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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