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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