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Privacy is an important matter and we care about it as
much as you do. It’s important to use that your
experience on the Internet is safe and enjoyable. As you
use the Internet, you should feel secure in drawing from
the vast amount of details, tools and experiences
available online.
This Privacy Policy is our attempt to show that we are
as concerned as you are about the privacy and security
of your personal details. In this Privacy Policy, you’ll
see the details of our business’s approach to collection
details from users of our online Content (the
“Content”), people who access the site without sign
uping for an account (“Guests”) and those who may
purchase Products or pay a Membership or service fee to
subscribe to our Content (“Participants”). This policy
will describe how we handle the details that are being
collected. It will also detail what decisions Guests and
Participants can make that will affect the collection
and use of the details.
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully.
Personal Details – How Our Business Collects Them and
How They Are Used
Our business gathers details in several different ways
from Guests and Participants who visit different parts
of our Content and the various Web sites that are linked
through our Content.
Registration: Participants might be required to enter
pieces of personal details when they sign up for the
Products and Content on this site. These personal
details may include, but is not limited to, name,
address, telephone number, billing details (credit card
number) and details about the computer they are using to
access the Internet and the website. These details are
used to manage the account of each Member. It may be
lent with third parties, in the manner stated herein, or
in other special circumstances.
In instances where the website and a partner jointly
promote the Content of this website, we may on occasion
provide personal details of our Participants with the
partner. These details can include the name, address and
username of people who have subscribed with the Content
as a direct result of the joint promotion. This is done
for the purpose of offering a product or service that is
related to the Content of this site.
In this instance, we do not release personal details to
the partner for any other reason. This site may also
create non-identifying and aggregate profiles from the
personal details of Participants, based on the details
provided during the registration of the member. For
example, this site may share the total number of
Participants, without names or identifying details. This
is explained in more detail below and its role in
selling advertisements that will appear in the Content
section of the website.
In addition, with purchases, we will provide the
member’s contact details to business partners. These
partners will use these details to contact the member by
phone after the purchase to complete the transaction and
collect the sales proceeds. We may also supply companies
with some contact details in order for Participants to
receive mail offers that are in line with their
preferences and that our business believes that will be
of interest to Participants. We may also send an
advertisement for a third party product. In this case,
we will collect sales proceeds from Participants and
then transfer the details to the third part for a
completion of the transaction.
Our Business Partners and Sponsors: Certain products and
content may be offered to Guests and/or Participants.
These products or content may have been presented
participating with an affiliate, an unique seller or a
non-affiliated partner. The partner in presenting these
products may require the collection of personal details
from our Participants.
Online Shopping: At certain Web sites, Guests and
Participants will be able to buy products and Content or
sign up to accept materials (like a newsletter, catalog,
or service updates). In some cases, you may be asked to
enter personal contact details, like your name, address,
e-mail address, phone number and payment details.
If you purchase an online gift card or any other type of
purchase for someone else, you may have to provide
details about the person you are buying for. This may
include the person’s name, address and phone number.
These details are gathered in order to deliver the gift
properly. We have no say in what the third party website
will do with these personal details. Please check the
Privacy Policy of that business’s website for details on
how those details will be handled.
If you get products or Content from our business
directly, we will utilize those personal details to
process the order. We may share these details with
outside companies that we are partnered with.
Online Advertising: You may see online advertisements
when you are using our Content that is from our
business. We will share demographic details about our
Guests and Participants in order to display advertising
that is appropriate. We collect these details through
registration and online Polls.
In some cases, these details are used to customize the
ads that are displayed on the site. For example, if an
advertiser shares details about the audience that they
want to reach, we will look through our Visitor and
Member details that we have collected and will explain
to the advertiser how our Membership meets their needs.
We do not share personal details with these companies;
we just share the demographic details that let them know
their advertising will reach the intended audience.
Responses to E-mail Inquiries: When you as a Member or
Visitor contact out business with an inquiry, we use the
return e-mail address that your e-mail service provides.
Voluntary Customer Polls: From time to time, we may host
business and/or individual Polls for our Guests and
Participants. We ask that you participate in these
Polls. They give us details that help us make the site a
better resource for you and fulfill your needs as a
Visitor or Member.
We may take the
information we receive from people responding to our
Customer Polls and add it to the information of other
participants we may have to improve our polls and add
more depth to the future polls. This may include making
the polls more detailed and moving away from the broad
responses that may be a part of these polls. These polls
are then used to create better quality Content for our
Guests and Participants. This collected non-personally
identifying information might be lent to other
companies.
Advertising Campaigns:
Our business may offer Advertising Campaigns that are
suggested by or dually offered by other companies not
related to our company. You may be added to the
participant list for these promotions by purchasing
something from our company, or by adding your personal
details to our Web site. Due to our company’s
relationship with other non-related companies, the other
company may get some of your personal data that you have
voluntarily submitted to our system. Our company does
not have control over the other company’s use of this
personal data.
Also, this personal data
will be gathered when you order items from the site,
participate in contests, add your feedback to surveys or
otherwise participate in the site. It will also be added
if you subscribe to our newsletter, forum or other form
of community on our Web site. The data collected in
these areas may include, but is not limited to: name,
address, e-mail address, telephone number, fax number,
credit card information, information on your preferences
and your participation with our Content. The other
companies that we are affiliated with may send you
content based on your preferences and your
participation. They may also contact you about
information that relates to our Web site.
Additional cases: It’s our company’s policy to utilize
and/or distribute an individual’s data that is collected
from Guests or Participants in a method that are
described herein. This may be done without extra
notification or a way for users to opt out of the
sharing of the information.
In addition, we may
share an individual’s data or data regarding a Guests or
Participants use of the Web site, if our business deems
it reasonable to share this information. This may
include but is not limited to collection firms, credit
firms, companies that maintain databases, the police or
to other government agencies. In most cases, this
sharing is done in order to comply with laws such as the
Electronic Communications Privacy Act, the Child Online
Privacy act or other laws that pertain to online usage.
In these instances, the sharing is necessary to give
identification or contact information that is required
to bring legal action against people who may be breaking
the Acceptable Use policy and the terms of Service of
this company and the company’s website.
Special Notice to People
Living in California: There specific rules for the
California Privacy Rights listed beneath the California
Online Privacy Protection Act and the California
Business and Professions Code.
This privacy statement
states which parts of your personal information our
business gathers throughout the company’s Web site and
other web sites owned by the company. We also collect
information on people who utilize the site’s functions
and/or just visit the site. This data may be forward to
other businesses that we share a commercial interest
with, either through an affiliate program or other type
of lead sharing situation.
Our company doesn’t have
a specific system for collecting people’s individual
information when the person uses or visits the site to
change his or her personal data that is gathered by our
Web site.
View the section below called “Revisions To This Policy”
to gain details on how our company lets Guests and
Participants to our Web sites or online service of any
changes to our business’s privacy policy for this Web
site or online service.
See the section below entitled "Revisions To This
Policy" for a description of the process by which our
business notifies consumers who use or visit our
commercial Web site or online service of material
changes to our business'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 "personal
data" may be collected, in addition to data that is
explained other portions of this policy.
The term "personal data" means individually identifiable
information about an individual consumer collected
online by our business from an individual and maintained
by our business 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
lent information about you
or your family for their marketing purposes during the
previous calendar year, and a
description of the categories of personal information
lent. 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 Business Uses Them. A "cookie" is
a small data file that can be placed on a visitor’s hard
drive when they come to a Web site. Our business may use
cookies to collect, store, and occaionally track
information for purposes stated herein as well as for
statistical purposes to improve the products and Content
we provide.
Our affiliate
advertisers and partners may also use their own cookies
to track consumer information. Our business has no
control over how the third parties use cookies and we
cannot control the use of them or the removal of them.
Our Business 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 and
Message Boards: Keep in mind that any personal data or
other types of information shared on public forums and
message boards are not secure or safe. These items
become public information and are available to anyone
who has access to these parts of the site. You need to
use these portions of the site with caution and you
alone are responsible for holding onto your personal
information.
Our Business's Commitment to Data Security: Content and
Web sites that we have under the banner of our company
all have security measures in place to protect the loss,
misuse, and alteration of the information under our
control. Our company takes great pains to protect your
private information in addition to the other parts of
our systems and Web sites. We take steps to prevent
“hackers” from getting this information.
For further information
on the Privacy Policy: If you have any inquiries that
you need to forward to our company regarding the Privacy
Policy, feel free to contact us. You can use the contact
form provided on the Web site.
Revisions to This
Policy: Our business can revise, update, amend or modify
the privacy policy, our Terms of Service agreement, and
any other policies and agreements on the website at any
time. We reserve the right to update the site without
express notification of our members. Please refer back
to this privacy policy from time to time to insure that
you are up to date on all the issues. When you use this
site after the changes are made, you are tacitly
acknowledging that you accept and agree to the changes
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