you use our Products and Services. Your information will never be
licensed or
sold to any third party. However, we may make limited disclosure of
personal
information under the specific circumstances described in the
"Disclosure" section below.
Disclosure
We
may disclose Member and Visitor
information to the following third parties, under the following
circumstances:
Companies who work on
our behalf:
We contract with
other companies to perform business support functions on our behalf,
which may
involve limited access to your personal information. We require these
companies
to use the information only to provide the contracted services; they
are
prohibited from transferring the information to another party except as
needed
to provide those services. Some examples of these business support
functions
include order fulfillment, coupon fulfillment, award and rebate
fulfillments,
customer survey execution and information systems management. We also
may make
aggregate non-personal information available to select service
providers.
Subsidiaries and
joint ventures:
A subsidiary or a
joint venture is an organization in which we own at least a 50%
interest. If
our Company shares your information with a subsidiary or joint venture
partner,
our Company will require that they not transfer your information to
another
party for marketing purposes or use your information contrary to your
expressed
choices. If you have indicated that you do not want to receive any
marketing
information from our Company, we will not share your information with
our
subsidiary or joint venture partner for their marketing purposes.
Co-branded and
Partner Pages:
Our Company may
share information with partner companies who jointly present
special offers or
promotions on co-branded pages within our site. You will be notified of
this
sharing when you are asked to furnish personal data on such a page. The
partner's use of any information you submit will be governed by the
partner's
own privacy notice, which you can review before submitting your
information.
Business Transfers:
Our
Company reserves the right to
transfer your personal
information in connection with the sale or transfer of all or a portion
of our
business or assets. If the business is sold or transferred, our Company
will
give you an opportunity to tell us not to transfer your personal
information.
In some cases, this may mean that the new organization will not be able
to continue
providing to you the services or products that our Company provided.
Law Enforcement:
Our
Company may disclose personal
information to third
parties without your consent for any of the following reasons: to
comply with
any law, regulation or court order, to cooperate with Government
investigations, to help prevent fraud or to enforce or protect the
rights of
our Company or its subsidiaries.
With Your Consent:
In all other cases, our Company
will obtain your express
consent before sharing your information with third parties. For
example, our
Company may conduct a joint offer or contest with a third party and you
will be
asked whether your personal information should be shared with that
third party.
Online Shopping
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.
If
you complete an order for some
other
company(ies) that may be linked to our Site, 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.
We
recommend that you familiarize yourself with the Privacy and Terms of
Use
policies of any other company(ies) whose web sites you may access from
our
site.
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. Information about how to opt-out of online
advertisements
you may receive from our Company will be contained in the ads
themselves.
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. Information about
how to
opt-out of surveys will be contained in survey communications.
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.
Automatic
Collection
of Information
Cookies:
Our
Company may use
"“Cookies" to collect information. Cookies are small pieces
of
information stored by your browser on your computer's hard drive, at a
web
site's request. Our Company Cookies do not contain any personal
information,
but are used primarily as follows:
to
keep track of temporary
information.
For example, Cookies allow us to keep track of the pictures you upload
and
download; to register you in special
programs.
Cookies allow us to remember you when you login to the places on our
site that
require Membership; to remember your country and
language
preferences; to help us understand the size of
our
audience and traffic patterns; to collect and record
information
about
what you viewed on our Web site and what you viewed in our
e-mail; to manage and present site
information
and the pictures displayed on your computer, and
to
deliver information specific to
your
interests.
Web Beacons:
We may
also place small "tracker
gifs" or
"beacons" on many of the pages on our website, in online advertising
with third parties, and in our email. We use these beacons, in
connection with
Cookies, to collect non-personal data on the usage of our site
including but
not limited to the date and time of the visit, the pages visited, the
referring
web page, the type of browser (e.g., Internet Explorer, NetScape), the
type of
operating system (e.g., Windows, Linux, or Mac), and the domain name of
the
visitor's Internet service provider (e.g., AOL). This information is
collected
about thousands of site visits and analyzed as a whole. This
information is
useful in, for example, tracking the performance of our online
advertising such
as online banner ads and to determine where to place future advertising
on
other web sites.
Disabling
Cookies and
Beacons :
If you are uncomfortable with the
collection of such information through the use of Cookies and Beacons,
we
recommend disabling these features through your browser preferences,
though
please understand this will limit the performance and functionality of
our
Company's Web site. Your browser documentation should provide specific
procedures for disabling cookie and beacon support.
Child Privacy
Protecting
the online privacy of
children is especially important, and those under the age of 13 are
protected
by federal law. For that reason, our Company does not knowingly permit
children
under the age of 13 to become registered members of our sites, or to
buy goods
and services on our sites, without verifiable parental consent. Our
Company
does not knowingly collect or solicit personal information about
children under
13, except with their parent's express consent.
If
we ever include children under
the
age of 13 as part of our intended site audience, those specific web
pages will,
in accordance with the provisions of the Children's Online Privacy
Protection
Act (COPPA), be clearly identified and provide an explicit privacy
notice; and
we will provide processes to obtain parental approval, provide access
to
information and allow parents to request removal of their children's
personal
information.
Our
Company encourages parents and
guardians to spend time with their children online and to participate
in their
interactive activities and interests.
Public Forums
Some
parts of our site may enable
you
to participate in public services such as discussion boards, chats, and
live
events. Please use discretion when posting personal information about
yourself
when using these services. Be aware that when you disclose personal
information
at these sites, such as your name, member name, email address, etc.,
the
information may be collected and used by others to send unsolicited
email. The
services are open to the public, and what you post there can be seen by
anyone
and is not protected. We cannot control the comments that you may
receive while
you participate in these services. You may find other people's comments
to be
offensive, harmful or inaccurate.
Our
Company's
Commitment to Data Security
We
implement a variety of
administrative, managerial, and technical security measures to help
protect
your personal information. Our Company has various internal control
standards
which relate specifically to the handling of personal information.
These
include certain controls to help safeguard the information we collect
online.
Our employees are trained to understand and comply with these controls
and we
communicate our Privacy Notice, practices and guidelines to our
employees.
However, while we strive to protect your personal information, you must
also
take steps to protect your information. We urge you to take every
precaution to
protect your personal information while you are on the Internet.
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 Use & Service agreement, and our other policies and
agreements at any
time and in any manner, by updating this posting.
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