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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 days 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 user name 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 co-sponsored 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, e-mail 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 party’s 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 E-Mail 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
Costumer 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.
Special
Cases
It
is our Company’s policy not to use or share the personal
information about Visitors or Members in ways unrelated to the
ones described 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 unreasonable 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.
“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 between 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
Director, 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.
Last
updated: March 27, 2008
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