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:
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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:
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to keep track of temporary information. For example,
Cookies allow us to keep track of the pictures you upload
and download;
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to register you in special programs. Cookies allow us to
remember you when you login to the places on our site that
require Membership;
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to remember your country and language preferences;
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to help us understand the size of our audience and traffic
patterns;
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to collect and record information about what you viewed on
our Web site and what you viewed in our e-mail;
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to manage and present site information and the pictures
displayed on your computer, and
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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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