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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"), 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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